-Judy, You Must (Not) Start-
"This is a city-wide announcement. Zootopia 3 is under a condition 5 threat of attack. All non-combatant mammals please report to your designated shelter. Those unable to reach their designated shelter please-"
"Cheese and Crackers!" Judy cursed as she darted through the empty city streets, doing her best to gather what information she could from the PA system currently reading out a recorded message while dodging an abandoned stroller.
"Once again, this is a condition 5 alert. All non-combatant mammals evacuate the-"
The ground beneath Judy's paws shook suddenly causing the doe to misstep. As she tried to regain her balance she completely forgot about her duffel bag. Since it was currently stuffed with all her personal belongings the weight of the bag was just enough to make the small bunny tumble forward and land on the sidewalk in a cursing heap of gray fur.
As Judy rubbed her head and tried to shoo the stars currently dancing around her head away she felt the ground shake once more, causing her to go rigid as her instincts took over. The doe's ears raised up slowly as they tried to detect the threat she could tell was nearby. Another rumble told her that she was in trouble…serious trouble.
Suddenly a series of klaxons began to blare which caused the doe to winced and bring her ears down. As she put her paws to her ears in an attempt to stop the deafening sound from giving her a headache she looked over her shoulder in time to see a pair of fighter jets fly by at such speeds Judy couldn't make out any distinguishing features.
Her eyes followed the jets as they kept as low as they could over the cityscape. She lost sight of them as they climbed over a hill only to dive out of view. The jets had left Judy's sight for only a second when a sudden bright light followed by a deafening boom came from where the jets had vanished.
Judy watched as her eyes dilated in horror. A black plume of smoke rose from over the hill. It looked odd though. Like it was moving…
Smoke didn't move like that…
It wasn't smoke...
It was something surrounded by smoke...
"No…no no-no," Judy whimpered as she tried to convince her legs to move but her body refused to respond as the fear took over.
She had seen these things in conspiracy TV shows. Or maybe online on message boards. She had thought for the longest time they were just stories. Nothing like this could exist, right?
Yet there it was.
These things had many names. Most of them made little to no sense to Judy. The one everyone agreed on calling them though made her blood chill.
An Angel!
Not an Angel in the old biblical sense though. No there were no wings, no halo, and no bright sunbeams surrounding some beautiful mammal who flew around as a messenger from a higher power. These beings were the things of nightmares.
The large creature, if it was, in fact, alive and not some kind of machine, stood taller than most of the skyscrapers in the somewhat deserted skyline. Its dark green skin looked almost black. Judy had a hard time figuring out if it looked more like a wolf or a tiger…or something else.
She realized her mind was trying to rationalize what she saw before her but she had never seen anything like this.
There was no describing it.
The only thing she recognized was its "face" which looked more like a mask than anything which was a white circle with two massive holes for eyes.
A hovercraft flew overhead and Judy had to cover her head from the blowback.
When she felt it was safe she opened her eyes and stared as several fighter craft hovered around the angel. Several of them firing missiles which streaked directly at the Angel only to have the weapons explode in tiny puffs up and down the angel's body. It looked more like fireworks than a deadly attack.
The angel just brushed off the barrage and slowly raised one of his arms in the direction of a hovercraft.
"Watch out!" Judy screamed but it was too late.
A bright pink beam shot from the angels "paw" and hit the hovercraft in the cockpit.
Judy watched in horror as the hovercraft shuddered for a moment only to lose altitude rapidly.
She felt bad for the pilots for only a second before realizing how she needed to fear for her own life.
The downed vehicle fell towards the earth like a wounded animal.
Gotta move gotta move gotta move!
Judy tried to scamper away but she realized even if she did escape from the craft's shadow the fire from the crash would most likely engulf the whole city street, with her right in center becoming a burnt bunny.
This, however, was not the end for Judy Hopps.
A beat-up looking blue hatchback came screeching around a corner and stopped right in front of Judy as the hovercraft crashed into the side of a building nearby. The flames from the blast swept over the street and Judy felt the heat from the explosion.
Judy however was spared a fiery death thanks to the car which acted as a small shield as it protected the small bunny from the bulk of the blast.
Judy watched in astonishment as the car was silhouetted by flames. It's small frame distorted by the explosion. As the blast subsided the door to the car opened up and Judy gazed in disbelief at the driver with her bright purple eyes.
A slender looking canine covered in a series of black, white, and brown splotches grinned at Judy with an almost playful smile.
"Judy Hopps?" the canine asked with a toothy grin as she lifted a pair of dark green sunglasses and placed them so they sat in her head just before her ears.
Judy was speechless and just nodded, not sure to slap herself to wake herself up from this odd dream or to jump and hug her unexpected hero.
"I'm Misato," the painted canine said happily with a wink.
"Misato!" Judy shouted in what little relief she could muster in the middle of the chaos.
"The one and only," Misato said with a smug smile as Judy scrambled into the car. "Did you get the pictures I sent you?"
Judy couldn't believe what she was hearing. Here they were in the middle of a warzone and her companion acted as if she was picking Judy up from the airport.
"Yes!" Judy shouted as another rocket flew by overhead. The doe's ears lowered as she winced in slight pain.
The two mammals had recently started up a correspondence and planning Judy's arrival to Zootopia 3. To make sure Judy knew who to look for Misato had sent her a picture. Judy had expected some kind of professional picture but was surprised when she received one from a beach day Misato had taken recently. The canine showing off her fur in a rather revealing swimsuit.
"Would have worn the swimsuit too but, ya know," Misato began as she put her car into reverse, turning the beat-up car so it was facing away from the danger a few blocks away.
As they sped away from the combat zone Judy couldn't get over at how calm Misato seemed to be. Sure she seemed to be concentrating but one would think the painted dog was trying to simply get through rush hour traffic.
Escaping the Angel and its destruction was no easy task. Misato though drove like some kind of mammal possessed and managed to weave them through the deserted city streets with ease. So much ease, in fact, she took a moment to pull out her cellphone and typed out a message.
"What are you doing?!" Judy shouted as she held onto the dash and debated in whether to close her eyes or keep them open so she could see her sudden death.
"Texting a friend," Misato responded casually as she looked ahead and turned the vehicle so it just barely missed a stranded bus.
Judy wondered if she should offer to take the wheel from Misato before they ended up colliding with a light pole.
"It's about you," Misato said playfully. "Just telling them I picked you up and how you are cuter than your photos let on."
"What?!"
"Oh calm down. I was just kitting around. Just making sure that our extraction team will be able to pick us up in ti-"
The phone began to buzz and playoff an odd tune that Judy felt sounded familiar.
"Like an Angel without a sense-"
The ringtone was cut off as Misato answered her phone.
"Talk to me," The painted dog said as she narrowly avoided a trash can that had fallen into the street.
"Where the hell are you?" Came an angry male's voice.
"Got a little tied up with something," Misato said as the car finally made it through the city and started to drive along a road which was carved into the side of the rolling hills that surrounded the metropolis. "Where is the extraction team?"
"Extraction team? They were called back because- ...Wait- Please tell me you aren't still in the city! Misato please tell me you aren't there!"
"Well define in the city," The painted dog teased as she looked over at Judy who still had a panicked look on her face.
Though they were free from the deserted yet oddly filled streets of the city they weren't exactly clear of danger.
A steady thumping noise echoed from the metropolis behind them, indicating the angel was still wandering about causing havoc.
Judy chanced a glance over her shoulder and let out a sigh of relief.
She had been worried she would turn around and see the monster right behind them or maybe a giant arm reaching out to crush the car.
Instead, the angel looked like it too had evacuated the city and was heading in the opposite direction towards a series of plains that surrounded the southern part of Zootopia 3.
"Coordinates Misato! Give them now!" The angry voice barked over the speaker of the phone.
Misato groaned and looked at her phone and began to open a map application on the device.
"Bus!" Judy screamed as she looked forward. At the last second, Misato turned the wheel slightly causing it to drive just inches alongside the parked bus.
"Who was that?" Came the voice from the phone.
"Judy Hopps," Misato said casually.
"Wait! You actually found her? The third ma-"
"Ok coordinates," Misato interrupted as she found where they were on her app. Judy looked over and didn't recognize the app as one readily available on the market. It didn't have a map but a series of numbers that Misato read-aloud for the mammal on the other end of the call.
"Stand by," The voice said firmly.
"Take your time," Misato said sweetly. "I actually found an awesome spot for a picnic," The painted dog teased as she pulled the car into a small viewing area on the side of the road.
Judy watched as the canine put the car in park and rolled down her window while retrieving a set of electronic binoculars.
Misato glanced over at Judy and gave her a playful wink as she raised her sunglasses back to the top of her head. "No peaking now."
"Peaking?" Judy asked as she tilted her head slightly.
Misato then clambered up onto the window sill and rested her rear end on the edge of the door. It was at this point Judy realized what the canine had meant. Misato was wearing a black mini skirt that clung to her rather slender figure in ways that surely made most male mammals stop and glance. She wore a sleeveless black zip-up blouse that accented her build as well.
Judy found herself staring as her gaze inspected the canine's body, her purple eyes wandering down towards the skirt before blushing furiously and looking away.
The doe tried to evaluate her situation as she sat in this stranger's car on the edge of a city currently under attack from a monster she thought had been just some story.
This though was a little difficult since she felt like her whole sense of reality had been turned upside down.
Just a week ago she had been in her hometown of Bunny burrow focusing on her studies only to receive a call that her uncle was needing her to come to Zootopia 3 for a project that could help save the world, or at least what was left of it.
Since losing her parents and most of her siblings during the storms that ravaged the globe thanks to the Second Impact Judy didn't have much family left. Her estranged uncle was a bit of a mystery to her but when family called it was only the right to answer. He would do the same for her right?
After making arrangements to meet in Zootopia-3, Judy packed up her few belongings and said farewell to her friends as she headed to a strange new city.
Apparently her uncle was some ranking government official and had Misato contact Judy, making most of the doe's travel arrangements. Of course, Judy being the way she was, became rather friendly with the new pen pal while they communicated via text and email about the plans for pick up.
Misato had even sent Judy some rather interesting pictures from her day at a beach party from a while back. Judy liked to think she was friendly but the way Misato acted when she opened up to Judy was something on a different level completely. It was nice though having a friend in this strange new place though. Judy felt like she had known Misato for a long time now.
Judy took a deep breath as she closed her eyes and tried to let everything she had been through process.
Misato meanwhile was still sitting on the window sill watching the angel in the distance.
"Where did all the air cover go?" The painted dog asked to herself.
Judy heard Misato's phone buzz signaling a text message arrival. The bunny didn't want to pry but couldn't help looking over at the phone's screen. She read the message and tilted her head in confusion as her ears began to raise up.
The message was in all caps indicating importance: "N2 MINE! GET TO COVER!"
"Wait," Misato said as she kept her eyes on the angel. "They pulled back! Shit N2 Mine! Get down!"
The painted dog scrambled back into the car and pushed Judy down and climbed over the small doe's body, wrapping the bunny in her strong arms as she braced for impact.
The world around them flashed in a blinding light which caused Judy to shut her eyes close.
As if to prepare for the blast the world itself fell silent.
They heard the explosion before they felt it. The deafening boom caused Judy's ears to ring as the car began to shake.
Unfortunately for the two mammals in the car, their hiding space wasn't exactly meant to withstand the shockwave from the blast.
The wheels on one side of the car began to bounce up and down for a second before the wind got a hold underneath the vehicle, causing it to tumble and roll away from its original parking spot.
Judy and Misato bounced around the interior of the car, Judy cursing and screaming how she should have just stayed at her home in Bunny Burrow. Misato making a comment that if they survived Judy could burrow where ever she wanted, Misato included.
After what felt like an eternity the car finally landed on its side with a crunching noise as the mirror on the side was crushed.
The blinding light vanished and the sound of the world began to return. Judy could only sit in Misato's arms and shake as she instinctively tried to burrow into the canine who coughed for a moment before releasing the doe from her protective grasp.
"I need a pay raise," Misato groaned as she rubbed her head.
Judy was about to say something but the words vanished as she looked up at Misato.
The painted dog's shades were cracked and one of her ears had a trickle of blood staining her fur.
Judy would escape the crash with just a bruise or two thanks to the canine who took the brunt of the blast while holding Judy in a protective ball.
"Misato? Are you ok?" Judy asked as she reached out and put a paw on the canine's cheek.
Misato opened her eyes and stared at the doe with a pair of dark purple eyes. "Nothing a beer and a good night's sleep can't fix. How about you Judy? Did you get hurt?"
"No," Judy said softly as she stared at her protector. "No, I'm ok thanks to you."
"Spend the night with me and we can call it even," Misato said in a sultry tone as she put a paw under Judy's chin and raised the doe's face towards her own.
"What?!" Judy nearly shouted as her eyes dilated.
"Just kitting," Misato chuckled but winced at a pain in her side. "Lighten up Judy, we just survived a blast from one of the largest weapons in the NERV arsenal…I think we earned a laugh."
"NERV?" Judy asked with a tilt of her head.
"Later," Misato said softly as she began to look up at the window of the car which was going to be their escape route. "For now, help me flip my car so we can get the hell out of here.."
So I know I have a lot of other stories right now that I need to complete. Taking on another project like this seems crazy. 2020 though has been a crazy year for all of us though so it just seems fitting.
I have been a big Evangelion fan ever since I watched an episode on adult swim years and years ago. It influenced me so much when it comes to my creative side so it only seems right to try this out. I have actually had some of these chapters outlined or written out for over a year. Well, now I decided to take the plunge and release a new story in Zootopia based on my favorite anime.
In a sense, this is kind of like my other story Zootopia: Firewatch: A project of passion, a late night last minute posting, and an array of grammatical errors I will probably notice tomorrow morning.
I don't know how often I will be able to update this or any story but for now, let's just have fun right? Oh and in true Evangelion fashion...Cue the episodic preview music and take it away Misato!
-Next Episode-
"Hey everyone! Misato here! Next time on Zootopia: Evangelion: Judy travels through the Geofront on her way to Nerv who is now being handed control in the fight against the Angel! Will she be ready for what is to come? Find out next time! Oh and don't worry, there is plenty of fan service yet to come!"