A/N: This story only seems to get updated rather quickly because this idea was in development months before, expect slower updates coming up. Thanks for reading! - Nicholas P.

Chapter Three- The Outbreak

"Alarm off." Judy said to silence the alarm, she has a long day ahead of her in full trauma plate armor, even though she is a police officer, she is wearing heavier gear than the gear worn by SEAL Team Six. Downstairs, Nick was already waiting for her to come down, looking defeated as the 18-pound body armor took its toll on the Red Fox.

"Morning Judy." Nick greeted Judy at the sofa.

"Morning Nick, what made you go up this early?" Judy asked, unaware of what's going to happen next.

"This." Nick pushed a button putting the whole house on lockdown, heavy sheets of Titanium blocked every single hole in the house that a thief could use to get in and turned on a blade that guards the exhaust from any unwanted visitors, the Tundratown District Penitentiary does not even have such equipment, mainly because of the fact that they want to keep their prisoners in, alive.

Once the whole house was on lockdown, it took 5 minutes for the heavy garage door to open just enough for the armored H2 to pass, the duo revved their way to the ZPD Precinct One to report the situation to Chief Bogo.

When Nick and Judy arrived at the ZPD, the place was in its usual state, except the squad of SWAT at the entrance, and a rather serious Clawhauser manning the front desk, the same Clawhauser they met the last time they went to the ZPD and despite the fact that it was the first time they encountered him like this, Nick and Judy never got used to his seriousness, he even preferred work over his precious donuts.

"Clawhauser, we need to see Chief Bogo now." Judy said while trying to make the impression that they were just in the cool, ultimately failing when Clawhauser noticed their vests dripping with sweat.

"Chief Bogo is at his office, I believe you know the way." Clawhauser said in a flat tone.

"Thanks bud." Nick said while rushing to the office

"Chief Bogo!" Nick and Judy said in unison

"Not Now!" Bogo said, startled by his officers barging into his door, causing the buffalo to slam his phone to the table, but succeeds to turn off the audio, preventing the same incident with Clawhauser during the Night Howler incident.

"Chief, this is very important considering the fact that you have a tank waiting outside, me and Nick wearing complete trauma plates, and also carrying high powered assault rifles which we deposited downstairs."

Defeated, Bogo gave an exhausted sigh and asked, "What tank are you talking about?"

Nick grinned so hard that it begun to hurt his muzzle, "Open Camera One on your monitor."

Bogo was surprised that his reaction got the best of him. "Oh shit! That is a tank! Where did it come from?"

Nick just gave him a smug grin, "I own that tank sir, and right now we have information that can change the whole case."

"You need to arm all of your officers or they will die! This Max Michaels is not a common criminal; he is a terrorist." He needs a warrant for arming the officers, unless…

"Do you have probable cause?" Bogo asked, knowing what would be said next.

"Yes sir, the mammals were spotted in the Rainforest district talking to each other based on our informant." At that moment Bogo grabbed his microphone and switched it from Clawhauser to all precincts, including the officers on patrol.

"All officers, this is the Chief, you have 15 minutes to arm yourselves with lethal ammunition, be on your full combat gear, we are facing a war."

Somewhere in Savannah Central…

"You got Doug here, what's the mark?"

"Cheetah, ZPD Headquarters, not the receptionist he's too fat, paint with new balls."

"Cheetah, ZPD."

"Can you hit one? They're fast."

"Yeah I know they're fast I can hit him, listen I hit a tiny little otter in a moving car."

"Save your bragging when it's done."

"Doug, open up! We got your latte!"

"Woolter and Jesse are here, I'll buzz you when it's done or you'll see it on the news, whichever comes first."

"It better have the extra foam this time."

"It does."

Back at the ZPD…

After the whole event at Bogo's office, the duo heads out to the front desk to ask for possible cases that may be linked to theirs, "Clawhauser, do you have any cases similar to this one? Cases that involved incurable savage mammals?"

Clawhauser did not even look when he said, "Nope, your case is one of a kind, best head out to the archives or the library, who knows? You might find one there." Just as Judy heads out to the front door, a mammal was lying down at the street, leaving Nick behind, she dashed to the injured looking mammal, the nearing distance revealing itself to be a cheetah, 'Well, at least not all cheetah's are fat like Clawhauser.' She thought as she dashed to the cheetah only for the mammal to stand on all fours, and started sprinting to the nearest mammal; a rhino, and started to bite others that were oblivious to the situation at hand. Judy stopped and thought.

'Oh Shit'

Just as the rhino went down, he went back up but this time on all fours, acting erratically the rhino smashed a café nearby, sending all the customers that were once there running in all directions.

"Officer Hopps to dispatch, we have a 10-91 multiple mammals gone savage! They are 50 meters from the ZPD put the precinct in lockdown now!"

A rather confused Clawhauser was waiting at the other end of the radio, knowing that she can't give such an order, he asked her "Do you have Level 5 Clearance?"

Judy was angry now. "I have the clearance; I won't be telling you this if don't have!"

A shocked Clawhauser responded "Ok, Initiating lockdown, you have 10 minutes to get your tail here before the doors close so hurry!"

Once Judy heard Clawhauser saying 10 minutes, she ran as fast as her legs can take her, only to attract the attention of the cheetah. '25 meters left come on Judy!' Nick thought as he caught on to the situation, and his thoughts went to his car, he jumped out the fence got into his car and raced to Judy's aid, once Judy was inside, Nick saw how frightened she was, she did not know about what was going to happen, her face shows that she was not expecting it and the thought that she was right in front of the jaws of a sprinting cheetah only added more fright to her face.

"Come on carrots, you're safe now, the ZPD is in lockdown so we can't get inside. What I need you to do it to get the .50 cal hidden in the reserve tire compartment and mount it on that turntable."

Judy only said one sentence, "I can't kill victims."

Nick gave her a confused look, "You can choose between three types of ammo, they have a different belt for each one, we have tranqs, beanbags and AP rounds."

After hearing this, Judy calmed and proceeded to get the monstrous gun and mounted it on the turntable, she chose the beanbag rounds as they could stun them and are much more accurate in a moving car situation.

Once Nick put the pedal to the metal, the heavy duty engines roared to life, catching every savage mammals' attention in the vicinity, and with Judy manning the gun from a remote, they stunned as much mammals as they could before reaching the house, once inside, they established comms to the headquarters.

"Officer Hopps to dispatch, are you there?"

She was greeted by a worried Clawhauser, "Read you loud and clear Officer Hopps, where is your location?"

Unsure of what to tell him, she turned to Nick, only for him to nod in approval, "We are at 1 Cypress Grove Lane. What the status on the savage animals?" Judy asked knowing the fact that there were hundreds of mammals in front of the ZPD as it was in the center of the town.

"They spread to Tundratown, Rainforest District and Savannah Central, are you safe?" Clawhauser impatiently asked, genuinely concerned of their safety.

"Yeah, we are at a tank currently." Judy informed the worried cheetah, hoping to make the information calm him down.

"We got your location Hopps, just sit tight and we'll get to you." Clawhauser said in his regular tone, only to be corrected by Judy.

"No, we will pick up Chief Bogo, go back here, and plan an operation to reclaim the city, we have proper supplies here, and we also need a few drivers to drive a few trucks for resupply."

Out of options, the cheetah can only agree, whatever they have up their sleeves at this moment it was the only chance they've got, "Ok, when will we expect you to arrive?"

Nick grabbed the phone and said, "In about 10 minutes ready the doors, I don't want to wait outside for too long, also get an IR Beacon, we need them if we ever get air support, get at least 20 of them."

"What are you going to use them on?" Clawhauser curiously asked.

"We have a military base 10 clicks north of the city, unfortunately it was overrun during the sudden attack, we plan to raid the place and use the captured materials." Nick announced.

"Okay, Dispatch out."

Once they pulled into the sight of the ZPD, the garage door opened and they were greeted inside by Chief Bogo and Officers Grizzoli, McHorn, Wolford, Fangmeyer, Higgins and Snarlov. Once they were in, they headed straight for the fortress.

"So Wilde, where did you get enough money to buy this tank?" Wolford asked, amazed by the electronics and weapons in the tank, it even has its own satellite uplink molded into the chassis of the car to prevent it from flying away in its old storm chasing days.

"Well, I'm afraid to tell you that its classified information." Nick grinned.

"I call bullshit on that Wilde, seriously though, it smells like it's just new." Higgins said only to be cut off by Fangmeyer.

"You got this from a junkshop did you?" Nick's smug façade broke, confirming this he nods, "I knew it, there are only 2 Thumper H2's built like this, my dad owns the other one." Nick only shrugs and focuses on the road as the rest of the trip was uneventful.

Once they arrived, Nick ordered the security system to stand down after guns were pointed on their faces in a similar fashion like that of Judy's experience, with all the officers including Bogo needing a few minutes to relax before stepping another foot in the house.

"Damn Wilde, you could get people killed with a security system that aggressive!" Wolford cursed, not expecting the security to be highly aggressive.

"Well they won't die when they stop, it also adds bonus that you don't need to shout 'freeze!' at the top of your lungs." Chief Bogo only rolled his eyes and asked him.

"What do you need us to do Wilde?"

"Okay here is the plan;" Nick said in a serious manner

"Zootopia Joint Forces Base Bravo is the nearest Military installation from this place, and we are going to raid it"

"Are you crazy?" Wolford asked, aware of the security that base has being the second biggest base in Zootopia.

"Not when you know the code to deactivate the security system" Nick smirked.

"And how are you going to do it?" Asked Higgins.

"Hack the military satellite above us right now, go in undetected and get four Bradley's and three M2 Abrams, the ones with TUSK armor only, we need to be heavily armored to survive." Chief Bogo filled in.

"How can you hack a high security satellite, get to the motor pool and steal military equipment in plain daylight?" Fangmeyer said trying to make sense of everything that's happening.

"I have a satellite uplink, code for the security, and the master key for all vehicles in the military." Nick smoothly said.

"How the fuck did you get all that?" McHorn asked, fed up of all the surprises the fox had.

"Top-Secret bud." Nick plainly said.

"Of course it is." Snarlov said, knowing about the fox's background.

With all officers' present agreeing, they set the plan in motion, and geared up to prevent any savage mammals from turning them into one.

"Officers, follow me." Nick said in an authoritative manner and directed them to the armory 5 stories underground, once they were inside, it was the holy grail of weapons, and everything from a Colt M1911 to an HK Trench-Clearing airburst rifle was there, and of course, fifty kilograms of C4.

"Take what you need; this is the point of all this anyway." Nick said with a hint of sadness, seeing his well spent money going to the ZPD. After arming up, he directed them to the garage and loaded up in the H2 and left for the base.

"Looks like someone is busy." Judy said, in the past 4 hours, all Nick did was plan and arm for the raid. He was so busy he even forgot to give Judy time to talk and just relax for a bit, "Sorry Judy, everyone is very busy for the raid, I will make it up to you. I promise."

"You better." Judy hits his shoulder and Nick lets out a groan of pain, much to the satisfaction of Judy.

Nick flipped a switch that read 'GHOST' and the whole car was suddenly silent having switched to a much more silent secondary engine, but in a much slower speed of 30 mph, all this is necessary to the success of their plan, after all, they don't want to go to the base with a tail full of savage mammals.

25 meters from the gates, they stopped. Nick pulled out a quantum screen and uploaded the codes to the satellite granting them access to the base and headed right for the motor pool, once they were inside Nick inserted the maser key and all vehicles roared to life, all the officers picks which one to drive, just as everyone was ready, Nick spotted an experimental MQ-8B Fire Scout in one of the Hangars. Nick halted the convoy and directed Higgins to drive the command truck with Nick on the pilot controls and with Judy driving the H2.

"Everyone, I need you to divert their attention to the ZPD, we will rendezvous at the fortress." Nick ordered, and the vehicles were on their way to the ZPD, with their heavy engines rolling, savage mammals followed them wherever they go, "Okay the coast is clear, let's go." Nick said and Higgins guns the Armored Command Car, with Nick controlling the drone from the command car and heads to the fortress.

Once inside, they radioed to the diversion that they were safe, only to receive a feared message.

"Snarlov's tracks broke down, we need tow." A worried Chief Bogo said over the radio.

"Can you fix it yourself?" Nick asked.

"We can but the guns on these tanks need codes"

"No shit they need codes; I want you to hold out until the MQ-8B Fire Scout reaches you."

"We're fine as long as we're inside the vehicles" Chief Bogo reassured them.

They encountered a problem with the drone, the whole system was requiring a code before the weapons rail can be mounted. "Okay, 4096-bit encryption, this is easy." Nick said and started typing away in the computer, less than 5 minutes later they cracked it and loaded the drone with a powerful ultrasonic sound emitter that puts pain in the ears of nearby mammals.

"Diversion, there is a switch in the control panel next to the steering controls, I need you to press it, this makes the whole vehicle soundproof."

"What are you going to do Wilde?"

"I'm going to make their ears bleed."

"Diversion, Fire Scout en route, call sign 'Anderson' ETA five minutes." Judy said.

Make it quick, Snarlov is dying to move, he does not like savage mammals over him with alarms blaring inside the APC."

"Anderson is on the way, 2 minutes"

Once Anderson was in place, Judy activated the weapons system and escorted them towards the fortress. The large garage door closing once again marked the success of their raid.

"Now, where are those IR Beacons?"

"Right here." Bogo handed him a black device and mounted them on the top of each one. Now, all that remains were the locked weapons system.

Two agonizing hours in front of the computer resulted in four fully functioning APC's and three tanks. All they have to do send the Chief back home in one of the APC's.

"I'm so sorry guys, but there is not enough room for all of you, I think you know the way back to the ZPA? I'm sure they have enough bunks, they reported being on lockdown but be ready just in case." Nick said, as if sending guests back home from a party.

"It's okay Wilde thanks for the equipment." Wolford replied.

"Don't thank me; thank the military for weak encryptions!" Nick chuckled and with that the APC left for the ZPA, leaving a very impatient Judy in the room.

"Hey fluff, about the making up to you thing, can we do it tomorrow morning, I'm way too tired to do it now." Nick said in the most apologetic way possible, "I promise, it will be worth it."

"Yeah, me too slick, let's just do it tomorrow." Judy said.

"Okay fluff, good night."

"Good Night Nick." Judy said while also thinking of another thing to say to him. 'I love you Nick.'

That night, Judy did not sleep, she just kept thinking about Nick, she never thought that him displaying authority even to the Chief was a big turn on for her, she did not even think about what to do tomorrow, Chief Bogo still needs to sort out the panic from the survivors of the incident and alert the public of what to do in the crisis that gripped the city with more fear than the Night Howler case.