Cast:
Anastasia "Anya" Romanov: Judy Hopps
Dimitri: Nick Wilde
Vladimir "Vlad" Vasilovich: Finnick
Grigori Rasputin: Dawn Bellwether
Bartok: Duke Weaselton
Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna Romanov: Otto "Pop-Pop" Hopps
Sophie: Gazelle
Pooka: Fru Fru
Phlegmenkoff: Bucky and Pronk Oryx-Antlerson
Czar Nicholas II Romanov: Stu Hopps
Czarina Alexandra Feodorovna: Bonnie Hopps
Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Alexei Romanov: Timmy Hopps, Molly Hopps, Cotton and 273 other Hopps Siblings
Ticket Agent: Chief Bogo
Marie's Chauffer: Mr. Manchas
Marie's Guards: Raymond and Kevin
Kitchen Servant: Jerry Jumbeaux Jr.
Train Couple: Mr. and Mrs. Otterton
Anastasia Actress: Benjamin Clawhauser
Anastasia Imposter: Priscilla
Citizens in St. Petersburg: Yax, Flash, Koslov, Peter Moosebridge, Fabienne Growley, Gideon Grey, Nangi, Dr. Badger, and Swinton
Newspaper Man: Koslov
Cop in St. Petersburg: Doug
Train Station Woman: Quilda
Flower Woman in Paris: Stephanie Stalkinew
Marie's Guards: Gary and Larry
Our story begins as we fade to a beautiful tiny green music box, playing a tune, set on a brocaded pillow.
The pillow was being carried by a pair of two paws, revealing to be an anthropomorphic beaver butler. He rushed down a grand curving staircase, passing by other servants to the front door, while carefully balancing the precious cargo on the pillow.
Stepping outside, the butler approached the latest model; a Chevrolet automobile.
Standing beside the Chevrolet, was an elderly rabbit man dressed in full evening clothes. The butler bowed before the rabbit as he presented the music box.
The rabbit, Dowager Emperor Otto Hopps, took the box from the pillow and put it carefully in his pocket.
The beaver butler then retreated.
"Your highness..." A giraffe footman opened the door for Otto, and he climbed inside. As soon as the footman closed the door, the black panther chauffeur, Mr. Renato Manchas, drove off into the night.
Some time later, the Chevrolet raced through the street upon arriving in St. Crittersburg, Thrushia.
"There was a time, not very long ago, when we lived in an enchanted and harmonic world of elegant palaces, and grand parties. The year was 1916, and my daughter, Bonnie, was happily married to Stuart Hopps, the Czar of Imperial Thrushia."
The gates opened up for Otto's Chevrolet.
Otto had just arrived to the royal palace of the Hopps-family to attend his daughter's celebration with her family.
The palace was all lit up, with opulently dressed partygoers streaming inside. They were all various animals; mostly prey and predator. Thousands of years ago, prey used to be scared of predators, who contained primitive savage conditional ways which was contained in their "biology". But as time passed, the predators moved on from their savage ways. Now, they lived in harmony along with prey.
Tiger guards all bowed before Otto, as his Chevrolet pulled up to the front door.
As Otto stepped out with the help from his giraffe footman, two of the guards opened the doors for him, and he thanked them before entering the palace.
The wast intro of the palace was filled by the highest of the highest of Thrushian aristocracy. Elegant royalists, dressed in 17th century costumes, waltzing in the main hall as the orchestra played. As was the imperial family; consisting Czar Stuart "Stu" Hopps, his beautiful wife Bonnie, and an impressive amount of their 276 children, joyfully mingling on the dance floor.
As Otto sat on one of the thrones, he waved over to his daughter. "Hello, darling!"
"We were celebrating the three-hundredth anniversary of our family's rule. And that night, no star burned brighter than that of our sweet Judistasia, my closest granddaughter."
Stu was dancing with one of his young daughters, nine-year-old Judistasia; a graceful and spirited young rabbit girl.
"Oh, Papa!" Judistasia said with a beam, as her father lifted her up.
Otto smiled as he watched his granddaughter dancing with her father. Judistasia was very special to him. His favorite grandchild out of them all.
When they finished dancing, Judistasia lit up upon the sight of her grandfather, and ran over to him.
Meanwhile, a young fox boy, around nine-years-old, came out from another room. He took a bite out of an apple, and began to eavesdrop on the two.
"She begged me not to return to Zootopia. So, I had a very special gift made for her to make the separation easier for both of us."
Otto took the music box out from his pocket, and showed it to his granddaughter.
Judistasia gasped. "For me? Is it a jewelry box?"
Just then, an elephant kitchen servant, Jerry Jumbeaux Jr., caught the fox spying on the two. "Nicholas Wilde! You belong in the kitchen!" He berated the young fox, and grabbed him to drag him back into the kitchen.
The fox kit, Nick, dropped his apple and struggled to get out of the elephant's grip on him.
"Look," Otto took out a key; a small silver flower on a neck chain. He put it in the back of the music box, and winded it.
Judistasia watched in awe as the music box opened up, playing the song. Her violet eyes widened as the song played. "It plays our lullaby!" she whispered.
Otto smiled. "You can play it at night before you go to sleep. And pretend that it's me singing."
"Once Upon A December (Lullaby)"
(Otto)
"On the wind,
Cross the sea,
Hear this song,
And remember,"
(Both)
"Soon you'll be,
Home with me,
Once upon a December,"
He gave Judistasia the key. "Read what it says."
The young rabbit girl squinted as she read the small words written on the music box key. "'Together in Zootopia'. Really?!"
Otto smiled and nodded.
"Oh, Grand Pop-Pop!" Judistasia threw her arms around her grandfather, and the two lovingly embraced with each other.
"But, we would never be together in Zootopia. For a dark shadow had descended upon the house of the Hopps'."
Suddenly, the ballroom went dark and the room went silent. Gasps came from the crowd, as they parted before a dark figure. One rabbit dropped her glass of champagne. The dark figure was revealed to be a sheep with an evil grin on her face. She stalked through the crowd, stepping on the broken glass and crushing it underfoot.
She was accompanied by her weasel sidekick, Duke Weaselton.
"Her name was Dawn Bellwether. We thought she was a Holy Sheep Woman, but she was a fraud, power-mad and dangerous."
Bellwether reached the Czar, who stood alone firmly.
"How dare you return to the palace!" Stu confronted her.
The sheep removed her hood off her head. "But, I am your confidante," she bitterly said.
"Confidante?!" Stu scoffed. "HA! You are a traitor! GET OUT!"
But Bellwether refused. "You think you can banish the Great Bellwether?" She held up her prized possession; a green reliquary with a replica of a saber-toothed cat's skull on top of it. "By the unholy powers vested in me. I banish you with a curse!"
Judistasia stood beside her grandfather, and gasped in horror.
So did Nick, who stood aside the two.
"Mark my words..." Bellwether warned Stu. "You and your family will die within the fortnight. I WILL NOT REST UNTIL I SEE THE END OF THE HOPPS LINE FOREVER!"
With the power of the reliquary, it sent out a bolt of lightning to the chandelier, shooting it down fall to the floor and making it explode.
The guests all screamed and panicked.
Bellwether was gone.
"Consumed by her hatred for Stu and his family, Bellwether sold her soul for the power to destroy them."
Cut to Flashback:
Bellwether was in another part of Thrushia known as Tundreria in her lair, where she knelt down before an oracle to sell her soul for dark magic. She cowered down as a huge, shadowy figure appeared above her, and raised her arms in supplication.
A shadow-like smoke in a windstorm, left Bellwether, sucking towards the terrible figure. She morphed into a skeleton as her soul left her. Then, from the oracle, the green reliquary materialized in midair before the sheep's skeleton. The magic device restored Bellwether when she grasped onto it, giving her full control of dark magic.
Back to the Present:
Bellwether was hiding beside the palace as she summoned some green wolf imps from the reliquary. "Go..." she evilly whispered to the wolf demons. "Fulfill your dark purpose. Steal the fate of the Czar and his family once and for all."
The wolf demons growled and barked as they left the reliquary, making their way to the palace gates.
"From that moment on, the spark of unhappiness in our country was fanned into a flame that would soon destroy our lives forever."
Outside the palace, a crowd of revolutionists rhinoceros guards were being held back by the locked gates, shouting and demanding to get in.
The wolf demons attacked the chain holding the gate shut, until it broke, allowing the rhinos to pour into the palace grounds with riles, and execute the royal family.
They tied some rope around a statue of Stu, and then pulled it down to the ground, breaking it.
Inside the palace, the Hopps family ran down a hallway, wearing coats over their nightclothes.
"Help! Help!" One rabbit girl cried.
"Hurry, children!" warned Stu.
Judistasia suddenly stopped in her tracks. "My music box!" She ran back down the hallway to retrieve her grandfather's gift.
"Judistasia!" Otto tried to stop her, but she was too fast. He ran after her. "Come back! Come back!"
Judistasia ran back into her bedroom to get her music box.
Otto rushed into the room, shutting the door behind him. "Judistasia!"
Suddenly, the sound of rifle shots came out of nowhere, frightening Otto and Judistasia.
"Please, hurry!" Otto tried to lead his granddaughter to safety.
From the wall panel, a secret door opened up, revealing Nick. He bursted out towards Judistasia and her grandfather. "Come this way! Out the servants quarters!" He gestured them towards the secret doorway, unintentionally causing Judistasia to drop her music box.
"Hurry, Judistasia!" complained Otto, as Nick shoved the two into the secret doorway.
Unbeknownst to them, but Duke Weaselton was outside the bedroom window, alarmed that Judistasia was escaping. "Bellwether! She's getting away!"
"My music box!" Judistasia tried to run back inside to fetch her music box.
But Nick stopped her, and forced her back through the doorway. "Go! Go!" He demanded, before slamming the panel shut.
At that same moment, voices came from outside the door. "Comrades, in here!"
Nick put his body in front of the panel to give Judistasia and Otto time to get away.
The doors bursted open, revealing the angry rhino revolutionaries. "Where are they, Fox?" One of them demanded to know.
But Nick responded by throwing a plant at them.
In return, the guard smacked the young fox with the butt of his rifle, knocking him out completely. His left paw reaching unnoticed for Judistasia's music box.
Some of the guards took hold of Nick, and one placed a muzzle on the unconscious kit.
Once they escaped the palace, Otto ran with Judistasia across the ice. It was freezing cold, outside. The two shivered, not being dressed appropriately for the temperature of the weather.
"Grand Pop-Pop!" cried Judistasia.
"Keep up with me, darling!" Otto assured her.
The two passed under a bridge, unaware that Bellwether was standing atop. The evil sheep leapt down upon them, landing hard on the ice, and grabbed a tight hold on Judistasia's ankle.
Judistasia screamed, as she tripped forward.
Otto turned around in horror upon seeing the evil Holy Sheep. "Bellwether!" He struggled with her, trying to free his granddaughter.
"Let me go, please!" begged Judistasia.
But Bellwether wouldn't let go of her. "You'll never escape me, child! Never!" She grinned maniacally, and snickered evilly.
Suddenly, the ice beneath the sheep began to break apart. Bellwether noticed as she began to fall through into the cold river.
This gave Judistasia time to wrench herself free. "Let me go!" She watched as Bellwether thrashed about in the water. As she was going down, the sheep and rabbit locked eyes for a moment. Bellwether's eyes were glowing, full of rage and fury.
"Weaselton!" The sheep cried out to her henchman, who had just arrived to the scene.
"Mistress!" He responded.
Bellwether's fingers dug into the ice, unknowingly releasing the reliquary she had with her. But she couldn't stop herself, as she kept getting slowly dragged under. She took one last desperate reach out of the water, and then, Bellwether was sucked under by the current, drowning and freezing to death.
This broke Judistasia's gaze with the evil sheep, and she continued to run with her grandfather into the cold night.
Duke stared in shock at what had just happened. With his mistress gone, all that was left of her was the reliquary.
After a while of running, Otto and Judistasia made it to a crowded train station. They fought their way past the other animals, trying to catch up to the train that was leaving.
"Judistasia, hurry! Hurry!" Otto informed her.
When they caught up to the train, some passengers managed to pull Otto on board. But the rabbit looked in horror to see Judistasia still running in order to catch up.
"Grand Pop-Pop!" she complained.
"Here! Take my hand!" Otto reached his hand out to his granddaughter.
Judistasia reached out and grabbed her grandfather's hand, desperate and frightened.
"Hold on to my hand!"
"Don't let go!" begged Judistasia.
The two tried to keep hold of each other's hand. But then, Judistasia's hand suddenly slipped way from Otto's grasp, and she screamed as she fell.
"Judistasia!" Otto watched as the young rabbit girl stumbled down.
Judistasia hit the ground hard, and lost consciousness.
"JUDISTASIA!" cried Otto.
He tried to jump off the train, but the other passengers held him back to protect him. Otto could do nothing but watch as the view of his granddaughter was obscured by a sea of other mammals, and disappeared in the distance.
"So many lives were destroyed that night. What had always been was now gone forever. And my Judistasia, my beloved grandchild... I never saw her again."