A/N: Hello everyone! This isn't Talons of Ice, but his partner, Warrior of Spectra. My friend and I are happy to post our first Zootopia fanfic.

For those of you who are familiar with the CBS show "Person of Interest", you may find this fic to be similar to the show. Talons of Ice and I have based some of the plot off of Person of Interest. The story itself is an AU that focuses on what might have happened if Bellwether had been in power longer in Zootopia to continue with her immoral plans to divide the Predator and Prey populations much longer than it had in the movies and a look at some possible policies Bellwether may have passed to divide the population of Zootopia.

Without further ado: Let us begin.

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"Are you there?"

/Activating User Interface/

/Locating Admin/

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/Admin General location found./

/Location: Zootopia Police Department 1st Precinct. Foyer/

"Good…But remember: You have many eyes…and it's time for you to open them."

/Accessing ZPD Camera Feeds. Multiple third party recording devices found…accessing…/

/Connected./

/ZPD Security Cameras currently in use: 45. Third Party Cameras in use: 10./

/Beginning visual search for Admin…/

"And remember, while you are looking for your primary targets: Be sure to observe others in the premises. You never know what you may find."

/Beginning Secondary observations…/

/Secondary Mammals of Interest found: Two…Beginning Observations./

/Activating Audio feeds./

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The Zootopia Police Department was crowded with mammals of all species and sizes, from puny lemmings to large rhinoceros', who were armed with cameras and microphones. The one's who weren't filming were writing down what the current speaker on the stage was saying. The fourteen missing mammals who started disappearing around two weeks ago, and it was revealed they had locked up in Cliffside Asylum by none other than former mayor Leodore Lionheart. But when they had finally been located and Lionheart's actions were revealed, the mammals seemed to had gone…savage, lashing at everything and everyone within range.

Nobody had yet thought of the most obvious connection, which was that they were all predators.

The speaker in question was Chief Bogo, a large and intimidating cape buffalo who was the chief of ZPD. "Fourteen mammals went missing, and all fourteen have been found by our newest recruit, who will speak to you in a moment. Judy Hopps-" spoke Bogo, while the reports quickly wrote what he said done or adjusted the lights to their cameras.

Two mammals who weren't listening, however, were the ones who solved the case. Judy Hopps, a gray-furred rabbit with violent eyes dressed in a smaller version of the standard ZPD uniform and the newest recruit of ZPD, and the former con-artist Nick Wilde, a green-eyed red fox who wore a light green Hawaiian shirt with a tie around his neck. . The former of the two unlikely due was biting her nails, her violet eyes switching between Bogo and the crowd, dreading the moment she would be called forward.

"Oh, I'm so nerveus…" she muttered. This wasn't the first time Judy had stood or even spoken before a crowd. When she was just a kitten, Judy had taken part in several plays and she hadn't even flinched when Lionheart had announced that she would be stationed in Savanah Central, the Downtown area of Zootopia. But now was the first time she had to give her opinion before a large crowd of animals who would write down everything she said and would most likely show it on television as well. "I'm gonna say something stupid and then I'll be laughed at and then I won't be even able to leave my own apartment without mammals laughing and pointing at me!"

Nick, her red fox companion, rolled his eyes in an amused way. He was casually leaning back against the wall and was the embodiment of being calm and relaxed. Then again, he wasn't the one who would speak against the reports…Still, that didn't stop him from helping the nervous bunny.

"Okay, press conference one on one. If you wanna look smart, then look answer their question with another question and then answer that question! Like this." He said, before taking a stance where he used his right paw as a microphone and imitated the stereotypical voice of a reporter.

"Officer Hopps, what can you tell us about the case?" he asked, before taking another stance in which he tried to imitate Judy. "Well, was it a tough case? Yes, yes it was." He said. After his little act, he grinned at Judy. "See? It's not that hard."

Judy chuckled at her friend and smiled up at the fox. "Thanks, but…Nick, you should be up there with me. We did this together." She said.

Nick chuckled in response. "Well, am I a cop? No, no I am not." He answered with the same charming and slightly arrogant smirk on his face that she had grown used too. And yet…

"It's funny that you mention that, because…Well, I was thinking…" started Judy, while she pulled a yellow paper out of one of her pockets. "It would be nice to have a partner…" she finished, holding the application form out.

Nick blinked in surprise and looked into Judy's eyes with a hint of disbelief while he took the form. Judy smiled and pulled out her carrot pen, the same one she had used to blackmail the fox forty-eight hours, and handed that too to Nick.

"Here. In case you need something to write." She said.

The fox took it gratefully and a smile spread across his face, while he looked warmly at the rabbit in front of him. This offer meant more to him then Judy could even begin to understand. Ever since he could remember, he had been distrusted by animals of every species. And yet here was Judy, a rabbit, offering her natural enemy to be her partner.

But before he could voice his feelings, assistant-mayor Dawn Bellwether interrupted. "Officer Hopps!" she whispered, the sheep looking tiny and frail compared to the larger-than-life Chief Bogo. "It's time!"

Judy glanced at Nick, who nodded with a smile. She returned it and crossed her fingers, before running off to the stage.

"So now I'll, I'll turn things over to the officer who cracked the case. Officer Judy Hopps!" ended Bogo his speech, before making way for ZPD's first rabbit officer. Judy took a deep breath before she took the Chief's place, and was met with a flood of questions.

"Officer Hopps! How did you solve the case?"

Officer Hopps, here!"

"Officer Hopps, I have a question!"

And more things like that. Judy, who suppressed the urge to drop her ears in panic, looked through the crowd and pointed at a beaver reporter. "Uhm, yes sir?" she asked.

"What can you tell us about the animals that went savage?" asked the beaver, holding out his microphone while the rabbit next to him filmed everything.

"The, uhm…The animals in question…" stammered Judy nervously, glancing at Nick for support. The fox gestured at her to continue the conversation, and the rabbit remembered his advice. Calming down, she did exactly what Nick told her to do. "Are they all different species? Yes, yes they are." She answered, while a slideshow of the case was on a screen behind her.

The reporters all immediately wrote her answer down, while Nick gave her a thumbs up.

"Okay, but is the connection?" asked a Thomson's gazelle, and several other animals voiced the same question as well.

"All we know is that they are all members of the predator family." Asked Judy, growing more confident than first.

"So, predators are the only ones who went savage?" asked a sheep reporter.

"Yes, that's corr-Yes, that is accurate." Answered Judy, and several of the animals murmured among one another, until a frantic pig reporter asked another question.

"Why? Why is this happening right now?" he asked loudly.

"We still don't know." Confessed Judy. The pig's reaction was one of dismay as he said something to the coypu next to him, and the animals began to talk among another again, sounding frightened and confused.

Seeing this, Judy felt like she hadn't said enough, and desperately tried to think of something that could offer them an explanation…And then she thought of what Dr. Madge Honey Badger had said back in Cliffside Asylum, about their biology…

"But it may have something to do with their biology!" said Judy quickly, which gained the reporter's attention again and, unknown to her, Nick's as well. "A biological component. You know, their DNA?" asked Judy.

"In their DNA? Can you elaborate on that?" asked the same Thomson's gazelle from earlier, her voice sounding confused but also curious.

"Yes." Answered Judy, not noticing the nervous reactions of the prey animals, and the uncomfortable looks the predators gave one another. "What I mean is, thousands of years ago, predators survived through their aggressive hunting instincts." She explained, while new slides appeared on the screen behind her. "For whatever reason, they are reverting back to their primitive, savage ways."

Nick's eyes widened, both in surprise at what Judy said, and because the words hurt. Did she actually meant what she said? Did she honestly think that predators were just ticking time bombs? He just couldn't believe it…And to make things worse, the new slides only seemed to confirm what she said.

Gone were the regular photos of the victims, and the shots of how ZPD arrested Lionheart and everyone involved in the Asylum Project. Instead, the reporters were shown the actual savage animals. All of them were predators, and slide after slide appeared of aggressive tigers flexing their claws, feral wolves showing their teeth and vicious-looking bears struggling against their chains. Yet they all had one thing in common: they were all muzzled, like wild beasts…

Seeing this triggered some memories for Nick and the fox dropped his ears while he started to breathe heavily, his heart pounding in his chest. It all came back…The dark basement…The insults of the other children…How no one would ever trust a fox…How they laughed at him and humiliated him…How they forced to muzzle onto his face…

And then, Nick remembered his promise of never showing anyone would ever get to him, and closed his jaws with a frown on his face.

"Officer Hopps! Could something like this happen again?" asked the same beaver from before, and Judy nodded.

"Yes, it is possible. So we must be vigilant." She admitted, causing the animals to whisper among each other in slight panic. "And we at the ZPD are here and prepared to protect you." She concluded her speech.

Yet the reporters thought differently, flooding the rabbit once again with questions. About when something like this could happen again, what the police would do if it happened, if the savage animals would ever return to normal and even if the predator population of Zootopia had to be quarantined.

At that moment, Bellwether decided to interfere and joined Judy on stage. "I'm sorry, but that's all the time we have! No more questions." She said, while guiding her fellow prey animal off stage, leaving behind a displeased crowd.

"Did I okay?" asked Judy, noticing the mixed reactions, but was assured by a wide smile of Bellwether.

"Oh, you just did fine!" she answered, allowing Judy to run back to Nick.

"Oh, that went so fast!" she sighed in relief. "I mean, I didn't get the chance to say anything about you, or how-"

"Oh, I think you said plenty." Interrupted Nick her coldly.

Judy frowned in confusion. "What do you mean?" she asked.

"Clearly there is a biological component? These predators may be reverting back to their primitive, savage ways?" answered the fox, quoting her speech from earlier. "Are you serious?" he asked in disbelief.

"I just stated the facts in the case!" argued Judy. "I mean, it's not like a bunny could go savage." She added.

"Right, but a fox could, huh?" asked Nick, narrowing his green eyes.

Judy frowned in response. "Nick, stop it. You're not like them!"

"Oh, so there's a 'them' now!" growled the fox back.

Judy sighed in frustration. "You know what I mean, you're not that kind of predator!" she protested, wanting Nick to understand she didn't mean to insult him. Frankly, she wasn't even sure why he was insulted. After all, hadn't she just told the fox he was an exception among the predators?

But apparently, Nick saw things in a different way and the comment only made him angrier.

"The kind that needs to be muzzled?" he asked, gesturing to the slideshow, even though it had ended. "The kind that makes you feel like you should carry around fox repeller!?"

Judy looked startled at the item around her belt, suddenly feeling very guilty.

"Yeah, don't think I didn't notice that little item when we first met!" snapped Nick.

Judy looked up sadly at him, trying to think of a way to explain to Nick that he had it all wrong, that she didn't think foxes and predators in general were monsters. But the fox didn't give her the chance.

"So, let me ask you a question: Are you afraid of me?" demanded Nick. Judy didn't answer and instead stared at her friend with a hurt expression on her face.

"Do you think I might go nuts?" asked Nick again, when Judy didn't answer. When she once again kept quiet, he raised his paws in a threatening manner. "Think I might go savage?" he asked.

When the rabbit once again didn't answer, he narrowed his green eyes angrily and took a step forward. "Do you think I might try to…eat you!?" he demanded.

Judy gasped startled and took a step backwards, one hand raised in front of Nick while the other went to her bottle of fox repeller. It was an instinctual reaction, but it hurt Nick more than Judy could even imagine.

"I knew it..." Said Nick softly to himself. Judy was afraid of him, she had been all this time. He wasn't just hurt and angry at her, but also at himself for being so stupid. To think he could actually be something else then just a typical fox, a con-artist…He guessed it was his punishment for ever thinking such stupid things.

"And just when I thought someone finally believed at me, huh?" he asked, but didn't expect an answer. Judy lowered her ears in distress and she shot him a guilty look, while trying to form the right words to apologize.

But Nick would have none of that. He took the application form out of his pocket and handed it back to Judy. "Probably for the best if you don't have a predator as a partner." He growled, before marching off to the exit of the ZPD.

Judy looked down at the form and saw that Nick had filled in everything. He really wanted to be her partner…And then, Judy realized with a shock what she had done. The rabbit looked up and saw Nick rip of the Junior ZPD sticker Finnick had given him when she had blackmailed the fox.

"No! Nick, wait!" she called, attempting to run after her. But the reporters, who had watched the scene, blocked the entrance and surrounded her, shoving their microphones and cameras in her face.

"Officer Hopps, did that predator just threaten you?" asked the beaver, while Judy tried to find a way through the crowd.

"No, he's my friend!" answered Judy, hoping they would let her go. But the reactions were different from the one's she hoped.

"We can't even trust our own friends?" asked a rabbit fearfully.

"No! That's-That is not what I said!" protested Judy in horror, while the questions kept coming.

"Are we safe!?"

"Have any foxes gone savage?"

"Do we have to look out for predators?!"

One thing Judy knew for sure was that she could never catch up with Nick anymore. She had betrayed and hurt her best friend, fox or not. And only pure will power made sure she didn't sank to her knees and cry…

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/Ending Secondary Observations./

/Information on Subjects./

/Subject 1: Judy Hopps.

Age: 24.

Gender: Female

Species: Rabbit

Place of Birth: Zootopia, Bunnyburrows.

Occupation: ZPD Officer./

/Subject 2: Nicolas 'Nick' Wilde.

Age: 32.

Gender: Male.

Species: Red Fox.

Place of Birth: Zootopia, Savannah Central

Occupation: Con-artist./

Preliminary analysis: Potential Assets.

Course of Action: Observe./

"Can you see me?"

/Primary Operation: Searching for Admin...Admin Located./

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The group of reporters crowded around the bunny, who was now visually in a state of shock. All of the reporters sent a barrage of questions at the first runny police officer, who made no attempt to answer the questions directed to her. The only thoughts in her head were what Nick had told her…and the mistake she had made.

Chief Bogo instantly came to the bunny officer's aid by having his officers tell the reporters that there would be no questions. Mayor Bellwether helped Judy walk away from the crowd, taking her over to a chair and getting her friend a cup of water.

As the reporters went over their notes with their respective coworkers: a single African leopard was in the very center of the crowd. She was wearing a formal grey dress and a pair of glasses, the fifty nine year old predator's attention was solely on her Carrot iPhone, waiting for a text message. Waiting patiently for a response from her 'associate.'

"Can you see me?" The leopard asked into her phone.

A few seconds passed…until her phone buzzed three times.

"Are you sure?" She asked with a smirk. Her phone buzzed three more times.

Looking at her surroundings, the Leopard checked area…none of the cameras were pointed in her direction (courtesy to tampering with them hours before). So how could it…unless…

Curiously, the leopard looked behind her, seeing a pig reporter typing into his laptop…it had a camera on the monitor. The leopard smirked.

"Very clever…very clever indeed." She admitted. Going to her phone's settings: she turned on her iPhone's camera.

/Accessing Admin's Recording Device/

/Camera: On./

/Admin in view of Camera./

"Very good…You learn quickly." The leopard said into her phone. "Did you find anything of Interest?"

/Sending information to Admin./

Instantly the woman received an email from a individual titled "TM". Opening the email: she saw two mammals that caught her unseen associate's interest.

She instantly recognized both.

Judy Hopps, the rabbit ZPD officer she had just seen on the stage, and the fox she was talking to…a fox named Nick Wilde.

"Good eye…" She said. "But remember: You are supposed to watch everyone. But it's good to see you are observant…" The leopard smiled. "That concludes our test for today." With that: the woman turned off her camera as she tacked her phone into her pocket. Walking through the crowd: the woman left the ZPD building.

But little did she know: her unseen associate was still watching the ZPD interior.

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/Beginning Observations./

/Opening Files: Judy Hopps and Nicolas Wilde./

/Continue observing for unspecified amount of time./

/New Mammal of Interest located./

/Name: Dawn Bellwether.

Age: 38.

Gender: Female.

Species: Sheep

Former Occupation: Assistant Mayor

Current Occupation: Mayor (De Facto.)/

/Observing Outgoing call…/

/WARNING: Call Encrypted. Begin Decryption Protocols./

/Unable to Decrypt…/

/Course of Action: Observe. (Listing Mammal of Interest as Possible Threat to System and Users.)/

Signing Out.

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