Zootopia Short Story: Nick's Girlfriend Returns
The movie does not tell us much about Nick's family background except he was traumatized as a child, had a mother, a friend named Finnick, and had once upset a very powerful gangster. It's a full year after the movie and our favorite duo are good friends and partners, but Judy comes face to face with someone the fox doesn't want her to know.
I do not own the rights to Zooptopia or any of its characters. This story was written solely for the reader's enjoyment and without any profitable purposes. The story, all names, characters, and incidents portrayed in this story are fictitious.
Chapter 1: A Vixen's Homecoming
The baseball bat welding fennec fox angrily threw open the backdoor of his van and glared at the mammal who stood in front of him. His eyes widen in shock as he looked at the vixen who was standing there with a smirk on her face. "Candy when did they let you out?" he stammered in a surprised voice.
"Aw, you missed me after all you little pipsqueak!" she giggled at the sight of the small fox in his usual black bowling shirt and khaki shorts. "Still the snappy dresser I see."
Finn glowered as the vixen pushed him aside and jumped up onto the van's tailgate, she took a seat on the edge of the bumper. The red fox named Candy was just as attractive as she was four years ago when they arrested her for attempting to hustle a rich old goat out of his family's fortune. His eyes wandered over her body, down her sleek reddish orange fur to the white tip on her tail. She was dressed in a simple blue tank top and a pair of very revealing cutoff blue jean shorts, he couldn't help but admire her curves. "So pipsqueak where is my Nicki?" she asked in a seductive voice as her paw reached up and stroked his ear. She smiled as the smaller fox accidentally dropped his baseball bat and almost started purring, Finn always was putty in her paws.
He shook himself and leaned against the inside wall of the van. "He ain't the same girl," he replied in as cool of a tone as his deep voice could muster. "The boy has gone legit."
"My Nicki has gone legit," she scoffed and then laughed. The fennec fox always loved to hear her laughter, it was like music to his large ears. "What kind of hustle are you two running this time?"
"Honest sweetcheeks, Wilde has not only gone legit but has also become a cop," Finn answered.
She bust out with more laughter, "Nick Wilde is a cop! You're a terrible liar pipsqueak, my Nicki hates the fuzz!"
"That was before he met the bunny," Finn added with a crooked almost predatory grin, a few of his bottom teeth were showing as he chuckled. "He helped Officer Hopps solve the Night Howlers Case, saving us preds from Bellwether and her cronies. She talked him into becoming a damn cop."
The vixen gave him a dumbfounded look. "You're serious, aren't you?" she finally asked in disbelief. Then she scowled as the fennec fox shook his head yes.
The day was another scorcher in Sahara Square as the fox tried to at least look cool with his mirrored sunglasses and his blueberry fruit smoothie. He hated to get too hot because as a canid, he could not sweat and had to pant to circulate the necessary air through his body to cool down. The sight of a frantically panting fox in a police uniform was not the professional image that the ZPD expected from an officer. "So Carrots are we are going to walk around aimlessly all day or do you have a plan?" he asked in an amused tone to the uniformed rabbit who was skipping in front of him.
"Of course I have a plan Slick," Judy enthusiastically replied.
He waited for her to continue, but she just turned and kept walking. "So Fluff, would you care to tell your partner about this mysterious plan of yours before we get there?" he asked. His left eyebrow rose when she seemed to miss a step after he asked his question. "Please don't tell me you're planning to just go in there and flash your badge at him as you announce that he's under arrest?"
Her ears dropped and she nervously pulled at the right ear as she turned around to face him. "That was pretty much what I was going to do," she confessed.
"Rabbit…fox…ram," Nick sarcastically counted out on his paw. "Carrots, who do you think is going to win if this goes violent?"
"I took down a rhino during training," she huffed back.
He wanted to chuckle as he watched her foot rapidly tapping on the sidewalk, a sure sign she was aggravated. Then what he saw behind her put a smile on his muzzle. "I'll tell you what, you get him to chase you out here and I'll take care of the rest!"
"Are you sure?" the bunny asked. "How are you going to do that?"
"Trust me," he replied with a chuckle. "Your old Slick Nick has not let you down yet, have I?"
She paused and shook her head no and then hesitated again before pushing the door to the bar open. "Reggie Ramsby, you're under arrest!" he heard her call out before the door slammed shut. Quickly he ran across the road to where a rhino and a yak with the fire department were testing a fire hydrant.
Judy sprinted out of the bar with the angry ram charging after her with his head down and snorting. She saw the grinning fox in front of her and heard him yell, "Jump left Carrots!" The high pressured spray of water shot right behind her as she twisted and it caught the angry ram in his midsection, lifting him off the ground and slamming him into the brick wall behind them.
"Thanks Ron!" the fox waved to the grinning firemammal holding the now dripping hose. "I owe you that beer!"
Several hours later the two partners left Chief Bogo's office and the fox was muttering in anger. "We got the guy and all buffalo butt does is complain to me that the patrol car smells like wet wool!" he growled.
"Well it does kind of stink," the rabbit replied. "Chief Bogo did congratulate me for arresting Ramsby."
"Yeah, I was there Fluff," Nick huffed out. "It was my plan and what do I get for my stroke of genius? Parking duty again!"
The vixen stood in the shadows across from the police station and watched. She was used to waiting and biding her time, she was very curious to discover what kind of hustle her boyfriend had planned. Once she had figured it out, then she would scheme her way into getting a share of the take. A smile came to her muzzle as she remembered all those times that she had seduced Nick into splitting his hard earned cash, playing him for the sap at the same time she was working over her other "boyfriends". But she truly had a soft spot for Nick, he had always treated her with respect and not like trash as the others did.
It was late in the afternoon when she saw them leaving together and the rabbit doe was still with the fox, excitedly chatting about something. She at first thought that Nick was giving her his stoic amused look that he often gave his marks as he was working his way into their confidence, but then she frowned when she realized he was actually intently listing to the bunny's ramblings. From a distance, she stalked after them as they boarded the subway. Earlier, it had taken her some time to get poor little Finnick to promise not to call Nick and tell him she was in town. She knew that the fennec fox was more of a friendly business partner then a real friend and that the little fox complained about how Nick had left him having to scurry around to find new scams in order to make money.
From the neighboring subway car, she did her best to try to blend in with the other commuters and wished that she had worn a more conservative outfit, a vixen in a tank top and short cutoff jeans drew just about every male's attention, regardless of their species. With a sigh, she knew that she would have to do some shoplifting for a few new cloths. She grimaced as the hoof of a nearby bull, "accidentally" stoked her tail and the large bovine in a blue suit muttered his apology, but his grin betrayed that he wasn't being truthful. She cast him a seductive smile and for a moment thought about changing her plans, the bull looked like he had money and the ring on his left hoof revealed he was married. It wouldn't be the first time she blackmailed someone and in fact, it was that type of hustle she had tried on that old goat which led to her arrest. She had underestimated her mark and thought that the old pervert was more worried about his reputation in the community than it turned out that he really was, she went for the money and he went for the cops.
Nick stepped off the train after waving goodbye to the rabbit and she discreetly followed, somewhat disappointed that the other fox had gotten sloppy and wasn't constantly looking over his shoulder. She frowned when it occurred to her that Nick Wilde, the small time hustler and now cop, had grown complacent. This somewhat infuriated her, whatever he was really up to had made him cocky in life. Frantically she slipped into the shadows as he cast a look around before he entered a rather rundown and weathered old brownstone townhouse, which had been converted to apartments. From outside, she waited and watched, finally a set of lights turned on in the building's cellar. With a sigh, she knew that at least the fox wasn't living under a bridge anymore and then she frowned at her night's prospects if she didn't succeed. She was tempted to approach Nick and confront him, hopefully using her feminine charms to seduce him into revealing his plans and a place in this bed while he slept on the floor. As she stepped forward, his light turned off and within a few minutes he emerged dressed in his favorite Pawaiian tropical shirt and mismatched tie holding something in his paw. Somethings never change, she mused to herself. Even from where she was hiding, she could hear him humming a happy tune and she was shocked when she realized it was a Gazelle song. Nick always said the popular singer's music was sugary sweet and lacked talent, the male fox's musical tastes were more toward the old Seventies rock and roll classics.
She discreetly followed him as he went down the street and into a pizza joint, she watched him smile to the cashier as he handed the petite otter some cash in return for a medium sized box of what she assumed was a pizza. Then grinning, he made his way to the subway and boarded the train, she jumped the turnstile in time to rush into the car behind his. Since the subway cars were not as crowded, she hunched over and tried to stay out of his view. The vixen was shocked that the tod was still seemingly totally oblivious of her presence and just happily looked out the windows with his tail merrily swishing. After a few stops, he got off at the Herd Street Station and she scurried out and down the opposite stairs from his, never losing sight of him as he jovially made his way down the sidewalk.
Somewhere along the way, she almost lost him and had to backtrack until she came to a rather nondescript apartment building with a beat up old sign that said the Grand Pangolin Arms, leaning down close to the carpet she winced at how dirty it was but began to sniff. As a vixen, she could smell the tod's scent as he went up the stairs to the third floor and then down the hallway. She gave a very canid cocked head inquisitive look when she followed the scent to a doorway which had a cheery entry doormat with carrots painted on it. Sniffing near the door she definitely smelled a very male fox and a female rabbit inside, along with pizza sauce. What was Nick doing in a room with a bunny? She mused and then it came to her that this was probably his police officer partners' apartment. Was there something going on between those two off duty? She hesitated before she knocked, there was no way the vixen was going to lose her fox to a bunny and then she had an desperately devious idea.
Stepping back from the doorway, she pulled off her shirt and dropped her shorts and stood there stark naked. Then she pounded on the door and called out, "Nicki are you in there?"
There was movement within the room, but before the door was answered, the neighbor's door opened and a slender kudu with brown fur and white stripes stuck his head out. He shook his long curved dark brown horns and called out, "Hey Pronk you've got to see this!" A brown oryx joined him at the doorway and blushed when she winked at him, then the door in front of her finally opened.
Judy stuck her head out of the door and was in shock when she saw the naked vixen standing in the hallway. "Sweet cheese and crackers!" she exclaimed at the sight. "Are you from the Mystic Spring Oasis?"
"Who is it Carrots?" Nick called out and he brushed the rabbit's ears aside to look out.
Candy wanted to laugh at the expression that he gave her with his mouth agape and his eyes wide in disbelief. "Miss me Nicki?" she asked as she put her paws on her hips making no attempt to hide anything from the tod.
"Caaa…Ca…Candy!" Nick stuttered. "When did you get out and where are your clothes?"
"Hold it…Miss!" the now aggravated rabbit snapped. "You can't go trouncing around the building naked even if you are a naturalist."
"You're right officer, so you won't mind if I come in your room," the vixen giggled as she pushed her way inside the room and past the surprise male fox, allowing her tail to caress across his body as she passed. She looked around at the tiny room and not seeing anyplace else to sit, she daintily sat down on the bed.
Candy sniffed the air, the room definitely smelled like a rabbit and a fox…and off course pizza. The vixen frowned when she realized what the sharp scent both the bunny and the tod were giving off meant. "You've got to be kidding me!" she huffed and stood up.
"You need to get dressed now!" the rabbit snapped at her. "You can't…!" She stopped shouting as the vixen approached Nick and put her paws on his chest, her muzzle drew closer to the tod as she sniffed.
Nick was not only shocked with Candy's behavior, which in the past been always been rather erratic, but he also very uncomfortable with what the vixen was doing. He kept looking from the naked fox back towards Judy and found that he was not only embarrassed, but starting to get mad at his old girlfriend's outrageous actions. He hesitated as she placed her paws on his chest and starting at his neck she sniffed downwards towards his crotch. His ears flicked when he heard Judy gasp.
"You've really, really have got to be kidding me," the vixen mumbled as she sat back down of the bed and discreetly covered her private parts with her paws and tail. The tod didn't smell aroused by her presence, but was now giving off the scent of being not only aggravated, but also that of an Alpha becoming possessive of his mate. "You're in love with a bunny!"
Judy's ears shot up as she turned to look at Nick, who was looking back at her rather embarrassed.
"You two don't even realize it do you?" the naked vixen giggled. "Nick, why can't you smell how she feels about you? I can understand that she can't pick up you're scent, she's just a dumb bunny...hey, this really isn't some kind of scam is it?"
The red fox's mouth fell even further open and he looked desperately from her to the heavily blushing bunny. When he tried to reply, it came out more like a incoherent noise, "Bu..bu...but..!"
"So much for the old I was never going to let anyone see that they got to me routine Nick, you're an embarrassment to us sly, silver tongued foxes Stud!" she laughed as she jumped off the bed and bolted out the door, grabbing and tugging on her clothes while leaving the fox and rabbit looking at each other in confusion. The oryx and the kudu were still standing in the doorway watching and she hesitated in front of them. "Too bad you two aren't into my feminine charms," she giggled. "We could have a good time tonight." The kudu frowned and snorted as he pulled his boyfriend back into the room.
With a sigh, Candy stepped out of the apartment and onto the city sidewalk. She looked around at the tall buildings and all of the mammals of various sizes scurrying around. So many possibilities, she speculated and then she turned to look back at the building behind her one more time With a smile, she realized that deep down she was happy that Nick had turned his life around and was in love. "But he's in love with a bunny?" she laughed softly to herself and then looking at the setting sun, she wondered if there was room in Finn's van tonight for her too?