Resurrection

Chapter 1: What has been forgotten

It has been a month since The Hamish Pharma Corp case and the attack on Zootopia Police Department's Precinct 1. Evidences of an Island, privately owned by the Hamish Pharma Corp, located off the coast of Zootopia is suspected of illegal biomedical research. Zootopia's Investigation Bureau or the ZIB sent a team of investigators to the Island to gather evidences regarding the activities of Hamish Pharma Corp. They didn't return. The ZIB presumed that their agents were missing in action. Until a distress radio broadcast reaches inland. The broken transmission seems to indicate a male bunny survivor stranded on the Island and needed help. But what happened to his team is still a mystery. The ZPD decided to send a team of Police Officers on the Island to rescue the stranded agent. This is what happened to Officer Judith Lavern Hopps and her team on the Island...

It was a cold, dark night, a lone boat pierces its way through the mist of the open sea under a starless sky. Its destination, the Island off the coast of Zootopia named Isla de Nuevo Mondo. Its passengers were Police Officers of the ZPD, Judy Hopps, her partner Nick Wilde, their friend and trusty big mammal Jim Colditz and finally the so-called expert on the Island, a brown rabbit named Tony. Judy sits quietly in the bowel of the ship, staring curiously into the horizon, her partner Nick stands beside her with an equally nervous expression. They left Zootopia at dawn and had been at sea ever since, usually going by boat is the cheapest and easiest way to get on the Island but he hadn't expected the trip to last all day. "Judy! We're coming up on the island." Jim calls out to her as he slows down the boat to the dock. "It's so quiet. Just like all the papers said, not a single boat leaves port."

Judy commented on the status of the eerie dark harbor, barely lit by the dim moon light and aging light bulbs, as Jim comes to the dock and tire his boat to the boardwalk, Judy and Nick were the first hop off and explore around the harbor. "I'll take the right side at those cabins. You take the left of the port authority building. Keep in touch Carrots." Nick's sly expression made a Judy smirk for a bit as the vulpine switch on his radio. "Don't make me have to come to you every time Nick. Beside I can take care of myself." Judy and Nick split up by the intersection of wooden boardwalk, with Judy heading out to a two story tall office building and Nick head over to the cabins of sea faring mammals. As Judy made her way to the office building, she felt a sense of dread forming up in the back of her head, slowly building up over time as if something she was never trained to deal with wanted her to find it in its own home turf. She laid her paw on the door knob and tried her best to open it to no avail. She turned it to the sides, but it refuses to give way and open.

"Locked. Just what I need. But the good thing is I have my trusty tool-kit." She reached for her pouch and bring out a Swiss Army Knife, the little bunny flipped her through the various tools until she comes across a handy screwdriver. Judy then latched the screwdriver into the gap between the door and its knob with a thrust then pry out the knob. With incredible strength and resilience from her commitment, the door knob fell to the ground, leaving the door open for her. "Nick, I'm inside the office building, it looks like there was something gruesome here."; "Same here Carrots, it seems like the cabins assailants were murdered too. Blood stains are everywhere and the whole place doesn't seem to lose anything of value. This is strange Carrots. Definitely not a mass homicide, just something much worse." Nick's radio message didn't help lighten the atmosphere for Judy at all, as she walked into the various rooms in the authority building, she found that the rooms were often empty, documents and office supplies were still in order, nothing had been taken away. However, blood stains can be found on the floor, they all traced outward, indicating that the corpses were dragged away. Judy opened a door into the log room on the second floor and to her surprise, the wide open room was still well lit and the old computers were still well powered.

She approached one of the computer and booted up the system. To her amazement, the old Micatsoft OS Windows 95 was still operating with nothing added or changed. She moved the arrow on-screen to the "Log" section of the computer and access it. The logs ended at a specific date of "10/9/1996". Her training dictates that the last log is always the best to start, so she clicked on the log without a second thought and a word document pops up on screen for her viewing and investigation. "To anyone who still thinks that it's working day: Get out! (Space down) Orders are to evacuate the island as fast as possible, go by boat or by air. Heck swims out of here if you can, but don't dawdle here with the thought that some miracle will save you. Those things have overrun the police barricades at Moosen and Vixie Intersection so if you want to live run for it." The log sent the dreads crawling up Judy's bunny spine as she felt like she shouldn't have come here, but her enthusiasm and dedication to duty have led her into unwanted hazard. "Judy, Nick, it's Jim, Tony and I have searched whatever boat that is left around here, other than some cans of fuel, foods and weapons and ammo, nothing.

Also there is some graffiti on the ship's interior, seems like survivor's messages that the boats are unusable and they need to head to the airport for evacuation. Don't know about you, but whatever they are running from, sounds a lot less like a bad cold."; "Roger that Jim, anything to report on, over?" Jim rotated his head around to glance at the belongings inside the ship to his morbid curiosity, nothing of interest so he reported to Judy on the emptiness he felt inside the cabin. "Nada, nothing else. Well, except for Tony, he seems rather unease, but a little too calm for my liking. Anyway call you back when I have something to say." Jim put his radio back into its place and exited the ship with Tony followed him closely from behind. The cold air and night time atmosphere drove the eerie feelings to their doorsteps and when Nick, Judy and Jim meet up at the entrance of town, the dreads just broke through and filled their minds. The deserted, empty streets with crashed cars, some lifeless corpses strew around here and there made them realize that this was no ordinary CSI.

As they make their way to an intersection, the signs on the sidewalk make Judy realized how gruesome the implied carnage in the log she read moments earlier. The police on the island set up some defensive works, barricades and roadblocks, spent cartridges littered all over the ground, the police corpses had bite marks on their bodies, their flesh was ripped apart and before the barricades were more corpses of what appeared to be mutated mammals of all species. "Does anybody feel like we should get going?" Tony asked them in a frighten manner, looking around all they saw were pale skin, mutilated flesh and luggage of fleeing civilians. Suddenly, a sound caught the polar bear's attention, "Uugghh..." the siren of the dead rang into his ear, he flinched and found the corpse of a fellow police officer, a deer, rose up from the streets, standing in front of a SWAT van's headlight, the bear can see all the intricate details on the deer's mutilated body, from the bite marks, to the bullet holes, and even worse, what appears to be a tiny pale earth worm or maybe maggots infested on his chest.

Jim grabbed his Taser right away and fire a shot at the deer, sending a current of electricity into the deer and knocking it down instantly. "What the hell? C...co...corpses aren't suppose to do that. Right?" Tony jerks his body back at the sight, and once Jim inspects the deer's dead body, other supposedly dead police officers rose from the ground, limping towards them, growling and moaning. To make the scene even more unsettling, Nick can hear the snarls of nearby undead canids. "We need to run." He suggested, holding his Taser at one of the masses moving towards them, trying to corner them in one place. "But where? We're..." Judy cut in but before she can finished, Tony pointed to them a mansion on the hill near the town, "That mansion should give us some breathing room! Let's go for it." Without any second thought, Judy and Co ran as fast as they could to the mansion on the hill, dodging the canids and the horde of undead following them. As the door came closer into view, Judy jumped up and push it open, leaving barely enough time for her companions to enter, but when a pair of wolves jumped at her, she hastily closed the door and lock it, with Jim's help, they barricade the door with a timber log. But the horror had just begun.