I open the door to the outside. "Nick, you better pay next time!"

Nick pushes my shoulder. "Ha ha Carrots. You know I'm tight on money because of my new apartment."

I chuckle. "What about me? I'm going to be moving soon too!"

"And when that happens, I'll pay for lunch." Nick grins. "Mine at least."

We arrive at our cruiser. "Oh no Nick, you pay for both of us!"

"If you say so, bunny." Nick jumps into his seat and I take the wheel.

"So how are you liking the job, Nick? It's been a few months and this is the first really slow day we have had." I start the cruiser and pull out into the streets of downtown.

"You ask me that every week!" Nick rolls his eyes and looks out his window.

I tap his arm. "Well I want to make sure you're happy!"

Nick laughs and smiles at me. "It's interesting Carrots. I definitely don't think I'd be doing it if you weren't here."

"Aww Nick, you know… I wouldn't be here either if you hadn't helped me clean up my mess last year." We stop at a red light, I see a few shops coming up. Pedestrians walking all around, together. "You know, I'm so grateful the mammals of this city were able to put that behind them. Who knows what kind of hate and destruction would've come from that… from me." The light turns green and we start moving again slowly.

"It wouldn't have been your fault Judy. You only said what you did based on what we knew at the time, even I see that now." Nick flips on the police radio. "Let's see if there is anything to do, huh?"

Silence on the radio's end. "Looks like the city is really quiet toda-"

SCREEEEEEEEEEEEECH

BOOM

CRASH

Nick is stunned "What the?"

I don't know what just happened, still driving towards it I hear it..

"NOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Nick flips on the lights and sirens and looks to me. "Move Judy, get us in there!"

I'm still shocked. I.. I press the gas and we move towards the scene. Nick jumps out and runs over to assist. I think I… I think I get out of the car… I move over behind Nick. I want to vomit. I see the pig's soul leave his eyes. A tiger yelling at his family.

One of the pigs keeps screaming "Why? Why? WHY?"

The tiger looks at them with death in her face and joy in her eyes. "You pigs will never hurt another predator ever again. This is for my son!"

Blood runs from the car to me. Nick is trying to snap me awake to help. I freeze. This is my fault, I caused this. The city… the city is still broken. Because of me… because of me. I fall to the ground, in the pool of the pig's blood. His dead eyes staring at me. His final expression of fear, confusion, anger piercing into me.

"Why? Why? WHYYYYYYhyyyHYYY?"

WHYYYYYYRRRRREEEEEEEECH

THUD

I wake up. "Ow, oh my head." I feel a large bump on the back of my head. I get u- Ow!- well I try to get up but I hit my head again. I'm in a dark small space. Bump. I'm in a trunk. I feel something on my feet. I jostle my way around and feel what I felt. Fur. Clothes. Tail. Badge. It's Nick alright. I whisper to him "Nick...Nick!"

With no luck I begin to feel around the truck. Bump. Yep definitely on a bumpy road. I take out my phone and turn on the light. These cars usually have a release for the trunk on the inside but this one's has been completely removed. Great.

I try to wake Nick up for a while. He obviously has taken a larger hit than I did. His head bump is much larger and actually has bled from the injury. Whoever did this will pay. That's a promise, Nick.

The car pulls over. Oh, great. I hear the driver side door open and close, then the passenger side moments later. The trunk opens. There stands the one-armed figure.

"Don't speak. Please there isn't much time." Travis extends his paw. "I'm sorry. But he wants you too." I grab his paw and get out of the trunk we are at a gas station. "I can't… you don't deserve this Judy. I forgive you. It wasn't your fault. You only said what you did based on what you knew at the time, even I see that now." Travis looks at Nick. "You have to go, before he does something rash to Nick. Now go, he's only paying for gas inside, you don't have much time. Please. And Judy, I'm sorry for hurting you and your friends when we were younger. I hope you can forgive me too."

Travis hands me a note and pushes me out from under the gas station lights into the mostly dark city. I stumble over to a dark corner and collapse on the ground. My head is spinning. The power, it has been partially restored. The gas station has lights and some buildings too. I look at the note travis gave to me.

We heard your call to dispatch, to a mammal named Clawhauser. Please do not follow what he gives you. My brother will not stop at anything to hurt you or Nick.

My radio crackles to life. BZZT- "Nick? Judy? Answer guys! I found the ferret! He's in a car with another one and just blew past me."

I reach down to my radio and transmit "Finnick? I'm a block or so behind them at a gas station." I see a street sign. "Dry River Road. They kicked me out. Come get me please, I'm about to pass out again. They have Nick."

I wave Finnick's van down and he helps me up. "Thank you." I tell him.

"I got you Judy. Here." Finnick opens the door and straps me into the passenger seat. "Where have they gone Judy?"

"I don't know.." I muster out, my head pounding and my eyes watering. "Take me to the ZPD. I need to talk to someone there."

"You got it bunny. Hold on. We are going to make tire tracks." Finnick slams on the accelerator and we race to the police headquarters. The quick jerk of the van makes me light headed. I.. I think I'm blacking out again…

Finnick starts pounding my shoulder as he's steering. "Bunny don't knock out on me. Bunny. Judy! Judy..."

Blackness.

"Judy!" Nick hits me on the shoulder. "Come on, we need to get these people back!" Nick turns back to his radio. "Yes! Hurry! The pig has already lost a lot of blood. That ambulance needs to be here five minutes ago!"

I pick myself up. Red dripping down my legs. "Nick. What do we do?"

"Help me over here." Nick waves me over to the front of the crowd.

I'm speechless the entire time, Nick and I set up a police line and the crowd stays back. The pigs are still mourning over the body when the ambulance arrives. There is nothing they could do. The screaming won't stop. The tiger fell down beside her car and let me put pawcuffs on her. She began murmuring as she sat there for a while as we tried to take care of the situation. When we finally get the tiger into the cruiser she says something to me.

"I know you. Yeah, I know who you are. You did this. You hurt my son, and you killed that pig." She.. laughs and extends her bloody paw out to my chest, to my badge. I can't move. "How did they ever let a murderer like you back in? You prey are all the same."

Nick slams the door on the tiger. "You can't let her get in your head Judy. She doesn't know what she's talking about."

I look at the tiger's grin through the barred windows. "...Yeah."

We climb back into the cruiser. Nick drives. I'm too shaken up. We drive the tiger back to the station and a rhino and a bear take in the tiger. Our cruiser gets scrubbed down from the blood dripping from the tiger and us. Bogo tells us to go to the locker rooms and change into our spare clothes. Once we do, I head into records while Nick begins working on reports for what had happened. I look for the tiger's son's case. The son was beaten, bad. Fractured arms and legs, scratches, cuts, in the hospital for months and is still there. Charges were pressed but it looks like the pigs who hurt the son skipped town and are still being looked for. The son stated that they hurt him because they didn't want him to… to go savage. I look at the date of the attack. The same day of the press conference where I broke the city. How many other lives have I destroyed? How many others have I not known about? How many?

"Judy?" Clawhauser? "Judy I have your files!" What?

Finnick slaps me awake. "Wake up!"

"Woah! Chill out there little buddy!" Clawhauser helps me up.

"Oh, I passed out again, didn't I?" My head is throbbing.

"Let's get you patched up inside Judy." Clawhauser picks me up and takes me inside. He gives me something for the pain and some water. "Here you go Hopps, everything on that ferret you asked for, and his family. Without a full name it took a while but I think we found him, and their address."

After a brief dizzy spell, I take the file on Travis and look inside. "Huh. Mother, Tracy, died...suicide?" I read the file on her. Found dead in her home. Left behind two young boys. Left a note saying her memory of her husband kept torturing her at night. That she was so sorry.

"Father, George, killed in incident at the Wall." Fox culprit who lured the ferret to the Wall at time of activation was never found. Warrant still out for arrest. Case went cold years ago.

"Brother, Bruce, arrested two times. Average student, became a metro train conductor… train conductor." That's how they got into the tunnels and safely wrote those messages. Probably knew some mammals who stopped off at Nocturnal too.

"Travis. Excellent GPA, never been arrested but was the victim of a crime?" Attacker was never caught. However attacker was younger zebra.

The file states that the zebra seemed scared of Travis when he laughed and showed his teeth. Travis began walking towards the zebra and waved. The zebra panicked and shouted "Stay away from me savage!" They thought Travis was reaching out to attack them. Travis had his arm bitten off at the shoulder and the zebra ran. The attack happened four days after the press conference. It was shown on the news as part of the thirty or so attacks in the first week after the conference. I would've seen it if I wasn't avoiding the media at that time. I hurt Travis too.

"Thank you Clawhauser. This info is very helpful. Tell Bogo Nick isn't the one who is responsible for all of this. I know who and I'm going to stop them.. and figure out what happened. Above all Clawhauser, don't tell Bogo I came back here, not yet." I start stumbling towards the exit. "Come on Finnick. Let's move. we have their address."

Finnick catches up to me and guides me to his van. "I'll admit bunny, you've got drive. Maybe you haven't gotten as bad as I thought since we last met."

We strap in and Finnick starts up the van. That's when my radio crackles on and a voice creeps out.

BZZT- "I remember everything about the moment my father died." -BZZT- "I remember everything about the moment my mother died." -BZZZT- "I remember everything about the moment my brother was maimed." -BZZT

I respond. "Who is this?"

BZZT- "I'm the one who's going to break Ricky." -BZZT- "He killed my parents. But you took my brother's arm." -BZZT- "You come alone bunny."

My paws begin to tremble. "First you answer me. Is Nick still alive? Is he injured?"

BZZT- "No more than the head injury you both sustained." -BZZT- "I'll let you both die together." -BZZT- "Travis will meet you."

My stomach begins to fall to me feet. "Where?"

BZZT- "The outermost damaged Wall engine." -BZZT- "There is a service door accessible in the sand." -BZZT

"I'll see you soon… Bruce." I click off my radio. "Start driving Finnick."