Chapter One - Average Day at Work

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"SO THAT WILL be eight-forty-seven, sir

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"SO THAT WILL be eight-forty-seven, sir."

The antelope exchanged currency with the fox behind the counter of steady-going donuts and coffee café, while business was slower than usual today. The fox took the brown paper bag with The Big Donut labeled on each end in one paw, and two styrofoam coffee cups in the other, trying hard not to drop either item. He didn't want to have to pay another nine-forty-seven of coffee and irresistible, warm glazed donuts. He was already short on rent, and his "new" job didn't seem to help resolve his everlasting problem.

But, for now, even for a fox like Nick Wilde, everything was a breeze that never seems to bite him in the rear...or at least not completely.

Nick Wilde, a previous con-artist at heart for many years, cheating and using classic confidence tricks to make decent wealth in the massive, eponymous city of Zootopia. He was a pro at it, too. However, a previous con-artist told more about his story than anything else. Now, he worked for the place in all of Zootopia he never thought he'd be working for, the Zootopia Police Department (ZPD). How ironic the situation became for the fox. The idea struck more like laughter than a burden to him. How ironic his situation got him into the law enforcement agency, not to mention the trials, challenges, errors, and resolutions that'd awaited.

The "Night Howler" Crisis, he witnessed in person, would be known as the greatest crisis that had ever emerged within Zootopia. He remembered. Fourteen animals going missing, only to be savaged, prey-eating predators that reverted back to their ancestor's natural instincts of survival of the fittest, which would eventually open to a stunning species-supremacist conspiracy within certain aspects of the massive prey population in Zootopia. In the end, former Zootopia mayor, Leodore Lionheart, and short-lasted successor, Dawn Bellwether, were arrested and imprisoned. And Zootopia returned back to harmony and prosperity between predator and prey once again. Still, minor prejudice and conflicts between the two different animals continued to linger within the enormous city surrounded by four diverse biomes that correspond to the perfect utopia.

The glass doors to the ZPD station swung open as Nick let himself inside. He passed by many police officers at work from the howling wolf to the mighty elephant. Sometimes the world felt larger than it appeared to him. The law enforcement business was a very dynamic and ample place with the largest, toughest animals you could see bringing in crooks and administering the law. But being the first fox officer, even if he was hardly the size as other police officers, was a huge accomplishment for both Nick and the other smaller animals that wouldn't receive the same respect as larger ones. To him—and his partner—you can be anything in Zootopia.

Approaching the work stations where officers answered calls and filed police reports, he found his partner hard at work and sorting backlogs of paperwork while focusing on the digital files on her workstation PC. Multitasking, but keenly and conscientiously, became a habit for his rabbit, Judy Hopps.

Just as he approached her workstation, the phone rings and the rabbit instantly answers.

"Zootopia Police Department, what's your emergency?" She said enthusiastically. But shortly, her jovial smile soon turns into a disappointing frown. Her ears dropped. "Oh, excuse me, sir. You have the wrong number...Yes, thank you, too." She hung up.

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