Chapter 8: Nick's Tragic Backstory
"Hopps Wilde, anything to report?" Bogo asked.
The ZPD were up on the sky tram, the bad guys
were in the car, covered in blankets to dry themselves from the rain but mr. Manchas was
gone.
"We thought this was just a missing mammal case, but it's way bigger. Our first lead was Mr. Otterton but he did not just disappear. I believe he, and this jaguar, they.... they went savage, sir.
"Savage? But Animals don't "go savage anymore"
"I thought so too" Judy says.
Then the chief sees the bad guys were being
questioning by a chief hippo.
"I sent you to find the missing mammals. Now I got another missing mammal, and you brought the Bad Guys into this mess. What were you thinking?"
Wolf then sees Nick was in trouble and after he
saved him, Wolf goes to help him.
"Well..." Nick shudders, " actually sir-"
"We we're just assisting them." Wolf interrupted.
Nick smiles when he sees his friend was helping
him.
"Mr. Wolf, what are you doing here?" Bogo asked.
"Well I could ask myself the same question" he
glanced at Nick and he smiles nervously.
"But you know us, we're helpers, we help people"
Then webs crawled on his shoulders, "and a Jaguar did went savage look"
She pulls out her phone and shows bogo the video
of manchas attacking wolf and Nick.
"Whoa, well I better go sent an amber alert to keep a watch out for a savage Jaguar" bogo says.
"That won't be necessary chief, we'll be continuing this case with officer hopps and Wilde and you know you should give them a break, they got close to solving a case you guys haven't cracked in two weeks?" Vibe said with so sass.
Chief Bogo looks slightly ashamed along with the
others.
"Yeah, Here's the thing, chief, they are just close
enough to finding your Mr. Otterton, and that is
exactly what we're gonna do. So, if you'll excuse us, we have a very big lead to follow, and a case to
crack, come on Nick." Wolf said.
After another gondola pulls up, but Nick walks to
the sky tram.
"Hey thanks man." Nick said.
"Yeah...well-Don't mentioned it" Wolf grunts.
He opens the door for his friends then Nick smirks.
"So since I saved you, those that make us even." He said.
"Don't even try Wilde, just be grateful that we
decided we're still helping with this is case." Wolf said. He enters the gondola, shuts the door and departs away from Nick.
Nick looks down even more guilty then before,
which made Judy had enough, she wanted to know the truth.
When another gondola arrived, they entered and it departs.
When another gondola arrived, they entered and it departs. Chief Bogo and the ZPD watch them and leave. Judy sees Nick sulking, what the bad guys had done for them,. She looks at Nick.
"Nick is there something you need to tell me, what's your connection with the bad guys, how do you know them. Is that why you been upset recently you knew they lived here did you?"
"Ok Judy you got me, you deserve to know the
truth" he sighed.
"Before I became a conman, I was one of the Bad
Guys." Nick said.
This shocks Judy as she gasped.
"But they weren't just a team, they were my friends, do you remember that story I told you about me joining the Junior Ranger Scouts?"
"Yeah." she says.
"Well after I ran, I meet wolf who was having the
same problem I was dealing with after I met the
rest of the crew. They helped me get back at those
bullies, we became a family, over time we pulled
heist together, we became the greatest team ever!" Nick smiles as he thinks of the good times he had with the Bad Guys.
A flashback plays to Nick and Wolf robbing banks
and smiling.
"So what happened why are they so mad at you?"
Judy asked which made Nick frowned.
"One day I left them." Nick said.
Another flashback shows wolf was turning around
looking for Nick as he had a new heist job but he
saw Nick grabbing his duffel bag frowning and
walks out the door, leaving Wolf frowning sadly.
"I don't think he ever forgive me." the flashback
ends to Nick in guilt.
"But everyday the pain hurts, I regret leaving them, I wish I could go back and tell them...how sorry I was."
"Nick" he then sees Judy comforting him, she
placed her paw on his, "I'm sure you guys could
make up if you guys just talked to each."
"But how?" he asked.
"Talk to them" Judy says, "Maybe if they could see how much you changed they are willing to give you a second chance."
Nick inhales, trying to change the subject, looking
out of the car.
"Boy, look at that traffic down there. How about we go up to Chuck in traffic central?"
He puts two fingers up to his ear, imitating a
reporter.
"Chuck, how're things looking on the jam-cams?"
"Nick, please be serious, I think you should-"
Then suddenly Nick gets any idea, "The jam-
cams..."
"Seriously, thought you need to settle your
differences-"
"No, no, no, shh! There are traffic cameras
everywhere, all over the canopy!" He Points
excitedly to one just above their heads hidden in
the fronds of a fake palm tree.
"Whatever happened to the jaguar..."
He then gets a phone call, "hello" he answers it, it
was Wolf.
"Nick, Webs says whatever happened to the Jaguar, the traffic cams would have caught him!"
"You slide dog."
"Yeah yeah whatever...look if webs can hack into
the system.then maybe we could find out what
happened to him." Wolf said.
"Good thinking guys." Judy says.
"We're going to city hall, we'll meet you there ok
Nick?" Wolf said.
"Rodger that."
"See" Judy nudges his arm, "See what a great team you guys make when you talk."
"I'm afraid it's not going to be that easy Judy." Nick said.
He then starts to have a flashback of when he first
meet the Bad Guys.
It all started with young Nick crying, he then heard footsteps. He looks up to see a young pup wolf smiling at him with concern.
"Hi." The young pup smiles at him.
Young Nick wipes his tears and waves, "hi" he
sniffles.
"Why are you sad?" Wolf asked.
"I wanted to be a Junior Ranger Scouts but was
told I was just an untrustworthy fox" he continues
crying again.
"What's wrong with foxes" he hears another voice.
Nick looks up to see a young snake, "If anything
they're the untrustworthy ones." he says picking up the muzzle.
"Putting a muzzle on a pup fox, judging them
before they could know you." Wolf said.
Then behind them, Nick sees a little Piranha,
tarantula and a pup shark, all petting young Nick
making him feel better.
Then Wolf gives Nick his paw, he takes it and help
him up.
"Come on, why don't we teach them a lesson?" Wolf says then the others make mischievous smiles, making Nick smile.
At the woodchuck headquarters where Nick was
chased out of, a zebra, a hippo, a goat, a
woodchuck, and an antelope, where still talking
about what they did to Nick.
"Haha, did you see the look on his face" a zebra
said.
"Yeah I think I saw him crying." a hippo added.
"Like we let a predator join us, everyone knows
predators are scary monsters." the woodchuck bully says.
Just then the lights went out, "huh" the boys were
shocked as they were confused.
While outside, Shark held Webs up to the switch
from the building.
"What happened?!" a zebra asked.
"Man, the power must be out again." the woodchuck leaves the room as he got irritated from everyone screaming.
"Calm down you big babies, I'll restart the generator."
But when he goes back, he sees everyone was
shaking and trembling.
"What's wrong now" then he noticed someone the
members missing, the zebra.
"Hey, where's Terry?"
"We-we heard a sound and someone or thing took
him" the goat says.
"Ok let's not panicked, I bet it's that fox again."
They then heard something scattering around
them.
"AAAAH!!!"
The others panicked while the leader grabs a bat.
"Ok Wilde is that you, come on out!"
He called while they gathered in a circle then
something pulled the goat down.
"AH"
Causing the hippo and antelope screaming,
"SOMETHING TOOK BILLY!!!"
The woodchuck looks back then gets angry.
"OK WILDE YOU THINK THIS IS FUNNY, wait till I get my paw on you then I'll show you what fear looks like, COME ON!"
"Ah" he heard the hippo and antelope and when he turns around, he both of them were gone. This starts to make him scared, he turns to act brave hoping the fox would come out of hiding.
"Ok Wilde this isn't funny anymore, come on out so I can muzzle you... come on, I'm not afraid of you!"
He suddenly heard munching sounds, he turns
around slowly, fingers trembling as he drops the
bat.
Then his eyes open wide when he sees a fox
chewing on a live snake.
The fox turns around to reveal it was:
"Nick" the woodchuck was now scared when he
sees Nick has changed, on his four feet and
frowning at him, his eyes now savage.
"Whoa, whoa, ok let's-let's take it easy" the
woodchuck trues to back away as the savage Nick
prowls at him.
"If you're mad after that muzzle, it was just a-a joke." He chuckles nervously.
Then Nick growled and chased him, "AH!"
The woodchuck tan then he bumps into one, he
looks up to see it was a savage wolf, who growled at him.
The woodchuck tried to get to the exit door but he
trip and fell, with the two predators ready to finish.
"No, no no please Nick I'm-im so sorry-please"he
then started to cry.
"Don't eat him."
The lights turns on and he heard clicking of a
camera and kids laughing.
He looks to see Nick and the bad guys come at him, Wolf and Nick had ketchup smeared on their snouts to make it look like it was blood, piranha took a picture and he saw the other woodchuck members tied and striped form their clothes, they were bared naked in their underwear.
The woodchuck had his life scared out of him then Wolf steps up to him.
"Now that's funny and if you ever hurt Nick again,
I'll show you what real fear looks like, YOU GOT IT, NOW SCRAM" he growled at the woodchuck.
He ran crying outside along with kids laughing at
him, as the bad guys had the other woodchucks
outside, tied up and naked with everyone laughing. The Bad Guys and Nick left from the scene laughing.
"Ya see kid." Wolf says, "Stick with us and no one
will bother you anymore."
"Ok" Nick chuckles then Snake gets in front of
them.
"Not so fast, if your going to be in our team, you
have to get rid of this."
He swaps the Junior woodchuck hat off Nick's head off with his tail, then he picks up a baseball cap.
"And put this one, and there now you look like a
bad guy." Snake said.
"Bad guy?" Nick asked.
"Yeah that's our name but we're called-" wolf says
as they get together and posed.
"THE TROUBLEMAKERS!" they all said.
"Come on Nick we're running away." Wolf said.
Wolf takes Nick's hand but paused when he sees
Nick not following.
"I can't go, I have a mom."
Then Snake goes up to him, "Come on kid you're an outlaw like us, you're in a crime scene, you're one of us now."
Young Nick would've rejected that offer but, when
wolf held his hand out..
"Come on Nick, this world doesn't care for predators like us, all they ever going to do is judge us but if we stick together we can do anything, what do say Nick, want to be in our family." Wolf said.
Nick was about to hesitate but he takes Wolf's hand.
"Alright let's go!" Nick said with confidence.
So the six of them ran into the unknown.
The flashback ends with Nick lost in his thoughts,
Wolf was calling him.
"Nick...Nick. hello earth to Nick." Wolf said.
"Huh, oh hey, what's up?" Nick said.
"We're here at city hall, let's go." Wolf said.
"Ok" Nick said.
In City Hall, they were inside when they see Mayor Lionheart.
"Ok let me do the talking." Nick says.
But as Nick goes to the mayor, Lionheart looks and smiles when he sees the Bad Guys and the JL heroes.
"My my if it isn't the bad guys and members of the JL." he past by a smiling Nick, Nick dumbfounded when he sees the mayor shaking hands with Wolf.
"Mr. Wolf for what can I do you for?" mayor
lionheart asked.
"Well, we were just wondering if we could get into
the traffic cam database?" Wolf asked.
"Yes yes sure anything for the Bad Guys, Bellwether look them up." Lionheart said.
While they're waiting, Nick touches the top of
Bellwether's wool. Then he starts to feel it.
"So fluffy!" Nick said.
"Nick" they all whispered at him.
"Sheep never let me get this close" Nick said.
"Either do I but you don't see me trying to touch
them!" Wolf says.
"You can't just touch a sheep's wool!" Shark says.
"It's like cotton candy!" Nick said.
"Nick Stop it!" Webs swats Nick's hand away, he
takes his hand and rubs it.
"Where to?" Bellwether asked.
"Uh, Rainforest District. Vine and Tujunga"
Judy glares at Nick, who just grins. Bellwether
shows camera icons for the map on the computer.
"There! Traffic cams for the whole city. Well, this is so exciting, actually. I mean, well, you know, I
never get to do anything this important." Bellwether said.
"But you're the assistant mayor of Zootopia." Judy said.
"Oh, I'm more of a glorified secretary." her ears
briefly droop.
"I think Mayor Lionheart just wanted the sheep
vote. But he did give me that nice mug!" Bellwether said.
She shows a coffee mug with the words "World's
Greatest Dad" on it, with Dad crossed out and over it has "Assistant Mayor".
"Oh. Well that's nice I guess." Webs says.
"Hmm. Feels good to be appreciated." Bellwether said.
"Smellwether!"
"Ah, that's a fun little name he likes to use. I called him Lionfart once, he did not care for that, let me tell you, it was not a good day for me." she answers it, "Yes, sir?"
"I thought you were going to cancel my afternoon!"
"Oh, dear, I'd better go. Let me know what you
find. It was really nice for me to be-
"While we're young, Smellwether!"
"Ooh!" she briefly struggles to open the door before rushing out of there.
"You think when she goes to sleep, she counts
herself?" Nick said.
"Oh, shush" looks through the cams, "Okay, traffic cams..... Tujunga, Tujunga." Judy said.
Then webs jumps judy out of the way, "Here
cottontail, let me"
Webs starts typing really fast which makes just
smiles.
"Oh-go ahead make my job easier." Judy said.
"We're in!" Webs said.
They see footage of Manchas chasing them into the log, then Manchas closing in on Wolf and, then Wolf and Nick swinging off the vine.
A van appears and two timber wolves get out.
"Whoa, who are these guys?" Webs asked.
"Ugh. Timber wolves. Look at these dum-dums"
which offended Wolf.
"Hey!" he sees Wolf glaring at him, paws on hips.
"Oh" he chuckles nervously, "Not you Wolf,
you're.......different."
Wolf rolls his eyes annoyingly and watch as The
timber wolves approach Manchas and one of them fires a net, trapping the jaguar. Judy gasps. The wolves carry the captive Manchas.
"Bet ya a nickel one of them's gonna howl" Nick as the wolves howl.
"And there it is. I mean, what is it with wolves and the howling? It's a.."
"Hey!" he gets another angry glare from Wolf.
"Oh sorry I didn't mean you." he holds his hands
out in defense and smiles nervously when Wolf
crosses his arms.
"Howlers! Night howlers! That's what Manchas was afraid of, wolves! The wolves are the Night howlers! If they took Manchas..."
"Then they took your Otter too!" Webs says.
"All we gotta do is find out where they went!" Cisco said.
"I'm already on it." Webs as she switches through
the footages of the van driving out of the Rainforest District to Tundratown but it doesn't enter through Tundratown.
"Wait, where'd they go?" Judy asked.
She then sees webs, uses the mouse and goes through another footage.
"Wait what? Where are you?" Judy asked.
"You know, if I wanted to avoid surveillance
because I was doing something illegal, I would use the maintenance tunnel 6B, which would put them out. right there" she said as the van drives out through the tunnel.
Judy was impressed, "Well look at you, junior
detective! You know, I think you guys actually
make a pretty good cops."
"Sorry not interested. Already a superhero. " webs says.
"That's my girl." Nick chuckles.
"Not your girl." Webs says as she follows the van
through more footage: Acacia Alley, Ficus Underpass, South Canyon.
"Mm-hmm, they're heading out of town. Where
does that road go?" Webs asked.
The scene transits to them heading to Cliffside
Asylum.
Curious, Nick wanted to know what happened to
the Bad Guys.
"Hey?" he touches Wolf's shoulders, he turns around to see Nick.
"I have to know.. what happened to you guys, when did you turn good?" Nick asked.
Wolf sighs in annoyance as he thought Nick wasn't going to stop asking.
"Ok alright fine, you got me, you deserve to know the truth since we won't be seeing each other again... ok so after you left. you know in Los Angeles they had that good Samaritan Awards?"
"Yeah?"
"Well one day I meet this adorable little baby
named Princess who made me feel like I could be
more then just a villain, I loved her like she was my own daughter."
"So Princess isn't your real daughter, is she?" Nick said.
"She's out adopted daughter and just like you, I
betrayed the team, Snake felt angry and when he
went to return Princess back for the money like
everyone else he started to see her like she was our own daughter, we had a big adventure with a mad millionaire and a army of mind controlling Guinea pigs, we decided to go good so we could live a life with princess, one year later after we got off on good behavior, we adopted Princess thanks to the Governor Diane Foxington, Frost, Mick Rory, and Flash who made me realize there are some things worth risking for." Wolf explained.
"Wow, you guys really have changed for the better" Nick says reminded Wolf for their past.
"Yeah well let's say some people changed for the
good and some are just the same." Wolf said.
"Your still angry at me, after what we been through, ugh come on Wolf get me a break, I'm changing for the better-" Nick said.
Then Wolf shush him, "We're here."
They looked up to see a open gate that said on the
top: CLIFFSIDE.
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