Judy didn't want to do this. She had no other choice. Nick was being too dense to catch any of her hints. This wasn't her fault though. That's what she kept telling herself. It wasn't her fault.
Judy finished that last of her reports for the morning and readied for her lunch break. It would probably be her last. Actually, there was no debate, she would get fired after today. It was a small price to pay.
She went to her locker and retrieved a small duffle bag full of supplies. Judy had spent the previous days figuring out what supplies she would need and now that research would need to be put to the test. After a quick double check of the contents of the bag, Judy headed toward the lobby.
Stepping outside, Judy did a quick glance around before moving toward the row of parked police cars. Normally, those cars had to signed out by officers, but Judy didn't have a legitimate reason to take one. Luckily, she had managed to swipe the keys for one of the cruisers from Clawhauser when he wasn't looking. He wouldn't notice they were gone until that night.
She walked along the row of cars until she found the cruiser whose tag matched the tag on the key. Judy threw her duffle bag in the back seat and started to pull out of the parking space, taking note of the security cameras recording her. This would be just one of the things that would get her fired.
Judy began to drive out of the city. Throughout the whole drive, she constantly replayed her plan again and again. Each time it seemed less and less likely that it would actually work. If she had been given more time, then maybe she would have a better chance of pulling it off.
She drove in silence. The fact she hadn't slept in several days started to weigh on her, but she only needed to stay awake a few more hours. After that, this whole thing would be over. She thought about calling Nick and leaving one last hint. Maybe he could stop her from doing it at the last second.
She quickly reversed her decision. They would hear and all her work up to this point would have been for naught. Anyway, the note she slipped into Nick's belt would explain it all, he just needed to find it before it was too late.
Judy slowed the car to a stop in front of the large, fortress-like, building. By this point, Judy knew every inch of the building by heart. She spent every night combing over the blueprints she managed to find in the Zootopia City Hall archives. She stopped at the front gate, which was manned by a security guard.
Judy passed through the gate and held up her authorization papers. The papers were fake. She had spent over an hour learning how to forge Chief Bogo's signature. As the guard looked through the papers, Judy silently prayed her forging efforts were satisfactory. If this was a higher security facility, she never would have gotten this far.
The security guard nodded and handed the papers back to Judy before pressing the button that opened the gate. Judy rolled through and pulled her car up to one of the back entrances to the building. She stepped from the car and looked up at the lettering on the side of the building.
Zootopia Correctional Facility.
Judy grabbed the duffle bag from the back seat and began walking toward the front door. With every step, her heart began to beat faster and faster, to the point she felt like she would faint. She entered the door and used the forged papers to enter the lobby before walking toward the cell block.
She knew she wouldn't be able to get past this point with her bag unopened. Her entire plan hinged on this moment. Two security guards, a wolf and a cheetah, manned the last checkpoint, each standing on either side of a metal detector. Judy took a deep breath. It was now or never.
Judy calmly walked toward the two holding her duffle bag in her left hand. Once she did this, she would only have seconds left to act out the rest of her plan. As she approached, Judy reached into the bag and pulled out the dart gun from within.
"I'm so sorry," Judy said as she raised the dart gun and fired, striking the cheetah in the chest. The shock stunned the wolf just long enough for Judy to reload and fire again before he could sound the alarm. The tranquilizer in the darts worked fast and both guards were out cold within seconds.
While no alarm was raised, it was only a matter of time before someone realized the guards were unconscious. Judy reloaded the dart gun and grabbed her duffle bag before running around the metal detector.
She jogged down the hall until she found the cell control room. Another security guard sat at the controls, apparently oblivious to Judy's attack. An additional dart rendered the guard unconscious. Judy quickly checked to see if the cell number she had found was correct, which it was. Judy then keyed the controls to open that cell.
Judy ran down the block toward the single open cell. She stopped and looked into the darkened room, lit only by the hallway light. Something stirred within.
"Well, Judy, I was starting to wonder if you were going to show up," Dawn Bellwether's squeaky voice said from within the cell.