Over the years, Nick, Finnick, Benny, Gator, Klondike and Jasper had become inseparable and closer than ever. They did everything together and stuck together through thick and thin. Hail and hardships. They also grew up together and had attended school together.
One day in elementary school, they had gone on a field trip with their class to a museum to learn all about something they were utmost curious about. Remember those shock collar things I told you about before? Well, this was invented to keep the carnivores from reverting back to their primal instincts. Whenever they got angry or agitated, the collar would issue a small shock to their body. Needless to say, this was very cruel and inhumane and none of the predators were fond of it.
The teacher split up the preys and predators into two separate groups. Naturally, a majority of them were prey's and the only predators were our heroes.
"Now kids, you're probably wondering why you predators have to wear these shock collars" the teacher told the kids, standing in the middle "Well, this is so you won't become feral and try to eat prey like me and the rest of your schoolmates"
"This sucks, dude" Finnick told Nick.
"Yeah" said Nick "How come we have to wear these stupid things, but those other animals don't?"
"I guess it's just the natural order of things" Jasper sighed.
"And the worse part is that whenever a prey agitates us or is mean to us predators, they get away with it" Gator added "This is totally unfair, man"
"But the only way to take them off is if we have something concerning our necks" Klondike said "So the doctors have a special device that unlocks them"
"Well I'm not going to let being a predator do this to me" Nick told his friends "I'm going to do everything in my power to be the best one ever and we'll get these collars off, somehow"
"You're right Nick" said Benny "We can do anything we set our mind to and we are going to stand out among those other mammals"
"I know, we'll form our own club!" said Nick "Wild Times"
"And we'll be dedicated to bringing equal rights to us predators" said Gator "We deserve anything that the prey's get!"
And so, Nick and his friends had formed their secret club "Wild Times". They would play games, have sleepovers, secret meetings, make money and try to think of ways to get predators out of their collars without getting in trouble. Their folks had become great friends as well. It looks like a generation of families had just begun.
Twenty years had gone by and Nick and the rest of his Wild Times friends had become closer than ever. In fact, you could even call them a family. They had tried doing various odd jobs around Zootopia, but they didn't last long.
One day, Nick was taking some sort of baby in a stroller. It was Finnick dressed up as a little boy and Nick masquerading himself as a father.
"You sure this is going to work, Nick?" asked Finnick "This is embarrassing, dude"
"Don't be such a negative Nancy, Finn" said Nick "All we have to do is pull this con and we'll have enough money for all six of us"
"Fine" Finnick said "But you has better not speak of this to the others. Cause if you do, I'll bite your face off! If I didn't have this stupid collar on"
The two entered some sort of elephant-managed ice cream parlor called Jumbeaux.
"Here we are" said Nick "Now don't talk"
The two entered the ice cream shop and went standing in line. They were ready to pull off their scam.
"Excuse me" Nick raised his hand.
The elephant manager looked down and saw Nick and Finnick.
"I'd like to have a jumbo pop for my son, please" said Nick "Which color would you like, son?"
Finnick toddled over to the display of jumbo pops and pointed to the red one.
"The red one, perfect" said Nick "I'll have that!"
"Forget it pal!" said the manager "We don't serve predators! So beat it!"
"Please sir, we'd really like a jumbo pop" Nick pleaded.
The manager took out a sign "Listen fox, you probably can't read, but the sign says 'WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REFUSE SERVICE TO ANYONE' and that includes you! So beat it"
"It's a shame though" said Nick "Cause my boy loves elephants, dreams of becoming one when he gets bigger. You don't want to crush his dreams, do you?"
Finnick then put an elephant nose and blowed a little horn noise. The manager couldn't say 'no' to such a cute face and finally gave in.
Nick and Finnick then walked out carrying the jumbo pop and into an alley.
"Alright, now for Phase Two, son" Nick said mockingly.
"Don't call me that again" Finnick growled.
"Whatever" said Nick "Let's get this show on the road"
Nick climbed up to the rooftop of a building, melted the jumbo pop and poured it through some gutters, which landed in some jugs provided by Finnick. The two then walked over to their house and froze the juice into paw-shaped holes and froze them into popsicles.
"Now to make the illusion complete" said Nick.
The two foxes then sold the popsicles to a bunch of lemmings and then sold the sticks to some construction workers. Finally, when they were alone, Finnick got angry.
"Alright Nick, now listen here!" he told his friend "Why would you make me a stupid little kid? I'm a grown adult Arctic fox! It's in my species!"
"Relax" said Nick "You're going to get yourself zapped"
Finnick got more angry and started "Listen you! I'm gonna-"
Nick kept trying to calm his friend down, but nothing he could do worked. Just when Nick was about to get attacked, Finnick got zapped by his collar. Just then, Gator came riding at the scene and the duo got in to avoid a public disturbance.
Author's Note:
It looks like Nick and his friends have formed a little club of their own to make predators get equal rights, but it also looks like they're trying to resort to a life of crime? Why? Well let's find out in the next chapter.