It had only been a whole day, but news quickly spread around Zootopia that a fox had gone savage on a bunch of people and prey's had begun to become even more paranoid and panicked when they saw a predator even walk by them.
Mayor Swinton of Zoo City had been holding a press conference that morning.
"Greetings citizens of Zoo City" she said "My name is Mayor Peggy Swinton and I just want you to know that I have created new means to stop the predator menace"
"What is it, Ms. Mayor?" asked a news reporter.
"We haven't worked it out yet" said the mayor "But the Tame Collars will be more mandatory than ever and I will change the age requirement from seven years old to five years old"
"What do you plan to do with the predators who try to resist the shocks?" asked another reporter.
"I will double the security cameras on every street corner and increase the numbers of volts on the collars, just so you know" said Swinton.
In prison, Nick was given a new collar that would give him more painful and somewhat deadly shocks to his body. He walked into his prison cell and started to ponder on what to do next. They didn't even give him his one phone call.
"What am I gonna do?" he wondered "I didn't do anything bad, I know I didn't. Somebody set me up and something in that dart made me go insane! I have to figure out what. But I need to get out of this cell first"
Just then, he noticed that his two cellmates were a bear and a rhino, two of the strongest animals around. He got another brilliant inspiration, using his sly and smart fox brain.
"You know, you two are probably the strongest animals around" Nick told the rhino and bear.
"Why thank you" said the bear "I do say so myself"
"With this horn, I can't eve fail to break something" said the rhino.
"But you know, I heard that bears are probably the strongest ones in the world" Nick said in a sly manner.
"What are you talking about?" asked the rhino "Everybody knows that rhino's are the strongest"
"But the fox said we bears were stronger!" the bear told the rhino.
"You are sadly mistaken, buddy!" the rhino got angry "I have a big horn and bigger muscles, you just got fur and blubber!"
"It's muscle pal!" said the bear.
"Wanna bet?" asked the rhino.
"Ladies first!" said the bear.
"Why don't you guys try bending some bars?" suggested Nick "That way, you can settle this argument"
"Great idea, fox" said the rhino "We settle this Rhino to Bear!"
"Ladies first" said the bear.
The bear and the rhino bent the bars of the cell, allowing Nick to escape his cell.
"Thanks boys" said Nick "I guess you two are equal"
Luckily, the guards were out to lunch and Nick was able to get out of the cell block and next thing he knew, he was in the office of the ZPD with Zootropolis' finest officers hot on his tail.
"It's that fox!" said a cop "Get him!"
The cops then chased after Nick, intending to put him back in his cell.
"So this is what it's like to be a fox on the lam" the fox thought as he ran from the pursing officers.
Battling against the odds, Nick dived off the highest levels of the ZPD lobby to the floor below so he could lose the cops and vice versa.
"Few" Nick sighed of relief "Now I get out of here"
"Not so fast, slick!" said a voice from behind him, it was Officer Judy.
"Aw nuts" said Nick.
"Listen pal! You're going back into that prison where you belong!" Judy exclaimed "Surrender or face the consequences!"
Nick didn't know what to do, so he decided to run some more. Judy put up her tranquilizer and saw Nick running in her direction and froze in fear. Nick realized this was the perfect time to escape and quickly ran past Judy and got right out of the door. He was free from the evils of the ZPD, but not for long.
Soon enough, the cops were still chasing after him.
"I've gotta get outta here" he thought "But how?"
Nick quickly looked around and saw nothing that could possibly help him escape and the cops were still chasing him and gaining up on him. Then, he saw the small town of "Little Rodentia", which as you can probably assume from its name, was a small town built for rodents.
"Gee, that was pretty redundant" Nick told the narrator.
Just wanted to give a little exposition for our readers. Anyways, as I was saying, Nick was small enough to fit into the entrance to Little Rodentia and luckily, the other officers were too large to get inside and follow him.
"Phew" he sighed "That was a close one"
"Not so fast, bub!" Officer Judy said as she entered the tiny town "You may have stricken fear into my bunny heart, but that doesn't mean I'm not gonna stop trying to bring you in, so turn yourself in or else!"
"Never!" Nick exclaimed.
"Alright then" said Judy "We can do this the hard way!"
"I'll run" Nick deadpanned.
Judy started chasing Nick all over the town, but it wasn't an easy escape; the place was as tiny as a toy set, so this meant that Nick had been accidentally stepping on things and tripping over them. This caused Nick to become more stressed and frustrated, so he received more painful shocks from his collar. Judy used this to her advantage and was ready to tranquilize Nick, who was hiding behind a rodent business.
"Hasta la vista, Foxy" she glared at him.
Nick gasped and got up from his hiding place, but accidentally caused a large sign that was shaped like a donut and caused it to roll around the town and nearly flatten most of the rodent citizens. Judy managed to catch the donut just in time as Nick used this opportunity to escape from her.
"That was a close one" he sighed as he exited the tiny town "Now to lay low and find my friends"
As soon as Nick left, Judy had finished putting the donut back up on the building and went outside to apprehend Nick, only to find out that he was gone.
"Oh no" she gulped "How am I going to explain this to Chief Bogo?"
Judy went back to the police station and went into the chief's office to explain everything. Needless to say, he didn't take it so well.
"You lost him" the chief said bluntly "You really lost him?"
"I'm sorry Chief" said Judy "I really tried"
Chief Bogo sighed "Reckless endangerment of innocent rodents, inciting a scurry, letting a prisoner escape. But to be fair, you place a sign back on the only building that wasn't fallen down"
"Sir, it wasn't my fault" said Judy "Honest! That stupid fox did it! I was just trying to my job! I've wanted be a cop my whole life and this is what I trained for"
"Just shut your mouth" said Bogo "Life isn't some stupid little animated movie, where sing a stupid little song and your little dreams come true. So let it go"
"Very funny" Judy deadpanned "But seriously Chief Bogo, give me another chance. Please"
"Okay, here's the deal" said Bogo "I'll give you 48 hours to retrieve that fox. That's two days. But remember, if you strike out, you're outta here"
"Deal" Judy nodded.
Judy went to the town's local security cameras to find out where Nick had gone to. She cracked her fingers and started to tap into the street on where she lost Nick on and finally found out where he was. She then saw that Nick was right by a pay phone.
"I wonder what he's doing by that phone" she thought.
Nick tried going back to his apartment to find his friends, but he saw that the whole place was empty and crawling with cops. Where his friends could've gone was beyond him, so he went over to the pay phone I was talking about.
"If I don't have access to my friends, I guess I'l have to go to extreme measures" he thought.
Nick then put on a trench coat and hat, then went over to a bus.
"Where to?" asked the driver.
"Tundra Town in the Arctic" said Nick "Make it snappy"
As Nick hopped the bus, Judy snapped her fingers and saw this as her perfect opportunity to impress Chief Bogo.
"There you are, you sneaky fox" Judy snickered "Come to mama"
Judy got right off the chair and started to make her way to Tundra Town.
Author's Note:
It looks like Nick's on the run. With his friends out of commission, it looks like he's on his own. Or is he? It looks like he's off to Tundra Town to find some help, but from who? And he'd better find it cause Officer Judy is on his tail! Stay tuned!