Since the end of the harrowing Clone Wars. The Jedi Temple had effectively been abandoned by the Jedi Order, as shortly after Palpatine's deception had been revealed. It was believed that because of the ancient Sith shrine the temple had been built on, it's Dark Side taint had clouded the Jedi as a whole to the machinations of the Dark Side. So the order's headquarters had been relocated to a warship, retrofitted to better serve as a new Jedi Temple. What was supposed to be the largest Republic warship since the Sith Wars of old, the Mandator II-class Star Dreadnought, the Pride of the Core was remade into the mobile headquarters of the Jedi Order. The Triumphant Phoenix.

As the ship hung over the verdant world of Naboo. The Jedi Council held a meeting. Some of the Jedi on the Council were the original members from when the Clone Wars ended, now much scared from the horrors of that war. Others were still grizzled veterans of the galaxy sundering conflict all the same.

Of note among the members was Anakin Skywalker, his former master Obi-Wan Kenobi, Shaak Ti, Rahm Kota, Plo Koon, Aayla Secura, and a Clone Trooper that had been created by the Kaminoans to be Force Sensitive, even a Geonosian. "So, you wish to establish an academy on the recently discovered planet of Mammalia," Obi-Wan said.

"Yes Obi-Wan, I know why we're here," Anakin said, rolling his eyes. "What I want to know, is what you all think of it. I won't get mad if I get a no, but still. I have sensed and encountered Force-sensitive individuals during my mission there. We even have a Mida-chlorian count from a child that's very close to Yoda's." He explained.

"We have looked over your mission file." Plo Koon said. "But you must understand, the Order is stretched thin. Even with the new initiatives taken since the end of the Clone Wars, our numbers are still at a fraction of what they were before the Battle of Geonosis."

"And a quick show of hands, who here already know's this?" Anakin said, followed by every Jedi in the chamber raising there hands.

"My point being," Plo Koon continued. "That we would need to acquire the resources necessary to build an Academy. Not to mention that we would need to ask, and convince the planetary authorities to build one in the first place. And Mammalia has only recently become a full member of the Galactic Republic." He said.

"True, but we cannot allow Force-sensitives to NOT receive even a basic education in their nascent abilities." Aayla Secura said.

"Then we put it to a vote!" Rahm Kota said. "All in favor say aye, all opposed say nay!"

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A month later, Ahsoka Tano was on Mammalia and overseeing the initial younglings. Judy Hopps among them. "All right, this is going to be your first weeks. So I'll be going easy on you." She said to the various young mammals. "But after that, it's all up in the air. Make no mistake... for many of you, this will be the first step into a larger world. For the rest, it may just be another story you'll tell those around you. Because believe me, even though our galaxy is at relative peace. The life of a Jedi can and will be intense."

Judy wasn't paying attention. As she was too excited at the prospects the Jedi offered in her mission in making the world a better place... specifically the Lightsaber and Force powers. She was practically fit to burst with excitement. Then she saw the mammal standing next to her, a nervous-looking lamb. "Hi, I'm Judy! What's your name?" She whispered.

"D-Dawn... Dawn Bellwether." The sheep answered nervously.

"Are you as excited as I am?" Judy asked, oblivious to Dawn's clear and present anxiety.

"Judy?" Ahsoka said to the young rabbit. "Are you paying any attention?"

"Ah... uh yes, Ms. Tano!" Judy said, lamely covering her inattentiveness.

"I see," Ahsoka said, not beliving Judy. "Well here is what we'll do. Two of you will be assigned to a master to teach you directly." She said as she looked over a datapad. "Let me see... Judy Hopps, Dawn Bellwether. You will be my Padawan learners."

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Fifteen years later, Judy had become a full-fledged Jedi Knight. Complete with her lightsabers, two purple blades that matched her eyes. Her first mission as a Knight was to help the ZPD find missing Mammals, all predators, and in the two weeks since it started not a clue had been found. This was the mission her master Ahsoka Tano was fully given. While Judy had been saddled with parking duty.

On her first day, after writing up two-hundred parking tickets. She caught sight of a Fox entering an ice cream shop that catered to larger mammals, suspecting foul play she went inside and found him arguing with the Elephant that ran the place about getting a Jumbo-Pop for his son, who wanted to be an Elephant. After convincing the elephant on the sale, using her own money to pay. She learned the foxes name to be Nick Wilde. Then later on in Sahara Square, Zootopia's desert district. She encountered them again... and was perplexed that the baby was driving a van. So she followed them and found that Nick melted down the Jumbo-Pop into jars, then they went to Tundra Town where Nick's partner made pawprints that Nick poured the melted pops into.

A look of recognition went across Judy's face when he got to selling the 'Pawsicles' at a bank.

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"Oh your good," Judy said when she confronted Nick alone. "You not only managed to fool me, but I didn't even recognize you."

"And that means?" Nick asked, confused by this bunny.

"I suppose you wouldn't remember... it was about fifteen or so years ago," Judy said. "The cooler, the paw-shaped popsicles, even the fennec fox... my Master got me and a friend of mine one of those when we had a rough day." She explained. "And now I know where they come from!"

"Well good for you Carrots," Nick said dismissively as he walked off with his share of the day's profits. Judy followed him, but every time she claimed a cause for arresting Nick, he produced a loophole he exploited that would leave him untouchable from the law. Up to and including how he sold what he claimed to be redwood to a mouse construction site when in reality it was just the popsicle sticks colored red from the ice pop. "Look, lady, I'm just a simple fox trying to make his way in the world. And as you've said... I'm good at parting Mammals from there money. Even from Jedi. Because this is the way of things. Smart fox. Dumb bunny."

"That still doesn't make anything you've done right!" Judy protested.

Nick then took a brief moment to size up Judy. "Really? Well, let me guess. You grew up on a little podunk farm."

"I'm from Bunny Burrow!" Judy said indignantly.

"Exactly, and then one day you showed strange powers, and your parents sent you away with aliens," Nick said cockily.

"I've only left Mammalia a few times and that was only after I became an adult, and for the record, my parents were against sending me to the Jedi! Pretty much every time I've talked to them, they bring up leaving!" Judy said indignantly.

"Point is fluff butt, your a farm girl who wants to prove she's more than a cute little carrot farmer-" Nick then found himself pinned to a wall.

"Don't. Call me. Cute." Judy said to Nick as she held him to the wall. "It's wrong to refer to a bunny as cute unless your a bunny yourself. I don't like being called cute, unless there family, or close enough friends. And buddy... your not either." She said with an air of menace.

"I-Isn't this a no-no for Jedi?" Nick asked as Judy rotated him upside down.

"More or less... but if you're going to be a criminal. Then I'm bound by my oath to, if not arrest you according to local laws and ordinances. Then I should at least take back the money you conned from me." Judy then searched Nick for any money. And removed twenty dollars.

"Hey!" Nick said after Judy let him down. "The ice cream only cost fifteen!"

"True," Judy said as she held up a twenty-dollar bill. "But I gave him twenty and didn't ask for change. Ergo, you owe me twenty dollars, Mr. Wilde." She said as she pocketed the money. "Now if you'll excuse me... I have more parking tickets to issue." She said as she walked away from the bewildered fox. "Oh... and before I forget. I don't know how, but I will find a way to make a better Mammal out of you."

XXXX

That night, Judy returned to her apartment. It was small, even for a bunny. She then called up her master on a holographic communicator, Ahsoka Tano. "Judy? How was parking detail?"

"Boring, and a gross waste of my talents," Judy said incredulously.

"Judy, calm down," Ahsoka said with concern. "Bogo doesn't know you. Like I or the rest of the order does. He'll learn soon enough."

"Let's not talk about Bogo... how's your investigation into the Missing Mammals Case going?" Judy asked.

"It's... weird to say the least," Ahsoka said. "I haven't been able to find any leads. None of the kidnaped Mammals have anything in common beyond there shared classification as Predators." She explained. "For whatever reason, I can't properly sense anything. It's like... it's like back in the war."

"In what regard?" Judy asked.

"It's... it's like there's a void of the Force around Zootopia." Ahsoka said. "Darth Sideous used something similar to blind the Jedi to his machinations. As well as every Sith lord from Darth Bane to Sideous himself."

"But you did figure out how to get around that? Surely you could do that as well?" Judy said.

"This isn't that simple Judy... but enough about me. Did anything interesting happen to you?" Ahsoka asked, Judy then explained her encounter with Nick. "Well, I'm sorry that happened. But was manhandling him necessary?"

"He conned me... and what he said hurt me," Judy said.

"He called you cute, didn't he?" Ahsoka said.

"He called me cute," Judy said. "And... a few other things."

"You need to let that go," Ahsoka said reassuringly. "Gideon was just a bully-"

"Look, I didn't come back home just to be a glorified meter maid!" Judy yelled.

"Judith Laverne Hopps," Ahsoka said sternly. "I know your upset with this mission. But that is no excuse to lash out, especially not at your master."

"I... I'm sorry." Judy apologized. "It's... well you know how bunnies are treated here. At best, we're just regarded as cute farmers or whatever other job is conventionally available for us... and here I am. The first Jedi rabbit and I can't do anything official for this case. Because some cape buffalo doesn't think I'm capable... because of my species."

"Just trust in the Force to guide you. I want you to meditate tonight. May the Force be with you." Ahsoka said.

"And also with you," Judy said she turned off the holographic communicator. "A task easier said than done considering the walls ARE PAPER THIN IN THIS BUILDING!"

"We didn't even say anything!" Judy's neighbors aid indignantly.

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The following morning, Judy was standing on a rooftop in Savana Central. In her meditation the night before, she saw a vision of a weasel running out of a flower shop. The same one she was currently standing vigil over, eventually, she saw the weasel from her vision running out with a duffel bag. "There you are," Judy said as she jumped down in the weasel's path. "Halt!" The weasel took a sharp turn, not even stopping. "And of course that doesn't work!" Judy said in resignation. She then pursued, using her natural speed and her Force abilities to keep pace... but even for a weasel, he was slippery.

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"So to recap, Master Tano," Bogo said to Ahsoka in his office. "Your Padawan caused a scuffle in Little Rodentia, and damaged parts of Zootopia's rodent district. And why?" He said as he produced the duffel bag. "A bunch of moldy onions.

"Actually Cheif Bogo," Judy said. "There Midnicampum holicithias, it's a Class C botanical flower that-"

"I don't care about in the least!" Bogo interrupted.

"Cheif Bogo," Ahsoka said. "I understand why you're frustrated with my Padawan. But I know that Judy wouldn't have done any of this without good reason." Then, an otter women burst into the room, followed by Precinct 1's dispatch officer Benjamin Clawhauser gasping for breath. "Mrs. Otterton?"

"I'm not going to take no for an answer anymore!" Mrs. Otterton said. "Bogo! You need to find my husband!" She said as she produced a photo of her family.

Judy wasn't paying attention as Bogo and Ahsoka tried to reassure Mrs. Otterton. As she tried to get across how important this was to her. "I'll help you!" Judy said determinedly as she ignited her lightsabers.

"Hopps! Disengage those weapons now!" Bogo yelled.

Judy then knelt to the bewildered Mrs. Otterton with her sabers held upward. "I swear, by the Will of the Living Force, by my honor as a Knight of the Jedi. That I will find your husband and return him to you and your family. At any cost to myself." She said solemnly.

"You... you mean that?" Mrs. Otterton said in amazement as Judy turned off her lightsabers and stood up. Judy just smiled and nodded. "Oh bless you bunny!" She said as she hugged Judy, causing numerous cracking and popping noises to come from Judy's torso. Eventually, Mrs. Otterton stopped and was ushered out of the room by Bogo.

"I want you out of my Precinct," Bogo said sternly, completely ignoring that Judy was keeling over in pain.

"Whatever for?" Ahsoka said as she tended to her Padawan's injuries.

"Your Padawan's insubordinate attitude! I don't care if you two are outside of my authority. But when I open this door, your both going to apologize to Mrs. Otterton for getting her hopes up like this." Bogo said as he opened the door, and on the other side was Mrs. Otterton... with Dawn Bellwether. "A-Assistant President Bellwether?!" He said in surprise.

"Yep, and I just informed President Lionheart that Mammalia's most famous Jedi Knight is on the Missing Mammal Case," Bellwether said as she typed a text message to Mammalia's leader, Leon Lionheart. She quickly got a response. "And he's tickled pink! And best of all, he's given you Cheif Bogo the responsibility of giving the Jedi your support!" Bellwether said with a wide smile on her face.

"Oh... goody," Bogo said with a fake smile on his face.

Bellwether then noticed her former master and Judy. "What happened to you?" She said with concern to Judy.

"Mrs. Otterton... apparently, she has a hug like a Wookie," Ahsoka said as she used the Force to heal Judy.

"Oh! I'm so sorry!" Mrs. Otterton apologized.

"Can you ladies excuse me while I talk with these ladies?... That are already in my office?" Bogo said as he closed the door. "Okay... so I CAN'T do anything. But I do not like ceding my authority to you Jedi, even if one of you is a Mammal."

Judy then inhaled sharply as Ahsoka finally heeled her. "Bogo, this case has been on your table for two weeks, and you haven't found a trace of even one of the victims!" Judy pointed out.

Bogo just looked annoyed at the situation, like the whole universe was playing a bad joke on him. "Say... how about a little wager Hopps. You solve Emit Otterton's disappearance in forty-eight hours. I can work out something that'll make you an official member of the ZPD. But if not... well you won't. That sound good?"

"Deal," Judy said, and she shook Bogo's hoof.

XXXX

Ahsoka glowered at Judy as they went to look into Emit Otterton's file. "Why would you agree to such a deal? It was unnecessary in the first place." Ahsoka noted.

"Master... I want to prove that bunnies can contribute to society, the same as any other species of Mammal." Judy said.

"Judy... since I took you on as my Padawan. You've only grown in skill and power. You have nothing to prove to these people." Ahsoka said. "And besides, being a member of a city police department seems like a step down from Jedi Knight to me. And I know that being a police officer has been a dream of yours since you were a kitten, but again... I'm just really thrown by this."

"Master Ahsoka, as far as I know. No rabbit has ever been a police officer period. Let's just look at Otterton's case file. Hopefully, there's something to work with." Judy said.

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"This is the smallest case file I've ever seen!" Clawhauser said in surprise. "There's the missing mammal report, and a photo of Mr. Otterton, and nothing else! I hope you didn't make any bets on this case." He said, flicking donut sprinkles all over the report.

Judy looked closely at the photo. For any clue as to where she could begin her search. Then she caught sight of something and took Clawhausers empty soda bottle to magnify the photo. Judy noticed the familiar-looking red object that Mr. Otterton was holding. "Master... you remember how Master Skywalker said the Force has a weird sense of humor?"