I have Returned Chapter 9: Nightmares
I don't own Zootopia or any of its characters.
Things might get very emotional in this chapter so brace yourselves!
As Jacob slept atop the Five star hotel in Downtown, he was having a nightmare.
A nightmare of the past.
When the terrorists invaded New York.
An entire city on fire.
Jacob at first saw himself lying down in a soft bed, sleeping peacefully and snuggled up.
Peaceful jazz music was playing from a radio.
The year was 2025, human technology built things out of Science fiction.
The city of New York was glowing multiple beautiful colours and many skyscrapers were skinny and reached the stratosphere.
Most cities of the world were divided in different climate zones like Zootopia.
He then sees a hand reaching to his chest, a child's one.
He opens his eyes and he teleports into a memory he will never forget.
The ruined streets, the ruined buildings, shells hitting the streets, debris flying everywhere, air raid alarms going off, dropships hovering as troops rappelled down from the ropes.
Jacob now saw himself in his blue suit, he was holding a minigun, bullets bounced off his armour.
The screams of soldiers and terrorists filled the ruined streets.
"Go go go! Show those bastards what we are made of men!" the general shouted.
Dozens of men ran out onto the streets firing their plasma rifles, Jacob held his ground at a shopping centre, firing his minigun and shredding the terrorists.
Guns were blazing, knives were sheathed, shells were dropped, it was hell on Earth.
Not everyone made it, most were gunned down, shelled, decapitated.
The music was still playing as Jacob ran out into the field, shells falling everywhere and bullets bouncing off his thick reactive armour.
He stabbed a terrorist with his combat knife in the chest.
All around him, he saw soldiers and terrorists fighting hand to hand, knife to knife, the screaming wouldn't stop.
He stood frozen, looking around at the dead and alive bodies.
Blood was filling the streets, papers and burned pieces floated in the air.
But then, one alarm blazed louder than the others.
All the soldiers and terrorists stopped fighting, and looked into the sky.
A warhead was inbound, a red stream of light was behind it as it sailed through the sky.
Everyone started running as fast as their legs could take them, trying to find cover that was useless.
Then everything went silent, as the warhead struck Manhattan.
A big boom and a blinding flash went off, a powerful blast wave went off and the water splashed onto the streets.
No one survived the onslaught, the streets were flooded, buildings were collapsed or barely standing, the bridges were barely standing.
Except Jacob, who managed to get atop the shopping centre that was now ruined.
He stared at where the warhead struck, a giant mushroom cloud was where the great city of Manhattan once stood, now a bunch of ruins and debris.
Bodies could be seen in the water, floating and sinking, dead, ruined with bullet holes and missing limbs.
All except Jacob, who miraculously survived the dreadful attack.
Europe, Asia, Africa, South America were overrun, and now the Eastern front of America was destroyed.
The world is dead, the world humanity tried so hard to fix, is now ruined beyond repair.
But then Jacob saw a sight that really made him feel crushed.
A family of foxes were on a boat that was still intact, sailing through the flooded streets.
They froze at the sight of one the last humans that survived a war that destroyed the world.
A war that nearly put an end to man.
Warheads struck all over the world, their chemicals killing every human in sight.
What now? The world is dead, very little humans are left.
Jacob fell to his knees and started crying, everyone he knew was now dead, everything he knew was gone forever.
He looked up to the dark sky and screamed "What did we do to deserve this?!"
Jacob then woke up with a slight scream after witnessing a nightmare caused by shellshock syndrome.
It was now morning time and the city was awake with mammals flooding the many streets.
"Sir, are you okay?" Kaizen asked.
"Yeah, just a bad nightmare" Jacob said.
"Also, you're scream has gotten the attention of some mammals outside and inside the hotel, I suggest making a quick retreat" Kaizen said.
With that, Jacob jumped into the alleyway, the hotel was 20 floors tall but with his suit on, he could fall from space and survive.
He landed on the cold concrete and the blast impact cracked beneath his feet.
"Invisibility camo engaging" Kaizen said.
Jacob vanished into thin air and moved away from the alleyway onto a bustling street full of mammals and cars.
He stared at the many shops and buildings that were colourful and active, just how cities looked back in his days.
"Monster in Zootopia! Read all about it!" a voice shouted.
A lion holding newspapers was shouting the same thing about a monster in Zootopia.
Jacob zoomed in using his binocular vision to read what the newspaper said.
"Terror strikes the city as a monster is roaming the streets! ZPD searching and asking mammals for this mysterious creature which appeared yesterday near Zootopia Central Station. Some speculate that this mammal is an alien that was part of the debris that hit Zootopia 2 days ago and is wandering around without a trace. It can turn invisible, can run fast on two legs and on all fours, but it hasn't harmed anyone luckily so this new creature hopefully is harmless" the newspaper read, it also had a picture of Jacob in his old suit before he switched to the Merc suit.
"Monster? Now that's just mean" Jacob thought.
Afraid someone might walk into him, he decided to get out of the civilised area.
But where to next?
"Hm, those woods will be a good spot, no one will search for me there right?" Jacob thought.
Still invisible, he walked and walked to the woods, he walked through the rough trees and the soft and mushy ground.
"Squishy, but as long as no one sees me, it's all good" Jacob said.
He then heard voices behind a hedge he was hiding in.
"What are you talking about Duke? There are no monsters!" a squeaky voice said.
"Oh yes there is! Monsters that have red eyes, long arms, a bloodlust hunger for meat" a deeper and grogy voice said.
Jacob slowly zoomed in and saw a weasel wearing a tank top and 2 bunny kids.
"That explains the voices" Jacob thought.
The bunnies could hear Jacobs heavy breathing, oh no.
"What's that sound?" one of the bunnies said.
"It sounds like breathing, in that bush!" the other bunny said.
The bunny threw a stone at Jacob, somehow hitting him when he is invisible.
Any impact made on Jacobs invisible body will cause the camo to drain quickly, bollocks.
Jacob rose from the bush, the weasel and the bunnies huddled against each other and let out a short scream.
Jacob stared at them directly, his face hidden by his helmet, his eyes on the glass surface were glowing red.
"Ah! He has glowing eyes!" one of the bunnies screamed.
Jacob put his large arms in the air to make the mammals back off, it did.
"Ah! He has long arms!" the other bunny screamed.
"What are you?" Duke asked.
"What you call, a monster" Jacob said.
The group screamed again.
"It can talk?!" Duke screamed.
"Yes, it can" Jacob said.
"Ah!" the group screamed like little girls and ran off with their arms in the air.
"I know animals were scared of humans, but not in the way that makes them scream like little kids" Jacob thought to himself.
No doubt that other mammals were alerted by the screams, Jacob rushes back into the woods.
Duke and the 2 bunnies are still running but accidentally run into a bunny and a fox officer.
"Whoa! Be careful!" Judy said as she got a fright from the sudden appearance of the group.
"There's a monster in the woods!" one of the bunnies cried.
"Monster? What did it look like?" Judy asked.
"It was huge! It had long legs and arms! It has glowing red eyes! It was blue and desert tan!" Duke screamed as he started crying himself.
"Carrots, should we investigate?" Nick asked.
"Okay, I'm going to ask you three to take a deep breath and calm down, we won't let this monster harm you okay?" Judy said.
The group nodded and Judy and Nick ran to the woods.
"Anyone there? Come out!" Judy shouted into the woods.
Stop hiding, show yourself!" Nick shouted.
They then start hearing heavy footsteps.
Smoke starts coming from the ground from metal canisters, a red light glows in the smoke cloud.
Nick and Judy pull out their tranquilizer pistols and aim into the smoke.
They see a tall silhouette in the smoke, it was tall, had long arms and legs and red glowing eyes.
"Come out! This is ZPD!" Judy shouted.
Curious mammals looked at the scene unfolding, two officers coming into contact with the Zootopian monster.
The silhouette came closer, and closer, and closer.
Judy and Nick backed up, the smoke cleared up, revealing a creature that the world has long forgotten.
