Chapter 12: Second Thoughts
Added a lot to this one ;)
Crown The Empire
-Nick's POV-
"Get them ready, we don't have a lot of time," Tyler says as he turns and walks out of the room.
The guards he brought with him com into the cell and put handcuffs on us again then drag us down the hall and out the front door where we came from when we first got here.
Outside is a white van very similar to Finnick's that is waiting for us with more guards holding the back doors open. We stumble our way towards the van as there is just enough light from the sunset to see where to walk.
We get shoved into the van and the door quickly locks behind us from the outside, keeping us from getting any ideas of escaping. The van starts up and begins moving on our journey towards wherever they decide to take us.
Since it was getting late I was tired and decided it would be a good idea to sleep while I can. So I laid my head back on the wall of the van and quickly fell into the deep thoughts of my mind.
-Some Time Later-
I'm startled awake as the back of the van opens up and the guard from inside picks us off the bench and tells us to get out.
I step out of the van with Jacob and quickly notice that we seem to be in the city now. It's pitch black inside the dark alley that the guards brought us to and there's very few people on the street we are on to see us since it's so late in the night.
"Ok you two are going to do exactly as we say or you're not making it out of this alive," one of the guards says, pulling out a pistol with a silencer screwed to the muzzle. The other guard that is with us unlocks our handcuffs and then walks to the passenger side of the van.
"Put these jackets on,"the first guard says, as the other guard comes back with two jackets and throws them to us.
"And put the hoods on, we don't need anyone recognizing you two. try to run and I'm sure you know what will happen. " He says, flashing the pistol again.
I look to Jacob and he glances at me with a worried look before throwing the jacket over his head. I quickly follow suit and do the same.
The guard then hands me a small device with a single button on it, " hold onto this until I tell you to press it."
I take it hesitantly and put it in my jacket pocket, he then signals for us to follow him as he begins to walk across the street. We follow him and the other guard follows close behind.
We walk a ways down the street and take a turn and suddenly we are in front of the zootopia museum of art, a relic that has been part of the city since the city was first created.
The guard leads us up the steps and through the front doors of the museum. As I walk in I'm instantly struck by the beauty of the inside of the building and the art. Paintings and sculptures line the walls from many different periods in time.
As we walk further into the museum I notice that despite the late hour, there are still people visiting and admiring the art.
We walk around a corner and down a large corridor then the guard looks around and sees that there are no people in this area of the museum. He then turns to us and tells us to take the jackets off.
"What? What was the point?" Jacob says, throwing his arms up.
"It doesn't matter if you're seen anymore, now take them off! " he replies as he looks around again for anyone.
"Just do what he says," I say, taking my own jacket off.
He sighs and takes off his jacket as well. The guard then takes the jackets from us, " now remember that thing I gave you?" He says, looking to me.
"Yea I still have it, " I reply, pulling it out of my pocket and showing it to him.
"Good, now stay here. We need to make sure the area is clear, if you two move at all from this spot we will know." He says as the other guard and him begin to walk back from the direction that we came from.
I look at Jacob, " I don't like this, why are they leaving us alone?"
"I don't know, this has bad written all over it." He says as he looks around the room.
Once the guards had gone around the corner and hadn't come back in several minutes, I began to think that they actually let us go.
"What if they just let us go, Tyler realized he was in over his head and didn't want to deal with us anymore, " Jacob says, slowly starting to make his way to the corner.
"No, he would never do that. There's something happening. I just don't know w-"
Just then the wall furthest from us explodes and we are taken back as debris flies around us and flames begin to engulf the wall.
"WHAT THE FUCK!" I yell, backing away from the wall as fast as I can. My ears are ringing and I can see that Jacob has started running down the large corridor towards where we came into the room.
I begin to sprint towards him when suddenly up ahead I see people begin to come around the corner obviously trying to see what had just happened and they see us. We both stop in our tracks as we are no longer able to go through the crowd of people.
"Hey! Isn't that Nick Wilde?!"
"Who is that with him?!"
"Look what they did!!"
They begin to yell at us and several police break through the small crowd and quickly point their guns at us.
"Get on the ground now!"
"This wasn't our fault! We've been set up!" I yell instinctively trying to explain what just happened.
Just then another explosion is heard in another part of the building, shaking everyone as if there was an earthquake. The civilians begin to run out of the room screaming, trying their hardest to push through other people to get out first.
" This is your last warning!" The police yell at us and they begin to get closer.
"I swear we have nothing to do with this!" I yell again just as an explosion happens only meters away from us and throwing me and Jacob onto the ground. As I hit the ground, my vision begins to black out. The debris begins to fall on me and I'm quickly engulfed in the darkness.
-Judy's POV-
I'm laying on one of the couches in Finnicks house almost asleep when a loud explosion is heard somewhere in the city and the ground shakes violently.
I sit up quickly and look outside only to see the first floors of the buildings across the street. My mind begins to race trying to figure out what just happened. I come out of my thoughts then quickly run and grab the TV remote and turn it on to find out what happened.
As I flip through the channels I eventually find one that is from a news station that currently has a helicopter observing the explosion. They film the damage that has been done to the building for a minute but then they notice medics load two people into an ambulance
"There has been an explosion downtown," the news anchor says quickly," the cause of this destruction looks to be from two young foxes which were found with a remote that may have been used to set off explosives in the building. So far, they're motives for doing so are currently unknown and they are being rushed to the hospital as we speak. They appear to have been concussed by the blast and retained cuts and bruises but the medics said they should be fine."
The camera zooms in on one of the foxes and I quickly realize who it is. Nick and the other fox are loaded into the back of the ambulance and it speeds away, heading towards the hospital.
As I watch the screen, I realize this is my only chance to get Nick back and I have to act quick or I might never see him again.
-Nick's POV-
Darkness is all around me as I lay half unconscious. I remember only parts of what had happened over the course of the last hour. I remember the explosion going off and them putting me in the ambulance but nothing between or after that. I slowly open my eyes and I notice that I'm on a bed in the hospital. There are two cops talking near the door and I hear a little of what they are saying.
"I bet the one goes to prison for a very long time and the other gets death sentence." One of the cops says to the other. "I mean he's killed like 4 people, god knows how he didn't get the death sentence for that, then he escaped prison and now this? There's no way he gets out of this one."
"Yea I can't see him lasting very long either, once we get an ID on the other one in there, we can begin to put the pieces of this case together and figure out what's going on." The other says as they begin walking down the hall.
I lay in the bed trying to listen to what they say as they get further away but my ears are still ringing from the explosion that happened not to long ago.
I look next to me and see Jacob still unconscious from the explosion in the bed next to me. This is when I notice that his arms are restrained with what looks like a big zip tie to the side of the bed and that the same has happened to mine.
Nobody else is in the room at the moment, and so I lay my head down just trying to wrap my head around everything that just happened. Suddenly I hear tapping on the window a few feet away from my bed.
I look over at the window just in time to see Judy slide it open and climb through.
"Judy, oh my God! If they see you here-" I half whisper at her, glancing towards the door where the cops had been.
She quickly walks over to me and begins to cut of the thing keeping my arms trapped to the bed.
"Are you able to walk?" She says quickly to me then glances over me at Jacob.
" Well I- yea I should be fine, but how the hell did you get in here, aren't there police everywhere?" I say as she quickly cuts one hand free.
She replies in a sarcastic tone, " Yea I disabled all the cameras and the guards and somehow snuck in here without alerting anyone else," she looks up from cutting the other hand, " I walked up to the window and opened it, there is literally nobody outside. Who's that?" She says looking at Jacob.
"Well sorry I had to ask." I say in my own sarcastic kind of way, "He's the Fox from my trial that said I wasn't guilty, he went missing because he's been held captive by Tyler for not going along with it that night."
"Tyler?" She replies with a look of confusion on her face.
"The jaguars name is Tyler remember? And this is Jacob, now can we please hurry I don't want to be here when those cops come back for me."
My other hand comes free as she slides her knife up one last time.
She then runs over to Jacob and begins cutting his restraints. Jacob wakes up and sees what looks like Judy with a knife cutting into his hand.
"Jesus! What the hel-," he reacts quickly and tries to push her back but his hand doesn't move. He then realizes she is cutting him free.
"Do you know her?" He asks, his eyes darting from her to me.
I nod my head at him and he looks back at his hand being cut free.
Once he's free, she ushers us quietly towards the window that she had come in. I climb through it and land on the ground behind the big bushes outside, with Jacob and Judy climbing out only seconds after me.
"Follow me," Judy says quickly as she goes around the corner towards the parking lot to the hospital.
We walk quietly through the bushes surrounding the building, not letting a single person know we were there.
"God my arm hurts… oh shit," I hear Jacob say as I turn and see what is wrong.
Unknown to anyone until this moment, the explosion had sent a piece of metal the size of a small knife into the upper part of his arm, the doctors hadn't removed it before we escaped and he was just noticing it for the first time, "Maybe I can pull it out," He says looking at it.
I look at the metal sticking out of his arm but don't know what to do about it.
"Just don't touch it at the mome-" but before I could finish he yanks it out of his arm and throws it on the ground.
"Oh shit that hurt," He says quickly grabbing his bleeding arm where the metal had been.
"Why would you do that right now?!" I say as quietly as possible.
"I'll be fine, I didn't feel like having a piece of metal sticking out of my arm anymore. It hurt more with it than it does without so I guess I did something right." He replies still looking down at his arm.
Judy starts walking alongside the building again and I follow close behind her. We soon get to the parking lot and a van that I know all to well is waiting by the sidewalk.
"Quick get in, it won't take long before they notice you two are missing." Judy says climbing into the van.
I go to the back of the van, open the doors and climb into it. We close the doors to the van and quickly drive away from the hospital that ironically almost ended our lives.
Thanks for reading! Next chapter will be out whenever I can make it :)