*Daggermane, Southhowl, Telvanni, and Zola 11:50 pm*

Daggermane and the group were gathered in the main control room watching the cameras. Zola and Telvanni had notepads out ready to take notes and Southhowl had his arms crossed super tense. Southhowl was not comfortable at all with this little plan, letting out a growl of frustration he said "are you all sure about this?"

Zola huffed and replied "zes zes we are sure for the third time Southhowl! We planned for zis! This was always supposed to be ze first experiment! We have taken every precaution!"

Telvanni could understand while the wolf was tense but she built off what Zola said. "Exactly, the subjects behaved exactly how I predicted and they continue to do so. It will go just how I predict from now on, or do you not trust my math?"

General Daggermane interjected before Southhowl and Telvanni could get all mushy mushy. "Your mammals are in place are they not Southhowl?"

Southhowl nodded. "Yes and in their riot gear as instructed."

Daggermane lit up a cigar. "Then we are fine. The fight will happen, and we will stop it once it gets out of paw and too many die. We have subjects in the pocket to replace the ones we lose."

Southhowl nodded. "I know sure it's just…"

Zola could see where this was going. "Ze fox."

Southhowl sighed. "Yes, the fox. We all know he's not gonna die, and he's going to tear through anyone that tries him. On top of that…"

Telvanni finished the sentence this time. "He's going to try and escape. We know."

Southhowl gave her a look. "Which means he's going to probably kill quite a few of my mammals, and you're okay with that?"

Daggermane took a drag and said "Southhowl you and your mammals knew what you were signing up for, and I have full confidence in their capabilities to handle and contain Jason. If any die they can be replaced easily enough."

Southhowl huffed. "I just hope you aren't underestimating his capabilities. I did so once and five of my men died, I don't want to do it again."

Zola shook his head, this was going to go in circles. Then he spotted something. "Silence! It's starting!"

*the gazelle*

It was time. It was time to kill the fox and the rest of the top ten to make sure the rest of them had a fair fight. Getting out from the covers of his bunk he stood, the male kudu, a male and female hyena, and male lynx standing with him. He then as silently as he could he unscrewed his left horn and took it into his hooves, his eyes locking onto the sleeping fox across the room.

He began to as silently as he could creep towards the sleeping fox, the rest of the group standing as he passed and falling in behind him. As they passed one of the top ten a few would break off and place themselves in front of their cot, ready to jump them once gazelle plunged his horn into the fox's chest. Unfortunately for them, they didn't know that the entire top ten weren't really sleeping.

As he got closer the male kudu and hyena passed him to take positions on the left and right of the fox's cot. If the fox woke up they would hold him down until the gazelle could kill him, they figured no way the fox could shake them off. The gazelle actually couldn't believe the plan was working, all of the top ten were still asleep, and any mammal awake was keeping their mouths shut wondering what was going on. It didn't take a genius to figure out what him approaching the fox with a sharp object would mean, so it appeared no one liked a fox. It worked for him.

Finally, he reached him and stood poised to strike, taking his horn he raised it high above his head ready to plunge it into the fox's heart. Unable to resist giving a grin he began to bring it down….then he saw the fox open his eyes.

*Jason*

They were damn fools. What? Did they think he was stupid? Jason knew it was only a matter of time before someone tried to come at him, or multiple someone's. It was pretty easy to figure out that matter of time was today, when you make a plan…make sure the mammal the plan is about isn't listening. He wanted to laugh, he really did as he laid in his cot pretending to be asleep. The damn fools had been so busy trying to plan how to kill him they hadn't even noticed he walked into the room.

Sure he stood all the way across the room well out of normal earshot. But then again he wasn't normal, so he heard the plan and walked away. Now he was just waiting for them to execute their plan, and he had one of his own. It was pretty simple really, kill everyone that approached him, specifically target the 24 that planned this attack and save Hanna. He didn't know why he wanted to save the female snow leopard, but for some reason, something didn't sit right with just letting her die.

He figured she could hold her own for a minute but he would try and work his way to her as fast he could to assist her as needed before going back to killing.

It tickled him in a way, how easy he contemplated, planned, and was ready to kill these mammals. How…indifferent he felt about it, how little he cared and found no problem in it. In a normal mammal, this thought process would scare the ever-living daylights out of them, but to him, it was kinda normal. So here he was, patiently waiting for these idiots to hurry up and try to kill him, he was getting bored.

It took a minute, but finally, the group mobilized and the gazelle posed to strike. "Finally"

Jason waited until the weapon was on its way to his heart to snap open his eyes and go on the offensive. Seeing the weapon arcing down towards him he quickly deflected it to his left causing it to embed in his cot and then twisting his body up and to the left, he shot out a kick into the hyena's face causing them to yelp in pain before launching his body upwards still twirling until his front paws hit the mattress. He then in on fluid movement shot himself into the air briefly, just enough to land on the metal rail that was his cot's headboard. This all happened in a matter of seconds.

Taking a split second to look around him he locked in his targets and mobilized.

*chad*

Chad had been waiting patiently with the rest of his group, he knew once things started things would escalate quickly and he needed to be prepared. In the split second it took for a yelp of pain to be heard Chad was out of bed and behind the male gemsbok who had turned away to see about the yell. Chad quickly wrapped his right arm around its throat and yelled "Now!" Before snapping its neck and going for the next mammal.

The rest of his group jumped from their beds next and joined in attacking those who had planned to kill them. It's amazing how quickly it spiraled after that. Mammals jumped out of their beds and quickly formed into 4 groups, help the top ten, kill the top ten, fight everyone, or hide. The whole room descended into chaos as a full-blown brawl broke out. Mammals that didn't want to fit crawled under their cots and hid while the rest went to town on one another. Just like Chad had figured it would.

*Jason*

Jason heard the yell of now but paid it no mind as he rushed forward. He ducked under a punch from the Kudu and deflected one for the gazelle as he reached the prosthetic and yanked it out of his cot. Next, he returned it to its owner by stabbing it into their chest as they came to try and grab him. The gazelle let out a gasp of surprise that quickly turned into a death scream as Jason grabbed their shoulders and kneed the horn the rest of the way through their chest, the tip exploding out their back.

Hopping on the dead gazelle's head he then launched himself into the air twirling as he did to avoid a swipe by the hyenas and recovered. What he landed on hadn't expected him to because the kudu immediately began jerking their head as Jason landed on top of it. But this was a temporary position, Jason just needed to borrow something. Using the leverage of his weight Jason broke off a section of the Kudu's left horn causing them to bellow out in pain as Jason dropped to the ground. Jason then stabbed the horn into the Kudu's left knee causing them to drop to it in agony. He then in the next split second pulled the horn out and stabbed it into the Kudu's throat, their yell being drowned out by blood.

At this point the room had already descended into chaos which made his job so much easier, the hyena already occupied trying to shake off the male deer that grabbed him from behind. Jason used the Kudu's rapidly dying body as a launching board sending him airborne and landed on the hyena's left shoulder. He scampered up their head, jumped onto the deer's arm, ran up it, unsheathed his claws, and in four rapid swipes gouged the deer's eyes out cussing them to release the hyena to clutch their eyes screaming in agony. Jason leaped off the deer's arm as it moved and landed on the hyena's left shoulder. Jason then bit down on the hyena's throat and jumped off their shoulder his teeth still dug in effectively ripping out their throat.

Landing on the ground he spit the bits of hyena out of his mouth before roiling out of the way of their descending body. Taking off in a run he slid under his cot and then launched back onto his feet yanking out the gazelle's fake horn from their corpse as he passed. Ducking between several fighting mammals' legs he jumped up onto one medium-sized mammal's cot, launched into the air, landed on a large mammals cot, and launched himself right at his next target.

The male elephant was right in the middle of a group of brawling mammals fighting off the female rhino. Safe to say he wasn't expecting to see the fox suddenly hurtling towards him, he really wasn't expecting the fake horn getting buried into his left eye either. This caused a chain reaction as the bull elephant began jerking his head violently with the new addition to his face his trunk swinging wildly. His trunk first struck the male coyote, breaking bones and sending them flying into a wall, the wall crushing the rest and killing them. He then stepped on the female panther killing her and his trunk swing caught the male giraffe snapping their spine. On his blind charge, his tusks impaled the male puma and he trampled the female hyena before his head made impact with the wall. The wall driving the horn the little distance it had left into his brain killing him.

Jason after he had embedded the horn in the bull elephant's eyes had quickly climbed up their face and jumped onto the female rhino's head. He then jumped off it just as she slammed her fist down on her own head, since he was gone the only thing she achieved was knocking herself out cold. Jason landed on the female giraffe's long neck and dug his claws in slitting her throat ear to ear as the saying goes before dropping off of her and onto a cot. He used that cot to go airborne again and landed right in the middle of a group of mammals. None of them had outright planned to kill him but none of them liked him either so he wouldn't TRY to kill them, but if they died they died.

Jason began effectively dismantling them mixing his martial arts prowess with his teeth and claws. He gouged eyes, took flesh from ankles, broke bones, and dished out concussions as he carved a path through. He was untouchable, he blocked, dodged, and deflected blows with ease as he moved forward looking like a blur than a fox. He bobbed, dodged, ducked, twirled, and weaved his way through the brawl, if a mammal engaged him they were dispatched in the quickest way possible. Nothing was stopping him from reaching his goal.

*Hanna*

Hanna was sure this is how she would die. She had been awoken to the sounds of screaming and jerked awake looking across the room to see the fox Jason being attacked. The next thing she knew she saw the wolf Chad kill a mammal and yell "now" and things suddenly descended into chaos. Next thing she knew she was getting dragged out of bed and attacked by the male snow leopard and caracal, getting punched and kicked. She managed to throw off the fellow snow leopard and stun them and focused on defending against the caracal, in the end, she was forced to unsheathe her claws and she raked them across their face blinding them, or at least she thinks so.

She looked around frantically for a place she could go and hide and took in the sights around her. The whole room had erupted into a massive brawl, she saw the male grizzly and polar bear in a heated brawl, she saw Cad the wolf fighting off three mammals, she saw where Jason once was surrounded by corpses. Then she was grabbed from behind and dragged to the ground. The fellow snow leopard recovered from being stunned and took her to the ground pinning her to the ground. The male lynx then came from out of nowhere and pinned her arms so she couldn't strike at them.

The leopard gave her a self-satisfied smirk as he wrapped his paws around her throat, but then she saw an idea light up in his eyes. His disgusting smirk curled into a smile and he said "there's no reason we can't have a little fun first."

He then took a paw off her throat and start to try and rip off her sleeping shorts and underwear, and the male lynx began fumbling with his shorts. This was how she was going to die, being raped and then strangled. She was already crying but was about to start sobbing and screaming for help when suddenly she saw the fox Jason come flying from out of nowhere and land on the fellow snow leopard's back.

Jason looked like a feral animal, blood covered his maw and dripped off his claws while those lifeless eyes looked right at her. His hackles were raised and all of his fur was poofed up in agitation and anger. The snow leopard had no time to react as Jason wrapped his right arm around their throat and snapped their neck savagely their body flopping onto her. She could still see Jason though as he stayed on the back of the now lifeless corpse and gave a feral snarl to the lynx pinning her arms.

Jason then launched themselves at the lynx his jaws latching onto their throat and dragging them off of her arms and onto the ground. She watched as Jason shook his head violently ripping out the lynx's throat before hearing the crunch of their neck. Jason let the corpse drop from his maw before he gave her a look from the side and launched himself into the fray again. She didn't bother moving the corpse off of her and instead began sobbing with relief. Jason had no reason to save her but he did without hesitation, he had come halfway across the room straight to her.

*General Daggermane and group, during the brawl*

General Daggermane tilted his head as he watched the camera feed. "Did we know about the gazelle's fake horn?"

Zola paused his note-taking to say "zes it was in his medical file, I sent you a memo."

Daggermane let out an "oh"

They then saw Jason spring up. Southhowl saying "I don't know how they thought that would work."

They witnessed Chad snap the neck of one of his attackers. Southhowl smirked and said "that's my nephew"

They watched things descend into a massive brawl. Doctor Telvanni saying, "just as I predicted it would, they're turning on each other."

Zola hummed in response. "It seems zer is three factions. Help the top ten, fight the top ten, fight everyone."

They watched how Jason fought. Daggermane commenting "my gods he fights like a wild animal."

Southhowl nodded, "savagery mixed with his martial arts. It's brutal and effective. We really should stop this sir, 8 are dead and lots more injured."

Telvanni raised a paw. "No, not yet. Where is he going?"

Daggermane shut off the feed. Zola gave a growl of frustration and said "what are you doing!? I have not finished gathering all ze data about ze fox!"

Telvanni looked like she was about to blow a gasket as well "sir what are you thinking! The experiment isn't over yet!"

Daggermane turned to look at them. "Yes, it is. Southhowl is right too many are dead and injured. This little side experiment can't get in the way of our main goal. Southhowl mobilize your mammals, break this up."

*Jason*

Jason was back in the fray working his way towards a small group of the mammals that had planned to kill him when suddenly the walls of the room opened up in several places and wolves in riot gear piled out screaming out commands off "break it up move move!"

They then started firing rubber bullets and taser rounds striking those still fighting and hitting those near them with their shock batons. The brawl quickly ended with their arrival, the last blow being thrown by the male polar bear crushing the male grizzly bear's skull. Jason saw an opportunity here, it was now or never. Taking off in a sprint he headed straight for the nearest line of wolves and dropped to all fours about halfway there.

The guards quickly noticed his approach and began firing at him but he dodged out of the way with ease moving much too fast. Once he got close enough he leaped into the air targeting the weakest lion in the chain. The wolf guard he launched toward saw him coming and backed up a little breaking the line. His backing up didn't save him though as Jason's teeth went around his throat and took it out of his body. The force of his impact into the guard sent him to the ground and the second it did Jason did two things, he cut off and took the guard's watch, and he took the guard's sidearm.

Bringing it up he dropped the three closest guards to him and then rolled backwards through the door shutting it with the watch as he did. He noticed as it shut a little green light flash on the right side so he took an educated guess and shot it hoping it would fry the door. Turning and rising from his crouch came face to face with a guard coming out a door just in front of him to the right wielding an mp5. The guard looked at him in shock and Jason responded by shooting him between the eyes.

The body dropped and Jason ran over quickly, an alarm beginning to sound throughout the facility. Putting the sidearm he had in his front waistband. Next, he grabbed the dead guard's sidearm and but in his back waistband, then he grabbed the guard's pistol magazines and put them in his pockets. Once that was done he took the MP5 off of the wolf and set it to the side and took off their tactical belt. He quickly put it on, adjusted it, put the MP5 mags in it, and then slung the MP5 and took off in a sprint. This took all of 30 seconds.

As he ran he tried to see if there was a map on the watch but there wasn't, that or it got taken off. He didn't care to waste more time with it and kept running forward until he hit a dead end. bringing up the watch he checked to see if there was a door, it didn't appear to be so he turned back and took a left, then quickly ducked back as bullets went whizzing by him. There were several guards at the end of the hallway with sidearms, unslinging the MP5 he peaked the corner and with a quick spray took out all three. He then decided he needed to go just a tad slower and kept the gun up as he jogged down the hallway sweeping as he went.

Just as he got to the three corpses he heard a door opened behind him. Turning he saw a large group of guards coming from the supposed dead end he was just at dressed in heavy gear. Letting out a growl he fired one-handed from the hip as he dipped down and ripped off one of the deceased watches. His hip-fire spray dropped a few of the guards with lucky hits and he rose and turned taking a few hits with rubber bullets as he did. Unfortunately for them, they must have forgotten he couldn't feel pain as it didn't even affect him. As he ran he blindly fired behind him dumping the rest of the mag down the hallway, he heard a few cries of pain so he must have injured a few.

Turing the corner he quickly reloaded and kept running take a few blind turns. As he ran the second watch he had snagged lit up to open a door so he hit it and ran through. It quickly turned out to be a mistake as the room turned out to be a barrack filled with guards, some in towels, some partially dressed, some fully dressed, and some fully dressed and geared. The entire room froze to look at him and some slowly were reaching for their weapons. Jason slowly started backing out towards the door and when he saw the first wolf draw he brought the MP5 up and started firing.

By the time it was over Jason was leaving the room in a sprint a bullet in his left shoulder and the MP5 empty. The room inside was littered with wounded, dead, and dying guards Tossing the weapon away he took a right and ran right into three guards in heavy gear wielding shock batons. Jason quickly did a sweeping takedown on the one closest and found a convenient item as the other two tried to shock him. The shocks did not affect so Jason pulled out the guard's boot knife and turned to his left, grabbing the baton he gave it a yank pulling the guard off balance. Moving in he sliced the inside of the guard's knees bringing them down and then jabbed the knife into their jugular.

Turning to face the guard scrambling to get back up he slid under them gutting them before hopping back onto his feet. Changing his grip of the knife to reverse he ducked under the baton blow from the last remaining guard and moved into their space. He quickly made rapid precise stabs in the guard's legs and abdomen bringing them down, then he went behind the guard and stabbed them in the back and ribs several times. During this time that group of guards from earlier came around the corner and Jason slit the guard's throat before pulling their sidearm and opening fire on the group.

The group was better prepared this time as they had riot shields in the front protecting them from the gunfire. Seeing this Jason wasted no time and retrieved the knife then turned and ran. Taking a couple of turns he came across a couple of guards and brought the gun up and fired one round before it jammed. The one round dropped the first guard and when the gun jammed Jason chucked it at the others face. The wolf guard blocked the throw but it obscured his vision enough for Jason to be on them. Jason stabbed the blade into their right knee and took them down to the ground with a trip simultaneously. Pulling out the knife he began rapidly stabbing them as he moved up their body his last stab being fatal as he drove it into their heart and twisted, the wolf coughing up a stream of blood as they let out a gurgling final breath.

Another guard came around a corner in front of them already shooting at him with rubber bullets but Jason felt nothing as he pulled out the knife and threw it striking the guard right in the throat. By the time he stood he felt the impact of a few taser rounds and tuned to see the same large group again working their way towards him. They were starting to get on his nerves. Doing some quick math in his head he decided they needed to go, he wasn't gonna get anywhere with them chasing him. Pulling the sidearm in his front waistband he fired a bullet into the right wall at an odd angle causing it to ricochet and strike one of the guards in the front of the line in the back of the head killing them.

Jason rushed forward and slammed his body into the dead guard's shields causing them to fall backward instead of forward, causing the guards behind him to stumble. Jason now behind the front line began firing at all limbs in sight knowing they were too geared to die otherwise. As he fired he dodged grabs, punches, kicks, and baton strikes as he fluidly moved through the group taking out kneecaps. Once he got to the back he began backtracking the way he came snagging another watch as he did.

As he ran he checked to see how much ammo he had left and realized he was down to one magazine. Letting out a huff of annoyance he kept going until he saw the watch light up. Hitting the button a door opened leading to another hallway and he ran down it, once he reached the end he ended up in a dead-end. The room was a decent-sized square and looking around Jason got a very bad feeling when the watch didn't light up. "Oh-oh."

Then simultaneously doors on his left, right, rear, and front opened revealing lines of wolf guards with shields. "Ah fuck."

The lines quickly began closing in on him and he knew the jig was up. There was no way out, he was surrounded, the watches he was snagging were clearly losing access, and it was obvious he was baited into this room. But just because the jig was up doesn't mean the game was over, none of these guards had tranqs, he had a magazine left, and he couldn't feel pain. So if he was going down he was going down swinging. Raising his sidearm he began shooting at odd angels causing rounds to ricochet and strike random guards throughout.

Once the gun was empty he dropped it and went down on all fours and leaped towards a line. Landing towards the top of one of the guard's shields he scrambled over it ignoring hits from several shock batons. Landing on the guard's face he gouged their eyes out before dropping down and punching the nearest wolf guard right in the balls. He then grabbed two knives and began stabbing and slashing in every which direction. He was hit with so many shock batons but he kept going until he was tackled to the ground by a desperate guard. Still struggling he turned and kept stabbing but the wolf held on.

He only stopped when he was hit with five taser rounds, five shock batons, and a double deployment from a taser. His body finally shutting down and convulsing. The wolf that tackled him was pulled off and Jason was flipped onto his stomach and cuffed. Jason was actually starting to blackout because he was still being shocked and before he passed out the last thing he heard was Daggermane roaring "Stop shocking him and get him to the med bay!" Followed by two gunshots.