Nick: Previously on Zoomorphia~

Judy: Our pal, Benjamin Clawhauser, became the first mammal who knows we are Hybrid.

Nick: First mammal in a force.

Judy: That's because you told Finnick our secret! Anyhow, in order to acquire more clues for cracking the cases, we conducted interrogations with… 'well known' former mayors of Zootopia, Leodore Lionheart and Dawn Bellwether.

Nick: It was more of an interview with ex-mayor Lionheart though. And hey Carrots, whenever we transform, there will be purple steam everywhere right? What about transforming in a car while driving? Would that be fine?

Judy: If it'd not been fine, we would have failed to see and crashed the car.

Nick: Huh… that's convenient.

Judy: Now the chapter 10!

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Later that night, Judy, wearing a mauve & light blue stripe t-shirt, spent her time alone in her small greasy walled apartment, concerned about the silver chrome wolf.

That metallic wolf… Who is he? Is he a friend or…? He did save us… twice…, still how come he knows about Nick's passed out body? about that Hybrid is actually a cop?

A ringtone interrupted Judy's thoughts. She immediately picked her smartphone up from a desk, clearly seeing a phone screen showing that her parents were calling her.

She shook her head to get rid of a distraction in her mind before answering the phone. "Oh hey, mom, dad" She beamed at a rabbit couple facetiming over the phone, Bonnie and Stu Hopps.

"Hi Jude the Dude!" A middle-aged sire rabbit called his daughter by a nickname.

"Hello sweetheart! How have you been?" A doe rabbit in her fifties or sixties asked after her girl. No sooner had Judy replied than Bonnie asked a further question. "Have you received a package yet?"

"Ah, the package! Yes, I have. Thank you guys"

"It seems your friend really likes blueberries from our farm. That's why we mailed a dessert." Stu said blithely.

"A dessert?" Judy's eyes widened a bit, nose twitching slightly.

"I hope post office took a good care of it." He chortled happily.

Judy laughed along dryly, glancing down. "How is it over there, at home?" She moved onto another subject.

"Great!" Bonnie responded. "Numerous opaque large-scale greenhouses were built around a neighborhood, probably by investors from other cities. We haven't talked with folks working there much."

"Are you alone?" Stu popped in frame.

"Yes, dad"

"Like alone alone? Single?" Bonnie bumped into the frame.

"Mom~ I'm too busy to date."

"But Jude, you already have a successful career. What's more, you're almost 30…, interested in a relationship?"

Judy said to herself that not long ago, her father was still very protective of his daughter, stopping every buck from flirting with her. As of lately, he however encouraged her to get in a relationship.

"Who would have enough patience to go out with a workaholics such as me?"

"I'd say a cute girl like you truly are an eligible bachelorette."

Smiley embarrassed by her mother, Judy rubbed the back of her neck while the other paw holding the phone.

"Just don't overwork yourself, hon. You look somewhat worn-out."

"W-Worn out?" The bunny cop was stunned when the dam remarked.

"And don't forget to have enough sleep." Stu advised.

"It's quite late now. Bye bye, honey." Bonnie said.

"Do I look drained?" Before Judy could ask, her father pressed the screen to hang up.

"Do I really look that worn out!?" She cried out alone in her small apartment room.

"Get your grit together, bunny!" Her oryx neighbor next door bellowed. The loud voice penetrated through a thin wall.

"Leave coppa alone! She's already stressed out from tired face and being single!" His roommate, a kudu, argued heatedly.

Oryx and kudu neighbors started shouting at each other.

"Oh, shut up!" "You shut up!" "You shut up!"

Meanwhile, dispirited bunny's head fell weakly on the desk.

Even in the next morning,

"Um, instead of uncomfortable desk, Bun bun can burrow your face into my shoulder~"

Judy buried her face against her arms resting on office desk, still so disheartened that she did not respond to her fox partner's pun.

"Nick… am I still cute?"

"Hmm?" Nick wondered why Judy suddenly asked him something rather offensive for rabbits like her, then he smirked. "No"

One syllable word stung the tough optimistic bunny… hard.

"But you are adorable~" He just teased her. Nevertheless, the damage had been done on the poor doe, soul crushed.

Eyes fixing on his little best prey friend, Nick took a sip from a coffee mug in his paw and then licked the coffee stained upper lip, tongue touching predatory sharp teeth, before swallowing coffee aftertaste along with saliva caused by excessive mouth watering.

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The pudgy cheetah police officer, Clawhauser, was eating a bowl of cereal while some of officers, grouping together around ZPD reception desk, were chatting.

"Did you hear the news?"

"About dead bodies in one of the Rainforest district's warehouses?"

"Yeah. Who's in charge of that case?"

Clawhauser chewed down a mouthful of cereal quickly, "Delgato, Francine and Detective Basil" then answered.

"Their DNA samples were found a match in criminal records."

"Those criminals murdered each other?"

"They might get into a fight as a result of conflict of interest."

"No honor among thieves, I guess."

They continued to discuss the massacre when a bengal tiger cop, Jackson Rajah, nudged through them. "Mornin' Benjamin. Have you seen Wilde, Hopps yet today?" He laid his arms on the reception desk.

"Mhm. They're at their cube." Clawhauser replied before taking a spoonful of cereal into his mouth.

"Thanks, bud" Rajah hurried out as Clawhauser waved his paw.

"WildeHopps, there you are!" He arrived at Nick's and Judy's cubicle in no time.

Judy raised her head to look at a feline visitor. "Sup, Rajah." Nick welcomed him casually.

The bengal tiger inspected the fox and the rabbit. "You two are alright huh? That's a relief." He held his paw over his chest.

The duo were confused about the cause of Rajah's worry. "What's wrong?" Judy expressed her concern.

Rajah looked around. He then decided "Let's talk somewhere more private." to lead Nick and Judy to a vacant interview room. "First off, I'm not doubting your abilities. You both are excellent but… next time you go out to investigate the missing mammal cases, don't go it alone." He opened the door, letting the pair enter the room first before he followed close behind.

"Did you find something crucial?" After the door was closed, Judy inquired.

"Although it's just a hypothesis, -" Rajah went to sit on a chair. "-the mastermind behind mammals gone missing this time probably is Peter Pan."

"The same kidnapper who abducted numerous animals more than ten years ago?" Nick shared a seat with his partner, sitting opposite to the larger mammal.

Judy, turning to look at the fox next to her, recalled the previous day conversation with former mayor Lionheart about the same topic right away.

Rajah nodded, which indicated 'yes'. "Despite advances in technology, there are patterns similar to those in the past." He spoke earnestly.

"Pattern?"

Rajah nodded twice to Judy. "Victims were on the ground level. Their size ranged from small to large. In addition, for small mammal victims, there'd be a tendency to be kidnapped in groups or families. Most of them were barely injured because of the use of anesthesia rather than force in abduction. Another thing is signal jamming." He explained, stroking his chin shortly afterwards. "Not sure this time, it's a copycat or those using the same kidnapping method. If that dog's really back…, he still prefers doing the works on himself to letting his men do them… I guarantee." Averting his gaze, he got into analysis.

Nick was suspicious when Rajah could specify the kidnapper's subspecies, still he was more bothered by the words 'really back'. "What does it mean by that? He's back? Like- he was released from jail? But shouldn't prison sentence for first degree abduction last around twenty years?" He posed questions.

"Well, the thing is… the mastermind kidnapper has never got caught." Rajah made Nick even more skeptical why the tiger knew what kind of mammals the criminal is even though he had not been caught.

The case was long before this feline officer joined the police force. Furthermore, how would the dropped case have this much detailed info?

Judy felt like there were a lot to process at once. "You seem to… know quite a lot." The simpering bunny remarked.

The bengal tiger opened his mouth, about to say something, but then he shut his mouth fast, turning aside. "Hmm… Nevermind, no reason to keep it a secret from you anyway." He turned to look straight at the rabbit and the fox. "The truth is… I was one of Pan's kidnapping victims." He stated, appalling the duo. "I got kidnapped when I was a teenager." He continued.

"H-H-How did ya escape the ki-kidnapping back then!?" Judy stammered.

"About that-" Rajah was going to answer. However, "Jackson! Come to the lobby! Quick!" He was called on personal radio by Clawhauser.

"C-Copy that!" After he replied on his radio, he ran off hastily.

Because Nick and Judy sensed panic in Clawhauser's voice, both rushed to follow their tiger coworker.

"What's going on?" As quick as a wink, Rajah reached ZPD's lobby where Grizzoli the polar bear officer was waiting for his partner. During the time, other large mammal officers such as elephants and rhinos headed out to a parking lot in haste.

"SCU's calling for reinforcements." Grizzoli took a long step but before he could take another step.

"Wait!" The tiger stopped the bear. "SCU need our help? Normally, it should be us contact them when Savages show up-"

"I'll tell you on the way. Now, hurry!"

On that note, two male predator officers ran off.

"Let's follow them." Judy suggested.

"You'd better not go. It's dangerous for small mammals like y-" Behind the reception desk, Clawhauser paused when he remembered the duo's alter ego. "Oh, that's right. You both should go. Still! If others see you at the scene, you'll be in trouble!" He leaned over the desk.

Contemplating, Judy somewhat agreed with him. Meanwhile, Nick glanced at the entrance which officers dashed out, "Just not letting anyone spot us is more than enough. C'mon, Carrots." beckoning to her with a grin on his face.

Clawhauser watched the pair sprinting out of the station. They sneaked into a truck of one larger mammals' police car before it hit the road.

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"Polic- I mean- SCU agents! Drop your weapons!" Wolford the timber wolf shouted through a megaphone.

Several SCU vans were parked scatteredly in front of a bank in Savanna Central. The fully geared SCU agents surrounded four bank robbers, which was certainly strange because these agents were less likely to deal with animal criminals directly. On top of that, the majority of agents did not have police background. As a result, they would not exactly know what to do in this type of situations.

The police finally arrived at the scene and as for the bunny fox duo, they sneaked out of a car, hiding from others to avoid being heard or noticed. Luckily, the duo were so small that they remained unnoticed under disorder.

"What's the situation?" One of the officers, a rhino to be more specific, inquired.

A goateed peru tan billy goat agent approached the cops. "There's a bank robbery. Four bad guys. As far as we're aware, no hostage. We've surrounded them."

"That's it? No offense but why do you, SCU, bother to meddle with matter like this?" The rhino asked the goat.

The goat agent chuckled, "If that's all, we'd be so pleased." stroking his goatee as they were walking closer to the scene.

"Put down your guns and slowly back off from a Savage." Fangmeyer the bengal tigress, possessing experiences of negotiation with criminals, megaphoned worriedly.

The armed robbers were standing very next to a feral purple bear monster, Savage, outside the robbed bank. It clawed a road surface, showing how sharp its claws were, growling at the agents as a fierce warning.

Many agents would not dare to attack the purple beast, scared of bad outcome that stray bullets, specially made for shooting down Savages, might hit the robbers; thus, they waited for the mammal criminals to pull away from the monster. Even so, surprisingly, this Savage did not lay a finger on the nearby mammals or those criminals. And even more surprising, they seemed... unafraid of it one bit.

Sensing a bad situation, Nick and Judy hastened to find a hiding spot within a community building area across the street from the bank. Once they found a place to hide, a narrow pathway between buildings like always, they put on the arm-sized morpher devices, MidniDriver, around their waists.

"DRAW BLOOD" The device on Nick's waist spoke robotically when he pulled a syringe on the device's left side. After a dose of fox blood was transferred to Judy's syringe, she pressed her syringe. "INJECT" Her morpher also spoke in the same robotic manner. She then extended her arms to support Nick falling asleep standing up, laying him down gently on the ground.

"Transform" Judy, rising elegantly, announced while twisting back the handle on device's right side. "IGNITE" The morpher caused the purple mist explosion, transforming her body into a flamingo red bio-armored doe rabbit with fox features, Hybrid Hustler form.

Hybrid left Nick's body, running down the path which twisted and turned through the area. After turning around one corner, the united duo came across a white tundra wolf civilian.

"Holy Crumpets! Hybrid!?" The wolf, wearing a black jacket, hurtled towards the armored mammal with excitement. "Is this a dream!? I'm meeting superhero in the flesh!? Unbelievable!" Kneeling down, he shook paws wildly.

Despite being flattered by the word 'superhero', both Nick and Judy were stunned, wondering how a civilian got there. SCU should already have evacuated civilians from the area.

"May we take a selfie? Please! I need an evidence to show others. Please!" The wolf held a metallic paw tight. At the moment the anxious bunny hoping that he would not run into Nick's unconscious body, soft metal long ears responded to a roar from the bank.

"Cut it out!" A slender black and tan jackal robber shouted at his brown ferret partner in crime who merely stood still and plugged his right ear hole, instead of the bear monster that was making loud noise.

The ursid Savage started to wriggle in pain, shedding fur on front legs, its back arching, mouth drooling while spikes were poking out from a spine, and to top it off, hard shells coming out to cover the front legs. In a nutshell, this Savage was mutating.

It snatched a sport bag from the jackal robber by biting. The bag full of money was shaken off violently, ripped apart, sending banknotes inside flying everywhere. Seeing that, the agents and the officers put on alert, drawing out their firearms. Some agents crouched down. One picked up a few banknotes on the road.

"What in the world is happening!?" The jackal bawled.

"Wer-were we tricked to buy a low quality junk?" The ferret tapped his right ear repeatedly.

"Motherf-" All of a sudden, the jackal was smacked on the side by the bear Savage.

The SCU agents quickly caught the robber flung over towards them.

Nick and Judy, hearing a commotion, determined they must hurry up.

"Freaking kidding me!?" The wolf abruptly changed his expression from excited to annoyed, letting go of the armored mammal's paw.

"Is it expired already?" He stood up, "What a waste of time" and facepalmed.

The duo were puzzled by the wolf's sudden change of demeanor. He subsequently appeared as if he came to realization that he broke his character, grunting.

"Go ahead, Hybrid." The wolf moved up to the wall, giving way. "I'll help."

"Help?" Nick quizzed.

The wolf rolled up his jacket right sleeve, then brushed fur on under forearm, which revealed a zipper. When he unfastened it, the duo got a glimpse of mechanism underneath the skin.

"Switch on" He uttered calmly, pulling a lever inside his arm to 'on'.

Electrical sparks ran around the wolf. After one quick flash of his white fur, a silver chrome wolf was standing where the white tundra wolf was earlier. He had a black bar over his eyes, solar panels on both chest and shoulders, and two thunderbolt stripes on abdomen. His appearance matched the wolf who helped Hybrid a couple of times, the one calling himself 'Bolt'.

"What are you waiting for? Let's roll!" Bolt started running to head out of the community building zone. As for Hybrid, the duo casted the revelation aside, pressing the syringe "ACTIVATE" to jump high over the buildings, across the street.

While SCU agents together with ZPD officers were firing bullets at the bear monster, which was not so effective since it used its hard shelled arms to deflect the shots, a very next image that they viewed was the flamingo red armored mammal moving fast through the air, causing them to cease firing. Hybrid then kneed the Savage in the flank.

"Out of my way!" All at once, a shout attracted attention of members in the armed forces. When they turned to focus on the source of voice, they found a silver chrome wolf darting across the street, sliding across the hood of one of the police cars, front flipping over a SCU van.

All the officers and agents wondered the same thing. Who is this wolf?

"Everyone remains calm~" Nick turned Hybrid's body to face the fellow cops and the SCU team, acting cool as much as possible.

Soon afterwards, there came a yelp contrasting to his previous pretentious cool tone because the arching back purple bear beast, standing on two hind legs, grabbed Hybrid's bushy tail.

"How dare you touch my tail!?" Nick violently pressed the syringe without delay. "ACTIVATE" Tail furs formed penetrating spikes, stabbing through bear hardened paws.

Bear Savage, screaming in pain, rapidly drew its paws back. Following that, dense purple vapor gusted out from holes all over the pierced paws.

"Nick, if you hate to be touched on tail this much, how come you allowed me to touch your tail?" Judy whispered.

"Cuz you're my special mammal~" He answered softly, making the doe blush as he felt the heat radiating throughout the face.

At almost the same time, Bolt seized the opportunity, closing in on Savage. It swung its paw but the wolf bobbed down before it could slap him. He threw a straight punch right in the middle of monster's stomach.

However, apparently, the monster only got mildly hurt. "Oh Wocka" When the wolf cursed, the bear embraced him in a bear hug.

The armed mammals argued whether they should gun down the Savage along with the hugged silver wolf. At that moment, Hybrid jumped to the bank building and then leapt off the building wall to the monster.

But before the duo could sneak attack the bear Savage, it launched spikes from its back to Hybrid.

Being forced to play defense, Hybrid therefore spinned in midair to fend off the attack. After the quick spin stopped, Nick and Judy in same body saw Bolt being forcefully swung to them. Hybrid put guard up, preparing for impact.

Hybrid as well as Bolt was flung away to land low on the ground. Shortly thereafter, they found that the bear monster turned to target the agents and the officers. It blocked the shots from hitting vital parts with the hard shells on its arms.

"Hey wolf" Nick called Bolt.

"I told you my name is Bolt." He said offendedly.

The duo ignored, "Once I give you a signal, do it." The tod fox ordered.

With the full suit which was also covering his face, it was unclear how Bolt felt as he was being ordered.

When the bear Savage was charging at mammals of the armed forces, Hybrid sprinted to confront the monster. The mammals stopped shooting. With astonishment, they gazed upon Hybrid holding Savage back by pushing against one another .

The ground beneath the armored mammal started cracking due to full weight the bear pressed down on tiny bunny body.

"Now!" The fox in the doe body bawled.

Hybrid exerted a strength, thrusting the ursid monster back. At the moment that it staggered backwards, upper body rising, "Accel" Bolt, voicing quietly, came in a flash to stand between the united duo and the bear.

"Volt Strike" Bolt spoke serenely, knifepaws glowing, then struck it.

The bashed Savage fell over, vaporizing as it was meeting its end. Later on, the police intended to arrest the criminals while SCU team decided to capture Hybrid. Even so, they were not sure what to do with the mysterious silver wolf.

"Hang on. Where've those robbers gone!?" Grizzoli asked out loud.

"They must escaped during confusion." The rhino officer made a tch sound. "Why didn't you SCU guys keep an eye on them!? One of them even was hurled towards you!" He rebuked the agents.

"Oh sorry! It just so happens that it's not a part of our job!" One SCU agent got sarcastic.

"Where in the hash'd Hybrid and that wolf go!?" The panicking goat agent put his hooves on his head.

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In a few blocks away, the robbery criminals were striving to flee the cops.

"Alright, bro?" The brown ferret inquired after the slender jackal.

"I think my ribs are broken..." Holding one side of rib cage, the wounded black and tan canine tottered down the path.

"Where do you think you're going?"

When Bolt, the silver chrome wolf, appeared behind the robbers, they bolted. As for the hurt jackal, he ran limply owing to the injury.

After a bit, Hybrid jumped down right in front of the criminals, obstructing their path.

"Stay put until the police come~ Okay?" Nick said tenderly.

"Nah~ Better make them talk here" Bolt walked towards the jackal, "Who's your dealer?" questioning him.

Dealer? The duo wondered what the wolf was talking about.

"I-I- I don't-!" The slender robber lurched away from Bolt. "-remember..."

"Fine~ Let's try it again from the top." Bolt, going nearer in an instant, lifted the injured jackal up by the throat. Consequently, the duo were going to bring him to a halt.

"Easy~ I got this. No need to worry~" Bolt pacified them, tilting his head to Hybrid. "How about we start with an easy question?" He turned to look directly at jackal's face.

"When did you purchase it?" He questioned.

Trembling in fear, the lifted jackal gasped for breath before replying. "A-a week ago!"

"Thanks for cooperation" Bolt jabbed the wounded robbery criminal in his chest.

The medium-sized canine was sent flying in the same direction as the jab. Judy immediately activated an instant transmission ability, teleporting to catch him in mid air.

After descending safe and sound, the united duo checked on the jackal, terrified as they found out that his heart had stopped beating.

"What the heck did you do to him!?" Judy vociferated. Her tone contrasted with the gentle way she laid the lifeless body down.

"Careful Hybrid. Your bunny is showing~" Bolt moved his head in the direction of the rest of criminals. "Who's next? Better not lie or waste my time~" His right fist bopped left palm repeatedly, which caused the clangor.

"Mind stepping aside?" He asked when Hybrid came to stand in his way.

"We won't let you harm anyone anymore." Hybrid struck a fighting pose.

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23/06/18: Please leave comments or any feedback. I would like to know. Until next time~