A hybrid opens his eyes, which were a dazzling sky blue. He felt pain coursing through his body, but the predator had the strength to get up. The hybrid, Gabriel Mossberg, had a distinctive scar on his left cheek and was wearing some kind of hospital outfit. "Dammit…" He muttered in pain. Gabe looked around and seen that he was in a dump by Slothfeld's Lab, meaning the hybrid was thrown out in disposal chute. He noticed a combat knife and realized that it's a mean of defense, so Gabriel picked it up before noticing a handgun with a brown and black handle, and there was a circle with three stars in it on the brown part. He also noticed something engraved on the weapon, and it read: Mossberg, it was his Samurai Edge, so Gabe immediately ran to the weapon and got it. If my Samurai Edge is here... He thought. My Python and ammo should be here too. Not long after finding his Samurai Edge, he found his Magnum Python, and he took it too. A few minutes later, he was ready to leave, but Gabe noticed guards at the exit, but they weren't looking his way. "They think I'm dead, but they're getting a deadly surprise." He muttered. Being Primal, a condition where he can go savage at will along with being faster and stronger than the normal cheetah, and being both Cheetah and Arctic Fox, Gabriel can kill both quickly and silently, so he ran to the guards and snapped their necks effortlessly. After that, he took their handgun and magnum ammo and left the dump, heading back to Zootopia, by going through the forest.
As the hybrid was going through the forest, he was starting to feel disoriented, and started to stumble, but he didn't know why, or what caused this. Eventually, he reached a road, but the feline noticed that a car was driving by, and that he was on the road it was on, but it was toward Slothfeld's Lab, so he stopped, determined to not let the driver through. And the vehicle stopped in front of him, and a caribou exited the vehicle. "Get the hell out of my way!"
"No." Gabe replied to him.
The prey mammal took out his gun. "Move, or else you'll be killed!"
"I'd love to see you try, bitch." The moment the caribou aimed his weapon, Gabriel ran to the caribou, snatched the gun, and dismantled it with ease.
Damn, he's fast, sneaky, and smart! And those eyes and the distinctive scar… This is Gabriel, but Slothfeld and I thought he was brain dead! The caribou thought as he took out a knife. Gabe also took out his combat knife, and the caribou swung his weapon, and Gabriel dodged the attack. The feline tried to do a counterattack. The caribou dodged the attack too, but he noticed a name tag, which read: Boris Antlerson.
Antlerson tried to slash at Mossberg, but the feline used his knife to block the attack, and their knives started clashing. "Well, I see that you're a good fighter, Antlerson." The hybrid told the caribou.
"So are you, Gabriel Mossberg, the only son of Angelica Mossberg." This triggered Mossberg, and he tried attacking the caribou, scratching Antlerson's chest with the knife and did a second attack, which was blocked by Boris.
"How dare you speak my mother's name to me! I know you work for the damn sloth who caused her death!"" Gabe snarled as he dodged Antlerson's attack. A cheetah cub was in the vehicle Antlerson was driving, watching the two Mammals fight. She was wearing a blue and white plaid vest with a white long-sleeved shirt under it, a blue bow, a red headband in front of her ears, and a pair of dark blue shorts. The younger feline seen that the caribou left the door open, which meant that she has the chance to escape, and she took it, because she went to the front of the vehicle and left it, running to the forest as fast as she can, as some mercenaries approached the fight. The hybrid noticed the cub, but he also noticed the mercenaries, who have assault rifles. Damn, things just went downhill quickly… He thought. I guess it's time for me to make a run for it. "We'll meet again, Antlerson." Gabriel fled to the forest, away from the scene.
"Boris! Are you okay?" One of the mercenaries asked the caribou as he approached the car.
"Yes, I'm okay, but…" Antlerson noticed that the cub wasn't in the car. "Well, Slothfeld isn't going to pleased, and neither is Swinton… I want all of you to go retrieve those two felines and bring them back to the Lab. But three of you stay with me, because he is armed and is quite smart, because he dismantled my gun like it was nothing, and he took the ammo cartridge with him."
Gabriel was a distance from the scene, but he was concerned about the cub's safety and well-being. That cub, I need to find her before she uses up her stamina, because normal cheetahs don't have much stamina when running, and I'm not a normal cheetah… He thought as the hybrid continued on his way, looking for the child. He eventually made it to a dirt road, where he seen the same cheetah cub from before going to the road from the other side. Speaking of the devil, there she is. The hybrid ran towards the younger cheetah, startling her, and the cub ran behind a tree. "Wait! Don't be scared! I'm not going to hurt you!" He called for the child.
The child was reluctant to take a peek, but she took a peek anyway, and seen the hybrid. "My parents once told me to never trust strangers, but once they told me of two certain predators, Gabriel Mossberg and Starlight Foxtrot, who were orphans who fell in love with each other and became married, too…" She told him.
Gabriel's ears dropped at the mention of his wife's name, he also looked down. "S-Starlight…" He muttered.
The cheetah cub noticed this, so she approached the hybrid cautiously. "You know her?" The hybrid looked at the child, so she could see his sky blue eyes, and when she did, the cub realized who it was and her ears dropped. "You're Gabriel… But where's Starlight?"
"She's still trapped in Slothfeld's Lab…" Gabriel looked upset, but he smiled, determined to save his wife. "But I plan to get her out though, but we should go before Antlerson and those mercenaries find us. I've been on this road before, so a cable car station should be nearby. Where are your parents?"
"They were killed in a car accident, but forensics found a bullet in the tire, so it was murder. But nobody knew who killed my parents…"
"When did this happen?"
"Last year. But I was being stalked by another mammal, and it was making me very uncomfortable, so I was forced to roam the streets of Zootopia, until that caribou abducted me."
Gabe's ears dropped. "Oh... I'm so sorry… You can come with me if you want…" The hybrid held out his paw.
Sherry looked up and took his paw. "Okay." The cub smiled as they walked to the station.
When they got to the cable car station, the felines were sent to a cable car heading to Tundratown. Gabriel remembered something, he forgot to ask the cub what her name was. "What is your name?" He asked the child.
"My name is Sherry Furman."
"That's a wonderful name." The cub, Sherry, smiled at him, for the hybrid's kindness.
"Thanks. But that caribou… What if he comes after me again?"
"Sherry, I would do anything to protect you from Antlerson…" Gabe's ears were down and he looked worried.
"You would?"
"Yes, I promise that I will keep you safe…"
"Thank you." Sherry nodded and smiled as the cable car stopped. "We're here, and my house is is near this station, so you don't have to stay outside in the cold for long." Gabe told the child.
"Okay."
A while later, the two felines arrived at the house, Gabe noticed that there was a tracking device implanted in his arm, so he had to get the device and deactivate it before changing into his normal outfit, a blue hoodie that can holster his two Machetes , which have black blades with silver edges on the sharp sides, a pair of jeans that can holster his Samurai Edge and Magnum Python, and his Ammo Cases for Handgun Ammo and Magnum Ammo, and they left the house, walking to Honey's bunker in the Rainforest District, because he wanted to know how the mammal who captured his mother, before her collar killed the cheetah, is still alive. Sherry also realized something, when Mossberg was fighting Antlerson, the collar never shocked him, and yet the light shown that Gabe was showing a great amount of aggression. "I noticed that your shock collar didn't shock you when you attacked Antlerson, why is that?" She asked the hybrid.
"Because it's a salvaged collar, the light works, but the shocker doesn't." Gabe responded to her.
"Why don't you have an active collar?"
Gabe stopped and looked down. "It's best for me not to tell you, because of how much it pains me to think about it, and it's not a good idea to think of my mother in this situation…"
"Oh…"
"So we need to keep going."
"Right!" They continued their way to the bunker.
Meanwhile, Antlerson was in his car driving back to the Lab. He was also talking on his headset. "Why the hell isn't the kid here yet, Antlerson!?" An angered voice yelled.
"We had a major problem, Mossberg's alive, he dismantled my handgun, and the kid escaped too." Antlerson responded to the mammal on the phone.
"Impossible!"
"But he is, because he scratched my chest with a knife when I mentioned his mother. You'll see when I get-"
"You idiot! What were you thinking!? You basically just told him that I was involved in Angelica's death!"
"One thing, he already knew that in the first place. But don't worry Slothfeld, I already gave the mercenaries orders to retrieve the two felines. And you'll see the wound when I get there."
"Clever, very clever." Slothfeld responded to the caribou, and Antlerson knew that he nodded, although he couldn't see it.
"I'll see you in a few." Antlerson finished.
"Okay."
Antlerson ended the call. Damn, that hybrid is as persistent as his mother once was. Boris thought to himself.
A/N: I know that some characters from Empressimperia's Rain of Blue Petals are in this chapter, but there is a reason why, it's because this story actually takes place before Rain of Blue Petals, but it's part of the story too, so don't complain that I didn't have permission from her, because I do. And as always, Read and Review!
~Fazbear13/Fazbear300