It had been nine years since Alex met Gazelle. They saw each other once or twice every two weeks. Gazelle had been rising in popularity as a singer, and Alex distanced himself from her, afraid that he would ruin it if she was caught in public with him. He was lying down in his jail cell, the place that he considered home. When there was a prison break, Alex was the one leading the charge to catch those who escaped. Several times, Alex had convinced animals not to join the escapees. His friend, Leroy, knocked on the cell's padlock.
"Alex... Chief Bogo wants to see you, and I'm not sure that it's good.", Leroy nervously said. "Well, this should certainly be entertaining.", Alex smirked, before getting up to go see Chief Bogo in his office.
"What did I do this time, sir? Is it about the undercover drug busts? Please, you can't fire me. I don't have anywhere to go.", Alex sighed.
"No, it's just that... how should I put this delicately...", Bogo muttered.
"Here's the thing, Alex. You are one of the greatest cadets in the history of the ZPD, or you would be. You're not actually licensed to make arrests, or even be employed here.", Bogo began. Alex began to protest about his medical license, but Bogo cut him off. "I would be fine with letting you continue to work here, but recently, Lionheart has been cracking down on those without licenses. If you're going to stay on the police force, I have to send you off to the academy.", Bogo told him.
"That's bogus! I've dealt with more life-and-death situations than everyone else on the force, aside from you! I'm practically the second-in-command here! Why should I have to go to police academy?!", Alex angrily said.
"Can it, Moon. You have two options at this point. Either lose your home and main source of income, or go to police academy. This wasn't my idea.", Bogo commanded. Alex grumbled.
"Look on the bright side, son. You'll be able to meet our first bunny cadet!", Bogo encouraged him. Alex pondered this.
"Well, I'm always up for making new friends.", Alex said.
"That's the spirit, boy!", Bogo happily said.
Three weeks later, at the Zootopia Police Academy...
"Zootopia has twelve different ecosystems within it's borders, such as Tundratown, Sahara Square, to name a few! You'd better master all of them before you can call yourself a cop, because if you mess up? YOU'RE DEAD!", the polar bear drill instructor says. Alex almost instantly recognized the bunny. It was Judy, the girl that he helped with by filling in for one of her friends at the school play so many years ago. Alex waved at her. Judy looked confused.
"Of course she doesn't remember you, Alex. She's only seen you twice before in her life. Oh, well. I'll just have to jog her memory later.", Alex thought to himself.
"Scorching sandstorm!", the drill instructor yelled. Judy stumbled and fell down.
"You're dead, fluff!", the drill instructor scolds. Alex stopped with the trial and helped her back up.
"Hey! What are you doing, helping this failure of a cadet?", the drill instructor shouted at Alex.
"Ma'am, are you even a police officer?", Alex questioned. The drill instructor looked taken aback.
"No, I'm just the gal that trains the cadets.", she sighed.
"Let's assume that this is a scenario where a criminal is running through this sandstorm. Say that this bunny has become a victim of said criminal, and needs medical attention. Which is more important, catching the criminal, or protecting the lives of the innocent?", Alex quizzed her. The drill instructor wiped a tear out of her eye.
"I haven't heard a speech like that since Chief Bogo. You'll be a good officer, Alex.", the drill instructor told him.
Later that evening, after Judy failed miserably through all the tests, Alex felt sorry for her. He silently watched her crying in her room. He pulled out his ocarina and played a tune that always soothed him. As he played, Judy stopped crying and looked up at him. "...Alex? Is that you?", Judy asked the wolf.
"In the flesh, my fluffy bunny friend. It's been over a decade since I last saw you.", Alex responded. Judy ran up and hugged him.
"No... it feels longer.", Judy sniffled. With his paw, Alex motioned for her to follow him. He took her to the clearing outside of the school.
"What are we doing?", Judy asked, mystified. "While I was in Zootopia, I had to pull some strings, and that included being a part-time police officer. But because of some dumb law, I have to attend this academy. But with you here... we can graduate together. As a jack of all trades, I know many skills and talents. I can pass on these trade secrets to you.", Alex explained. And so, they trained, and graduated from the ZPD. Alex taught her martial arts, CPR, deductive reasoning, and other talents that he thought she would find useful working at the ZPD. The graduation ceremony went rather uneventfully. Judy wanted to catch up with Alex, because it had been so long since they had seen one another.
"So, where do you live in Zootopia?", Judy asked the wolf.
"I... live in the prison.", Alex admitted. "What did you do to get thrown in jail?", Judy responded, thinking that it was a joke.
"No one wanted to share an apartment room with an albino wolf, so... part of the deal with me working on the ZPD was that I could live in one of the jail's cells.", Alex explained.
"Oh, my. You really weren't joking.", Judy said.
"JOKING? Are you kidding me? I've spent a massive portion of my life waking up every day, wondering if I was going to die, and you think that I'm JOKING?", Alex burst.
"Alex, I'm sorry!", Judy apologized.
"Don't ever assume that I'm joking.", Alex darkly said.
***Author's Note***
Alex and Judy will not be together all the time. But because of Alex's reputation in the criminal underworld, Bellwether aims to assassinate him, fearing that he would be able to piece the puzzle of the missing mammals together. Will her dastardly plans succeed? Or will they kill an unintended victim? There's much more coming in this fanfic, and I'm sure you won't want to miss it!
Alex Moon (Present)- Dan Green as Yami Yugi from Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Monsters