A/N: hello everyone. Brutus here. I know I don't typically write sci-fi but the set up for this story was all there. It was just waiting for someone to come along and write it to completion. So that's what I'm going to try. I'll finish this by sending you lot to the first Lover from another Planet by twilightfox02. If you don't want to read it I guess I could recap it, but it's not going to be the same as reading it for yourself.
Disclaimer: You know that annoying guy who always quotes Star Wars? Of course I know him. He's me. I don't own Zootopia. Disney does. Dang it!.
Recap: Nick Wilde is a bag boy at a supermarket. It sucks. He can't pay his bills because it pays shit. Finnick is his boss and some of his co-workers are Kevin and Raymond. One night as he stargazes he sees a red star he's never seen before. Next day it's still there, weird. Duke Weaselton is, surprise, a crook and gets arrested for a jewelry store robbery. Judy Hopps and most of the bunnies in existence live on Mars and have lived there for a long time. Decades in fact. Earth was severely overpopulated by bunnies so they sent most to Mars. Afraid of another overpopulation problem the government on Mars decides to send all does of around Judy's age to Jupiter. Death sentence much? Judy makes a voice modulator so she can sound male long enough to find a way to escape this fate. Oh I forgot to mention that she's a cop on Mars. Shrug. Jack Savage is her Chief of Police. He figures out Judy is posing as a male and chases her but she steals a police cruiser and flies away from Mars crashing in Nick's yard and putting a hole in his guestroom. After nearly getting a laser to the face Nick figures out that Judy is a female bunny and befriends her. He takes her to work with him and gets her an application for work. He also is letting her stay with him. I think I got everything.
On to the story Brutus out.
Lover From Another Planet part 2
Chapter 1 Generator
Judy awoke before dawn had even touched the sky. She'd always gotten up before the sun especially when she had work to do. Still in the same clothes from yesterday she hopped out of Nick's bed and crept to the door, her sensitive ears listening to see if Nick's awake. She didn't want to disturb him if she didn't have to. The heavy breathing of the kind sarcastic fox told her he was still out cold. Cracking the door open slowly she slipped quietly past the couch and out the front door.
Nick's alarm went off and he reached blindly for his nightstand to shut it off. Not feeling it he reached farther and farther before tumbling right off the couch. Confused, Nick sat up on the floor and briefly wondered why he was sleeping on his pullout couch. The events of the previous days all flooded back to him. The red star, the crash, and the bunny. He got up and finally shut off his alarm before realizing that today was his day off.
Groaning at the routine that caused him to miss sleeping in, Nick went to go check on Judy. The open door and empty bed told him that she'd slept even less than he did. After a quick search of the dark house he came to the conclusion that she must have gone outside, but what he couldn't figure was why? After a few minutes of cleaning up the bedding and folding the couch back into itself, Nick went into the kitchen to fix them both some breakfast. The smell of the milk convinced him that was a bad idea.
"Stupid power company," he grumbled, "turning off my fridge and making all my food go bad."
"Well that just won't do." Judy said as she came in the front door hearing him complain.
Nick grinned when he saw her and held up his milk carton. "In the mood for cereal and chunky milk?"
"No," she said making a face, "but there's some MREs in the cruiser we could try. They taste like cardboard but you can live off it without getting sick."
"Sounds better than my plan, Carrots." He replied. "Let's go clean out your space ship."
The two friends left the house and made their way over to her cruiser. She had already been at work on it. The mail engine panel was removed revealing the vehicle's main generator. Nick hadn't seen anything so advanced up close before. Judy went inside the cruiser while Nick tried to comprehend what he was looking at.
"Hey, Carrots?" He called, "what were you up to with this thing?"
"Huh?" Judy asked coming back with her little arms full of silver packets, "oh, right. I was taking out the generator so we can hook it up to your house. I mean it's not like we are going to outer space anytime soon and once the solar panels charge it we will not have to pay your electric bill anymore. They may even have to pay you."
"Us, Carrots,"he corrected her smirking happily, "they will have to pay us. This is genius!"
The red fox gathered her in a hug that lifted her off her feet causing her to scatter the silver colored packets everywhere. Their laughter mixed together as he spun her around. They stopped and looked into each other's eyes. Mirth and glee gave way to embarrassed smiles. Nick set her back on her feet carefully but couldn't look away from her gemstone bright amethyst colored eyes. Judy gazed right back at his emerald colored eyes till both were suddenly blinded by the dawn.
"Um, sorry I made you drop all the food," Nick said awkwardly all the while thinking, she has beautiful eyes.
"Oh, that's okay, Nick." Judy said while thinking the same about his eyes, "the packages will keep them clean."
He helped her pick up all the silver packages of food and lug them to his cabin. They picked out two labeled as breakfast and opened them revealing granola bars. Supposedly. The wretched things tasted almost exactly like Judy described, cardboard. Thankfully the juice in Nick's fridge had not yet gone bad so they washed down the taste quickly.
"Well," Nick said cleaning out his fridge of all the fish and other foods that had not survived the power being shut off, "those food bars are just as disgusting as you said they'd be, but they still are not as bad as what's in here. Phew that smells!"
Judy laughed as Nick, holding his nose with one paw, threw stinking packages of fish into his trash can. He then tied the bag tightly and took it outside.
"What is that foul smelling stuff anyway?" The former space dwelling bunny asked him.
"Fish that's gone bad." Answered Nick, "predators like me have to eat some kind of meat and it wouldn't be right to eat somebody who can say 'don't eat me'. So we eat fish or birds or well bugs."
"I've never seen a predator eat meat." Judy said, "what is it like?"
"Well maybe you can try it next time I go fishing." Nick replied.
Judy only shrugged and picked up the flashlight from the coffee table where he had left it the night before.
"Let's go get that generator and the solar panels off the cruiser and hooked up to the house." Judy told him taking his paw in hers.
Nick couldn't help but grin at the situation he found himself in. A very pretty girl was living with him and she seemed to like him. What were the chances that she would crash on his house of all places? He laughed aloud at the answer that hit him which caused her to stop and look up at him.
"What's so funny?" She asked curiously.
"Astronomical,"he said which made her raise a brow in confusion, "the chances that you would hit my house of all places areā¦"
"Astronomical," she finished and they both began laughing again.
They practically skipped paw in paw to the crashed ship. Judy dragged out the tools from the small compartment in the cockpit so that they could get to work while Nick used the wrench she already had out on the bolts attaching the generator to the ship. Soon Judy was helping haul the heavy contraption back to the house. Before long the two mammals were admiring their hard work as his lights began to flicker weakly. After retrieving the two solar panels from the ship and connecting them to the generator the lights were all on enough to see in the dark by.
"We should probably shut everything off until tonight to save power," Nick told her tiredly.
"Yeah," Judy agreed before asking, "Can you help me fill this application out?"
Nick nods and they sit at the table so they can work on filling it out. It doesn't take long before they notice that this isn't going to work. Judy has no identification that means anything on Earth. No social security number. No drivers license. Hers only exist on Mars.
"I think I need to call Finnick." Nick said. "He might be able to give us a break here. Maybe I can tell him you got hit on the head and robbed."
The sound of his voice told Judy even he didn't expect something like that to work. Nevertheless he placed a call to Finnick. At first Nick was talking nervously then laughed before finally thanking his boss and hanging up.
"He's going to pay you under the table but we are going to have to find you some kind of ID before he gets caught." Nick hesitated before continuing, "and if he asks, you're my girlfriend."
Judy stared at him in disbelief for a moment before he cracked up laughing. Judy realizing that he's just messing with her started to laugh as well. Nick then caught his breath.
"Okay seriously though," the todd said between giggles, "the story is that I found you wandering lost in the woods dressed in rags. You have been homeless since you were a kit and I took you in because I need a roommate to split the cost of living. It covers everything that way. Why you have no ID and no family and since we are telling mammals that you haven't seen your parents in years you only know your first name. Sob story like this, they'll eat it up. So Finnick says you'll work on the same schedule as I do and he'll pay you cash until we can get the paperwork filed with the city."
"How much of all that was his idea?" Judy asked straight faced.
Nick tried to look shocked that she would think it wasn't all his. Judy just pointed at her ears and Nick realized he'd been overheard. She knew that he'd had to tell Finnick part of the truth.
"I didn't tell him I know where you're from," stated Nick firmly, "just that your former employer tried to hurt you and you are hiding from him. He came up with most of the story. I just added details."
"Thank you Nick," she said quietly, "I don't know what I would have done without you."
Nick gave a sly smirk before answering, "probably starve or freeze on the street somewhere."
With a roll of her eyes Judy just smacked him in the arm to which he replied "Ow."