Days after Outbreak: 1
Days without incident: 0
Savage Mammal count: 476,079
Survivors: Unknown
Chapter Five - Under Attack
"Fangmeyer, take Wolford, McHorn and Hopps to the medical ward, Chief, Snarlov, Higgins, you're with me" Nick said taking charge once again and surprising the buffalo of how the tone of the fox was.
"Roger that, Nick." Was all it took before the officers complied, the atmosphere was cold but the lights were on, and when they were left alone, they headed straight for the offices of the doctors stationed there, once they saw blood marks on the floor, they quickly switched from tranquilizers to lethal ammunition as an encounter on such tight spaces was highly dangerous and a tranquilizer takes about five seconds before they take effect and that is something that they don't need right now.
Just when they entered the office of Dr. Nicholas Phillips, a screen monitor popped a message that was visible to the police officers.
A message that revealed their location.
Once Nick saw the message, they were relieved to find them safe in a secret lab that he and Snarlov recognizes.
"Chief Bogo, we better rejoin the others." Nick said flatly, fearing his authoritative tone might attract the ire of the buffalo that looked extremely irritated by his behavior.
"If you keep this up Officer, I might promote you to a captain one of these days." Bogo joked, but maintains a serious face in order to keep his reputation intact.
Meanwhile at the medical ward...
"Okay, first aid, bandages…" Judy said out loud in a rush to treat McHorn's wounds, the bullets passed through his hide and exited at the opposite end which means that when Woolter shot him, he was using a High Velocity sniper rifle, a kind that is currently banned in the firearms market due to its destructive potential, and McHorn has been the first to get hit in years.
"Jeez man, if that guy had a rifle that can pierce through me, what more their equipment!" McHorn said, terrified of the events that transpired, apparently Max planned to ambush them at the Asylum but did not know they were heavily armored, except of course, the officers which were wearing standard SWAT vests which left portions of their body armor free unlike Judy and Nick wearing full body trauma armor that provided little space to effectively injure them, except for the head.
Once Cliffside was cleared, there was one thing left for them to do, go to City Hall and activate the Air Raid Warning System to instruct the people to move to the secure underground shelters and hold out until support helps them, all they need to do is secure it, which is easier said than done.
Once the rest of the building was cleared, they loaded up to the vehicles and went to City Hall backtracking the route they used to go to Cliffside and stopping at a road blocked by overturned cars.
"No shit." Nick Grabbed his radio and said "This is Wilde, send the APC's over, the tanks will use another route."
"But it's going to take 15 minute to circle around this mess!" Higgins protested, fifteen years on the force gave him abilities such as getting the ETA to a certain place at any time of the day.
"I don't give a damn how long it takes, just meet us at City Hall." And with that, the force divided into two, Nick's team of APC's were given the codename 'Hornet One' and Bogo's all-tank team was codenamed 'Hornet Two' and seconds later, the force went their separate ways, with Hornet One taking the direct route and Hornet Two circling around.
"Hey Judy, what's the status on Anderson?"Nick asked frantically while trying to secure air support for their vulnerable forces of only Bradley APC's.
"Anderson is Bingo on fuel, where should I land it?" Judy asked, hoping for Nick to say something surprising again.
"Can you land Anderson at the ZPD? I'm sure they have some sort of refueling module there." Nick hoped, he never actually knew if there was a refueling module at the ZPD but he sure knows there is a Helipad.
"Okay Nick, I'll try." And with that Judy landed Anderson at the ZPD and radioed to Clawhauser.
"Clawhauser, I need you to refuel the drone at the helipad now! We split from the main group and need air support, we don't know what's hiding in these walls." Judy said, in an authoritative yet caring tone. As to Nick's harsh and strict sounding voice.
"Okay, give me ten minutes." Clawhauser immediately said and headed for the helipad.
"Do you think Clawhauser runs fast?" Judy asked, slightly doubting the cheetah's speed and the amount of time to refuel that he gave her.
"I don't know fluff but it's about damn time we find out."
Meanwhile, at Hornet Two…
"Hornet Two, I need you to scan every possible direction for hostiles, we don't know what to expect so keep your fingers off the triggers, we don't want any dead civilians on this one." Shortly after Bogo said that, a huge military truck pulled up right in front of them, and an explosion on the left side of the tank in which Bogo was in prompted Snarlov to shout into the radio.
"AMBUSH‼" Higgins gunned the pedal and crashed into the truck in front of them as small arms fire enveloped the vehicles.
"This is Hornet Two! We are ambushed at Pine street! Request air support!" Bogo barked into the radio, only to get a flat response from Hornet One.
"Hornet Two this is Hornet One, negative on the Air support, Anderson is still refueling. Two Minutes." Was all Nick could say, although the Bradley has thinner armor, it has heavier offensive capabilities thanks to its TOW missile launchers on each side of the turret.
"Clawhauser, we need Anderson now!" Judy screamed at the radio, deafening Nick and herself for a good few seconds. "Detach the line I don't care if its full or not just do it!"
"Okay, okay, its detached, your clear for takeoff!" Clawhauser said before the cheetah was nearly blown away when Judy flew Anderson away.
Somewhere in Zootopia…
"Sir, the ambush is going well but we missed the APC's." a polar bear said fearfully, as if the person he was talking to was his master.
"How long before you can ambush the APC's?" Max said to the trembling polar bear.
"Fifteen minutes' sir." The polar bear replied.
"Good." Max said, "Send three assault units to the APC's location, we are going to obliterate the last of the ZPD."
"Sir, they have a drone coming!" a badger alerted the panther.
"What!? I thought you said there were only APC's and tanks?" the panther raged. "Send the assault teams to the APC's and shoot down that drone! You will never get away this time, Piberius."
Back in the battle…
"Hornet One! Where is that air support?" Bogo shouted, crapped out because of the fact that the savage animals were not attacking their attackers and the only guns that were shooting were the machine guns at the top opening and the main guns were not firing because of a certain switch not flipped.
"Hornet Two, you have tanks! Shoot them damn it!" Nick was really pissed now, 'Why can't they use their damn heads?' he thought, and that's where he slipped out of place.
"We can't there is a switch somewhere! And be careful with your mouth Wilde I'm still your superior!" Chief Bogo said, putting Nick back to his place as rookie police officer.
"Okay there is a chip below the gun mount, I need you to take it off its sockets and start firing." Nick instructed, forgetting that the tanks they stole was equipped with TUSK armor and as a result another safety chip was hidden in the gun mount. A chip that he forgot to remove.
Once Bogo followed the instructions and radioed it to the others, their guns were unlocked and they were free to shoot any hostiles they see, with the tanks rocking every time they shoot due to the huge recoil on the behemoth gun that the tanks was equipped with.
One by one, the opponents' strength dwindled, and in less than ten minutes from the first shot of the firefight, the battle was over, little did they know that they were regrouping to attack Hornet Two…
"Hornet Two this is Hornet One, I want you to go full speed to the City Hall, I have a bad feeling something big is going to happen." Nick said over the radio, aware of what just happened to Hornet Two and their sudden ambush, Nick instructed the group to take off their safety chip under their 20mm Bushmaster Autocannons and to arm their TOW Missile Launchers.
Just when Hornet One reached City Hall, four explosions occurred blocking every exit except one, luckily it was the route of Hornet Two that was unblocked. Once they were in position, heavy arms fire enveloped the vehicles causing some of the reactive plate armor to explode on contact, desperately needing to inform everyone in the city, Nick ordered Wolford to find and activate the Air Raid Warning System while the rest holds the position and await reinforcements from Hornet Two.
"Carrots I need you to arm the Sonic Weapons System and activate it on my signal." Nick ordered her only to get a confused response.
"We are outside! Use your head!" Judy argued trying to catch on with what he's thinking.
"Exactly! Just do it!" Nick shouts just as Delgato receives a bullet in the stomach. "Fall back inside the APC's" Nick ordered to prevent any more injuries to his team and radios Hornet Two, "Hornet Two where the Hell are you? Delgato got hit in the stomach!"
"Hornet One, we are five minutes away." Bogo replied desperately trying to calm down the vulpine.
"Five minutes' boys! Where is Wolford?" Nick asked and two minutes later he went back with sirens all over Zootopia blaring, alarming the public to stay in their houses, now they have the upper hand, anyone that stays outside is a terrorist.
"Fangmeyer, Wolford, load up Delgato in the H2." Nick ordered, Delgato was on the ground bleeding moderately on the ground, Nick pulled his kit, opened a ShotPak and applied it in the bullet wound of the tiger, although he cursed Nick for being rash, he immediately apologized to Nick knowing that it was only for his own good, Nick on the other hand was surprised that an officer knows how to control himself even when under pressure and with a gunshot wound that stung like hell.
Just when Delgato was loaded inside the H2, the reinforcement arrived, gunning down enemies in hiding and in plain sight and were silenced in mere minutes after their arrival, once City Hall was secured, they located Mayor Lionheart at the bunker and resupplied the bunker, meanwhile Nick gunned the pedal and headed straight for the ZPD.
Judy was exhausted, after what happened today, she needed to rest- Lots of rest -and Judy was showing it by sleeping in the H2, only to be shaken awake by an alarm stating that a missile was headed straight for Anderson, hastily flipping the switch for flares, she also performed an evasive maneuver and sent Anderson ahead to Precinct One to prevent any more problems.
When they arrived at the motor pool, the Medical Officers went to action, they transferred Delgato to a gurney and wheeled him straight to the infirmary.
"Hey Nick, is he gonna be alright?" Judy asked, seeing the bloodied car seat on the H2.
"Don't worry Carrots he's gonna survive" Nick quickly answered and proceeded to calm Judy, "There, there, was that your first firefight?" Nick asked her, seeing her visibly shaken from the previous events.
"Was that my first firefight? Yes. Yes it was." Judy said in a manner like Nick's breaking the tension between them.
"Well now I know you're okay."
Just when they ended the conversation, a small but loud sound filled the room, everyone recognized it as a bullet ricocheting the armored metal plate, but another bullet made it through a weak spot in the plate and hit Nick at his upper right chest.
"TAKE COVER!" was all he could say.
Post A/N:
So this is officially the first chapter I made for this story in the current time and as you can see, Venomheart the Dreamer's review already took effect, the last two chapters were made last February and I only had the guts publish it last July 4 and also getting a proper storyline for the story, keep in mind that when you post a review, I will read and I will pay attention to it.
Until next time!
- Nicholas P.
