Zootopia - Brave New World

Chapter 6: Questioning

The next one and a half hour passed rather quickly in Alex perspective, as he saw himself being paw-cuffed with his paws behind his back and escorted to the van of the SWAT, and they put him in, with two armed animals to watch over him, at a buff buffalo request.

Alex remembered that a few animals around the crowd were protesting about it.

"Why are you arresting him!? He is a hero!"

"The cougar did nothing wrong!"

"He saved us all! You can't do this!"

However, most of the members of the crowd remained silent, only watching as Alex was take into custody.

Alex remembered that during the trip, these two guards were keeping a watching eye on him. But Alex barely even minded them, as he was far too busy wondering what was going to happen to him, now that he revealed his true nature as an evo.

Alex imagined that now there was going to have a huge repercussion about it, as it happened when that girl jumped from the Ferris wheel at that carnival and regenerated in front of all of the reporters, revealing to the whole world the existence of the evolved humans, who were later named as "evos".

Alex remembered that the following years were a mess, and he was part of it. First there was the act of forcing evos to register, and a lot of anti-evo protests all around the world, including into his own hometown. These were years in which Alex had to be careful and, when the summit bombing happened on that June 13th, and the subsequent broadcast happened, and the coming of the Renautas, Alex had to be triple careful.

He remembered that during that time he spent nights awake, afraid that at any moment those guys were going to break into his house and take him as prisoner to "god-knew-where" and do several things to him. Alex remembered that these were hard times, and they lasted for almost three years, right before the Renautas were exposed as the true culprits, and their whole scam exposed to the world by Micah Sanders, the legendary "Rebel".

Right after these twins saved the world from HELE, things at least started to get better, with evos slowly starting to be accepted and to take back their place into the world, living alongside humans. Of course, the process was very slow, and it took around one year after that for Alex finally to feel safe enough to don't afraid of using his abilities out of the sanctuary of his own house.

Still, Alex was still having recurrent nightmares of another guy who would find a way to make people turn against evos, or who would chase them to kill then, or that would want to use them as tolls for their own devices. For what Alex knew, there were plenty of people like that out there, and the fear of these situations happening again, this time with him or any of his friends, was something that always scared Alex.

And right now, it seemed that it was happening.

Alex had just stopped armed and dangerous criminals from committing a crime and hurting innocents, and there he was, being arrested and watched as if he was a criminal himself.

Sure, they were not treating him as if he was a monster. Not yet, at least. But this did nothing for Alex's feeling of being arrested because of his powers, and his nature as an evo. He knew that he was probably on a very tight spot, and he had a feeling that he could not expect for a Petrelli Movement to come on his aid.

Alex imagined that, at that moment, he was alone, and questioning himself if he had made the right choice to surrender like that. However, he soon convinced himself that, had he fought, then it would have been much worse, for he would have fought the authorities and painted the image of a criminal to himself.

This way he showed he was not evil and was going to cooperate, and didn't wanted any trouble. The fact that he had just helped to catch those criminals, all of which were taken in too, probably was going to help it, and Alex had a feeling of that because some of the animals actually had stood for him and protested as they took him. That made Alex feel that maybe, just maybe, things were going to be better in this world, even after he revealed himself an evo.