The police cruiser trundled down the main road out of Sahara Square, its windows sealed against the otherwise oppressive heat. Inside, Barry Allen was lying back and enjoying the icy blast from the vehicles air conditioning while Judy and Nick sat in the front, wondering exactly how they should speak to the strange creature sitting in the back of their car.

"Okay I have one serious question," said Nick, breaking the silence.

"Why aren't you wearing your undies on the
outside of your costume; I thought all superheroes did that?" He asked.

Barry chucked as Judy lightly slapped her partner for being cheeky.

The ice was broken.

"Only the ones in comic books I'm afraid," he replied.

"Shame, you could have some fun with that," said Nick.

"SO. where are you from, exactly?" asked Judy, who was there skillfully navigating them through traffic.

"You're not like any mammal we've ever seen before." She said.

"That might take some explaining," replied Barry.

"Imagine there are multiple versions of earth, only, in one, mammals never evolved, in another the dinosaurs never became extinct.

"One where we're all evil?" enquired Nick.

"Been there, it sucks," replied Barry. "Anyway, these Earths occupy the same space, but vibrate at different frequencies, so they exist in different universes and can't see each other.

"But if you could change the way your body vibrates, you could travel between them," finished Judy.

"Exactly," said Barry.

Nick shot his partner a look that was both impressed and seemed to say 'how'd you know that?' Judy shrugged.

"I might have read a few of your comics when you were off sick last week," she replied.

"So, if you can go anywhere in the universe, why did you come here?" asked Nick.

"Well, It wasn't exactly on purpose." He said.

Twisting the crest on the front of his suit, Barry lent
forward and showed the underside to the two officers. A small device was stuck to the metal, but some of its components looked like they had blown out.

"It's called a Tachyon Enhancer; essentially it allows me to run even faster. I was using it to practice my speed when I accidentally broke the dimensional barrier." He explained.

"And you popped out here, just in time to save me from that explosion," said Judy.

"Pretty much, I'm just happy I landed somewhere that speaks English. Theoretically I could have ended up anywhere." He said.

Silence fell as reality caught up with Judy and Nick. Had The Flash not ended up on THEIR Earth, then Judy would have died, it was a sobering thought.

"I never did thank you for saving my life Flash," she
replied, quietly.

"Neither did I." added Nick, with a level of sincerity that surprised Judy.

"You're welcome," he replied, pulling off his mask.

"And my names Barry, Barry Allen," he reached one hand forwards for a shake, and Nick and Judy gratefully returned it.

Sitting back, Barry took a moment to look out of the
window as he kept finding himself in awe at the sheer scale of Zootopia. How the buildings seemed to work with the landscape, not against it, how the massive artificial environments seemed so natural. It would remain one of the most incredible things he would ever see.

"Thanks for believing me by the way," said Barry as he stuck the emblem back onto his suit. "I'd have gone home by now if the enhancer hadn't burnt out."

"Well, we don't exactly know of any mammals that could disprove your story," replied Nick. "So we are going with our gut instincts on this one. I'm just sorry we have to bring you in for a chat with the chief. But hey! At least you're not in handcuffs."

"And here I thought we were just having a nice drive," quipped Barry.

Nick smiled, he really liked this guy.

"We're hoping you can convince Chief Bogo that you're not a threat to any mammal," said Judy. "He was on the warpath earlier about not tolerating vigilantes in Zootopia.

"Good to know," he replied. "And there are no hard feelings about this. There's another hero on my earth, we call him Green Arrow, and he had similar problems with the police in his city. It took them a while to trust him; even then it's still a rocky relationship. Heck, Central City didn't completely trust me when I first showed up. I think it helped that there are a load of super powered criminals for
me to help them fight." He said.

"Wait," replied Nick in surprise. "There are other guys like you?"

"Not exactly like me, but yeah. Which is why I really need to get back, I've got friends who can take care of things while I'm gone, but there are threats that only I'm fast enough to deal with. I'm also one of the founding members of the superhero team on my Earth, the JusticeLeague. There are other heroes just like me." He said. He then shows them a hologram picture of his team, the Justice League.

"Well, don't worry," replied Judy "Once we've spoken to Bogo, we'll see about finding a way to get you home." She spun the cruisers steering wheel and turned it down the main highway towards Precinct 1. However, their uneventful journey was suddenly broken by Clawhauser's voice over the radio.

"This is dispatch; we have a robbery in progress at the First Zootopia Bank. Be advised, suspects have taken hostages, all units in the area respond immediately."

The two officers and one superhero shared a look. Bogo had been explicit that they drop everything and bring him in, but all three knew that they couldn't leave innocents in harm's way. Judy grabbed the radio.

"This is Officers Hopps and Wilde responding, we are two minutes from the scene, please confirm dispatch," she replied.

"Confirmed Officer Hopps," he replied. "Backup is en route but they are at least thirty minutes out."

"Don't worry Clawhauser, we've got backup of our own." she said, turning to Barry, who grinned as he pulled his mask back on, and Judy swore she could see lightning spark in the whites of his eyes.
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As the cruiser sped towards the bank, Judy saw the suspects were already on their way out. They were a group of five mammals, being led by a rough looking porcupine that was standing at the top the bank steps. He was directing his cohorts to load the bags of stolen money into a black van. None of them seemed to be armed, but that did not mean they weren't dangerous. The group took notice of the cruiser the moment it screamed towards them, sirens wailing. The porcupine narrowed his eyes at the approaching vehicle and swiftly directed two of his cohorts, a black jaguar and an rhino, to stand between it and his crew. Screeching to a stop, Judy and Nick quickly grabbed two Tazer rifles from their mounts on the cruisers armored doors. Kicking them open, they used them as cover while Judy spoke through the vehicles loudspeaker.

"This is the ZPD!" she called out. "Drop the money and surrender yourselves!'

Her response was a round of dark laughter.

"Not going to happen copper!" replied the porcupine.

"We're just making a withdrawal, but if you want to tango, by all means, let's dance!" He said.

Judy cautiously peered out from behind the driver's door, as the porcupine turned and presented his bristling spines. second later, they flew from the mammals back towards her. With yelp, she made panicked leap back into the vehicle as they thudded into the car, shattering its windows and bursting all four tires. Scrambling across the driver's seat,
she ducked into the foot well while Nick quickly pulled himself into the passenger side, narrowly avoiding the deadly rain.

"Okay, that's new," he said, as more spines whizzed past.

"I'll say, but we've got something new as well" replied Judy, pulling out her radio. "We've got their attention; get the hostages out of there!"

A scarlet streak rocketed past them as The Flash made his entrance. Bypassing the criminal gang, Barry Allen pushed open the glass doors of the bank and took in the situation. The Bank was arranged with the counters around the edge of the room, and these had reinforced glass positioned over them to protect the tellers. However, several of these had
been shattered, and the staff had been herded into one corner of the room where they were being threatened by three large wolves, all armed with dangerous looking dart guns. All this occurred in half a second, with the rest being used to formulate a plan of action. Rocketing towards the wolves, he quickly disarmed them before dragging all three
outside, where he borrowed a pair of Judy's cuffs to secure them. When this was complete, he turned his attention to the bank staff, grabbing them as fast as he could move before running outside and depositing them three blocks from the building, well away from the armed gang. The whole thing took less than a minute, and the other criminals visibly jumped when several flashes of lighting sped between them and the bank, leaving their cohorts
cuffed around a streetlight.

"The hostages are safe Officer Hopps," said Barry, stopping to face the criminals. "And these three aren't going anywhere.

"Thanks Flash," replied Judy as she and Nick emerged from cover.

The porcupine growled in anger.

"Sawbones didn't say that the ZPD had an enhanced as well, we're not paid enough for this," he muttered, before yelling at the rest of the gang.

"Get in the van!"

"Not so fast!" cried Judy as she sprinted towards the group, closely followed by Nick and Barry.

The jaguar tracked Judy and grabbed for something inside his jacket, but Barry immediately took notice and laid him out cold before he could blink. The rhino moved next and aimed a massive punch at the rabbit, however, Judy's reflexes and police training kicked in and she quickly dodged around the large fist as it cracked into the concrete pavement. Darting between the rhinos legs, she glanced back and saw Nick put him down with a shot from his Tazer. She now had a clear line of sight towards the porcupine as he dashed towards the open back of the van. Hefting the Tazer rifle, she took aim, and fired. The metal darts zipped through the air like a pair of angry wasps before burying their barbs in the porcupines back. Electricity coursed through his veins moments later, causing his muscles to go into spasm and his body to seize up. However, as the porcupine convulsed, his spines, which were facing Judy, suddenly started to fly like arrows. Curious mammals who had been watching the scene unfold, were forced to duck and dive for cover or risk being impaled, Nick and Judy included.

Barry moved as soon as the spines started to fly, speeding across the street to move mammals to safety, or pluck the sharp projectiles straight out of the air. Snatching a lion cub out of harm's way, he handed it off to its mother before deflecting two spines away from a pair of otters with a dust
bin lid. Then a cry from Judy caught his attention.
Judy, thanks to her species natural speed and agility, had managed to get into cover by the Bank stairs, but Nick had not been as fortunate as he had been cuffing both the rhino and jaguar. Caught in the open, there was nothing the fox could do except look on in horror as a cloud of spines headed straight for him.

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From Barrys perspective, it was like everything was in slow motion as he ran towards Nick, the fear in the foxes eyes bringing flashes of moments where the speedster had not been fast enough. He saw a museum guard, frozen solid by Captain Cold, he saw Iris, impaled by a shard of glass, Joe getting hit by a bullet.  He pushed his body to move faster as he grabbed at the lethal projectiles. Gritting his teeth, Barry could feel his as heart pounding against his ribs as his body protested his actions, but he was having none of it. Nearly all the spines were in his hand now, save one. He reached for it, brushing
its very edge while Nick looked on in helpless fear.
The fox felt his heart skip a beat as Barry suddenly
appeared before him in whoosh of air, the final spine
clutched tightly in his fingers, inches away from impaling the fox's eyeball.

"Thanks..." said Nick, in quiet shock as to just how close he had come to death.

"You're welcome," huffed Barry.

"NICK!"

Judy practically tackled her partner into a relived hug.

"Oof, nice to see you too, Carrots," he wheezed as she
squeezed him tight.

"Are you alright? You didn't get hit did you?" she replied frantically patting his arms and chest as she worked up to his muzzle.

"Hey, hey, calm down, I'm fine," he replied, gently pushing her paws away. He gave her his trademark grin as her glistening lavender eyes locked with his.

They both smiled.

Then Barry broke the moment by clearing his throat.

"So...should I just clean this up myself, or do you guys need a bit longer?" he said awkwardly.
The two officers separated and composed themselves, Nick straightening his uniform and Judy drying her eyes before all three turned to the captured suspects. Carefully approaching the unconscious porcupine, they looked over his back, now completely devoid of spines.

"They must have been controlled by his muscles," reasoned Barry, "When the Taser shocked him they went into spasm..."

"And the spines went flying everywhere," finished Judy.

"Thanks for stopping them, if you hadn't."

"Don't mention it," he replied. "Is this type of thing normal here?"

"No its not," replied Nick. "I frisked that jaguar over there, look what I found in his pockets. He produced a small blue pellet and passed it carefully to
Judy.

"Night Howler serum?"

"I'm assuming that's not a good thing?" said Barry.

"Nope," replied Nick. "Stuff makes any mammal that come in contact go completely nuts, like, 'I will rip your face off and shred it to tiny pieces level of nuts'. Judy and I stopped a plot by the Assistant Mayor to use it on the city's predators. He was going for it when you knocked him out, so that saved us a mess of trouble."

"Okay, we have a porcupine that can shoot his own spines and a jaguar carrying around Night Howlers, terrific," Judy sighed in exasperation.

"We need to get these guys ready for transport to the ZPD; Bogo is not going to be happy."

"And we can't even tell when he is happy," added Nick, as the three set to work securing their prisoners.