ZOOTOPIA
OFFICERS JUDY HOPPS AND NICK WILDE'S DETECTIVE FANFIC-SERIES
FANFIC-EPISODE 1.
Sometimes, for some reason,
the criminals just don't get busted.
But we have these,
two little officers,
to make sure they got jailed.
No matter what kind of is their every case,
they'll solve it´till the end.
...
They, they, they, they, they, they're Judy and Nick,
team Wildehopps.
They, they, they, they, they, they're Judy and Nick,
ZPD's finest cops.
Judy and Nick will always success in case,
and put the villains to face the law and justice
...
They, they, they, they, they, they're Judy and Nick,
team Wildehopps.
They, they, they, they, they, they're Judy and Nick,
ZPD's finest cops.
Judy and Nick will always success in case,
and then they'll be hailed as a heroes
...
THEY, THEY, THEY, THEY, THEY, THEY'RE JUDY AND NICK,
TEAM WILDEHOPPS
THEY, THEY, THEY, THEY, THEY, THEY'RE JUDY AND NICK,
ZBD'S FINEST COPS
Hi there! I've for a while considered of starting OFFICERS JUDY HOPPS AND NICK WILDE'S DETECTIVE FANFIC-SERIES, where our favorite officer duo adventures in the exciting world of detectives, taking cases, solving the mysterious crimes and hunting down the criminals. My first such of focuses on Halloween, though there's still a month before the thirtieth day of October, I think that it's better start a month earlier because there's a several upcoming chapters incoming. I wish you good reading and waiting for Halloween.
P.S.
- I do not own Zootopia nor its characters, but Disney does.
- I own only my own characters in this story.
TRICKS AND TREATS: CHAPTER 1.
On their well-deserved week off, Judy and Nick were at the moment visiting an old rabbit friend, who lives in small rabbit warren-like house, which is located in Zootopia's Savanna Central.
The old and widowed rabbit woman is called Barbara by name and she's the mother of dozen of rabbit children.
Barbara was one of Judy's good childhood friends from Bunnyburrow, who had moved into Zootopia along with her own family a couple years before Judy.
Judy and Barbara had by a chance crossed the paths with each others two weeks earlier in Savanna Central's Central Park, where Judy was exercising with Nick by jogging through the park's jogging routes until they met Barbara who was walking with the pushchair and with four a new rabbit babies, and the both bunnies were so happy to see each others once again.
And by Barbara's polite request for both of them, Judy and Nick had agreed together to stay with Barbara's family over Halloween and of Barbara's request, they promised to be with her children when they leave to beg for candy on Halloween night, much to Barbara's children's dismay, commenting that they're not little children and they do not need adults to watch after them, but were powerless to get their mother to change her minds... neither Judy's nor Nick's, due to them being a cops and seeing watching over them as one of their free-time duties.
Only two more nights for Halloween.
When Judy was gone in the Shopping Paradise, Nick was spending his time with Barbara's children by watching the old horror films with them, while eating the pizza which Judy and Nick had brought with them for the movie night with Barbara's children...
...playing hide-and-seek game with Barbara's children by Nick acting like the feral fox (but not that feral like back in the Natural History Museum during the Nighthowler case in the children's presence) tracking and hunting down the rabbit kids.
...helping them to prepare their house for the Halloween night, for example placing fake graves, carved pumpkins, fake ghosts, skeletons, black cats, bats, spiders and spider webs everywhere of their home's garden...
...and placing even some horror movie figures all around of the house. Such like the witch-dressed cheetah doll flying with the broom above of the roof top, the vampire-dressed badger doll rising from its fake-coffin in the front garden, mummified and wrapped weasel dolls to "guard" the gateway of their garden and the savage wolf (zootopian-version of werewolf) doll to stalking passengers from behind of the trees.
Nick also told Barbara's children in the living room exciting stories of the cases he and Judy had solved together, after they solved a threacherous sheep mayor Bellwether's Night Howler Incident over one and half years ago.
Nick even told them about his and Judy's a desperate and dangerous attempt to trick Bellwether to confess her crimes against the predators in the Natural History Museum after they had found she was behind of everything. To Barbara's children, that story was half detective story and half horror story, but they still enjoyed of it.
It was the favorite story of Nick's big rabbit fan, Skippy, the energetic seven-years-old white-furred rabbit, who idolized Nick Wilde even more than what his brothers and sisters did.
He had even started to collect from the newspapers the pics and headlines of many past cases of Nick and Judy, which have been notified in the newspapers, adding them to his collection in his room's wall next to his own bed.
And his top favorite case is...
Ex-ZPD officer Judy Hopps and prejudged free-time con-artist fox Nick Wilde uncovered the notorious Nighthowler-scheme and Savage-plague, ex-mayor and mastermind Bellwether arrested.
Also Skippy's nine-years-old big sister Sis idolized Nick Wilde, not only because of his reputation as first fox officer and famous police officer with Judy Hopps but also because he looked "so handsome."
Also their five-years-old little sister Tagalong idolized Nick Wilde, and as a proof of it, she held in her arms the fox doll which resembled Nick Wilde.
"Tell us how you captured that mafia-boss Fat-Cougar the last summer!" Skippy encouraged with the eager expression.
"Especially the moment when you and Judy hustled him for good with that very same trick from the Robin Hood-film we watched few months ago together, you remember?" Sis eagerly added.
Nick chuckled at this.
Of course he remembered that case he solved with Judy.
And especially the target of their last big case back in the last summer, Fat-Cougar, pale-gray furred obese Cougar and one of the most notorious mafia-lords, who is still sitting in judgment for smuggling under the darkness of Night the illegal drugs into Zootopia and founded illegal drug trafficking, thus causing the underword criminals, out of the lust for drugs, to launch a massive crime-wave against the banks and convenience store.
Numerous crimes all around of Zootopia had confused ZPD completely for two weeks, during of which ZPD was unable to target of responsibility for the crimes directly to Fat-Cougar and his criminal acticity.
And with the memory that it took two confusing weeks for the ZPD trying to unsuccessfully solve the Missing Mammal Case... and two months for the reason of Night Howler Plague... and yet knowing that only two mammals successfully solved them both in two days, desperate Chief Bogo had decided to entrust the case in his and Judy's paws to solve it.
And after getting work with the case, he and Judy had started their investigation by by checking one of the crime scenes in hope for any tiny yet usable evidence of the criminals.
And after analysing the evidence, which was the one messy feather of the gull filled with the smell of the wastewater from the wastewater sewers in the harbor, he and Judy had headed to the harbor to question some harbor workers about the suspecting activity lately.
Once there, they had crossed paths with the old bear crane operator, who had told them that he was forced by some mob-looking mammals to unload the cargo from their cargo ship named Cat's Whiskers to the train, during of which he had smelled something suspecting from the cargo sacks that smelled like the drugs... which had led him and Judy to the office of the harbor chief to question him about the cargo reports lately, but unfortunately leaving the duo with the blank answer of not having any report about the cargo ship named Cat's Whiskers nor about the cargo it carried with.
However, Nick also remembered that in the next day that their crime investigation got a little barriers.
They at least knew that the possible motivation of the criminals in that crime-wave against the banks and stores was secretly yet illegally into Zootopia smuggled drugs and that the heart of the criminal activity was hiding somewhere in the possession of someone in the harbor...
...but they didn't knew that who was the mastermind of this scheme and that where in the harbor he was hiding with the illegal stuff, as there was many cargo ships and one heart of the criminal acticity.
And they had also located in ZPD Headquaters all the banks and stores that had been robbed - including those banks and stores that still remained untouched - all around of Zootopia in all four districts...
...but they still didn't knew that where the next bank robbery would happen.
And then, by chance, he and Judy had just walked into one of them on their break.
Three armed and into guards dressed kangaroos had attacked into the nearby bank, but their robbery mission was halted by him and Judy as they caught in act by him and Judy with the gunpoint... and their whole robbery mission was completely foiled and the escaping blocked after ZPD reinforcements had arrived to the scene and arrested kangaroos.
The suspected then had been brought to ZPD headquaters for interrogations, where all three of them, through of the drugs side effects, confessed to ZPD the true mastermind, Fat-Cougar, to be behind of the crime-wave and the criminal commercialism with illegally smuggled drugs... even the hideout of the baddies.
It was, according the suspected kangaroos' information, located to the abandoned dock area in the harbor, where was one single abandoned port warehouse in the whole area. and in the next of which was standing abandoned and sealed harbor chief's office building and near of the docks one the giraffe crane. Through between of the giraffe crane and the port warehouse passed the railroad for the cargo trains that led to the underground tunnels, where also was abandoned and sealed tunnel that passed to the wastewater sewers... which served as either Fat-Cougar's secondary hideout or escape route.
...
"And so, in the midnight, Chief Bogo led me, Judy and most of our free fellow officers... along with S.W.A.T team... into the Lion's Den, with everything we got, because we didn't know that how Fat-Cougar was prepared for uninvited guests, cops for example and that how many minions he had in the whole area."
"And, to find out that what we were up against... and in order to steal the evidences we could use against him in the justice... I got an idea by using one of good old Robin Hood's undercover tricks to get past through of the possible guards and into the heart of this criminal activity to get even close of the evidence, using the masks and the midnight darkness to cover our faces from Fat-Cougar and his one hundred and armed mobsters in the area, and..." Nick was about to continue...
...until suddenly, Barbara arrived to the scene, carrrying some baby rabbits in her arms.
"My apologizes to interrupt you, Nicholas, but they should not forget that that happened at midnight and its almost a midnight, meaning that they cannot stay awake any longer." Barbara said after excusing herself.
"So, now all of you, march to the bed." Barbara commanded.
"Aaaaw, mom!" All dozen rabbit children moaned in unison, not willing to go to bed... not just yet, when Nick was getting to the best part of his story.
"Ah, just go, children. We have yet much to do tommorow before Halloween night and you all need some rest for it. And remember, that the diligence will be rewarded the day after tomorrow." Nick said.
"Just listen uncle Nick, children. If you do no work, no reward." Barbara said.
Seeing that the fox officer and their own mother had got upper hand over them and that they had no another choice…
"Okay, mom. Okay uncle Nick." The children said in unision as they stood up and walked as the long line in their bedroom.
Suddenly, Skippy turned around to Nick and jumped backwards with the eager expression.
"When I grow up, I want to be the police officer just like aunt Judy... and I also want the fox partner to myself just like you, uncle Nick." Skippy said as he was about to enter in the bedroom.
Nick chuckled.
"Well, if you want the fox partner, go to Jumbeaux's Café. There you'll find your fox partner being unfairly treated by the sourpuss elephant with prejudice against him or her." Nick said humorously, recalling in his mind the memories of his and Judy's first met. "And wait until he or she senses the feeling of pity in you and hustles you to buy Jumbo-pop for his or her "little fox".
Nick let out the sweet laugh after remembering how he had hustled Judy to buy Jumbo-pop to him and disguised Finnick when they first met.
Skippy winked at him the eye and disappeared into the bedroom.
When Nick and Barbara were at the living room two alone, Barbara turned to Nick.
"Maybe you got a little carried away, Mr. Wilde." Barbara said.
Nick turned to the mother rabbit with a bit confused look in his faces.
"What? Was the joke that bad, Mrs. Barbara." Nick asked.
Barbara, however, shook her head.
"No, it wasn't. It's just. (sigh) You just seems to enjoy a bit too much of that memory where you first met and remorselessly hustled your partner to buy you that gigantic ice cream, when he felt pity for you and your… you know... your so-called "son". And I also do not want my son to have anything to do with the strangers. Barbara said, with a bit scolding tone.
"Oh, c'mon, Mrs. Barbara. We did not know each other at first sight. I may have viewed Judy as a little nuisance with a big dreams at first as well as she viewed me as a con artist that cares no one else than himself... which I in fact was before getting to know each others more better." Nick said, defending himself.
"But Judy at least managed to endure me and my... you know... super annoying fox presence, until I witnessed the true colors of her problematic situation among the ZPD Force, relating much to my own experiences, which made me to make it all up to her." Nick added.
"But if Judy managed to get pass through of it, then so will your son." Nick finished with the wink of his eye at the rabbit mother.
Barbara let out the deep sight and shook slightly her head, knowing well that when she had lost.
Barbara was then about to walk to another room and take the little ones in her arms into their beds, until she turned around and back to Nick.
"You know what, Mr. Wilde? Now I a bit regret that I interrupted you telling that story of your and Judy's last big case. The truth is, I also enjoyed that story."
Nick was quite confused, because he has always though that bunnies are peaceful and peace-loving animals and rather farmers than action heroes and heroiness… with exception of Judy Hopps, who unlikely to another bunnies was always seeking for the action on their work.
"You do?"
Barbara nodded at him with the gentle smile.
Barbara had told to Judy and Nick that her late husband was one of the many victims of the crime-wave caused by Fat-Cougar, whose with the drugs and oversized prices from them brainwashed wolves had attacked to his store and attempted with the violence against the visitors and him to take his own savings which he was about to donate to orphanages. Her husband had instead stood up against the robberies and refused for the orphan animal children to hand over a single dollar to the wolves and that had cost him his shop being burned down and plus his life, leaving his family living as poor since that.
Barbara had thought that her husband died when the wolves lit his shop into fire, but through of the body search, it was revealed that her husband was actually killed by the shot in the head.
Judy and Nick had done to her more than just the great favor, not only returning her husband's savings but also risked their lives to bring that unspeakable fiend in charge of his actions and for the years behind the bars for the illegal drug trafficking and smuggling, masterminding the entire crime-wave and causing the numerous mammals to be either injured or even killed during of the robberies for refusing to give up their savings..
And, as a small token of her appreciation and her growing respect towards Nick's species after the case, Barbara has donated enough money for the orphanage of the orphan foxes, of which Nick was even more than just pleased.
It warmed his heart greatly when more animals started prejudice feelings towards foxes and grown to respect his species even more.
And because of that, Nick has been declared as a friend of Barbara's family.
"I know that its been already several months after that case, but I still do not know how thank you two enough." Barbara said.
Nick just shook his head.
"You have done already, Mrs Barbara. You grew to respect my species and even helped that orphanage of the orphan foxes. That's all what I can get as gratitude from you." Nick said with a bit shy smile.
Barbara smiled gently back at him, before she continued towards her babies room and spent some time in there with her babies.
Ten-fifteen minutes later...
After Barbara had settled them to sleep peacefully in their beds, she appeared back to the living room and was about to head to the kitchen.
Barbara then turned to Nick, who was still relaxing in for the foxes designed armchair, that Barbara had brought to her house only for her to seat, knowing that Nick was a bit too big to sit on for the bunnies designed children chairs.
Nick had opened the television and was watching the late-news from TV.
Barbara noticed the officer-like stenr look on Nick's faces he stared at the news, much to her confusion for...
...for briefly.
Nick had also turned the sound nearly off from TV, not wanting to disturb Barbara's children's sleep in middle of the night.
But, thanks to the bunnies natural super sensitive sense of hearing, Barbara was able to catch with her ears something about...
...numerous candy thefts happened lately. All thefts targeted at the candy stores. Nearly no sign of any attempt to break in the stores, nor any clues about the crime. ZPD is confused...
Barbara thought this was the reason to Nick's stern cop-like expression, though she didn't know that was that Judy's and Nick's a new case or did Nick hear about this until now.
However, in fact, Barbara wasn't interested.
This wasn't her business as a civilian, but the business of Judy and Nick as a cops.
Though reluctant ro interrupt Nick once again, Barbara opened her mouth to speak something to Nick.
"Even though you're predator, Mr. Wilde, you like carrots. Don't you?" Barbara asked as she gestured him to enter to the kitchen.
"I do, although I love more blueberries… like blueberry ice cream, blueberry juice, blueberry pie." Nick said, as he rose from his armchair and headed to the kitchen after barbara.
To Nick's surprise and delight, Barbara told him that there were already all of those Nick had just listed
"But they're waiting for Halloween night." Barbara revealed, much to Nick's disappointment, which Nick quickly hidded from Barbara with the nervous grin.
"But if you like carrots, I have a carrot soup. If you feel like." Barbara offered.
"Of course, I was a bit starving out here during of telling stories for your little ones." Nick said.
As Nick sat down on the table, Barbara warmed the soup in a microwave oven before she handed it over to Nick.
"You're gonna like it." Barbara said with the gently smile.
But when Nick was about to take the first spoonful… his head and ears suddenly jumped upright.
Barbara saw this clearly from aside and went confused of this.
And when she was about to ask "what's wrong"? Nick suddenly stoop up from his seat, unintentionally interrupting her.
Nick looked all around of the living room.
"Speaking of carrots, where's judy. She's supposed to be here right now?"
"She's not yet back?" Barbara asked as confused as Nick.
Both of them knew that Judy had left for the Shopping Paradise at six o'clock...
...and now it was at ten in the evening, meaning that she should have be back iby now.
This was not like her, because usually it took from Judy about two or three ours to walk in the shop, take all what she and Nick needed to live, buy them and then come back home.
It was now been four hours since Judy had left, and yet she'd not yet returned.
Nick quickly rushed to the living room and looked out from the window to see that was her car in the garden.
Everything he was able to see was only the darkness but not dark figure of the certain bunny walking in outside.
"Usually, it does not take so long from her to return home." Nick said, with the a bit worrying tone before looking back outside.
Barbara looked out from the window too, seeing nothing else but the darkness.
"Maybe she has just lost her way in somewhere. Should we call the cops to look for her." Barbara suggested.
Nick only shook his dead in disagreement.
"First, me and Judy are cops. And secondly, I don't think Judy has lost her way out there, Barbara." Nick said.
"As a cop, Judy knows these streets and we're living in the next neighborhood. These streets and quarters are too familiar to her to get lost."
However, there was also another more darker guess in Barbara's mind and it was not time time about Judy getting lost in the streets on her way home...
...but maybe something else might have happened to her.
"What then do you think what would have happened, if she has not lost her way back here?" Barbara asked, though she always hated such of guestions. They always left to her unpleasant tensed feel, and perhaps a bit of feeling of insecurity... aand not to mention about the safety of her children.
Nick was hardly thinking about it.
Of course he knew that the underworld of Zootopia, the wrong side of the law, was always on the move at night.
There was always possible street gang members, mobsters, pickpockets, violent criminals, illegal transactions on the alleys and other illegal criminal action during the night… especially in the downtown when the eye evades.
And not to mention about the possible kidnappers... though there has not been kidnap cases for a while in ZPD.
"I better to go look for her." Nick said and went into vestibule to have his jacket because there was quite cold out there.
Barbara rushed after him to the vestibule.
"But you just said, "too familiar to her to get lost". Does that mean that these streets aren't familiar to you? What if you don't find her, or what if you get yourself lost in the streets instead of trying to find Judy." Barbara asked with the worry.
Nick locked at her the reminding look on his faces.
"I grew up on the streets when I was twelve, Mrs. Barbara. These streets are also too familiar to me that it's impossible for me to get lost. Besides, as the fox and a cop, I'm not afraid of what might lurk in the shadows." Nick said.
"Besides, I've spent for a long enough time with Judy, that I'm stuck with her scent in my nose. I just need to follow her scent once I find it and she will be soon to be found. And in fact, I actually love to play Hide and Seek game with Judy, 'cause she always allow me to act like feral fox when its my time to seek for her." Nick said with the wide smirk, as he was about to open the door.
But before he did, he turned one more time to Barbara.
"You should lock the door and the windows, just in case, and keep them locked until me and Judy are back."
Barbara was still quite unsure.
"But you do not know where to look for her first. From where you would start looking?" She asked, fully knowing that she could not stop Nick from going out there to look for Judy.
"I'll start from the Shopping Paradise. I know where it is located, because I used to stole a bit something from there when I adobted the life on streets as a young fox teen... such like blueberry chocolate chip cookies, blueberry chocolate bars and blueberry milk." Nick said, or more likely confessed with a bit shy and embarrassed voice, as he stepped out from the door.
But before he could disappear out from the door, he appeared again to inside.
"Don't tell that to Judy nor your kids, okay. If Judy finds out, she'll killme." Nick whispered before going outside and closing the door behind him.
And after the fox was gone, Barbara did as Nick told her to do by locking the door.
Barbara went also to cover the living room's windows with the curtains, but before she did, she followed with her eyes at Nick as the fox exited from the garden and disappeared on the streets into the dark of the night.
"Be careful out there." She whispered before closing the curtains.
TO BE CONTINUE...