Chapter 4

In Sahara Square, in an closed down office building, Shane and Derek had told their boss, Bruno, a polar bear that Rita was now in protective custody.

"You idiots! You were outsmarted by a little girl?" Bruno roared.

"She was crafty boss." explained Shane.

"Yeah, and those cops Hopps and Wilde were with her." Derek added.

"Great, this is going to ruin everything."

A hyena, named Frank spoke up.

"Are you sure she has it?" he asked.

"Of course, she has it. Where else would he put it?"

"So what do we do now?" wondered Shane.

"Boys, go get some police uniforms, and some paint. If we can't get to Rita, we'll get her to come to us." Bruno ordered.

The next morning, Nick and Judy were stumped. No information they had could tell them how to help Rita, and they couldn't find much about her family. Her mother died of pneumonia, and the car accident her father was killed in was completely accidental.

"This makes no sense. Rita's just your average everyday orphan, who would be after her?" wondered Nick.

"How's the case going, you two?" asked Chief Bogo, as he passed by.

"No where, sir. We can't find any reason why someone would be after this girl." said Judy.

Then Chief Bogo, saw the picture of 2-year-old Rita.

"Hey, I remember her."

"You do?" Nick questioned.

"Yeah, she was brought here by McHorn five years ago, after her father was killed in a car accident. Come to think of it, I think he might've been looking into her father."

Nick and Judy looked at each other, and smiled.

"You thinking what I'm thinking, Carrots?"

"Oh, yeah."

She grabbed Rita's file, and went to go find Officer McHorn. In the break room, they were able to talk to him.

"Yeah, I brought Rita here while I waited for social services to pick her up. The poor kid, only 2-years-old, and already on her own." Officer McHorn told them.

"McHorn, Chief Bogo said you were looking into something on her father." Nick replied.

"Her father, oh yeah, I was."

"Can you tell us what, it may be the only way we can help her." Judy requested.

"Come on, I think I might still have the file."

They followed him to his desk, and he pulled out a folder.

"Let's see Rita's father, Roger Jensen, worked at bank, handling people accounts. We suspected him of stealing the account information such as passwords, names, and other information." explained McHorn, as they all looked at the papers.

"Was he?" asked Nick.

"We don't know, he died before we could prove anything. His co-working said they saw him put the information on a flash drive, but it was never found. Does that help?"

"Actually it helps a whole lot." said Judy.

The next day Bruno and his crew drove out to the country in their ford, which they had painted to look like a police car.

"You guys remember the plan?" asked Frank to Shane and Derek.

"Right." they both said.

At the safe house, Rita was playing in her room, while the officers were having coffee while keeping watch.

"Hey, here comes one of ours." one of them observed.

They went outside, and saw the crew step out wearing their police uniforms.

"Officers Hopps and Wilde told us to pick up Rita." Bruno informed.

"They didn't say anything to us, let's me just call to confirm."

As one of the officers took out his radio, Bruno gave a signal to Shane and Derek. They pulled out two elephant tranquilizer guns, and shot the two officers, and they were out. After tying them up, and dragging their unconscious bodies to the back of the house, they went in.

"Rita." called Frank.

"Yes, officer?"

"We're here to take you back to Zootopia, Officers Hopps and Wilde sent us."

"Yay, I can go home, come on Ronnie."

Rita grabbed her suitcase and doll. As they led her out of the house, she began to get a bad feeling.

"What happened to the other officers?"

But before she could get answer, Shane put a cloth over her mouth, she struggled, but soon went unconscious. They put her in the car, and drove away with her.

Back at ZPD, Clawhauser was told to check in on the officers at the safe house.

"This is Clawhauser to Officers Winters and Jefferson, everything okay?" he asked on his radio, but nothing came through.

"Officers Winters and Jefferson, come in."

But there was still nothing. In Bogo's office, Nick and Judy were going over their theory with him.

"So Rita's father was suspected of stealing bank account information, and he put it on a flash drive. But it was never found." explained Nick.

"So we think whoever's after Rita may be trying to find the flash drive." said Judy.

"That's a good theory, but how would Rita know where the flash drive is, she was only two when this happened?" wondered Chief Bogo.

Before they could answer, Clawhauser came through the door.

"Chief, Judy, Nick, Officers Winters and Jefferson aren't responding."

Nick and Judy looked at each other worriedly.

All the units drove out to the safe house, and saw the Rita's gone.

"How could this happen?" asked Judy.

"Hopps, Wilde, back here." called McHorn.

They went to the back of the house, and saw that Officers Winters and Jefferson were just coming out of it.

"What happened, where's Rita?" wondered Nick.

"Four officers came, they said they were sent by you to get Rita, next thing we know we're waking up here." Officer Winters explained.

"What did they look like?"

"There was a polar bear, a wolf, a caribou, and a hyena." answered Officer Jefferson.

"They have her." said Nick and Judy together.

Luckily they managed to remember the license plate number, and the two rushed back to Zootopia.

"I can't believe it, they just took her." Judy remarked.

"Yeah, they even dressed up like police officers to trick her, she even took her doll with her, so she must've felt safe." added Nick.

Suddenly, something hit Judy. Roger Jensen had put the information on a flash drive, the flash drive was never found, Rita's first got the doll from her dad when she was 2, and she's had it with her for five years.

"The doll."

"What?" asked Nick confused.

"The doll, the flash drive is in the doll. Rita's had the flash drive all along and didn't know it, that's why they took her."

Now that they found the motive, they had to find Rita, and get that flash drive back.

That's chapter 4, plz review and comment