Judy: Previously on Zoomorphia~

Nick: Thanks to my wisdom, we learned what Tuck boy sought in Asylum and managed to steal- 'borrow' it for investigation. Though I don't know who he's working for~ Hey! It's better than nothing right?

Judy: We also should work on the new missing mammal cases. Right now, not only mammals outside but inside Zootopia have gone missing as well.

Nick: Carrots, have you wondered why are your clothes still intact after Hybrid transformation? Aren't they supposed to got rekt by explosion or torn by bio armor?

Judy: No idea but that's good cuz I'm pretty sure I won't be able to afford getting new uniforms every time I transform.

Nick: Boo~ That's too bad. I miss a chance waking up to witness bare bun-

Judy: You'd better hit pause right there, lewd fox!

Nick: Just Kidding! But you're correct. That's good. It'd have been troublesome if you'd transformed and lost the flash drive.

Judy: Speaking of flash drive, what should we do next? We can't report about the event.

Nick: Good luck when Chief finds out, partner~

Judy: Don't throw a burden on me!

Nick: Now the chapter 4!

Judy: Are you listening!?

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"This is a serious dead end..." Judy sighed, staring a 'Please enter password' pop-up window on a computer screen. "We can't gain access to files in flash drive. We lost the kid who may have a password. We don't even know his objective, why he or mammals he works with want this flash drive. We clearly hit dead end." She ranted, her back against the back of a chair.

"We will find the way, Carrots." Said Nick, holding morning coffee mug, elbows on backrest of the chair his partner was sitting. Judy had been trying to crack a password for couples of days after they deceived Jim Tuck the raccoon youngster and attained the flash drive from the lab in Cliffside Asylum. She tried with her laptop countless times. Today was no exception. Her attempt on her computer at police station got no luck too. "The other mammal who possibly knows the password is currently… in coma..." She bit her thumb nail. Her face grew serious.

"Some bun is cranky." Tod laid a mug on a desk then hugged the doe from the side, rubbing her head frolicsomely. "Stop it, Nick~" She giggled in her buddy's embrace. "You know you love it~" He teased, petting her head gently. "You know I do..." She beamed but her smile quickly turned to frown.

"What's wrong? Are you hangry?" Nick asked whether Judy was hungry and angry or not while folding her in his arms. "When you were on top of me back then, you really looked so starved like you can eat a whole fox." He joshed her about the time Hybrid protecting his body at Cliffside Asylum. "Of course not!" Driving him back, she set eyes on the paper nearby a keyboard, picking it up to read.

Tadashi Hamada, raccoon dog, a 21-year old college student, his biological parents deceased when he was 11. He presently lives with his 35-year old aunt, Cass Hamada, and his 14-year old brother, Hiro Hamada… Poor tanuki lost his parents at such a young age and now he's been missing. His aunt and little brother must be worried sick. Judy could not help but feel sorry for Hamada family.

"Nick… We gotta do something." Placing the paper back to the same spot, the doe turned to look at the tod. He comprehended what she meant. "We've already interviewed a great number of citizens the last few days. Wanna interview some more?" He stroked his chin, engrossed in thought. "Nah. It'll probably be a waste of time unless we can narrow down the list of interviewees. How about we check security footage again? We might have missed something." She suggested. "Gotcha~ After you~ Partner." He took a step back, motioning her to go first with a flick of his wrist.

Closing the window on computer screen, Rabbit jumped off the chair and plugged out the flash drive, planning to depart for Zootopia Institute Of technology where Tadashi had attended. However, at that moment, "Hopps, Wilde, come over my office." Knocking on partition wall, Chief Bogo appeared. The duo felt lucky that their superior stopped by when they had already closed the window on the computer. "Yes, sir." Bunny and fox assented, following Cape Buffalo to his office. The duo assumed visiting university must wait for another time.

"Sorry for keeping you waiting, Mouse." Bogo, accompanied by his two smaller officer, entered his office, apologizing his guest who sat on a tiny sofa temporarily placed on Bogo's desk. "It's okay, pal. Hi there, Wilde, Hopps~ C'mon in~" The business casual male mouse, short slender black with cream face and inky nose, swiveled in the sofa to face the police.

"Pleasure to meet you, Director Mickael Mouse" Standing tall, raising right paw to the side of her head, Judy saluted. Nick saw his partner acting solemn; thus, he imitated her gesture. "Oh! please~ Call me 'Mickey'~" Mickey blithely beckoned to the cops.

Mickael or Mickey Mouse is the director of Defense Intelligence Bureau (DIB) which is an independent agency tasked with protecting national security.

After the moderately proper greeting, rabbit and fox were sharing a seat opposite to Cape Buffalo, as usual, sitting on his chair, which made the mouse position in middle between Chief Bogo and his senior officers. "Great to see y'all are doing well so far~" Despite being in an awkward spot for communicating with everybody in the room, it seemed Mickey did not mind. In fact, it appeared he enjoyed turning around to talk to others. "Why did you call us here, Chief?" Judy asked. Bogo was going to reply. "Ahem! I have a favor to ask~" Mickey interjected. "My agents gathered info about illegal night howler transportation by a major dealer at the warehouse district in Sahara square. And because you two have expertise in night howler related cases, can you help us investigate the case?" Mickey gave the duo a genial grin as he was requesting for assistance.

"Thank you, Director Mouse, for your valuable time to personally ask us. We're honored. However, we are busy with the missing mammal cases right now." The doe obliquely refused to help on the case. She was fully aware how important night howler trafficking cases are, yet she could not put Hamada family affair aside. Chief Bogo's eyes widened. He made hoof signals, telling the bunny to correct herself. "You two can't take the case huh?" Buck mouse nodded with a thin smile, about facing to talk to the bull. "Next time, don't heedlessly promise me that your officers definitely can take the case."

The pair could not descry what expression Mickey was showing at that point since he turned his back towards them, but judging by Bogo's uneasy reaction, chief breaking a sweat, the pair presumed it was not so friendly like before…

"Pardon me, Director Mouse. What my partner meant is it's true that we're busy with other cases but we don't mind helping you on night howler transportation case first." Nick defended, realizing Judy was thinking that solving missing mammal cases was priority; nevertheless, rejecting Mickey Mouse's request was too risky.

"Is that so?" Mickey questioned before he rotated to face the duo. "Okay then. Aha~ I'm counting on ya~" Chortling, the mouse beamed at rabbit and fox, getting up from the sofa and walking forward. "Now that you're here. Would you like to grab some food?" Buffalo politely invited his rodent guest. "No Thanks~ I have business to take care of~" Mickey declined, jumping off the edge of the desk to land on Nick's lap, startling the tod. "Senior officer Wilde, may I borrow your tail?" Mickey begged. Nick was weird out. Before he could respond, the mouse hopped on and slid down fluffy tail to the floor. "Adios~" Director Mickey Mouse left Chief's office.

"Good grief… What a scary guy..." Hooves on snout, the bull grumbled. "He touched my tail without my permission..." Nick muttered, furiously wagging his tail.

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"Ever since DIB's got involved, our jobs have become more and more difficult and tangled… No offense." Judy vented her frustration. "It's fine. Although I'm also working under DIB, I'm still the same your ZPD sister-in-arms." Bengal tigress in tactical gear eased rabbit's worries. "That's very sweet of you, Jasmine." Judy appreciated Jasmine Fangmeyer's words. Bunny and fox cops, along with a small troop of SCU agents, were exposed to the wind and the sun at the warehouse district in Sahara square.

It is a fact that DIB had operated separately from ZPD. But since Savages mysteriously showed up one year ago, both organizations co-founded Savage Control Unit (SCU) in order to prevent damage done by Savages and exterminate them. ZPD and DIB had unwillingly cooperated together consistently.

"Hey Fangmeyer, as of lately, have you met Rajah?" Nick mention fellow officer, Jackson Rajah. "Jackson? Not lately." Jasmine frankly spoke. "He asked after ya~" Nick thought of the previous conversation of his partner and bengal tiger officer he overheard. "Really? I should text him." Tigress uttered. Nick winked at Judy, making the rabbit roll her eyes. Even she knew what fox tried to pull off.

"How's the weather, Officer Hopps?" A geared white stallion clopped towards doe and others. "Little bit hot but wind helps cooling off." Turning to an upcoming bulky horse, the doe answered. "Stay dehydrated" Wearing a fancied handsome smirking face, stallion handed over a bottle of water. "Thank you, Maximus" Judy gladly received the bottle from Maximus the horse, twisting off a bottle cap and then drinking the water. "Oh just call me Max" Whinnying, he persuaded.

"What about my drink, Gee-gee" Tod interfered before stallion's flirting gaze devoured his partner. "It's Agent Keaton to you. By the way, I didn't see you there, fox." Stallion gave canine an irritated look. "Why you come here?" Tod lift his chin, staring at white horse's long face.

"Due to the news about Savages often being around this area, DIB assigned us, SCU, to assist this mission. If you'd paid more attention to your duty, you wouldn't have asked this type of questions." Stallion criticized the fox. "I knew that. What I'm wondering is why you're here, Maxi? Replacing you with a cardboard stand-in sure will be better." Nick gibed. "Watch your mouth-" Maximus bent down.

"Stop it, boss" Jasmine buded in between two male mammals, pushing the horse back. Judy dragged Nick away by his tie. "No need to fight. You can share water with me." She handed him a three-quarters full of water bottle. Maximus witnessed Nick's mouth in contact with the bottle's rim which Judy's lips touched once. Nick lifted one eyebrow, observing the equine furtively. The horse bitterly snorted, glaring at the fox.

"Boss" A goat SCU agent having goatee approached Maximus. "We've finally found a possibly safe entrance." He informed. "Noted. Let's roll." Maximus ordered.

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Nick and Judy were crawling inside the air ducts connected from outside of the warehouse with tod leading doe. SCU team sent the duo to investigate in a depot. He removed an air vent then went down the hole, landing on a floor 15 feet below. Judy soon followed, dropping into arms of her partner who caught bunny falling from ceiling.

Inside the locked warehouse was pitch-dark. "I barely see anything." Judy whispered. "Suck to be you, Carrots" Nick kindly put her down to stand on her own two feet. "Shut it, Mr. Night vision." She joked. "Amazing night vision actually~" He quipped. Nonetheless, his night vision absolutely provides him an advantage when he is in the dark. "Yeah yeah whatever" She began to grope her way.

"Don't blindly wander around by yourself, Fluff. You'll trip over. Here. Take my paws." Nick got behind Judy, her left shoulder blade in light contact with his abdominal surface. He took hold of her paws, raising them high enough that her elbows were slightly lower than her shoulders, his thumbs rubbing the back of her paws. Doe lightly grasped tod's fingers in both paws. He led the way. The pair stepped with the same foot in the same direction. Their movement acted as a shadow to one another. Albeit rabbit could not see properly in darkness, she was able to follow his lead because of her trust in fox, her buddy.

"Nick…, are you nervous?" Judy quizzed. "No. Why you think so?" He denied and asked a question in return. Judy was confused by Nick's response since her sensitive ears caught that Nick's heartbeat rose.

When Judy's tiptoe touched the cold metal pipe on the ground, she gasped, breaking the hold, turning to inadvertently hook her arms through Nick's right arm. "Relax~ It's just a pipe." He reassured his partner. Bunny heard fox's heartbeat becoming faster than earlier, contrary to his laid back tone. She consequently understood what was happening, It might have something to do with the closer distance between us , which caused her to unawarely smile. Nick contemplated Judy's cute expression. Do you forgot I still can see, silly bunny? He grinned.

However, their moment was interrupted when Nick noticed couples of glowing pupils. "Carrots… We've got company." He warned. Judy listened carefully, detecting low growl, too fierce to be civilized mammals'. The noise was belonged to none other than Savages.

"Quick Nick! Stay close to me." Doe bid. "Close enough?" Tod teased her, pointing out that she was clinging to his arm. She released him with embarrassment. "Oy~ Don't let go, you're the one who told me to stay close." Nick rested his right forearm on top of Judy's head. She was annoyed yet delighted that she was having him near her.

"Anyway, since we're already alone, shall we?" Judy brought out her MidniDriver, black morpher with purple circle core in the middle, maroon bike handle on right side and silver tilted syringe on left side. "100% yes" Nick held his device in left paw. Both put on the belts. He pulled the syringe. "DRAW BLOOD" His blood was drawn into his driver's syringe then teleported to Judy's. She pushed her syringe, "INJECT" injecting herself with predator blood. Nick lost consciousness, leaning against Judy. Accordingly, she hugged him firmly. "Transform!" She announced whilst twisting the handle anticlockwise. "IGNITE" The device emitted the gusting purple fog which blew nearby objects away and swallowed the bunny cop.

Savage s screamed at shining driver 's core along with two bright amethyst stylish headlamps. A flamingo red bio armoured rabbit-fox cross, Hybrid the hustler form, appeared, still holding a senseless tod tightly in left arm. "Wow! Everything's so gloomy." Nick commented, perceiving through Judy's eyes… literally. "Welcome to my world, Slick." She humorously remarked. "Well, we can't fight blindly like this." He moved Hybrid 's a free right paw to press the syringe, "ACTIVATE" activating an enhanced night vision. The duo viewed their surroundings as clear as day including a pair of the vicious badger Savages standing on all four close to the wall.

"Weird. Why are these Savage s in a confined space?" The doe doubted. Even though this dark warehouse was suitable for naturally nocturnal mammals such as badger, there should be no food or water around here. Furthermore, coming to think of it, it sounded strange that Savages often showed up around this area. "Save questions for later. We ought to deal with those beasts first." Said the tod.

The Savage s were unable to restrain their instincts compelled by the sudden appearance of Hybrid to attack. Judy threw Nick's body over Hybrid 's shoulder then sprang up before the monsters pounced on them. The armored mixed breed clung to ceilings, stuffing an unconscious tod through the air vent. After hiding the body inside the air ducts, Hybrid flipped over and plummeted to the floor, lowering oneself while spinning at great speed, sweeping the leg to kick badgers. They fell sideways. Hybrid was crouching. "Let's dance~" The united duo voiced.

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"You hear a noise!? Something's happening in there!" Maximus asserted. "Officer Hopps, Officer Wilde, do you copy?" Jasmine radioed her police friends quietly. However, nobody replied. "Jude!" She yelled Judy's nickname at her radio, yet no response. "That's it! We're going in! Agents! Take point!" Stallion commanded. A small SCU troop took the position to invade the warehouse by smashing steel roll gate with enforcer rams.

Hybrid jerked up long ears when Nick and Judy heard the warehouse's gate was pounded. Fudge! We must detransform before SCU found us in this form.Both knew if mammals found Hybrid in shut place, they would probably figure out their secret identities. One of the badger Savage s leapt on an armored fusion. The doe fell backward, planting a foot on the monster's stomach, rolling onto the back, shoving it away. It flipped over. Hybrid kicked up to stand, watching a holed gate. Light passed through the holes, blinding the nocturnal monsters. They moved away from Hybrid, retreating to the dark.

"Oh drat! Savages gonna stay away from us now." Nick exclaimed. The hustler form was most suitable for close combat. The pair would be at a disadvantage in medium-to-long range battle. "We haven't investigated this area yet. We can't shoot them with a gun." Judy analyzed. Police form's weapon might cause too much destruction. "Maybe shooting them with arrows?" He proposed, which she agreed.

Hybrid twisted the MidniDriver 's handle clockwise... twice. "FORM SHIFT-ARCHER" The device spoke robotically, releasing purple mist covering Hybrid whose armor gaps steamed simultaneously. The core and the headlamp eyes brightened. Hybrid pivoted around to clear the haze, revealing the another form, flamingo red rabbit doe mixed with fox's characteristic, charcoal mark on face similar to masquerade eye mask, green leather coating the body which resembled tunic, a hood with a red feather in it, brown lower half, green metallic shoes, Hybrid Archer form.

The duo wasted no time, pushing the syringe, "ACTIVATE" summoning a bow in the left paw. An arrow was produced from the right wrist. Hybrid drew a bow's string back. The ends of bow stick were flexed. When the string was let go, the arrow flew to one badger's knee.

The other badger mindlessly charged at Hybrid who pressed the syringe again, "ACTIVATE" bringing up a gladius sword in right paw to slash the approaching threat. It was flung aside. Hybrid changed the way of grabbing the sword and drew the string to shoot sword like an arrow at the slashed badger. Its thorax was pierced by the sword. The peculiar arrow and sword electrocuted Savage s, temporarily paralyzing the monsters to make them so harmless that SCU could easily slay them. The shot arrow and the sword gradually vanished. The duo did not finish off these creatures because they wanted to set up a scene which was believable enough in order to trick SCU not to suspect them.

"Okie dokie~ Not quite a fan of this form though~ Too many drawbacks~" Nick punned. "Who's over there!?" Making a new arrow from the wrist, Judy fired an arrow towards the moving shadows. Nick processed the things visually discerned, shadow-figures of young bear, fox, rabbit, raccoon and skunk. He was shocked. "Judy! Stop! Those are mammals!" He tried to prevent Hybrid from hurting the normal teenage mammals that somehow were in the warehouse. Unfortunately, the arrow had already been discharged at one of them.

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16/02/18: Howdy Folks~ Belated happy Valentine's day~ And thank you for reading this fanfic series. Please feel free to leave comments or feedback. I would love to know~ While I was writing this chapter, I paused on many occasions and went like "Wait... why does it sound kinda wrong!?" Ha ha. Moreover, I think I'll post new chapter next Friday and I'm not sure after next week, I'll be able to post more chapters continuously. Whatever will be, will be~ Until next time~ Have a magical day!

22/02/18: Because of many emergencies lately, I won't be able to finish editing the next chapter in time for this Friday. Therefore, I'm here to inform that the next chapter will be delayed. I'm sorry...