Hi everyone, its randomkungfupandafan and its time! After many years of reviewing and working with other authors, I've decided to finally upload my first story here which is based in the Take A Stand series by Crewefox and friends! For a bit of information on this work, it takes place after book 1 with the triple threat of the Underground Trio being taken care of. go read Book 1 here for all the details of the series' beginnings at:
s/12105029/1/Take-A-Stand
Book 2 which is the direct sequel following this is completed with more characters and more adventure is completed for your enjoyment:
s/12439999/1/Take-A-Stand-Star-Of-Ceartais
Book 3 currently ongoing at the time of this being written is ready for reading:
s/12973009/1/Take-A-Stand-The-Broken-Mirror
Also here's another story I worked on that takes place in the 15 year gap between Take A Stand and Star Of Ceartais with other writers:
s/12929982/1/Take-A-Stand-Rise-Of-Ceartais-Before-The-Wave
Zootopia had been saved. The Underground Trio were taken care of, the Hopps family household threw a giant feast in celebration with a lot of honey based foods as a treat for Little John being the first grizzly bear that visited their home along with sharing more fun with Marian, Skye, Jack and Robin too. Judy had also just surprised Nick with a gift that would change their life with Luna forever and show that the 3 of them would be blessed with more for the future.
News of the ending of the Underground Trio spread fast to every news outlet in every section of Zootopia and even some areas outside the city like Bunnyburrow. It truly was an event that would be remembered for a long time.
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For the next several years, Judy and Nick had several happy years together with Luna throughout her youth, her preteen and teen years. The young vixen would go through a lot of tough hurdles throughout her growing life but she'd gain new friends and was never alone thanks to her parents and grandparents. What would be unknown to Luna, all The Wildes and their friends was the fact there would be another series of events outside Zootopia that would send them a bigger surprise further in the future. All beginning from one area that had been unaware of all the crap the Underground Trio had caused.
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Far away south of bunnyburrow is a little town called Sandleford that not many mammals know about. Much like the other area, this town is populated by rabbits but unlike Bunnyburrow, they were the only species around. no other prey species like sheep like Sharla and certainly no predator species like Gideon resided here. This town is known quite well for it's lush big open green fields behind old fashioned picket fences and big trees but over time, it seemed many mammals tend to forget about its existence. Granted no mammal ever truly forget about Sandleford but it seemed that with each passing year, even some of the rabbits far away hadn't a clue about any of it.
The town wasn't anything big to write home about. There was a small grocery store, public library, a few houses for residents, a mini clothing shop, radio station, a drugstore, a small bank, middle school, and a small townhall. The grocery store was the source to get news from at the moment when the radio station got knocked out of commission during the mayhem with the Underground Trio and wasn't repaired till afterr the end of the crime spree there. The Grocery Store also had not received any newspapers detailing the demise of Bellwether in that time either since the news truck had to deliver them from another town that got a shipment set aside for Sandleford and were usually late sometimes. However the truck with the papers telling every mammal about her death had an accident. The driver had accidentally forgotten to shut the backdoor of the delivery truck in a rush to get the newspapers to Sandleford on the day they had been printed about that victory but had hit a pothole near a river bridge which had sent the papers flying out the back into the river. Needless to say, no one in Sandleford were aware of any of the Underground Trio. Sandleford rabbits tended to keep to themselves mainly in their town so they didn't really pay attention to the outside world. Sure they had internet and knew how to use some touchscreen technology but they didn't read much of the big news articles and had missed other big events such as the rise of Andraste and Spitfire. According to the town leader dubbed The Grand Rabbit Rowan, their town and everyone in there is fine the way they are without bothering with the outside world.
Today on this beautiful sunny day, an orange reddish tall buck named Hazel was stopping by a place with his younger identical looking brother Fiver. The place they were visiting was called Sandleford Home For The Unfortunate which handled a lot of those unfortunate rabbits who didn't have a home. Hazel had on his checkered green long sleeve and black pants while his brother Fiver dressed in a bright red short sleeve and emerald green shorts. A few of their friends who didn't have a home were resting about under a giant oak tree on the right side of the home. They were a scruffy light grey buck named Hawkbit in a black long sleeve and a cherry red set of smooth pants, a skinny tan colored buck with black tipped ears named Dandelion in a green long sleeve and smooth brown pants, a small light chocolate colored buck named Pipkin wearing a white short sleeve with a carrot picture and swamp green shaded shorts and a light bluish doe named Blackberry in a white collared yellow sleeve and blue jeans.
"Hello everyone," Hazel called out to the group getting their attention. "Anything new happening today?"
"Nope, just resting if you don't mind," Grumbled Hawkbit. He folded his long ears over his eyes and went back to sleep.
"No news today as we still don't have any spare parts to fix up the radio station and no new news truck delivery of papers yet either,"added Blackberry.
"So we're just resting right now?" asked Fiver.
"Yes, now please go to sleep," mumbled Hawkbit. The two brothers decided to join them under the tree for a rest as another big buck walked out of the home. He had a tuft of dark brown hair around his neck and had served in a war about a year ago with his now retired Captain Holly who now took it upon himself to run this home after the last owner got a job offer in a bigger place up north. They called him Bigwig.
"Stay close Pipkin," said Bigwig as he noticed Pipkin start chasing a butterfly passing by
"I'll be careful, just butterfly chasing," replied the small buck named Pipkin. Bigwig chuckled at the youngster's energy
Unfortunately, he didn't get far to the tree for a rest when suddenly they all heard Fiver groaning.
"Aah no, flee every mammal!" Cried Fiver. Everyone woke up to see what was the matter including Pipkin who stopped butterfly chasing.
"He's in great pain, this must be a new type Of vision he's never had before!" Hazel exclaimed trying to comfort his brother but Fiver only continued to thrash about.
You see Fiver sometimes had visions because he had been gifted somehow at a young age to see into the future and they usually weren't good. It was a condition that no one could explain and neither their late parents could.
"A giant wave of water swipes through tall buildings, it spares no one and goes through all clearings! Drowning, screaming, such great sorrow and the giant water's victims will not live to see tomorrow!" Fiver cried before gasping and fainting
"Giant wave of water?" Asked Dandelion.
"Ooh, I've heard of giant waves of water in far off places away from here," Said a female mouse scurrying up onto Dandelions left shoulder. "They happen in something called a ocean but I don't know one being big enough to reach buildings."
"Why are you here again?" Asked Bigwig to her.
"In case you forgotten, I'm Hana, a wanderer who happened to help some of you rabbits like Pipkin and Fiver through hard times for about a year while some of you were busy," Hana responded firmly. "I also live in that tree you all were resting under."
"She does raise a point Bigwig," replied Hazel. The lion mane buck just grumbled in agreement. "Fiver, are you able to get a view of what this place is?" His young brother stopped shaking enough to stand up and talk.
"I think so, I saw a sign that said Welcome To ?" Fiver stammered.
"Huh, sounds foreign," Hazel thought. "Though I do believe we've gotten some buyers who sell some of our flayrah to a big far off place full of tall buildings full of many mammals. I think I know a buck we could contact that's possibly traveling to this Zootopia who could send a warning,"
"Better get inside to use that computer thing for the message," Bigwig suggested. Everyone went inside the big home and to the small computer room to get ready for the message. They were mostly full of old outdated models with floppy disks donated from faraway places.
"Okay, I'll just boot up this computer and we'll get ready," Said Hazel. They hadn't been at the computer for more than a minute when a sound of scurrying paw steps came their way.
"What the Frith was that?" Asked Hawkbit. Captain Holly, a retired battle captain, the now owner of the home and source of the paw steps came running in.
"There's an angry swirling wind headed our way!" Yelled Holly. Hazel and Bigwig rushed out to the front door and saw to their horror to their left in the distance that a big swirling wind now was headed their way. It was actually a tornado but Sandleford rabbits had a tendency to use outdated lapine terms a lot for things such as flayrah for vegetables and fire stick for guns.
Many panicked does and bucks were rushing about trying to get to safety.
"Every rabbit, please calm down!" Yelled Holly But his words fell on deaf ears because everyone outside was too scared and noisy to pay him any attention.
"Well how do we protect ourselves from that thing?" Exclaimed Bigwig as the tornado began drawing closer.
"I remember that this home has an emergency safety room in the basement, it should protect us long enough!" Said Holly. The 3 of them rushed back inside and closed the front door but forgot to lock it. They dashed back to the computer room where the others were waiting. "Every rabbit, we need to get downstairs to the emergency safety room now!"
No one argued and safely made their ways into a large steel door area with a very old fashioned room with a medium sized bathroom with a few stalls, sinks and showers and shelves of canned and boxed food. There was also a refrigerator Bigwig sealed the door tightly.
"This safety room should protect us from the storm till it blows over," Said Holly.
"What are we suppose to do now?" Asked Hawkbit.
"We wait it out patiently," replied Hazel. Fiver turned to him worried. "Fiver, what's wrong?"
"Did you remember to send that important message on the computer Hazel?" Fiver Asked. Hazel looked down sadly.
"Sadly no, we were in such a rush to get down here that it slipped my mind in the confusion," Hazel answered.
"Well we can't let you out in case the angry wind takes you," Blackberry added. "The computer room is too close to the entrance where the storm will be near. All we can hope that maybe there'll be signs of this doom that'll reach some mammal in this Zootopia place to warn the citizens."
"You're right Blackberry, the only thing for us to do is hope someone out there will help that place wherever it is and focus now on surviving ourselves," Hazel replied.
Then there came a lot of rumbling sounds from upstairs. The tornado was just grazing the entrance of the door and tore it open but only a bit of debris made its way inside. Unfortunately, some of it was flung into the computer lab taking out a few monitors including the one Hazel tried sending an email out to for warning but the tornado then went away into the distant and faded.
*timeskip To morning at 8am*
All the rabbits taking cover in the safety room had fallen asleep on top of several dusty old mattresses but then woke up once they were sure it had ended. They hadn't eaten too much and had been focusing more on keeping themselves together before succumbing to slumber.
"Is it safe now for going upstairs?" Pipkin Asked Bigwig. Everyone raised their ears for hearing the big wind but only got dead silence.
"Guess it is lad and from what we witnessed earlier, there's going to be a lot of clean up," replied Bigwig.
"Oh great, the angry wind leaves us to tidy its mess up," Hawkbit sarcastically added.
"If we want our town to go on, we need all our efforts of pitching in to insure it!" Bigwig yelled back.
Fiver then began shivering from a vision again.
"There is no future in the place you once call home, your only option now is to roam," Fiver chanted. "Take any survivors and supplies you can going forth. Then bury the dead before going in the direction that is north." He finished his vision with a small gasp.
"That can't mean our town is doomed," replied Holly. "Sandleford has stuck around for many generations to just suddenly be destroyed now."
"Sorry Holly But this vision is telling me that Sandleford no longer has a future," Fiver answered. "I don't mean to get these visions, they just happen."
"Fiver never asked for this ability at any point in his life," Hazel stated to Holly firmly as he made his way over to unlock the safety room front door." He can't help it more than other mammal born with an unexpected thing." That actually got the retired Captain to bow his head in shame. He started to feel guilty from all the times he ignored the young Hazel buck's visions.
Hazel opened the door from the protection bunker and led everyone up. The upstairs lobby looked dreadful. Many tables and chairs were tipped over, some windows had cracks in it from debris like sticks of wood poking through but the outside scene looked worse.
Streets were littered with a ton of garbage, a few more house windows and stores had been struck hard with wood and some metal pipes but what made the scene scarier were a number of dead bodies lying about. Most of them were lodged in between debris eyes shut dripping fresh blood or were pinned underneath cars with their eyes opened and looks of terror on their faces. Sandleford wasn't exactly a big town so a big body count is horrifying to say the least.
"It's as if the Black Rabbit Of Inle himself was rounding up souls in a big way," BlackBerry commented holding Pipkin tight from the gruesome death scattered about. "We'll need hard searching for any survivors!"
That wouldn't be the issue as a group of rabbits from behind a pile of trash cans then came over. These were Buckthorn, Speedwell, Violet, Acorn, Pimpernel, Silver and Bluebell.
"Well That was easy," added Hana who had been perched on Blackberrys right shoulder and had been silent the whole time.
"Are you guys okay," asked Hazel. Most were too shocked to say anything including Bluebell who was usually a cheerful joker. "Any survivors besides you spotted?" Violet sniffled sadly and shook no.
"Then we must be all that is left," Captain Holly said sadly. "How did you survive?" he asked the doe named Violet. She was still scared to talk so she pulled out a piece of paper and a black pen and wrote down this:
*Hid in drugstore basement, owner went out quickly to try getting more survivors but never came back. We exited in the morning but only found dead bodies and then found you*
With the 7 rabbit survivors now a part of their survival group, Hazel then heard a sound coming from the electronics store nearby. Every rabbit rushed over although they noticed another familiar dead body pinned beneath a stack of wood with blood trickling from his mouth.
It was Ralph Rowanson, the now former mayor of Sandleford Town and uncle to Silver. The two weren't always on the best of terms but he was the last of Silver's family when a great sickness had taken his parents many years back. After that, his uncle assumed ownership of Silver and gave him a job helping around his office although the two tended to butt heads occasionally for town decisions. He tended to ignore Fiver's warnings quite a bit more harshly than Holly thinking the young buck would bring apart destruction from his "mad ramblings" as he dubbed them. While not always close, Silver felt a bit of sorrow at the last of his family being offed like that.
"Although we weren't always close, my uncle is still family to me,"Silver spoke softly. Everyone bowed their heads in respect along with him as they spoke the saying any rabbit here said when one dies.
"My heart has joined the thousand for my friend has stopped running today," they chanted. After that, they all decided to continue inside the store to try searching for something that could tell them of any help they could get.
It hadn't been damaged too badly though the front window took a few beatings but they ignored as they entered the store. This store is a bit old fashioned as they still sold some older CRT models. Everyone however became focused on one CRT TV broadcasting from Zootopia where a gray female snow leopard and a male moose were reporting the news.
"Never seems we forget the heroic deeds of the famous duo of Nick and Judy!" Smiled the moose known as Peter Moosebridge at a pop up picture of the fox and rabbit officers with their arms around each other. "Now in other news, weather reports have picked up some rough winds and sea conditions to be over Zootopia in the next couple of days. Citizens should be advised to stay in if conditions pick up and all current future cruises and ship deliveries are delayed till safe enough water travelling conditions can be confirmed. Over to you Fabienne Growly."
"Thanks Peter," said the leopard known as Growly. "Coming up next is a live broadcast of Officer Hopps and how she and Nick work hard at keeping Zootopia safe on a daily basis."
"Huh, never knew a fox and a rabbit would be a great duo in protecting other mammals," said Hazel. "Looks like other species in other places like this Zootopia can be together including predator and prey huh Bigwig?"
"Suppose you're right Hazel," Bigwig agreed begrudgingly."Its just that Sandleford is just a rabbit populated town. The small amount of predators that do come here are usually just passing tourists and my mind still isn't used to much predator interactions between prey."
While Bigwig and Hazel were discussing predators and prey spending time together and the other rabbits excluding their new survivors (still feeling shocked) were engaging in casual conversation with each other, Fiver had remained focused specifically on the news reports about big winds and rough waters picking up in the Zootopia area. That gave him a sinking feeling of it being linked with his vision of a big water coming to destroy Zootopia. He tried to shake off the feeling when another vision overtook him causing him to collapse on the store floor attracting all the rabbit's attention.
"No!" Cried Fiver. "Death, destruction, screaming, terror! The big water is coming!"
"Great Frith, Fiver is talking about the big water again!" Exclaimed Hazel. "Think it's related to the weather report in Zootopia?" He looked over to Bigwig
"Could be a coincidence but your brother's visions don't usually turn out to be false alarms," Bigwig replied.
"Fiver, can you try telling us what you can see," soothed BlackBerry. Fiver nodded weakly as the visions kept coming. All rabbits paid close attention including Hana who was still perched on Blackberry's left shoulder.
"You can't stop the big water, many won't get away! The big water's victims won't live to see next day! A big threat rises once the water is done! A spotted female danger who claims she needs the ones she sees unworthy gone!" Fiver chanted. He took a deep breath as those visions finished. "I saw the big water wash away so many innocents. So much blood and death! The mysterious spotted female was saying something about a Zootopia cleansing looking mad!"
"Fiver said the great big water can't be stopped so it's a disaster we're powerless against but then there was this female spotted threat," Hazel thought. "She sounds like a servant of the Black Rabbit Of Inle!"
"We don't have a clue on who she is and it all sounds as confusing as ever," muttered Hawkbit.
"Are you saying this big disaster and the mad mysterious female are things that none of us can do anything about Fiver?" Asked Dandelion. He got a sad yes nod from him. Fiver then groaned a bit from another vision but managed to stay upright this time.
"A new set of heroes will rise to protect the innocents with a whole lot of heart but for them to begin, they must endure all different pains to start!" Fiver chanted before gasping from the finished visions.
"Are they rescuers from what you saw?" Violet spoke up at last. Everyone gasped that one of the 7 survivors they found broke their silence at last. "They might be good Mammals."
"The visions came quickly but I think they might be," Fiver replied. I saw an orange doe, a white female fox with black facial markings, a male black wolf with a mixture of grey and what I believe is the creature they call a lion with a red curled mane. They were helping save lives in strange clothes but before those, I saw some of them in pain! The orange doe was carrying the female fox who was holding her eyes from a terrible accident and the red mane lion was being held captive in some unknown building being tested on with something I couldn't make out."
"Savage beasts playing Frith with the lives of other mammals like they're nothing and other mammals that will be in pain who we can't help," Bigwig grumbled. "There has to be a way to do something Hazel!"
"Afraid we can't Bigwig," replied Hazel. "We don't normally travel much of anywhere and have no idea where this Zootopia is. That great angry swirling wind which already passed us by has damaged our hometown greatly and left us 16 as the only survivors of Sandleford plus Fiver did have that previous vision of our town no longer having a future. Our only course of action now is that we salvage what we can out of this wreck and move on to a new home provided Captain Holly has no objections."
"No objections from me after this mess," answered Holly. "I do apologize for not heeding your younger brother's warnings of needing to leave this town sooner. Perhaps we could have saved some of those departed rabbits if I had been wiser to listen to your visions and not pass them off as nothing serious."
"My visions aren't something that means to cause any mammal harm Holly," said Fiver. "They just come to me whenever it happens but my brother is right. All we can do now is pack up whatever we can and move to a new place to go on with our lives. Still feel chills from all those poor mammals we can't save." Holly placed his right paw on Fiver's left shoulder.
"Fiver, I may have not listened to your visions more seriously before but I think it's not too late to try taking them more seriously now," assured Holly. "We'll make ourselves new lives to wherever we travel to and possibly help more mammals along the way. Don't worry too much about those in that Zootopia area. You did also have a vision predicting a new group of heroes will rise up to protect them and who knows what else will happen? Maybe they'll have help from a Captain skilled as me but more wiser." That made Fiver smile.
"Well Said Captain Holly!" Exclaimed Dandelion. "Now how do we get out of Sandleford for starting our new lives?"
"Let's try heading over to the school and begin searching for a big hrududu like a bus," suggested Hazel. "Should be big enough for the remaining 16 of us and carry a decent amount of supplies. However, once, we get our bus and load up with whatever supplies we can, we should host a quick funeral too for those poor rabbits that couldn't make it out of harms way so their souls can Rest In Peace
Everyone nodded yes and begin their way to the school in hopes of finding a bus. As they walked off, Fiver stared up happily in the sky feeling happy that not only did Holly apologize to him and is willing to be more mindful of his visions but the Zootopia area would have their own heroes soon to protect them
While none of the Sandleford rabbits could help these Zootopia citizens, these new heroes whoever they'd be would be there for them. Hazel noticed his happy look.
"What's got you in a good mood?" Hazel asked.
"Despite the harsh wind we faced, many of us Sandleford rabbits survived to see tomorrow," Fiver replied. "Although it's over for us here, we can still carry on to whatever our future is now."
"3 cheers for our survival!" Exclaimed Hana who was now perched on Pipkin's head.
Everyone cheered 3 times before continuing onwards of starting their new lives. Sandleford no longer had a future of its own but for this group of survivors, they as the sole survivors could continue its legacy.
*Timeskip to 9am*
Later on, the Sandleford survivors had found a slightly scratched up but working silver bus reading "Sandleford Elementary" That had enough space for the remaining 16 and supplies. Bigwig offered to drive the bus as Holly hadn't felt up to driving. They loaded up on whatever produce and other food and drinks that weren't damaged badly at the wrecked supermarket before hitting up the general store and drugstore for toiletries and the remaining good medicine.
Another important supplies like clothes and money were needed. Hazel initially argued that breaking the registers to take the cash isn't the right way but Bigwig pointed out that with their town totalled and the owners likely dead, full registers in a dead town would be of no use to any mammal. Hazel agreed and so they all had taken the cash from the drugstore register which had been left open surprisingly. The grocery store cash taking was no issue as it turns out the keys to them had been left on the counter when the rabbit owner had tried finding more survivors before he likely had been taken away by the tornado so the cash was taken during their food and drink gathering.
For clothes, every buck and doe left quickly tried on a few pairs and only took a few pairs to change into for the road including pajamas for resting. Also a fuel stop was required since no one wanted to take chances at a breakdown. Holly also requested they stop by the public library to gather some of the town's history to share with new faces they might meet along the way.
Despite some arguing from Bigwig who at first said that the more important items such as clothing, food, medicine and toiletries be their major focus, Hazel had intervened saying it'd be important to carry some of their history with them to share their tales since they wouldn't be coming back to their old town. That got him to shut up as it was a good point.
The library entrance had been damaged quite a bit from more debris based on the glass doors punctured By more broken wood and the garbage can through one of the side windows but Bigwig, Holly and Hazel made their way inside and gathered only the few important history books about Sandleford's history they could carry. The rest of the library stock were simple picture books and other book series they chose to abandon as they had heard those were common in other areas they hadn't been to.
Hazel and Fiver requested they stop by their house for any mementos. Their house which was slightly damaged did house one important item left for them and that was the photo album of their late parents. Their mother died shortly after Fiver had been born and their father had been diagnosed with lung cancer from constant smoking foor many years before the birth and passed away just after Fiver's first birthday. Needless to say, Hazel watched over his brother as the best he could and protected him well from the bullies that would tease Fiver from his "strange ramblings" that were the visions he'd get sometimes.
For the other rabbits, Dandelion and Hawkbit were the only ones that had items which were located in their next destination.
Their final stop was then the Home For The Unfortunate for any last memory trinkets they could get but most of the rabbits didn't have anything big to carry. since Hazel only had a small photo album with a few pictures of the parents he and Fiver barely knew from their home, that left Bigwig, Dandelion, Hawbit and Holly to collect whatever belongings that survived for themselves. Holly had his old war diary and captain's jacket and Bigwig had his old Captain's jacket from the war he fought in alongside Holly. Dandelion's room contatined a small leather bound journal that he wrote stories in and Hawkbit had a wireless speaker called Oceantooth and a small Swansung S8 phone with a nice selection of music. Each of them took their items and packed them up for the road.
Now came the hard part, burying the dead. Sandleford wasn't exactly a big town so luckily, they only had 16 bodies found for the burials and most of them were the ones from under wreckage they saw earlier in the morning after the storm passed. The cemetery had taken quite the beating so the long process of burying the dead had been relocated to the patch of grass outside the big welcome sign. Pipkin had to sit aside as every other buck and doe had to clean the bodies as best they could before digging their holes and putting them in each one to cover up. Silver even choked up once he had to bury his dead uncle, that last of his family. Now it was time for the sendoff speeches.
Since none of the rabbits besides Bigwig and Holly owned some type of fancy clothes, Bigwig offered to dig out his old lieutenant's jacket to wear as the first speaker of the funeral to appear formidable. Hazel would be second and Holly would go last who dressed up in his old captain's jacket as also his way of honouring the dead.
"My survival friends, we gather here today to say goodbye to a few unfortunate rabbits that were taken from us by the angry swirling wind that sadly destroyed our beautiful home," Bigwig began. "However with our survival, it is not over for us now." He stepped aside for Hazel.
"My brother Fiver has had quite a few visions recently including one of our new future where we must leave our once beautiful home of Sandleford and journey to a new place north from here," Hazel said before letting Holly step in to finish.
"While I was an old fool of the past, I have now taken it upon myself to be wiser and say we should all be more mindful of young Fiver's visions," Holly finished. "As painful as this truth is, our wonderful home no longer has a future but not all hope is lost for there is another path for us now. We shall make ourselves new futures to wherever we roam to after we say goodbye to the unfortunate who lost their lives."
All the rabbits put their right paws over their chests and said a newer version of the special saying for the deceased:
"Our hearts have joined the thousands for these unfortunate innocent rabbits have stopped running today"
Once it was done, they each stuck crudely made crosses into the 16 holes and boarded the survival-bus to head north to wherever their fate leads them to. Bigwig took the driver's seat again and shut the door after the last passenger got on. Some of the rabbits had begun chattering amongst themselves including discussion of the mystery heroes as the bus drove off north away from their former home
While none of the Sandleford rabbits could help these Zootopia citizens, these new heroes whoever they'd be would be there for them. Fiver was next to his brother feeling quite happy and deep in thought about them. Hazel noticed his happiness as the young buck had been staring happily out a left window for several minutes now.
"What are you thinking about now Fiver?" Hazel asked.
"Just the soon to be heroes of that Zootopia place," Fiver replied. "We may not be able to help there now but they will when they're ready."
"That's the spirit little brother!" Laughed Hazel tussling his brother's ears. "Keep up that good cheer!" He pulled him closer to him lovingly as the bus full of survivors continued on their journey to wherever their fresh start awaited them.