Jimin Park was excited. He had graduated at the top of his class from the police academy. Now he was leaving his family's farm and going to the bustling city of Zootopia. He was going to be the city's first-ever bunny cop. No one believed a bunny could make a good cop, but Jimin was determined to prove them wrong!
As Jimin made his way to his apartment, he looked around. Zootopia was filled with animals of all shapes and sizes! He couldn't wait to get begin his new life!
The next morning, Jimin introduced himself to his fellow officers at the Zootopia Police Department. "Hey. Officer Park. You ready to make the world a better place?"
Soon Chief Taehyung walked in. "We have fourteen missing mammal cases. Fourteen cases! An' that's more than we've ever had. This is priority number one."
Chief Taehyung assigned each officer a missing mammal case. Then he came to Jimin. "And finally, our first bunny, Officer Park. Parking duty."
Jimin was disappointed. But if he had to be a meter maid, he'd be the best one possible!
Jimin was writing parking tickets when he saw a fox entering Jumbeaux's. Suspicious, he followed him.
But when he got inside, Jimin saw that the fox was just trying to buy a Jumbo-pop for his son, who was dressed as an elephant. "My boy, this goofy little stinker, he loves all things elephant. Wants to be one when he grows up. That adorable? Who the heck am I to crush his little dreams, huh?"
When the owner refused to serve the fox, Jimin stepped in and flashed his badge. If the little fox wanted a Jumbo-pop, he was going to make sure he got one!
Grumbling, the shop owner handed over a Jumbo-pop. But when the father fox reached for his wallet, he realized he didn't have it.
Jimin offered to pay. "Oh, no, my treat. It's just-ya know, it burns me up to see folks with such backwards attitudes toward foxes."
Outside, Jimin introduced himself to the fox, whose name was Hoseok. Then he turned to his son. "And you, little guy. You want to be an elephant when you grow up? You be an elephant, because this is Zootopia. Anyone can be anything."
Later, Jimin saw Hoseok and his "son" on the sidewalk. It turned out Hoseok's son was not a child at all. He was an adult fox! The pair had fooled Jimin to get a free Jumbo-pop. Now they were melting down the Jumbo-pop and refreezing it into smaller "pawpsicles," which they were selling to lemmings. Jimin couldn't believe it!
Jimin caught up to Hoseok. "I stood up for you, and you lied to me!"
Hoseok shrugged. "It's called a hustle, sweetheart. All right, look, everyone comes to Zootopia thinking they can be anything they want. Well, you can't. You can only be what you are."
Hoseok pointed to himself-"Sly fox"-and the Jimin-"Dumb bunny."
That hurt Jimin's feelings. "I am not a dumb bunny!"
"Right. And that's not wet cement."
Jimin looked down. He had hopped into some drying cement.
Hoseok shook his head. "You'll never be a real cop."
The next day, a pig ran up to Jimin. His flower shop had just been robbed by a weasel!
Jimin chased the bandit all around Little Rodentia before finally catching him. But when Jimin brought the thief to ZPD, Chief Taehyung was angry. The chase had caused a lot of damage.
Jimin was confused. "Sir, I got the bad guy. That's my job."
"Your job is putting tickets on parked cars."
Suddenly, Jimin and Chief Taehyung were interrupted by a very upset otter named Yoongi Min Otterton. His husband, Jungkook Jeon Otterton had been missing for ten days!
Jimin knew this was his chance. He offered to find Jungkook.
Before Chief Taehyung could argue, Deputy Mayor Bellweather appeared. She had heard that Jimin was taking the case. She was thrilled.
Chief Taehyung had no choice. "I will give you forty-eight hours. But, you strike out, you resign."
Jimin gulped. "Oh, uh…okay. Deal."
Jimin's only clue in the case was a photo of Jungkook. In it, he was eating a popsicle. That meant Hoseok knew him!
Jimin went to find the sly fox. He tricked him into admitting that he had committed a crime and made him agree to help him.
Jimin and Hoseok soon found out that Jungkook had been seen getting into a car with the license plate 29THD03. The pair went to the DMV, where Hoseok's friend Flash the sloth worked.
Jimin approached Flash. "Well, I was hoping you could run a late for us."
Flash agreed. But the sloth moved so slowly that it took him all day to get Jimin the answer! Hoseok had known talking to Flash would stall Jimin. He was trying to get him to give up! But the bunny wasn't about to drop the case.
Finally, Hoseok and Judy learned that Jungkook had been driven away in the back of a limo. The duo tracked the limo to a parking lot. When they looked inside, they were shocked. The back seat was ripped to shreds.
The tow went to find the driver, a jaguar named Mr. Manchas. When Manchas opened his door, the pair saw that he was badly bruised. He told them that Jungkook had attacked him!
"Woah. A teeny otter…did that?"
Mr. Manchas explained that Jungkook had been mumbling about "night howlers" before he went savage.
Suddenly, Mr. Manchas dropped to all fours. Without warning, he lunged at Jimin and Hoseok. He had gone savage, too!
Hoseok and Jimin tried to capture Mr. Manchas, but he had escaped. When they explained to Chief Taehyung what had happened, he demanded Jimin's badge.
Before Jimin could agree, Hoseok stepped forward. "Here's the thing, Chief, you gave him the forty-eight hours, so technically we still have ten left to find our Mr. Jungkook. And that's exactly what we're going to do. So, if you'll excuse us, we have a very big lead to follow and a case to crack."
Jimin was surprised to see the fox stand up for him. He realized that there was more to the fox than he had first thought. Maybe the two weren't so different after all.
Then Hoseok had an idea. They could use the traffic cameras to see where the savage Mr. Manchas had gone.
Hoseok and Jimin visited Deputy Mayor Bellweather. The two watched on her cameras as a group of wolves hopped out of a van and grabbed Mr. Manchas.
As one of the wolves howled, Jimin realized something. "Night howlers. That's what Mr. Manchas was afraid of…wolves! The wolves are the night howlers. If they took Manchas…"
"I bet they took Jungkook, too."
Hoseok studied the screen. It didn't take him long to figure out where the wolves were going: the Cliffside Asylum.
Jimin was impressed. "Well, look at you, junior detective. You know, I think you'd actually make a pretty good cop."
When the pair reached the asylum, they found the entrance guarded by wolves. Jimin howled. Soon all the wolves were howling, too.
With the wolves distracted, Jimin and Hoseok snuck inside…where they found rows of cages with imprisoned predators-including Jungkook!
Jimin counted the cages. "…eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen. Chief Taehyung handed out fourteen missing mammal files. All the missing mammals are right here."
Suddenly, Hoseok and Jimin heard footsteps. The pair hid. A moment later, they heard a voice. It was the mayor. He knew all about the savage animals and was keeping it a secret!
Taking out his phone, Jimin recorded the mayor. Then his phone began to ring. He and Hoseok had to get out of the asylum before they were caught!
The pair narrowly escaped. Back at ZPD, Jimin presented his recording to Chief Taehyung. Impressed, he let him arrest the mayor.
A brief time later, the newly appointed Mayor Bellweather held a press conference. When Jimin was asked to speak, he presented the facts about the animals who had gone savage.
"All we know is that they are all members of the predator family. Thousands of years ago, predators survived through their aggressive hunting instincts. For whatever reason, they seem to be reverting to their primitive, savage ways."
Hoseok was hurt by his words. Did he think he could turn back into a savage predator?
Turning his back on Jimin, Hoseok stormed off.
The press conference divided Zootopia. Soon it was prey versus predator.
Jimin felt so bad about the chaos he had caused that he quit the ZPD and moved home. A few days later, he overheard his father, Namjoon, scolding some kids for running through the flowers at the edge of his field.
When Jimin heard his papa, Jin's, friend Gideon refer to the same flowers as night howlers, he realized something. "Night howlers aren't wolves. They're flowers."
Jimin's fathers explained that the flowers kept the bugs away from the crops, but they could also make animals go crazy.
Jimin remembered from his case file that Jungkook was a florist. "The flowers are making the animals go savage. That's it! That's what I've been missing!"
Jimin jumped in his family's blueberry truck and drove back to the city. He found Hoseok and apologized to him. "I was ignorant and irresponsible and small-minded. I have to fix this, but I can't do it without you."
Hoseok knew Jimin was sincere. He forgave him.
Jimin told Hoseok what he had learned about the flowers. Together, they followed their clues to a secret lab in an abandoned subway car. Inside, a group of rams were turning night howlers into poison pellets they could shoot at predators to make them go savage.
Jimin knew what they had to do. "We need to get this evidence to the ZPD!"
Hoseok and Jimin took control of the subway car. But the rams tried to stop them. After almost colliding with another train, their train derailed and caught on fire, destroying the flowers. Hoseok held up a case with a gun and a night howler pellet inside. They still had their evidence!
The pair raced through the Natural History Museum on their way to ZPD. Suddenly, Mayor Bellweather appeared. Jimin explained what they had learned, but Bellweather already knew. She was the one making the predators turn savage! Bellweather thought it was time for prey to be in charge. They only way for that to happen was to make them fear the predators!
As Hoseok and Jimin dashed for the exit, the ram knocked the case out of Hoseok's hands. Bellweather pulled put the gun and shot Hoseok with the poison pellet!
Hoseok dropped to all fours and lunged at Jimin. He had turned savage!
Jimin backed up. "So, that's it. Prey fears predator and you stay in power?"
Bellweather smirked. "Fear always works. And I'll dart ever predator in Zootopia too keep it that way."
Just then, Hoseok stood up. He hadn't gone savage after all! He had swapped the flower pellet in the gun with a blueberry from Jimin's truck to trick Bellweather into confessing.
Bellweather wasn't worried. "It's my word against yours!"
But Jimin had recorded the confession.
As the ZPD arrested Bellweather, Hoseok and Jimin smiled at her. "It's called a hustle, sweetheart. Boom."
Soon Zootopia returned to normal. Hoseok became a cop and Jimin's new partner! Jimin even gave the commencement speech at Hoseok's police academy graduation. He reminded the new officers that change started with them. They could show the animals of Zootopia how to build a better world.
Jimin smiled at Hoseok proudly.
Thanks to the two of them, the residents of Zootopia had learned that, working together, they could all make their home a better place.
THE END