Disclaimer: I don't own anything related to Disney, least of all Zootopia (yet)
Day 0 Hunted in the Alerkta System
The warning sounds that accompanied the flashing red lights which signaled the damage that already been done to the Nighthowler, as it was being chased by smaller pirate ships, went unnoticed by its pilot. No Judy Hopps was far too busy maneuvering her ship through the asteroid belt that allowed her to put more and more distance between herself and the main fleet of her pursuers.
The hull of the ship screeched with every asteroid that she grazed but it would hold, it always had.
And the cockpit of the ship, while being colored in the red light that was meant to signal emergency was also being lit up like a Christmas tree by the warning signals that seemed to pop up on every monitor or console that was visible.
Another explosion rocked the ship when one of the pirates finally caught up and opened fire.
Judy made a sound that was almost a growl and yelled her orders,"A.L.I.C.E. activate ADP!"
The mechanic voice of the ship's AI defense system replied,"Automated Defense Protocol activated. Engaging hostile ships."
The sound of the reactor charging up the laser turrets was music to her ears. It took only seconds until her ship returned fire while she continued maneuvering through the asteroids that surrounded her.
She would not fall here. Not to a bunch of space pirates.
Another explosion was followed by the sound of a blast door closing, causing another warning that the hull had been penetrated to pop up.
Judy's internal processing unit was engaged in solving one problem after the other. Apparently the enemy had hit the machine room and damaged the main generators as well as the life support system. Which lead to every system in the ship becoming unstable due to the unstable amount of power coming from the damaged generators and the remaining energy crystals.
She took a deep breath and redistributed the energy flow manually, thus making sure that her ship would not loose its ability to maneuver.
The loss of life support was dramatic, yes but as long as she manged to make the jump after leaving the asteroid field she would be okay.
She would be in range to jump into the heart of the federation, the solar system and more precisely right towards earth.
The cradle of civilization with its capital Zootopia, she would be safe there.
But first she had to survive the continued onslaught of pirate interceptors.
A.L.I.C.E. was putting in work by destroying or immobilizing one ship after the other. Luckily, Judy had the bigger ship and thus the higher range and stronger firepower in general but the pirates had maneuverability as well as numbers on their side making this a pretty even battle.
Judy grazed another asteroid and was almost thrown of her chair by the heavy impact. Another explosion and even more warnings flashed all around and yet she was almost through.
She could do it only a little bit longer.
The pirates seemed to realize this too as they redoubled their efforts.
Only six more minutes to go and four enemies that were close enough to do damage.
This would be a piece of cake, or so she thought as she used her front blasters to destroy an asteroid which was right in front of her. Causing the debris to hit her ship. However it did only minor damage to the hull. The small interceptors though had problems with the sudden assault and three of them did not manage to outmaneuver the flying debris and got either outright destroyed or immobilized. This left only one enemy. Nothing that A.L.I.C.E. could not handle Judy thought with a smirk just before the ships power dropped considerable leaving her without the necessary power to supply her blasters and turrets.
"Damn you had to jinx yourself Judy, you just had to!" She berated herself.
Safety was so close that she could basically taste it. However she knew that she was not out of the woods yet. Another explosion signaled that one of her turrets had been disabled, not that she would care about losing a single turret at this point.
Just thirty seconds left!
She readied the ship for its hyper jump and the main thrusters began charging.
The Nighthowler looked like it was about to fall apart any second now but it still carried itself through the asteroid field with a certain grace, like a wounded bird that was slowly gliding to the ground.
It was pursued by a single pesky interceptor that would not let up, as it kept firing its main blasters with relentless precision.
For one short moment time seemed to slow down, when the Nighthowler finally exited the asteroid field and its main thrusters lit up signaling the coming hyperspace jump.
And then it happened, just in the second that the ship was about to jump its main thrusters were hit by a proton torpedo. Yet against all odds it still jumped! Even though the thrusters should have been damaged beyond repair it still jumped.
Judy relaxed a little, she had done it!
Despite all taking all this damage she had managed to escape and was on her way into safety. That certain feeling of happiness that followed escaping certain death prompted her to jump up and triumphantly raise one paw into the air.
She was safe.
Or so she thought before new emergency messages popped up all over the cockpit.
Some errors that even she had never seen before and she was known to be a very capable captain.
"NO,no,no,no,no!", panic overcame her and she collapsed onto her knees.
Was the ship falling apart in hyperspace?
No this could not be happening!
New errors kept popping up by the second as the energy crystals all over the ship began overheating due to energy over consumption.
Judy felt real fear.
Normally she would be able to do something about the situations that she was in. Whether it was fighting, talking or piloting herself out of it. But this time she was stuck on a ship that was doing whatever it was doing in hyperspace. There was no way out of this other than the ship leaving hyperspace and this helplessness was what made her feel fear.
Was this going to be the end?
NO! She refused!
Judy got up again and checked every console at her disposal coming to the conclusion that she was about to exit hyperspace...now!
She was kicked of her feet and back against her chair with a force that would have killed any non augmented mammal but even with her reinforced bones and subdermal body armor she still felt the pain.
She had no time to recover though as even more warning messages showed up.
Wasn't the ship running out of those anytime soon?
She was still rubbing her head from the impact while looking at the main screen in front of her which displayed an apparently uninhabited Delta Class planet.
Judy stared at the beautiful blue orb with its green continents before her. She was really close to this planet which made it easy to spot details like deserts, mountains and big lakes.
Too close, she realized as her ship was being pulling into the planets atmosphere.
Judy tried to to compensate for the planets gravitational pull with her thrusters only to realize that they were not responding.
She was going to crash on an unknown planet!
What was she going to do now?
First she needed information, she would need to check her location and...suddenly she was thrown off her feet once more when the ship entered the atmosphere of the unknown planet and this time everything went dark.
Day 1 Stranded on the Unknown Planet
When she woke up everything felt hot and wet. She opened her eyes and realized that the ship was slowly filling up with water. Damn of course she would hit a body of water and sink to the bottom!Because life was just that nice to her. She wiped her own blood off her muzzle before turning around and looking at the screens, most of which were now lifeless and broken. She grabbed the nearest console and checked the system status. From what she could see it seemed like the ship had been ripped in half.
Leaving her with only the front half of the ship.
Normally the blastdoors would seal the ship airtight in a situation like this but due to the damage that the ship had sustained during the fight it seemed like that system was not operational anymore. Which allowed the water to slowly make its way into the ship.
Judy gave a heavy sigh when she realized that she needed to abandon the ship.
She was a good captain but she would not sink with her ship.
And so she started to manually overwrite the blast door system and opened up all of them.
The result was immediate as water flooded the interior of the ship relentlessly.
The power of the incoming water pressed her flat against the console she had been standing in front of.
Once the water had filled the ship she started swimming through its corridors on her way towards the broken middle of the ship.
The damage was impressive, she could still see where blasters had scorched parts of her ship or where the hull had been penetrated by the asteroids that she had rammed. In hindsight it was a miracle that her ship kept functioning for as long as it had.
When she reached the middle of the ship she could see the damage that the impact had done. The jagged edge where the ship had been halved looked like the ship had been impaled on a big rock formation.
But Judy knew that she had no time to focus on her ship and began ascending towards the water's surface.
She hoped desperately that she was not stranded in the middle of an ocean.
And once she surfaced she let out a sigh of relief.
Around her she could see a vast green countryside and when she turned she saw that the lake which she had crashed into was located at the foot of a big mountain.
A grin spread over her muzzle as she started swimming towards the shore.
This would be another great adventure.
Authors Note:
Thanks Combat Engineer for helping me with the Title.
So I decided to post another one of my AU's. Like always this is a oneshot until I decide otherwise.