A dark shadow was cast over the ground by the pale moonlight as the jungle canopy gently swayed in the breeze. An ominous beat from a distant drum sounds throughout the trees.

Fear. Treachery. Bloodlust...

A small rabbit with dark green curly fur and wide attentive green eyes hopped through the forest. Ears swiveling, listening to every little brush of a leaf and cricket chirp.

Thousands of years ago, these were the forces that ruled our world!

The rabbit darted around lightly, sitting back on his haunches every once in a while, to scope out the bushes that were not unlike his unruly fur.

A world where prey were scared of predators.

The rabbit cautiously leaned down towards a puddle of water that had collected and began to drink, observant eyes darting around every so often.

And predators had an uncontrollable biological urge to maim...

A large tiger poked his head out of the bushes, eyes narrowed on the small creature drinking from the tiny pond.

and maul...

The rabbit, unaware of the imminent danger, continued to drink from the pond still vigilantly glancing around.

and...

The rabbit whipped its head around to see the predator pouncing out of the bushes with a roar. Large fake claws scratched at the bunny as the tiger boy roared. The rabbit let out a yell and fell to the stage floor, close to the blue construction paper that represented the small puddle. "BLOOD! BLOOD! BLOOD!" He said dramatically, pulling out a red ribbon stuffed in the front pocket of his leotard. He made choking noises as he scooted over to grab a ketchup bottle behind a cutout plant. He quickly placed it under his arm and squeezed, convulsing twice, still making choking noises as the red substance squirted out of the bottle and all over the boy's chest.

"And death!"

He said fainting dramatically before doing one more spasm, squeezing more of the ketchup out. An Astrex rabbit with short curly dark brown fur stared open-mouthed as he recorded the play. Next to him stood a holland lop rabbit with long green fur and round green eyes. She sighed as she placed her face in her paws at the display of her son's dramatics. A bobcat doing sound effects banged the timpani even louder before stopping.

"Back then, the world was divided in two. Vicious predator-" The bunny, Izuku, said gesturing towards the Jaguar in the tiger leotard who hissed, baring his fangs and raising his claws at the audience gathered. "-Or Meek prey." He said, clasping his hands together and making a sad innocent look as two boxes lowered from the ceiling. One labeled vicious Predator and the other Meek Prey encapsulated the two boys, Izuku reaching out to grab the ribbon blood before the box was entirely lowered. The bobcat continued with more mysterious sound effects with mallets against the strings of a piano

"But over time, we evolved, and moved beyond our primitive savage ways," Izuku said as a black sheep danced across the stage wearing a rainbow headpiece and a white robe, throwing petals between the two boxes. The sheep bowed and backed up, lifting her hands, the boxes rising with her movements. "Now, predator and prey live in harmony!" Izuku said, neither of them in their leotards, instead both are now wearing the same white robes as the sheep. Izuku and the jaguar hold hands as the sheep sets off a party popper, confetti and glitter falling behind them. "And every young mammal has multitudinous opportunities..." He smiled pointing a finger in the air nobly, glancing over at the sheep.

The sheep rocked back and forth on her hooves as she began her line, "Yeah, I don't have to cower in a herd anymore." She rips off the white robe and hat revealing a home-made astronaut costume beneath it, "Instead, I can be an astronaut!" She said placing a large helmet over her head as the bobcat used a slide whistle to make a mysterious alien noise.

"I don't have to be a lonely hunter anymore," The jaguar said, paw over his chest as he looked out over the audience, ripping off the white robe to reveal a suit. "Today I can hunt for tax exemptions. I'm gonna be...an actuary!" He said raising a pen in the air as the bobcat played the piano. "And I can make the world a better place!" Izuku said, eyes scanning the audience with a confident smile on his face. "I am going to be..." He paused for dramatic effect as Catmull, the bobcat, started to play a 70s-style cop show theme on a boom box.

"A Police officer!" Izuku said happily ripping off his robe to reveal a police outfit. His mother and father start to clap with nervous smiles but their faces slowly fall at their son's declaration. A cruel laugh is heard in the barn as a fox with spikey ash blond fur laughs loudly. "A god damn Bunny cop! That's the stupidest shit I've ever fucking heard" He said loudly, bumping arms with the weasel as he laughed teasingly at the Rabbit. He ignored the harsh glares of those around him who immediately covered their children's ears from the boys cursing. "I-It... It may seem impossible to small minds..." Izuku said, voice quavering at first, hearing the blonde's comment before picking his courage back up. "I'm... looking at you Katsuki Bakugou!" He hesitated at first before continuing bravely. The blonde's face contorted in rage as he sneered at the bunny, his ears pinned down to his head and his tail slowly flicked back and forth in aggravation as he let out a low growl and leaned back in his seat, red eyes glaring at the rabbit.

Scared eyes still on the blonde, the rabbit continued nervously, "B-but..." he looked back at the crowd as a city skyline dropped down behind the actors and an inspiring song began to play, "...just 211 miles away stands the great city of Zootopia! Where our ancestors first joined together in peace," The sheep and jaguar walked behind Izuku and grabbed a banner, raising it above his head, "and declared that anyone! Can be, anything!" He yelled excitedly, fist-pumping the air. Catmull stopped the uplifting music and played an ending theme on an electric organ. "Thank you and good night!" Izuku said waving goodbye to the crowd as he wrapped up their play, his mother and father with slightly downcast faces as they thought about what their son had declared he wanted to be.

~^*^~

Izuku skipped in between his father and mother, holding their hands as they walked through the carrot festivals rows of food booths, games, and rides, all carrot-themed. Izuku still wore his Cop Costume as his parents began to talk to him. "Izuku, you ever wonder how your mom and me got to be so darn happy?" his father asked with a cheerful yet nervous smile. "Nope!" Izuku said happily as he continued to skip between his parents. "Well, we gave up on our dreams and we settled, right Inko?" His father said looking towards her as Izuku still hopped happily between them. "Oh yes, that's right, Hisashi. We settled hard." She said continuing to look around at the festival, occasionally glancing back down to Izuku.

"See, that's the beauty of complacency, Izu. If you don't try anything new, you'll never fail!" His father continued with a happy expression as he talked to the boy. His words seemed to fall on deaf ears as Izuku let go of their hands and hopped on top of some hay bales, "I like trying, actually!" he said with a cheery smile. "What your father means, Izu," his mother said jogging a little to catch up with her son, "is it's gonna be difficult--impossible even! For you to become a police officer." She tried, with a nervous voice as her son still obliviously continued to skip without a care in the world. "Right. There's never been a bunny cop." His father confirmed. "No." Inko agreed, "Bunnies don't do that" Hisashi added.

"Never!"

"Never."

Inko said, Hisashi copying her right after. "Oh..." Izuku's face fell a little before brightening up again, "Then I guess I'll have to be the first one!" he said jumping off the hay bales "Because I am gonna make the world..." he ran up to a vendor cart and jumped, doing a flip after kicking against the side of the wheel, "A better place!" he finished, hat sitting crookedly on his head as his arms were up in the air. "Or..." Hisashi said nervously, looking at the cart Izuku just flipped off of. "...um, heck! You wanna talk about making the world a better place..." Hisashi said glancing around before his eyes landed on the Midoriya's Carrot booth that was being run by too many children to count. "No better way to do it than becoming a carrot farmer!" He said with optimism as he and Inko entered a conversation between themselves as they talked to Izuku.

"Yes! Your dad, me, your 275 brothers and sisters-- we're changing the world!"

"Yep."

"One carrot at a time..."

"Amen to that! Carrot farming is a noble profession." Hisashi started but Izuku's attention was directed towards something different. Bakugou was leaned up against a game stall as some sheep and a bunny walked away happily waving some tickets. He nudged one of his cronies and started to follow them away from the festivities. Izuku gulped and followed after them while his parents continued to talk behind him. "You get it. I mean, it's great to have dreams!" Inko smiled at her husband. He nodded, "Yeah! Just as long as you don't believe in 'em too much." He stopped when he looked down and Izuku was nowhere to be found. "...Where in the heck'd he go?"

~^*^~

"Give me your god damn tickets right now, or I'm gonna kick your stupid little sheep ass!" Bakugou growled, baring his fangs and hitting the sheep's head. Izuku poked his head around a tree trunk, nose twitching as his ears shuddered underneath the confines of his hat. "Ow! Cut it out, Bakugou!" the sheep cried holding her head where Bakugou had hit her. "Baa-baa. What the hell are you gonna do, fucking cry?" he said, snatching the tickets out of the sheep's hold causing tears to spring to her eyes. Izuku swallowed dryly and shakily stepped out from behind the tree and walked over. "Hey! Y-You heard her K-Kacchan! C-Cut it out..." He said voice shaking, feeling pinpricks of tears come to his eyes as he slowly lost confidence. "Nice costume, nerd!" Bakugou snickered, "What fucking world are you living in where you think a shitty rabbit could be a cop?" He said signaling his cronies to the three other animals there. They got the message and started bullying them for more of their tickets which caused them to start to cry. Izuku shakily ran over and stepped in.

"W-Why are you being so mean! You're making her cry Kacchan!" He said, "Just give them back their tickets!" Izuku said sticking his hand out. Bakugou sneered at the nickname and growled, ears pinned in an aggressive state as he patted his pocket. "Come and fucking get 'em... But watch out, 'cause I'm a fox, and as you said in your shitty little stage play, predators used to eat prey..." He snarled lips peeling back to reveal his sharp canines "And that killer instinct's still in our Dunnahh." He said a scary look on his face. "Uh, I'm pretty much sure it's pronounced D-N-A.," his skinny weasel crony said leaning in a bit. Katsuki growled at him and let out a feral bark in his direction which scared everyone present. "If you keep on bullying them...uh...I'll uh... I'll stop you myself!" Izuku said bravely raising his arms to protect the cowering sheep and bunny behind him. "You want to fucking pretend to be a damn cop? You don't stand a fucking chance as a stupid bunny, Deku!" Bakugou growled, anger building up as he walked closer to Izuku till his red eyes were glaring directly down into Izuku's green ones.

"Y-You don't scare me, Kacchan!" Izuku practically yelled as he stood firmly and puffed out his chest. Bakugou practically slammed Izuku to the ground when he pushed him. Any confidence Izuku might have had before was completely gone now as tears started to flow down his cheeks and his nose twitched uncontrollably. "You scared now!?" Bakugou yelled. His cronies laughed behind him, "Look at his nose twitch. He is scared!" they cackled. Bakugou leaned, looking down on Izuku. "Stupid Deku! Cry little baby bunny. Cry, c-" He was cut off by Izuku's sharp kick to his snout. He touched where Izuku had kicked as he tasted the warm iron liquid in his mouth. Absolute, white-hot, rage, filled Bakugou "Oh, you don't fucking know when to quit do you, damn nerd!" He unsheathed his claws like a switchblade, then slaps him, drawing blood from Izuku's cheek. He cowers below him, as the sheep and bunny hide behind a tree. Bakugou pins Midoriya to the ground, His paw on the fresh-cut he just made, "I want you to fucking remember this moment the next time you fucking think you will ever be fucking anything more than just a shitty, god damn carrot farming, dumb bunny!" He yelled and cursed at Izuku before roughly shoving his face into the ground as he stood up.

The animals behind the tree run over to Izuku in a frenzy voicing their worries.

"That looks bad."

"Are you okay, Izuku?"

Izuku shakily rolled off his back in order to get up, "Yeah... Yeah, I'm okay." Izuku then smiles lightly taking out the tickets as he gets up. "Here you go." The others are ecstatic at Izuku's achievement.

"Wow! You got our tickets!"

"You're awesome, Izuku!"

"Yeah! That Katsuki Bakugou doesn't know what he's talkin' 'bout!"

They said in awe and wonder at how Izuku was able to get the tickets. "Well..." Izuku said dusting himself off, "Kacchan was right about one thing..." He mumbled picking up his hat and putting it on his head. The other animals growing concerned for the boy before he turned towards them with a big smile on his face.

"I don't know when to quit!"