#1: The Beginning.

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Vray sits in the break room at the Wrest Zoo, taking his lunch break, he slowly eats a ham sandwich and watches the small TV, that was ironically playing Animal Planet.

Jonah Brock walks into the break room and sits across from Vray, blocking the television.

Vray looks at him. "Do you need something Jonah?", He scratches his head.

Jonah squints at Vray. "It's your day to feed the apes. I'm not messing with them again after what happened yesterday.", He looks at the table.

"He is an aggressive primate. You knew that before you went into the pen.", Vray gets up after speaking and walks out of the break room, approaching the primates habitat. "Hey there big boys. What do you got for me today?"

Vray walks into the back room and observes the primates behind a bulletproof non see through window. "You guys are looking mighty hungry today. Don't worry. I got y'all covered.", Vray grabs buckets of slop and chucks it into the pens. 

All of the primates go running at their food, eating fast and even getting in fights with each other. That is, except for one. The signature aggressive orangutan sits in the corner, observing the primates through his little window, since he is blocked off from the others, due to the fact that he would tear them all apart.

Vray walks to the blocked off pen, gets the slop, and chucks it in. The orangutan doesn't even move. Vray sighs. "You gotta eat buddy. You'll die if you don't.", Vray turns around and sees wooden crates marked CONFIDENTIAL SHIPMENT. He observes it a bit then shakes his head and walks out, back to the break room to Jonah.

Jonah looks up at him. "You feed the beasts?"

Vray nods. "Yes. But, They aren't beasts. They are creatures, just like us."

Jonah laughs. "Right right. Keep telling yourself that buddy.", He looks up fast. "Oh! almost forgot to ask. What were those shipment crates in the feeding room? Do you know?"

Vray shakes his head. "I have no idea. Not like the boss would tell us something that says confidential on it."

Jonah stands up. "I'm obviously a bit more nosy than you. I'm going to go open the crate. It is too weird to just pay no mind to it.", He walks out, approaching the feeding room for the primates.

Vray follows him. "I know this isn't wise... But, I'm curious as well."

Jonah walks in and looks at the crates. "We need something to pry one of these suckers open. You got something?"

Vray looks around the room. "All we have is this taser stick for if the primates get hostile."

Jonah grabs it. "That'll do.", He pries open the lid and it reveals a large case showing the word LIVE ON. "Open the case. I don't want my finger prints on it."

Vray sighs. "Fine..", He goes to the case and opens it, revealing needles and little bottles with bright red liquids in them. "What the hell is this? Are they going to give these to the primates?"

Jonah looks at them weirdly. "That does not look legal. I've never seen that kind of red before, why would they even have these here?"

The owner of the zoo, Jay Fargo, walks in with several security guards with him. "You two have snooped in something you weren't supposed to. Don't I have a rule against all that?"

Vray snaps. "What is this liquid?! You better not put any of this in these defenseless creatures!"

Jay laughs. "Vray. That is where you are wrong. This is a cure. Well.. In a way. You are right. They are defenseless. This will make them unstoppable! Kneel! You are mine now."

Vray gets on his knees as the guards point their guns at him. "What.. What are you doing!? This is not you! You were normal the last time I saw you!"

Jay stops, picks up one of the needles, and fills it with the mysterious red liquid. "There is only way to stop this world from killing the defenseless. Make the humans the defenseless ones! This serum was never tested on humans, or anything for that matter. Maybe we should use it on you!"

Vray clears his throat. "This is illegal! You will never get away with this!"

Jonah slowly sneaks out, as all of the guards are focused on Vray.

Jay laughs and plunges the needle into Vray. "Let's see how this stuff works!", Jay pushes the plunger, inserting the liquid into Vrays bloodstream.

Vray drops to the floor. "It.. It.. Hurts! What is that stuff!? I can't feel my body!!"

Jay looks at the guards. "Put it into the Orangutan! Fast! Who knows what this is gonna do to this boy!"

The guards nod, run into the orangutans pen, and shoots the shot into the orangutan. 

Vray starts to grow in size, and slowly starts to look like a Gorilla with dark black fur, darker than a gorillas fur, more as a night sky black.

The orangutan yells and runs at the guards, ripping them apart as its strength and size increase.

Vray turns into a gigantic gorilla and stares at Jay Fargo. "What did you do to me!?"

Jay smiles and puts his hands up. "My creation! I'm gonna be even more rich!!"

Gorilla-Thing shakes his giant head. "The dead can't be rich.", he grabs Jay and proceeds to rip him in half.

Jonah escapes the zoo premises, but then, he suddenly disappears with no evidence he was ever in the spot he was standing in.


Writer: Kobee Cottrill


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