Chapter 1: Welcome to Zootopia

"SHIT!" I threw out. "I forgot to charge my phone."
I looked at the gallery with the last percent battery left. A picture of me and my father, when I was six. From all those pictures I have, it was my favorite picture. Things were alright. My dad was alive. My mum didn't go bat-shit crazy.
Then, I little ding came from the phone, and it died.
'I'm such an idiot!' I thought to myself.

After I got trough the misery with my phone, I put it's now useless body into the right pocket of my cargo shorts. The note for my mind I put there was gone. I left out a just sigh of relief that that thing worked. Then I had noticed something weird.
My legs, or my feet. They were covered in fur. As well as my hands. They were no hand and feet anymore, they were paws. The paws of a fox.
"OH MY FOX!" I yelled out in surprise. Not being able to actually control the choice of words in that moment. "Is this real?"
It had to be. Everything felt real. The water from my water bottle still tastes like the lime water from my home. My senses weren't tricked here.
'This somewhat explains the name of the city then, I'd assume.' I thought to myself, while looking up to the massive 'ZOOTOPIA - 3 Km' sign again. I could only take a brief guess that there are no humans here. 'Hah.' I thought, knowing I don't had any humans to miss anymore anyway.

I felt enthusiastic. I started follow the road next to me, which to my surprise yielded no cars in motion, despite it's size. 'Ah well, three kilometers won't kill me.' I chuckled to myself.
I really did take my time, and after about 15 minutes of relaxed walking, I came to some sort of hut, just in front of the city. It was a checkpoint. I made my way to it, and was greeted by a little female marten in uniform. She had dark orange fur, soft randomly placed black stripes, a short fluffy orange tail, a white head with only an orange tint and black eyes. The white of the face smoothly goes down to her chest, and probably kinda dissolves into orange again, but I couldn't see all of it due to the uniform.

"Hello there, little one!" She said to me in the friendliest way possible. "I never thought somebody would ever come this way in my lifetime!"

"Uhh, hello there, officer." I said hesitating. "Do I have to do or show something to enter the city?"

"Yes, you need an citizen ID or a travel passport." She replied in a friendly professional manner.

"What if I don't have any?" I asked, slightly scared that my journey would already end here.

"Then you'd need to fill out this form to instantly get a travel passport made in here." She replied again. I took my time with replying. Not far from this checkpoint was some sort of beach. I could hear the waves of water, and heard the city's sounds echoing into the wild.

"Okay. Officer. I'd like to get one made here." I stated proudly.

"Alright, how old are you?" She asked, while getting the paperwork needed for this process, which wasn't really too much.

"14. I just turned 14." I told her with confidence, with her giving me a sad look.

"Where are your parents?" She asked. "You need parents to sign these if you're under 16 years old."

"What if I don't have any?" I repeated the question from earlier. She starts to get confused.

"Honey, you can't get trough here like that on your own!" She started telling me, slightly laughing "Where are you even from? You're the first animal in years that I've seen coming over this checkpoint!"

I needed to focus now. I knew I wouldn't get another step forward without absolutely nailing this thing down into the earth's core now. I started to put one my face of pure and broken defeat. Sobbing. Looking like the entire world was taken from me. Well, technically it was, but I wasn't sad about it. I took a deep breath, before telling that marten my story.

"LISTEN! ... I-I-I lost my parents on the way here, okay? All I ever wanted to achieve was visit this city. It was a dream of mine. The only things I have with me right now are my clothes, half a bottle of water, and a dead phone." I spurted out in the saddest and most pity-seeking way possible. "So would you PLEASE let me get into this city? I'll hunt down for citizenship there, I promise, and me as a little 14 year old fox, I wouldn't be able to do any harm to anyone in there. What is the risk?"

I could see how taken away she was by my performance. Did she believe me? Or was she just entertained enough to not care? I'd never know for sure, but what I know is, that in the next moment, the marten opened the gate to let me through and handed me 5 bucks. To my surprise they literally were 5 bucks, with a small buck printed onto the bill. I waved her a thankful goodbye, and made my way to the city. Now only about a kilometer of bridge left for me to pass. The bridge was massive. I apparently missed the name sign for it, because this bridge for sure would have a name. The design was similar to the one of the Golden Gate Bridge, but in a much smaller scale. I continued to cross it.

5 Minutes later, there was a line on the ground, which, I guessed, had indicated Zootopia's borders. I saw a few mammals walking around down the street. The bridge led into a crossing. Just ahead was some sort of plaza. Seems to only be the outer part of the city though, because there were about 20 mammals walking around. Above the plaza, there was only a rail.
'A monorail?' I guessed, and was quickly confirmed by a sign that picked up my attention. 'Free Monorail to downtown; Today only.'. I thanked whoever god I would thank in this universe, walked up the stairs worth of 3 stories of a house that led into a station above the ground, and waited for the monorail to arrive, which took about 15 minutes. But for this, I was in downtown, Savannah Central Station in not even 10. I got out, and looked at everything. I'm not even kidding. I inspected every details from the ground, the mammals that are walking around. Cheetahs, foxes, wolves, giraffes, hippos, sheep, and so on. The trains, the water, the park, the various installations for the use of different sized animals. This is truly a new world, although it doesn't even seem too different to me after all. It only had animals instead of humans.

But now I had one problem. What should I do? I had five bucks, whatever that was actually worth. And no Idea where I should go. I needed to live, to survive, and whatnot.


A/N #2

Hello there everyone. I wanted to put out the first two, well to be fair rather short, chapters into here. I don't know how frequented this site actually is, but I wanted to give it a shot and see if people would be interested in seeing what I would do. This is the 5th concept I came up with, and I'm finally satisfied about it. So I hope you are, too, and see how Mordecai made all his way to the Fox he is today.

My Plans are on making this A bit longer, for sure, altough it probably depends on the amount of attention it gets. I can say you enough that if some hints didn't spark yet, yes, Nick and Judy will appear too, and I already have in mind how that would go about.

Off to a great start, hopefully.