Zootopia- monsters and animals

*Disclaimer: Zootopia belongs to Disney. I do not own Zootopia or any of it's characters.*

The sound of beeping had been constant for a few minutes now. Dwayne's eyes were heavy and he refused to open them but the sound of the constant steady beeping was beginning to annoy him.

"Aight… I'm up, I'm up." Dwayne grumbled as he moved his paw to the right, thinking it was his alarm clock. When his paw met with nothing he reluctantly opened his eyes.

He definitely was not in his room.

He also noticed the beeping was coming from his left. He looked over and blinked a few times to clear his vision. A monitor was beeping as a digital line moved up and down.

"The hell?" Dwayne muttered groggily. Looking around he realized he was in a hospital room. He tried to get up but an intense pain shot through his chest and stomach.

'Nope, nope. Not gettin up.' Dwayne mentally noted to himself.

Dwayne looked around again and noticed someone was next to his bed. They were sitting in a chair but had their arms crossed in front of them with their head rested in-between on his mattress, they were obviously asleep. Dwayne recognized the animal immediately.

Moving as little as possible without causing himself too much pain he leaned closer to the animal and gently shook her shoulder.

"Mama." Dwayne whispered as he shook her shoulder.

She stirred from her sleep and took a sharp intake of breath as she quickly raised her head and looked around. When her vision had cleared she saw Dwayne staring at her.

"Dwayne?" She whispered in shock.

Dwayne smiled at her. "Hey mama. Am I dreamin? Dis ain't my room." He said weakly.

She took his paw in hers and stroked it. "No baby, you're in the hospital." She explained.

Dwayne nodded his head. "Did I get shot or somethin?" But then he remembered the previous events and realized that he hadn't been shot.

It was much worse.

"Ah fuck." Dwayne muttered as he realized what this meant.

"Language." His mother chided, but didn't sound like she meant it.

"Sorry." Dwayne grumbled. He took a heavy breath before he talked. "So how much do ya know?" He asked idly, turning his head to face the window.

"Everything." His mother whispered and Dwayne winced. Of course she would know everything. But it raised an important question.

"How'd ya know I was here?" Dwayne asked confused.

"The special officers contacted me. Told me what happened." She explained.

"You know what I am than?" Dwayne asked as he turned to look at her again.

His mother bit her lower lip and nodded her head as tears formed in her eyes. "Baby… why didn't you come home?" She asked him desperately.

Dwayne gave a heavy sigh. He was not ready for this. "Thought you'd be ashamed. Or scared. Maybe both." Dwayne explained.

His mother placed a paw on his cheek and stroked it comfortingly. "Oh baby I would never be scared or ashamed of you for this." She said comfortingly.

Dwayne bit his lower lip as it trembled. "I didn't know dat doh. All everyone in da neighborhood talked about is how much da world went ta hell when G.E.O.s started showin up. You never said anything bout it, just smiled and nodded, so how could I not think dat?" He choked out as tears fell down his face.

His mother gently wrapped her arms around Dwayne as carefully as she could. "Because you're my baby, I'd never abandon you or your brothers. The world can go to hell all it wants but I'd still stand by you no matter what." She whispered to into his ear as she held back sobs.

Dwayne gently wrapped his arms around his mother and quietly cried into her shoulder. He never would have thought she'd understand. She never commented on the issues, just nodded her head. Dwayne took that as a sign that she agreed with them and when he had changed… he couldn't do that to his poor mama.

"I'm sorry." Dwayne choked out as his mother held him against her like he was a child again.

After they had both cried their fair share Dwayne thought back to the factory and what he had thought about as he lay dying.

"Mama, you all still live in da same house right?" Dwayne asked curiously.

She nodded. "Yeah, we wouldn't be able to afford any other place. Why do you ask?" She asked curiously.

Dwayne gave her a large toothy smile. "Mama, tell everyone ta start packin. I'm getting you da hell outta there." He said happily.

She gave him a look of utter confusion. "Dwayne, sweetie… We can't afford to move, we just don't have the money." She explained to him.

Dwayne kept the same smile on his face. "Oh I know you don't have da money… But I do!" He exclaimed excitedly but regretted it as his chest started hurting again.

His mother gave a small laugh. "Sweetie… Buying a house costs a lot of-"

"I have two million saved up." Dwayne said interrupting her.

His mother's eyes went wide and her jaw dropped. "Boy what the hell did you do to possibly make that kind of money!?" She demanded, she was shocked, confused and angry.

Dwayne gave her a sheepish smile. "Now… Before ya do anythin that'll extend my visit here." Dwayne started but promptly decided to rephrase his answer as his mother glared at him.

Dwayne knew he was going to die at this point, may as well come clean. He told his mother about the club and the serum dealers they busted.

"But da majority of da money comes from a bet, actually!" Dwayne quickly added in hoping to save some face.

"Oh? Do tell." His mother was seething in her seat.

"Well… My bud A-dawg went into a… match of sorts. The odds were so stacked against him dat when it came down to it each of us made about… one and a half million, each." Dwayne explained sheepishly.

His mother rubbed her temples like she was trying to get rid of a migraine. "Dwayne… You do realize how insane this all sounds right?" She asked tiredly.

Dwayne just laughed. "Mama, I've been living with insanity for da past three or four months now, dis is nothing."

Dwayne took a deep breath before his face turned serious. "Mama, I've seen ya struggle ta take care of me and my brothahs all my life. I promised myself dat if I ever got the chance ta get us outta that neighborhood I would. THIS is that chance mama. I don't need da money for anything else but dat." Dwayne declared as he gently took his mother's paws in his own and smiled at her.

"Let me do dis one thing for ya… please?" Dwayne pleaded.

Dwayne held his breath as he saw the hesitation in his mother's but eventually she let out a heavy sigh. "Sure you won't regret this? It's a lot of money." She said cautiously.

Dwayne just smiled. "I know, which is why I'm doin it." He replied.

She smiled warmly at him and shook her head. "Well, looks like we'll be busy for the next few weeks." She said with a bit of excitement in her voice.

They talked for a while and eventually Dwayne's four brothers joined them as well. He'd missed them all a great deal and was happy to see them again. Even his older brother Jesse, who lived two cities over, had come to see him. They were interrupted from the family reunion by a knock on the door.

Dwayne's youngest brother Derek went up to answer the door. Adrian stepped through the door and gave a cocky grin. "Well don't you look like shit." Adrian joked as he took in the sight of Dwayne.

"Boy, have ya looked in da mirror lately? Or ever? I gots a hole in my chest and will still be ten times more handsome then ya ever will be." Dwayne joked. The two animals laughed at the dark humor while Dwayne's family exchanged puzzled looks.

Adrian tossed a bag onto Dwayne's bed. The hyena gave him a confused look.

"They're some of your clothes I grabbed from the warehouse. Get dressed we gotta be somewhere." Adrian explained.

Dwayne raised an eyebrow. "Boy did ya crack ya head? I can barely move as is." He explained it like Adrian was lacking in intelligence.

Adrian pulled something out of his pocket. "Figured you'd say that, so did my dad, which is why we prepared this." Adrian said as he waved an epi-pen in his paw.

Dwayne was about to ask what it was but Adrian quickly stabbed it into his arm. Dwayne yelped and swiped at Adrian while some of his brothers shoved Adrian back angrily.

"The hell did you do to my brother!" Jesse roared as he grabbed Adrian by his front and readied his fist.

"Whoa whoa whoa!" Dwayne shouted as he patted his chest. "I think he just healed me." Dwayne explained in amazement. His chest still hurt but it wasn't nearly as bad as it had been before. He actually felt energized to.

Adrian shoved Jesse off of him, the older hyena still glaring at him. "It's called VitaSynth. My dad explained it as heal in a needle for guys like us." Adrian explained, enjoying the surprised look on Dwayne's face as the hyena continued to pat his chest and stomach.

"Now come on, I've got an even bigger surprise for you." Adrian said as he stepped outside.

After Dwayne had finished changing he saw that everyone was waiting for him. Both Janelle and Kate pulled him in for a fierce hug while Leon just laughed.

After the girls had finished hugging and insulting him they continued through the hospital until they were out the front door.

"Dis legal? Ya know not checkin out an all?" Dwayne asked suspiciously.

Adrian shrugged. "Dunno, my dad arranged it so I'd say yes…probably." He explained.

Dwayne just shook his head but froze as he saw they were being led to a police van. "Uhhh… A-Dawg?" Dwayne asked cautiously.

Janelle laughed at Dwayne's apparent fear. "Relax we aren't being arrested, we're being escorted. Don't know where, Adrian hasn't explained that to us yet." She explained.

"Where to?" Dwayne asked as he turned to his friend, feeling suspicious about the whole situation.

Adrian chuckled. "We're fixing a certain issue that none of you will ever have to worry about again after today." He explained cheerfully.

They exchanged puzzled looks but entered the van regardless. Dwayne's family wanted to join them but wouldn't be able to, due to just barely fitting the five animals. Adrian promised that he would have Dwayne back within three hours at the latest and gave them a list of contacts in case they got worried.

Twenty minutes later they were in the warehouse district where a few police cruisers were pulled up. As everyone exited the van they were met by Jack himself.

"Well you're all probably wondering why you're all here. I could explain it… or I could just show you." Jack said simply as he led them into the warehouse. The room they entered was freezing, it was so cold that everyone could see their own breath. But that wasn't the biggest surprise, oh no.

Laid out on the floor was what had to be at least a thousand body bags.

Jack smiled at them slyly. "Adrian explained to me that your all second generation. Well I've just solved your food problem." Jack explained before he turned and walked out of the building.

Dwayne finally connected the dots. "So… Every one of these bags has a G.E.O. in dem?" Dwayne asked incredulously.

Adrian nodded. "Yep, thank Bogo and my dad for this. The labs couldn't possibly do an autopsy on every single one of them so they basically just took paw prints, dental records and facial records before sending them off here. The two of them figured that instead of these guys rotting in a morgue for who knows how long we could solve your guy's eating issue." He explained.

The four animals stared at the rows of bodies and their guts collectively clenched. They really didn't want to have to do this.

Janelle took a deep breath and stepped forward. She opened one of the bags and cringed as she saw the poor bastard inside. She took another deep breath before she began to tear into the corpse.

Dwayne, Leon and Kate followed suit. They really, really, REALLY did not want to be eating corpses… but there would probably never be a chance like this again so they would have to take it.

*Two hours later*

"That was disgustin!" Dwayne groaned as he wiped his tongue with his paw, trying to get the horrid taste out of his mouth.

"I'm going to be having nightmares about this for the rest of my life, know a good therapist?" Kate shuddered as she turned to Adrian.

Adrian just laughed, he felt them on this but knew the payoff was worth it. "Oh come on it wasn't so bad. And tell me the feeling you have right now is not worth it?" Adrian teased.

Dwayne flexed his paw and shivered in expectation. It felt like he had an enormous amount of energy inside of him, ready to explode at his command. "I'll admit…dis feels good." Dwayne whispered as he clenched his fist.

Leon nodded in agreement. "I feel like a one animal army… it's almost as scary as it is awesome." He said in awe.

Adrian gave them a cocky smile. "Oh trust me. It gets a lot better. We'll deal with that when we come to it though. In the meantime who wants lunch!?" Everyone groaned in agony while Adrian just laughed.

*three days later, Zootopia memorial hospital*

The world felt foggy and blurry. Noises were dulled and everything felt numb. Slowly but surely though everything became sharper, clearer.

"I think she's finally coming out of it!" the first clear thing Sherry was able to understand.

"Wus gon n?" Sherry mumbled trying to make sense of everything. She waited several long minutes but eventually she was able to see and hear more clearly. The first thing she saw was two animals. One was a moose in a white coat holding a clipboard. The other was a smiling white cat in a full black suit. The sight of the cat made her smile.

"Morning sleepy head." Jack said quietly as he took Sherry's paw.

"Morning." Sherry replied weakly but happily.

Jack raised her paw and kissed her knuckles. "You really scared us you know." Jack said as he rubbed her knuckles with her thumb.

Sherry gave a weak chuckle. "Sorry bout that. So I guess I'm in the hospital?" She asked, as if the equipment hooked up to her and the moose wearing a lab coat wasn't a big enough give away.

The moose nodded. "Indeed you are. My name is Dr. Antlerton, Mrs Snowfur." He explained casually.

Sherry nodded and winced. She still hurt all over, she wondered just how bad of shape she really was.

"So is there a good news bad news or just bad news?" Sherry asked weakly as she looked at the doctor then at Jack.

Jack smiled at her and gently caressed her cheek with his paw. "Count your fluffy ass lucky that there is some good news." He joked.

The doctor cleared his throat. "Yes well. The bad news is that you suffered some very serious injuries during your operation, so much so that we thought we'd have to prepare for the worst. The good news is that thanks to your husband's generous blood donation you'll be expected to make a full recovery… in six months or so." The doctor explained.

Despite just coming out of a medical coma and feeling like crap Sherry's eyes went wide and she exploded. "SIX MONTHS!?" She screamed but immediately regretted it as she grabbed her stomach trying to ease the pain. Jack had his paw on her back trying to sooth her as she groaned in pain.

The doctor cleared his throat again. "Yes, six months. Even though your husband's blood greatly aided in your recovery you still have some fractures along your skeletal structure and a completely broken arm. Your muscles were severely torn, which caused some serious internal bleeding, but have healed enough that they can heal on their own, although it will take some time for that to happen. Finally your left kidney was on the verge of failure and as a result became infected, despite our best efforts. However the medication we've given you has shown good results and it will most likely clear up within two weeks. You will need to take a variety of medications and when you're feeling well enough you'll need to undergo physical therapy."

Dr. Antlerton explained some more things that Sherry wasn't really paying attention to. She was internally screaming at the fact that she'd be most likely be confined to a bed for a few weeks or months. But considering how things could've turned out so much worse she decided to suck it up and take it like a grown up. After the doctor finished speaking he excused himself to give Jack and Sherry some alone time.

Sherry turned to Jack and gave him a tired smile. "So you gave me your blood?" She asked slyly.

Jack gave a small laugh. "Yeah, they kind of ran out of your blood type and I was a match. By some goddamn miracle my blood actually started healing you." He explained.

Sherry snorted and shook her head. "Your blood, seriously? I married you and gave you children, you just weren't going to be satisfied until you had a part of yourself in me were you?" She joked

Jack snickered at her choice of words. "Sorry, a really dirty joke just came to mind." He explained.

Sherry rolled her eyes but smiled regardless. "You are such a goof." She said sarcastically.

Jack shrugged and smiled. "That's part of my charm and I know you love it." Jack said slyly.

Sherry did love that part about Jack. No matter how bad things were or how serious of a situation they were in, he would still act like a goof and it would ease her tension. She really did love that part of him.

Jacks smile faded as he held her paw in his and tears started to form in his eyes. "Sherry… You honestly scared the hell out of me." Jack said as he gave her the most heart wrenching look she had ever seen on his face.

Sherry sighed and looked away, she couldn't bear to look at him. She felt so ashamed. "I'm sorry Jack, but I made my choice and stood by it. I know you would've done the same thing if it was you." She explained, feeling guilty about it regardless of everything.

Jack took a deep breath. "I know… In fact I did." He whispered.

Sherry looked at him curiously. "You did?" She asked.

Jack nodded and hung his head, like it was his turn to be ashamed. "When I got thrown through the wall… I ended up back in the previous room. My body was pretty broken and I couldn't even stand. I think my healing was slower to. I grabbed the closest body and…" He left it in the air but Sherry caught on.

Sherry nodded her head in understanding. "You did what you needed to heal." She said simply.

Jack shook his head. "There's more to it than that." He gave a heavy sigh as he prepared himself. "I healed but when I was about to join in I realized… We couldn't fight him. Not without being on his level."

Sherry froze as he said that. He didn't even need to explain the rest for her to connect the dots. She remembered that in the previous room there had been at least a hundred bodies. And if Jack had been desperate enough…

"Jack… You didn't." Sherry whispered as she turned to her husband, dread and horror filled her.

Jack closed his eyes and turned his head. "I did." He said sadly.

Sherry pulled her paw away and slapped him, ignoring the pain it caused her as a result.

Jack wasn't surprised in the least. Of course Sherry would be angry about it. He had cannibalized a mass amount of corpses. And for what? Power. There was no excuse or apology to get him out of this one. He couldn't even look her in the eye with how disgusted he was with himself.

Sherry seethed with anger, Jack was willing to truly turn himself into a monster, to throw away everything they had built together! Just for one final jab at his enemy! Sherry was about to let Jack know the full extent of her anger but as she saw the grief, shame and self-loathing on Jacks face her fury subsided instantly.

Sherry remembered something, one simple fact she had forgotten in her anger. Jack wasn't one to do things recklessly. He had built up years of restraint and self-control just so he could give her some peace of mind. Yet he had thrown it away in a single act just so they would have a fighting chance.

So they would all make it out alive.

What Jack did was no different from when Sherry had injected herself with the booster. They were both ready to make sacrifices for the ones they loved, regardless of what happened to themselves as a result.

Sherry was ashamed of herself. She hadn't thought about what Jack was thinking. She had just assumed and she had acted out and hurt him more when he was already hurting. She carefully reached over to caress Jacks cheek and his face softened into surprise. He looked up to see tears falling down her cheeks.

Sherry gave him a soft smile. "We're both a pair of idiots aren't we?" She said warmly.

Jack smiled sadly in response and nuzzled his cheek against her paw. "Yeah, we are aren't we?" He chuckled weakly.

They sat in silence as they held each other's paws. A knock on the door broke their silence. They exchanged puzzled looks until Jack decided to answer the door and see who it was.

When he opened the door he was immediately pinned to the ground by three small furry masses.

"Daddy!" The three masses cheered in unison.

Sherry giggled and Jack couldn't help but grin as he looked at his children hugging him desperately as they looked at him with big eyes and toothy smiles. He completely forgot that Sharon was dropping by with the kids to visit Sherry.

"Jordan, Dan, Sammy." Jack said in a mock warning tone of voice. "What did I say about jumping on others?" He said with a raised eyebrow.

The three kids gave him sheepish looks and big apologetic eyes but the three soon exploded into fits of giggling as Jack pulled all three into a giant hug. Jack let them go and stood up but held his paw up, an indication of 'Wait.'

He knelt down so he was at eye level with his children. "Now guys. I know you're excited to see mommy. But she really needs to rest. That means inside voices, no rough play and gentle hugs and kisses, can you guys do that?" Jack asked calmly.

The three children nodded in agreement.

Jack smiled at them. "Ok, now you can go say hi to mom. I'm sure she really missed you guys." No sooner had Jack said those words did the three kids bolt past him right to their mother. Jack shook his head and smiled.

Sammy was already on the bed with her tiny arms around Sherry's neck. Jordan and Dan waited their turns and did the same, each of them giving her a kiss on the cheek. Jack's heart melted instantly as he saw their three children sitting on the bed with his wife. It was one of the few things he lived for, to see his beautiful children happy and with their mother. Although he'd prefer if it was under better circumstances but he was used to compromise at this point.

"Well looks like I'm the late one this time." Jack turned to the playful voice and smiled. Adrian gave a small wave and sly grin

"So how'd it go with your friends?" Jack asked teasingly.

Adrian snickered. "They'll be needing therapy for a while but the situation is permanently dealt with" he explained. "Hey dad… thanks again for doing that, it really means a lot." Adrian smiled as he sincerely thanked his father.

Jack returned the smile. "Hey, not much use for a bunch of bodies may as well put them to good use." Adrian rolled his eyes at his father's dark humor.

"ADRIAN!" Adrian was tackled to the ground and was met with the teary eyes of his three younger siblings.

"You're real right?" Dan choked out as tears fell down his small face.

"You're really here?" Sammy sniffled through her tears.

"You're not going away again are you?" Jordan asked as his lips trembled.

Adrian hadn't seen any of his siblings up to this point. A whole new wave of emotion spread through him as that one fact dawned on him. And as he realized the depth of how much he had missed them tears started falling down his face.

"I'm real. I'm here. And I'm not going anywhere" Adrian choked out. He pulled them into a fierce hug as all four of them sat on the ground crying.

Jack and Sherry couldn't help but smile as they cried. The three kids had missed their big brother immensely. And seeing him again was a lot for them. But as Jack and Sherry watched their children huddled together, holding each other as they cried tears of relief and joy they couldn't help but be happy. They were happy because it finally meant their family was complete again.

Adrian had finally come home to them.