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(P.O.V. Todd, Savanna Central Main Hospital, two days after the last chapter)
"Forrest!" I shouted standing straight up, I panicked looking everywhere trying to reason why I was in a hospital.
"Todd, calm down." said Nick holding my paw as my heart started to decelerate. "Whatever happened it was just a nightmare you are safe now."
"No," I reply "it was a memory, I need to speak to Forrest immediately, this is extremely important." Nick lowered his head and slumped back down to his seat resting his head over his paws with the sound of someone trying to pull back tears. "What happened to him?" I asked fearful of the answer.
"Forrest is in critical condition," he finally answers "he, Judy, and I went on a search to find the ones that turned you savage, he got turned savage as well, but in his last moments of consciousness he stabbed himself so that he wouldn't harm us and asked me to take care of you. Right now he only has a couple hours left according to the doctors."
He started to cry a bit dropping small tears to the floor, and I myself was about to break into tears as well but I remembered what I saw in my dream and told him. "I can save him."
His wet furry face lifted up and looked at me asking "You can?"
"Yes, but I need you to take me to him." Nick dragged me out of the bed, out the door, through the hospital hall and into another room where Judy was talking to a doctor.
"Sir, this is of private matter, so if you could please step out for a moment." said the doctor
"Judy, Todd claims that he can save Forrest." announces Nick with excitement.
"Really? Then what are you waiting for?" Said Judy impatiently as she pulled me towards Forrest's side, I noticed his nasty bruise in the middle of his chest so I quickly went into action and searched Forrest's pockets but found nothing.
"Where is his phone?"
"Right there." said Judy pointing at the other side of the bed, I ran around the bed and quickly grabbed the phone placing the password in the lockscreen.
"How exactly is his phone going to help?" asked Nick
"I made an app in his phone that can control some microrobots, which can heal him." I explained as I accessed mentioned app and pressed a button that blinked and said heal.
"Wait, you made it? And what? Microbots?" shortly after Forrest's bruise started to fix itself and Forrest made a sudden gasp for air as he lifted himself from the bed.
(P.O.V. Forrest)
Nick, Judy and a doctor had their mouths opened, and with me looking around I asked. "Did I miss something?"
"Forrest! Exclaimed Judy as she jumped to hug him followed by Todd and Nick joining in all of them started to cry with joy.
"Woah! Why so much feelings?" I asked
"You almost died buddy!" said Nick
"I did? Wow, lucky me." I then look at Todd and tell the others "I um...need a moment with Todd if you don't mind." Judy just responded by elbowing Nick and proceeding from leaving the room as well as the doctor.
"What do you wanna talk about?" asked Todd nervously.
I sigh before speaking "I have been having weird dreams lately and in said dreams, it somewhat explains how we got here to Zootopia."
"I have been having those dreams too Forrest." said Todd
"Really? Was it when you were a scientist that was referred as-"
"Dr. Holmes, yes I do know." interrupted Todd. "I also used your microrobots to heal you, if I wouldn't have then you would have died."
"Remind me again why it doesn't do it automatically?" I teased
"This technology is ages beyond the current technology there was so consider yourself lucky."
"Won't I need to charge said microrobots sometime?"
"Not at all," said Todd "They feed of your fat and when you have them fully loaded you can temporarily boost your strength up to three times."
"Oh, right, how did I forget? I just saw it. And remember Katy?" I asked
"Who's Katy?"
"Katy, your lab assistant, the one that helped you build the portal and my girlfriend?"
"Katy, Katy, Katy, oh yeah, she did help me but just a little bit, she was your girlfriend?" asked Todd
"Right, I don't remember telling you." I said searching for a memory of when I did
"Just to make sure we are talking about the same Katy, she is a redhead, white skinned, woman, around your stature."
"Yep." I confirmed
"Well, how long have you been dating?" asked Todd intrigued
"I think it was for one and a half years." I answered "But for some reason she always seemed saddened when I was celebrating one of our kills."
We both stayed silent, remembering our terrible past actions with the organization, killing people who tried to make the world a better place. "She probably knew." mentioned Todd, breaking the silence.
"But was too afraid to tell me." I finished, we both sighed and looked at the ground for a moment before I spoke again. "I guess that means we cannot return."
"Nope." said Todd "But it's not like our lives will be better there, we would be hunted down in a place where we have no one to rely on and no place to stay."
"Sure is similar than here." I said causing us both to laugh for a while, I was comparing my past missions to these current events, Todd was probably thinking of something else. "Well the past is in the past, let's start concentrating in our future." I told Todd before signaling him to get out of the room with me, but I stopped before the door and turned around. "Hey, how come I am not savage right now? You should be savage right now as well."
"They probably found a cure." said Todd simply
"In two days? Wow, that is incredibly fast." I said before opening the door and exiting the room, but quickly retracted remembering I must not be seen.
"Aren't you coming Forrest?"
"Remember, there are no other humans here."
"Right." he said as he signaled Nick and Judy to come inside.
"Well, now that you two are done talking." Started Judy as I closed the door behind her and Nick "We have an announcement slash propose to make." she said signaling Nick with an elbow to the arm.
"Yeah, as carrots was saying, we were gonna propose you," he said looking at me "to become a police officer."
"Tell me that again because I thought I heard you ask me if I wanted to be a police officer in here." I asked
"That's exactly what Nick said, your skills are impressive Forrest, the ZPD could really use someone like you." Said Judy confidently of her decision.
"Well, if you don't remember, the others will be scared of me, once they see me and know of my existence."
"We already thought of that while you were out." said Nick "While you and I are at the academy training to become cops, the whole ZPD and the mayor will make sure that the people are ready to include you to their society by the course of the four months we will spend away from the city."
I sigh "Fine, but only if you take care of Todd, Judy." I told her as she nodded "Don't let him out of your sight this time." she nodded again, I now turn to Todd and tell him "You stay with Judy no matter what." he nods at me. "Well then, when do we leave?"
(A day later 2:00 pm)
"Listen up, cadets." spoke a polar bear "My name is Natasha and I will be instructor for your four months in the academy I will only to be referred as Madam is that Understood?"
"Yes Madam!" We all answered
"Good, you might also notice this particularly different mammal," she said looking at me. "Cadet, describe yourself."
"My name is Forrest Frederikson, Madam."
"And can you tell anything about your species to the other cadets?"
I still looking at Natasha respond "The name of my species is Human, or Homo sapiens in scientific term, we have no super hearing, claws, sharp teeth, night vision, or any of those abilities other animals have. We have adapted ourselves to not need them anymore so we no longer possess any super abilities. Yet we are able to create tools to compensate for those things, for example the shoes I am wearing at my feet." The other cadets look at me surprised after my firm commentary and also looked at my feet then Natasha breaks the silence.
"Now that you know about that let's go over what you will be training for here in the academy. Zootopia has 12 unique ecosystems within its city limits. Tundratown, Sahara Square, Rainforest District, to name a few. You're gonna have to master all of them before you hit the streets. Or guess what? You'll be dead!"
We are taken to an area of sand with giant turbines behind it, Natasha asks us to go to the opposite side, and as she shouted. "You must get to the other side of this scorching sandstorm."
At first the sand went flying directly into my eyes but luckily I covered it with my arm, I saw the other animals trying to advance the sand storm but being taken down by it and Nick just crawling to the other side. I in the other hand remembered in my training I encountered a similar situation with a sand storm. I looked at the dunes that were formed by the air and jumped at them then immediately jumping forward at another dune and still going. At certain points I was loosing my balance but I kept moving forward until I made it to the other side to find that Natasha turned off the fans. "Well done cadet, you are the first one I've seen complete this training exercise in the first try."
"Thank you madam." I answered before shaking off the sand from my cloths and taking off my shoes to take of the sand in them.
"Onto, the next training ground!" shouted Natasha, we were taken to a now colder area which had a high wall of ice that seemed impossible to climb. "This time you will climb frigid ice wall, go!" I saw the others running towards the wall while I saw them failing and thinking of a way to get over it since I never had to confront such a thing in my missions. I decided to try something, so I ran towards the wall and at the edge jumped with one foot while with the other I tried to impulse me by stepping on the wall. I immediately grabbed the top of the wall but my hands slipped and I fell into the icy water below me. "You're dead, furless."
I looked at Nick trying to climb the wall as well seeing how his claws ground grip into the ice for a long time but not long enough to cross the wall. "Not yet." I said as I climbed out of the frozen water, right when Nick was falling into the water I grabbed him by his back t-shirt and I told him "Use your claws to grab the wall." I took a couple steps back and sped up to the wall, again impulse myself with the wall and used Nick as a grappling hook by throwing him beyond the wall and still grabbing onto his leg. I pulled myself up the wall and once on top me and Nick both got down the other side and made it to Natasha.
"Great thinking," She complimented while smiling but then letting it go "but you are not always going to have the fox by your side, you are supposed to be able to do this on your own, for now let's head to the other area. Cadets! Move out!"
She signaling everyone to follow her, on our way to the next area I received many looks from others and a whisper from someone asking me "Hey, can you teach me how you do that?" right before we arrived at the next exercise area.
"This is the 'one thousand foot fall.'" said Natasha "In the rainforest district you may be forced to climb branches, and swing through vines, these monkey bars are not ordinary as you can see they are wet, and to make it more real," she said uncovering a normal sized fan and a pipe with a wheel switch, she turned both of them on and said. "It will be a rainy day, now go, whoever gets to the other side first will have the next hours to rest while the rest of you will run laps. Go!" Many animals pushed each other to get on the monkey bars and although some fell others were succeeding, just then one of the cadets pulled the other down and Natasha answered with "Don't expect the law breakers to play nice, this is the real world."
With that the whole thing went chaotic, everyone was dropping the leader over and over again while Natasha kept calling dead to those who fell. Then I decided to give my first try and was surprised by the slipperiness of the bar, yet I was able to hold on, little by little the others in front of me fell until i was on the lead. Then I felt a slight push from behind, I turned around and saw a tiger trying to knock me down with his hind paws. I immediately wrapped my entire arm over one of the bars and kicked the hell out of the tiger before continuing on my way to the other side. Once I did arrived Natasha congratulated me and told me it was everything for that day for me before she ordered the rest to go run laps. I used the time to call Judy and Todd, and I was glad Judy reminded me to get Z-mobile for phone signal because it was the only one working here apparently. The phone made a buzzing sound as it tried to reach Judy's phone all the way to Zootopia until I hard someone pick up. "Hey Forrest." I heard Judy with enthusiasm like always "How was your first day, shouldn't you be training right now?"
"Well, the instructor told me I could leave earlier as a price for my good physical condition."
"Great! And how hard did you think were the obstacles?" she asked
"Well, I did complete the sandstorm and the hundred feet drop in my first try, but of course it was expected that I would do good."
"How did you actually learn those skills, I bet you were more than a farmer." She said in a teasing voice.
I sighed "Judy, do you know how I got here?"
"Yes, Todd told me." She answered
"That's not the whole story." I replied "Just recently Todd and I remembered what happened after that."
"Remembered? What do you mean?"
"Our entry to your world gave us a temporal loss of memory, I'll tell you what happened after the car crash." I told Judy all she had to know of my memories of terrible killings constantly feeling incredibly guilty for each and every target. Then I went on talking about Katy. "But my time in the organization was not all that bad, I met someone there who apparently knew of me getting brainwashed. When I was going for my last target, she told me to spear him and instead ask him about Dr. Kleinmann. I did as she told me and eventually found out on whose side I really was. I told Todd and we both agreed on trying to use his teleportation invention to get us out but things went wrong and we got sent here."
"What's the name of the Organization?"
"I'm not sure, I was never told the name, probably because they didn't want me to find the truth about it by searching it's name in the internet. Either way, I'll call you tomorrow but now I want to use my free time the best I can. Bye Judy."
"Bye Forrest." she answered before hanging up the phone.
I walked towards my bunk bed going to the top one and moved my luggage to the side before choosing to take a nap until Nick would arrive and by the moment he did he seemed completely exhausted and sweaty. "Geez Nick, was it really that bad?"
"You...are so...lucky." he said trying to get a hold of his breath before collapsing in the bunk bed below me.
"Alright cadets," said Natasha as she walked into the room filled with sweating mammals and me. "Tomorrow we will finish the second part of your introductory training. Remember to set you alarm clocks to 5:30 am so that you are ready by 6:00 am or else you will be running laps." She then closed the door with a great slam and everyone dashed immediately for their alarm clocks, and for those who didn't have were asking others to wake them up. It had already become a habit for me to wake up at that time so I didn't need the alarm clock, so I decided to take out some earplugs that Judy bought for me and play some music from Zootopia. Once I heard it I thought "This sound awfully similar to Shakira." But I decided to ignore it and just listen.
In a moments notice I was already sound asleep and next thing I knew was that I woke up in the same room, only that all the lights were off and my phone was still playing songs because I accidently placed it in loop. I sat straight up from the bed and turned on my cellphone to see the time, at first the light of the phone blinded me a bit but I adjusted my eyes and saw that it was 5:14 am. I decided to get ready since now knowing that I didn't feel like I needed any more sleep, I got out of the bed using the phone as a flashlight to guide me to the bathroom. There I took a piss and headed into the hallways thinking that I did not need to change my uniform just yet since I didn't sweat so much. I walked through the place looking for a way to the cafeteria to eat breakfast, but what I found myself doing was jumping from memory to reality. Honestly the hallways of the Academy were awfully similar to the ones of the Organization which gave hallucinations that some of the people I used to work with were still there all staring at me. It seriously gave me the creeps but I decided to try and not think about it, I eventually made my way to the cafeteria and ate a banana and an apple before the others arrived. "You done already?" asked Nick as he entered the cafeteria.
"Yep, woke up earlier without the alarm clock, happens when you are adjusted to being a farmer." I answered
"Well then I wish I was a farmer." joked Nick
"Why don't you ask Judy to take you to her farm and teach you how it's done." I teased
"I don't think her parents or siblings would appreciate my appearance."
"I think Judy could resolve that." I said before walking out of the cafeteria and outside to our meeting point, and since it can't always be sunny I had to wait in harsh rain for the rest. Once they all got here Natasha told us to get inside so we wouldn't get sick. We were taken to a room that seemed like a classroom for High Schoolers, only that with ZPD related things.
"Good thing no one was late," she said taking a quick look at everyone. "now we will proceed with the other indoor exercises such as one on one combat, studying the rules, laws ,and codes, and finally hitting the gym. Let's head to the arena first." We followed Natasha to a large room that seemed to be filled with all the typical equipment for a boxer and in the ring stood a big rhino ready to fight. "This is officer McHorn, who took his time off the ZPD to help you train, each of you will fight him until one is knocked out or they surrender. Forrest, as my best cadet so far you get to go first."
"Alright then," I said enthusiastically "let's see what he's got." I was given my gloves and entered the ring on the opposite corner of the rhino, Natasha rang the bell and McHorn started walking towards me, and I walking towards him. I let him try the first punch which I evaded, he tried again and I escaped that as well, slowly I was losing ground with every punch he tried until I was against the in the rhino's next punch at me I didn't only evade it but I also went under it, past him and jumped in the air to give him a punch in the cheek causing him to crash with the pole. "You know, if you were a bit faster with your punches you wouldn't be so easy to hit." The Rhino separated himself from the pole and tried to land another punch but I simply moved to the side and kneed him in the stomach causing him to hold it and back away. "I thought that since you were a police officer you would already know that criminals don't play by the rules."
"So that's how you want to do it?" he asked before springing into me with a fast punch, it was too fast to evade so I tried to block it with my arms. The punch pushed me backwards and I lost my balance so the rhino came for another one and this time gave me an uppercut that made me fly to the other side. "What? That's it?" he asked as I grabbed the ropes to get up.
"I'm just getting started." I answered as he grinned and went for another punch, but seeing it coming I moved away from it and harshly punched him in the elbow causing him to feel like I broke it with a grunt of pain. While he was consulting his arm, I went in for a final uppercut knocking him out, he fell to the ground with a loud thud and I heard Nick chant for me.
"Way to go buddy!" I took off one of my gloves and gave him a thumbs up before giving Natasha back the gloves. Since I got to knock out the officer Natasha told me to stay in the ring as the 'King of the Hill'. For my next three targets it was a breeze, there was another rhino who was also slow, and an elephant who was slow as well, and a timid tiger who was scared of me.
"Wilde, you're up!" called Natasha
"Oh no." I heard him whisper to himself before I tossed him the gloves of the tiger who gave up.
"Don't worry Nick, I'm not going to kill you, I'm just gonna hurt you really, really bad." He gulped at my comment probably not noticing that it was just a joke so I mentioned it to him. "Relax you baby, you'll be fine." Nick raised to the ring on the opposite corner from where I was standing readying himself for my attacks.
"Fight!" shouted Natasha before ringing the bell.
Nick charged at me straight forward so I tried delivering him a counter punch but at the last second he moved to the side and punched me in the face. "I felt that, I'll give you that." I told him readying myself for his next attack. This time he just walked closer to me and I tried to give him another punch from my left arm to the right side. Of course he evaded it to the left because I wanted him to do that, once he moved left I made a jump with my left foot and roundhouse kicked him in the chest. He fell to the ground grunting at the pain I had inflicted him, so I went back to my corner and told him. "Whenever you're ready, I'll be waiting right here." He tried to get up but seemed troubled by the kick I gave him so in order to lift his spirits but not make it seem like such I told him "Hey, this isn't Nick, this must be some kind of weaker twin."
He immediately stood up and with a shout and everything started to land fast and consecutive punches at my chest and stomach. It honestly felt really bad because on one side he was punching me and on the other I was bumping into the pole behind me, so since he left his face discovered I used the opportunity to sucker punch him. This cause him to go backwards but seeing how ready he was I knew that I may lose this round for letting him harm me so much. "What? You're tired already?" asked Nick trying to tease me and get on my nerves.
"You wish." I say before attempting a punch from my left arm to his left side which he evaded to the left, then I tried using my right elbow to get him but he evaded that as well. Only this time he gets punched by a fist that has gone in a 360 pathway until arriving to his face and dropping him on the ground. "Remember Nick, it's not how many times you fall but how you come back up." He stood up covering the half of his face that I hit him at and when he showed it to me i noticed a purple eye. "Ooo, might have gone a bit too far there." My commentary was interrupted by Nick giving me the knee in the balls making me wheeze in pain. "I think I deserve that." I say grabbing my balls as best as I could with the boxing gloves only to receive an immediate uppercut from Nick causing me to fall to the ground and lose some air in the process.
"You ready to quit?" he asked ready to deliver a deadly blow to my face.
"Quit? That word ain't in my dictionary." I said before getting punched in the face, Nick was about to get me a second time but I rolled out to the side and before I could stand up Nick punched me towards the side. The moment I tried to lift myself I got punched by him again eventually making my senses blurry. I heard a ding and some faded voices while I also felt a paw pulling my non functioning arm, then my sense got clear and I saw Nick trying to pull me up, so I did. Later we were taken to study all the cop signs, codes, laws, etc. and took our time in the gym. Everyday for the next four months was a daily routine on the 3 courses, some time in the ring, studying, and hitting the gym, except on sundays, because we got that time as a free day. Judy used it to visit us and see how we were doing, and man was she mad when she saw Nick's purple eye. She would also bring Todd from time to time and once she brought me a razor because I was starting to grow a beard. Then came graduation day.
Judy stepped up in a podium on top of a wooden platform where us, the graduates would get their official badges. "When I was a kid, I thought Zootopia was this perfect place. Where everyone got along, and anyone could be anything. Turns out, real life is a little bit more complicated than a slogan on a bumper sticker. Real life is messy. We all have limitations. We all make mistakes. Which means, hey, glass half full, we all have a lot in common. And the more we try to understand one another. The more exceptional each of us will be. But we have to try. So no matter what type of animal you are. From the biggest elephant, to our first fox and human. I implore you. Try...Try to make the world a better place. Look inside yourself and recognize that change starts with you. It starts with me. It starts with all of us." Judy stepped down from the podium and signaled us both to go up there with her, Nick and I stopped in front of here with proud showing chests and firm posture. She opened one box including Nick's badge and a golden name tag, she placed his name tag on his right side and the badge on his left side. Then she did the same with me, and of course I had to kneel for her to reach. Just when she finished I stood back up and she saluted us, then Nick and I saluted back, and then the whole crowd threw their hats in the air as if it were a university hat and cheered.
You know guy I thought of something, should I or should I not write a chapter for the time Judy and Todd spent alone in Zootopia trying to make the population feel fine with that fact of a human entering police ranks. I made a poll where you can answer this question, the poll will remain open until 11:59 pm on Saturday 27th so that the wait for the next chapter isn't too long.
