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Get ready for an EXTREMELY revealing chapter.
Nick's eyelids fluttered for a brief moment before closing again. The piercing light hurting his eyes. After a few silent moments, his senses returned to him. He smelt blood, and heard someone crying out his name. Then he awoke. He saw the human boy, Peter, hiding behind a wall about 5 feet to Nick's left. There was a big hole in Nick's chest, he was laying in a pool of his own blood. Nick could tell that he had been dragged. Behind him was a trail of blood, starting in front of the window. The window had a single bullet hole in the middle. Then Nick realized that Judy was calling his name. She was looking down at him, trying to apply pressure to his wound.
"Nick!" She yelled, "Stay with me! Peter! Nick is conscious!"
"What?! How?! He shouldn't have survived that! Much less be conscious!" Came the confused reply.
"Well he is!" Judy yelled back, "Help me with him!"
Nick watched as Peter looked through the window carefully. Nick understood why. He was checking to see if the sniper was still there. The sniper. "WHY DID THAT BASTARD SHOOT ME?!" Nick thought to himself angrily. He stopped thinking about it when he heard Judy gasp. Nick looked to see what was wrong, only to be met with a truly strange sight. The blood on the floor flowed back into his body, not leaving a single drop behind. Then the bullet popped out of his chest. But the craziest thing, he watched as the hole in his chest mend itself back together. When it as finished, the only sign that remained of Nick being shot, was a small scar on his chest, and a very large hole in his shirt. For a solid 5 minutes no one said anything. Then Peter spoke up.
"It seems as if the Voice truly does want you to live."
"What?" Came Judy's confused question.
Nick was about to tell them about his encounter with the Voice, but then they heard sirens, many police sirens, in the distance, but getting louder.
"Aw shit!" Peter said.
"What are we going to do?" Nick asked, apparently already over the fact that he had just been resurrected.
"I have a plan. I din't want to do this, but I guess I have to." Peter stated, putting on a black hoodie. "Lets go outside".
As they walked down the stairs of the apartment complex, they heard Chief Bogo yelling at them over a megaphone.
"Officers Nick Wilde and Judy Hopps! Come outside now!" The Chief bellowed.
Nick and Judy stepped outside with Peter behind them. In front of them were 8 police cruisers and 16 officers, not including Chief Bogo.
"Wilde! Hopps! Are you alright? What the hell happened here?!" Bogo asked.
Before Nick or Judy could come up with any sort of idea as to what to say to Bogo, he pointed a finger at Peter who was hiding the fact that he was human.
"Who is that?" The Ox asked.
"He is-" Judy started, before getting interrupted.
"Their captor!" Peter yelled, pulling out two pistols and pointing it at fox and the bunny's head. "And I will blow their brains out, if you don't let us leave."
"What type of mammal are you?" The Chief grunted, taking a step back. He could not see Peter's face because of the hoodie (it was a strange sort of hoodie, the actual hood stuck out farther to conceal his face).
"That does not matter to you." Peter replied, pulling a frightened Nick and Judy into the shadows with him.
"Nick, take us somewhere where we can hide. Now!" Peter whispered to Nick as soon as they were out of sight. Nick nodded and led them to an abandoned warehouse.
On the way their Judy and Nick were slightly upset for what Peter had done. "Why did you do that?" Judy asked Peter angrily. "What will we say to Chief Bogo next time we see him?"
Peter answered the question with calmness and ease, "We had no better plan. As for what to say to the Chief, I do not know, but we will think of something.
As soon as they had gotten settled into the warehouse, the questions came, from all of them.
"Did you meet the Voice?" Peter asked Nick.
"Yes." Nick affirmed, "It and the place it was in was like nothing I had ever seen before. It terrified me."
"I felt the same when I first met it." Peter said with a sigh.
"It told me to tell you something." Nick said.
"What did it say?" Peter asked, surprised.
"It told me to tell you that you needed to explain everything to us."
Peter looked down, "I guess I must."
But before Peter could start, Nick said another thing that made Peter, the guy who was always trying to push his emotions aside, want to collapse and cry. "Right before I came back, I saw three letters." Nick added. "'H', 'P', and 'C'. What does it mean?"
Peter struggled to keep from crying. He knew very well what those letter meant, but the dark and twisted things that came with those letters made Peter want to lie to Nick and Judy about them. But he couldn't, the Voice commanded him to do so.
"I will get to those letters in a moment, but let me start at the beginning. I said the fall of man was in the year 3360, and this is the year 4566. But this is 4566 G.A (Golden Age). Mankind fell in the year 3360 A.D."
"So there are still so many things that you haven't told us yet." Nick said sadly.
"Yes." Peter replied, still struggling to stay calm. "But you must forgive me, I did it for your own good."
"So tell us what truly happened." Said Judy, sympathy in her eyes and voice. She understood that it was a rough topic for Peter, but she did not know why.
Peter sighed once again, and began to tell them what happened. "In the year 2075 A.D, there was this country called the United States of America. The president of the United States at that time was named John Viera. He knew that someday mankind would destroy its self in a bloody war. He created this group called the 'Human Preservation Committee' or 'HPC'. It wasn't taken very seriously at first by others, so it only had minimal funding and only 17 original members. Although the HPC was created in the United States, each of the members was from a different country. There was an American, a British woman, a German, a Russian, a Brazilian woman, a Japanese man, a Scot, a Welsh, an Indian (from India), a Chinese man, a Korean woman, an Irish man, a Canadian, an Australian, a Dutch man, a Frenchmen and a Spaniard. They were all scientists, chemists, engineers, botanists, or surgeons. They were tasked with the secret mission of finding a way to preserve mankind when the end came. In the year 2094 A.D, when they HPC was only 19 years old, it began human testing and many other highly illegal things to work towards their goal. In the year 2120 A.D, U.S President Anthony Viera (John Viera's nephew) was killed by the HPC because he opposed their dark ways, and was threatening to shut them down. In 2168 A.D, U.S President Matthew Johnson (I'm not good at names :P) became the second President to be assassinated by the HPC for opposing them. Both times the assassinations were blamed on random criminals, keeping the HPC a secret. In the year 2254 A.D, the HPC received massive funds from an unknown source. The HPC exploded in size and power because of this. For next few hundred years the HPC grew and worked towards it's goal. In the year 2802 A.D, the United States, Canada, Brazil, and many other Latin American countries joined as one country, uniting the two continents (The Western Alliance). In the year 3304 A.D, the HPC made their biggest find yet, they called it Divination. Divination brought the dead to life, made it that the subjects could never age, could never become sick, or contract any disease. They could still be killed, but hey would never die otherwise. With this, the HPC brought back the original HPC Members who had long been dead (they kept the bodies frozen so they would not deteriorate). The 17 original members were then called 'The Divine 17'. They and only a handful of a few other high-ranking members went through Divination. Then the true darkness came in the year 3337 A.D, when World War 3 began. It was the longest and bloodiest war ever. Then in the year 3360, after a bloody 23 years of solid war (I was born in this time), the nuclear apocalypse came. It killed everyone, except for a certain 17 HPC Members and 42 other random humans. They hid in bunkers deep within the earth. This is when the Voice saved me from death. The most disgusting thing about it? The HPC was responsible for the war, and the apocalypse. They were the ones who got the Nations to fight each other. The HPC was always behind everything. How horribly ironic it was. the very group that was created to save humanity, was destroying it because of their own power-hungry greed. The only reason why they did this was because they wanted to test how well people with Divination would survive in a doomsday event. Along with those other humans, the HPC took two or more of each animal, plant, bacteria, fungus, or organism. In the year 3380 A.D the Divine 17 started a small civilization deep within the earth. The 17 worked on a new task which they called 'Operation New Life'. Operation New Life had three main goals. Firstly, they wanted to speed up the time it took for humans to be born. Secondly, they wanted to speed up the earth's healing process. The third goal, was such a strange task. It was so complex, that it made Divination look like a 4th grade science fair. It was kept secret from the other humans. For the next years, the HPC worked on these goals until finally in the year 3536 A.D, the Divine 17 make it that instead of 9 months of infancy, it is now only 1 month. Then the HPC finished its second goal of healing the earth in the year 3575 A.D. The humans stepped outside for the first time in 215 years, to find the earth exactly the same as it used to be (but the continents had moved around). The HPC had been slowly, over time, releasing plants, and animals (but not mammals) into the wild as well over those years in the underground. The HPC kept all of their mammals and a few extra humans in secret facilities underground, but they 17 went up to the surface as well. In the year 3610 A.D, the humans built the first city above the ground since the apocalypse. They named it 'Avantium', and the Divine 17 were their rulers (they were unaware of the atrocities that the HPC had committed). This was the end of the Age. The Divine 17 started to recruit new members into the HPC, and they secretly worked on their third and final task in the dark. Then one day, in the year 30 P.A (Post Apocalypse) some information that proved that the HPC was responsible for the apocalypse was accidentally leaked to the people of Avantium. They revolted against the HPC and killed anyone they though was a member or even a supporter. In the end only the Divine 17 were left of the HPC (once again). the 17 slunk back into the shadows, and continued to work on their final goal. For the next few decades the humans of Avantium experienced what the called 'The Era of Peace'. It lasted for 72 years. The era of Peace was full of peace and prosperity for the people of Avantium. For the first time in hundreds of years, the humans had hope. Then the Era of Peace came to an end. In the year 102 P.A, the Divine 17 retaliated. They set loose on the city a plague so horrible it killed 96% of the population. The disease was a sped up version of Ebola, killing the infected only 20 minutes after the person became infected. After the plague was gone, the Divine 17 came in and killed the remaining 4% of the citizens of Avantium. Afterwards, the 17 set the city on fire, and burned it to the ground. Now the 17 were the only humans left in existence, except for me who was training and watching with the Voice in another realm, beyond that of this world. Then the Divine 17 went back to the shadows to work on their final goal. Then it was completed in they year 596 P.A, the HPC sped up the evolutionary process of all mammals, making them as intelligent as humans. Then the Divine 17 let them loose to start 'New Life' in the changed world. I had hoped that somehow the 17 would have been dead somewhere at this point. But the attack just earlier proves the HPC are still there, watching and controlling from the shadows just as always. Anyways, the success of Operation New Life was the end of the age. Zootopia was founded in the year 23 G.A (Golden Age). Now here we are in the year 4566 G.A."
Peter could hold it in no longer. He collapsed on the floor and began to cry. He cried for his family who died in the nuclear apocalypse. He cried for Nick and Judy, who had to deal with him and this problem. He cried for the poor people of Avantium. For all of this, Peter had to witness from the realm of the Voice.
"Forgive me." Peter choked.
Judy stood next to Peter and hugged him. She as well was in tears. No should have to deal with this trauma.
"Peter." Nick began. "Remember that Carrots and I here will always be there for you.
"Thank you." Peter whispered.
What a revealing chapter! I felt so sad when I wrote that part about Avantium. But anyways, thank you guys so much for reading! Leave you thoughts in the comments section, and I will see you guys in the next chapter!
