Chapter Eleven - Black Hawk Down

Days after Outbreak: 5

Days without incident: 0

Savage Mammal count: 799 952 (estimated)

Dead: 6

Survivors: 42


Every time of the day, the base sends out choppers to reconnoiter an area before sending troops as a result of the events that transpired in the previous day, events that led to the deaths of six officers. Everyone needed to do their part; ISA agents train the officers to increase their effectiveness in combat while the technical officers are sifting through terabytes of data to search for possible leads on the location of Max Michaels and to learn how he coordinates the attacks and where he got his resources to carry them out.

The first area that was to be reconnoitered was Rainforest District where the ISA had a lead on; a lead that was lost when their headquarters were overrun by the quick succession of events that had happened as a week before, everything was still normal.

Although Nick wanted to reconnoiter and secure Zootopia Joint Armed Forces Base Alpha at the northeastern part of Zootopia; Chief Bogo overruled his decision and instead focused on getting this situation under control and therefore thinks that his resources are sufficient enough to secure the city. But Nick still insisted to secure Alpha as it has everything they need for an indefinite stay and also, the base had a contingency plan for surprise attacks such as this and the stocks there were enough to last them a year or two but unfortunately, due to the nature of the attack they too were overrun by the savage mammals that easily scaled their deactivated electric fences and their walls barely giving them enough time to execute their contingency plan.

"Wilde, you and Winter will be sent out on patrol to the Rainforest District and reconnoiter the area, you will be using the UH-60 Black Hawks and since we only have eight ex-military personnel, there will only be one aircraft on this one, you will be heavily armed to the teeth and as much as possible try to keep a low profile, I don't want another set of caskets for this mission. But, since you are the first patrol I will send out, I will cut you some slack if someone dies. Got it?" Bogo said in a straightforward no bullshit manner with his glare focused on the two mammals in front of him. "Are we clear?"

"Yes sir!" Nick and Skye replied in unison.

"You will leave at 0900 hours. You have two hours to gear up. Dismissed." Bogo said as Nick and Skye saluted and left the office.

"Nick, do you have sometime? I want to smoothen things between us." Skye calmly asked Nick.

"There is no 'us' Skye. There is you and me, and yes I want to smoothen up things." Nick said stoically.

"Will breakfast be okay?" Skye asked Nick, hopeful of a good answer.

"Yeah, sure why not." Nick said as they parted ways each of them going to their respective rooms.

Once he opened a door, a rabbit was waiting for him as the rabbit went up to Nick and kissed him in the muzzle. "What were you and Skye talking about?" Judy asked, this time her voice was that of a curious one.

"We are the first patrol to Rainforest District and I am paired up with Skye. She wants to smooth things over so that we could have a smooth relationship from now on." Nick said with amethyst eyes staring at him. "By relationship, I mean friends Carrots, not a love life kind of a relationship."

"I know; I was just testing you Nick." Judy chuckled as she cracked a grin on her face from seeing Nick under pressure.

"Carrots, you will be the death of me."

"At least you will die a good death." Judy quipped back as she left the room and left Nick all by himself.

He noticed that Judy left her Carrot pen on his bedside table, he picked it up and started a recording.

"Hey Carrots," he started "I know that you love me, you really do but, I just want you to know that no matter how far I am, and no matter what happens, you must know that I will always love you, you changed this fox's life and for that, I am grateful for the second chance you gave me. Our patrol goes deep behind enemy lines, our route is uncharted and we have no idea of the strength of the enemy in this area, just wait for me, whatever happens I will always find my way back to you until my last breath. See you carrots." He released the record button to end the recording and proceeded to the armory which was a few meters down the hall and as he dons his body armor, he looked at the guns hung on the wall and decides to use his M4A1 SOPMOD, he straps an M21 Suppressed Sniper Rifle on his back and got his gun of choice, a USP .45 Extended Magazine and stuffs all the magazines, rations, water, IV drips and a med kit in his bag, totaling to over 36 mags for his M4, 23 for the M21 sniper rifle and 48 for his pistol and with the bag weighing a hefty 13 pounds, he strapped more magazines on his vest and a few grenades, flashbangs and smoke grenades. This fox is ready to fight a war.

As he left the armory, he caught a glimpse of Skye that was using similar armor except that she was using the MP4 Submachine gun, a silenced M2 Berretta and a grenade launcher strapped to her back, and Nick knows that she is deadly and versatile with her current load out. As he continued towards the tarmac, he passed by the control room and sees Judy barking orders to the other officers and keeping the base operational while he sees Jack with a headphone and pushing buttons and turning knobs trying to find the frequency that the enemy uses. He went outside the door at the end of the hall and squinted his eyes as he was hit by the blinding sun that barraged his eyes with pain as he quickly made his way to the chopper and placed his gear on his seat.

Right after talking with a few recruits he made his way to the mess hall and looks at his watch; 0815 hours, he sighed and continued his way to the mess hall where Skye was waiting for him. They lined and got the same food, same drinks and same straw color, as they say down on the table, there was a palpable tension that existed between them, a tension that they never felt since they first sat down on the same table at college. A table and setting that was familiar as their old college days.

"So," Nick started "What was it that you wanted to talk about?" Nick said as he took a bite of his meal.

"I wanted to ask if there are still things between us that might hamper our effectivity." Skye answered.

"Nope, there is nothing that could hinder our success on this mission." Nick dismissively said.

"Really? Because for a moment there, I thought you never loved me." Skye said, with sadness evident in her voice.

"I loved you Skye. Just once, but not anymore. YOU need to get this out of your head, why are you the one to talk when it is you that could possibly be the hindrance that could deny us victory in our mission?" Nick finished his meal and stared at her with dead silence.

Without warning, Skye jumped and kissed Nick in a passionate kiss, one that he never felt since he left the ISA.

And worse of all, frozen at the mess hall entrance, was Judy standing with shock and begins to tear as she stormed out of the hall and presumably left for her quarters.

"What the hell Skye!? Didn't you hear a single thing from what I said just now?" Nick bared his teeth at her, immediately putting her back into her place.

"I'm sorry... I thought a kiss would change your mind." Skye sincerely apologized as Nick yelled at her.

"Great, now you made the whole situation better! Thanks Skye!" Nick sarcastically yelled and ran after Judy who locked herself up in her room and threatening anyone that tries to get near, despite those threats, Nick went to the door and talked to her through an air vent.

"Judy? Are you there?" Nick asked only to be answered by silence.

"Judy please, listen to me just this once." Nick tried again.

"I know you are listening so yeah. I will get your carrot pen which you left at my room. I don't have all day for this. I have a mission to go to." Nick said then he ran to his room, grabbed the pen and quickly ran back to Judy's room. "Your carrot pen will be here. Goodbye Judy." Nick said as he checked to watch; 0845 hours, he ran to the briefing room just when Judy was about to open the door, when she did, all she saw was a carrot pen with an orange light on that tells her that there is a new recording. She took it and brought it inside her room as she silently wept. 'What have I done?'

Nick arrived in time to get his team all fixed up, his team mates were Skye, Wolford, Snarlov, Fuller, Hasworth and McKenzie. They were expectantly waiting for him at the briefing room, and once Nick went in, they became silent as the Tod spoke. "Our aim is to go to the coordinates that were salvaged in an ISA file that suggests the hiding spot of Max Michaels, this is a very dangerous mission as we do not know the strength of the enemy and 18 minutes into the flight, we will be behind enemy lines, no backup, no air support. Only us against them. So basically, we go there, land, search the site, assess their defenses and get out before they notice us. Any questions?" The question was met with silence. "Good, load up! We meet at the tarmac; I'll pass by the armory first." Nick said, wrapping up the briefing quickly.

Once outside he briskly made his way towards the armory and got his helmet with a built in FFIHUD, a parting remembrance from his ISA years when he resigned. After looking at it for a few seconds, he reluctantly put it on and heads towards the tarmac.

On the tarmac, the rest of the team was waiting for Nick and as soon as they were complete they did their final checks and lifted off, not knowing if this was the last time they would see the base again. The flight going to the coordinates were silent as the team was confident that no one is stupid enough to fire at them in their territory.

"Nick I..."

"Shut it Skye. I don't want to hear it." Nick quickly said, silencing the vixen as she kept her ears and tail down.

Once they passed the 18-minute mark, the lights in the chopper were switched to red as a sign that they were entering enemy territory which prompted the team to ready their gear and ready their parachutes as they continued to fly through the border.

Their silence was interrupted when an alarm blared in the cockpit. "We have a missile lock! Hang on!" Pilot Norton Hayworth alerted the others as he released flares and executed evasive maneuvers that made him turned the plane wildly, when he released the flares, the missile followed it and blew up, missing the helicopter merely meters away from the main fuselage. But because of the flares and the explosion that lit up the sky, more missiles were fired and one struck The tail rotor of the helicopter and it spun wildly out of control.

"Everyone jump off!" Hasworth yelled at them while doing his best to stabilize the helicopter enough for them to jump off with their parachutes. Once it was stable enough, the team jumped off, but Hasworth and Fuller can't jump off because their seatbelts were jammed while McKenzie had a metal bar stuck to his chest as he bled uncontrollably. "What the fuck are you waiting for!? Go!" Upon hearing this, the team parachutes off and were scattered all over the place, except for Nick and Skye who shared the parachute as Nick was too light to use it by himself, pulling the ripcord, they both glided through the air, luckily no one was shooting at them.

'No! no! no! no! no!' He thought as the feeling of Skye's ass against his member caused him to have an erection which made him sweat and pant uncontrollably.

"Are you okay Nick?" Skye asked as she tried to look at Nick, which made her feel the bump against her was which made her uncontrollably blush red either to embarrassment or to arousal as she continued to squirm and made Nick's plight even worse. "Oh, I see you still want some of 'that' right?" Skye grinned.

"Shut up Skye, and stop squirming or I swear something will happen to you once we reach the ground." Nick said threateningly but Skye brushed it off as she continued to squirm and even tried to put it against her sex to keep him occupied while they were taking an unnecessarily long amount of time before reaching the ground.

"Finally, I'm free!" Nick said as he hurriedly went up and distance himself some few meters from Skye. After a few minutes, they prepped themselves and got ready to secure the crash site and rendezvous with the others that were separated during the crash. After a good 13 minutes of walking, they arrived at the crash site and encountered the corpses of Hasworth, Fuller and McKenzie barely identifiable if it weren't for their tags.

"Come on, we need to find the others before we follow them." Nick said as he pulled Skye away from the wreckage and went into the dense vegetation.


Meanwhile, back at Bravo Base...

"Give me a report and a live feed on their situation." Bogo ordered them after catching word of their crash. "Done sir."

A satellite feed shows Nick and Skye parachuting away from the helicopter minutes before their destruction, and a rather unprofessional Skye squirming on front of Nicks crotch. Judy was about to burst when she saw that once they landed, Nick berated her and proceeded on foot.

"I want every force available on standby, I also want B-2 Spirits on standby for a carpet bomb run. Ready the Apaches and Black Hawks. Everyone must be on red alert!" Nick bellowed as he sat down and massaged his temples. "As for you." Nick looked down on Judy as she sat down in front of his desk.

"About your outburst and verbal threats earlier." Nick began and with Judy swallowing hard. "I don't care." Bogo said. "You will be here on high alert, I need you to run our surveillance division and inform me of anything you see, you report to me and me only. Got it?" Bogo said to which Judy frantically nodded. "You will also be with Agent Savage as he is the in-charge for radio operations. Any problems?"

"No sir!" Judy said as she left the office.

On the hallway, Judy decided that she will be visiting her new post as the in-charge of surveillance operations. When she went into the door, Jack Savage accidentally bumped into her, causing him to drop the folders he was carrying.

"Here you go." Judy said as she got the folder and Jacks hand touched here as they looked at each other's eyes, an awkward moment existed for a good few seconds before they started to talk again.

"I'm sorry about that Hopps." Jack apologized to her.

"I'm supposed to be the one apologizing Savage." Judy said while still looking at his striped ears.

"I should probably go now." Jack said as he hurried through the door and ran down the hallway.


"Wolford buddy are you okay?" He asked as he pulled Wolford down from the foliage of a tree.

"Never been better Wilde, where are the others?" Wolford asked.

"Everyone else but Snarlov is dead, and that might change once we see him." Nick replied.

"Come on Wolford, Snarlov isn't more than a mile away!" Skye jokingly said as Wolford groggily moved one step at a time.

A few minutes later engines were heard and everyone dropped to the ground, an armed 4-ton army truck passed by and at the back of the truck was a handcuffed and beaten Snarlov, dozing off while the truck sped to who knows where.

"Follow me, this road winds up a few hundred meters and there is a sharp U-turn, we need to set up an ambush point there." Skye pointed to an elevated road at the opposite direction.

"Okay, Skye take the left, Wolford take the right, I will stay hidden at the foliage and kill the driver." Nick said as everyone took their positions. Readying the sniper rifle, the ambush was set. All they need to do was to wait for the truck.

Minutes later, a revving engine was heard when a silhouette of the truck appeared Nick swiftly shot the front riders, making it curve to the side and hitting a sign. Once it stopped, four mammals went out and were eliminated by Wolford and Skye while Nick hopped inside and freed Snarlov.

"No shit Snarlov, you okay?" Nick asked as Snarlov stood up, shaken awake by the crash.

"Da, nothing that a vodka can't fix." Snarlov said in his deep Russian accent before revering to his regular English accent. "Where are the others?"

"It's only us Snarlov, everyone else is dead." Nick sadly replied.

"We passed a village here somewhere. Just follow this road, from what I remember we did not ran any turns." Snarlov said as they began to backtrack their way through the jungle.


"I need everything in that location! Jam Cams, satellites, video feeds. Anything! We to keep an eye on them at all times!" Judy barked as the surveillance division scampered their way through terabytes of data and Information that could lead to the present location of Nick and the rest of his team.

"We got 'em ma'am, they are at Vine Country. Backtracking the road to a village a few hundred meters from their current position." Officer Trumpet reported to Judy.

"Get me the Chief!" She said as she continued to coordinate the division.

"What is it Hopps?" Bogo snorted as he approached the room.

"Scramble a rescue team to that village now!" Judy said.

"You heard her! Move! Move! Move!" Bogo ordered them as they went out and as soon as 5 minutes from the time the order was given 2 Apaches and a Black Hawk were already in the air en route to the village that Nick was heading into.


"Okay, everyone got it?" Skye asked the group.

"Can you explain the middle part again?" Nick asked

"Damn it, just find a radio!" Skye said, giving up on explaining things.

"Whatever Skye, let's move!" Nick said and the squad began searching the deserted village in hopes of finding a radio.

In the third house, which was the most modern of them all, a working radio set was found and Nick began to radio for evac.

"Baseplate Bravo, this is Wilde requesting immediate evac over." Nick said, only to be replied by static.

"Baseplate Bravo, this is Wilde requesting immediate evac over." Nick repeated, only to be replied by static.

"Wilde, this is Baseplate Bravo we read you, we have 2 Apaches and a Black Hawk are route to your position eta 5 minutes." Jack replied over the radio, giving a sense of relief to the stranded team.

While waiting it out, the team searched the area for any important Intel on the hideout and activities of the enemy and not only did they find one, but all the maps containing the enemy positions all over the Rainforest District but not even a single map that pointed or pinned the Hideout. Meaning that the orders were relayed wirelessly and the frequency and the encryption keys were on the radio they were using, Nick scribbled them into his notepad and sat down while waiting for the extraction team to arrive.

At last minutes later, they heard engines and helicopter blades hovering ahead, they stepped into the helicopter and headed straight to base although the side was something that one could say is 'safe' the route used was the same route that they took, and with two gunships for their escort, the enemy has to be extremely daft in order for them to engage the aerial convoy and little did they know about how daft the enemy could be.

When they were four miles away from the allied lines, a missile lock blared over the cockpit as Nick and Skye huddled together and with Nick protecting her with his embrace. The explosion came when Pilot Leo Theodore sacrificed himself and flew into the path of the missile. A second alarm prompted Nick and Skye to stick to their position as Pilot Matthew Cage did the same thing as his wingman and saved the team. A missile lock was heard again and the helicopter was forced to deploy its flares and executing evasive maneuvers and flying below 200 feet from the ground to prevent missile lock.

One mile away from the allied lines, small arms fire broke the collective and the plane could not lift up, the pilot was doing his best to keep the plane off the ground when a wooden house was directly in the path of the helicopter, in a last witch effort to save it from crashing, the pilot used the helicopter's yaw pedals in a last ditch attempt to avoid the house, the tactic barely works and with less than a meter to spare, but nothing could have prepared it for the next obstacle; a raised patch of land. The pilot tries to use the Helicopters wheels to his advantage only for the front wheel to become clipped in something and turning the whole helicopter upside down and crash into a messy wreck of a stealth helicopter and inside with Nick holding Skye tight. Gas was leaking, the helicopter was about to blow and Nick is still unconscious from the crash, Skye however is still conscious and manages to free herself from the wreckage.

Could Nick wake up before everything is too late?


Post A/N: Now I know that I said that this story will be in a 2 week hiatus, but someone managed to convince me to make an extra long chapter just for you guys in reparation for the short chapter and as a gift because of my birthday last July 27. 'But that fucking cliffhanger sucks Nicholas!' Yes I know it sucks but it's just a strategy I am trying to adopt, I might update tomorrow or you will have to wait a whole week with a cliffhanger on this story! That is the fun in writing and reading anyways. And no, I am not making any new stories except for Untitled 2 from User55135 if he approves it.

Until Next Time!

- Nicholas Phillips