This was an idea that popped into my head while I was planning my father's funeral. Since one person figured out where the quotes were from, but they did not want a new chapter for Mirrored Erised, I decided to post this instead. Happy Halloween! I hope you enjoy. TELL me if you like it or not. I would really appreciate. Feel free to point out typos, errors, etc... .
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Zootopia. I really wish I did.
Battery
INT. NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM - Night
Judy
Nick and I race through the empty museum. The ZPD entrance is just ahead. "Oh! There it is!" They're going to make it.
"Judy! Judy!" I hear Bellwether call out.
We stop and turn. There's Bellwether, standing behind us with two ram cops "Mayor Bellwether! (out of breath, rapidly) We found out what's happening. Someone's darting predators with a serum- that's what's making them go savage.
Mayor Bellwether, applauding, "I am so proud of you, Judy. You did just a super job." "Thank you, ma'am." I say proudly. I felt a shiver of dread creep up my spine as I realized that her being here made no sense. "How did you know where to find us?"
"I'll go ahead and I'll take that case now." She said as she reached for the case that I was carrying. I took a step back. "You know what... I think Nick and I will just take this to the ZPD…" I turn toward the ZPD, but one of Bellwether's rams is blocking the way. Nick just now gets what's going on. We look at each other for a second as we both shout, "run." We both take off running l. Since there was a ram between us and the ZPD, we were forced to run away from the ZPD and down a dark corridor.
"Get them!" I hear Bellwether cry out behind us. I looks over my shoulder as I run, trying to see how many rams were chasing us. A sharp lance of pain running threw my right leg causing me to cry out in shock. I hit the floor, releasing the case in favor of grabbing my injured leg trying to stem the flow of blood emanating from it, as I slid a few feet on the floor.
"Ah Carrots!" Nick dashed back over to me. He glances at my heavily bleeding leg, "I got ya, come here, come here." He picks me up. I snatched the case from the ground. He carries me behind a pillar. "Okay, now just relax." He digs a handkerchief from his pocket. A few blueberries fall out with it. "Whoops... Blueberry?"
"Pass." I managed to say through gritted teeth. I let out a moan in pain as he wrapped my leg with the handkerchief.
"Come on out, Judy!" I hear Bellwether call out as she entered the room.
I held out the case to Nick "Take the case. Get it to Bogo."
"I'm not gonna leave you behind. That's not happening."
"I can't walk."
"Just, we'll think of something."
"We're on the same team, Judy!" Bellwether calls out. She talks as she and two of the rams look for me and Nick. "Underestimated. Under-appreciated. Aren't you sick of it? Predators. They may be strong and loud, but prey outnumber predators 10 to one." Bellwether sees a shadow with rabbit ears. She gestures to the rams. "There they are." She calls out once again, "think of it- 90 percent of the population, united against a common enemy. We'll be unstoppable. The rams are about to pounce on Hopps and Nick... only to find the shadow is coming from a mummified jackalope being illuminated by a shop light.
"Over there!"
We make a run for it. But just as I thought that we were home free and going to make it to the ZPD. When suddenly... BAM! Pain blossoms on my right side. The case flies from Nick's paws. My paws leave the ground. I feel myself go flying through the air to land in the sunken diorama. Bellwether, with case in hand, looks over the edge.
"Well, you should have stayed on the carrot farm, huh? It really is too bad; I really did like you."
"What are you going to do? Kill me?"
"No! Of course not... he is."
She takes the dart gun out of the case, aims at Nick and... THWICK! She darts him.
"No! Nick?!"
Nick starts to shake and crouch
~-{Here is where the events of the movie start to be altered. Below is what I think would have happened if one things was different; if Bellwether's phone was dead}-~
Bellwether pulls out her phone and hits the power button. "Hmm, what a pity that my phone is dead. Here I was hoping the police would arrive just in time to see the fox tearing apart your body while you were still alive. Maybe they will steal hear your screams."
I run over to Nick, "no. Nick, don't do this. Fight it."
"Oh, but he can't help it, can he? Since preds are just biologically predisposed to be savages."
Nick stalks me, as I try to limp away. He starts to close in so I grab the fake stuffed doe in my path and hurl it at Nick. Nick tears it apart as I manage to crawl away/
"Gosh, think of the headline: 'Hero Cop Killed By Savage Fox…' "
"So that's it, prey fears predator, and you stay in power?"
"Yeah, pretty much."
"It won't work."
"Fear always works. And I'll dart every predator in Zootopia to keep it that way."
Nick, finished with the other doe, is now stalking me once again. I try to crawl farther away but I cannot, since I had backed up to the wall of the diorama.
"Oh, Nick! … No!"
"Bye-Bye, Bunny."
Nick lunges. I tilt my head to give him easier access to my neck.. I let out a scream and fall limp. Bellwether smiles. After a pause "Blood, blood, blood! And death." I call out as I the acted out the 'spurting blood' just like I did when I was nine at the Carrot Days Festival. Bellwether looks confused. Nick stands up.
"All right, you're milking it. Besides, I think we got it, I think we got it. We got it up there, thank you yakkety-yak- you laid it all out beautifully."
"What?" Bellwether looks at her gun, in disbelief.
"Yeah, oh, are you looking for the serum?" He fishes it out of is shirt pocket and holds it up, "well, it's right here."
"What you've got in the weapon there- - those are blueberries. From my family's farm." I can see that Bellwether is livid, she opens the gun's sees a blueberry in the gun's chamber.
"They are delicious." he licks his fingers. "You should try some."
"I framed Lionheart, I can frame you too! It's my word against yours! Bellwether retorts smugly.
"Oooo, actually," I hold up my recorder carrot pen. "And I'll dart every predator in Zootopia to keep it that way…" "It's your word against yours. It's called a hustle, sweetheart. Boom." I was shocked when she just smiled at this.
"Judy, are you finished now?" she said with a sly grin that was even better than Nick's.
"Uh…"
"You see, Judy, I always have a spare shot of the serum with me." She said while she pulled out a small glass sphere that was filled with a blue liquid. She flicked the remaining blueberry out of the gun and placed the serum in the gun and closed the chamber. " Any last words Judy?"
I was too speechless to say anything.
"Oh well, even if you had said something I would be the only mammal alive knowing them and I wouldn't ever tell them to any mammal. Make it easier on yourself by not trying to run away."
Nick stood perfectly still as Bellwether took aim at him. THWICK! The trigger was pulled. Nick dove. The serum hit. It splattered. It stained red fur blue.
"No! Nick?!"
Nick starts to shake and crouch
"No. Nick, don't do this. Fight it."
"Oh, but he can't help it, can he? Since preds are just biologically predisposed to be savages."
Nick stalks me, as I try to limp away. He starts to close in. I find myself up against the wall, trapped and no where to go. Nick stalks closer. He leaps, muzzle lunging. Teeth hit my neck. Skin pierced. My blood rushes up and out the many puncture wounds in my neck from Nick's teeth. His jaw is clamped around my neck. My vision starts to go black.
Its me again. I realize that it could look like the story could end here, but there will be more chapters.