Summary: Zootopia part 6

No sheep were harmed in the making of this film.

See the end of the chapter for notes.

When Riku woke, Sora was already sitting up, staring at the silhouettes of buildings against the streaking sunrise. His paw ran back and forth over the top of his right foot, the nail on his thumb digging into the skin of his paw pads. His left hand was clutching his crown necklace. Riku couldn't understand the expression on his face, though he stayed still and watched him for almost a full minute.

Beyond them, Kairi was also awake, rolled onto her side and fiddling with her phone. Every few seconds, she glanced up at Sora, watching for changes. When her eyes met Riku's, she frowned and tilted her head, asking a silent question neither of them had the answer to.

Sora's thumb pressed into the points of his necklace, moving steadily from one to the other- left, center, right, center, left, center, right, over and over. He barely felt it through the calluses on his hand.

Riku got tired of feigning sleep and sat up. Sora jumped, whipping his head around at the faint sound of fabric against fur. The smell of fear wafted off of him, wrinkling Riku's nose and pulling at his hackles. Why that damn emotion out of all them got a smell, Riku didn't know, but he hated it. Especially when he himself seemed to be the cause. Sora's thumb was still moving back and forth over his necklace, center, right, center, left, center, right. Riku realized he was staring at Sora's hand, reflexively not meeting his friend's eyes. He forced himself to look up. Sora looked through him, nose twitching, focused on something neither of them could see. "You ok?" Riku asked, trying to keep his voice casual.

"Oh, yeah, fine," Sora replied too fast, snapping back to reality. He rubbed the back of his neck with one hand, flashed a too big smile and added, "Just watching the sunrise. I thought you were asleep."

Riku just shook his head. At least Sora's hands had stilled, halting that strange fidgeting rhythm to just clutch the necklace in his palm. Riku stood, walking to his locker without a word. He was downstairs before he realized he probably should have said something.

Kairi sighed as she sat up. "Looks like someone's grumpy," she murmured once Riku was out of earshot. Sora's eyes caught hers, so she made an exaggerated angry face.

Sora forced himself to chuckle, and was rewarded with a small smile. They studied each other for a moment, grins fading. He couldn't make any sense of the worry tangled in Kairi's eyebrows and the corner of her mouth, pulled back thin and frowning. His face didn't make any more sense to her; something unreadable tucked in the blue of his eyes.

Sora dropped his gaze first.

"I'll make breakfast," Kairi finally offered into the silence.

"You want any help?"
She shook her head, "No, it's my turn." She got up, heading towards the lockers before looking over her shoulder. Sora was watching her again, and when she caught his eye she smirked. "You can do dishes."

He made a good show of grumbling but they both knew he didn't mind.

Freshly showered, Riku's stomach growled as he climbed back upstairs. Breakfast was almost done cooking, with Kairi towering over their fold-out counter and Sora sitting on the edge of it, kicking his legs. The sight made Riku smile - he'd done that since they were little, perched on the edge of the docks. It was as familiar as palm fronds and grilled fish, the rhythm of waves and sand in his shoes, the way the sun set on the islands and the arrangement of the stars in the summer sky. Home.

He'd been full of plans, but they'd all left his head. Maybe they could rest a little longer, just a moment more before he had to be Master again.

"Feeling better?" Sora asked, seeing his smile.

"Me?" Riku asked, surprised, "You're the one who was moping at the sunrise"

"I wasn't moping!"

"You were definitely moping," Kairi agreed, giggling.

Sora grabbed a wooden spoon and jabbed with it at her arm. "Was not!" Kairi snatched the spoon back, wiping it on a towel before stirring their food once more. Riku took the opportunity to mess with Sora while he wasn't paying attention, roughly mussing the other boy's spiky fur between his ears. "Riku!" Sora protested, swatting ineffectually at his friend's arm. Riku laughed and went to walk away when Sora launched himself from the counter, arms latching around Riku's neck in an attempted chokehold. It worked a lot better when they were closer to the same size.

They ate breakfast, and then spread out their map again, debating what they should do from here. Once again, Sora and Kairi looked to Riku, expecting him to already have the answers. He resisted the urge to sigh.

"We need to know what we're dealing with, and the city is too big to just wander around aimlessly. Not to mention how often you two get distracted," he gave them a pointed look. Sora frowned, insisting that that wasn't true, but Kairi had the decency to look slightly sheepish. Riku continued, "We need more information, and we know where to get it - the police. They'll have documents listing where heartless have shown up in the past and the best ways to patrol the city. I was thinking Officer Hopps might help us."

"You talked to her at the party, right?" Sora asked. Riku nodded, expression carefully neutral. Sora just chimed, "Sounds good to me. What do you think, Kairi?"

"I think that makes sense," she affirmed.

Lucky for them, Officer Hopps was at the station doing paperwork when they showed up. Clawhauser walked them back to her desk, and she was more than happy to get out of there and do some "real police work" as she phrased it.

"I've been digging up some information since the last time we saw each other," Judy explained as they walked to a police cruiser. "I figured you would need it." She passed them a manilla folder. "The - Heartless? Is that what you called them?"

"Yeah," Sora confirmed. Kairi was flipping through the folder while Riku looked over her shoulder.

"The heartless didn't start showing up until savage case number seventeen, and even then it was only ever one or two. No one could catch them; they just seemed to vanish into thin air. The day before you arrived was the biggest sighting so far, with approximately a dozen of them spotted around a savage wolf. We've had a lot of missing persons cases since then. I think they might be connected."

Riku and Sora exchanged a look behind her back. Riku shook his head firmly, causing Sora to frown at him.

Officer Hopps carried on, clicking a button on her key fob to unlock the police car as she spoke, "Obviously, there's been two more sightings since you got here. The one from the Pred Pride party was the biggest outbreak we've seen. We're lucky you three were able to contain it." She paused to hop into her seat, and to let them scramble in as well. Kairi took the front seat, nose still buried in the paperwork, while Riku and Sora piled in the back.

"That's the short version, anyway," Judy concluded. "That file has all the details I could find."

"So there's definitely a connection," Riku mused, "between the animals going savage and the heartless appearing."

"Seems like it," Judy agreed, starting the car and backing out of its parking spot.

"They always happen in the same location," Kairi added, "One right after the other."

They all fell silent, unsure what to say against the breadth of their ignorance. Judy merged into traffic from the parking ramp as Kairi passed the folder back to Riku so he and Sora could look at it.

They studied the folder for several minutes before Sora asked, "Did any of them know each other?"

"The animals that went savage? Not really," Judy replied. "One was driving the other when it happened, but they were basically acquaintances. The driver didn't turn until later, and it's been proven that there's no communicable illness between the two of them. It was just a weird coincidence."

"No connections at all then?" Riku asked.

"Not that we've found," Officer Hopps admitted. "They're from all kinds of income brackets, neighborhoods, businesses, across nearly every predator species. Ages are pretty spread out too. More of them are male, but we don't really know why. Some people think it has to do with hormones - that testosterone makes people more likely to go savage, but I'm not so sure. I've done enough speculating as it is."

"What do you mean?" Sora asked.

Judy's ears drooped. "I'm the one who made the connection, when we found the first fourteen savage animals, that they were all predators." She opened and shut her mouth a few times, searching for the right words. Finally, she settled on, "It's a long story."

"We've got time," Sora pointed out, folding his hands behind his head and leaning back in his seat. Despite the ease of the gesture, he wasn't smiling.

"If you want to talk about it," Kairi added, noting Judy's expression.

Judy glanced at her, then at the boys in her rear view mirror. "You probably should know anyway, and I'd rather you heard it from me." She took a deep breath, then began, "Originally, we didn't know animals were going savage, they were just 'missing'." She put air quotes around the word with her free hand. "Fourteen mammals, to be exact. By sheer stubbornness, and some bureaucratic meddling, I got put on a case to find one of them, an otter. One thing led to another and with the help of a clever fox," she smiled for just a moment, "I managed to find not just one, but all fourteen mammals. Turns out our previous mayor knew about animals going savage and was rounding them up. Admittedly, he was trying to find a cure, but still, not a great move.

"Anyway, while we were there I heard the lead physician talking with him about why the animals were going savage, and by the time the press conference came around… I was certain she was right. It was my first press conference and it was overwhelming - all the lights and the cameras, a bunch of reporters asking questions and shoving microphones in my face. I panicked. I said what I knew, in, like, the worst way possible, and I ended up making it sound like any predator could go savage." She took a deep breath. "I blamed biology, when we don't even know for sure if that's a factor. I didn't realize what I'd done until Nick… well, let's just say he made things pretty clear."

"What happened then?" Sora asked.

"You've seen it - the city's been a mess. Predators keep turning and we aren't any closer to finding out why. Tensions are high. People just want to feel safe, so they're taking it out on the minority. Until you three showed up, we were keeping a lid on the heartless stuff going on in the background, but after that huge fight… we'd never be able to get all the videos off social media. So we didn't try. Now people have even more to be scared of."

Sora shook his head. "I meant with you and Nick. Did you get a chance to make up?"

"He didn't… he doesn't owe me that. I said some awful things… I don't blame him for not wanting to speak to me again."

"But he's your friend, right?" Sora pressed. "I'm sure he'd understand."

Judy let out a low chuckle. "You really weren't kidding about him," she teased, making eye-contact with Riku through the rearview mirror.

Riku smirked back at her, "Yeah, he's always been like that."

"Like what?" Sora asked, annoyed.

"Forgiving," Kairi supplied, looking over her shoulder to give Sora a warm smile. He cocked his head at her, seemingly confused at how everyone was in on this conversation except him.

Seeing the expression on his face, Riku just laughed, "Don't worry about it, Sora."

It only took a minute for Sora to forget to fake-pout about it.

The rest of that day was spent carefully combing through locations where animals had turned savage. Officer Hopps guided them to each spot, filling in details about each incident. But no matter who searched where, there wasn't a hint of darkness or fleck of evidence to help them. Nothing more could be found, and no connections were made. The incidents seemed random, and the teens could only surmise that whatever caused the transformations made a large enough surge of darkness to draw heartless to it.

While they were frustrated with their progress, the lack of heartless attacks or savage incidents was a relief. It was fun getting to know Officer Hopps. Over the next week, she became their sort of unofficial babysitter for the ZPD, taking them with her around the city and keeping them informed about what was going on. She took them to lunches and recommended movies, gave Sora tips about using his rabbit size to his advantage and punched Riku on the shoulder when he got too serious. They told her jokes and piled into her tiny apartment to watch tv. Kairi brought her breakfast on a morning they had extra, and Riku texted her updates when the trio went out searching on their own.

It surprised all of them when she texted good-bye.

Hey guys, I'm really sorry but I'm not going to be around for a while. I'm going home to Bunny Burrow to try to clear my head. Chief Bogo's gonna have Officer Francine take you around, so you can still keep tabs on everything.
Sorry to say good-bye over text.

She sent it to all three of their phones, but they still checked each other's screens to make sure they weren't dreaming it up.

Thanks for letting us know, Riku sent, Take care of yourself and we'll see you soon.

Are you ok? Is there anything we can do to help? Sora typed, thumbs flying.

I'm ok, Judy replied. Then, much later, Feel free to come visit if you want.

It's ok, Kairi sent, having typed out and then deleted a couple of other replies. Do you want us to tell you if we find anything?

That would be nice, thank you.

Despite their best efforts, Sora and Riku didn't have more to send her than emojis and memes, selfies around town and candid shots of the other two taken when they weren't looking.

Kairi, on the other hand, made writing to Judy part of her nightly routine.

Hi Judy! We surveyed the Rainforest District today, mainly the Muddy Swamp region by Vole Garden. No clues, but there were a couple of heartless. They didn't give us any trouble, though. Sora's been practicing that jump you taught him, and it really paid off. So thank you for that.

Haha I can't believe Sora sent you that! I'll never understand boys.
Today was pretty calm. I think Officer Francine is finally starting to warm up to us. Remember how I said she was really uncertain at first? I think she resented having to watch us. But now she and Riku talk about photography almost non-stop and she and Sora have worked out a technique where she throws him around with her trunk. It's really cool (but she did tell me she thought you would be better at it ?)

Hi Judy, I'm sorry to bring you bad news. There was another savage incident: a badger this time. We were on the opposite side of the city, but Francine got us there in time. There were some injuries, but nothing that couldn't be treated. The heartless did show up, and we took care of them, but we didn't learn anything new. I can tell Riku's getting really frustrated, and Sora's been pretty shaken up. Seeing someone like that really upsets him. I'm worried about them both, but I'm sure they'll be ok. How are you doing?

Judy always texted back, though more often than not she sent just a few short sentences. She rarely initiated conversation, so when a new text came through, the Keyblade wielders paid attention. The teens stopped dead in the middle of the sidewalk, all three whipping out their phones. They had been wandering listlessly through Sahara Square, trying to find somewhere to eat. None of them were particularly hungry, as another animal had gone savage that morning, so they were eager for something to do.

Meet me at the bridge by cypress grove ln and willow switch circle asap, Judy's text read.

The three of them exchanged glances. Sora nodded, gaze firm. Riku took off at a jog, the other two at his heels.

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A subway ride later, they were walking through a once affluent, now mostly abandoned area overlooking Bayou Bay and the Zootopia Sound. Remains of old brick factories with shattered windows stood adjacent to established weeping willow trees and towering oaks. The once gravel paths had been worn away to dirt, and the concrete and brick remains of walls and posts were pitted and covered with moss.

As Judy had said, there was a bridge near the crossroads of Cypress Grove Lane and Willow Switch Circle. It connected two embankments, allowing a perpendicular path to meander underneath it. Judy stood on that path to the left of the bridge, wiping her eyes and smiling. A fox they hadn't met was smiling down at her, pocketing what looked like a plastic carrot. His and Judy's ears flicked as they heard the gravel crunching under the teenager's paws, and by the time Sora was skidding down the embankment, all grins and excitement, they had turned to face the newcomers.

"Hi Judy!" Sora called, practically bouncing to a stop in front of them. "Who's this?"

Judy couldn't help but chuckle. "This is Nick, the fox I told you about. Nick, meet Sora, Riku, and Kairi," she introduced, pointing with an open hand to each person in turn. Riku nodded in acknowledgement, while Kairi simply smiled and tucked her arms behind her back.

"You told them about me?" Nick asked, surprised and pleased. He placed a paw over his heart as she nodded, exaggerating his sincerity with demure flicked back ears and a half-bow, "I'm honored."

Judy just rolled her eyes and grinned.

"So, what's going on?" Sora asked, ready to get to the point.

"Oh, right! Of course, sorry," Judy said, looking a little embarrassed. "I know what's making predators go savage- Midnicampum Holicithias, otherwise knowns as 'Night Howlers.' They're a kind of flower that's toxic when ingested. Someone must be infecting animals with it."

"Specifically targeting predators," Riku noted.

"Exactly," Judy agreed. "We need to find out who and bring them to justice."

"What's the plan?" Nick asked.

"You and me," Judy gestured between the two of them, "are going to follow the Night Howlers. Sora, Riku, and Kairi are going to come with us in case heartless show up."

Nick raised an eyebrow. "Heartless?"

"Those dark creatures," Judy explained.

"Oh, those. Hey, I've seen you three on the news. You're the bunny with a death wish," Nick quipped, pointing at Sora. Sora bristled, frowning, but Riku put a hand on his shoulder, cutting him off.

"How are we following flowers?"

Judy pulled out her phone, showing Nick a picture, then turning it to the kids. "Know this guy?" she asked Nick.

"Uh-huh. I told you; I know everybody."

"I arrested him for stealing Night Howler bulbs. We just need to find out why."

It didn't take much discussion after that. Judy and Nick climbed into the cab of Judy's family truck, while the teenagers piled in the truck bed. Nick led them to the weasel with ease, and it took very little effort to get the information out of him once Riku pulled out his Keyblade.

They followed the weasel's description to a little used subway station. After wriggling through a hole in the metal gate covering the entrance (a feat in and of itself for Riku and Kairi), they descended the stairs. As they proceeded, everyone became more and more tense, their fur standing on end, noses and ears twitching.

Sora started fidgeting. "Do you guys feel that?" he asked quietly, right hand opening and closing. Riku nodded, jaw clenched.

"You mean the general air of abandonment and decay?" Nick quipped, voice hushed, "You get used to it." Despite his tone, the fur on his scruff stood on end, and his ears were back. He stuck close to Judy's side.

"Riku," Judy said, glancing in the wolf's general direction in the dark, "you take point. Nick, stick with me."

"Roger that, Carrots," Nick said as they stepped off the stairs and through the dilapidated archway into the station proper. Directly in front of them were the broken skeletons of turnstiles. The Keyblade wielders ducked behind the tallest one, with Nick and Judy talking the slightly shorter one to the left of it.

Beyond the turnstiles, the space was large, clearly built for crowds of commuters, but it was in disrepair, with flickering lights and cracked tiles. Rubble and rebar were everywhere, and roots from above ground had punched through the ceiling, winding around the cement columns. In the half-light from the remaining bulbs stood a rust bucket of a subway car. The only color left on it was the spray painted signatures scrawled on every available surface. As they stared, the blinding glow of another subway car filled the tunnel, rocketing past the abandoned station.

The train car they were looking for sat on an offset track, and once the passing train was gone, four hulking heartless rose from the darkness underneath its wheels. The creatures were shaped vaguely like rams, with spiral horns and roving yellow eyes. Thick, turbid darkness filled out their hunched forms like wool. They had shoulders that were massive in comparison to their hips, and their legs ended in over-sized red hooves, each one bigger than their head. The heartless symbol was emblazoned on their chests.

Riku turned to Judy and Nick, "We'll take care of the heartless, you two do what you need to do. Sora, make sure they get there.""Right!" Sora whispered, nodding firmly. "On three," Judy stated, turning her attention to their goal. "One…"

The whole group tensed, focused.

"Two…"

Sora, Riku, and Kairi summoned their Keyblades, filling the tunnel with flashes of light.

"Three!" Judy called, and without hesitation the group surged forward. The heartless had already felt the Keyblades' presence and had turned towards the five of them. Riku and Kairi stepped over chunks of concrete, racing to meet them. Sora, Nick and Judy were right behind them, jumping over rubble as they bee-lined for the subway car. Kairi caught the first ram by the horns, forcing it back with Destiny's Embrace. She shouted, and a pillar of light sprang from her, slamming into the heartless and shoving it back. Riku charged into a heartless on the left, hacking and slashing at its torso with surety and speed.

The other two came straight for Sora, Nick and Judy. "Freeze!" Sora yelled, blasting them back with a flurry of ice shards, the largest of which hit them straight in the chest. The heartless staggered backwards. Sora pressed forward, Nick and Judy right on his tail.

A stray hoof from the heartless Kairi was fighting nearly clipped Nick in the head, but Judy called out, "Duck!" and he managed to dodge it just in time, feeling the air whoosh across the tips of his ears. Kairi batted the heartless further away. Riku took down his ram, then drew in one of Sora's with a magnet spell.

Sora forced the remaining heartless back with blasts of magic, catching himself as he tripped over a hunk of rubble. Nick carefully steered Judy around it, night vision coming in handy. They kept moving, quickly crossing the short distance to the train car. As they reached it, a real ram in a yellow hazmat suit opened the door.

"Stopga!" Sora called, pointing the Kingdom Key at the ram as he dug in his pocket for his phone. He froze on the spot, eyes wide. His body blocked the door, but Nick and Judy were already scrambling in through a window as Sora fought off the heartless at their backs. Kairi crushed her target with a final pearl of light, and hardly a beat later Riku and Sora had finished off their enemies, shining hearts rising to the arched ceiling above them. The heroes of light grinned at each other, then turned as the sound of hooves on tile echoed through the space.

Riku pointed, and the three friends ducked around the train car, scrabbling quietly on the gravel between the tracks. Two more rams entered the station platform, coffee in hand. They headed straight for the rusty subway car, talking quietly amongst themselves as Riku led the other two around to the front of the car, careful to crouch under the windows.

"Doug?" they heard one call. Sora's nose twitched, all three teens practically holding their breath as they hunkered on the ground. "That's not funny dude," the other said with a voice that grated like steel wool. "What the hell is this, man?" The first one asked, clearly spooked. Then, "Hey!" and they heard hooves on metal as the car rocked slightly, bouncing under their weight as they clamored aboard.

"Carrots!" Nick called, and a door slammed. Sora, Riku and Kairi leapt to their feet, staring through the glass at Nick and Judy in the conductor's booth.

"We're taking this to the ZPD!" Judy called out to them. "Take care of the rams!" The teens nodded, sprinting around the side and scrambling into the car as it began to move. One of the rams, dressed in a white tank top, was charging the door, slamming into it with his horns. The other had crawled through a hatch in to top, feet disappearing as Sora, Riku and Kairi entered. The sheep in yellow was still frozen, shoved into a corner by his friends and then the momentum of the rusty subway car.

"That's enough of that," Riku stated, pointing Braveheart at the animal currently using his own skull for a battering ram. He fired off a stopra spell, and the sheep froze, a foot away from the door. Hoofbeats thudded above them, and the teens heard a muffled joke from Nick followed by the sound of shattering glass.

"Help me up," Sora suggested to Kairi, pointing at the hatch above them. She picked him up, and standing on her shoulders he could just reach the lip of the hole. She stretched to her tip-toes as he pulled himself over, climbing out onto the roof. The tunnel had barely enough room for him to sprawl flat against it, and he ducked his head as a flashing warning light streaked above him.

Inside the car, Nick had let Riku and Kairi in the conductor's booth. Judy was pinned against the controls, keeping a firm hold on the crank that kept the train in motion. A ram was half inside, having smashed the window and put his shoulders through it. He grabbed Judy's arm as Kairi shoved him back through the window, pulling the rabbit with him as he fell. Judy flew into the air as the momentum separated her from the ram. Kairi dove for the rabbit, snatching her up just in time. Nick grabbed the controls, keeping them moving.

"Don't stop!" Judy ordered him, dangling from Kairi's paws. The ram they'd pushed onto the tracks sprinted ahead of the train, begging for them to stop as it inched closer and closer to him. "Whatever you do, don't stop this car!" Judy repeated.

Kairi hauled Judy safely back inside the train. They whizzed past the ram, who pinned himself to the wall as the train sheered the shirt and wool off of his belly.

Inside, Riku turned, catching the recently unfrozen ram by the horns as his spell wore off. Behind them, the ram in the hazmat suit was released as well. He finally dug out his phone, placing a call.

"We have a situation at the lab!" he managed to yelp before Kairi sped around Riku and swatted the phone out of his hand. It went skittering across the floor, landing under one of the tables growing Night Howlers. The ram dove for it, but Kairi blocked him. She forced him backwards, and he tripped, tumbling out the open back door.

The train flew out of the tunnel into broad daylight. Sora, still on the roof, leapt to his feet. Not far enough away, a red train was speeding down the track towards them. Up ahead, the track split, and a lever to the side directed the flow of trains.

Sora darted to the hatch he'd climbed through, sticking his head down. Nick was gripping the controls, looking panicked at the quickly approaching train. Judy, next to him, was perched on a chair and clearly thinking. Riku and Kairi were struggling back and forth with the final ram, wrestling around the crowded laboratory.

"Nick! Speed up!" Sora called. As he did, Kairi threw the ram, hoping to dash him against the wall. Instead, he flew through the door, getting stuck through the broken window at the front of the train.

Nick and Judy flinched as the ram flew past them, then Nick shouted, "There's another train coming!"

"I know! I've got it!" Sora replied, disappearing again.

"Speed up!" Riku ordered. Reluctantly, Nick agreed. As he pushed the lever forward, Sora jumped down, holding onto a metal bar that ran down the front of the train and kicked the ram free. The ungulate went flying, hitting the switch and changing the track as Sora landed inside. The trains passed each other safely, but then their car started to roll.

"Toofasttoofast! Hold on!" Nick panicked, calling out a loud warning. He and Judy were wrenched from the controls, slamming against the window with Sora as the car landed on its gun case they had grabbed from the lab earlier slammed into Nick's stomach a beat later. Behind them, Riku scrambled forward, hooking an arm around Kairi and grabbing the edge of the door frame. Lab equipment flew around them, throwing up showers of sparks. Groaning with the effort, he hoisted himself over the lip of the frame and then helped Kairi up behind him. Nick and Judy had pried open the window, but were staring at the wall the car was about to slam into.

"I think this is our stop!" Nick quipped as Judy scrambled out of the window. He joined her, followed by the three teenagers as they all jumped clear of the wreck. Their landings were messing, rolling on their sides, but they made it at least.

The train wasn't so lucky. It slammed into the bricked off tunnel, bursting into flames. The explosion buffeted ears, fur and clothing as it ripped through the tunnel.

Sitting up, Judy spoke around catching her breath, "Maybe… maybe some of the evidence survived?" As she said it, a second explosion went off, much stronger than the first. Doors flew off hinges and a can of propane flew past them, still aflame. It exploded a beat later, making them flinch.

The silence afterward was worse, the twisted metal of the subway car flickering against the flames still raging inside.

"Everything is gone," Judy murmured, ears back, "We've lost it all."

Notes:

This chapter is named after the song... and also 'cause I wrote it at least six times XD But, I burned through my whole buffer trying to figure it out and I've got a lot of personal stuff going on at the moment, so it's gonna be a couple weeks before chapter 7 is up, sorry. Next chapter will be the last one in Zootopia, then we're going elsewhere! Got any guesses where?

Thanks as always for reading!