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"Two-oh-one." After placing a ticket on her own meter maid cart, the sound of a loud horn blaring caught Judy's attention. Turning the see what was causing all the commotion, she sees a fox barely miss getting ran over by a ram in a moving van.

"Watch it fox!" the wooly mammal yes at the vulpine. The fox simply makes a gesture and looks back angrily.

Judy continued to watch as the fox slinked his way to the door of an ice cream shop. Glancing around as if he was making sure no one was watching what he was doing before following a much larger mammal through the doors.

Every instinct she had said something was wrong. Crossing the street, Judy made her way into the ice cream shop. Stepping inside, it only takes a second for her bunny ears to pick up on the conversation coming from the counter.

"Listen, I don't know what you're doing skulking around during day light hours," the elephants deep voice threatens, "but I don't want any trouble in here. So hit the road!"

Hearing the fox was causing trouble, Judy reached down and unclipped the latch holding her can of Fox-Away. Taking a cautious step towards the counter to intervene.

"I'm not looking for any trouble either sir, I simply want to buy a jumbo pop. For my little boy." The fox then reaches out of Judy's view and pulls forward a red fox kit with identical markings to his own. "You want the red or the blue pal?"

Judy watches and the little fox walks up to the display window and looks excitedly at the giant popsicles before looking back at the older fox and pointing at the red one. The smile on his little face falters slightly when he sees Judy.

They're eyes meet for a moment. Her amethyst meetings his sapphire. Her heart sinks as she sees the joy in his eyes sink away. She immediately puts the latch on her pepper spay back in place and turns to leave, not seeing the older fox turn to look at what caused his son's distress. Whispering to herself, "Oh, I'm such a…" pausing when she heard what was said next.

"Oh come on kid back up. Listen buddy, what, there aren't any fox sized cream joints in your part of town?"

"Uh, no no, there are, there are. It's just my boy, this goofy little stinker," he said while rubbing the little fox's head between the ears, "it's his birthday and he wants to share popsicles with his friends." Judy coos ad the adorableness of the little fox wanting to share with his friends. Making her place her paws over her heart.

"And well it's cheaper to buy a jumbo pop and split it between the bunch of them. I save a little cash and you make a little cash. So, what do you say?"

"Look, you probably can't read fox, but the sign says," the elephant starts to raise his voice, "We reserve the right to refuse service, to anyone! Now beat it!"

"You're holding up the line." A female elephant behind the fox says while stepping forward and pushing the adult fox. Causing the little fox to lean in close to his father and whimper under the glare of the rude mammal.

Judy decided enough was enough, she stepped forward and called to the elephant behind the counter. "Hello! Excuse me?"

"Hey, you're gonna have to wait your turn like everyone else, meter maid."

She couldn't help but notice the way pronounced the last words. Standing as tall as she could she pulled her orange vest to the side and showed him her badge. "Actually, I'm an officer. Just had one question." She then raised her voice so that every mammal in the store could hear her. "Are your customers aware they're getting snot and mucus with their cookies and cream?"

She saw an elephant on the other side of the room blow ice cream through its trunk and into his date's face. Looking back at the elephant behind the counter, Judy listened to his obvious question.

"What are you talking about?"

She took a casual step forward, holding her paws together, looking as innocent as possible. "Well I don't want to cause you any trouble but, I believe scooping ice cream with and ungloved trunk is a class 3 health code violation." She paused a second as he looked at the other elephant behind him scooping ice cream.

Once he turned back to face her, she continued, "Which is kind of a big deal." She said while making an exaggerated expression. "Of course, I could let you off with a warning if you were to glove those trunks and I don't know," she gestured toward the foxes, gently touching the dad's elbow to turn him back towards the counter, "finish selling this nice dad and his son a…" she looked to him for help, "what was it?" she whispered.

"A jumbo pop, please." He said kindly.

"A jumbo pop." She tacked on.

"Please?" the little fox spoke for the first time. Judy couldn't help but look over and smile at him. But when he looked at her, his smile fell once again and he hid behind his dad's legs. "Maybe he's just shy?" Judy thought to herself. Making sure to keep her smile bright and friendly as possible.

Sighing, the elephant begrudgingly agreed. "Fifteen dollars." He said gruffly.

The fox pulled out a twenty dollar bill and laid it on the counter. "Keep the change."

As they walked out together, Judy couldn't help but notice how the little fox tried to stay hidden behind his dad. She also couldn't help but admire how the fox seemed to effortlessly tote the jumbo pop, which was nearly three times his size and had to be double his weight.

"Officer, I can't thank you enough, so kind, really. Can I pay you back somehow? Lunch or something?"

"Oh, no I couldn't. It's just, you know it burns me up to see others with such backwards attitudes towards foxes. I just want to say you're a great dad and just a…a real articulate fella."

"Ah well that is high praise." He said back while placing one paw over his chest. "It's rare that I find someone so non-patronizing. Officer?"

"Hopps." She introduced herself raising her hat off her head in greeting. "Mister?"

"Wilde, Nick Wilde." He replied and offered her his paw. Which she gladly shook before stepping towards the little fox glued to his leg.

"Hey little guy. Happy birthday! Here I got something for ya." She reached into one of her pouches and produced a roll of Junior Detective stickers. Peeling one off, she held it out to him. Looking up at his dad, like he was silently asking permission, he waited for his dad to nod that it was ok.

He reached out and took the sticker before placing it on his chest. For the first time he looked back at Judy and gave a small smile. It warmed her heart to see the little fox be happy.

"Well I'm afraid we must be off before this thing melts all over me." Nick said. "It was a pleasure Officer Hopps."

"Likewise." She replied. She watched them walk away for a moment before turning to go about her duties for the rest of the day.

Later that afternoon, she was still giving out tickets when she noticed a familiar fox kit across the street. Walking over, she called out to him. "Hey little…guy." Stopping where she was when she saw another short tan fox walk out from behind the van he was standing next to. The tan fox was barely bigger than he was.

She watched as the tan fox was gathering up glass jars full of red liquid that was coming out of drain pipe. She followed the pipe up and there was the dad from the ice cream shop. "I thought that was for his birthday?" She said internally.

Curious to what was going on, she decided that she would follow them and see what they were up to. After watching them refreeze the popsicle into smaller ones. They then went into a recreation building in Savanna Central. They stayed there for nearly an hour before leaving.

After that, she followed them to another part of Savanna Central where she saw them selling them to lemmings from a bank, she watched as they carried the used popsicle sticks to Little Rodentia. Where they then sold them as lumber calling them "red wood".

The more she saw the more the anger continued to grow. Finally she watched as the adult red fox counted out the money to the smaller tan one. Once it was split between the two of them, the tan fox getting the majority, the red fox turned to the little one next to him.

"Alright buddy, time to go with uncle Fin." He said while kneeling down to be at eye level with him.

"But I don't want to." The sadness in his voice had Judy frowning for him. He still had his Jr Detective sticker on.

"I know but you know what happens if you don't." Nick said back. The little tod only nodded in response before climbing into the van with the tan fox. "Thanks Fin, this means a lot to me."

"Don't go getting soft on me Wilde." The surprising deep voice had Judy freezing in place for a moment as she approached the van. "Or I'll bite your face off! Ciao." With that he cranked the van and speed off down the street and out of view. Nick watched the whole time until they turned down anther street and out of sight.

"You lied to me." Nick turned and was surprised to see the bunny cop from the ice cream shop. "You liar!"

This first chapter follows the movie fairly closely. I know it's not very long but that's how far I got before falling asleep. I don't know when I'll have time to write more so I'd like to ask what would you like to see? Let me know in the comments. I have an idea of where I want it to go but not a plan on how to get it there. This will be a side project until I can finish a couple of my other stories so updates will be rare for a while.