In a lab in Precinct 1, Judy was hanging out with Selene Samuel as the okapi was looking over the disabled Spider-Slayer. "So… what's the verdict?" Judy asked, trying to socialize with the robotized okapi.
"Put simply Judy, it's definitely NOT one of Dr. Mulersons. I mean look at this thing. It looks like something crawled out of a comic book or a 90s superhero cartoon." Selene explained as she used a soldering iron to get at the Spider-Slayers innards.
"And you know a lot about robots… how do you know so much?" Judy asked.
"Fishing for a conversation that badly, eh bunny? Well, it starts with my family… specifically, there overall health; almost all of my relatives have had cancer in one form or another. Lost two of my grandparents to cancer and bad health in general right around when puberty hit. Then I read in a science magazine that nanobots could eat cancer cells, tumors, bad cholesterol etc. So I figured that if I learned everything I could to make such things a reality. So when I started attending ole' ZU I tried to get my project underway for medical nanobots… but because I was prey nobody took me seriously." Selene explained at length.
"Oh… I'm sorry to hear all that. But how did you get mixed up with Mulerson?" Judy asked.
"He hit me where it hurt, my desire to make the world a better place, and his ambitions… or at least what he said to me upfront. So he agreed to help me with funding for my nanobots research and development, then… well, one day I took Sally to show her what we were working on. And we accidentally stumbled on his own secret science projects. Projects Chimera and Machina, to try to create hybrid animals to figure out how to make mules universally fertile, and every other species into mindless robots respectively, THAT was when he turned us both into androids… and I don't think I have to remind you of what that insane mule made us do to each other." Selene said bitterly.
"Yes… please don't remind me of the thirteen-hour production of 'Fifty Shades of Hay' he made you both do." Judy said anxiously.
"Relax; I won't force you to watch that performance," Selene said.
"Still, it was lucky that Nick and I freed you from his control," Judy said.
"Agreed… though that mad mule has been suspiciously quiet since that warehouse was raided, no telling what he's been doing. Especially since my sister and I have had our remote connections to his wireless network severed, and with all my work as the ZPD cybernetics consultant I haven't even gotten the time to try to find a backdoor into his network." Selene said.
"Judy, its Clawhauser! Bogo's gotten an emergency call from the Mayor! All paws on deck sort of thing, report to the briefing room as soon as possible?" Clawhauser said through Judy's radio.
"Officer Judy Hopps to dispatch, I'm on my way," Judy said as she left the lab.
On a helicopter, Judy, Nick, Bogo and six other officers were onboard a helicopter. On the other end of the helicopter bay was a TV screen with Mayor Swift-Hoof.
"Okay, you nine are going to a small island off the coast of Outback Island, the Australian District of Zootopia. Specifically, it's owned by Saxton Hale, a kangaroo and the owner and CEO of Mamm Co." Mayor Swift-Hoof explained, displaying a picture of a kangaroo wearing only a pair of khaki shorts and a bush hat.
"And what exactly is going on here? All we got was some new equipment and just shuffled onto this copter." Judy asked, gesturing to the bits of armor and technology that she and the officers were wearing.
"That's part of the problem Hopps… we've recently gotten a panicked call from his aids. All that we could make out from there barely coherent screaming was that there's some kind of problem on that island. One that could threaten all of Zootopia if it gets off the island… again we don't actually know what it is, just that it's extremely dangerous." May Swift-Hoof said.
"But doesn't this guy just make weapons? Like handheld stuff that CAN'T destroy an entire city...? by accident?" Nick asked.
"Yes, but… well to put it simply. Hale is completely crazy, I mean the last time I had a meeting with that Marsupial. He skydived THROUGH my office window, without a parachute, and when he left he just dived through ANOTHER window… and survived both times. So yeah… we have no idea what's on that island. Now Hopps, Wilde, you both will deploy over the compound in the middle of the island-"
Bogo then hit a button, opening up the back, and causing Judy and Nick to fly out.
"Bogo… was that JUST to spite Wilde? Because that makes what you just did not only childish. But INCREDIBLY boneheaded… even for someone who actually has bone on their head, I mean Judy was sucked out with him! I just… Jessica! Try to contact either Judy and/or Nick with the mission details. Also, why weren't they in there harness's?" Mayor Swift-Heart said in irritation, as the other officers in the copter gave Bogo disappointed looks.
"Not since the Missing Mammal case have I been this disappointed in you, sir. I mean, Hopps just got two days to find just Otterton with almost nothing but a meter maid cart, or lose her job before it even started, what on Earth were you even thinking?" One of the officers said in disappointment.
"I WILL KILL THAT OVERSIZED GOAT!" Nick shouted in rage as he and Judy fell towards the compound below.
"NICK! This is no time to swear vengeance! Now I know we don't know how these new suits work. But I think there should be a parachute function on these wrist-computers!" Judy said as both she and Nick hastily pressed buttons on their wrist-mounted computers. Eventually, they activated the parachutes.
"So I'm thinking that we blackmail Bogo. I got nothing, but if we do find something to blackmail him with-"
"Nick, we have a job to do. We can work on getting revenge on Bogo AFTER we get out of here." Judy said as the two drifted to the top of the compound. Judy then got a phone call from Jessica, and Judy answered.
"Oh good, sir, it looks like they're both alive," Jessica said in relief.
"So… we just go in through the roof and look around?" Nick asked.
"That's basically it. Find out what exactly is going on down there, Bogo and the others will perform recon outside. If it's something of a biological nature that's going on, like some kind of horrible monster that we will talk to Hale about when this matter is settled. I want them to be contained as much as anything else." Mayor Swift-Hoof said.
"Understood sir, we'll begin our infiltration shortly," Judy said.
"Got you, Jessica, cut the call, don't say a word until you find something." Mayor Swift-Hoof said as the call ended.
Eventually, the two entered the compound properly… and were greeted by an eerily familiar sight.
"Wonderful… more cloning tanks that Dr. Mullerson had at that old warehouse. Way back from that caper with the Samuel sisters and we found our clone kit a couple days later." Nick said sarcastically. Though unlike before where except for one, they had dead malformed spliced mammals. Instead, there were strange reptilian creatures.
"Nick… are you seeing this? Because these look like dinosaurs of some kind to me." Judy said, noting one such creature. Looking to be a triceratops, but with the tail spikes and back plates of a stegosaurus.
"Hmm… I'm no scientist. But I'm pretty sure cloning like this is effectively impossible, granted my experience with genetics begins and ends with the Jurassic Park movies. All I'm hoping is whoever made these didn't fill in any gaps in the genes with frog DNA. That would just create a whole new set of problems." Nick said at length.
"Regardless, find a computer, and download anything and everything that looks to be of interest. I'll see if I can find any clues." Judy said, Nick gave Judy a thumbs and ran off to find a computer.
"Hopps to Bogo, Nick and I are inside the compound. This stuff has Mullersons hoof prints all over them. Cloning equipment and… some sort of weird dinosaur creatures inside of the cloning tubes." Judy said into her radio.
"Wonderful… so far we've only encountered damaged foliage and large claw marks on- SWEET CHRISTMAS!" Bogo responded back, along with a loud roar on the other end of the radio.
"Bogo? What's wrong?!" Judy asked in surprise.
"I don't know! But it's big! And it looks like it can eat us- AND IT BROUGHT FRIENDS! HOLD YOUR GROUND AND DON'T STOP SHOOTING FOR ANYTHING!" Bogo shouted as the channel went out.
"Nick! If you found something, hurry up! Bogo and his team have encountered hostiles outside!" Judy yelled.
"Just give me a few more seconds! I'm almost done downloading the data." Nick said.
"Understood… and… there's blood on the floor. A LOT of blood." Judy said as she slipped and fell face forward on the blood. "Is anyone alive in here? I'm Judy Hopps, I'm with the ZPD and-" Judy then found a pair of kangaroo legs with her flashlight, and they walked towards her. "Pleasedon'tbenaked. Pleasedon'tbenaked. Pleasedon'tbenaked. Pleasedon'tbenaked." Judy pleaded and found that indeed, the kangaroo in question was wearing khaki shorts. "Oh thank goodness-"
Judy was then snatched up by the kangaroo, and she quickly realized that this was Saxton Hale. Mamm Co.'s CEO. "Shh… these things can smell fear. I bet your wondering where they came from. Ain't you sheila?" Saxton whispered. Judy just nodded, Saxton's hand covering her mouth. "Well, I'll tell you on the way! I can smell the dino's from here! And I'm raring for a fight!" Saxton said as he hopped through a solid concrete wall with Judy in tow.
"WHAT THE?!" Nick said in surprise at the sound of concrete being demolished without warning. "JUDY!? JUDY?! WHERE ARE YOU?!" Nick yelled, not finding Judy where he thought she was, unaware that she had basically been abducted by Saxton Hale. "Oh please tell me you saw wherever it was she went?" Nick asked desperately of the jarred triceratops/stegosaurs.
"Judy to Nick, are you there?!" Judy said over the radio, sounding scared.
"Y-Yes Judy I'm here! Where are you?! Why is there a giant hole in the wall?!" Nick asked, concerned for his friend and partner.
"You talkin' to your partner on that wrist-device little sheila? That was me mate, Saxton Hale!" Saxton said ecstatically.
"…what? How…? WHY?!" Nick asked.
"I jumped through a wall, by jumping through it, because I wanted to. What more is there to say? At any rate, I imagine you both have seen the equipment in the lab. Well long story short, I'm making this island into a hunting preserve of hybridized dinosaurs." Saxton said blithely.
"WHAT?! WHY?!" Judy and Nick both said in shock.
"Well to make a long story- whoop! Electric fence incoming!" Saxton said as he threw Judy overhead, made a dive through a hole in the electric fence. After diving through he caught Judy. "Anyway, some of the hybrids got out and slaughtered the science team. Of course, my assistants just wouldn't shut up about how dangerous the whole thing was. Croc's incoming!" Saxton cried out as he jumped over a river, using the hybridized prehistoric crocodiles as stepping stones.
"Literally, everything he's saying makes me want to knock some sense into him. With a shovel if at all possible… think Mamm Co. sells those, I'll probably use one of those." Nick said under his breath, aggravated by the kangaroo's apparent insanity.
"Of course that was the whole bloody point! Fighting the most dangerous animals ever made, from the most dangerous animals that ever walked this earth!" Saxton said as he arrived at the battleground of where Bogo and the rest of the ZPD team were battling hybrid raptors and an enormous white t-rex like creature.
"SIR! Saxton had these creatures created deliberately! FOR A HUNTING PRESERVE, HE'S INSANE!" Judy cried out.
"End of the line Sheila, I'd charge you for the ride, but that will have to wait. OI! BEAUTIFUL!" Saxton yelled, drawing the attention of the white hybrid. Then, using Judy as a stepping stone, jumped towards the giant hybrids muzzle. And with a single mighty kick, the mighty creature's body exploded, ironically leaving only its head intact.
"Ladies and gentle-mammals of the Zootopia Police Department," Saxton said jovially as he casually brushed some of the dinosaurs innards off of him. "Welcome, to Chimera Park!-"
A number of guns were then drawn on Saxton. "Hale… you have got a LOT of explaining to do." Bogo said, covered in blood from one of the hybrid raptors.
"Guys I'm… I'm sorry I'm late." Nick said, finally arriving behind the rest of the team. "Mammal moves fast and… dang, it! Have you drawn guns on him? Why do I always miss those?" Nick said in disappointment.
"Nick, you haven't even been on the force that long. You'll get your chance." Judy said reassuringly.
Several hours later, Bogo, Judy, and Nick were in Mayor Swift-Hoof's office. With Saxton Hale bound up on a furniture dolly, in roughly the same manner as insane criminals.
"So… let me see if I understand what happened." Mayor Swift-Hood said, looking out over the skyline of Zootopia. "You sought to repurpose your island. From a private research and development complex, into a hunting preserve and research outpost. But not just any hunting preserve." Swift-Hoof said as he turned around to look directly at Saxton. "Oh no, the mighty Saxton Hale wants a hunting preserve with dinosaurs! No wait, I misspoke. Not even that, HYBRID, DINOSAURS. Dinosaurs that have been hybridized with other dinosaurs!" Mayor Swift-Hoof went on, looking as if he was trying to keep his anger under control.
"Yes, your mayorship sir, from what we read up on the files on the helicopter fly back. There are at least thirty or so other hybrids just like the ones on the island." Judy said, then Swift-Hoof's left eye began to twitch.
"Three… three dozen?" Swift-Hoof then sharply in-hailed through his nose. "OVER THREE, DOZEN, INDIVIDUAL SPECIES OF HYBRID DINOSAURS?! Not even proper dinosaurs, but spliced freaks of nature! Cloned specifically to be hunted like prey species were back in ancient times! Except that we had to bail out your hindquarters because a handful of raptors and some kind of albino t-rex killed the people you weren't paying enough to create them in the first place!" Mayor Swift-Hood ranted angrily.
"Okay, when you put it like that. I can see why your steamed Mr. Mayor-"
"And on top of even THAT Hale, you created those dinosaurs… with technology that has the distinct hoof-prints. Of Dr. Mulerson all over them." Swift-Hoof said.
"Well to be fair. All of my attempts to make my own cloning machines all exploded. Literally, they all caught fire and exploded. That Mulerson fellow had some he was willing to sell me, came with a hefty price tag though. But I still think that it was worth it." Saxton said the entire office was quiet for a few seconds before Judy spoke up.
"And… did you know that Dr. Mulerson was a criminal? Wanted by the law for illegal experimentation on mammals, and unethical research into genetics, and for plagiarizing another scientist work in the field of nano-bots, did you not know any of this when you met him? Or did you simply not care?" Judy asked.
"Thank you, Officer Hopps. That last one is by the word of two okapi sisters and Hopps and Wilde but the point is… were you even THINKING WHEN YOU MET HIM!? OR CALL US SO THAT WE COULD FINALLY ARREST THAT FALLOW MAD-MAMMAL?!" Swift-Hoof ranted, panting heavily.
"Sir, as Chief of Police, I recommend that we keep him in custody until a trial can be-"
"Bogo, you know perfectly well that before I was Mayor of this city. I was the District Attorney. I defended the innocent until they could be proven guilty. And this insane marsupial is quite clearly guilty of gross negligence of his company's resources, complete disregard for the safety of his staff and employees, risking the lives of the good people of Zootopia to build his own glorified playground to his addiction to adrenaline." Swift-Hoof said at length, he then took another deep breath through his nose.
"But… I'm willing to let you walk away from this mess as a… 'Relatively' free mammal. If you make some sacrifices." Mayor Swift-Hoof said calmly, Saxton simply produced a calm smile.
"Really? And what have you got on me that folks would believe all the nasty things you were shouting-" Saxton was then cut off as Judy played her carrot recorder pen. The same one that she previously used to blackmail Nick into helping her find Emit Otterton. And had exposed Bellweather's plans. It played back a recording of Saxton explicitly stating, in no uncertain terms that he was making a hunting preserve for hybrid dinosaurs. "Clever girl!" Saxton said with pride.
"Yeah, ever since I joined the force. I've kind of had the obsessive habit, of recording things on this pen. Using someone else's words against them, sometimes mere seconds after they were first said." Judy said with a cocky grin on her face as she displayed the pen.
"Agreed, now Hale, listen to me very carefully. First, I want that island turned into a research facility for those hybrid dinosaurs you had created. And before you say ANYTHING Bogo, there still living creatures, even if they were created specifically to satisfy one crazy Marsupial's bloodlust." Mayor Swift-Hoof said.
Bogo had his mouth open and a finger raised in silence. "…I wasn't going to say anything." He said unconvincingly.
"Second. You're to sell weapons and any other handheld technology to the ZPD. I myself have a particular interest in what appears to be some manner of cloaking device. A tool-box that can somehow be made into a multi-stage turret, a dispenser, and even some manner of teleporter by... whacking it with a wrench? And some manner of healing ray gun… thing." Swift-Hoof said as he looked over a Mamm Co. catalog. With the products in question circled in red sharpie.
"Those are expensive experimental pieces of equipment-"
"That your company has been producing since at least the 1960's… which raises the question of who exactly you would even sell this stuff to already, but we'll get to that latter I think. And third and final, I want you to see a therapist. Specifically Dr. Metro, one of the best psychiatrists in Zootopia, and an old friend of mine from before I was even in the army… if only so that you can at least be tolerable to be around." Swift-Hoof said.
"Have the island turned into a place for egg-heads to study the Chimerasaurs, practically GIVE the ZPD Mamm Co. products, and see a shrink. Or the whole world knows that I got a whole lot of mammals killed by reneged dino-monsters trying to make a public hunting preserve, gotcha." Saxton said.
"… PUBLIC?!... Regardless, if you follow those three guidelines, nobody will know about this mess. And the good people of Outback Island, in particular, won't have to know that their favorite son nearly put them in danger with you're… Chimerasaur's did you call them?" Swift-Hoof said.
"Yes, also on the subject. I never actually met Mulerson in person. He worked through a middle-mammal that actually got me the equipment." Saxton said.
"Fair enough, now Jessica, will you please remove Mr. Hale from my office." Swift-Hoof said, Jessica then wheeled Saxton out of the office.
Then all four of them slumped over, exhausted with trying to rationalize Saxton's eccentricities, and apparent madness. "What… what is that roo's big deal? Is he crazy, or just insane?" Nick asked, looking uncharacteristically frazzled.
"I have no idea, Wilde. I honestly never paid any attention to Mamm Co. beyond incident reports of there more mundane products inexplicably catching fire." Bogo said.
"How can anyone be allowed to own and manage a company when he's obviously so!-" Judy was interrupted as a loud noise was heard from downstairs, the sound of metal being bent as if by a powerful kick, then followed by glass breaking.
"SAXTON HAAAAAAALE!" Saxton shouted as he dived through a window.
"And he escaped, destroying an elevator door and presumably demolished everything between him and the nearest window for him to jump out of." Swift-Hood said in resignation.
"Does he have a parachute?" Judy asked with concern.
"No, I honestly think he doesn't know what one is. Not sure how, but every time he does this. He somehow survives completely unscathed, not even really affected by gravity… fortunately, there should be one of Spider-Hams tracer devices." Swift-Hoof said, then he had a worried look on his face and hastily texted a message to Jessica.
"How is he texting with hooves anyway?" Nick whispered to Judy.
"Nick, it's rude to ask questions like that… it's a valid question. But now isn't the time." Judy whispered back.
"What are you two whispering about? I won't tell the mayor if it's not important." Bogo whispered.
"Yeah, Jessica placed a spider-tracer on him, and remotely activated it with an app that Mr. Porker made for her smartphone. With any luck, our… mutual friend, Spider-Ham will be with Hale shortly." Swift-Hoof said.
"So he shouldn't get away altogether?" Bogo asked.
"Yep… now we've all had a long day today with this… escaped Chimerasaur business, and blackmailing a major business head into effectively giving the ZPD his fanciest toys. And of course, a half-dozen officers on that mission have been hospitalized for their injuries, I for one am looking forward to the weekend." Swift-Hoof said, lounging back into his chair.
"Sir, it's only Monday," Judy said, and Swift-Hoof's eyes bulged.
"Well… here's too what I'm going to futilely hope is an otherwise uneventful week!" Swift-Hoof said as he downed a mug filled with tea.