Zootopia: Allspark Salvation Chapter 1

"Before time began, there was the Cube. We know not where it comes from, only that it holds the power to create worlds, and fill them with life. That is how our race was born. For a time we lived in harmony. But like all great power, some wanted it for good, others for evil. And so began the war. A war that ravaged our planet until it was consumed by death. And the Cube was lost to the far reaches of space. We scattered across the galaxy, hoping to find it and rebuild our world. Searching every star, every world. And just when all hope seemed lost, a message of a new discovery drew us to an unknown planet called… Earth. But we were already too late."

In the glare of a boiling sun, several shadows of military grade MV-22 Ospreys model helicopters hover over a large sandy field. Inside one of the helicopters, a group of camo-adorned soldiers were sitting on two parallel lines of chairs, chatting away. "I tell you man, when I get home, it's gonna one big cookout party," a lion holding a T-3000 rifle recalled. "Why do you keep bringing that up?" a cougar rhetorically asked the lion. "Everytime you say that, my stomach suddenly becomes a black hole." The lion rolled his eyes. "Well maybe if you eat the stuff they serve us back at base, you wouldn't be so hungry." The cougar grunted. "Yeah, eat that crap they call 'food.' More like ground-up solid waste." "Okay, enough!" yelled a wolf, obviously the squad captain. "While you too have been arguing, I've been thinking about when we are relieved of duty." The others stops arguing, and think about this too. "Man, I just wanna go home and finally marry my girlfriend," the cougar said. Then he turned to the captain. "What about you, dude? Got a perfect day?" The captain chuckled. "Ah, I just can't wait to hold my baby girl for the first time." The others uproar in a string of affectionate teasing. "Oh, that's so cute!" The lion shouts. "Shut up!" the wolf remarks.

A short while later, they arrive at their military base somewhere in a large open desert. This base is full of soldiers marching to their posts, mixed with muscle bound jocks who are cooling off in the hot climate. A few militants are sitting in small kiddy-pools, while others are taking showers in open stall areas. One soldier was playing a one-on-one game of basketball with his opponent. "Watch this crossover, baby. Like in his prime, pushing through the front line!" the soldier said as he dribbled the ball past the opposing player, ready to make the shot. The wolf from earlier was sitting down on a bench when he heard a small voice. "Clawmark!" the voice shouted. The wolf turned to see a young panda boy run towards him. "Hey, Mahfouz. How you doing?" Clawmark asked. The panther held out a circular canister. "Water?" he offered. The wolf took it with pleasure. "Oh, thank you. You gonna help me with the gear?"

Meanwhile, several miles away, a Sikorsky MH-53J Pave-Low III comes into view. It hovers several hundred feet from the ground, bearing an ominous look to the aircraft. Back at the military base, inside the air radar center, a soldier discovers the chopper on the radar. "Colonel Sharp," he calls to the commander, a large rhinoceros. The military veteran walks over to the soldier. "We have an unidentified inbound infiltrator ten miles out." The commander looks at the screen, getting a look at the target. He then proceeds to make contact with the unknown intruder. "Unidentified aircraft, you are in restricted U.M. Military airspace. Squawk ident and proceed east out of the area." The helicopter pilot made no attempt to change his destination. Colonel Sharp then held his microphone to his mouth. "Raptors one and two, snap to heading two-five-zero to intercept," he tells his pilots. Seconds later, two jets fly off the runway and soar through the air towards the Sikorsky. Once they reach their target, one pilot talks through the intercom. "Bogie is in the weeds ten miles out, not squawking." Sharp then proceeds with the following directions. "Unidentified aircraft, we will escort you to U.M. SOCCENT Air Base. If you do not comply, we will use deadly force." The two jets fly past the chopper, getting a glimpse of the tail. "Copy to bogie. Tail 4500 X-ray." One of the soldiers holds a piece of paper in front of him. "Sir, says here 4500x was shot down three months ago. Afghanistan," the soldier reads "That's gotta be a mistake. Check again, then recheck," Sharp replies. "I did, sir. A friend of mine was on that chopper." the soldier states. "Unidentified aircraft, we will escort you to U.M. SOCCENT Air Base." the commander contacts with the copter. "Radar, where's the inbound?" "Ten miles out, sir."

At the same time, Clawmark pushes a curtain out of his way to enter the room. "Is my wife on?" he asks a nearby militant. "Yes, Captain." the soldier replies. Lennox adjusts the camera to make sure that it see him clearly. Suddenly, a wide smile spreads across his face. "Ahahahaha, my ladies!" he is directing his attention to the computer, which displays an image of a female wolf holding a little baby wolf. "Oh my goodness. Look at her. She's getting so big! Look at those cheeks, I just wanna chew on them. Baby, we made a good-looking kid. I know that people say that all the time, but, wow, we made one good-looking kid. Great job." The female wolf starts bouncing the baby up and down to amuse it. "She has your laugh." Clawmark looks at her in surprise. "She laughed?!" "Her first one, yeah." "You sure she didn't just fart?" "No, she's a lady." The baby starts to become fussy. "She doesn't know you yet, but she will."

Meanwhile, the 4500x has finally arrived at the base. Colonel Sharp, in the air traffic control tower, is looking at the chopper's tail with binoculars. "4500x. Something's not right," the commander remarks. A voice over the intercom is heard. "Bogie's on the deck." Inside the radar center, a soldier suddenly takes his hands off the keyboard in surprise. "Whoa Whoa Whoa Whoa Whoa. Radar's jammed," he says in shock. Another soldier tries to pick up a phone. Suddenly, all the lights start to flutter. "It's coming from the chopper," the soldier remarks. Inside the room where Clawmark is, the signal to the webcam suddenly short circuits. "Will?" the female wolf asks through crackles of static. "Sarah," Clawmark says as he tries to fix the signal. "Hey, Sarah, if you can hear me, I love you and I'll be home soon," he manages to say before the entire screen freezes. "Damn." He smacks the computer in frustration, then looks outside to see what the confusion is.

Outside, a whole squad of soldiers begin to surround the helicopter at it touches down. The pilot of the Pave-Low, a tiger with a small moustache, wearing a helmet to hide his identity, looks around at all of the soldiers. "MH-53 pilot, power down, now!" Sharp yells over the radio connection. The engine of the chopper begins to slow. Suddenly, the pilot begins to somehow glitch, indicating that he may not even be there at all. "Have you crew step out or we will kill you," the commander orders. As the soldiers watch, the helicopter is still powering down. At once, the entire blade rotisserie stops abruptly. It then rises up as if on a piston. The six blades then fold back, which is followed by a low humming noise. "Hold your fire!" shouts one of the soldiers as more parts of the Sikorsky shift. "Stand by to engage!" Then, the entire helicopter begins to quickly shapeshift, as if like a Rubik's Cube, into a more humanoid shape, which the soldiers immediately fire at. Inside the control tower, Colonel Sharp watches the scene unfold from above. "My God," he says quietly as he witnesses the inevitable battle take place.

Several soldiers fire at the giant mech with machine gun turrets. The robot finally stands up, then glares at the soldiers spraying ammunition at it. It's insect like face bore red glowing optics. The rotor engine acted as a sort of backpack. Suddenly, a large weapon protrudes out of its wrist. It begins to fire back at the soldiers, causing several casualties as well as injuries. Others duck for cover behind the armored vehicles.

It places its weapon facedown on the ground, then fires. The resulting shockwave shatters the glass windows of the control tower.

Clawmark, placing his hand on the Mahfouz's shoulder, looks horrifically at the battle taking place. "THEY BOMBED THE ANTENNA FARM!" the lion shouts. "WE'RE UNDER ATTACK!" They all run for cover as the enormous mechanical being obliterates the entire area of the base. "Go! Move! Move!" Clawmark shouts as his squad, as well as the small panda, run to evade the attack.

The robot proceeds the the radar warehouse, where it completely tears off the roof. Sharp stares at the muscle of machinery in shock. The robot grabs the power generator, where several of the cords attach to its hand. An officer yells, "It's going after the files!" "Cut the hardlines!" Sharp shouts. "I need a key, it's locked!" Sharp grabs an axe, runs over, and slices the wires in two, preventing the network hack and potential data theft.

Meanwhile, in between two rows of tanks, Clawmark, Mahfouz, and the lion from earlier run under the shower of sparks and explosions. Clawmark picks up his panda companion and carries him on his shoulder, allowing for faster movement. An explosion rocks the ground, sending damaged tanks raining down from above. Several other soldiers attempt to take cover under the tanks that are still on the ground. However, at least four of them are crushed by a tank that comes hurtling down, it's treads snapped.

Thankfully, Clawmark and his group are able to get to safety in time, ducking under a tank. Clawmark kneels forward, watching as his cougar friend runs up to them, having been far behind them.

Suddenly, he looks left, and he slows down enough to quickly drop and roll left as a giant metal foot from the being steps down next to him. He looks up from where he lands, and almost immediately rolls right just as another foot comes crashing down, nearly crushing him, yelling loudly in the process. He props himself up quickly as he staggers away from the hulking machinery. He yelps again at what he is looking at.

Thinking quickly, he takes a small thermo-detection camera out of his belt, holds it up to his face, and snaps a quick photo of the giant robot. Unfortunately, the robot noticed the flash on its optical scanner, and it peered down at the frightened cougar.

Its optics created a smaller image on its scanner, which zoomed in on the

camera the cougar was holding. Panels in the chest area opened, allowing for a strange weapon-looking object to fold out.

The cougar scrambled to his feet. "What the-?!" he screamed as he ran away from the hulking mass towards where his friends were hidden. The lion loaded a weapon, aimed at the robot, and fired.

The projectile struck the metal being in the chest, creating a small explosion in its metal plating, causing the robot to kneel over right. However, it almost immediately stood back up, seemingly unscathed. Looking up, it sees its target and aims with its weapon. However, due to the impact of the projectile, the targeting is off, and it misses, but unfortunately hits another soldier, sending sparks flying. The cougar ducks under the tank where his friends are hidden

"Epps, let's go!" Clawmark yells as he helps his friend up, and all of them ran away, rallying other friends to follow them. The robot, seeing them run, turned the opposite direction. It would have to deal with them later.

The hulking mass of metal continued its destruction of the military base, blasting a large energy wave at a runway for large planes, taking out one in the process, as well as a large number of casualties. It aimed the other direction, firing at two other planes, killing another group of soldiers. It turned to the last plane standing, again, with another large group of soldiers trying to escape. It fired a final burst of energy, enveloping the screaming soldiers in a murderous burst of energy.