ACT V: God Complex

Mad Titan

Marvin opened one of the flying files with one of his fingers. It was technology Nick had never seen in his life. To think that there was so much advance below his feet.

The files opened and some photos appeared. Marvin touched one of them to maximize it and they were found with a picture of an enormous being sitting on a throne-like chair. "This is the one," Marvin said.

Nick's first reaction to it was of disgust. He'd never seen a purple furless giant like that. It wasn't at all like he imagined. Then came anger.

"He has killed many races before us, but he has a motive," Sheila spoke. "He says he's saving people. He wipes out half of every planet," she said.

"And that's what happened to us, isn't it?" Kii expressed, saddened.

"Unfortunately yes. But it didn't happen the way he used to do it. He used to go to each planet separately and kill half of all of them so their planet would prosper," Marvin said.

"Then how did he make everyone disappear on this planet? Why didn't he need to come here?" Why did it have to be her? thought Nick. He stopped going too deep in his thoughts because he feared he would space out again.

"He found a different and a quicker way to do it. There were six gems spread throughout the whole universe. They hold incredible power and it is very dangerous in the wrong hands. Just one infinity stone, as they're called, can destroy single planets entirely. Thanos was able to get them all and use them together to wipe out half of the whole universe. Not just ours but the whole of it. Patrick had an encounter to one by scanning it through a satellite. It's power was too much and the satellite had to get away or it would've been completely destroyed," Marvin explained as he passed through some files containing images of the forbidden gems.

"How'd you find out all this info? I imagine you've gone through space expeditions and all but this is a lot to unpack. All this space crap is confusing to me. How have we been living our whole lives without knowing about other beings on other planets," Kii told her boyfriend.

"We encountered another spaceship in one of the expeditions. They were good guys. The group consisted of very peculiar kind of people. There were three furless creatures with different characteristics, a raccoon like me and a talking tree. Yeah I know it sounds unbelievable but it happened," Kii was now very amazed and disturbed by what his partner told her. Nick was also very intrigued about that certain bunch.

"They called themselves the Guardians of the Galaxy," Paul spoke again after comforting his sister. "Sorry, Marvin I couldn't hold myself. Their name is just so cool", he apologized. Marvin shrugged him off and continued.

"They were very kind to us and talked a little bit about their lives and planets. They talked to us about Earth. A planet very similar to ours. It doesn't have animals like us. It has humans" Sheila said

"Humans? What kind of aliens are those?" Nick said curiously

"They don't think themselves as aliens but I'm pretty sure they are. They're furless creatures like Thanos, but they're not purple. They can be white, black and a little bit in the middle," Paul answered his question.

"And before you ask what Earth has to do with the Mad Titan I'll just tell you," Marvin interrupted "We traveled to the galaxy where Earth is located which is really really far. In there, we examined life on the planet. It's kind of a mess. Wars, famine, greed. Those are some of the things that infest it. There's also some good, of course. There is a group of special agents called The Avengers. They've helped Earth on many occasions against different enemies. Thanos was their third, and possibly their first defeat," Marvin finished with a sad glare.

"We built a satellite close to Earth so it wouldn't be as hard to record information," Bryan informed. "Two days ago it went crazy. It had detected massive levels of power. The cause of it was a big spaceship that wasn't even that close to us, but it had such power that even a low-tech sat like that could detect it from many miles away. At that moment we knew there was trouble, but not at such a large scale like this one,"

"Incredible. Is the satellite still standing?" Nick asked.

"No. It got destroyed. We'll get to that in a second," Marvin said as he kept passing through information on the floating files.

"We sent the satellite back in order to do repairs to it and to add more tech we needed. We added a better camera, better controls, and even a defense mechanism if something got too close. After that, we sent it back. And waited. We wouldn't have to wait long, however, for something was already in its course to Earth," Marvin told the dumbfounded mammals.

"It was a different ship. It was ring-shaped. It looked like The Avengers were able to get the spaceship out, or the alternative was that Thanos was just looking for something there and took it. However, the power we sensed before wasn't the same this time around." Marvin kept explaining, making both Kii and Nick struggling to catch their breath as they attentively paid attention to the story. "Which made us think that he wasn't really on that ship and instead went somewhere else with the ship we saw before. Unfortunately, we know nothing about where he went. But we stayed watching over Earth because we had a feeling something would come up,"

"And something indeed came up," Sheila began. "There were other different spaceships of another shape that began getting into the atmosphere. We moved the satellite a little bit closer and we saw what they were trying to get. We sensed another kind of power but it was almost the same. There was another Infinity Stone in there, and the Avengers were protecting it. 40 or 50 minutes later, the satellite was completely failing. The system was being overrun by massive energy and at the moment we knew that Thanos had arrived," she stated with incredible confidence, as if she was there when the event had happened.

"And that's when it really went out of control. There were many flashy lights coming from the planet and even from our distance we could see it very clearly. A sudden explosion of light was seen and the satellite got completely destroyed, answering your question, Nick,"

Unbelievable. Those were Nick's only thoughts at the moment. To think he would miss such a fight. And for such high stakes as those.

"After that it's when it happened," Paul stated, taking the lead on storytelling this time. "The first sign of the event was the plane," Marvin selected a floating picture and enlarged it. It showed a plane. The exact same one from the crash.

"Yeah I was there when the plane hit. It was horrible," Nick said, remembering the dead bodies of innocent animals and the mammal who was beside him.

"After that, you all know the rest," Marvin figured. He was right of course. Kii and Nick had enough of those memories already.

"Do you know where he is now? Thanos?" Kii asked, earning a shaked head from Marvin.

"No idea. After the big explosion the installation went down for a few minutes. Maybe the wave of power coming from the stones. Not sure if he'd still be on Earth," he answered.

"Show 'em the map," Paul stated, bringing curiosity to the fox and the cheetah.

"Oh yes, I almost forgot. Crazy me, hah," he minimized the floating files and opened another one called 'Zootopia, Aftermath'. In it, there was an image of the city and with red dots throughout every part of the map. Right then and there, Nick knew what it represented.

"All the casualties," Nick said, his eyes focused on the screen.

"That's correct. We used one of the satellites we have and scanned all the sudden disappearances of heat in each part of the city, resulting on this. There might be some mistakes but I believe it's pretty accurate," Paul said proudly. It seemed like he was the one who thought of that.

"Can you get closer to some places in the map?" Kii asked

"Yes", Paul began answering her question. "This works just like Zoogle Maps. You can zoom in and zoom out of places" he said as he was showing them that it could zoom in and out. As he kept zooming in there were more dots and they kept getting bigger and bigger. Paul unconsciously zoomed in on Precinct 1.

"Wait wait keep it there for a second," Nick demanded. Paul listened and let Nick examine the location. Kii looked with him. The amount of red dots was surprising. There were only 7 dots inside, and 2 on the outside, which Nick knew who one of them was. But there was something strange with those dots.

"Those two dots. Outside of the precinct," Nick gulped, not wanting to talk about it but still with curiosity.

"Yeah, I see them. What about 'em?" Paul asked.

"Does this map also have the date of when each vanishing happened?" Nick quickly replied.

"Uhh yes, actually. Although I don't think it would be that different. Most of the deaths happened within a span of 5 minutes" Paul explained.

"That's not what I'm looking for, anyways," his comment puzzled the wolf. It didn't make any sense about what the fox was asking but he dared not to deny it. He was there to answer doubts and to make friends. Not to make more enemies out of people.

"There, it's done," Paul showcased the dates. The dots inside of the establishment had an average time between 5:19 and 5:21 in the afternoon. However the two dots on the outside had vanished at the exact same hour about five minutes later. At 5:26. This did seem weird to Paul. He imagined everyone would vanish in an equal time as others.

"Two people didn't die at that exact place and time, right, Nick?" Kii intruded into the conversation as Nick nodded. "Maybe a failure in the system?" Sheila suggested

"No," Paul denied. "The records show it, it's completely accurate. Two bodies must've vanished at that place. Although it is weird that the 2 people vanished 5 minutes after all the commotion," Paul stated.

"H-how is it possible?" Nick said, not wanting to think what he was thinking. "S-she couldn't have b-been…" he sat abruptly on the floor by the stairway that led to the massive computer and started hyperventilating. Kii kneeled where he was and began trying to comfort him. The others in the room were confused as to what caused such a mad display of emotions. Sheila looked at the two dots in the screen and it hit her.

"She was pregnant," she murmured to herself. Her eyes growing more openly. Paul didn't quite hear her.

"What was that, sis?" he asked. Sheila looked at him horrified.

"Judy Hopps. She… Might have been pregnant," this caused a gasp and a surprised face in each member of the crew inside.

"You can't be serious. Can you?" Paul was shocked. Judy and Nick were an idol to him but he would never expect that they could be able to have a child on their own, and now… Their dream is completely gone. All because of a damn tyrant. An unreachable one, at that.

"It's a possibility. It might explain why there's two dots very close to each other and that they vanished at the exact same time. And also why 5 minutes went by before she left,"

"Still doesn't explain it fully. We don't know how this… thing works,"

"It's still a possibility," she spoke.

As Kii heard the conversation she couldn't believe it. Judy, being pregnant, while also leaving Nick because of this destruction. She felt horrible for him. He kept hyperventilating and there seemed to be no way of clearing his mind from the fog that was Judy and her child she didn't know she bared inside of her. She went back to her fears on her mind. Nick Wilde wouldn't be the same after this day. He never saw him like this in the whole time she knew him. His facade of showing no emotions had been completely broken.

He calmed himself a bit from his panic attack, thinking that it is no time to be crying yet. The city still had to be saved. He got up quietly with the help of the female cheetah. His head lowered, frown in the face. Visible discomfort and anger. His paws pressed tightly into fists. Blood was visible. He had pressed his paws too much and his claws had bruised him. He didn't seem to feel any of it. Paul and Sheila looked at him in sadness and fear while everyone stayed silent.

"The city needs our help. There's no time to be standing around and doing nothing. There are revolts. All throughout the streets. What have you people done to try and stop it?" he looked at them with teary eyes.

"Whatever it is you're doing here it's not helping!" he kept on talking now with a higher voice as his eyes kept getting more and more watery. "She wouldn't be standing here like a coward! Doing nothing! She would already be in the streets trying to calm everyone down. And even if she gets shot, punched or stabbed she would still get up, protecting her city from her last breath, because that's just how foolish she is. She protects everyone but herself." he was already fully crying. Every mammal in the place went silent. Paul took it the hardest and lowered his head.

"He's right," Sheila said. "We can't just be here doing nothing. Dad wouldn't have liked seeing us like this," bringing up her dad was very unexpected. To Paul even more. Her eyes held no tears together.

"Sis, I… I don't know what to say." said her brother, still surprised.

"No need to. This has hit all of us. Nothing's been easy. This place has remained in the shadows for too long. This city is strong, but it will fall if there's no control. We have a way to get it back in control. This city hasn't seen the rise yet and we can make it rise again. Our secrets are not worth keeping if we can't help our city." every word was like an earthquake that struck the room in which the mammals were located. As Nick kept whimpering in a wall he listened clearly. He smiled proudly.

"Alright." Marvin spoke. "I agree. We can use the suits and one ship to calm, control and help the innocent citizens."

"Wait, you guys have suits?" Nick said, as if he had forgotten his crying.

"Wait a minute, Marvin, we can't possibly do that," Bryan approached him aggressively. "The reason this place is still alive is because we've been keeping it a secret from everybody. What would the government think?."

"No, Bryan. Sheila has opened my eyes. I am done being the government's pet. Everyone deserves to know," they expanded their eyes at the way Marvin spoke to the ram. Bryan huffed.

"You're gonna regret this," he said with disapproval. The team glanced as he left the room making sure the door made a loud bang sound. Marvin sighed. There was nothing he could do.

"Alright. Me, Kii and Sheila will go with one small ship to try and calm things up a bit. Paul and Nick will stay here. I remember why you came here in the first place, Nick. We can get you a whole connection to Zootopia so the entire city can hear you, but that'll take some time. About how much time, Paulie?," he asked in a charismatic way.

"About an hour. Connection to the entire city is a task, but nothing I can't do," Paul said, taking pride to himself.

"Nerd." Nick funnily said as if the memories of his dead lover didn't haunt him at the moment. "Oh shut up, Nick." this gave him a chuckle and it spread to the whole crew. Marvin realized why so many people got to be so close to him. At one time he's bawling his eyes out and on another one he's being strong, funny, and helping people sort their problems out by giving them a good chuckle. Nick's interests certainly came before him, and that makes him one of the best foxes he'd ever met. They had started on a bad note, but there is nothing he could do to stop gaining respect for him.

"Alright then. Let's save our city." he raised his fist in a horizontal line, expecting everyone to join in. Sheila came second, then Kii, then Paul, and finally, Nick. Soon they started reciting their own motivations to get through this odyssey.

"For dad," Sheila spoke

"For Patrick," Marvin seconded

"For the ZPD," Kii exclaimed

"For Judy," the vulpine stated, with his right fist on his heart.

"For all the animals who have lost their lives. We will avenge them!" Paul screamed at the top of his lungs.

"YEAHHHHH!" everyone yelled as high as they could, raising their fists simultaneously, making a perfect circle. This was time for resolve. They owed it to them. For the fallen and the living, they would restore control. Nick will protect the city Judy worked so hard to make better. It was time to make her proud.

To Be Continued

Acts VI and VII will be the longest chapters yet and will take a while until they come out. Act VI on July at the earliest and Act VII on August at the earliest. I thank all of you that are reading my nonsensical story. Until next time.