Bambi had never seen a city before. A few houses and the occasional villages but never a city. So it was with great awe that he laid eyes on the massive city below. It looked as though it had been abandoned for a while, frosted over and decrepit. He wondered what it had looked like back in its glory days.

"Kid, hurry up." Bambi snapped out of his thoughts at Tod's voice, rushing down the hill, causing Olivia to grab onto his ear at the sudden movement. Bambi trotted up to the two foxes, who sat beside the remains of a road. When the fawn had caught up, they continued on, getting closer to the city.

"...Tod, have you ever been to one of these?"

"Hmm? Oh, a city? No. I grew up with a kind old lady on her farm. It was close to a small town but nothing like this. I did go to a carnival when I was a cub though."

"What happened to the old lady?" Tod stiffened. "...S-sorry."

"No, it's alright. Her name was Widow Tweed. She took care of me like I was her own child. When I got to big... And her neighbor too trigger happy... She released me onto a wildlife preserve. Course her neighbor still tried to kill me despite it now being illegal.

"What stopped him?" Olivia asked.

"...And old friend..." The group finally came up to the ouskirts of the city, of which there was a large sign. Every word written on it was complete gibberish to Bambi. Tod squinted.

"Welcome to Zootopia..." He read aloud.

"Ooh!" Olivia chirped. "I think daddy told me about this place! He said its not a human city, and that it's more cut off from the world."

"Hmm..." Tod pondered, looking at the shell of a once bustling city before them. "We'll go in, but be very careful. There are a lot of places to hide in a city, both for us, and for not so nice people." With that the group of animals stepped cautiously into the abandoned city.

"...What are those thingies?" Olivia asked curiously, pointing to large, metal boxes on wheels.

"Those are cars dear." Vixey said softly.

"People use them to go far distances." Tod continued.

"We don't have those where I'm from." Olivia said, tapping her chin. "We have horse drawn carriages."

"Some places have different technology than others." Tod sighed. "I personally would prefer horse drawn carriages. Widow Tweed would tell me about how cars could pollute the environment because they burn something called gas."

"I don't think we have to worry about pollution considering the state the world's in." Vixey murmed. The group eventually came upon an abandoned building.

"Come on, we'll rest in here." Tod sighed, leading the group into the building.

Tod looked out the window. It had began to snow. Olivia had fallen asleep, Bambi lay curled up, staring at the wall, and Vixey was rubbing her swollen stomach.

"...I'm going to look around." Tod sighed, walking out the door. Vixey watched him go silently.

"...Vixey?" The vixen blinked, looking over to where Bambi was curled up.

"What is it dear?"

"Am I ever going to see my mother again?" Vixey's ears drooped.

"Bambi... I-I honestly don't know. I don't want to get your hopes up only to have them broken. We've all lost someone to the villains. Whether or not we see them again, we can never say for sure." Bambi silently nodded. Vixey stood up, padding over to the fawn and nuzzling him. "Whatever happens, we're here for you. If you need to talk, don't be afraid."

"Thank you Vixey."

Tod winced as a sharp gust of cold wind brushed over him. This was not suitable weather for any animal, regardless of how much fur they have. He pulled himself into an abandoned store, hoping to find something edible. He wandered down the dark isles, coming up to a circuit box.

"Wonder if this place still has power." He murmered.

*Click*

Tod's fur stood on end at the all to familiar sound of a gun cocking, before suddrnly relaxing as he turned with a sigh, staring at the revolver pointing at him from the darkness.

"If you're planning to kill me for meat, you should know we don't have much of that."

"You're not scared?" Came a female voice from the darkness.

"Lady, this ain't the first time a gun's been pointed at me. And just as many times I've actually been shot at. Besides, you won't shoot me."

"And what makes you think that?"

"Well for starters, I can tell you're not very experienced with a gun cause your hand is shaking, plus the safety's on." The female held the gun closer to inspect the safety switch.

"No it's no-AGGH!" The female yelped as Tod tackled her, grabbing the revolver in his mouth and flinging it to the other side of the isle. The woman, who Tod could now see was an anthropomorphic rabbit, merely lay on the floor laughing to herself.

"Foxes, always the crafty ones."

"I'll be honest, never thought I'de have a gun pointed at me by something I normally consider food."

"Is this that predator/prey mentality? Cause we get enough of that in this town already." The rabbit said, sitting up.

"Listen lady-"

"Judy." Tod blinked.

"Pardon?"

"Officer Judy Hopps of the ZPD." The rabbit explained, walking over to get her gun.

"Right, listen Judy, I'm just with a group trying to survive. We've got two kids traveling with us and my mate's heavily pregnant."

"Huh, thought I noticed the four sets of tracks in the snow."

"Yeah well-" Tod froze. "Wait, FOUR sets of tracks!?"

"Yeah, you just explained that your group has four in it so-"

"Yes but one of them's a mouse! She's too small to walk with us! There's no possible way we could have left four sets of tracks! There should only be tracks from two foxes and a deer." Judy looked at him."

"So you're saying there isn't a lion in your group? Cause I definitely saw lion tracks mixed with deer and fox tracks just a few minutes ago." Tod swore under his breath, turning and bolting out of the supermarket as tast as his legs could carry him.