This is inspired by a commission by @togepi1125, which can be seen here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/19656513/

At the same time, this is my very first piece here! I might do more of these in the future, if it ends up proving popular. In the meantime, I hope you all enjoy...
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Kyle woke up to hear his apartment shivering. He would have chalked it up to a passing truck, as he did when he was younger, if he wasn't ten stories above the ground. His mind then translated it into "earthquake", and he was about to go back to sleep when he heard the crowds in the streets. People were usually only loud enough to hear during parades and the big New Year's street party. However, in those cases they would cheer. Right now, they were screaming.

He heard a boom. The apartment shivered again.

Kyle leapt out of bed now, grabbed his phone, and turned it on. While he waited for it to boot up he began to throw on clothes. His mind began to conjure up scenarios. Had there been a terrorist attack? Something else entirely? Once he had wormed his way into a shirt, Kyle went to the window and pulled the blinds up to look down the streets below. He saw a mass movement of people and cars, swamping each other. As he was just trying to yank on a pair of pants, he heard a string of rumbling tremors and looked out again. What he saw made him stumble back against his bed.

A huge figure strolled by Kyle's window. From his perspective inside his tenth-story room, he could only see the creature's stomach; it was covered with a green shirt with leaf designs, and a purple and indigo tie that was wider than a road. The figure swung its arms...revealing them to be covered in reddish-brown fur? Kyle became more confused as the giant passed, trailing a similarly colored tail behind. Not bothering with socks, Kyle threw on his shoes, grabbed his phone, and ran out of his apartment, not bothering to lock his door.

Now he read his phone as he made his way out. He found a series of text messages:

"OMG r u ok?????"

"Kyle call me as SOON as you can!"

"Dude get pics for me! Out of town!"

Kyle jabbed the button for the elevator as he scrolled on his phone to the news. The floor shivered again, and he looked around worriedly. After a moment he looked back down and began to read:

"FOX TERROR IN CITY
"A giant fox is currently rampaging through downtown Urbania. Upon first appearing the fox only identified himself as 'Nick Wilde' before proceeding to attack the city. The fox, which walks upright, does not appear to discriminate and has no clear objective. The governor has scrambled the National Guard, and has contacted local military authorities to order an air strike. All citizens are advised to evacuate the Urbania metropolitan area until further notice.
"This is a developing story. Stay tuned for updates."

The photo paired with the story was a blurry one, taken from the ground. It showed a massive auburn foot-paw being lifted from the ground, twice as tall as a car and longer than a school bus, with claws as big as a human. A khaki pant leg covered the foot-paw's ankle. Kyle stared in disbelief at his phone until the ringing of the elevator got his attention.

"Hold it!" Before Kyle could press the button to go down, he heard his neighbor Larry jogging down the hall. He was a large man who tired easily, and gave a sigh to catch his breath as he came into the elevator car. "Thanks Kyle."

"No prob." Kyle looked at his phone again. "Do you have any idea what's going on?"

Larry shrugged. The elevator doors closed, and they began to descend. "It's the end of the world, my friend. Man's finally met a predator that can outwit him."

"Real funny. You should write the sequel to Revelation." They heard more booms, and the car shook. "Getting out of town?"

"Hoh, yeah!" Larry nodded. "No way I'm sticking around to be hunted by some giant two-legged fox. Do you think the transit's still open?"

Before Kyle could express his doubts, the elevator shook. The car stopped, and a buzzer sounded angrily. The doors didn't open.

"Oh no..." Kyle began to grope at the doors, trying to pull them open, but he couldn't get a good grip.

"Let me try." Larry came up to them, and actually managed to wedge his fingers into their divide. He had just opened them up about a centimeter, revealing a crack of light, when there was a deafening crash above them.

With a violent shudder the elevator began to plummet.

With a shout both men hit the ceiling for a moment, a high metallic scream filling the air. Kyle felt his stomach flip as he fell...but a second later they hit the floor again, the car screeching to a halt. The air brakes had activated.

"Oh..." Larry gasped as he got up from the ground, "Oh my god..."

"We gotta get outta here," Kyle said.

Larry kept working at the doors, and managed to open them a couple of feet. The elevator was cut off by the ceiling, but there was enough room to squeeze through. Kyle watched as Larry worked himself through first. He followed after, finding himself tumbling into the ground floor lobby. People crowded in from every direction, either trying to find shelter inside or an escape to the outside. The glass windows to the street had been shattered, and a dusty haze filled the air.

"Larry, Larry let's go! Come on!" He couldn't hear himself over the din, so he grabbed his friend's hand and pulled. They were just fighting their way through the lobby when the ground trembled once again, this time harder than before. There was a crash, the sound of rocks falling, and a massive paw suddenly slammed into the street outside the lobby.

The crowd renewed its screams as the paw appeared, spreading a web of cracks in the concrete. It took up a third of the avenue, which was the widest road in the city. After a moment's hesitation, the paw retreated again, to be replaced with a massive hand slamming against the pavement, just as big. A shadow loomed close, and then a vulpine face appeared. The fox had red fur, although his neck and muzzle were cream, and a single green eye stared into the lobby. Everyone went into a frenzy, nearly dragging Kyle away from Larry. Meanwhile, Nick smiled.

"Here's what I was looking for!" he exclaimed. His voice deafened Kyle, who began tugging frantically on his friend's arm.

"Let's go!"

The two tried to join the crowd that was sweeping away from Nick's gaze. Kyle looked back at his face, which was being obscured by a handpaw, coming into the lobby. It was large enough to hold two cars in its palm, covered with red fur and padded on its fingertips. At the very end of each finger was a claw, each as tall as a person. Nick reached in to grab the crowd...

"Run, RUN!" Kyle saw the paw come down and trap about twenty people in its clutches, then begin dragging them back outside. After that he turned a corner, fought his way through more crowds, and ended up on the other side of the building.

"Oh my god!" Larry had to stop and catch his breath, "Oh my god! What..was that the...?"

"Unless there's another giant fox, I think that was it." Kyle also panted as they came out onto the streets. Around them were the signs of carnage: smoke scarred the sky in the distance, abandoned cars littered the street, and wrecked buildings traced the skyline. "Come on, let's head south!"

He began to dash off, but he noticed Larry wasn't following.

"Larry!"

Larry wasn't moving. He was staring up at their apartment building. The top couple floors had disappeared, swiped away by the fox's attack. Jagged edges of brick patterns partially obscured a pair of pointy ears on the other side of the building, a pair of ears that began to come their way...

"Larry!"

Kyle began to run back at him, but paused as Nick strode into full view around the corner. The fox stood at least a hundred and fifty feet tall. He looked down into one paw, and with the other grasped the edge of a building to steady himself. Most of all, though, Kyle noticed the casual, almost amused smirk on Nick's face. He was having nothing more than a pleasant stroll. "I was wondering where these were," he spoke down at his paw, and began to pick something up out of it. With a jolt, Kyle realized those were people.

He felt his blood run cold as Nick pinched three people between his fingers and held them before his muzzle. The fox gave them a grin, before opening his mouth and flicking them inside like berries. "Mmm..." Immediately he closed his eyes, flattened his ears, tilted his head back, and swallowed. Kyle could watch his throat bulge ever so slightly as the three humans were sent down to be digested.

Nick leaned back on his elbows against a nearby skyscraper, punching a couple of dents in its shape and shattering several windows. From there he finished off the snack he had gathered in the apartment lobby. In twos and threes he ended up gulping down over twenty people. Sometimes he would actually chew, making little excited faces as he savored the taste of human.

Kyle watched the display with awe and horror. Larry's words came back to haunt him: 'Man's finally met a predator that can outwit him.' A disturbing instinct arose within him, a recognition that he was not part of the alpha species anymore. The giant that towered over him, now rubbing its stomach after its meal...this was the new master species on Earth.

Nick kept leaning on the skyscraper and looked down the street. He ran his tongue, as wide as a traffic lane, over his canines, and picked at his teeth with one of his claws. With that he finally stood up, letting the building relax. Nick began to lift his foot and come down the street to Kyle and Larry - it was a much narrower way, and he had to turn sideways to squeeze through. Even then he bumped into a couple of skyscrapers, leaving large craters in their faces.

The fox was only a couple strides away. Kyle broke out of his spell first, and began yelling again. "LARRY!" His friend didn't move though — he kept staring up at the behemoth coming towards them. With a careless stride a pair of stoplights were torn out of the ground by his paws and scattered away. BOOM. The ground shook.

"Come on, we gotta go!" Kyle ran out into the middle of the road, sparing only a brief glance up at the fox who was walking their way as he lazily picked his teeth with his pinky claw. "We need to get outta here!"

Larry still didn't move. Nick brought his paw down on a trio of cars, and with a loud scream of metal and fiberglass they were shattered and squished flat. BOOM. The ground shook. His other paw began to come up, over.

Kyle shrieked and dove out of the way, beneath some scaffolding. A massive auburn paw eclipsed the sun, throwing its shadow over Larry. The longer he stood, the more his fear petrified him. He got a good look at Nick's toepads, seeing the bodies and debris...

BOOM. The ground shook as Larry was flattened beneath the fox's paw.

"No!" Kyle recoiled as the massive foot pressed down on where his friend had stood. Thousands of tons of muscle were standing atop him now, there was no way he would survive. Nick paused where he was, his footpaw right by Kyle. With a loud groan he began to stretch. He put his arms above his head and reached as high as he could, letting out some stress. Kyle took the opportunity to pull out his phone and, choosing the first contact he saw, called his sister.

"Kyle?" Her voice picked up. "Oh my gosh, are you okay? I heard there was—"

"Listen to me," he interrupted her, "I'm literally right next to the fox now. He just crushed one of my friends, and he's been eating people..." He didn't know what to say. "I don't know if I'm going to get out of this alive, so listen: if I don't make it, I want you to tell Mom that —"

Before he could finish though, he heard a clatter as the entire scaffolding above him was toppled over. Nick was kneeling over him, both ears very finely directed at him. A wide smile covered his face. "It's like hunting for Easter eggs, all over again!" he boomed.

"Kyle?!" He heard her scream on the other end. "What was that? Kyle!"

He didn't get a chance to respond before he felt a pinch on the back of his shirt. Kyle felt himself yanked up into the air, which immediately made his head spin. He was lifted up over the paws and past the khaki pants, covered in rubble. He kept getting lifted past the trim torso, with the tie a bit crooked against the green shirt. Finally Kyle found himself staring face-to-face with Nick, the fox's eyes bigger than he was. The giant held a cocky grin as Kyle speechlessly stared. He felt like he was in grip of a deity...

"Hey buddy," the giant cooed. "Guess what?"

Kyle stayed silent.

"I'd like to have you over for dinner..."

With that he opened his mouth again, his green eyes sparking with hunger. Kyle tried to wrestle and squirm, "No, no wait!" But it was no use, he couldn't reach the fingers that held him. Suddenly he found himself let go. With a scream he plummeted down until he hit a soft, squishy surface. Kyle recognized the pink of the tongue. Warm humid breath swept over him, nearly making him gag, and the sharp teeth ranged from the length of his leg to taller than his body. He turned onto his back and stared out past the jaws. Kyle could see the city skyline, scarred and broken, past the silhouette of Nick's teeth. "Wait, please!" Before he could stand up, the teeth closed, cutting him off from the light of Nick's maw. Then with a bucking sensation, he was thrown towards the dark of the throat.

"No, no!" He clawed at the tongue but couldn't get a grip. With a splat he was tossed into the esophagus. He heard a loud glurk he was sucked down, where the muscles began to crush him. They pressed on every side as he slid down. For a second he could hear the thunderous beating of a heart, growing louder and then softer as he passed. The esophagus kept pushing him along until finally, Kyle felt space open up around him. He fell into a dark chamber, splashing into a pool. He recognized the stomach.

"Let me out, please!" He began sloshing through the pool of acids, trying to avoid other humans who were being digested. Kyle's prison shuddered and shifted with every step Nick took, tossing the tiny human around. Eventually he reached the wall of flesh trapping him and began to beat his fists on it, to no avail. The lack of oxygen in the stomach began to get to him, and he felt his head going fuzzy. "Let me go!"

Of course, Nick couldn't hear him. As Kyle kept begging for release, the flesh suddenly shivered beneath his hands, and the floor jolted. The stomach began churning.

"Ah!" He yelled as he was thrown aside, deeper into the pool. The terrain was treacherous as he tried crawling back. "Please...please let me ..." His eyes were blacking out. "Please..."

He fell down into the pool of acids. His digestion went as smoothly as everyone else's.