Chapter 1: Awakening

There was a flash. A bright one to say the least. Blinding and all-consuming, Seconds later there was nothing, except for a radio on the ground, a voice calling through it.

"Coy!? Coy you there!? Something went wrong! We're falling back! If you don't make it back in time then we'll have to leave you! There's too many of them and we can't fight them off! Sarge is calling reinforcements. We'll see you in a bit!" Then, the radio was silent… Only a soft static playing through the speaker.

He woke in next to a gas station. The sun beaming down on him in the middle. His vision was foggy, he was dizzy, confused and had a massive migraine. Coy was also wearing a backpack which had a wallet, a CD, and a few other things. To see if he could seek help, Coy walked into the gas station, only to find it completely deserted.

"Hello? Anyone there?" He waited a few seconds before shrugging it off and going to the drinks section of the store. There, he had a view of a multitude of drinks. He chose water, and as he reached for a bottle, he noticed that his hand wasn't exactly his hand. It was covered in fur, with claws at the end of his fingertips.

"What the fuck!?" He jumped back, studying his whole hand before ushering himself to the bathroom. There, in the mirror, his whole body was covered in fur, and he resembled that of a hyena. Coy's heartbeat increased, his breathing quickening. "What the hell happened to me? Maybe I'm just seeing things and need water. Yeah… Water will help me see straight."

He walked back to the drink section, before gulping down two bottles of water. As he was thinking about his next move, he saw a poster with a picture that resembled the hyena form he had mysteriously taken on. It read, "Wanted for the murder of a police officer, conspiracy, assault, and robbery. Suspect is considered to be armed and dangerous. DO NOT APPORACH HIM"

"Murder of a police officer? Assault? I haven't done any of those. What the hell am I even?! Why am I an animal?" He heard sirens in the distance. Maybe they could help him in his predicament.

He ran outside as the cop car pulled into the lot, before a very small grey bunny and an orange fox jumped out of the car.

"Get down on the ground! Now!" The rabbit yelled, aiming a tranquilizer pistol at him.

"For what? I didn't even do anyth-" He was cut off as the rabbit fired her tranq gun. The sedative took its' effect very quickly, as the hyena fell to his knees, looking up at the smiling rabbit before he fell onto the ground. Falling into a deep sleep.

The rabbit turned on her radio. "Officer Judy Hopps reporting in. We got em. Heading back to the station now." She turned off her radio, a smile creeping across her face. "I can't believe we got him Nick. You think we'll get a promotion for this?"

Nick, the orange and reddish fox, who also had a smile on his face turned to Judy. "Probably not. You know how Bogo is. But we will definitely make the news… Again." He laughed at his joke. "There's one more thing I need to do though.

"What could that be then? He's not waking up ANYTIME soon." Judy responded, with a little emphasis on 'anytime', as the tranq dart packet enough heat to knock out an elephant for a few hours. "So we won't need to handcuff him."

"No. Something personal, to at least help avenge Clawhauser." He quickly took out his tazer and baton, tazzing him and beating him before Judy could shove him back.

"What the hell Nick?! There's no need to do that! I won't report this to Bogo as I'm very angry at that hyena too, but he's looking at a life sentence."

Nick shrugged his shoulders and sighed. "Yeah. Sorry. Won't happen again." He dragged the hyena into the back of the car, handcuffing him just in case. Taking a good look at him before getting back into the police cruiser, driving back to the ZPD station.

"Wake up! Now! You gotta get changed into your prison uniform." A guard threw clothes onto Coy as he jolted awake, and the guard quickly locked the cell door. You're being moved to the penitentiary. And you won't ever be getting out. You have two minutes to get changed. Now!"

Coy finally thought it was his chance to get answers, as every other 'person' he saw was a sort of animal. "Wait! I've got no clue who I am or how I got here. Nor have I committed any crimes! Just tell me where I am!"

The guard looked over at him, raising his eyebrow. "You're fucking kidding, right?" The guard stared at him for a few seconds before brushing it off as a joke. "You're sick. We have video evidence of the crimes you committed, and multiple witnesses. And you're in Zootopia, but don't worry about whee you are. Worry about where you're going, because you're going to hell." The guard laughed, smiling at the almost pitiful hyena.

As they arrived at the penitentiary, and began escorting the hyena into the prison, he was making many futile attempts at trying to get the cops to believe that he hadn't done anything, and that he was from another world.

The police escort had enough. "Shut the hell up before we make sure that the guards in there don't feed you, and beat you to a pulp. Okay?" The grizzly growled at him, before shoving him further, the heat of Sahara Square beaming down onto them.

"Okay, okay. I'll stop, just remember you're putting an innocent man in jail." He heard even more growls from the grizzly, and heard him mumble, "That's it." The grizzly then got his baton and struck the hyena in the leg, on his knee. Coy fell down, before being picked up and almost thrown by the bear. Coy figured it'd be best if he stopped talking.

As they continued walking into the prison, they were greeted by a guard, who had a collar in his hand, and began placing it on Coy's neck.

"The hell are you trying to do?" He flinched back, only to have the now extremely agitated grizzly to push him forward again.

"It's a shock collar, and you WILL wear it." He continued to put the collar on Coy's neck, and then escorted him further into the prison. After they had gone through all the procedures, they led him to his cell. They opened it, and pushed the hyena into it. His fellow prisoner greeted him.

"Looks like I finally got me a roomie!" The smile on his face was very wide, almost exaggerated. "Tell me roomie, what you in for?"