Chapter 3: lookin' for trouble

Meanwhile, back at 'Helping Paws shelter for lost animals' Brer Fox and Brer Bear tucked into their awful soup kitchen meals, which was a soup consisting of some crickets floating around in a brown liquid.

'Awful!' roared a disappointed Brer Bear

'Bah!' spat Brer Fox

'I am not happy Brer Fox, I need a real dinner!' grumbled Brer Bear who always gets angry around meal times.

The two looked at the volunteers who were serving the soups. They were a tender looking young deer and a plump looking hare. They look much tastier. They thought.

'Can't we just eat them?' whispered Brer Bear in Brer Fox's ear.

'Not at the moment Brer Bear, if we tried to, we will be arrested for sure' He replied slyly.

'But what if no one knows' shrugged Brer Bear

Brer Fox put his head on his paw as if he were toying with this thought. Then, he was distracted by a small, high pitched voice.

'Hey, do you mind if I join you?' it said

The two looked down to find a little mouse wearing a baseball cap and a grey jacket. He looked just as lost as the fox and the bear.

'Go on then' muttered Brer Fox

The little mouse, holding a block of cheese climbed up the chair and sat with them.

'You know, my wife kicked me out' the mouse sobbed with a mouthful of cheese.

'I may never see my 30 little ones again' he cried, putting his paws up to his face.

'Oh no, tell me more..' said Brer Fox in a fake sympathetic tone.

Whilst the little mouse talking, Brer Fox inched closer to him. He waited for the right moment when the mouse wasn't looking, grabbed him, and shoved him straight into his mouth, leaving just his tail and leg sticking out. He was about to swallow, when Brer Bear turned his head.

'Hey drop that fox!' Yelled Brer Bear whilst hitting Brer Fox at the back of his head. The mouse fell out of his mouth, covered in salvia.

'Look what you done! You big oaf' snapped Brer Fox, grabbing Brer Bear by the collar.

The mouse quickly got to his feet, and pointed a shaky paw at Brer Fox. 'You tried to eat me…' He immediately started to run off

'Security! Security! I need security!' he shouted.

The commotion got Brer Fox and Bear unwanted attention, they looked up to see two hulking boars with massive tusks looming over them. They were both wearing security uniforms.

'lets get out of here…' said Brer Fox sheepishly. They quickly scrambled to their feet and headed towards the exit, and ran out into the street. Meanwhile the two boars called the police on their walkie-talkie.

Meanwhile, further down the road, near to the scene of the car crash, Brer Rabbit was thinking of a clever way to distract the shop keeper whilst he grabbed the cake. He saw a cockroach crawling across the pavement outside which gave him an idea.

'Howdy Ma'am' Brer Rabbit said, greeting the sheep shop keeper.

'Hiya, can I help you?' she replied

'Well, I came to warn you, you may have a lil' problem. You see, I saw some mighty big roaches in the store, and the health inspector is in town' he lied.

'What! Where!' she said, panicking and looking around the store.

'Over in that corner!' he replied

As she was busy frantically looking for the non-existent cockroaches, Brer Rabbit went to grab the cake. He ran out the store holding the prize just as jolly as if he tricked Brer Fox. He heard a voice behind him, and realised the shop keeper had clocked onto him. Brer Rabbit ran faster, and quickly evaded the shop keeper by jumping into a side alley and climbed up a fire escape for a block of apartments. Years of escaping Brer Fox and other hungry predators have made him very nimble of foot. He looked down to see the poor confused shop keeper run past the alley. Brer Rabbit didn't like stealing from innocent creatures but felt like he had no choice.

He climbed higher up the fire escape and sat to enjoy his prize on the top floor. He got a spectacular view of the city. From up there, he saw the city in a different light. At first he hated the city, the over crowded streets, the carriages, the unfriendly residents, however the city looked beautiful in the sunset. He watched some hamsters leave their tall office blocks to head home. Brer rabbit couldn't imagine working in an office. Something about it felt unnatural. He liked the freedom of the county and the ability to run through the grass and dig in the dirt. He was just finishing the cake when he heard a familiar voice from down below. Judy and Nick had arrived in their police car.

Brer fox and Bear started wandering the streets, going nowhere in particular.

'So what do we so now brer fox?' Asked brer bear.

As the two began to take in the sights and sounds of the city, Brer Fox started to like what he saw. Not only did the city have an abundance of prey animals, it also had lots of hot vixens. Brer Fox even wolf whistled at a few. He also noticed that many smaller animals were giving them a wide breath whilst walking past. Sensing he made the critters uncomfortable, Brer Fox thought it would be fun to scare them.

'Oh how do you do..' snarled Brer Fox, tipping his hat to a squirrel who was passing by. The poor creature must have jumped back about 20 paces.

Brer Fox gave a sadistic laugh, whilst Brer Bear was distracted by something which smelled tasty. Standing down the road was a female antelope giving away free samples to by-passers in an attempt to lure them into her shop. Brer Bear made a bee-line to her, grabbed the plate and gobbled up all the free samples, much to the poor antelopes dismay.

'Why didn't you share any with me!' snapped Brer Fox, squaring up to him as if they were about to fight.

'You animals! Please get out of here!' shouted the frustrated antelope. Brer Fox and Bear began to sulk off, not wanted to cause any further commotion today. Brer Fox spotted a suspicious looking weasel lurking on the street corner selling items.

'Maybe he can help us..' Said Brer Fox.

Brer Bear nodded in agreement and they started to head in his direction. Just then, he was distracted by something which made his mouth water. It was an Estate Agency which was advertising homes in Bunny Burrow, a large rural settlement a few miles out of Zootopia, which is populated mostly by millions of bunnies. Millions of delicious bunnies… thought Brer Fox.

'We must go here!' Shouted Brer Fox joyously whilst pointing at the advertisement.