The Update Zone


 * WARNING: THIS ANIMAL JAM STORY IS VERY STUPID AND IS NOT TRUE**

** THIS ANIMAL JAM STORY DEPICTS GRAPHIC VIOLENCE AND GORE**

It was Thursday, at 11:37 AM. Fuzzy, a fox, and Lucky, an arctic fox, were hiding in the basement of Fuzzy's Castle den, awaiting the update. The walls were Yellow Sweets, and the floors were Blue Vines, as usual. No items were above the basement except heavy items such as Vanities and Bookshelves, blocking the doors in both front and back. There were multiple sheets and rugs hung up in the basement to add further to the safe feeling. Fuzzy had designed a device to be put in a Bean Bag Chair or any Chair with a cushion. The device supposedly blocks the adverse side effects of staying in Jamaa territory such as dens or lands during updates being loaded in at their usual time, 12:00 PM every other Thursday. A wire ran out the side of the patches where each Bean Bag Chair had been sealed, and joined into one wire before connecting to a switch on the wall. Lucky asked Fuzzy, " What time is it? ". Fuzzy replied, " 11:40. Think we should turn it on? ". Lucky answered " Sure! ". The machine showed no indication of being turned on other than the switch being flipped, which was very tiny. Fuzzy went over to turn the switch on, but her white Leg Armor must have snagged it and turned it back off. They played Four Gem and other Buddy Games until they both got a note on their Jam Tablets saying the usual ' Animal Jam is being filled with exciting new updates! Do you wish to go to the new updated Jamaa now or wait? You will have 10 minutes to make this decision. '. They both obviously tapped the No option, wanting to survive the ' adverse effects ' that nobody ever talked about. They didn't know what the effects were, because the people affected by them don't talk about it. They played more Four Gem and hyped about the update until they got the final ' One minute left! ' note. They both already had a timer set for 1 minute on their tablets, so they quickly turned their timer on. They counted the seconds left with the timer, and huddled next to each other during the final 10 seconds, holding their Knitted Hats on for fear of what could take them off. The two kids were totally oblivious to the fact that the machine wasn't even on, due to there being nothing to signal if it was on or off. When they had reached zero, they suddenly heard static. There was a voice within the static. It said many words, but the only word they could make out of it was ' update '. The voice said the word many times in the unintelligible sentence. Before they could say anything, it went black. They woke up in a cage, in a strange room with no visible exit. It was a hanging ball probably made of iron bars. It hung low to the ground, with a little door on one side facing empty space with an iron table. There were 3 other cages with other animals in them, the animals mostly being canines such as wolves, arctic wolves, and other foxes. The only other animals were two raccoons. All the animals were in pairs. Fuzzy asked Lucky if she was okay, her answering yes. In the dim light coming from the light above the table, the animals didn't have any items, although they did have their custom patterns. Fuzzy and Lucky didn't have any items, either. Suddenly a robot arm came down from the ceiling and opened the cage on the other side of the wall. The robot arm grabbed a blue and white Arctic Wolf out of the cage, the animal screaming and struggling to get free. The robot arm held him down on the table, another robot arm coming to shave away the longer blue coat from the neck down with an electric razor. Then, a THIRD robot arm came down, sawing the legs, tail, and neck above the fur line away. Most of the animals in the cages screamed. Fuzzy and Lucky looked away. A fox in the second cage fainted. " At least she won't have to feel the pain of whatever the robot arms are going to do to her... " Lucky said. The purple and pink raccoon in the open cage ran to his friend, the robot arms still taking away the body that had been sawed away. The third arm slung him back into the cage, locking it. He cried and watched a blade sweep across the table, knocking the other parts into a trash pit. The robot arm then came for him, too, taking his neck with it. The robot arm took the animal parts it needed to a big grid on the floor, with exact-size rectangles and squares making up each part the fox-like animal shape needed. When Fuzzy studied the grid, it looked mighty similar in shape to the Coyotes that were in the Jamaa Journal when it said they were coming this update. The shapes glowed green when the parts were set on it. As the machine went down the line, the animals who were still alive yet injured due to loss of important parts were set in a larger cage, with several locks on the door and dense, thin bars. The fox who fainted lost an eye, and another fox lost the opposite eye. The animals in the big cage were getting replacement body parts, such as fuzzy plastic ears or mechanical back legs, the legs getting socks over them. When it was Fuzzy's turn, Lucky screamed and tried to pull her back in. Fuzzy struggled at the robot arm, holding on to the cage. The robot arm pulled so hard that Fuzzy let go of the cage, rather than risk losing her arms. When she was on the table, she whispered " I'll miss you... " to Lucky, who had run out of the cage and was looking at her on the table. The arm cut off Fuzzy's tail slowly. She winced as the blade cut through her tail, which was being pulled away by the other arm. Suddenly, the machine malfunctioned. It cut a big, jagged stripe down her leg. Fuzzy howled in agony. Strangely, though, instead of getting a decent, actually quite fancy replacement like the other animals, all Fuzzy got was a little cloth strip sewn on to the stitches she had on the remains of her tail. On her turn, Lucky lost her back left paw. The machine malfunctioned again, this time cutting the exact same stripe up her leg. She got a half-decent mechanical foot, aside from the fact that it was a bit too small and wasn't flexible enough. Then, once all the body parts were on the grid, they joined together, started to glow and turned brown with light brown accents, and blue eyes. The completed coyote rose into the air and then landed, looking at the animals in the cage and then shrieking at the table. Suddenly, each of the pairs spawned into Jamaa Township, one server each pair. They still had the replacement parts, although nothing hurt but the blurry memory of losing friends and body parts. Fuzzy and Lucky were wearing the items that they were wearing before they were sent to The Update Zone. For some reason, the replacement parts looked exactly like items but you couldn't take them off, you could put items that normally fit in that body category on top of them, and they weren't items in your inventory. Nobody knows what happens if you do this in an update that does not bring a new animal, but many people say it is even darker. And this, kids, is why you don't try to hack into updates as they're being coded on to the game!