A/N: In honor of 'Zootopia' I have decided to do a story I've been waiting to do for so long, an AU story in which Judy and Nick live in a zombie apocalypse! Interesting concept right? Well now this is what happens when Zootopia is inhabited by mindless corpses. Without further ado, I give you 'Zombietopia'. Enjoy.
(Judy's P.O.V.)
The burrows was home to many bunnies, a majority of them were carrot farmers and they were successful at what they did too. Some had very large families that grew up to be carrot farmers themselves. It was my home for a while until I wanted to become a police officer by studying at the Zootopia Police Academy, but something changed the day before I was supposed to leave to begin my training at the academy.
"Are you sure about this Judy? The city can be a pretty big place" my father Stu said.
"I'm sure dad. Anyone can be anything in Zootopia, and for me, it's an officer of the law" I said while I was packing my bags with all my clothes, some snacks to help me get through the long train ride there, and my music player too.
"I couldn't be more proud of you than I am now" my dad said with a tear falling down his eye and I hugged back.
"Hey Stu!" I heard a voice call out. That was my mom's voice.
"Yes Bonnie?" he asked breaking apart from the hug and turned his head to see mom standing in the doorway.
"There's some animal in our field. I called out to them but they didn't respond. Maybe you can have better luck getting their attention?" asked my mother. I followed behind him as we both went down the stairs and to the back porch.
(Normal P.O.V.)
Stu walked out onto the back porch to see what looked like a cheetah, only they were on their knees and looking down onto the dirt covered ground.
"Wait here. I can handle this" the older bunny said as he walked off the porch and towards the cheetah.
"Hey there, fella. Can I help ya? You look mighty lost" Stu said placing his paw on the cheetah's shoulder. The only response that Stu got was a low raspy groan, and the cheetah turning their heads to reveal their eyes were bloodshot and the color of the eye was gold with tints of red around the pupils, and their lower jaw was missing, the tongue still flickering from the back of their throats and blood surrounded their paws.
"Oh dear lord!" Stu shouted as he began backing away in shock and the cheetah began following Stu with one of it's hind paw's dislocated and the bone stuck out from beneath the flesh and fur.
"Stu!" Bonnie cried out as she went into the kitchen and got the double-barreled shotgun from above their fireplace and loading some shells into it.
"Hurry!" Judy called out as she watched her father run as fast as he could, but even with a bone sticking out it's leg, the cheetah was still fast.
"Alright, I got it" Bonnie said as she took aim at the cheetah and shot it's upper part of the leg that wasn't damaged. But all it did was slow it down, the cheetah was still following Stu and it was getting very close to the front porch.
"Stay away from my husband!" Bonnie cried before shooting again in the stomach, but it barely phased the cheetah and kept on chasing him. Bonnie reloaded the shotgun and Judy had an idea.
"Gimme that" Judy said swiping the gun away and aiming for the cheetah's forehead. Once Judy fired the bullet, it made collision with the desired target and the cheetah finally fell to the floor backwards onto the dirt.
"Come on inside!" Judy said taking her father's paw and guiding him back inside, shutting the door behind him.
"Will you explain to me what just happened out there?" asked Bonnie.
"I haven't got the slightest clue, Bonnie. Even if I knew, I wouldn't have ran like I did" Stu said walking up to the front windows of the house and saw that there were several bunnies being chased by animals, predator and prey in the same type of condition the cheetah only a lot of them had their body parts still in tact, many others were missing limbs or had chunks of flesh taken out their bodies.
"Judy, turn the television on right now" Bonnie asked in fright. She did as asked and turned on the TV, a local news station was interrupted by a screen with multicolored bars on it with the words 'Emergency Broadcast' in white letters kept inside a black horizontal bar at the top, as well as 'Contagious Disease Warning' below it.
"Guys, come here. I think this is an outbreak or something" Judy said signaling her parents to come towards the TV to hear the sounds of beeping before a voice took over the screen.
"This emergency broadcast has been ordered by the city of Zootopia's department of civil defense. Authorities in your area have reported cases of the bodies of the dead rising from their graves and attacking the living" said the voice. Stu pulled out a small pocket radio from his overalls and turned it on listening to the exact same thing that was being heard on the TV. Judy and Bonnie only kept on watching in horror.
"We advise you not to approach or apprehend these bodies as they are considered to be extremely contagious and violent. Any animal that these bodies kill gets back up and kills" the mechanical voice said.
"It's probably not just the Burrows, it's probably in other areas too" Judy said to her mother still holding the gun tightly in her paws.
"The Zootopia Embassy must know something about this" Bonnie said to Judy in response. Stu kept on changing the channels on his pocket radio to hear different news reports of the same events occurring, mindless cannibalistic corpses attacking and killing living animals.
"Someone has to deliver the message to Zootopia's mayor Lionheart and convince him to send help, I don't think we're gonna last a week under these conditions unless some kind of help is sent" Stu said peeking out the blinds to see the body of a raccoon driving a tractor and running down a car passing by, making both vehicles explode and the raccoon kept on running towards a pair of young school-bunnies while his entire body was on fire.
"I'll do it" Judy said piping in, causing Bonnie and Stu to look at their daughter.
"Judy, you don't know what these things care capable of. They're attacking and killing anything that moves" Stu said trying to convince his daughter not to go out there.
"What other choice do we have? Besides, I can get information and send it back to the burrows the minute I receive it" Judy said walking to the garage with Bonnie and Stu following her. Judy picked a jigsaw off the bench and sawed off the tall double-barrel pipes, making it sawed off like an action movie star's weapon.
"How do we know Zootopia isn't filled with these things too?" Bonnie asked. Judy then walked back to the fireplace with her parents still following her and took all the shells and ammunition off the top of the fireplace.
"I'm not a little kit anymore, mom. If I'm gonna be an officer, I gotta learn how to handle situations like this" Judy said placing her paw on her mother's shoulder.
"I never thought I'd see my daughter leaving in dark times like these" Bonnie said placing her paw on Judy's cheek lovingly.
"Don't worry mom. I'm gonna bring back help, food, supplies, weapons... you name it, I won't let you all die like this" Judy said taking her mother's paw off her cheek and onto her own chest.
"I know you will" Stu said as he pulled out his keys to their truck.
"Go get your bag, the least we can do is drive you to the train station" said Bonnie. Judy's only response was a nod and smile before running up to her room and zipping up her bag and placing the strap over her shoulder with the entire bag was dangling from her shoulder and hit her hip gently as she walked.
"I'll sit in the trunk, I can shoot at these things if they try and chase us" Judy said loading the sawed-off double-barrel. Stu and Bonnie ran out the door first with Judy following and hopping into the trunk, picking up a pitchfork from the back and keeping it close.
"Alright dad, hit the gas pedal and drive as fast as you can" Judy called out from the back. Stu nodded and turned the keys, making the engine emit smoke from underneath the hood a little bit and started driving down the dirt road.
"Keep driving. There are a few right behind us" Judy said as she got on her knees behind the back door of the trunk and held the gun close to her face to get a good aim. The corpses kept on chasing them and Judy shot the third one in the back right in the head, which made it stumble off the road and roll down a hill.
"Got it" Judy whispered to herself. Another corpse grabbed onto the trunk's door and Judy was close enough to shoot it right in the side of the head, making the entire left half of it's head blow off.
"Everything alright back there?" asked Bonnie. Judy reloaded her weapon placing some shells inside.
"Never been better, mom" Judy said as she spotted the corpse of a dingo which was missing it's arm getting closer to the truck. Judy decided now was probably a good time to use the pitchfork that was in the back and jabbed it right through the skull of the corpse before pulling it back and causing the lifeless body to fall into a nearby pond.
"How longer before we get there!?" Judy called out placing the bloodied pitchfork back at her hind paws and fired another shot at another corpse, but all it did was blow it's leg clean off.
"Not long, only three more minutes!" Stu called out. Judy looked behind her to notice there was a rocky ledge up ahead on the turn they were supposed to make.
"Only got one shot at this, and I hope it doesn't make us slip and fall off the road" Judy said in her mind before aiming a bullet at one of the rocks in the ground that was attached to the ledge, causing it to fall and create an avalanche, bringing every last corpse chasing them down with them.
"Thank heaven that worked" Judy said wiping the sweat off her forehead. Soon, they arrived at their destination and Judy jumped out the trunk and followed her parents inside the train station. There were very little animals in there and some of them were corpses on the ground with their heads blown or sliced off.
"I can't thank you enough" Judy said handing her father the shotgun but Stu shook his head with a smile.
"Keep it, you'll need it more than we do" said Stu.
"But I can't just leave you here unarmed" Judy said looking sad and guilty all the same.
"We won't. We saw our neighbors offering shelter as we left. We can go there and wait for any radio signals of the news to be heard. I assume they'll have some weapons there too" Bonnie said.
"I'll call you as soon as I have news" Judy said hugging her mother tightly, inn which the response she got was her mother hugging back and smiling.
"Good luck Judy" said Stu before guiding his daughter onto the train and the door shut as the two elder rabbits waved their daughter goodbye.
"Same to you" Judy whispered to herself, wishing they'd be alright. She noticed the train was empty and nobody else was aboard it but her.
"It's gonna be a long boring train ride to Zootopia" said Judy to herself a little bit weirded out about the isolation she was in. Being the only passenger aboard, Judy had decided to take this as an opportunity to sit up on the front of the train. Once she got to the front, she placed her bag down and lied her shotgun right next to it. She felt like she needed to rest and lie down, using her bag as a pillow, closing her eyes to take a nap to kill some time to get to the city, hoping that there was a solution to this problem and that she's not to late to save everyone she loved, like her family and friends.
(Judy's P.O.V.)
I don't remember how long I lied down for. What felt like a few hours felt like a couple minutes and just as I was getting comfortable and getting ready to completely drift off into unconsciousness, I head a voice over the train's loudspeaker.
"Attention all passengers, we are now arriving in Zootopia in five minutes" I smiled at that and stood up to look at the window, what I saw made my heart drop to my stomach. The entire city of Zootopia was half-way destroyed, there were dark gray storm-clouds above the city, smoke coming off of several buildings that were completely or half-destroyed, and ashes fell from the skies like snow.
"No, it can't be" I whispered to myself. Zootopia must have been where this whole thing began and those corpses were now invading outside. I closed my eyes and silently prayed in my head, hoping there would be other survivors looking for shelter or defending themselves in the streets. But more importantly, I hoped that the Embassy and it's members were still alive, because it looked like the whole globe was plunging into the apocalypse.
A/N: How was that? Pretty good introduction to a zombie story? Now that the first main character is set up, we're gonna get an introduction to Nick in the next update and see how he's been surviving through the apocalypse. More to come in the next update. Please review, thanks!