Chapter 9: Doomed

Bring Me the Horizon

-Nick's POV-

"He's waking up."

"Finally, I've been waiting for this for a long time. Leave us, I want it to be just me and him."

I slowly open my eyes and look around to see I'm in a brightly lit room. There's a table in front of me but nobody but me at it. I try to move my arm and realize that I'm handcuffed to the chair I'm sitting in, I can't move. I start to think how I got here, only to realize for once I really have no idea how I ended up here.

Did the police find me? That's the only way this could-

"Cozy little room isn't it?"

The voice startles me and I realize there's somebody behind me. I hear footsteps and someone comes around the side of me to show their face.

The mammal that moves in front of me is wearing a tightly fitting black suit, with a blood red tie. His face looks grim and serious, and one of his eyes has a huge scar that goes through it. I quickly realize who this is.

This mammal caused me to lose a year of my life in prison. This mammal made me kill my friends.

This mammal happens to be a jaguar.

I stare at him in shock as he starts to speak.

"Thought you could just pretend to be your dad and get away with it, well you gotta try harder than that." He says walking around the table holding the ID. He sits down and looks up from the ID to me. "Maybe if I didn't know exactly who took him I would have fallen for it but that's not the case," he looks from the ID card to me, " oh I'm sorry, I never introduced myself. My name is Tyler although I'm sure by now you already know that."

"Why are you doing this!?" I spit at him as he grins back at me.

"Well to put it simply, You just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time," he replies, still looking at me," Yet now you know too much for us just to leave you out in the world. Prison was a good place to keep you, until you went and broke out. It took a lot to get you in there you know. Now we have to either keep you here or kill you to keep you quiet."

"Prison? You were the ones that put me there?!" I asked, starting to question how I really ended up where I did." What the hell is wrong with you?!"

"Of course I did, if the city would have actually known what happened that night, well then maybe the story would be much different. So the only way to make it so I didn't go to prison myself was to make you go instead."

"You rigged the court? So that's why I never had a chance?" I yell at him, realizing that I never did have a chance with that trial. No matter what I did that night, I still would have lost.

He looks at me and laughs, "Ha, it takes more than just the court to pull that off. I control the court, the ZPD, half of the city hall and soon to be the entire city. Did you ever wonder why so many of your fellow officers were replaced in such little time?" He said smiling at me, " Once these collars I've made become mandatory to wear for "protection", I'll basically own the city. Tomorrow is the day I've been waiting for almost three years now. Kinda funny you had to break out when you did. "

I look at the ground with a loss for words, finally understanding why everything had happened the way it did. He had to get rid of me before I could do anything to expose his operation, so he made me kill those officers to cover it up. What if Judy had been there that night!?

Judy..

"Where's Judy ? Where's my brother!?" I asked, getting louder with every word," What did you do with them?!"

"Oh about that, you'll be pleased to hear they actually got away… those lucky little shits. Once I found out the guard that was supposed to tranquilize them 'didn't do it quick enough' and they woke up…. let's just say he didn't make it very long." He says while looking at the table, appearing deep in thought.

I sigh slightly knowing that at least they are safe from this monster in a suit.

He suddenly stands up from his seat," Well it's been fun, but I have to get back to work. I'll think of what to do with you later." He then walks away to the door and it opens with his guards standing close behind it.

"Do what you want with him but keep him alive, then take him to his new home for the time being."

-Judy's POV-

Just keep running.

Don't let them catch you. If they catch you, then it's all over.

"Judy! slow down! I think they gave up…They can't find us in this forest... it's too dark and thick… We're safe!"

Jackson's only a few steps behind me, running through the dark.

"We have to keep going…. we can't stop! We can't let them get us… like they got Nick!" I yell behind me while trying to keep my breathing under control.

Suddenly a branch I didn't see catches my leg as I run over it. I hit the ground and that's the breaking point. I begin to cry, giving into whatever happens to me at this point.

"Judy!" Jackson quickly stops beside me and kneels down. "Are you ok?!"

"I can't do this anymore! I can't take the pressure of all of this!" I replied quickly between sobs. " Why can't people just leave us alone!" I grab the grass in front of me and tear it out of the ground in frustration.

"Judy, listen. We can't do anything about it at the moment. We need to find a safe place, where we know we can't be found. Then we can think of something, but we have to keep going." He says while lifting me up and putting me back on my feet.

I look up at him and notice that I'm not the only one that's crying. I can't see him too clearly because of how dark it is but I can see him quickly wipe his face as if to hide tears from me. He then turns and starts to walk forward into the dark.

I start walking behind him, slowly following him through the thick jungle trees.

We walk quietly for a few minutes, just listening to the sounds of the jungle around us and trying to calm ourselves down.

"What would have happened if that man hadn't woken us up?" I said after a few minutes of silence. "If he hadn't warned us, we would have been captured like Nick, then nobody would have saved us."

I see Jackson glance back at me only to face forward again and sigh.

"Let's just hope that we will be able to save anybody at this point." He replies with a hint of doubt and sadness in his voice. "Because at the moment it's just me and you, and two people can't take on whatever army this guy has."

-Nick's POV-

I'm being forced down a white hall still with handcuffs on, two guards by my side. My face is bruised and everything else in my body is sore from them beating me after the jaguar left. They take me further down the hall until I get to the doors that look like they straight from the prison I was in before.

One of the guards takes out a card from his pocket and swipes it through a slot by the door and it opens. He grabs me and takes off my handcuffs, then throws me inside and quickly closes and locks the door behind me.

I lay on the ground where everything quickly fades to black.

A few hours later...

I wake up, feeling extremely sore and still laying on the ground. I just wanted to lay there forever until, for the second time today, a voice speaks up from nowhere.

"Oh wow,it's you!" The voice says, "You don't look too good. What did they do to you?"

That voice sounds familiar, where have I heard it from?

I look behind to see a white fox sitting on the bench. He's wearing a simple gray prison jumpsuit and looks like he's seen better days as well.

I realize quickly who it is and lean up..

"It's you! From my trial! How did you get here?"

He sighs and looks down at the ground, " Well, they didn't like me standing up for you. They came to me before everything and offered me money if I would go along with the crowd and say you were guilty. I instantly knew something was wrong, as soon as I heard your lawyer explain what happened, I knew that you hadn't done anything wrong. The evidence was clear to anyone that actually cared to pay attention. So I said what I thought needed to be said," He looked up at me with a sad look, "but when I got home that night, they were waiting for me. They kidnapped me and brought me here, where I've been living ever since."

I lean up and crawl onto the opposite bed from Jacob. I can't believe he could just ruin someone's life like this. Not only had Tyler ruined everything for me, he had also ruined the life of this young fox.

All to keep his little project a secret.

He points at me,"Did they take your parents too? Because an older fox couple were brought here yesterday." Jacob says looking up at me," I saw them walk past when they were put in here, they kept mentioning you."

"What! They're here?!" I say standing and running to the door to look out the small barred window. I look down the hall and see more doors like the one I'm holding. I yell down the hall for them but hear nothing in response.

"I didn't say they were down the hall, I just said they were in here. They probably have been put in a special room further in the building." He says quickly, looking from me to the ground.

"And I wouldn't yell for anyone anymore if I were you, they don't like that. Trust me, I've tried." He says pulling up his sleeve to reveal deep cuts that looked like they had been healing awhile.

I look at the cuts on his arm, wondering exactly what they did to cause them. They looked almost like he had been whipped, or maybe they got a big knife... Either way I decided it's best not to find out.

"Do you know much about what's been going on in this place? I mean have you heard anything from the guards or anything?" I ask quietly sitting back down on the opposite bed from Jacob.

He shakes his head,"Not much, they tend to keep that stuff away from here. I did hear something about collars though." He replies, getting quieter than even I was," you know, they would have probably killed me except for I don't really bother anyone. I just keep to myself and they leave me alone. I would do the same if I were you."

I look at him confused,"Don't you ever want to get out?"

He shuffles around for a second like something's bothering him. "I've kinda accepted that this is it for me."

Footsteps begin to come down the hall towards us and

The door suddenly opens and guards walk in quickly with they're guns pointed at both of us. Soon after the guards come in, Tyler walks in and looks at both of us.

"Well, I've had some time to think about it and I think I found out what to do with you two." He said smiling," If you'll just follow me please." He says walking back through the door he came in.

The guards then grab me and Jacob and roughly put our hands behind or back and put handcuffs on us. I try to get away from the guards hands only to get hit hard back.

Once they had us, they dragged us out into the hall and we started toward whatever hell awaited us.