SK'S P.O.V.
2 days later
Location: Bunnyburrow
I stir and open my eyes to find myself in a nursery or medical area, but not a hospital. What is this place, where is Jack what happened. I wonder to myself as I look around. A young bunny walks in carrying a pillow and a few sheets. She drops the sheets when she spots me awake staring at her.
"MOM!" she calls, "SK is awake!". I feel like I know the bunny from somewhere but I can't place it. Then I hear light pawfalls and look over at the door to see a rabbit I recognize instantly.
"BONNIE!" I call out in happiness as Judy's mom runs up to me happily. "What happened, how did you find us, what happened?" I ask in slight shock.
"Your helicopter crashed in our field, we brought you here and got a doctor to fix you all up. Don't worry everyone's alive, Jack is still asleep though and the other fox, Skye." Bonnie explains.
"Can I go see him?" I ask.
"Of course! Now let's get you up and dressed." After Bonnie helps me get out of the bed, she leads me to a bathroom and gives me clothes to change. I look at myself in the mirror and see that I have some stitches on my left eyebrow where it must have gotten cut from the crash. My left arm is in some bandages because it got burned but other than that and some minor bruising I made it out of the crash ok. After I get dressed Bonnie leads me towards Jack's room.
"Jack received a lot of injuries but the doctor believes that he will make a full recovery.
Agent Savage got burned but other than that is fine. Nick received burns on his back from protecting Judy from fire, and he managed to sprain his ankle. Judy broke her wrist and dislocated her shoulder but was conscious when we got to you guys, she told us everything. Wolford broke his arm and his leg, Finnick lost an eye and injured one of his ears. Jack broke both of his legs, one of his arms, the windshield exploded in his face and so his face is pretty torn up, but as the doctor said, he will fully recover." Bonnie says and I sigh in relief knowing that Jack will be ok.
"What about Skye?" I ask realising that Bonnie didn't mention her. Bonnie sighs staring off into the distance.
"Honestly, I don't know how she is still alive. She was thrown from the crash and landed on a barbed wire fence. We thought she was dead when we ran up to her. Her left leg is broken, her right arm is broken in 3 spots, she had that bullet wound, she is burned severely, and…" she pauses looking at me sadly, "Her left arm was severed from her body at the elbow. She is very lucky to be alive." Bonnie finishes looking into my eyes.
"She is gonna be ok." I say sounding more confident than I feel. Bonnie nods slowly and opens the door to Jack's room.
SK's P.O.V.
2 days later
Bunnyburrow Hops' farm
Jack woke up yesterday morning, he is still a little groggy but at least he is alive. Skye is still unconscious and I had to give her a blood donation because she had internal bleeding we didn't know about. Agent Savage, Nick, and Finnick have been trying to get in contact with people they trust. A few off duty officers were able to make it out here and they brought Finnick's son with them. The city is in chaos and the Finis are searching for us which means I haven't been able to get outside. I am beginning to get a bit anxious and I know that we can't hide here forever, but none of us are ready to fight so we have to wait for now. I think to myself as I walk threw the halls of the big house admiring the photos. What are we gonna do, there is no way we can fight the Finis. We still have to figure out what they want from me and Jack but for now the only thing we can do is wait, and it is totally killing me. I ramble to myself as I walk around the corner. I realise I am in Jack's hall and make my way over to his door. I walk in to see him looking out the window focusing on a large red barn. His ears perk up and he turns his head towards me when he hears me and I see a bright smile flash across his bandaged face.
"How you feelin?" I ask walking over to his bed.
"Like a million bucks, I think I could win a marathon!" he lies sarcastically.
"Ahhhh, well let me know how that goes." I reply with a smirk. "After you heal you need to explore this house, it is huge and I think I was able to trace the Hops family all the way back to the stone age!" I say making Jack chuckle.
"How is Skye and everyone else?" Jack asks and I sigh and smile sadly.
"Everyone is alive, I had to donate blood earlier last night because she had internal hemorrhaging we didn't know about but the doctor caught it and we were able to save her. Finnick's son got here 2 hours ago along with 3 officers from the ZPD. Nick, Finnick, and Agent Savage are trying to get more officers out here and I think that they were able to get word to the officers in the safe house about what is going on." I explain softly.
"Mmmmm, sounds like everyone has been very busy, are you doing all right?" He asks sympathetically.
"Don't you worry about me." I say gently placing a kiss on Jack's forehead, "Now get some sleep and don't worry about a thing, it's all gonna be ok."
"Your kisses are magical, you know that." Jack says as I stand and walk towards the door. I chuckle and smile gently closing the door behind me knowing Jack isn't going to sleep anytime soon.
Jacks P.O.V.
2 months later
May 11
Location: BunnyBurrow
We are all finally healed accept for Skye who was injured worse than anyone else. Today Nick, Agent Savage, Finnick, Wolford, Judy, SK, 3 other officers, and I are going into the city to fight the Finis. I don't want SK or Judy to come but there is no way Nick can convince Judy not to come and SK told me that if I am going she is too. I think to myself as I get dressed in combat gear from the Z.P.D.. Over the past week I showed Nick that I know how to use a gun, and since we are inevitably going to get in a fire fight he gave me a new silenced Sig Sauer M18 with hollow point bullets. It's a serious gun and I am glad I am the one wielding it, I make my way towards the front living room where Agent Savage, Nick, and Judy are already waiting. Nick and Judy both have silenced M4 carbines and Agent Savage has two silenced Beretta M9s. Wolford and the 3 other officers disguised as hotel guests walk into the room carrying Mp5 submachine guns. Finnick walks in carrying a shotgun with an axe attached to its handle. Finally SK meets us, she has on a black dress that looks like it was made for a funeral and was made for rabbits. Finnick gave her a silenced Colt 1911 that she is hiding on her lower back, it is a backup in case she is caught. I ubjected when I first heard Nick's plan, his plan is to have SK sneak into a party the Finis, aka the ZIA, is throwing in celebration of successfully corrupting the ZIA. If SK can make it to the garage she can let us in and we can storm the ball while everyone is distracted and defenslis. Our plan is a little dirty but it has to be in order for us to succeed. We are gonna burn their HQ down, Nick wants revenge, and Agent Savage wants payback for what happened to Skye. We walk out the front door and make our way towards the BunnyBurrow train station as the sun sets on the distant mountains. Judy leads the way and as we board the train, all the animals get out of our way. The train ride goes quickly and as train nears Zootopia it suddenly goes black and stops. Great everything is going according to plan. I think to myself following Nick towards a trap door in the floor. He opens the door and I drop down onto the rails beneath the train I give the all clear signal after a quick check behind me. Nick and everyone else drops down behind me and I lead the way out from under the train. The sun has set and I move up the side of the train using the cover of shadows until I see a tunnel in front of me that leads to Sahara Square. I sprint towards the tunnel and make it inside just as the train starts to power up again. I start towards a door but stop and melt into the shadows when I spot a security camera above it. The rest of the group follows me and melts into the shadows behind me. I signal the camera to Nick who nods and signals to Wolford who begins to dig in his bag for a spike. The train starts moving again and rushes past us none the wiser that we are hiding in the shadows. Wolford pulls out a cool gun and shoots the camera with the spike, then he pulls out a tablet and presses a few buttons before nodding back to Nick and I. Nick moves in front of me and starts to pick the lock to the door.
"Since when do you know how to pick a lock dad?" I whisper as the rest of the group rushes over to us.
"Really Jack?" he asks giving me a sarcastic smile, "Im am zootopia's best x-con, I invented lock picking." he unlocks the door and motions us in. Agent Savage and Judy enter first and I wait for SK to go through before walking through the door.
"Stupid dress!" she whispers angrily glancing back at me.
"What, is there something wrong with it?" I ask slightly concerned.
"Yes, this just is totally not my style, and it doesn't help that it doesn't fit!" she spits out clearly upset.
"Well I think you look just fine." I say with a warm smile, "After you let us in, you can change into the combat gear I jammed in my bag earlier." she nods and we pick up our pace down the dark hallway towards a latter leading to a road. I climb the latter first and push open the trapdoor to find myself in an alie, after I check to make sure I haven't been spotted and that there are no security cameras I signal for everyone else to climb up. I peek my head around the corner of the alie and see the palm hotel where the ZIA headquarters are located and smile as I see the party lights beaming from the building. This is gonna be fun. I think to myself as I turn around and make my way back down the dark alie.
"Is Mr. Bigs car here yet?" Judy asks anxiously. I shake my head no.
"It will be ok, he will get here, I wanna go back through the plan." Nick says as we all stand in a circle around him. "OK, so SK gets into the party with Mr. Bigs and then you get to the garage and let us in. We are not going to fire on guests in the ballroom, Fangmire, Spots, and Francine, you 3 get to the ZIA boiler room and overheat it, that should be enough to start a fire, since the hotel and and the ZIA are on different fire systems and they are separated by a whole floor of concrete, the fire should stay in the ZIA, hopefully it won't spread to the hotel. Then you guys get out of there and meet us at the rendezvous point. Jack, SK, the two of you watch our backs, the two of you need to be our eyes and ears, the two of you bring up the rear. Wolford, Savage, Finnick, Judy and I are going for Lang. We can use the distraction of the fire to get Lang. After we get Lang we use a transport helicopter to get away, we pick you three and get back to BunnyBurrow!" Nick finishes and we all nod as Mr. Big's limo pulls up to the alie entrance. "Ok this is it. Let's do this! Wolford, your up first, go make sure we can get into the garage!" Nick says before looking at SK and nodding. Wolford looks over at Nick who nods before taking off towards the hotel.
"You can do this SK," I say walking her towards the car, "just be calm and be yourself." I lean in and kiss her as she gets in the car and I gently shut the door before the car quickly pulls away.
"She'll do fine, don't you worry." Finnick says walking up to me.
"I know, because I don't know what I'll do if she doesn't." I reply as Nick walks out of the alie leading us towards the Palm Hotel.
"Jack." Nick says as I catch up to him, "Listen, if this all goes to hell, get out of there. Get SK out if you can but don't worry about the rest of us, the Finis seems to want you two the most which means they will go after you if we get in a fight. Don't come back for us if you get out and if we get separated meet us at the rendezvous point. OK?" he asks me seriously.
"Yes, I understand." I say knowing there is no point in arguing.
"Good, be safe. And Jack, I love you." he says patting my shoulder before turning and walking down an alie. I take the next alie and follow it to an intersection. I check both directions and see Nick 50 feet in front of me on the other side of the road. I see Judy emerge from an alie 50 feet in front of me on my side of the road. Everyone else is behind me accept for Finnick who is across the street. We move up the road in silence and I feel both calm and excited at the same time. The road we are on leads to the back of the hotel where the garage is. I check my watch and see that it is 9:00 pm on the dot. SK infiltrates at 9, we are in by 9:15. We are out by 9:30. I think to myself as I walk through the shadows avoiding cameras and light posts making my way towards the hotel. As we near the garage Wolford steps out of the booth dressed in a baggy mall-cop uniform.
"Nice look Wolford." Nick says sarcastically as Wolford opens the gate.
"I thought Finnick said there was a Wolf manning this station. Not a miniature horse!?" Wolford says in annoyance.
"Well you can ditch it, you wouldn't pass for a halloween costume in that." Finnick says walking past the white wolf. Wolford looks over at me confused, I shrug and walk past him joining the rest of the group. I check the time again, its 9:10.
"How are we gonna get past all the cameras?" Judy asks checking around the corner for cameras.
"I got a guy inside." Finnick says shining a laser at the camera.
"Who is it?" Judy asks curiously.
"Flash." Finnick says nonshalontly.
"WAIT, WHAT!?" Judy exclaims.
"Keep your voice down fool, and yea, he's an agent. Deal with it." Finnick snaps before walking down the hallway confidently. "Yo Flash, you with us?" Finnick asks into the radio as the door to the elevator opens.
"... I … am … here." the sloth replies slowly through the radio, " … How … are …. You … doing … today."
"Were good buddy, thanks for taken care of the cameras, now get out of here before this place really turns into a party, get to your safe house and I will contact you once we are clear." Finnick says smirking slightly.
" ….. O …. K … talk ….. Later ….. Have ….. A … fun … time." the sloth replies excruciatingly slowly.
"Uggggggghhhhhh, why?" Judy pouts entering the elevator.
"Aww come on Carrots, Flash is the best." Nick says comically before hitting the send button on the elevator. Judy shoots Nick a dangerous look before inspecting her weapon and checking her mags. "Alright, are we all clear on the plan?" Nick asks and everyone nods.
"I have a question actually." I say getting his attention, "Why did SK have to infiltrate if flash could get us in the whole time?' I ask.
"Because Flash can't get us in," Finnick answers my question, "or, at least not all the way, we were just in the hotel garage, not the ZIA garage, this elevator will take us there, where hopefully SK will be waiting. But you three," Finnick says pointing at the officers tasked with starting the fire, "will be getting off on the first floor and going to the boiler room". I nod in understanding and move to the side as the door opens and the three officers disguised as guests exit the elevator before it starts upwards again. The elevator reaches the ZIA garage 13 stories up and we exit moving towards the opposite side of the garage. As we approach, the door, I hear a quiet 'tchhhk' and it opens as a bloody cheetah falls face forward into my arms. I jump backwards and yelp in surprise. I look back at the door and see SK pointing her gun at the cat.
"Cats." she states before smiling and walking over to me.
"What a shame." Finnick says smiling deviously, "Lang liked this guy, what was he doing back here?" Finnick asks.
"He was trying to get into my dress." SK says looking at me, I shiver remembering our lives as humans, "I gave him a bullet from inside my gun instead!" she spits tucking her gun away. "Now, Jack, give me my clothes so I can get out of this thing." she says and I hand her my bag as she walks behind a car to change. I sneak a peak in a mirror and am reminded how much I love her. After Finnick and Wolford get rid of the cheetah and Sk changes we all gather by the entrance to the ZIA.
"OK, Listen up, we don't know how long the fire will take so until we get word from our guys downstairs we wait here. Jack let me know when it's 9:20." Nick says and I give him a thumbs up checking the time, its 9:18. "After we get word the fire is going, we move for Lang." Nick says before turning and checking through the door SK opened for us. "Finnick, where would the Finis keep hostages?" Nick asks suddenly spinning around to face Finnick.
"No Nick, that wasnt part of the plan!" Finnick says as I realize that the Finis are probably holding Chief Bogo here.
"It is part of the plan now!" Nick says seriously.
"Fine, 2 floors above us, left wing." Finnick says, "We can check it on our way out". Nick nods in thanks. Five minutes later Spots calls through the radio telling us they got the fire started and they are getting out of the hotel.
"Ok, we ready?" Nick asks donning a breathing mask. We all nod and put on our own masks as smoke slowly starts to seep out of the vents. "Lets go kick some tail!" Nick says taking off down the halway towards the ball room. Here we go, so much for my white clean fur. I think to myself as I follow Nick into a thick dark smoke at…
SK's P.O.V.
The car ride to the Finis ball
8:55 pm
I can do this, I can do this. I think myself as I stare at the hotel we are approaching.
"My child," the old arctic shrew Mr. Bigs says getting my attention, "why are you here?" the question confuses me but I give him the best answer I can.
"I think it's probably because everyone else would be recognized, they are all logged into the camera system, I am not." I say with a polite smile hoping I answered his question.
"No my child, why are you here." Mr. Biggs says and I realise that he is asking me what I want.
"I don't know exactly, I want this all to end, all the fighting and death." I say thinking to myself what I want. I want to live a normal life with Jack. I want the world to be free of these terrorists. I guess most of all I want to be me.
"What if I told you I know what the Finis wants with you and Jack." Mr. Bigs says and I turn towards him curious.
"Shouldnt you tell that to Nick." I sugest nervouse about what Mr. Bigs might have to say.
"What I am about to tell you is for your's and Jack's ears only. My sweat child, you and Jack need to die." the shrew says and I feel the fur on the back of my neck rise slightly.
"Im sorry, what did you say?" I ask hoping I heard wrong.
"You and Jack must die. I know Jack spoke to you about how he was told to save millions of lives. If you live, you will produce a child, that child will kill millions."
"How!?" I ask refusing to believe what I'm hearing.
"The reason the Finis wants you is because your offspring combined with advanced technology will be an unstoppable mutant that will destroy the world." Mr. Bugs says slowly.
"You don't know that!" I exclaim to the small Arctic Shrew.
"Maybe not my sweet child, however if you must choose between having a child and your own death, sacrifice yourself so that others may live!" he replies as the limo pulls up to the entrance.
"Your wrong!" I shout opening the door, "Jack and I won't be captured, and we won't have a child, especially not one that could destroy the world!" I add before turning and making my way into the party. I make it to the ball room and pick up a drink before continuing towards the garage. However, a drunk cheeta stops me as I walk past the bathrooms. He grabs my tale and I whip around slapping his face knocking him on his ass.
"Jeez foxy!?" he yells out in shock. I roll my eyes and turn around with an air of confidence hoping the cheetah will just get lost. But he doesn't, "Ohh come on foxy! Let's have some fun." he calls out as he gets up and starts to follow me down the hallway.
"Get lost!" I say quickening my pace hoping to lose him. He grabs my arm and I try to slap him again but he catches my paw in his while grabbing one of my breasts with his other. I realise we are in front of the hallway leading to the garage. I need to deal with this guy quietly, I'm glad no one else is back here. I think to myself as I drag the drunk cat down the hall.
"I have something for you." I say seductively reaching being my back and grabbing my gun. He stares at me curiously. "It's a surprise!" I say before spinning him around and pushing him into the door ruffly while drawing my pistol and aiming at his head.
"Wha-" he cries as he realises what's going on. Before he can react I pull the trigger and his head snaps backwards and he spins around falling through the door just as Jack pulls it open. I chuckle to myself when Jack lets out a small yelp jumping backwards into Nick.
SK's P.O.V.
Finis headquarters
9:29
This was not how it was supposed to go! GOD FUCKING DAMNIT! I think to myself as I scramble for cover behind a table that Jack flipped over. I peek over the edge of the table but realise all I can see is thick black smoke. Shit, where is everyone- my thoughts are interrupted when I hear someone slowly walking towards me. I make myself perfectly still as I listen to the heavy hoofsteps. It's prey, but it's big, bigger than a moose! I reach for my pistol and flip off its safety.
"Hello!? Who's there!" a deep and raspy voice calls out. Chief Bogo! I stand up to see the Chief crouching on the ground about 10 feet away from me.
"Chief!" I yell. He spins and looks at me and smiles before crawling over to me and collapsing onto his back. "Chief? Chief Bogo! Are you alright!?" I cry leaning over his body and checking his pulse.
"Can't breath!" He rasps out holding his throat with his hoof. I close my eyes as I quickly take off my mask and place it on his snout. I take a breath and thick black smoke fills my lungs and I gag and cough. I bring my arm up to my mussel and breath through my fur which helps with the smoke a little. I open my eyes and immediately regret it as smoke stings them making me squint down at the Chief who is focusing on breathing into the mask.
"SK!" I hear Jack's voice cry out to my left.
"Jack, I'm over here!" I yell back, "I have Chief Bogo!". I see a form materialise through the smoke and smile when I see Jack followed by Judy and Nick.
"We have to go! Finnick, Wolford, and Savage are going for Lang, they will meet us on the roof. Bogo we need to move, can you st-" Nick is cut off by a barrage of bullets that hit the table with a thunderous boom. "Shit!" Nick yells as everyone huddles behind the table as the bullets continue to fly.
"We need to move!" Jack shouts looking over at me, "Alright 3, 2, 1-AAAGGGHHHH!" he cries as a bullet rips into his left shoulder. I spin around and shoot the Finis agent that is shot Jack from behind. I spin around again to see Jack curled into a ball under Nick who is firing his rifle into the smoke trying to supress the other Finis agents. Judy grabs Jack under his arms and drags him behind the table. "Shit!" Jack says clinging a paw to his now bloodied shoulder.
"Go, get him out of here I'll cover you!" Bogo says taking off the mask and charging forward into the smoke before annyone has time to object. I grab the mask putting it on and taking a few deep breaths before turning my attention to Judy and Nick who are crouched over Jack.
"SK, take Nick's gun!" Judy tells me and I grab it and aim it into the smoke searching for signs of movement. A gunshot rings out and I hear the sound of a large body hitting the floor.
"Hahahahahahaha!" comes a meniacle laughter from the smoke, "Hope you said by to the Chief becuase you wont be seeing his face again until you reach Hell!" says the voice. Nick and Judy look up at me in shock. The Chief… is dead. I realise in horor before opening fire into the smoke hoping to kill the voice. A form rushes from out of the smoke and knocks me over as it leaps out of the room and down the hall. I spin around and look back at Nick, and Judy who are helping Jack onto his feet.
"We got the bleeding under control." Nick assures me, "Jack can you walk?" Nick asks Jack who nods drawing his pistol and bearing his teeth in pain as he takes a step. He almost falls to the ground but catches himself before looking me in the eyes and nodding. "Good, we need to get to the roof!" Nick says before taking off down the hall towards the elevators. He reaches the door and pushes the call button. After a minute nothing happens and he smashes the button. "Shit!" he screams before taking off down the hall towards the stairs. There are 35 floors above us, god I hope we get out of this. I pray as I follow Nick to the stair well door. Nick pushes open the door and lets me in, I look up and see an endlessly upward spiraling staircase. I sprint up the stairs with Jack, Nick, and Judy right on my heals. As I pass level 41 of 50 a huge explosion rocks the building, above uspart of the stairwell colapses and rains down on us. I cover my head as debree falls around us before looking back to see if everyone is alright. Judy gives me a thumbs up and I start up the stairs again hoping we can make it to the roof still. That wasnt just the fire, that was an explosion, what floor was it on, what happened, I hope the roof is still intact! I think as we climb to the 49th floor. When I reach the landing I see what has happened. The door to the floor entrance has been blown off its hinges and is now leaning on the adjacent wall. The section of stairs directly above the landing is missing and there is about a 5 foot gap. I hear a moan and see a white paw reach out from under the door.
"Wolford!?" I scream pulling the heavy door off the wolf.
"Hey the SK, what are you doing here?" he asks groggily getting to his feet and dusting himself off.
"Wolford, what happened, where are Agent Savage and Finnick?" Nick asks catching up to me at the landing.
"I'm- I'm sorry Nick," Wolford says lowering his eyes to the ground, "they didnt make it." Nicks eyes widen in realisation and falls to the ground leting out a wale of aggony.
"Not you too Finnick, NOT YOU TOO!" he screams pounding his fist into the floor.
"Nick, we have to go." Judy says trying to calm Nick. He stills and slowly geets up with tears in his eyes as he looks at Wolford.
"What happened, wheres Lang?" Nick says in a low growl.
"Langs office, it was a trap Nick, he knew he knew we would come for him. He locked us in there with a bomb. He said either the three of us could try to defuse it, or one of us could live while the other two died. It was all a game to him, Nick I tried to stay, I fought them to let me stay!" Wolford cries, "They sacrifised themselves for me. Lang said he was going to go kill the 4 of you, where is the Chief, was he there?" Wolford asks Judy who begins to cry.
"Yes, he was there, Lang killed him and luaghed. AND I DID NOTHING!" Judy screams, "He laughed!" she cries before falling to the ground sobbing.
"Guys, we need to go, we will cry for them later, but if we dont want to end up dead we have to get to the roof." Jack says kneeling down and putting a paw on Judy's back.
"No, he will expect us to go up there." Nick says before turning to wolford. Nick reaches into his bag and pulles out a caribiner and 1000 feet of rope. Jack and Judy get out their rope. Jack tosses me my caribeiner before he ties his rope to the stair railing. Nick and Judy tie their ropes next to his. Judy hands her caribeiner to Wolford who gives her a curios look.
"Im going to ride on your back, its the only way for all of us to get down." she explains before climbing onto his back. Jack climbs onto the railing and hooks up his caribiner to his rope checking the knot.
"Last to the bottom is a rotten egg!" He calls before jumping off the edge.
"No fair cheater!" I shout clipping onto Nicks rope and jumping over the railing. I regulate my speed but go fast enough to catch up with Jack. Below me I see the floor and slow as I see jack land safely on the ground. "Cheater." I say as I land next to him. He smiles slyly before unclipping and giving the line a tug to let Wolford, and Nick know to untie his line. I unclip and tug on my line as Jacks falls to the ground. We both have ours wound back up before Nick, and Wolford and Judy make it down.
"What about your line?" Jack asks tugging on the last line.
"We leave it." Nick says leading towards the Finis garage. He opens the door and we are greeted by a fiery inferno. "Shit, ok, get your masks, we just have to make it to the elevator, hopefully it still works." he says pulling out his mask and putting it on. We all put our own masks on and get ready to make a run for the elevator. Nick signals with his paws. 3, 2, 1. He pushes open the door and we sprint towards the elevator at full speed. Wolford goes first, followed by Judy, Jack, and Nick. I go last. But as I exit the door I sense a presence behind me and spin around to see a barrel of a gun pointed right at my forehead. The mammal holding the gun is a saber toothed tiger. He slowly puts a digit to his mouth. Petrified with fear, I can do nothing as he raises his gun over my head before smashings its butt on my head knocking me out. I fall to the ground like a ragdoll and he steps over me following the rest of the group…
Jack's P.O.V.
30 seconds later
At the elevator
I reach the elevator first and push the call button as the rest of the group runs up behind me. The door opens and we step inside, Nick immediately pushes the descent button. The doors start to close an I let out a breath I didn't know I had been holding. I look to my left to see SK but realise she next to me. I check the Elevator but realize that to my hore she isnt in it.
"SK!" I scream darting out the door as it closes, I realise my mistake a second to late and the door to the elevator slams shut behind me leaving me stranded in a fiery inferno. I start to run back through the smoke but stop when I see a tall mammal standing directly in front of me. " Hello, Whos there!?" I call getting the mammals attention. He turns to me with a dark snere before raising his gun at me. I raise mine faster though and fire 2 shots forcing him to roll to his left. I run towards him and jump on top of his back. I try to aim the gun at his head but he grabs me by the scruff and throws me into a car door. I yelp and slide down the door in a dase and before I realise it he is standing over me pointing the gun at my forehead.
"If you want to see her again, stop fighting!" he says in a deep voice.
"Fuck you!" I scream trying to kick his legs. He jumps over my kicks though and spins around in the air delivering a roundhouse kick to my head. I go flying and land in the middle of the burning garage. I stand and get into a fighting stance knowing that there is no way I can defeat this mammal. He walks over to me casually and when he is close enough I lash out at him hoping to catch him off guard. He is expecting my attack however and easily dodges and blocks my attacks before hitting me in the chest with a well placed jab. I fall to the ground but once again stand up and turn myself to face him. Before I can attack however he lunges at me and although I try to block his attacks he easily breaks through and backs me up into a corner. I manage to dodge a punch and summersault behind him but he does a back kick and sends me flying backwards across the garage and into a wall with such force that I cant get up. He walks up to me and all I can do is raise my head and glare at him willing him to die.
"You do put up quite a fight, but you have much to learn." He says grabbing my left paw and dragging me towards the fire. I reach up with my right paw and try to pry myself free of his grasp.
"No!" I plead as he drags me closer to the fire. He ignores me and slowly picks me up forcing me to stare into his eyes.
"If You try to fight me again, I will kill you!" He says in a low growl and I swallow paralyzed with fear. He smiles and throws me over his shoulder like a kitchen towel before walking back towards the entrance to the Finis headquarters. He shoves open the door and I see SK knocked out lying on the floor and let out a low growl. He chuckles before picking her up and tossing her on his other shoulder as he steps into the elevator. As the doors close I see the garage collapse along with my hopes of escaping. We reach to roof and he climbs into a helicopter. Exhausted from fighting him, I pass out as the helicopter takes off, not sure what lies ahead for me in the future…
Nick's P.O.V.
As Jack runs back to the garage
Finis headquarters
"No Jack wait!" I shout trying to grab my son as the door closes. I just barely miss his arm and realise in horror that I can't save him. I feel helpless. Jack spins around and we lock eyes, in his eyes I see fear, loss, doubt, and pain. The door shuts and I am cut off from him. I slam the open door panel on the elevator but it has already started moving. "Shit NO PLEASE GOD NO!" I scream pounding on the door and sinking to my knees. Judy starts to cry and falls down next to me, broken. Wolford stands behind me and puts a paw on my shoulder. We need to go back for him, we need to save him! I think trying to find the strength in my body to stand. Just as I'm about to get up however, the elevator shutters then drops.
"Nick!? What, was that?" Judy asks grabbing my paw. I'm about to answer when the elevator drops again, this time 10 feet.
"The cables!" Wolford says, "They are snapping!". I check the floors and see we are on level 3. The elevator begins to shake violently and Judy hugs my chest tightly. The elevator reaches level 1 and I hit the stop button and before the doors are even fully open we dive out of the elevator. I stad up and spin around just as the elevator falls the remaining 3 floors to the basement.
"No," I whisper mostly to myself, "NO! That was our only way back to Jack No!" I scream gaining the attention of every mammal in the hotel lobby. Out of the corner of my eye I see to mammals in suits running towards us with guns drawn. Wolford sees them too and looks over at me and Judy.
"Run!" He shouts and the three of us bolt towards the front door. The Finis agents open fire and the bullets from their guns spray the tile floor up at us causing Judy to trip. I pick her up and sprint towards Wolford who is holding the door open. We make it outside and I set Judy down before leading the back down the allies towards our rendezvous. After a mile I stop and spin around when I hear a helicopter in the distance. I see one taking off from the Palm Hotel's the top 20 floors collapse traveling west, away from us.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" I growl/scream into the night air with unmatched rage. Judy and Wolford catch up with me and Judy runs up and hugs me crying into my shirt. Wolford stares at the building and slowly shrinking helicopter and punches the dumpster causing his paw to bleed.
"Nick." Judy whispers so soft only I can hear her, "is he on that helicopter?" I can only hug her tighter in response wishing and praying with all my will that he is on that helicopter…
