Summary: While investigating a warehouse, Judy and Nick discovered a time machine and go back to each other's past.

Judy parked her car at a warehouse, where she was told to go. The reasoning for this was that Bogo had assigned her to investigate this warehouse because of reported strange sightings from the windows of the room.

Judy got out of her car and walked towards the door.

"Assigned here too?" A voice told her.

Judy turned to see Nick with a coffee in his hands. "Yeah Bogo told me to come over here. Didn't expect you to be here. And please, let's act professionally during this." Nick said before he opened the doors to the place.

Judy sighed and grabbed her dart gun and walked on in.

"Ok, here's the plan. I'll get down here, you go up there." Judy said to Nick.

"Alright carrots." Nick said before walking up.

Judy explored the room, making sure not to miss a detail, when she stepped on something.

She looked down to see an ID badge. She grabbed it and saw the name of it. It was a cat and his name was Scott CatWest.

She held onto the badge and continued to explore.

Nick explored the floor when he ran into a capsule, with a bunch of other techno nonsense with it.

"Hey Hopps!" Nick yelled.

Judy showed up to see Nick. "What's going on?" She asked.

"I found this." Nick said pointing to the capsule.

"What is it?" Judy asked.

"Not sure, just caught it sitting here." Nick said walking over to it.

Judy followed him.

Nick wiped some dust off of it and they the circular glass door slid opened and flew to the top.

Nick got in the place. "I don't think that's a good idea. We don't know what this thing can do." Judy said.

"Saids the bunny who had fox repellent while her partner was a fox?" Nick said.

Judy thumped her foot on the ground repeatedly before jumping into the thing with Nick.

"Alright Wilde, listen here. I don't care if you think my carrying that around was a bad idea, but I didn't want to see you get mutated and have nothing on me when you attacked me, so forgive me for worrying about myself and you." Judy said.

"Okay, sure." Nick said before checking exploring the place even more.

Judy kicked the wall without even looking at it in rage when it roared to life, with blue and purple lights shining on.

Nick and Judy looked around the place in confusion before they saw a massive GPS appear at the cockpit.

Nick walked into it to see what this was. He saw a hologram appear on, revealing a bunch of dates, years, and moments from history.

Nick looked at it confused and swiped across the entire hologram, exploring what this thing had.

Nick then sneezed, and accidentally tapped something that made lighting appear outside the capsule.

Nick began to back away from the cockpit. "What did you do!" Judy yelled.

"I may have activated the gimmick of this thing." Nick chuckled.

Then, they both appeared in a purple portal and the capsule began to fly through the place.

Nick and Judy both being to lose their minds. "What is going on?" Nick asked.

"I don't know!" Judy yelled before noticing an escape pod.

"Follow me!" Judy yelled before running to the pod.

Nick went to follow, but the ship bumped into something, and Judy fell into the pod, flipped a switch from the wall, and the pod doors closed and flew away from the capsule.

"Judy!" Nick yelled.

Judy looked to see Nick, helpless as the capsule flew off.

Judy walked to the cockpit of the escape pod. "Ok, uh thing? Take me somewhere! Anywhere for that matter!" Judy yelled.

The pod picked a random location in time and an alternate pathway for the portal opened and the pod followed it.

Nick's capsule crash landed on a corn farm and slid through the dirt until it stopped on it's tracks.

Nick escaped the capsule and checked his surroundings. It was a sunny day wherever he was.

"Hello." He heard a robotic voice say.

Nick screamed to see that the capsule was talking to him. "What are you!" Nick yelled.

"I am what is known as Project FT. FT stands for Father Time." It said.

"Wait, does that mean you're a time machine?" Nick asked.

"Yes." It said.

Nick groaned. "Alright, what year is it and where am I?" Nick asked.

"It is the year 2000. Your current location is Bunnyburrow." It said.

The machine shot clothes at Nick. "Put these on. They are appropriate for the times."

"Wait, aren't you going to take me back to 2016?" Nick asked the machine.

"I need to charge, you might as well explore." It said.

Nick, resistantly entered the capsule and got changed.

Judy's pod dumped into the ocean, on a dark night.

"Ejection imminent." The pod said.

Judy looked at it before she was shot out of the capsule with a pack of clothes that fitted her.

She landed on a beach, no one was on it, thank god, and she got up.

"Are you kidding me!" Judy yelled before noticing a porta potty.

Judy looked at the clothes. "Oh what the hell." Judy said before getting in.

When she got out, her first mission was to solve what year it was.

She walked up to a mouse that was walking by her. "Excuse me, what year is it?" Judy asked.

"Uh, 1993?" The mouse said before walking off awkwardly.

Judy groaned and began to walk around the town.

Nick walked across the corn field, wearing the clothes that the machine gave him.

Eventually, he saw a group of animals, mostly bunnies, walking around near a barn.

Nick, curious, decided to get what this was all about.

When he got there, he realized that this was some form of school fair that they were having.

Nick begrudgingly took himself to the fair, interesting in seeing anything happening while waiting for that machine to get back to power.

Nick slid himself into the place and began walking around, acting like he was there and definitely wasn't one of two Zootopia's first time travellers.

Nick saw two adult bunnies walking in between a little girl bunny in a police uniform, skipping like nothing else.

Nick nearly laughed out loud seeing her, but was able to not draw any eyes at him. He knew exactly who that was.

Judy Hopps.

It seemed like they were talking about something that Nick couldn't make out at the beginning, but once they got just slightly closer, he began to hear them.

"That's the beauty of complacency Judy. If you don't try anything new you'll never fail." Her father said to her, giving Nick mixed signals.

"I like trying actually." Judy admitted hopping onto a haystack.

"What your father means hon is it's gonna b difficult. Impossible even for you to become a police officer." Her mother said as Nick began to follow them, acting like he was looking at the food stands in case he were to buy some, but his ears were dead focused on that talk.

"Right. There's never been a bunny cop." Her father said.

"No." Her mother said.

"Bunnies don't do that."

"Never."

"Never."

"Oh." Young Judy said, having the smile slowly fade from her face. But it came back up. "Then I guess I'll have to be the first one." She said.

"Because I am gonna make the world a better place!" Judy screamed.

Nick smiled. He had missed that quirkiness that Judy always had when they were partners, in fact more than ever now that he's literally with the same person but younger.

"What do you mean I'm fired!?"

Nick heard that from the corner of his ear.

"I'm sorry Derwin, the principal told us to tell you." Another person said.

Nick followed where the noise was leading him to see a jackal seeming to be a science teacher along with 3 sheeps in labcoats.

"But why did want to do so!" The jackal asked seemingly furious that he's been fired.

"Well, it's your side project." One sheep said.

"What side project?" The jackal asked

"You know, that side project that one of your students Judy Hopps discovered along with her friends, it was something about animal evolution." A black sheep said. "And one of these people who found it was my daugther, who told us everything that they found."

"But in order for all animal kind to prevent mass extinction we need to evolve to a new stage! I've spent years trying to think of something. For one-"

"I don't want to hear it. You're fired, period end of discussion, take all your things out of your classroom by the end of the day." Another sheep said before the three of them walked away.

"Soak it all in fellas! This isn't the last time you've hear of Derwin Wilmot!" The jackal screamed before faceplanting his head on the counter.

Nick looked off at him in confusion. Evolution? Extinction? 'No, that can't be. He can't be the green jackal.' Nick thought to himself before noticing young Judy walking between two stands.

Nick, curious, went to see what she was looking at.

Nick went to a small bush near a tree Judy was hiding in and took cover in that as the two saw a young fat fox and a potential friend of his surrounding two sheep, one white and one black, and another bunny, looking younger than Judy.

This is what he saw.

"Give me your tickets right now, or I'm gonna kick your meek little sheep butt." The fox said, slighty pushing the sheep by the end.

"Ow! Cut it out Gideon!" The black sheep said.

"Bah, Bah! What are you gonna do, cry!" Gideon yelled ripping the tickets away.

"Hey!" Judy said walking up to them.

'Uh oh.' Nick thought to himself as this tiny little bunny walked up to the fox, who even today has a 101% chance that he's still taller than Judy.

"You heard her, cut it out." She said.

"Nice costume loser. What crazy world are you living in where you think a bunny could be a cop?" Gideon asked the bunny.

Judy, still standing strong, actually didn't run off like a coward. "Kindly return my friends tickets." She said sternly as a child could say.

"Come and get em. But watch out, because I'm a fox, and like you said in your dumb little stage play, us predators used to eat prey! And that killer instinct's still in our Dunnah!" Gideon said.

"Uh I'm pretty much sure it's pronounced DNA." His friend said.

"Don't tell me what I know Travis." Gideon said.

"You don't scare me Gideon." Judy said before Gideon pushed her to the ground, making her hat fall off and her friends hide behind that same tree.

Nick felt his muscled tense extremely, playing Guess Who on what would happen to Judy.

"Scared now?" Gideon asked her.

"Look at her nose twicth, she is scared." Travis said.

"Cry little baby bunny, cry." Gideon said before Judy straight up kicked Gideon in the fwce.

Nick heard her friends gasp, and he almost did.

"Ah you don't know when to quit do you?" Gideon said before making showing off his claws.

Nick wanted to stop him. He wanted nothing more than to shove out of the bush, tackled Gideon and get Judy in her friends out of there. But he knew if he actually did so, time would probably change so drastically that certain events may have never happened.

Thus, Gideon scratched Judy in the face, and she screamed in pain.

Thankfully, there was no blood. But there was three clean scratches on her left cheek.

Gideon planted Judy's face to the ground. "I want you to remember this moment the next time you think you will EVER be anything more than just a stupid carrot farming dumb bunny!" Gideon said before letting go, high fiving Travis, and walking off.

Nick couldn't take this nonsense anymore and he snuck out of the bush and he walked out.

...

Judy was sitting on a bench, reading a newspaper, thinking of a solid plan to do.

Then, she saw a vulture trying to talk with a Bengal Tiger.

"Ali, please just give me a chance." The vulture said.

"I'm sorry Clive, but no." Ali said.

'Wait, Bengal Tiger, first name Ali, that's Ali goddamn Khan!' Judy thought in her head. Ali was the founder and CEO around this time of the Sundurbans Shipping Company, the powerful shipping company originated from Bangaldesh.

"But this is a once in a lifetime opportunity Mr Khan. The mutagen I'm forming could save everyone in Zootopia and even the world from mass extinction! You just need to give me the resources to do so!"

"Look Clive, I care about the world just as much as you do. But I can't pull off such a risky investment right now that we don't even know is going to work. It can bankrupt my company, and that's the last thing I want to do. In time, maybe I'll give you a call." Ali said before

"We don't have time Khan! Any second of any year, of any month, any day could be the last! If we need to do this, we need to do this now!"

"It's not today isn't it?!" Ali said before he got in his car and drove off.

The vulture groaned in rage and he flew off.

Judy was curious about what the vulture was saying. Mass extinction? What's the worry about that? Nothing happened around this time that potentially meant the end of it all?

Judy's train of thought was thrown off rails by a door launching open.

She removed the newspaper to see a young fox, either 8 or 9, running down the stairs, looking like he saw a horrid monster.

Not only that, but the fox actually had a muzzle strapped onto his face, and he was wearing a junior ranger scout uniform.

Judy felt chills run all over her body cause she knew exactly who that was.

Nick.

She finally realized where she was, she's on the day where Nick join the scouts, only to be muzzled by them.

Nick quickly removed the muzzle and threw it away, and he began to sob into the night.

Judy wanted to help him. She would give up everything she had if she could just get up, walk over to the fox, and just hug him. Letting him know that the world was a dangerous place, and he shouldn't let that beat him down till he couldn't take it anymore, he should overcome it, and prevent others from going through the same thing.

But she couldn't without causing problems in time.

Then, someone tapped her shoulders.

She looked behind her before she was taken into an alleyway.

She looked before her to see a cat. "Do you have any idea what the hell you've done?" The cat said.

"What?" Judy asked confused.

"Oh no you don't know! You almost messed with all of time!"

"I-wh-wait, who are you?" Judy asked.

"Marcus Catwest, Time Travel Agency." He said.

Judy realized something. "Wait, you mean like Scott Catwest?"

Marcus looked at her funny. "Yes. What day is it in your time?"

"Uh, November 2nd, 2016." Judy said.

Marcus said. "The day he died." Scott said.

"Wait a minute, explain your story first." Judy asked.

"Well, my great great grandfather Scott Catwest was a scientist that always wanted to make a time machine. But on your day, he died the day before, thankfully, his wife gave birth to my grandmother a few years before hand, and then about near 2 ish centuries later, we've made time travel agency, making sure that all of time stays on track no matter the price." Marcus said before grabbing out a watch. "Take this." Marcus said.

Judy grabbed the watch. "Set it to your day." Marcus said as they changed it to the date Judy was at.

"And now." Marcus said before they both dissapeared.

...

Nick walked back to the cornfield. He finally got it. He finally got Judy's fears other than the whole mutation deal. She was probably scared of him pulling a Gideon Grey on him. She was probably scared of Nick going savage. She was probably scared of him getting mutated, all because of that little moment.

Nick walked back to the time machine. "Fully charged." Nick asked.

"Yes." FT said.

"Great. Send me to the present." Nick said walking in.

"Affirmative." Nick said.

The time machine teleported away.

...

Nick teleported back at the warehouse.

He walked out to see Judy there. "Nick! You're ok." Judy yelled before jumping to hug Nick.

Nick sighed. "I'm sorry carrots." Nick said.

Judy looked at Nick. "What?" Judy asked.

"For being upset at you."

"Well thanks? What made you do this?"

"I travelled to that day."

"What day?"

"The day you got scratched by Gideon Grey."

Judy looked at Nick confused. "How do you know that?" Nick said.

"Because I saw it go down. About how he wanted you to remember that day forever."

Judy sighed and touched her left cheek. "Remember it I did."

"What do you mean?"

"If you touch my cheek, or if you really try to get my fur in the right place, you'll see three light, but long scars from that very scratch."

"I'm sorry about that."

"It's ok."

"So, what happened to you?" Nick asked Judy.

"I saw you, on that night with the muzzle."

Nick sat down with Judy. "What are the chances." He chuckled.

"I feel worse now that I've actually seen what happened." Judy said.

"Well that's the thing about some sad stories, at first they're just a figment of your imagination, but once you see it it's a trainwreck."

Judy let her hand out to Nick. "Still friends?"

"Friends." Nick said before shaking her hand.

Judy pulled out her walkie. "ZPD, we found our source." Judy said.

...

Cameron and Lily were sitting at the kitchen. "Really? That's who they are." Cameron asked.

"Yes, Derwin Wilmot and Clive Jacklin." Lily said.

"Well what did they want to do?" Cameron asked.

"I don't remember that, I remember them using some of my DNA to create what they called The Perfect Mutagen. A serum where animals couldn't have side effects from that mutagen that's been turning animals into monsters." Lily continued.

"Why you? Why your blood?"

"I don't know." Lily admitted.

...

"So we can mix Predator and Prey blood into one." The vulture said to the wolf knight.

"Hm." He said.

"Shut up both of you!" The jackal said as they carefully moved a canister of mutagen. "Here it is. The Perfect Mutagen." The jackal said.

...

"Ok, first thing tomorrow morning, I'm telling the officers about this." Cameron told her.

"But they'll ask how you know." Lily said.

"I can make up an excuse. Sometime Lily, you have to sacrifice one thing to help the other." Cameron said.

Ok, Nick and Judy are now back as friends!

Anyway, so this is the point where everything begins to get serious. Where the most exciting episodes are about to go down.

Review the story and have a great day!