CHAPTER 1 : Give Me Back My Life

First of all, this is my first story, so please don't judge to hard. If there is something wrong with it please let me know so I can fix them and make the story better in the future. I have gone over this chapter like, 4 times before I posted it so XD I hope there's nothing to serious. Anyway, I hope you enjoy it!

Papa Roach

Nicks POV

I guess I was wrong.

I thought when I had joined the ZPD, things would change, people would look up to me and respect me for what I was, well fuck that…

By now I have these prison walls memorized. The very few dark cracks in the ocean of grey that surrounds me. And the stupid window, the window that is pretty much useless because of the foggy looking glass behind the bars. This bed in my cell, or if I can even call it that, really sucks. I might as well be laying on the floor, it's so hard. And the blankets barely keep any heat in.

The only colored thing in the whole cell is the orange jumpsuit that I am forced to wear everyday. Besides those things, everything in this prison is grey and boring. Everyday has been the same for the last year I've been in here; wake up, eat breakfast, sit in my cell, eat lunch, sit outside, sit in cell until dinner, then sleep. This has been the routine everyday, never been any different.

There is one thing that's interesting though, and is when Judy visits me about once a week. She says she will get me out, prove I did nothing, yet that still hasn't happened. She says that the evidence that that it was me and only me is overwhelming, compared to the evidence that it wasn't. She says that if she didn't know me personally, she would believe their lies too.

Suddenly I hear the guard bang on the door,

"Time to eat!"

"Finally, I thought you were gonna leave me here to starve." I joked

The prison guard didn't say anything, only signaled for me to put my hands out through the door. I walk over to the door and stick my hands out and he puts the same old handcuffs I am used to, on me. He then opens the door and starts to drag me out into the hall. As I look around, I see other prisoners with guards dragging them out into the hall as well. They line us up and we start to walk down the hall towards the cafeteria.

"One of these days I'll get out of here," I think as we walk."And when I do get out, I'll find out who did this to me and put me in this hell hol-"

"Keep moving!"

I get pushed as I realize I almost stopped walking. After a few minutes, we finally get to the cafeteria and walk in. Instantly many conversations can be heard about random things like what it was like outside of the horrid prison walls and insane ideas to break out of them. I walked over to the lunch line and grabbed a tray from the stack. I look at the options, peas or carrots…. And whatever that brown stuff is.

"Why can't they have things like fish? And why only 3 things, can't they add at least a few more? God this place sucks."

I decide to go with carrots and then was lead by my guard to go to a special place to eat.

I guess because of what "I did" I am under heavy security. This includes guards present at all times and having to wear a collar that is more powerful than the others. I also have to be restrained with handcuffs whenever I'm not in my cell. This makes it very hard to eat and do other normal things when I do get out for the very small time allowed.

We get to my special spot, the guard sits across from the table from me with his lunch and we begin to eat.

Judy's POV

I miss Nick being around. Although he was annoying at times, it was much better than doing patrols by myself. Can't believe it's been a year since he was taken to prison. Trying to get him out of there is much harder than I would have expected.

I've looked through the files from his arrest many, many times trying to find clues to what actually happened, only to find the same old things I have seen before. I've also been visiting him to get more information about once every week.

It was a surprise to everybody when we found him that night. Nobody thought that Nick could do something like that, and that the simple store robbery would escalate into what it did so quickly. That's why I don't believe what the official story is, I believe Nick's side.

He had responded to a call from a panicked store owner in the rainforest district, the owner said quickly that his store had been recently robbed. I wasn't there to help because I was at my parents house for the week, but now knowing what happened, I wish I would have been there to help. It kills me to think that I might have been able to avoid this whole thing if I would have been there.

Day of Nick's arrest

Nick arrived at the store shortly after the robbery happened. The door was broken into and everything was thrown everywhere. The mammal that robbed the store must have thought nobody was in there at the time, but the store owner was cleaning after hours when he broke in. The owner said he didn't see exactly who it was, but they were quick and didn't waste time. All the store could describe of the robber to Nick was he was big and fast. He tried to stop the guy but he was to big for him and the robber knocked the owner out with only a few swift hits. The robber had stolen only a few random electrical parts. Nick questioned why he would need to steal parts that were dirt cheap in the first place.

Was he really that desperate for a bunch of motherboards?

Nick laughed slightly at the thought of someone robbing a electronics shop for parts just to get an A on their science project or something.

He then heard a voice from his radio.

"Calling backup, Jaguar found running at sunset Lane. Looks to be carrying several bags. He's running fast and we can't take him on alone, over."

"I guess that's my call to get going, thanks for the information, and we'll get back to you as soon as we can!" Nick says to the store owner as he gets in his car.

He then picks up the mic in the car, "This is officer Wilde , I'm on my way. Over"

Nick then steps on the gas, making the car lurch ahead quickly onto the road. It was 11:12 P.M. so there wasn't really anyone on the streets to get in the way. This made it really easy for nick to get to sunset lane in a hurry.

When he starts to get close to the street the jaguar that was spotted on, he sees more police cruisers parked in front of an old warehouse.

The place looked like it had been abandoned for years, with moss and mold growing all over it. The night and the rain made it very hard to see anymore further than the few feet of light that the street lamp gave off beside the building. The officers were out of their cars had their guns aimed at the entrance of the warehouse.

Nick quickly parked the car by the others and stepped out into the cold, rainy night.

"Come out with your hands up, and you will not be harmed!"

They waited and waited, a few minutes went by and nothing had happened. There were only 4 other officers there at the moment, the rest were still on their way. Because of this, they hadn't gone inside after the jaguar yet.

"He's going to get away if we don't get in there and look for him!" Nick yelled at one of the officers over the sirens of the cars.

"Nobody's going near that place without more backup!" The other Officer yells back.

"How are we supposed to wait when he could be getting away? We need to get in there and stop him!"

"I said wait for backup!"

"Nicks right, we need to get in there! We can't wait any longer than we already have! There are enough of us here that we could all go at the same time!" Yelled another

"Nobody's going near that place without more backup, it's too dangerous!" The other Officer yelled back.

They waited a few more minutes for backup but it still taking its precious time to show up.

"We are waiting for backup on a jaguar that store some electronics… you have to kidding me" Nick thinks while sitting there.

Nick was tired and decided he had waited long enough…

"I'm going in!" He yelled as he started to run into the building.

"Nick no!"

With this he took off into the building before any of the other officers could stop him. The door wasn't hard to open since the jaguar had already smashed through it and Nick just quickly pushed it aside.

It was dark inside and at first there was nothing, just the sound of the police sirens outside of the warehouse and the rain. He pulled out his flashlight and looked for a light switch. He looked down the sides of the warehouse for one, but there were none to be seen. When he didn't find a switch he continued slowing walking into the dark with his flashlight, with none of the other officers either brave or stupid enough to follow him.

There were old boxes and crates everywhere, some were even broke open. Most of the boxes looked kinda newer and said,

||WARNING: Fragile items inside, open with care||

Nick didn't like being in the warehouse alone and wanted to be done with this so he could get home, so he decided to try to call the jaguar out.

"look, if you just give in, nothing will happen to you!" Nick yelled into the darkness.

It was dead silent in the building, the only things heard was the rain tapping on the roof and Nick's slow footsteps.

Suddenly as Nick came around a corner, two people grabbed his arms and then something was wrapped around his neck. He instantly lost control of his body, like if he was paralyzed and could only watch what was happening.

Nick saw the jaguar come somewhere from behind him. He looks down and smiles at Nick, making Nick feel even more uncomfortable.

"That device that you now have on you neck, let's me control your body in every way, I could have you do anything I please and you wouldn't be able to stop me." The jaguar says still smiling.

"What should I have you do first? Hmm…. Oh, I know, let's walk outside."

Nick then began to walk outside, not being able to stop himself. He wasn't even able to talk, he could only look around hopelessly and watch.

They walk through the big door that they had come through earlier. First thing Nick sees is the 4 officers that had come with Nick on their knees in a line with their hands tied behind their backs. He then sees the other people behind them. They each have some sort of weapon and thy are just watching the other officers.

"looks like your 'help' is really doing a lot…. Well we won't be needing them anymore and we sure as hell can't leave them to tell the others. Here, take this," handing a gun to Nick who takes it unwillingly," now I want you to shoot them."

Nick freaks out inside his mind as his body begins to obey. He slowly raises the gun to his fellow officers head. Nick is trying everything to stop his body but is unable to do anything, only watch what he was about to do in horror. Nick felt his finger pull harder the trigger, getting closer and closer to ending his friends life.

*BANG*

Nick watching in horror as his friend and co-worker fell to the ground with a hole through his head. Then without warning he went to the next officer.

*BANG*

Nick wanted to stop himself more than anything, to KILL this jaguar controlling him more than ever.

*BANG*

There was only one officer left, officer Wolford.

Wolford looked up at Nick with tears on his eyes. Nick could see the fear deep inside of him.

"Nick please don't do this….please….god…. I know you can fight it."

" Well that's the thing" the jaguar interrupts," Nick IS conscious of what he is doing, but he can't do anything about it. I am in complete control of him now. He can't stop himself no matter what he does. Now if you would kindly finish please Nick?"

Nick was disgusted at the jaguar.

How could someone do this to somebody else! And not even care like the jaguar is doing!?

Nick looked down to see Wolford looking at the ground in tears. Nick raises the gun and pulls the trigger.

*BANG*

Nick watches his dead friend fall to the ground, with tears in his eyes.

Just then a small high pitched voice was heard from behind him.

"So the test is successful?"

"Yes," said the jaguar," he did everything I wanted with no hesitation."

"Good, now get the collar off him before the rest of them show up."

Nick then sees the jaguar pull a syringe out of his vest and stabs Nick with it.

Nick quickly realizes that is a tranquilizer as the jaguar takes he collar off of him. Nick falls to the ground as the tranquilizer begins to take effect. He looks behind him with his vision blurred to see the jaguar and who's voice that was.

Is that a sheep?

"Good luck explaining this one Nick" said the jaguar leaving. The sound of police sirens coming from far away is the last thing Nick hears as his vision goes black.

Well I hope you enjoyed this, I have written 4 more chapters to this already, so don't worry about me not continuing it. I don't really have an upload schedule, so it will probably be about it every week. If I take more than a week, I'm sorry XD but one thing is for sure. I intend on finishing this story, because I hate it when people leave stories unfinished. So this was probably the longest chapter out of all of them, the rest won't be quite as long. So I guess I'll see you in the next chapter!