Hey guys, Its your favorite book related tree again with some exciting news. I'm doing zootopia now! Boom! Pow! Confetti!
But seriously. I like the idea of anthropomorphic animals and enjoy toying with the concept. Zootopia is also a good way to practice and experiment with my romance ideas and working into such a world as it is unique in the sense that they recognize themselves personally as animals. Each species is like a race. That sort of thing. But if I toy with Nick Wilde and Judy Hopps with such a romance idea, I will tell you now, there will be "Boxes and Funnies" as the developers joked. Because I have a theory that makes this possible. A decreased chance, but possible. I'll tell you at the end. Even if it was openly possible in this world, racial differences would be a harder barrier to conquer because of a species difference. Its like they're just beginning their "civil rights movement" for the predators. They're treated equal under usual circumstances but there's still that fear and distrust towards them, just look at how every prey species turned on them after hoppses speech. There was a time when inter-racial babies were considered wrong, so people stuck with their own races. A situation that would be real in this world. I mean just think of that scene in the beginning with the ice-cream elephant guy and he was going to refuse service to Nick on the basis that he was a fox, and no other reason. And he pointed to the sign that said he had the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason. But he was content with serving the line of elephants behind him. Doesn't that feel reminiscent to those "whites only" stores from decades past? I say we use fan-fiction to break this barrier, shall we? This is the longest beginning monologue I've ever done. Go me. But I digress... Lets begin.
Judy and Nick sat together in their cruiser with coffee in paws and eyes on the warehouse down the street from them. It had been 6 months since the missing mammal case and the conspiracy to turn zootopia against itself was unveiled. Nick and Judy were heroes for the first 3 months and things started to quiet down. Judy was appreciative of the camera time, but as she'd said time and time again, she wasn't doing it for the fame but to keep the people of Zootopia safe. Nick would never admit it, but he was grateful all the publicity started to cool down, he never liked being in the spot light. Maybe it was all those years of being "a sly fox" but he certainly didn't miss those journalists and writers dogging him down when they entered the precinct every morning.
Unfortunately, since that conspiracy was unveiled, the properties of night-howlers were shown to drug chemists trying to find a new recipe to make a quick buck. The drug that was put out was a refined dust that had the chemicals in the flower, the chemical that made them animalistic was severely reduced but still a prevalent part of the recipe. No one could remember all the ingredients off the top of their head but it was called "howl" on the streets and it was taken by smoking it. Despite having a decreased amount of "Inhibimine"(The aforementioned chemical), it was still dangerous. It makes you feel a high like no other, supposedly, but near the end you get a massive adrenaline rush and you get a rush of testosterone and it makes you very angry and the amount of inhibimine makes you not think clearly, thus if taken in large amounts in the wrong place, its a very dangerous drug. Despite these effects, it was an increasingly popular drug. That's why Judy and Nick were staked out. They got an anonymous tip that there was going to be a meeting between the chemists and dealers, in which the chemists were bringing truckloads of the stuff to sell to the dealers. This time, they'd have half the Zootopia Police Department waiting on them instead of cash.
But now they were wondering if the tip was bad, as they'd been sitting there for 5 hours and nothing was happening. They'd exhausted their doughnut supply ages ago.
"How do we know that tip was any good, carrots?" Nick asked in a bored tone.
"We don't, not really. But its better than we were 3 days ago with no leads and loose sightings." Judy replied with energy, the caffeine was hitting her fast metabolism really hard.
"I'm just not even sure this guys gonna show." Nick replied as he yawned. "Its 2 in the morning."
"Its not that he will, its the chance they will. That's why we're here." Judy said with her eyes glued to the warehouse.
Nick sighed. Then out of nowhere a van pulled out in the front of the warehouse. A bear and a wolf got out of the back with boxes on rollers. A snow leopard in a flannel shirt got out of the passengers seat and closed the door. He looked around and opened the door for the two others. The pushed their large loads in. Both Judy and Nick were fully awake now. Nick was writing down on a pad everything they just saw and Judy called on the radio for units to be on standby because they found some suspicious activity.
After putting the radio down, and nick put the last period on his paper they looked at each other and made eye-contact. "Go time?" Nick asked.
"Oh, yeah." Judy replied.
The two got their tasers ready. Guns had been outlawed in the united mammal states since the great war, 70 years previous so everyone had dart-guns or tasers. The duo got out of their patrol car and quietly closed the doors. They moved down the street quietly, especially easy for nick, and not hard at all for judy. The Snow leopard had closed the door behind him so they couldn't even think of sneaking in behind them. So they snuck around the building looking for a not-so-obvious entrance. What they found was an open window 13 feet off of the ground.
"That's pretty high up. Think you can reach it, fluff?" Nick whispered.
"With a bit of a boost." Judy whispered back with a wink.
Nick got down on one knee and put his cupped hands to the ground. Judy smirked and put her two small foot paws in nick's hands. Nick had Judies little cotton-tail in his snout and it made his nose itch, but the aroma from his friend and partner was truly intoxicating and he wasn't exactly sure why. He got this warm and fuzzy feeling when he was close to her, more than a friendship. But even if it was something, he-
"Ready." Judy whispered confidently, interrupting Nick's thoughts. Nick braced his shoulders and through her up with every ounce of strength he had and felt the knock-back as judy bounded out of his hands. She made it to the window and grabbed the ledge with her paws. She hoisted herself up easily and quickly found a rope that was cast askew on the upper balcony for lifting boxes. She grabbed the rope and tied one end to a wooden post and tossed the rest down to nick, who climbed up in 15 seconds.
Judy left the rope in case they needed a quick escape. She gave nick a hand up when he reached the top, when he took her hand, something in her got really excited, but was quickly put down by the mission itself. They hid behind a large box on the edge of the second story and Judy started her voice recorder and nick took out his small, digital camera and reached around the box to snap a few photos and examined them. The dealers were examining the goods, not sure if its right. The wolf had a combat knife strapped to the base of his tail, the snow leopard had a dart-gun inside the pocket of his coat. The dealers were dressed very nicely. In suits and ties. They could afford it with their blood money. There was an ocelot, an otter, and a coyote. The otter seemed to be the leader of the three. The coyote had a dart rifle and the ocelot had his hands on something in his suit. Probably a dagger. The otter seemed unarmed, but had his hands behind his back with what appeared to be a briefcase. He also wore aviator sunglasses and a red tie, which differed from his two friends.
The otter was from some far flung end of the states, that was sure by his accent.
"Yoo hayve thee guuds?" He said in a thick and almost comical tone.
"Yes, we have 80 pounds of refined howlers, like you asked." The snow leopard said in a serious tone. The wolf was choking back a laugh at his voice and the bear couldn't help but smile.
The otter looked up at the bear. "Yoo tink mean ackent ees fooney?"
The bear burst out laughing and the snow leopard had an absolutely afraid look on his face and the wolf looked scared too and turned his back to the bear.
The otter looked absolutely enraged at this outburst. The bear kept laughing.
The otter couldn't contain his rage as he gritted his teeth and paws. His two body-guards looked fearful and taken aback as they took a few steps back. Before it looked like the otter was about to explode, he took a deep breath and let out his rage.
"Een Zees bisnuus, yuu do noot diisreespecter tee custoomur. Espectualuuy me..." He said to the bear. Surprising everyone but the guards, the otter pulled out a gun and shot the bear in the stomach in one fluid motion. The bear wasn't howling with laughter anymore, but with pain. The wolf pulled out the knife from the base of his tail and the otter pointed the small fire-arm at him.
"Fur 2 sousand dollours ee roond, ee weell noot meess." The otter pulled back the hammer. "Bee smurt." The snow leopard looked at the wolf and nodded. The wolf sheathed the knife.
"Guud Doogy." The otter un-cocked the hammer.
Nick and Judy were shocked, this guy was obviously high target since he could actually have a gun. Nick had been capturing the whole thing with the pictures and Judy never stopped recording.
"Theeze guuds ear wurth 7 sousand. Ear yoo goo." He handed the briefcase to the snow leopard. As the snow leopard grabbed the briefcase, Judies walkie-talkie went off.
"Reinforcements in position Hopps." It said. This rang through the entire warehouse. She forgot to turn her walkie-talkie down. The otter cocked the hammer of his gun and fired at a board of the second story floor. It was the board Judy was on. And it shattered, sending judy falling behind some crates on the bottom floor. Nick was absolutely terrified now, not for himself but for judy. Judy hit her head on the floor so she was out and bleeding.
"Goo geet err." The otter ordered his guards. Nick was thinking and he was thinking faster than he ever had. He knew off the tippy top of his head that those drugs, if agitated enough would explode, throwing the flammable dust everywhere to be inhaled. He dived down onto the crates of the opposite side after running around. The snow-leopard was dragging the unconscious bear with the wolf out the door. Nick ran up to the boxes and climbed up to the top one. He picked it up with everything he had.
"Hey!" He yelled. They all turned around.
"Nooooooo! Stooop eeem!" The otter yelled as he cocked the hammer again. The guards ran at nick and he threw the box as hard as he could at the otter. The otter fired at it on instinct, this caused the box to explode, spraying the thick purple dust everywhere and making it near impossible to see. Nick then covered his mouth with his uniform and ran around where he thought the three were. He dived behind the boxes Judy was behind. He picked up her limp form. He was crying partly from the dust in his eyes, partly because he didn't even know what state judy was in. He didn't know if the bullet hit her or how hard she hit her head. He ran for the door and pushed it open with his head. In a last second thought, he activated his Taser and locked the button down, then he threw the thing back in the building. The electricity ignited the dust and what followed was a massive explosion that felt like it went in slow motion to nick. He held judy to his chest and tried to cover as much of her as he could. He felt a massive heat surge to his back and then a blast that propelled him into the air. He had his eyes opened long enough to see the other police officers outside ready to advance now diving for cover behind their cruisers. He then closed his eyes. He felt like he was in Limbo. Not standing or flying, just existing. He did feel himself rotating in the air. He then heard the thundering explosion behind him. That's when his back hit the brick wall.
Nick woke up in a garden. "Uhhhh... Wha? Where? Where?!" Nick stammered. An adult fox that looked older than Nick walked up to him from behind and put a paw on his shoulder. Nick nearly jumped out of his pelt.
"Ahhh!" He yelled as he turned around. He saw the grinning fox. "Who are you? And where am I? Where are we?" Nick asked fearfully.
"Well, that depends on what you mean. We are wherever you think we are. But also, where YOU are is lying against a brick wall with a living rabbit in you arms. A rabbit that's alive because of you." He said in a full and understanding tone.
Nick had a million thoughts racing through his head. "A-Am... Am I dead?" Nick choked out.
"Almost, but not quite. Yet somehow you find yourself here. Most peculiar." The fox looked off at a lily in a pond.
"Then who are you?" Nick asked, somewhat afraid of the answer.
"Well, to put it in this way, its been a long time since we've spoken to each other. Its fine if you've forgotten about ol' me." The fox said with a glint in his eye,
now looking at Nick.
"D-Dad?" Nick asked, his voice breaking and tears starting to flow.
"I'm so proud of you nick. You changed and don't need to be sly and sneaky. But you're smart and cunning and now you use it to make the world a safer place."
Nick rushed forward and hugged his father as tight has he could, as if he was a cloud or a ghost that would dissipate any moment. "Why dad? Why did you leave mom and me?" Nick asked through tears.
"Nick, I sorry. I got sick and the doctors couldn't do anything. I was in constant pain. I'd never have traded you and your mother for the world, but there was nothing to be done. But it seems like you've turned into a good man without my intervention."
"But we needed you! Mom needed you! I needed you! Mom worked 3 jobs and she barely kept us fed and held the apartment! When I'd get beat up by the other guys at school, no one could help me, no one could teach me how to fight! When my first girl left me, I didn't have you to tell me one of your stories to help me! I turned to popsicle hustling for a living for over a decade just to help me and mom support ourselves." Nick cried into his fathers shoulder.
Nicks father hugged him tight. "And after all of that, you're better for it. Nick."
Nick stopped crying long enough to look his father in the eyes.
"Let me tell you something my father told me, and his father told him. Life is what you make it, So make it something good. Now its time for you to go, son."
"N-No! I meet you for the first time since I was 4 and I have to leave?!"
"Goodbye, son. I love you as big as the sky, just like I told you." The world became brighter and brighter until nick couldn't see.
Nick woke up this time on the concrete and his chest hurt really bad. A lamb paramedic got off the top of him. "We've got him!" She cried. Chief bogo ran over with a red panda paramedic. "Oh thank god." Bogo exhaled. Nick tried to formulate words but nothing happened, and he passed out again.
Nick woke up in a clean white bed in a hospital room. The sun was peaking through the blinds of the window. He hurt like crap and he had an IV in his arm but he was alive. He was trying to make sense of everything that had happened. There was an explosion and Judy and... "Judy!" Nick bolted upright in bed shouting.
A Lamb nurse ran in at his out-burst. "You're awake, but you need to lie down. Rest is the only thing for you right now."
"Judy? Judy Hopps, is she alright?" Nick asked frantically.
The nurse forced nick to lay down. "She's fine, thanks to you. You saved her life, first by leveling her head, then dragging her away from the blast and taking the impact for her. You're lucky to be alive, and she's very lucky she has you."
Nick exhaled as he laid his head against his pillow. "So she's fine?"
"Ye-" The nurse started.
"Why don't you ask her yourself?" Judy walked into the room on crutches.
Nicks heart soared like an eagle to see her.
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