(Disclaimer: Well I don't really have a lot to say except that, well, I've been lazy the last few days. I really need to get more discipline again :D. Anyway enjoy reading!)

*Tri-burrows, inner Fields, 18:00 PM, 21st of June*

Judy was sitting on a fence letting her legs hang below her body her hands supporting her balance at the side of her hips. She was just staring into the distance in an absent mode. She wasn't anything physically nor was she thinking about anything. She just stared off into the distance and let time go by. She was very worried about Nick. She, of course, was worried about his comrades as well but she mainly was worried about her lover. She would gladly hear that one of his friends died just so he could live. As harsh as that was, it was the only acceptable thing for her if someone had to die.

She couldn't bear it if Nick died. Her first ever true love and that she fell in love with him so quickly had to mean something, and then out of all a fox and a bunny. That practically was like spitting right into Mother Nature's open mouth. It was something very obscene and looked down upon by other mammals. But Judy was sure that they could do it especially since it was wartime. During war mammals didn't care what they had to love as long as they had something to love and be loved at the same time so Judy's hopes were high.

Judy just let out a shaky and nervous sigh as another breeze, like so many before, rolled over the fields and made her shudder. The sun was just beginning to set and with that the warmth it gave started to fade slowly whilst painting the skies above in a diverse spectrum of red, orange and yellow.

Judy slowly got off the fence and started to walk without really looking where she went. She grew up on this very farm so she pretty much knew where to go even if her eyes were blindfolded. She made her way across a street and then followed an alley that was shaded by some trees and sat next to a road. She just looked at the ground and let her mind wander about all the things she experienced in the last few days.

Her mind went from one memory to another, most of them being about Nick. She had to let go of a few tears as she noticed that in her memory he was only a blob of red fur and was blurry. She couldn't even remember his voice completely. She started to cry at that horrible event. She couldn't remember Nick although he was everything she thought about the last few days, and yet there she was, left alone with her blurry memories of him even though he left just yesterday.

Distracted by her own miserable state Judy neither noticed the Tank that drove by nor the sudden noise of several planes flying and several other Tanks getting off the road and try to hide. One of the Tanks almost drove over Judy had a soldier beforehand not grabbed her arms and lifted her up on it.

She was shocked to see that they all were Humans, then it came to her mind. Only Humans built and used tanks, the mammals had rhinos and elephants to counter the Human war machines. Judy tried to scream but the Human muffled her quickly with one of his gloved hands. Judy tried to bite his hand but the soldier used his second hand to press her head against his other hand and had her checkmate with that.

As Judy realized that he didn't do anything else she slowly stopped struggling against him. She now watched the whole scene play out. There were about seven Tanks, dozens of soldiers and several Trucks, probably transporting soldiers as well, driving off the road to hide from a squadron of Zootopian flyers. There were normal planes that aimed at the trucks before unleashing dozens of bullets in just seconds and there were small bomber planes heading for the Tanks.

One of the soldiers on top of the Tank next to Judy looked up into the sky, aiming at something before he got ripped apart by dozens of bullets that had the same volume as a Human's finger. As Judy looked at the brutal scene before her she watched as the deformed corpse of the human fell off the tank. The tank itself only had a few scratches in its coloring and kept driving as if nothing had happened. The soldiers that held Judy also looked up and then, in sheer and utter panic, screamed something into the tank that made the driver stop as just 2 or 3 meters in front of them a small bomb hit the ground. Judy got hurt by several shrapnel pieces and had some burns in her fur because of the flame and heat wave. The Human let go of her with one hand and started screaming like he was being pierced slowly by several spears. Judy looked back at him and saw that he was covering his right eye with a hand and blood was oozing out from under it. The human kept screaming and started to squirm more and more until he fell off the Tank and was driven over by a Tank following them just a few meters behind them.

Judy just heard a loud crunch as he was driven over, probably from all the bones that broke, and had to muffle herself to not scream and get the attention of several other Humans. Though she was questioning that nay Human would even care about her she didn't want to risk anything. The Tank that was following behind them just started to go a bit faster as a Human jumped off from it and only a few seconds later the Tank went up in flames and an explosion ripped it apart as it came to a halt.

Another soldier ran past the tank and then knelt into the dirt, having a long pipe on his shoulder. A second Human came into view from behind some trees and then ignited the fuse that was sticking out at the end of the pipe. After about 3 seconds a loud bang could be heard and a massive, rocket like bullet flew out of it. After flying about 60 meters it crashed right into a plane, instantly ripping off one of its wings and bringing it down. The pilot from the plane jumped out of the cockpit, using a parachute to not die from the fall, though that would never be required as he got killed by gunshot as soon as he was out of the cockpit. As the dead pilot came closer to the ground Judy recognized it as a wolf.

That fight kept going, killing several Human foot soldiers, destroying one more Tanks and the air squadron lost 6 more planes as the Tanks started to use their heavy machine guns they had mounted on top of their turrets to shoot back.

Judy just sat there in horror at what she just mentioned. She now understood why so many had mental issues after mentioning a war. What she saw just was pure cruelty and was breaking several rules of nature itself. Judy almost started to cry again but as the noise was now fading she had to hold back to not provoke getting any attention. She just jumped off the tank and laid on the ground, into tall grass hoping to not be seen. As the small army of Humans passed by she saw several of them wounded fatally that would die for sure in the coming days, dozens others wounded badly that for sure couldn't continue fighting and again others that just had gross wounds or were shell-shocked with a creepy grin on their faces and huge eyes, just standing there and doing nothing.

As the army wandered by and passed her, just leaving the horrified men there on the spot not really caring about their fate anymore, she made her way over to one of them. With an interested, yet compassionate expression she held one of her hand out in front of the man's face. He didn't exact in the slightest. His breathing rhythm remained the same, his eyes still staring into the nothingness his whole body just limp.

Judy then touched his arm. Still nothing changed. She then grabbed his arm and pulled at it causing him to fall over and then look at her for a few seconds before, again, looking into the distance. Judy just was standing there with disbelief. She didn't know what she should do, what she could do, to help them. She didn't know how to help them so she just left them there, leaving them to their fate, crying and sobbing for the lost souls. Yes, they were humans but actually only a few of the humans held their head high in pride claiming that they wanted to use the mammals as resources for food, fur and other materials. Most of them fought in this war to not get called cowards or simply get executed for refusing to serve the empire.

Most of them were actually kind hearted and only shot, mostly into the ground on purpose, to not get suspected of being 'traitors' or 'backstabbing the empire'.

After Judy had made it home she first had to let her brain process what she had just witnessed. Her brain jumped to the moment the one Soldier on the tank was mercilessly ripped apart by the plane shots, then it jumped to the man who had wanted to help her and was driven over by a tank, then her mind jumped to the blinding fire the explosion of the tank had caused, then again it jumped to the shell shocked soldiers just standing there in the meadows and lastly her mind jumped to Nick. Her dear lover who probably was experiencing something similar right now, if not even somehow worse.

She had to ask herself how he had managed to keep going back to such things over and over again. Didn't he feel the same way for all the things he witnessed, or was he just some cold-blooded emotionless murderer? No, that could not be. He was so caring and loving towards her, it just had to be impossible that he didn't feel the same way. The things she had witnessed beforehand told her 2 things: Humans are also very much living beings with a conscience and feelings and second, that some mammals bear the same hatred and ruthlessness as some humans bore it.

She just sat there, processing it all and slowly making her way towards the shower. Who knows, maybe it would help her get over it?

*Ironmood, Mammal's side, 18:30 PM, 21st of June*

It was like hell on earth. Everywhere you'd look you would see someone suffer and bleed out or scream until they finally got the blessing of death, no matter where you tried to go you would get shot down, either by an enemy of by an ally by accident. Everywhere there were gunshots and explosions. Nick had to admit it, it was a miracle he still was alive. Him and his whole squad had come here some minutes after Niklasson and hell had already broken out in that short amount of time. There were hundreds of Humans just streaming into the camp from 2 entrances. The 5 machine guns they had captured from the humans were now mercilessly against them. About eighty percent of the Humans that made it to the entrance made it there just to get shot down by the machine guns. The few that made it past that still had a long way to cover and again about half of them were shot down until they made it to the cover and could start fighting back.

After fighting for almost one hour now there were about 500 Humans left against about 100 mammals that had an advantage because of the machine guns, their cover and their higher located position. Nick looked around and saw that their losses were surprisingly low. From the 'Golden Battalion' there were only about 6 members missing, all their other losses were some mammals that were dragged here by the crowd. Nick scanned the area for enemies before looking around for the Lieutenant. When he couldn't find him he got a bit worried but suddenly he got really shocked at seeing the Lieutenant fighting a Human in a 1 on 1 fight.

As Nick watched with an interested expression, his mind racing to try and help his Lieutenant one of his men grabbed his shoulder

"Sir, you really should let them fight each other in a fair fight. Nobody's supposed to mix into their fight, since it's a fair 1 on 1 fight."

Nick twitched and got a bit scared at the sudden contact. "God, Jamie at least warn me." Nick said as he looked back over his shoulder to look at Goliath. "Are you sure about it? I don't want to lose another great leader just because we weren't supposed to help him. He's too good to be lost in such a dumb way."

"Sir, trust me, he'll win this fight for sure."

"I really hope so" said Nick as he took his rifle and started to aim.

"As soon as there's any sign of him losing the fight I'll pull the trigger."

"Sir, if you do that, then some Human will shoot Niklasson too"

"Well then both the leaders are dead and not only ours, right?"

"That is right, but still sir. Please just don't be too quick to pull the trigger, else you're going to regret it." Jamie said trying his best to convince Nick to not be too rushed about it.

Nick wanted to start talking again when he watched in horror as the guys fighting in the middle suddenly moved a lot and Niklasson fell to the ground, or much rather was thrown to the ground.

"How Is that a fair fight? The human is way taller, stronger and has a larger range with his arms! That's not fair at all!" Nick screamed as he got pissed off and scared at the same time. Then he saw that Niklasson used his legs to kick the human over himself as the Human tried to rush him. As the Human flew through the air Niklasson pulled a knife from his belt and got back up on his feet.

Nick could hear over the distance that Niklasson was teasing the human.

"Come on! That all you got? A shame!" then he also heard the Lieutenant chuckle

As the human got back up on his feet he retorted with: "Oh just wait. Little doggie. I'll show what I have in store!" Then an angry scream came from the human as he again rushed Niklasson.

As the Lieutenant made a sidestep to dodge the Oberkommandant's charge he simply held out his leg and the human fell over it. The Man landed really harsh and let a scream of agony go. As the human stood back up it was clearly visible that he broke his left arm from the fall.

Niklasson teased him again

"Yeah you got quite some fresh dance moves in store I see" then the lieutenant lost himself at his own joke and had to really pull himself together to not laugh too much at it.

"SHUT UUUUUUPPPP!" The Oberkommandant screamed with pure rage and anger as his muscles started to flex from sheer rage.

Niklasson now took back a serious attitude as he knew that it now was a dangerous fight and not only a small fun spare with the human.

The Human made some quick steps towards Niklasson. The Lieutenant and the Human circled around ach other for some time until the Oberkommandant jumped forwards and managed to grab Niklasson and lift him up. He tried to stab the Retriever but he managed to dodge the stab, kick Neff in his ribs and get free again.

As Niklasson still regained his balance the Human fell back to the ground and had to rest for a second on his knees. That second weas too much though as the Retriever could get too close and stab him in the ribs. Neff rolled over onto his back to be able do defend himself better and tried to stab back but only missed as Niklasson was way too fast.

After a few seconds of struggling against each other the Lieutenant managed to bury his knife inside the human's chest and let the fight come to an end. Finally the evil Oberkommandant had found his well-deserved end. After so many brutal and unnecessary deaths on both sides, the battle on this front was finally over with his death.

Almost all the remaining humans laid down their rifles and surrendered themselves to the mammals. They were taken prisoners and cared about in the medical centers and then locked away in the city's core.

End of chapter 13

(Notes: As always, I hope you enjoyed reading and please give some feedback so I know on what to improve to make the reading of my stories more enjoyable. Peace!)