hey guys, sorry for not uploading, but i had to go through some shit with family and all that crap, especially with my grandmother being sick lately. but, here you guys go...
now before we begin, i would like to adress that this is an AU of our world and Zootopia's. The important things to list down are:
1. Nick and Judy are the same age in this AU, both being teenagers.
2. Nick is intersex/trans
3. Nick's father was a highly wanted criminal
4. humans coexist with the Zootopians
5. and finally, Judy hates foxes because of the incident that happened with Gideon.
you might hate Judy after this chapter
chapter 1
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Sleeping under the soft, comfortable sheets of her bed, Judy Hopps snored away like the sleeping beauty. That was for certain, until a recognizable voice kept shouting from a familiar distance. Judy struggled to keep her eyes shut, her paw grasped firmly to the soft pillow.
"Jude, hurry up!" Stu Hopps shouted from the kitchen after doing so several times.
Finally, the bunny's eyes shot wide open. She slowly sat up, before taking a good hard look around her current accommodation. The room's walls were painted gray, with a poster here and there. There were a few light sources, but the only effective one at the time was the sun shining through her windows. There was a good amount of furniture in the room; her bed, a TV, a desk, a wardrobe, and a little more than that.
For Judy, the days on the calendar have passed by fast. With the summer gone meant that her freshman year of high school had to begin. She missed life back in the huge countryside area of bunny burrow, all her friends now meant nothing to her anymore. The city she currently lives in now she doesn't feel safe in. She now lives in the ghetto known as Zootopia.
"You don't want to be late for your first day of school!" Stu shouted, this time in a melodic tune warning Judy he was getting annoyed fast.
Judy immediately snapped out of her stupor, focusing back to reality. The bunny placed her paws on the covers of her bed before throwing them forward.
She rushed from out of her room dressed in a red flannel shirt and dark denim jeans. She stuffed her notebooks and writing utensils in her backpack, before dashing into the kitchen. The bunny paused her footsteps, the smell of burning coffee took her nose in surprise. Judy peered her vision over across the room, to where her mother stood boiling some black, dark roasted coffee in a Keurig machine.
Bonnie, Judy's mother, poured the steaming hot drink into a small mug, before turning around and glancing at Judy.
"oh, you're awake!" Bonnie gasped as she placed her mug of coffee down on the kitchen counter, before glancing at Stu across the room sitting at the dining table. Stu had his feet propped up on the table, with a plate of steaming, hot bacon and waffles next to him.
"do I have to go?" Judy groaned
Stu lowered his newspaper in the grip of his paws, and raised an eyebrow at Judy. "Yes you do!" he said.
Bonnie glared at Stu like he was stupid, and then back to Judy with caring love.
"would you like us to go to the bus with you?" Bonnie asked her teenage daughter
"No, I'm fine." Judy rolled her eyes.
The bunny grasped onto a cup of milk, before gulping the entire liquid down her system.
"Alright Jude dude, have a good day!" Stu smiled, as he waved a paw to Judy.
The bunny lowered her ears, before turning around and heading towards the door. She turned her head back to glance at her parents one more time, before swinging the door wide open.
"love you," Judy softly spoke before shutting the door behind her.
Judy sat on the hard, wooden front porch steps of her home and took a good hard look at the streets that lay in front of her. Trash and filth scattered the sidewalks, houses' lawns consisted of dead patches of grass, and the same car from last week's street fight sat there with a broken windshield. Then finally, a big yellow vehicle was seen making its way towards Judy, before stopping completely in front of her. A few words were printed in bold black on the side of the bus, reading "Philadelphia city schools".
The bus doors cracked wide open, revealing… the first human the bunny saw since she made her way through inner Philadelphia. The plump, overweight human man turned and looked at Judy.
"New kid?" the man asked, not caring one bit.
Judy nodded her head before climbing aboard the vehicle. She investigated for an empty seat, and finally she found one close to the back. The bunny knew she was receiving looks from other mammals and… humans, which made sense. She was the new kid.
"Howdy farm girl!" a lion said, using an overly drawn out southern accent.
Judy just shook her head as she sat down in the desired seat. She plugged her earphones into her iphone, putting them into her ears to drown the sound of all the teenage humans and mammals in the background.
…
Finally after what felt like forever, the bus finally made a halt. Judy took a good look at her surroundings; there stood a solid building of concrete and glass with huge corridors leading to other buildings. Some of the buildings were painted in a dark, red color. Then the door swung wide open, everyone rushed to departure off the bus. The bunny stepped down off the bus after everyone else did, and glanced at the LARGE building in front of her. She entered through the doors, to encounter first hand the beautiful look of the entry room. A huge mural painted the wall with bright and vibrant colors, a large print on the floor showed the school mascot, and a glass display ahead encased memorials of past events. Judy was in awe of the decoration, though she had no time to waste.
"Where is it at…" the bunny reached into her pants pocket, and finally pulled out a slip of paper.
The paper held a list of classes, with time schedules for them. Of course, it was her schedule. Judy read it carefully while pacing down the hall, until she heard a voice shouting from the wall next to her. She slowly lifted her head from the paper, and turned her head towards a door that read "principle".
"If i catch you doing that again Wilde, it's gonna be a long four years for you… in detention!" the one certain voice, who appeared to be the principal, swung the door wide open before pushing out… a fox?
"Oh, you'll get the privilege of seeing me all year!" the fox snarled. His eyes deepened, highly annoyed he was.
Judy never saw a male fox wearing pink eyeliner, or with a pink streak of hair on the top of his head. Judy only had one thought in mind when she saw the fox with breast, was it a girl? By the sound of its voice it was male, but Judy was totally confused. Beside all of that, Judy grew sick to the stomach to know there were foxes in this school, she never had a good past with foxes. Every encounter she had with a fox in her childhood was terrible.
The fox huffed in a huge breath of air before the door slammed shut behind him, his ears raised when he heard footsteps. The bunny tried to pass by the fox as quietly as possible, before the fox caught eye contact with her. The fox waved paw, slowly a sly smile grew upon his face as he paced away. Judy stopped dead, she almost wanted to vomit from that smile. Her ears lowered as she faced down back at her schedule.
Her first class of the day, history. Not her biggest strength, but she's good at it.
She finally found the room of desire after pacing the hallway a few rooms down. She found an empty seat right up at the front, just perfect. The bunny sat down in her targeted seat, placing her backpack to the side. She grabbed a notebook and a pencil, softly placing the desired items on the desk. Judy almost threw a panic attack when she saw the same fox from earlier enter the room, her heart was rapidly beating against the flesh of her chest. It made her want to scream when he sat down next to her. He wore a pale blue ski cap, a dark gray sleeveless sports shirt cut to his waist, skinny but tight black jeans, and… a golden choker strapped around his neck. His emerald eyes focused on the screen of his phone, and his red fur bristled in the sunlight peeking through the windows.
Judy tried to ignore the fox as much as possible, until she felt something tapping on her shoulder. The bunny almost jumped right out of her seat when she realized it was the fox tapping on her shoulder.
"So, you're the new girl?" the fox said with a relaxed, laid back smile. He propped his feet up on his desk. "Straight from the country by your clothing I can tell," the fox added.
Judy's mind rushed with all sorts of negative thoughts. She stopped dead before turning and glaring at the fox with the eyes of death.
"Where I'm from is none of your concern," Judy snapped towards the fox.
"Oh, salty one, Eh?" the fox leaned a little closer to the bunny, his eyes narrowed as his tail swayed playfully, his sly grin deepened.
Judy shut her notebook softly, placing a paw on top of the cover before taking a huge breath of air and giving the fox a warning glare.
"Who are you anyways? The school troublemaker? Has to be from a first name basis with the school principal." Judy snarled at the fox.
The fox's eyes widened, before relaxing into a more sly look. He propped his feet back up on the smooth, hard surface of the desk. "Oh caught that one did you?" the fox said as he fixed the collar around the tufts of red fur around his neck.
"I don't make trouble, trouble makes me." the fox said
"Whatever," Judy rolled her eyes.
They were the only two mammals in the room at the moment, with the rest being humans. That's when the five minute bell rang, and more students entered the room.
The bell rang shortly, and the teacher entered through the door, his appearance looked more of that of a forty year old human dad, his hair was very curly, and some European descent as he was in his early forties.
"Alright class, how are we doing today? Did we recover from being hungover during summer break?" The teacher paused for a moment, the whole class glared at him as he stood in front of the chalkboard.
"OK, well…" the teacher was interrupted by the handsome but beautiful red fox.
"Did you recover?" The fox said, before gripping a freshly folded paper airplane and flinging it with such force, that it glided through the air and hit the teacher on the chest.
"Very funny, Mr. Wilde!" the fine gentleman deepened his eye stance, a stern look struck his face as he glared at Nick Wilde, the fox.
Nick slowly turned his head over in the opposite direction, before…
"So, I suppose you didn't finish that extra work from middle school Wilde?" the teacher asked Nick before crumpling the unfolded paper airplane into a ball, tossing it into a trash bin. This was apparently a teacher who knew the fox since middle school, according to Judy's thoughts.
The fox snapped his finger and said "Actually I did not, I had work."
A few students gasped, some just rolled their eyes. Judy just sighed and continued to write stuff down in her notebook, paying no attention at all.
"A fox, like you, has a job?" a wolf from the back of the room said.
"How could an animal like you have a job?" A human said from the back of the room.
"That's impossible?" A lion cracked up in laughter.
"My standards are not the reason you are surprised, i am sure" Nick winked at the back of the room.
"Wow, he sure knows something other than his name…" a moose snorted from the side of the room.
"Im full of surprises, i assure you" Nick said as he fixed the tight choker around his neck.
"Do you ever shut up?" Judy voiced from next to Nick.
"The only way you can shut him up is with a muzzle strapped around his snout!" the same wolf said from the back of the room.
"Well, why don't you put one on him. That'll be two things I won't have to worry about!"
The whole room fell silent. A pen dropping to the floor was heard. Nick tested his theory by dropping his pen to the ground intentionally.
"Okay farm girl, you did it. You made the class silent as ever. Why don't you put a muzzle on YOURSELF! See how you would like that?" a human shouted from one side of the room.
"Okay class, settle down." the teacher paused before looking at Judy. "Hopps, since it is your first day here, I suggest holding your tongue."
"NOT UNLESS HE HOLDS HIS!" The bunny waved a paw in Nick's direction.
Nick being the smartass fox Judy already labeled him as, stuck his tongue out and held it.
"Othay, i thid it, your thurn!" Nick slurred.
"Why doesn't everyone just shut the hell up and allow the teacher to speak?" A human who looked to be in his sophomore year said, his long, black curly hair covering his face as he focused on drawing something in his notebook. He wore a black graphic tee layered on top of a long sleeve white tee, and long loose cargo pants.
The whole room fell silent again before momentarily everyone straightened their act and maintained their focus on the teacher.
"Alright, thank you Fernando," the teacher paused before glaring at Nick with the eyes of the devil, then to the class with a normal glare. "Anyways, allow me to introduce myself, i am Mr. Goldberg, and i will be your history teacher" he announced loud and clear before pulling down a smartboard in front of the chalkboard, and slowly strolling back to his desk to operate the thing from his computer.
"Now I am pretty sure all of you took social studies before, right?" Mr. Goldberg said before the smartboard finally finished booting up. For the next half hour, Mr.Goldberg would carry on and on about the history course, the expected expectations for passing the class, and what the first topics would be for the year. While the smartass Nick Wilde would create as many distractions as possible, Judy paid as much attention to the teacher as she could.
…
RIIIIINGGGGGGG!
"Alright, that's all the time we have for the day, remember tomorrow you'll need a notebook and a pencil or pen. We will be starting with the paleolithic stone era, remember that!" Mr.Goldberg announced over the voices of the students exiting the classroom.
While the bunny paced through the halls to get to her next class, kids were seen standing around talking to each other, pushing each other around, and chasing one another through the halls as a few adults stood and monitored the walkways.
It was off to the next class the bunny had, Gym. Luckily for her, the smartass fox was not in there. The gym coach was a polar bear with a mean, grumpy attitude. "Okay slackers," she roared at the line of students across the green, lush turf. The entire crowd of teenagers jumped with fear, except Judy.
"We're running a mile today! No ifs, no ands, and no buts! Get out there!" The bear blew her whistle and every student began the long trek around the track field. If running was the midst of Judy's worries, she was fine with that. The bunny was pretty good at keeping herself fit, running three miles everyday back in bunnyburrow. Ms.White, the polar bear was surprised when the new girl finished the entire mile in six minutes.
"Good job Judith, you finished first! Must've been pretty good at your other school." Ms.Whites' attitude seemed to uplift positively.
"Yeah, I was on the track team." Judy shrugged.
"Well, maybe we can get you to join the team here." the bear suggested.
"I'll think about it," Judy shrugged once again.
…
And the next class of the bunny's was science. Judy was angry to learn that Nick was in there.
It pissed her off more when there was a seating chart and she had to be seated next to Nick. oh why out of any seat in the entire class, it had to be next to the smartass fox?
"Nick Wilde, wake up now!" Ms.Wolfmill, a wolf geology teacher, shouted at Nick for sleeping at his desk during the middle of a long boring speech.
Nick shot his head straight upward, before taking a few glances around the room, then at the wolf.
"Pardon me for interrupting your lesson, you may continue…" the fox leaned back in his seat, paying partial attention to the teacher. He stroked his paw against his pink hair on the top of his head, fixing it back to perfection.
"Ok, we left off on the final exams, now final exams are very important…"
…
And her last class of the day, english. The room had some furniture in the back, like a couch and two recliners.There were normal desks in there, so that didn't mean anything different. Nick wasn't there, so she was fine again. However, there was another bunny in there, so she thought she would be able to make a friend on the first day of school. Judy sat down at the table next to her.
"Hello, hy name is Judy." she said excitedly.
"And why should I care?"
Judy's ears flopped down a bit, her smile faded a little. "I just thought i would introduce myself,"
"Well you did so. Now skedaddle, there's plenty of other open seats." the other rabbit snarled at Judy.
So well for making a friend on the first day of school.
Judy sat down on the couch in the back of the room.
"Hey" a familiar voice called Judy from right beside her.
Judy looked to her side to see Fernando, the sophomore level human student from her first class of the day.
"You're in my first period history class!" Fernando said, his hand stroked his long, black curly hair. His brown eyes glared into Judy's; Judy was very well surprised to see someone his age with a little bit of facial hair already.
"Yeah, so?" Judy said.
"Well, i want you to know that what you said to Nick was completely fucked up! Especially for us white humans." Fernando said, changing the tone of his voice.
"I only spoke my mind. It isn't illegal, is it?" Judy spoke before the human would give her a look of judgment
"The name's Fernando." the human introduced himself
"Judy" the bunny spoke
Fernando minded his business for a split moment, writing down notes from the task up on the smartboard. It was silent between the two.
"So I'm assuming you have something against foxes?" Fernando broke the quiet that stood between him and Judy.
"What?" Judy turned and glared at Fernando confusedly
"Well, you spoke to her over there, and you're speaking to me. But you won't give Nick the time of day?" Fernando continued to stare at his notebook
"Eh, judge all you want. I did not have a good past with foxes." Judy shrugged
"So you have something against his kind? I feel like you label them all the same." Fernando slightly glared at Judy from the view of his notebook
"Better safe than sorry!" Judy said.
i hope you liked it, shall i continue? i swear, i will stick with this story with all my heart. i promise...
so, just to go over the list of characters so far:
Nick
Judy
Mr.Goldberg - history teacher
Ms.Wolfmill - geology teacher
Fernando the human
Ms.White - the gym coach
and more to come soon.
ideas and feedback would most greatly be appreciated. i will see you next time...