Monday morning at the ZPD Precinct 1 seemed like any other, as Chief Bogo entered the briefing room. "Alright people, settle down. First... we have two new recruits, another fox and bunny... and as you all know. I don't care." Bogo said curtly after gesturing to a bat-eared fox vixen, and a brown furred rabbit buck. They were named Harry Carrotson, and Sawa Otocyon Both looked dismayed at Bogo's casual dismissal.
"Second, is the much more serious issue." Bogo said grimly as he turned off the lights, and turned on a projector. "I would also like to preface, that I will answer all questions AFTER I'm done. That goes double for you Wilde." Bogo said, Nick just produced a pad and pencil.
"Last night, there was a massive breakout at Isla Purgatory. Not normal in the slightest." Bogo said as he showed a slide of helicopters firing upon Isla Purgatory. "We're not sure what exactly happened. The reports from the survivors are scattered and more than a little iffy... such as what some of the attackers looked like for example." Bogo said as he showed a slide of a security camera.
It showed some manner of mammal that none of the officers recognized, seemed to have been a mish-mash of parts from a wolf, boar, and bat. "What the heck kinda critter is that?!" Harry said in surprise.
"I just said no questions!" Bogo snapped, Sawa put a reassuring hand on Harry's shoulder. "Now, we have no idea WHAT these things are... though the rest consist of mythical creatures that I can actually recognize." Bogo said as he went through slides of creatures that resembled chimeras, gryphons, pegasi's, and other cryptids, mythic beasts, extinct mammals, and other mammals. All of them having strange metal devices with large glass tubes standing outwards grafted into their backs,
"All we've got to work with is that these... THINGS were being injected with Night Howler extract. Apparently close to the same kind that was used during the Night Howler Crisis, and during the breakout they died from Night Howler overdose. Bottom line, EVERY mammal that was serving time in there, has been freed." Bogo said as he went through brief slides of the various prisoners' mugshots that were in Isle Purgatory. "And even worse, we have no idea WHERE they are." Bogo said as he stopped the slideshow, and turned the light back on.
"Is now Q&A time?" Nick asked.
"Not yet Wilde, now while we don't know WHERE they are, or even who was responsible for all of this, as for whatever reason the helicopters that did the breakout some manner of cloaking device. But we're the Zootopia Police Department, if any of these dirt bags are within Zootopia city limits. We will find them, and bring them to justice. Now Wilde, you may ask your questions." Bogo said.
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Meanwhile, at Draco Long-Fangs mansion, Draco Long-Fang was sitting in his office with a sinister grin on his face.
"Sir... the-the copters you sent to Isle Purgatory... have returned." Dawn Bellwether said anxiously to the black furred wolf.
"Excellent... and was everyone accounted for? The prisoners I had requested for by name?" Draco asked.
"N-N-No sir!" Dawn said as she shielded her face in anticipation of Draco's response.
"Who was missing?" Draco asked.
"Delphine!" Dawn squeaked.
Draco merely sighed. "I suppose it was too much to hope that she would be there. But the others have been recovered, yes?" He asked. "And for goodness sake girl, BREATH, your anxiety is as clear as the wool on your head!"
Dawn took several deep breaths. "S-Sorry sir... anyway, Wilson Fisk, Saxton Hale, Jakt Cervus, and every other specific prisoner and... well basically every other inmate is here as well." Dawn said.
"I'll find a use for the dregs. For now, I want the people I actually MENT to free prepared for plastic surgery." Draco said.
"O-Of course sir... I just have a question." Dawn asked.
"Just the one, very well then, what do you have to ask?" Draco said.
"T-The deadline you have set up... why is it so important that we get so much done by then?" Dawn asked.
"Revenge my dear Dawn... revenge, as simple as that." Draco said.
"R-Really... because all of the materials you've been gathering together seems... a BIT much, if you want revenge on one bunny." Dawn said, referring to Draco's grudge against Anna Blackpaw, and her family.
"Perhaps... but I will not take chances. That rabbit took everything I cared about from me... and finally. I will teach that... HARLOT, what revenge looks like... and remind her. The Long-Fanged Dragon, will not suffer ANY trespass." Draco said venomously.
"R-R-Right... I'll just be going now sir..." Dawn said as she exited the office. "What have I gotten myself into?" Dawn said to herself.
"Funny you should mention that." Dr. Mulerson said, appearing right behind Dawn.
"AHH! DON'T SNEAK UP ON ME LIKE THAT!" Dawn screamed.
"Well... I have learned something... 'Interesting' about Mr. Long-Fang, from Sierra Ultima regarding our employer." Dr. Mulerson said ominously.
"Okay I'll bite," Dawn said as she regained her composure. "What did you mole in the ZPD find out about Mr. Long-Fang?" Dawn asked.
"Oh... you wouldn't believe me if I just told you. Come with me to my lab... it's something that must be seen to be believed... I didn't believe any of it myself at first... but with proper analysis it all makes FAR too much sense." Dr. Mulerson said as he led Dawn to his lab.
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Harry was muttering under his breath as he and his partner Sawa were writing parking tickets. "Harry, it's not good to complain." Sawa said friendlily.
"I didn't leave Bunnyburrow to charge folks for leavin' there ve-hicle's unattended... I didn't leave home to be a razerfrazen METER MAID!" Harry seethed, and then Judy and Nick's cruiser pulled up.
"Hey there rookies! Got your first complaints yet?" Nick said friendlily.
"A few... not about the tickets, just disbelief that there's another bunny and fox on the force, saying that the ZPD is going down the drain with recruiting non mega-fauna mammals. That sort of thing." Sawa said nonchalantly.
"They save the passive aggressiveness for that. The actual tickets, folks have used more... colorful four dollar words." Harry said as he stuck a ticket on a car that was parked next to a fire hydrant.
"Yeah, it's the worst job in the ZPD, but someone has to do it. Thankfully I only had to do it for two days before I got the Otterton case." Judy said, trying to lift Harry's spirits.
"And yet in spite of our scores at the academy... I'm writing tickets for inconsiderate slickers that understand civil curtesy worse than I do... worse pa had me do when I got Ole Bessie stuck in the mud was pull it out myself and clean it." Harry complained as he plopped himself in the meter maid cart. "Sawa! Let's get a move on before the car's owner comes by to belly-"
"HEY!" A reindeer shouted indignantly.
"-ache... listen neighbor, take it up with traffic court! I just write the tickets!" Harry said in irritation, clenching his teeth together.
"And I apply the boots." Sawa said cheerfully.
"What are you talking about? That sheep stole some laptops!" The reindeer said, pointing to a ram with a duffle bag.
"Harry, I know exactly what you're thinking. And not only is out of your jurisdiction-" Judy said as Harry sped off with Sawa gripping for dear life as the cart sped off.
"Fifty says that he goes through Little Rodentia." Nick said.
"...I should NEVER have told you about that incident with Weslton." Judy said.
"The bootleg DVD's guy? I thought his name was Weaslton." The reindeer said.
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Later that day, Harry and Sawa entered the ZPD's Cyber-Warfare division. "And what are you two doing here?" Selene asked as she was working over a robotic suit of armor, about the size of a wolf.
"Well funny story, Mr. Impulsive here thought to chase a robber... dragged me along for the ride. And we caused about... somewhere in the range of one-thousand dollars' worth of property damage in Little Rodentia. And several hundred in medical bills to the poor little rodents that were injured." Sawa said with a fake smile on her face, punching Harry in the shoulder.
"Those computers were five-hundred a piece." Harry muttered.
"So Bogo had us sent here as punishment... in spite of my insistences that I tried to talk him out of it." Sawa said.
"I think your ignoring the detail where I suplexed a ram... I KNOCKED HIM OUT FOR PETE SAKE!" Harry said, raising his voice.
"So he sent you here to serve as my new guinee pigs... I could have sworn I requested ACTUAL guinee pigs. But whatever, you'll both work." Selene said. "Okay Pan, see if it'll work." Selene said, the robot suit then moved about... specifically it started break dancing.
"I was under the impression that robits did the robit." Harry asked.
"Not a robot, this is a new prototype combat suit!" Pandora said from inside of the suit, her voice projecting from inside.
"Regardless, I need to test something on you two. It's already worked well for Pandora, but I need more test results before I can apply it to the rest of the ZPD. In spite of the insistence of a certain hybrid, that I should just inject this stuff into random mammals." Selene said as she took a pair of syringes into her hoof.
"The heck is she even holdin' those?" Harry mumbled to Sawa.
"Now get in the chairs... these injections WILL be painful. And I don't need either of you squirming, and risk breaking off needles in your arms." Selene said as she gestured to a pair of chairs.
"What the heck kind of science your doin' here doc?" Harry said in disbelief.
"At face value, the 'mad' kind, also I don't have a doctorate of any kind... I'm just REALLY good at what I do." Selene said as Harry and Sawa went to the chairs.
"I'm good at what I do, and I'm writing parking tickets." Harry muttered as he and Sawa sat down. Restraints clapted on there wrists and ankles.
"Do you have one of these for Harry's mouth? Rabbit's been complaining all day." Sawa asked.
"No, just look away from the needle." Selene said.
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"Well this day was a bust." Harry said as he and Sawa returned to their apartment. Which was, by no small coincidence the same one that Judy had lived when she first moved to Zootopia.
"It was only our first day! You've been complaining nonstop since this morning!" Sawa said in aggravation.
"I'm... I'm sorry... It's just..." Harry said as he plopped down on his bed. "I've been having to prove to my pappy that I'm not just the runt of the litter. That I can be more... and now in addition to him, I apparently have to put up with a buffalo! Who thinks that just because I'm a-"
"WILL YOU KEEP IT DOWN IN THERE!? NO ONE LIKES A WHINER!" Pronk shouted through the wall.
"Will you cut him some slack Pronk? He's had a lousy day!" Bucky said.
"I will lambast the farmer bunny as much as I want! The last one at least took her last job in stride!" Pronk shouted.
"Pardon me for a moment." Harry said as he left the apartment, a few seconds later, there were loud thuds in the apartment next to them. "Sorry about that... but I REALLY need some quiet." Harry said as he left Pronk and Bucky's apartment.
"You were saying?" Sawa said, trying not to focus on the fact that her partner and roommate had assaulted two mammals.
"I'm just tired of people not believing in me... that I'm more then what pa thinks I am." Harry said as he sat back down on the bed.
"I believe in you..." Sawa said as she nuzzled Harry's neck.
"I know... let's find some food. One of those fast food places I reckon." Harry said.
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Meanwhile back at Precinct 1, Nick and Judy were working late. Nick was looking over a computer, while Judy had two hot mugs of coffee. "So what have you got so far Slick Nick?" Judy asked as she set down a mug for Nick.
"Well I've got someone on the cameras, small and for some reason in a robe." Nick said, the screen showing some of the footage in question.
"Really...? Do you have a positive ID on who it is?" Judy asked in a guilty tone, as she undid the holster for her dart gun.
"Not yet, the robe's covering the face... come on... come on! COME ON!" Nick said in frustration as recording after recording was no help. "Who keeps sneaking into ZPD so late!? WHY DO THEY KEEP STEALING THINGS FROM SELENES LAB" Nick seethed as he was singularly focused on answering his question.
Eventually, he found his answer... and it chilled his heart. He turned around in his swivlle chair... and saw the bunny he loved point a gun at him.
"Judy! What are you doing?" Nick said with surprise and shock.
"It's called a hustle… sweetheart." Judy said in a mockingly sweet tone, as she aimed her tranq-gun at Nick… and squeezed the trigger.
The dart missed as Nick ducked, and darted into an air vent. "Oh you better pick up Buffalo Bill!" Nick said to himself as he hastily called Bogo, and ran through the vents.
Judy's fur and skin turned to a white plastic tone. "Pursing target." Judy said as her voice was now an emotionless, robotic monotone.
"No, Sierra Ultima, gather the rest of the Sierra Drones... my time, has come." Dr. Mulerson said, unquestioningly. Sierra Ultima, the AI that had been controlling Judy Hopps for months. Obeyed it's masters command.
"But what of Draco Long-Fang? What shall be done about his plans?" Sierra Ultima asked.
"He will commit his forces for petty revenge... and after that. I will begin my conquest of the world in earnest... take that Vampire mutt, and show him the might of Dr. Mulerson!" Dr. Mulerson said as he began to laugh maniacally.
"I understand, resuming Infiltration Mode." Sierra Ultima said as she returned Judy's fur. "Now... how can I do the most damage?" Sierra Ultima said, using Judy's voice again evilly.
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Massive planes flew over Zootopia, each one carrying the logo of Dragon Enterprises. A dragon encircling an undecorated orb, more paranoid mammals assumed that the orb was meant to be the world... they wouldn't be wrong.
On the lead plane, Darco stood before his troops. Wolves clad in black armor that concealed their faces. "You lads know your objectives. First, the bombs will soften them up." Draco explained, as a number of the planes released there bombs. "Second, Mullersons Chimera's cause as much chaos as possible. Then third, you, my Thralls, we shall take my revenge on Annabeth Inle!" Draco said with glee on his face.
After the bombs fell, the various hybrids's and clones that Dr. Mulerson had created began their assault.
"Sir, we are over the Blackpaw dropzone!" The pilot said.
"Yes... open the entry ramp!" Draco said, then the ramp opened, and Draco's Thralls, wolves that he had fed blood to with draining there's first, turning them into his willing servants with enhanced strength and senses. Jumped out, Draco himself turning into his Vampiric form as his Thralls dropped down to their objective... and Draco's old enemy.
The Battle of Zootopia... has begun.
To be continued.