I have Returned Chapter 20: Witness and Victim
Precinct 1, Savannah Central, 2:15PM
Nick and Judy quickly made their way back to Precinct 1 as Chief Bogo called them back for an urgent investigation.
The entire Precinct was going crazy with multiple phone calls after the missle bombardment that struck Fangser Park caused a mass panic throughout the city of Zootopia.
Air raid alarms filled the streets which warned citizens to stay indoors until the alarms stopped blaring.
Thankfully the missles weren't targeting civilians but that was what the Zootopian Political Department was afraid of.
Everyone in the Department was calling other countries if these missles were in fact either a failed weapons test or a warning.
Luckily, all the countries denied any knowledge of sending missles to the city of Zootopia.
But still, where do those rockets come from? And who gave the orders to fire them?
In the Precinct 1 building, this is what Nick and Judy are trying to solve in their office.
But Judy was having other thoughts, about a creature she wanted to see every now and then.
"I hope he made it out alive and that he is safe and has found a new home" Judy thought as she focused her mind on her Werewolf friend.
Nick and Judy couldn't get an answer for the purpose of these missles hitting the abandoned warhouse complex and causing a massive explosion that created a small earthquake.
Judy's phone started ringing, it was her parents calling for a muzzle time call.
She answered it and her parents sighed with relief when she answered.
"Thank gosh you're okay honey, we can see the smoke from here! We can even hear the air raid alarms and we heard the explosions! Me and Bonnie feared the worst" Stu said in a surprised tone as he showed Judy the mushroom cloud visible from the Hopps farmhouse as well as showing tears.
"I'm fine yes but things are going crazy over here! Everyone in the city are staying indoors but everything is going really bad" Judy said as she showed the amount of officers running through the Precinct.
"Oh dear, I hope this is all just an accident and we can move on" Bonnie said.
"I know Mom, but this is really serious, this is an act of war" Judy said.
"It sounds bad when you put it that way, but let's hope that's not the case" Stu said.
"I hope that's not the case either but why would these rockets be launched at us? We haven't heard of any casualties thankfully" Judy said as she breathed quiet fast.
"Thank goodness for that, we'll leave you to it, but Judy, please be careful, and Nick too" Bonnie said.
"We will, and we'll make sure nothing like this happens again" Judy said as she hung up.
"I've been on the streets before you showed but I have never seen something of this level of magnitude before, the city is under complete lockdown and the streets are completely empty!" Nick said as he ruffled through his papers.
"I know! This is worse than the Nighthowler case!" Judy said as she sat at her desk to see if she could find answers.
Things weren't going as planned, an attack of this magnitude was not common in Zootopia.
This was actually the first time the city was attacked with a bombardment of missles.
Little did anyone in Zootopia know, that those rockets were actually under attack themselves by an unknown source...
What remains of Fangser park, Savannah Central, 2:30PM
Most of the fires were gone thanks to the fast reacting Zootopia Fire Brigade, but when the fires were extinguished, it revealed the horrible damage the park took as a result of a space missle attack.
"Want do you mean humans don't live on Earth anymore?" Jacob asked when Kaizen too him the truth.
"4000 years ago, humanity had risen again and mammals had never seen animals as advanced as humans before, predators took into consideration and started worshipping humans as Gods while most prey animals saw them as Demons who were sent to punish them, while the humans lived in peace, the peace was disrupted" Kaizen said.
"How?" Jacob asked.
"The world was a hostile place back then, and terrorism still raged on in the form of The United Terrorist Forces, a strategic offensive military group called The Rising Brigade rebelled against these terrorists as the terrorists wanted to rule the world with an iron fist, while the Rising Brigade believed in a free and peaceful world, free from all the evil that corrupted the known and unknown universe, many battles were fought after The United Terrorist Forces surprise attacked the human settlement known as Emerald Cross and killed almost 5,000 innocent people, predators fought alongside The Rising Brigade but after the United Terrorist Forces were defeated in the Siege of what is now the Zootopian Peninsula, prey began to rebel against humans, they saw what destruction and death they could bring and saw them as a threat and decided that they were going to drive them out, but prey underestimated humanities will to survive, and a massacre took place, after 2 weeks of fighting, humanity made a game changing decision" Kaizen said.
"What was that decision?" Jacob asked.
"To leave Earth and enter the final frontier, Space, where mammals couldn't find them, humans built massive starships which could house 1 million people and as of now, I don't know where humans are, either they are no longer in the Solar System, or they are closer than we think and are living on moons or Mars" Kaizen said.
"That's a mouthful, and Ascension, was anyone on board it?" Jacob asked.
"No, it was already destroyed, it belonged to a group of space pirates but then the Orbital Charger Satellites you launched to power the Cryo bunkers burned into the atmosphere" Kaizen said.
"And that's how we are here now, so, humans evolved into the Space age of technology and who knows where they are now" Jacob said.
"Wherever they are, I hope that they are safe and have nothing to be afraid of, Space is scary after all since it's very dark" Kaizen said.
"I'm sure that they can handle it, living in Space, sounds like an adventure" Jacob said.
Kaizen didn't respond to that statement and focused on using the suit.
Jacob (Kaizen in this case since she has control of the suit) walked through the park in the ruined armoured suit of armour, the pain of his injuries were coming into effect.
"Sir, your stress levels are slightly increasing, are you alright?" Kaizen asked.
"Yeah, just be careful when using this suit, I'm damaged myself remember?" Jacob said.
"Of course, I will be more careful, okay, I kinda got the handle of it now" Kaizen said as she started to walk in a smooth fashion that wouldn't hurt Jacob in any way.
As Kaizen guided the suit through the supposed wasteland of burned trees and swampy land, her motion sensors quickly detected movement nearby.
"Jacob, I'm detecting 10 movement signatures heading our way, what should I do?" Kaizen said as she started to panic.
"Activate the cloaking systems, and run" Jacob said.
"But sir, what about your injuries?" Kaizen asked.
"I've handled worse, activate the cloaking systems, that's an order" Jacob said.
"Yes sir" Kaizen said as she turned the suit invisible and started moving faster at a running pace.
Jacob could hear voices nearby, whatever was the source of the voices were surely determined to find a figure called 'Blue Irons'.
Jacob was really starting to feel a lot of pain right now, he felt like he was about to faint from such abominable pain.
"Sir! Hang in there! I won't allow you to be caught by the authorities!" Kaizen said as she activated the emergency coolant systems to soothe the pain of Jacobs damaged body.
"Don't worry about me, I'll be fine" Jacob said in a drowsy tone.
The voices were getting closer, hopefully they didn't see Jacob.
"Pawprint! In the ground! Whatever this thing is, it's heavy!" a voice shouted.
"Did he just call me fat?" Jacob said.
"I think he called all of us fat, it's not our fault that this suit weighs more than a male Polar Bear" Kaizen said.
"You got me there" Jacob said.
The voices turned into shouting, they could see the footprints sinking into the ground.
"It's invisible!?"
"Is it a ghost?!"
"No, it's gotta be an Alien!"
"This Alien better not invade Earth!"
"Humans already ruled Earth before you evolved from Chemical warfare asshole" Jacob thought.
"Sir, we've been compromised" Kaizen said.
"Deactivate the cloaking systems, and unlock the spring locks" Jacob said.
"But sir! They'll see you! They will know you're human!" Kaizen said.
"No they won't, place a digital disguise on me to make me look like a human gas trooper, and from there, I'll show them what I'm made of" Jacob said.
"But, oh" Kaizen said, realising what Jacob was going to do.
The cloaking systems deactivated, and the hulking suit of armour was now visible.
"Whoa! Get back!"
"That's him! But what happened to him?!"
"He doesn't look so tough! Let's get him!"
"Wait! Maybe he only wants to talk!"
The spring locks opened and so did the suit, revealing a strange creature wearing black body armour that made him look like a SWAT officer, a gas mask, a bulletproof helmet, black cargo pants and black steel toe shoes.
The suit turned invisible once more, but Jacob knew where it was.
The figure stepped out of the suit and the animals that found him stood back.
There were 12 of them, each of them police officers, 2 Rhinos, 1 Elephant, 3 tigers, 2 Buffaloes, 3 wolves and 1 rabbit.
All of them looked rather nervous, they should be.
"What do we do?"
"What is that thing?"
"Is it friendly?"
"Does it want to become a Zootopian citizen?"
"Silence" Jacob said, his voice was slightly muffled because of his gas mask.
The 12 officers slightly jumped and stood back some more.
"It can talk!"
"Why are his arms amd legs longer than ours?"
"He has no muzzle, and where are his ears?"
"Where's his tail?"
"He has five fingers! How is that possible?"
Multiple questions were being asked after Jacob spoke.
"Listen up Cops, I may look like you, but I'm not, and I am not weak, I can toss a wolf 50 metres from where he is standing and make it look easy" Jacob said which made the wolf officers uneasy.
"Listen, whatever you are, but we don't want to hurt, we just want to put you under protective custody so we can find out what you are, no drama" a Rhino officer who has a nametag that read Rhinowitz said.
"Where have I heard that before? I want to play a game, it's called, mammal hunt, you all have 1 minute to run, before I catch you, but here's the catch, I'm not going to chase you in this form" Jacob said which made the officers show visible signs of fear.
Jacob began to think bad thoughts to anger his Beast spirit and begin his transformation.
All of the officers stood back as they saw the human twitch his body rather quickly as if he was having paralysis.
His clothes started to rip as his body started to increase in size with jet black fur growing.
His gloves amd boots broke apart when long claws came out of his hands and feet.
His gas mask broke off and a muzzle started forming, his head grew on size and the helmet came off.
His body broke out into the sunlight, revealing his snow white fur.
A tail grew from his backside and it slinked between his legs.
His muzzle was fully formed, filled with razor sharp fangs and he then opened his eyes which were glowing blood red.
The officers were quick to react and took out their tranquilizer pistols.
The beast transformation was complete, Jacob was now a Werewolf for the world to see.
He let out an earshattering roar which made the police officers scream and cover their ears.
Jacob stopped and said in a deep voice "Better start running, 5" as he started counting.
A few officers were smart and started running while others stayed and shot the Werewolf.
But their darts broke off his thick skin.
"Run, run as fast as you can, before I catch you, I won't kill you, but I'll make you wish you were dead" Jacob said.
And everyone started running.
The hunters have become the hunted.
The predator and his prey, who will win?
Merry Christmas everyone!