"Ha, ha, ha, ha!" Said the voice. It was a snapping turtle. "I have stolen your tusk! Now I can sell this at the black market!" He started to slowly walk away, only for Nick Wilde and Judy Hopps to capture him. They were spying on the turtle in a ZPD police cruiser.
"Hopps and Wilde!" Said Nick.
"Wylde and Hopps!" Said Judy as she jumped on the turtle like a video game baddie.
"Curse you evolution for making me so slow!" Said the turtle. Nick grabbed the snapped tusk and gave it back to the warthog.
"Thank you so much!" Said the sow. "How can I ever repay you?"
"With 20 dollars." Said Nick.
"Nick!" Yelled Judy.
"Just kidding, madam." Said Nick. "It's on the house!" Nick and Judy put a muzzle on the turtle and placed it in the car. Nick was about to enter the car himself, but noticed something in the distance.
"Carrots." Said the fox. "You might want to check this out." Near the Waldorf Pasturia hotel was a body of an animal of some sorts.
"What do you think it is?" Asked Judy.
"Maybe it's a platypus." Said Nick. "But do platypuses have feathers?"
"No, platypuses have fur." Responded Judy. "If it has feathers, that would make it a..." She soon realized what it was: A bird, to which she is afraid of. When Judy was a kitten, she visited an aviary on a faraway island, only to almost get taken by a bird that looked just like the one unconscious! Luckily, she got rescued by a kangaroo, but since then, Judy felt every bird would try to eat her.
"Are you okay, Fluff?" Asked Nick. "You seem tense."
"Oh, that?" Responded Judy. "It was just my gynophobia kicking in." Suddenly, the bird woke up from unconsciousness.
"Whoa, what happened?" He asked.
"Well, it's a known fact that birds can't see glass." Said Nick. "For all we know, he probably crashed into the window. Also, we don't run around in our birthday suits unless you're at the The Mystic Spring Oasis, which is in Sahara Square." While Nick went back to the car to get clothes for the bird, Judy asked him what his name is.
"Bird, what is your name?" She asked nervously.
"My name is Cory," Said the bird. "And I'm a red-tailed hawk." Judy flinched upon seeing that, since she happened to be taken away by a red-tailed hawk that faithful day. Nick then arrived with his hustler clothes to place on Cory.
"Is that your outfit from when you were still a shifty fox?" Asked Judy.
"Yes, actually." Responded Nick as he placed his clothes on Cory. "Also, I never got your name."
"His name is Cory." Said Judy. "Which reminds me, we have a turtle to return to custody! You can come with us Cory, but try not to sit next to me."
"Okay, but that means I'm driving." Said Nick. As they got in the police cruiser, Cory asked Judy about what's wrong.
"What's wrong, rabbit?" Asked Cory.
"The name's Judy." Said the rabbit. "I have a bit of an aversion to birds."
"You're afraid of birds, Carrots?" Asked Nick. "You're telling me that you're not afraid of foxes, bears, Chief Beef, snakes, jaguars, lynxes, rams, or rhinos, yet you're afraid of birds?"
"I was a kitten when it happened, Nick." Said Judy. "I was nearly taken away by a hawk and got got saved by a kangaroo. End of story."
"Let me get this straight." Said Cory. "You think that I might eat you?"
"Well, yes." Said Judy. "Birds of prey eat smaller mammals, including rabbits."
"But not me!" Said Cory. "The only meat I eat are fish and large frogs. Never mammals or reptiles."
"Really?" Asked Judy.
"Cross my heart." He crossed his heart using his talon, only to rip the fabric in Nick's shirt.
"Now arriving at the ZPD." Said Nick Wilde. "We'll carry the turtle together while Cody walks by himself."
"It's Cory." Said the hawk. The three animals arrived in the ZPD building and were greeted by Benjamin Clawhauser. The cheetah was super surprised to see the hawk by Nick and Judy's side.
"O-M-Goodness!" He said. "What is that brown thing? He looks like something out of Harry Porker! Also, Terrence will take that turtle for you." Terrence Jawful, the first reptile cop in Zootopia, walked over and took the turtle from Nick and Judy.
"What's his crime, Hopps?" He asked Judy.
"He snapped a warthog's tusk off to sell to the black market." She said. "Nick filmed the whole crime scene secretly with his phone."
"Guilty as charged." Said the fox.
"This turtle will be doing time in jail." Said Terrence. "And the toilets will be clogged, so don't even think of escaping!" As Terrence walked off, Nick and Judy told Chawhauser about Cory.
"This is Cory, and he's a red-tailed hawk." Judy explained. "In case you didn't know, hawks are a type of bird, and we want to know if Zootopia has a secret bird population."
"I don't think so." Said Benjamin. "You should bring your hawk friend to Chief Bogo. He'll know what to do." The three animals walked over to Chief Bogo office, where he was watching a EweTube video on his phone featuring Gazelle singing a cover of Part of Your Wool from The Little Manatee. When Nick, Judy, and Cory entered the room, he turned his phone off and pretended to look focused.
"Chief Bogo!" Judy shouted. "Nick and I captured the turtle, but we also found an injured red-tailed hawk who crashed into Waldorf Pasturia!"
"Hawk?" Asked Bogo. "As in a bird?"
"Yes, Chief Beef." Nick replied. "Does Zootopia have a secret bird population like how they did with reptiles?"
"No." Said Chief Bogo. "And please refrain from calling Chief Beef or Chief Buffalo Butt, unless you want to be on the unemployment line. Anyway, regarding your bird friend."
"It's Cory." Said the hawk.
"Yes." "Bogo continued. "Regarding Cory, there is only one known location on Earth where birds live." He pulls down a map of the whole world and points it to an island below Outback Island, about 2/3 the size of Gnu Jersey. "Canary Island. It may be small, but its village is home to over 30 different bird species." Upon hearing village, memories started flashing in Cory's mind: He came from Bird Village on Canary Island, and he was sent to find a reptile, or else he's dead meat!
"I need to find a reptile!"
"A reptile?" Asked Judy. "Well, luckily for you, Zootopia has a recently defrosted reptile village, and we're best friends with a snake. In fact, Gary Dessnake's great grandmother Agnes is the creator of the Weather Wall, and because of that..."
"Not a reptile to meet." Said Cory. "A reptile to eat." Everyone was shocked when those words came out of Cory's beak.
"Sorry, but in Zootopia, we don't eat anything that talks." Said Nick. "If you want your meat, stick with bugs, fish, mollusks, and crustaceans."
"Not where I come from, sadly." Said Cory. "On Canary Island, if you're not a bird, you have to work or else you'll get eaten."
"That's awful!" Said Judy. "Those poor animals are practically slaves. Nick, it looks like we have another case! Chief Bogo, we're off to Canary Island to rescue those animal slaves and maybe change the order of things there."
"Sorry Hopps, but that's a suicide mission." Said Chief Bogo. "There are some things you can't change. It's the way things are." Judy jumped onto Bogo's desk to chew him out.
"Pardon me if I risk getting fired," She started. "But I can't just stand here when mammals and reptiles are getting eaten like a pack of savage predators! When Zootopia was founded, we were able to find an alternate meat source for predators, and they managed to live side by side without killing each other! If mammals and reptiles aren't different from each other, then neither are birds! Nick and I have not been here as long as you, Clawhauser, McHorn, or Higgins, but we managed to save the city twice! Can you think of any other animal who's done that?! Chief Bogo, we are going to Canary Island to free to slave animals whether you like it or not!" Chief Bogo just stood there silently.
"Gee." He said with shock. "I thought all rabbits were timid herbivores who are better off gardening. When you came along, you changed my view of your kind. Very well, then. You can go to Canary Island to free to slave animals, but be warned: Birds are a lot less understanding than mammals or even reptiles. In case you get in trouble, take these." He handed Nick and Judy small boxes with red buttons on them. "These are homing beacons that will alert us back at the ZPD, no matter where on Earth you are. Now go on. Go change the world again." As Nick, Judy and Cory left Bogo's office, the rabbit noticed something.
"Wait a minute." She said. "We need a professional sailor, but no animal in Zootopia is crazy enough to go to Canary Island."
"I know someone who might." Said Nick. "If Nibbles Maplestick helped you find the reptile hideout and me escape from jail, then maybe she could join us on our adventure."
"That sounds like a good plan!" Said Cory. "But who's Nibbles?"
Author's Notes: Concept art for Zootopia 1 would reveal that, aside from fish, the predators get their protein from a fast food joint called Bug Burga. The restaurant doesn't appear in the movies, but Bug Burga boxes appear in both films.
Similarly, in The Art of Zootopia 1, there were logos for lots of brands within the Zootopia universe, including Waldorf Pasturia, Hyraximum, bitecoin, CinnaBone, and Hoof Locker.
Gynophobia is a fear of nudity.
Even though many of Zootopia's residents wear clothes, some of them prefer to be naked. Those animals go to the naturalist club in The Mystic Spring Oasis, run by the very skinny yak Yax.
A lot of people don't know this, but young rabbits are not called bunnies, but kittens.
In the movies, Nick's derogatory nicknames for Chief Bogo include Chief Buffalo Butt and Chief Beef.
In Zootopia 2, Nick wanted him and Judy to escape to Outback Island until the whole thing blows over.
Also in Zootopia 2, the characters use EweTube instead of YouTube.
In Zootopia 1, along with her hit single Try Everything, other songs Gazelle has performed include Let it Goat, Part of Your Wool, Can You Feel the Fluff, and Ara-Bunny Nights, all spoofs of older Disney songs.
Canary Island is a riff on the real Canary Islands off the coast of Spain.
When I was a kid, I used to think Spider-Pig in The Simpsons Movie was renamed Harry Porker instead of Harry Plopper since pork was made from pigs.
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