Savagetopia: Take it back (Book 3)

It was a slow start...

Judy's Group

Judy Hops had fallen asleep during the ride away from Zootopia, had chosen to slip into a sweet dream to forget that her husband had left her so easily. The dream was not sweet, however, not at all. "Judy, wake up" Lionel's voice blew her unsettling dream to shreds. For the best, she hoped. "Are we there, yet?" Judy rubbed her eyes lazily, putting most of her effort into pretending nothing was wrong. The rest went to the realization that everything was, in fact, wrong. "No, but I wanted to talk to you" The lion stepped his paw on the break gently as he turned left on the highway only a few miles outside Zootopia.

BUNNY BURROWS read the sign above. Judy glanced up at Lionel's. "What about?" She sat up on the dashboard of the truck, sitting in front of Lionel's sleeping wife. "What's the plan, Judy? Spending the rest of our lives in Bunny Burrows?" He sighed and turned on the light of the truck. Behind them, the rest of the fifteen-truck convoy did the same. "So far, yeah" She shrugged indifferently. Judy did care, a lot, but her head could only fit one thing and that was Nick's smiling face, those emerald eyes. She had no room for future plans, despite their necessity.

"That's not the Judy I know" He adjusted his seatbelt, looking down at Judy. Sitting on the dashboard of a truck was not fit for a group leader, but she fit there perfectly and room was something of a luxury for the trip. "Can that Judy get some sleep? I've come up with a crazy-ass plan once this month and it had enough explosions for a lifetime. Lazy Judy has control" She grumbled, turning and looking out the window dreamily, subconsciously counting the stars. "Does that mean the next plan won't have explosions?" Lionel said, making a sad face worth a million laughs. Judy gave nothing more than a chuckle before going back to sleepiness, "I'll take it into consideration".

Lionel let her chuckle float around for a bit, lighten up the mood for a bit. Then he dropped the N-bomb. "Did Nick tell you why he left?" His paw to twitched on top of the wheel, expecting some sort of emotional outburst from Judy. It never came, she seemed too passive tonight. "Just like me, he wanted to see if someone is alive, nothing more than that" She sighed.

"Any idea who it might be?" Lionel kept his eyes on the road, remaining stone-faced as his mind rushed to find an answer to his own question. "Nick told me something, before our grand Exodus from Max's stronghold" Judy paused, something had drawn her attention. Movement in the dark wasn't something she could easily detect, but this was too big to ignore. "It's just a bear, keep talking" Lionel honked his horn and the bear roared, then trotted away.

"He told me about an old friend of his, one that had gone Savage. We met him once, when I first got to Zootopia... Nick said he put a tracker on him a few years back and that he had somehow escaped the city, made his way to an old town nearby" She said wearily, blinking only once the bear had left their sight. "You think it might be him? An old friend?" Lionel nodded. It made sense, but how important was that friend to abandon his wife?

"I think it's not just a friend, more than that. Maybe a brother? I don't know, Lionel, and I don't want to. Just hope he comes back" She waved away any thought of that Savage fox and her own (Savage only in bed) fox. Look at her, an old rabbit thinking about sex with her husband. Maybe she wasn't as old as her kits made her believe. "Alright, I'm dropping it" Lionel said calmly and continued driving silently. Nick was important to Judy, more than anything else, but he had also been with the enemy for a long time. He... trusted him, of course, but the fox always had his way of doing things, a way that not even Just liked.

Nick preferred going solo. How long would the fox manage to stay with one person, that person being Judy, was a question yet to be answered.

Judy turned away from the pitch-black road, which had nothing of interest to her. Instead, she decided to have a look on her kits on the back of the truck. She popped off the dashboard, through the small window behind the driver's seat and jumped into the back of the truck. Thankfully they had it covered with a plastic tent, making for good protection against the weather. "Hey, mom" Said Jasmine, who had her back against the floor, staring up at the stars through a small opening of the tent. "Hey, baby, are you okay?" She sat behind the red and gray fox. The girl nodded lazily, rubbing her exposed belly.