Here's the 5th chapter! Enjoy, by the way, the story is Nicks whole life, not just his childhood. So the last four chapters are like a prologue.
Sorry, for the delay in uploading this chapter, I was very busy with school and exams stuff, but I've got a lot of time now! Enjoy!
It had been fourteen years since the birthday incident. Nicks father lost custody of his children and was taken to imprisonment. No one had head from him ever since. Nicks mother still owned her children legally. From a period of fourteen years, Nick changed in personality. Once he reached the age of 11, he had more of a view on how the world was. How things worked and how animals acted in the world. He also gained more mental health issues, depression from being teased and bullied at high school, for being a fox, a predator.
When Nick turned 20, he moved out of his mothers house and lived in a cheap apartment in Downtown Zootopia. Finnick also moved in with him while Clawhauser still lived with his parents, working at a suburban gas station. Nick and Finnick couldn't find much work and decided to try to find money on the streets. All the jobs they applied for were either rejected or heard nothing back from them. The two already knew the world they had grown up in. Nick realised the discrimination in his world when the birthday scene happened. Finnick was really confused that day but actually realised what happened when his parents sat down in his room and told him what the collar was to the world, and of course he was forced to get it on his seventh birthday, however his parents didn't react the way Nick's father did. The two of them hated their life from then on, whenever their emotions got a little out of hand, they would always get that shock in their neck, taking them back to that day.
Once the other students at school heard about the incident, which wasn't until two months after the scenario happened. From then on, Nick didn't have a good school life, even in high school, he dropped out at 9th grade. Clawhauser continued school to eventually graduate but hasn't been accepted to any universities for two years now. Finnick ended up failing 11th grade. Of course, it wasn't a good schooling life.
Even though Nicks life wasn't going the right path, his creativity and his ideas still stayed with him, just like his father. His friends all had a great idea in mind.
"So are we going to try to find banks again Nick?" Clawhauser asked, while snacking on a bunch of food, he certainly got chubbier over the years.
"Nah, I have to go to a check up. I think something's wrong with my neck."
"Isn't everyone's?" Finnick snickered. The three of them chuckled.
"Damn, was actually hoping today was the day!" He said, crossing his arms. "Maybe we could try while you go to your appointment?" Finnick and Clawhauser didn't really do this sort of stuff, but since it was their idea, they were willing too.
"Oh well, couldn't hurt to try." Nick said, rolling his eyes. "Besides, you guys might actually do it!" Nick was upset and maybe annoyed that he had to go to the medical center, it wasn't always the best thing to do, especially for preds.
"Well, I guess we should go now? When's your appointment again?" Clawhauser asked, grabbing the diorama that was on the nearby shelf.
"Ughhh, about half an hour." Nick really wasn't sure of these things, going to the doctors wasn't his way to spend his Saturday's.
A few minutes passed. The trio split up doing their separate jobs. Finnick and Clawhauser started to search for every bank they haven't visited and Nick, well he went to the doctors, like he said. Of course, no predator in Zootopia liked visiting the clinics in the city, mainly because the doctors are so paranoid of them becoming a savage, when all the predators knew it wasn't going to happen. Prey seemed so stupid to them, yet so powerful, so controlling. All the fear of the other race made them rise above all, causing a lot of racism without even noticing it.
Nick got to the doctor clinic. Quite a small place, nothing special about it. The walls were quite a bland grey color with windows that look like they haven't been clean for years.
"Wonder how this shit is gonna go." Nick cussed under his breath.
He walked into the waiting room of the clinic, a couple of other mammals were waiting there, mostly prey with the exception of a female siamese cat. She looked like she was in her 20s, reading a news paper. Nick sat next to her since there was no other seat around.
"Sorry, is this seat taken?" Nick asked the cat.
"Oh no dear, it's not taken." She smiled, gesturing Nick to sit down. "Crazy isn't it, does anyone ever want to come here?" She groaned.
"Tell me about it." Nick scoffed. "To add on our list of crap, doctor check ups."
"Yeah, pretty much. How every predator wants to spend the day." She said sarcastically, while turning around to him extending her hand.
"I'm Joanna, Joanna Meese. You're a red fox I'm guessing?"
"Correct ma'am. Nick, Nick Wilde." He said, shaking hands with her. "Siamese?"
"Absolutely." She said smiling. "What made you come for a checkup?"
"My neck, there's a weird pain coming from it, it's been going on for days." He said, not pleasantly.
"One mammal with an actual common sense would think it's because of these." She looked at her own collar. "Wish mayor dumbass would realise how bad these collars are."
"You bet, stupid city." He snickered.
"For your information you stupid fox and cat!" A koala said to them, who was a few seats down from them. "That's the only thing in our city that keeps the peace here!"
"It would be," Joanna groaned. "If peace meant strangling a third of the population along with the amount of racism that gets thrown at mammals like us every day. So for your information you stupid koala, and maybe all of you in this room, peace doesn't mean making a third of your city get strangled, almost to death and to break the rest of their life!" She yelled. The room stayed silent until her collar zapped her. The koala just laughed at her.
"You stupid cat, never learn do you." He chuckled. Joanna just grinned.
"Good one." Nick said in awe. "Not afraid of the zap are you?"
"You don't get through life being positive all the time, you gotta stand up for what's right." She said.
"Patient 26?" One of the doctors came out, calling a patient in.
"Darn, that's my number." Joanna said to Nick. "Gotta go, if you wanna contact me, I'll just leave you with my email." She gave him a card, like a business one. Of course, had her email on it, but the card logo said "Meese and family clothing repair." She left the room, leaving Nick to wait.
A few boring minutes passed, it seemed like an hour to Nick.
"Patient 42?" One of the doctors said, which was actually Nick's number. He stood up and walked towards the room and sat down on a doctor bead in the room.
"So you are Nicholas Wilde, am I correct sir?" The doctor asked, who was an armadillo.
"Yep." Nick replied.
"Well good, my name is doctor Samual. Your document says that you have a pain in your neck am I correct?" He said, Nick nodded. Yeesh, this guy likes being confirmed about stuff, Nick thought.
"We might have to do some x-Ray's on it Mr Wilde, meaning we will have to temporarily remove your predator collar." Nick actually grinned a little. Having your collar taken off would have been such a privilege, even for just a few seconds.
"Okay, Martha!" The doctor said to his assistant, who was in the back of the room. She was a donkey species. "Get the collar disabler ready, you know the drill!" He yelled. Martha immediately pulled a lever, which made a cage come down around Nick while she threw the doctor the collar disabler. Prey were so paranoid of predators becoming wild, even going as far as to creating the most bizarre set ups.
"Do clinics really need this sort of set up?" Nick groaned.
"Yes they do sir. It's for the safety of us." Nick just groaned at that statement, which the doctor ignored completely.
"Ok… Here we go." He said cautiously, holding out the disabler. Great tension built up for everyone in the room, except Nick.
The doctor finally managed to disable the collar, quickly disabling it, cowering as he did it fearing that Nick would turn savage. Yet nothing happened, just another act of stupidity from the prey species, maybe the best Nick has seen this month.
However, Nick realised what just happened, his collar was gone. His neck was free, even though it had a pain on its right side, it still felt like heaven. He felt like he was running along in a field, the wind brushing up against his fur as he ran. Clawhauser and Finnick and some other predators appeared in his vision of his. From running in the field to somehow ending up in roller coasters. Even though it may not make sense to anyone, Nick didn't care, the feeling of freedom, his paw rubbing against his neck which had been locked up for years.
"Well Mr Wilde we are all done here." The doctor said, snapping Nick back to the unfortunate reality. And in that snap back to reality, his collar was clipped on him again.
"If only, I could get that off for a few more seconds, it would be the best day I've had in years." Nick said, dreamingly.
"Heh, if I had a dollar every time someone told me that!" The doctor scoffed.
"Yeah!" Nick exclaimed, "you would be the richest mammal in Zootopia." Nick's brain instantly shot awake, with the best idea he had ever come up with.
"Now Mr Wilde, your neck is alright, just take this medication for two weeks, twice a day." The doctor said, holding the door open for him as he walked out of the room, and out of the clinic.
"I have to tell Finnick and Clashauser!" He whispered with a smile as he walked out.
Nick ran into the apartment door, excited, which was something his pals didn't really get to see often.
"What's with the face Nick?" Clawhauser said. "I rarely see you like this." He said, confused, so was Finnick who held the diorama in his paws, which was almost as tall as he was, mostly because he was still a small mammal.
"Well, amigos I just thought of the best idea while I was at the clinic!" Nick said, excitedly.
"Oh wow, that's not really the type of place to come up with exciting ideas Nick." Finnick chuckled. Nick just grinned at him with a stare.
"Heheh, I agree with you there, but really this is a big idea guys!"
"Spill it out then!" Clawhauser yelled, eager to know.
"Ok then." Nick started to tell how he came up with his so called brilliant idea. "So I was sitting in the doctors room, boring as usual and of course, made me mad as hell, mostly because the doctors there are complete idiots."
"No shit dude." Finnick said. Nick just stared at him again, annoyed. "Well, continue."
"Anyway, yeah they were complete idiots, but then came the process which involves temporarily removing the collar, which I still got annoyed about…"
"Wait! They removed your collar!" Clawhauser exclaimed, shocked.
"Seriously, have you not been to a doctor appointment?" Finnick asked, butting into the story too. "They HAVE to do that! But the process is really annoying."
"I thought it was just some type of mechanism that looked like a gun that took off a collar?"
"Yeah, but they have a cage set up and everything."
"Guys!" Nick yelled. The two of them remained quiet. "Anyway, back to my little story. They were taking off my collar, which felt amazing. However, as the doctor but my collar back on unfortunately, he said he would've been the richest man in Zootopia if he got a dollar every time a predator asked him to just have a few seconds with that damn collar. Hence how I got the idea." Nick said, excitingly, he didn't even care how exact his story was, it was just his crazy idea.
"And what was that idea?" Finnick asked, still confused.
"Oh wow, still don't understand huh? My amazing idea, and by the way this fits with our Wild Times idea aswell. How about when predators enter this amusement park of ours, we can disable and take off their collars." Finnick and Clawhauser sat there thinking about this idea.
"It's actually a pretty good idea, just a few questions." Clawhauser said. "One, where do we get this mechanism that does that? And two, what if one of the customers escapes the place without their collars?"
"Well. First answer, there's plenty in the clinics in Zootopia, wouldn't hurt to rob some, and second, well it's their fault, not mine if they get arrested." He knew those answers weren't really the best he could come up with, but that's all he could think of from the top of his head.
"But Nick, we still haven't got an investment!" Clawhauser reminded him, which sadly meant he and Finnick didn't get any that day.
"Well…" Nick thought for a little. "We will just have to try harder, this could be our big break. Now if you excuse me, I'm feeling a little tired right now, I'm going to take a nap in my room." Nick concluded that conversation which was followed by wondering to his room, to his bed.
Nick pulled out his phone once he reached his bed. A few messages from Finnick, which he didn't realise since his phone was on silent the whole day. Nick was exhausted, even though it was the afternoon. He just wanted to lay down on his bed for the remainder of the day, maybe even for a couple of weeks. His hands reached into his hand pockets, feeling something in there.
"Oh yeah, almost forgot!" He yelled, in a whisper, pulling out the card in his pocket, which was given to him by Joanna. He went to his email app and put in the details and put a message there.
"Hey, finally got home from the stupid clinic." He typed in the message and pressed send. Surprisingly in a few seconds Joanna replied.
"Wow, that took awhile, did they do the collar drill twice because they were that stupid?" She typed back. Nick liked her sense of humour, kind of laid back.
"Should we talk on MuzzleTime?" She sent again.
"Yeah sure, what's your address?" He sent back.
"Just put in the email I sent you and call." Nick did exactly that, put in that same email from the card that she gave him and pressed the call button and within a second she picked.
"Hey Nick." She said on the other side of the video chat. She looked like she was in her room with her window beside her.
"Hey Joanna. How's life?" Nick replied.
"Nothing much, did those mammal doctors treat you like shit?" she said back, laughing a bit.
"Heh heh, you bet they did. Do you really work for a clothing repair?" Nick asked, curiously,
"Well, here's the deal. If you want to be a con criminal, why not put a business card to a company so they won't suspect a thing about you? Either that or stupidly put your passport in your handbag, and believe me I have seen mammals do just that." She said.
"Hmm, smart. I should probably take on that advice," Nick said, intrigued.
"What? You con too?" Joanna asked, actually surprised.
"Only a a few days a week, I have other business to attend to," Nick replied back, a bit tiredly.
"And what is that other business." Joanna said, using air quotes while saying business.
"Well, you see." Nick started to explain. "Me and my two close friends are trying to open a amusement park, only for predators."
"Hmm interesting, has that been successful for you yet?"
"Nah not yet, not one bank has replied back a yes on our idea, but we are still trying."
Joanna had a grin on her face. "You know, there's a secret bank I know of in Tundra Town, which is mainly open to predators, I could take you there if you like?" She said.
"Is this legit?" Nick asked, to make sure if she wasn't messing around.
"It is Nick, believe me. I know the owners quite well." Joanna reassured him. Nick was surprised about this. His new friend that he just met that day was willing to help him and his friends.
"Ok, so when will you take me there?"
"Tomorrow, if you are free. In the morning maybe?"
"Yeah I'm free. Where shall we meet?"
"Maybe on Libra street, just outside of Tundra Town, you know that place?"
"Pfft, yeah I know it. I'll see you there at 11, okay?"
"Yeah sure, see ya tomorrow." She hung up on him. Nick was quite excited about this. However he was way too tired to think right and just fell asleep.
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In case you don't know, FaceTime in Zootopia is called "MuzzleTime". Which was seen in a scene when Judy called her parents.
