The Long Game, A Zootopia Fanfiction

Drive Casual

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Penny set her purse down under her desk, it was early-early, but she needed to get started on her work. She'd gotten nothing done Saturday because her computer was down, which meant she had to get a half day's work done before 10:00 a.m. when the inventory updates were due.

Her timing had been just right, the sloth IT team had finished up and were on their way out of the building just as she was arriving. The only problem she'd had in getting to her desk, was that after letting her know that the upgrade was done, the sloth supervisor had wanted to tell her about what he thought of Miss Packler. Penny listened long enough to figure out that the IT team's opinion of her boss pretty much matched everyone else's and then excusing herself, she ran in to get started with her work.

Penny turned on her computer and was about to head to the breakroom to get some coffee when she saw the yellow sticky on the corner of her monitor and remembered that Judy had asked her to look up a couple of street names for her.

Holding off on the caffeine, Penny waited until the computer finished booting up and then did a quick search of the ZMS system. Surprisingly, the search results came back pretty quick, maybe the upgrade actually did some good this time. Yawning, Penny checked the time, and after debating whether or not to call now or later, she decided not to wait and call now.

Grabbing Judy's contact card, Penny dialed Judy's work number and waited. It was still pretty early, so as she expected, the call rolled over to voicemail. Penny waited for Judy's message to complete and then left her a message with what she'd found on the two street names. Hanging up the phone, Penny locked her computer and made a beeline for the breakroom, she needed some coffee.

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A very worried llama parked her sports car in the ZMS parking lot. Grabbing her stuff, Packler made her way to the building entrance. That infuriating sloth had only said the computer upgrade would be done this morning, not when. Erring on the side of caution, she'd decided to get in early so she could clean the database out as soon as the sloths finished and before anyone else accessed the system.

Making her way to her office, she saw another note taped to her door. Reading it, she smiled, 'Upgrade Done.' Good, and with all the desks empty, that meant she'd made it on time. Closing the door to her office, Packler booted up her computer, found all the records that mentioned Little Bill, and deleted them out of the system. She did another search to make sure there was still no record for Big John and then closed the search window and took a deep breath, 'Problem solved.'

Grabbing her phone, Packler dialed White's number and left him a short message that she'd removed the records which should dead-end that line of the rabbit's investigation and make it safe for White to do a pickup in the areas that those two mammals used to frequent.

Relaxing, Packler opened up her email and started to write a scathing report to the head of IT about their decision to turn over the support contract to a bunch of incompetent sloths.

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Judy bounced into the ZPD main lobby. She'd gotten in an early morning run and a few early texts to her fox, who remarkably, was up and responded coherently to her messages. Judy was looking forward to thanking Sunni for helping her show a nocturnal mammal what a sunrise looked like.

"Morning, Ben. Have you seen Connor yet?"

"Hi, Judy. He just came in. I think he went to get some coffee, and then he was going to go to his desk."