Chapter Six - Siege of Precinct One

"Take Cover!" Nick said as loud as he could after getting bullet in the upper right region of his chest, the armored casing was supposed to stop the round but for some reason, it manages to go through the armored casing which was designed to resist small arms fire, but the hole on Nick's uniform indicated that it was hardly small arms fire as it was the size of a .50 caliber round and was hurting like hell as the bullet smashed into him before getting lodged inside the Fox's body.

"Judy, I'm sorry..." was all he could say before his mind drifted away into an unconscious state, Judy was confused by what he said, staring at him with confusion and fear.

"Medic! Ready the Medbay! Clawhauser! Get on that radio and tell them that we are under attack!" Judy said in the most shocked manner Nick could expect from her, Judy was so busy telling and barking orders that she forgot to take cover and only realized to do so when another round ricocheted off the armored casing strong points.

When Bogo heard the situation at the precinct, the whole Hornet task force was ordered to go to the ZPD at full speed as the fall of their headquarters could disastrously damage their morale much more than it needed to be.

Back at the ZPD, the situation of Nick's health was becoming critical is getting worse every second, while the bulk of the ZPD's firepower is on route everyone was taking shelter at the room at the square center of the building, with Judy carrying a mobile short wave radio to maintain communication to the forces outside the precinct.

"Chief Bogo, what's your twenty?" Judy asked him anxiously waiting for their arrival and also because the fact that there is a highly skilled sniper out they with a rifle that could pierce through the walls of the ZPD.

"We are fifteen minutes out from Higgins' estimate, what's the situation there Hopps?" Bogo asked firmly but with care, showing his concern for the safety of his officers.

"Officer Wilde has been shot, the casing protecting us has been breached and we are currently hiding out at the bullpen because it's the safest one we got. " Judy said quickly trying to give Bogo as much information she can give him as it was the only chance they have to survive the siege of ZPD Precinct One.

"Is Wilde okay?"

"Yes sir, he is currently being treated at the Medbay as we speak. " Judy said with a hint of fear, fearing that Nick would not come out the same way he went in.

"Here's what I want you do Hopps, there is an armory for high caliber weapons at my office, the code is 639103211999." Bogo instructed her in order for them to hold out while they were still 10 minutes away from precinct one.

"Yes sir, arming the officers now. " and ask quickly as that, she dashed from cover to cover and ran up the stairs to Bogo's office, unlocked the safe, and with the help off the other officers they set up a cover that was made out of lockers from the locker rooms and making a small hole in the center that's big enough to use an M21 sniper rifle with infrared sight and with the added con of having a very limited field of vision.

And then, an idea sprang on Judy's head, "I need a bait. You there! I need you to run to that cover on the left on my signal you got that?" The ram nervously shook and asked the panther to give her the rifle and a few seconds later after she steadied her aiming, she gave the signal. "Now!" And the ram ran to the cover as fast as he could, but when he did that, the sniper fired a shot, and with the infrared sight on the rifle it wasn't hard to find out where the shot was from and once she caught sight of the sniper, he shot him straight at the head. Immediately after the shot, the whole precinct was silent and after a few minutes thought back to what she just did, 'I just shot a mammal.' But her conscience wrestled away that thought, justifying that if she did not shoot him, they would be in a much dire state than they are right now.

Once Task Force Hornet arrived Nick was already standing up and mock saluting the chief, much to Bogo's confusion.

"I thought you said Wilde was shot Hopps!" A raging buffalo yelled at her, "You better have a good explanation why he is still up and kicking with that smug idiotic grin on his face!"

Judy too was dumbfounded, she thought Nick was shot with a very high caliber round that pierced the armored casing of the ZPD headquarters.

"Nick? I thought you were shot! " Judy asked with genuine care in her voice. Only to get a maniacal laugh from Nick.

"HAHAHAHAHA!" Was all Nick could say, before they could ask him another question, he opened up his uniform to reveal a hardened titanium plate covering all vital organs in the body. "I got something that saved my life but it did not save my bones, bruises and a harrowing crack on the rib but nothing more serious. I always wear this just in case times like this happen."

"Th-then why did you fall unconscious?" Judy asked between sobs, genuinely worried about the vulpine's health.

"I got stunned that's all, It's not easy to stay awake after a large caliber round suddenly hits you, you know." Nick said trying desperately to calm the now crying rabbit, "Oh you bunnies, so emotional." And those words were all it took to silence the bunny, which was now relaxed after realizing that he was right, he is now standing up cracking jokes and acting as if nothing happened.

A few minutes after their episode of comfort, automatic fire started to ricochet of the armored casing of the ZPD, immediately after the first shots were fired, Nick jumped to the Bradley parked outside the ZPD and shot 20mm rounds to the enemy positions scattered all over the front of the ZPD.

"Officers! Return Fire!" Bogo yelled and as soon as the officers heard this, they grabbed their guns and pushed the locker defense to the doors of the ZPD and returned fire to the enemy, once they thought they were winning, a modified UH-1 HUEY mounted with Hydra rockets and a 40mm chain gun mounted at a turret below the pilot's seat that started hammering to the tanks parked in front of it.

"Nick! Blow up that helicopter!" Judy yelled into the radio, with Nick responding quickly.

"Copy that Carrots." Nick said back and armed the TOW missile launchers on the side of the turret and shot all four missiles to the helicopter with devastating effect as the helicopter did not even need to crash as it broke up in midair, and as soon as Nick saw the wreckage of the helicopter, he continued to hammer the enemy position with minor effect.

After finding out that the weapon was highly ineffective he theorizes that they were either heavily equipped with vests or they were entrenched in the buildings. Once Nick figures out a plan that depends heavily in the vehicles, he quickly shouts, "Cover me!" And as soon as they heard this, Chief Bogo gave them the signal.

"Covering fire!" And when Nick heard this, he darted through the vehicles and went to the tank at the middle of the formation. As soon as he was inside, he turned on the weapons system and said to the radio.

"Snarlov, Wolford, Fangmeyer, Judy get to the tank." Nick ordered them but was cut off by Bogo.

"What are you doing Wilde? Your cutting the effective force here in half!" Bogo said, doubting it whatever the fox was thinking would work, after all he is just a rookie.

"Trust me Chief. Just this once." Nick said, and after hearing a snort over the radio, the officers he requested for arrived and assigned them their tasks, "Judy, get to the driver's seat, Fangmeyer, get to the loader's position, Wolford, you're the gunner, Snarlov, man the .50 cal." Nick said as he took the commander's post and ordered Judy to move the tank to the enemy's position and told Snarlov to shoot anyone shooting at them with Wolford holding his fire until further orders.

The tank inched slowly towards the enemy lines and when the tank was about 20 meters from the enemy trench, he told Wolford to fire at will, while Snarlov was changing his third barrel after it overheated and ruptured, the same thing that happened to the other two barrels the went before it.

Once they were making good progress, Snarlov saw a mammal wielding an AT-4 disposable rocket launcher, Snarlov quickly alerted the tank crew but it was too late for Judy to move the tank as the rocket was already launched from its launcher by the time Judy made her futile attempt to move it out of the way. Expecting the end, she closed her eyes until the rocket impacted, only to find her safe inside the driver's compartment.

"Ha! Those bastards don't have anything that could pierce the armor on this tank!" Nick said out loud only to be cut off by Snarlov.

"Sir, they are flying the white flag, we win." And with that, they celebrated, while the officers from the precinct walked out, cuffed them and formed a line going to the precinct with Snarlov threatening to shoot if they try to escape.

When they were locked up inside the cells, Judy turned to Nick and Snarlov and asked them, "Hey Snarlov, what did you call Sir Wilde again?" All she got as a response was a face that screamed one word; 'Shit.'

"Oh it's just because of a bet officer fluff." Nick smoothly said, "You see, Snarlov said that I could never intimidate or even say a word to Bogo without him getting angry at me, as it turns out, I won the bet ten minutes ago." Nick said but the look on Judy's face meant that she wasn't buying it.

"Riiiight. And it took effect in the battle?" Judy stated, as-a-matter-of-factly that surprised the fox, "This isn't you Nick, what's happening?" Judy asked, wanting to get to the bottom of all the things that happened.

"Drop it Judy." Nick flatly said, without a hint of care in his voice.

"But Nick, I really need to..." Judy tried to reason, only to be cut off by Nick.

"I said drop it." Nick said not even noticing the tears forming on Judy's eyes.

"Judy, just drop it and trust me okay?" Nick said with Judy nodding in reply.

"Get a room you two!" Bogo snorted, and continued "Now what the hell was that out there?" Chief Bogo roared, desperately needing his questions answered not for his same but for everyone to know.

"That Chief, is what Max Michaels can do." Nick said, with a hint of fear in his voice.

"So you're telling me that we are facing a terrorist organization? Or a fucking army?" Bogo asked, plain sick of surprises that the whole situation was hiding and how highly skilled were their adversaries that ZPD Should have fallen if it weren't for the equipment by the military.

"Sir, I need you to get everything the ZPD has on Max Michaels, we have to cooperate of we are ever going to get the city back to normal." Nick said in an authoritative yet respectful way.

"Higgins, go to the records room and pull out the box labeled Max Michaels, everything should be there." Bogo ordered Higgins and he quickly went to the records room and pulled out a box that had the same label on it as described by the Chief.

"There, is that enough?" Bogo asked Nick.

"That is more than enough sir." Nick replied with the sincerest voice he could later at the moment.

"Now, after witnessing all this fucking mess unfold right in front of me, it is clear that Officer Wilde has the commendable capacity to lead a team of officers, even when under pressure, and for that, I will personally make sure that you will revive the Medal of Honor. And as of now, you are officially promoted. Lieutenant Wilde." The buffalo said only said in the most serious tone he could muster, "Don't make me regret it Lieutenant."

"I'll make you proud Chief." Nick said with a smirked plastered on his face, only to be cut off by the Chief.

"Honestly, I don't care as long as you do what you're told." Bogo snorted, clearly having a reputation to maintain among his officers.


Somewhere in Zootopia...

"Fuck, Fuck, Fuck!" Max raged and threw a tablet across the room.

"Sir, I'm sorry, I promise it won't happen again." The polar bear trembled.

"I know you won't." He pointed a gun at the polar bear's head and pulled the trigger.

"Get this trash out of my sight!" He yelled, and two mammals carried the dead polar bear's body out of the room.

"What's their decision? Have they made their minds up?" Max asked an antelope in front of a screen.

"N-n-not yet sir." The antelope was swept from shock as he visibly shook in front of the panther.

"Tighten the schedule, give them two days." Max said and the antelope obeyed, before he could do the task, the panther called him again. "Why are you shaking?" He asked.

"Because you might shoot me any second." He reluctantly answered.

"Don't worry I won't kill you." He reassured him. "For now."


Post A/N:

So I'm back after a relaxed weekend, these chapters will keep rolling out. please leave a review and follow the story!

Until next time!

-Nicholas P.