Nick ran outside. The sounds of people screaming fill his ears, the air is thick with the acrid stench of burning metal. Directly in front of Nick's apartment building is the charred husk of a barely recognizable blown up police cruiser, surrounded by smoldering wrecks and wounded animals.

Nick sees his partner, a grey bunny, Judy Hopps, prostrated with a mangled car door pinning her down.

He runs to her side and begins to lift the hot twisted metal off his partner.

Judy begins to free herself from under the door and glances over her shoulder

"Gun!" She screams and she holds up the metal door.

Nick looked up, just as a medium sized mammal in a wolf skull mask penetrates the cloud of smoke, raising an assault weapon concealed in a black leather trench coat.

The gunman fires a volley-the first round going high and wide, narrowly missing Nick's head. Judy lifted the car door and Nick put his paws on it, bracing the door as the second and third rounds strike it hard. Judy screams, covering her ears as additional bullets rain down upon the car door with a deafening roar.

The gunman moves in a wide arc, hoping to get a clear shot. The fuel in one of the smoldering vehicles ignites, exploding violently. The passenger door is ejected directly into the gunman, caving in his chest and knocking him into a wall, killing him instantly.

"Are you ok?" Nick shouts. Judy opens her eyes and quickly glances at herself, "yes, I think so"

"Can you stand?"

She nods.

Amidst the chaos in the street, a motorbike catches his attention. The rider is wearing a black trench coat similar to the gunman's,

Nick draws his tranq pistol '50 meters, outside my weapons optimal range, I'll have to aim high to compensate for bullet drop' Nick squeezes the trigger.

Nick's tranquilizer dart falls short of his target, striking the rear chain, and the dart is pulled into the bikes sprocket, locking up the rear wheel. The rear end of the bike swerves as the bike enters an intersection, and is clipped by intersecting traffic. The rider is flung from the bike and slides 20 meters before he slowly stands and begins running down an alley.

"Call for backup" Nick barks at Judy and begins running after the rider. Judy pulls up her radio and notices it was crushed in the exchange.

"Call 911!" Judy orders an old goat, who was huddled in a doorway nearby, as she takes off in pursuit of Nick.

The goat doesn't move.

The rider lifts his visor, revealing he's a male white wolf with amber eyes. He braces himself on a parked car, attempting to catch his breath. Looking back, he sees an angry red fox police officer, with an equally determined looking rabbit officer, quickly closing the gap.

"Perfect," he mutters and draws back his coat, pulling out an assault rifle of his own. Nick stops dead in his tracks as the white wolf pulls the trigger.

The end of the rifle explodes, bloodying the wolf's forward hand, and causing him to drop the rifle. "Fuck!" Screams the wolf, as he clutches his mangled hand.

Thinking quickly, the wolf grabs an incendiary grenade from his coat and rolls it under the car, and goes around the corner at the closest intersection.

As Judy passes Nick she yells,

"Cut him off, I'll flush him towards you!"

Nick looks to his left and starts running down a narrow alley.

The grenade ignites the car, causing Judy to shield her eyes from the bright inferno.

Giving the burning car a wide birth, she draws her Tranq pistol and begins to cautiously approach the intersection the wolf ran down.

Using the corner of a building as cover, she pivots around it, leveling her weapon at the first person she sees, her vision obscured by the shadow cast from the fire behind her.

"Freeze..." Judy doesn't even get to finish her command as the figure's upper half erupts with bright burning light that forces Judy to avert her gaze. It screams an agonizing feminine shriek and crumples to the ground, writhing in agony.

Judy steps into the intersection, her eyes quickly darting from right to left scanning for targets, the man she was pursuing is fleeing down the street. She fires a dart that harmlessly bounces off a parked cars fender. The fleeing wolf ducks down next to a car and continues to flee, using parked cars as cover.

Judy glances between her quarry and the burning mammal.

Hesitating for just a moment, she pulls off her coat and runs to the burning, screaming mammal, and begins smothering out the flames.

Judy pulls back her coat, and the first thing that hits her is the smell of burned fur-charred flesh with angry red cracks cover this medium small woman's entire body. Her ears are burned off completely, her skull visible. Her eyes are burned holes of pitch black. Judy can see her bloody, burnt tongue in her mouth through the space her cheek would have occupied. The horrific figure breaths slowly, pained. Her speech is slow and labored, "mommy..it hurts..."

Judy glances up at the fleeing man, but can't peel herself away.

"It's ok, you...you're going to be ok. Don't move help is coming"

"Is that you?" The mammals voice shudders, as her breathing becomes more labored.

Judy, not knowing what to do to comfort this soul's agony, crouches on her knees and looks for a place to touch or hold. The incinerated girl writhes on the ground and extends a charred stump, her hands having been melted into clutched fists.

Judy looks up and sees Nick leap out from an alley and tackle the wolf. The wolf grabs Nick, and pivots his weight, and slams Nick into a parked car. Nick fires his tranq gun, the dart bounces off the wolf's armored chest. Quickly, the wolf draws a pistol and Nick leaps on him, grabbing the weapon as it discharges in the air. The wolf head butts Nick, and kicks him in the chest, making his back strike the car door. "It didn't have to be this hard" the wolf taunts, as he attempts to pulls back the slide on his pistol, his mangled paw failing to grip the slide. Capitalizing on this moment, Nick points his gun at the wolf's face and pulls the trigger before the wolf can react.

The wolf staggers back dropping his gun, and crumples to the ground. Blood oozing from his eye where the dart struck him. Nick quickly jumps on the wolf and handcuffs his hands behind his back. Panting hard, steadies himself, and cautiously places two fingers on the wolf's neck looking for a pulse. "No pulse... damnit"

Nick rolls him over and sees the damage his dart did. "Judy Are you Ok!?" He pulls up his radio "I need an ambulance at.. 362 Cherry St." he begins to perform CPR.

Nick repeats "Judy?!"

Judy looks back down, and hears the mammal whisper a few more inaudible words, before her labored breath finally stops and her body is still.

Still staring into her black empty charred eye sockets, Judy slumps over and cries.

"Judy I need help over here!"