Counter Earth Chronicles Chapter 63: Lab Animals

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#64 of Counter Earth Chronicles

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Once again Alex Winter found himself in the middle of extraordinary circumstances and situations while spying on his doppelganger's family for Lord Tiger and the Knights of Wundagore. And to think his mission was going so well before he was abducted....


Counter Earth Chronicles

Chapter 63: Lab Animals

Day 200 continued

"And what if we decide to decline your offer?" I asked our driver studying the interior of the padded panel van.

"Your employment is not conditional lab animals; it is permanent! Now if you think you are going to escape before our arrival think again." The boar said speeding up.

"We are going to try!" Neil said joining Aurora who was trying to open the doors at the rear of the van.

"I wouldn't do that. Wouldn't want you falling to your death your first day on the job. So why not just sit back, relax and enjoy the ride? We will be arriving shortly."

Neil, Aurora and I were trouble. I could call the knights for help, but it would blow my cover.

(What to do?)

As the creature said that, his image disappeared replaced with a projection of strobing, flashing lights that appeared on the walls of the van's interior, flashing, gyrating at such a high rate of speed. It was quite hypnotic. Before we knew it, we were out cold.

(So much for calling for help.)

"Wakey, Wakey!" I felt a feathered appendage touch my face.

The padded van had stopped moving. Most likely because it had arrived at our destination. Groggily I opened my eyes as my altered tracking chip was scanned by an avian beastial?!

(I have seen many of the High Evolutionary's creations on this world. Mostly mammals and reptiles. But it looks like he also made bird beastials at some point.)

"Great, bird people!" I said staring at the blue/green colored fowl with a yellow beak. Now I have seen some odd looking beastials, but a anthropomorphic bird- that was a new one.

(I think he was a parrot before becoming sentient.)

"The name is Grady, I am your immediate supervisor." The he beast snickered as he looked at his scanner again. "Welcome to Beastial Beauties testing, development and research facility Alexander Winter of no fixed address."

(It was a good thing the knights altered my tracking chip to hide my identity.)

The scanner made a large audio beep as he moved it up and down my left shoulder.

"What is that about?" I asked as the bird beastial stood me up.

"Your tracking chip has been disabled. From this moment forward you will be known as employee 104!" He said laughing.

My attention turned to his two subordinates who were doing the same to Neil and Aurora. But there was something different about them. They were aquatic! The creatures were blueish- white with gill like ears, large eyes, and teeth. They were dressed in grey suits- like one would wear deep under water. The suits were complete with helmets and tanks. I surmised it allowed them to walk on the land with the rest of the us air breathers.

"These two are brothers sir." One of the creatures said to Grady. "Neil Winter and Alexander Winter."

"The female is not." The other standing next to Aurora said. "Wake up female, time for your first day on the job." The creature sneered shaking Aurora.

Grady carefully looked at myself and Aurora. "These two are in a relationship." He said to his lackeys. Who were just now disabling Neil and Aurora's tracking chips. "Welcome employees 105 and 106."

"Ugh! What did you monsters do to us!" Alexander's main squeeze said to our captors.

"It is just some minor disorientation from the ride in we find that it placates new employees just long enough."

"Long enough for what?" Neil said standing up.

"For us to orientate them." The fish person in the grey suit said laughing.

"I don't think so!" Neil said staggering out of the van.

"Oh we have a runner!" Grady snickered.

Neil tried to run away from our captors- tried to escape if you could call it that. He staggered down the ramp into some enclosed loading dock weaving and wobbling like someone who had been heavily medicated.

Our captors laughed hysterically at the teenager's futile attempt at escape. "Employee 105!" One of the fish beastials said grabbing him. "Orientation is this way."

"I like his enthusiasm!" The avian said. "Make sure their 'work stations' are next to each other."

Aurora, Neil and myself were in bad, bad shape courtesy of the strobe lighting that pacified us on our trip to the facility. Like Neil, Aurora and myself were staggering as we struggled to walk. Grady and his hench-beasts ended up carrying us from the loading dock, down several hallways and corridors into a 12' x 12' grey room.

While we were being carried, Neil, Aurora and I heard screams and wailing coming from elsewhere in the facility. We couldn't identify where. But it freaked us out to say the least.

"Orientate them. But keep them together." The avian ordered three minions who were dressed in what looked like hospital scrubs and surgical masks which adequately obscured their faces. So much so I could not identify what species they were. From what I could see they looked like some type of reptilian- lizard thingies. "Contact me when they are ready." Grady said as he started to leave.

"Of coursssse sssssir!" One of the reptilians said.

Each of the reptilians carried Aurora, Neil and myself to a corner of the room where we were made to stand over a large drain.

"What are you going to do to us?" Neil asked horrified.

"You'll sssssee!" Another of the reptilians said as he approached Neil holding a grey something or other in his paw. The reptilian pressed the button on the device. There was a large flash and in an instant our clothes had disappeared from our bodies.

(Oh no!)

My PDA had disappeared as well. Without it and the translator the next time I spoke to anyone, they would hear my Gaian accent and my cover would be blown.

"You monsters! Give back my clothes!" Aurora screamed.

"No clothes but you can have this!" Another of the reptilians said as the one near Neil pressed the button on the on the remote? he was carrying.

We were doused with green slime, gooey gooey green slime which oozed all over our bodies. It was then the scalies started their work. Neil, Aurora and myself were bathed by these creatures who scrubbed every portion of our bodies including our armpits, groin, rump, hands, feet, genitals, hair and orifices. We were then doused with cold water. The creatures dried and then groomed us- shaving the hair off of our bodies including armpits, chest, back, groin. Thankfully they did not do the same to our heads; only giving us short haircuts.

"All finished." The creatures said together as they admired their work.

"Hey you are going to return our clothes? Right?" Aurora said angrily to the reptilians while she tried her best to cover her nudity.

(Her lady bits were great to look at. Especially her rack. If I was the real Alexander Winter I was so UNF, UNF, UNF that.)

"No."

"Lab animals err, all employees must wear the appropriate company uniforms." The reptilian said snickering.

"Which are?" I asked trying very hard to hide my accent.

The reptilian with the remote pressed it again.

There was a yellow flash and Aurora, Neil and I were no longer naked as the standard clothing for the facility appeared over our bodies. Loin-cloths. We were now just near naked.

Aurora and Neil were quite disturbed. Aurora more so, she was topless. But then again so were we.

Shortly afterwards Grady returned with his aquatic minions who carried us out of the cleaning area into a grey corridor, down one hallway, up another and down another. We passed a number of laboratories along the way. We heard screaming and moans coming from each one as we walked by.

"Where are you taking us?" I asked the creature who was carrying me.

"You are a smart employee you will figure it out." Came the answer as we rounded another corner to a hallway lined with cages. A prison area where the company housed their lab animals behind iron bars.

I was escorted to a cage that prominently had number 104 painted above it. Neil and Aurora fared a similar fate.

"There you go! Your work stations."

A 10 x 10 cell with nothing but a bench to sit down on and a drain in the corner when nature calls.

"Compliance is demanded at all times. Disobedience is not allowed or tolerated." The aquatic beastial said to the three of us.

"So starting a riot is out of the question?" Neil asked sarcastically as the others in the 'cell block' noticed our arrival.

"Disobedient employees will be taken to HR."

"Human Resources?!" Aurora asked staring down our aquatic guards.

"No. Horrific Research. No one who is sent there is ever heard from again." The creature snickered.

The other aquatic creature then turned to another occupant two cages down from Neil. "Employee 98 were you trying to escape just now?"

"Who me?" A blond haired man in a brown loin-cloth said. "No not I! Nope, nope, nope!"

Aurora, Neil, I and the others in the cell block watched as one of the aquatic jailers tapped one of the bars on the man's cage. It dropped to the ground and rolled down the block.

"Yup, yup, yup." The aquatic beastial said removing the man from his cage. "It is HR for you."

"Yup, yup, yup." The second aquatic beastial said as they hauled employee 98 away.

"No!!!!!!" The man screamed.

"Alexander! Are you okay?"

I looked at the cages across from me. Alexander's teenage brother was staring right back at me in a similar cage. To his right was Aurora in another. To my right a hallway lined with catches and more human lab animals.

"After what we just witnessed, I don't think so."

"You sound really funny." Aurora declared.

(Think fast Alex.)

"I think they must have done something to me." I replied. "I think it affected my voice."

"You think that is something just you wait!" Came a voice to my right. It was another of the beastial's 'lab animals.' A human female who appeared to be in her late 20s in similar clothing to ours. Her head had been shaved just like Neil's, Aurora's and mine.

(I did notice her breasts were narrow and small also and they were dropping somewhat.)

"Welcome to Beastial Beauties product testing, research and development." She said. "Where the company slogan is look great for less."

"Beastial Beauties?" Aurora asked.

"Product testing, research and development?" Neil asked.

"You three are new. You will learn. This facility is where the beastials develop cosmetics, perfumes and makeup which is then sold to their customers. In order to ensure their products are of the highest quality, nontoxic and safe for use, the researchers need to develop it, test it and then refine it."

"What does that have to do with us?" Neil asked.

"I think I know." I interjected.

"We are the lab animals. The ones the chemicals are tested on. By the way, I am Sarah, employee 102."

"I am Neil, that is Aurora and that is my big brother Alexander."

"Well to them you are employees 104, 105 and 106."

"Sarah what type of cosmetic testing do they perform?" I asked the short haired brunette.

"Are you sure you want to know?" She said looking a Neil, Aurora and myself.

We nodded.

"There are four types of tests performed. One for toxicity, another for corrosivity, also irritation, and dermal penetration. Most of them are very very very unpleasant.

At that moment I felt very very sick.

"Sarah, how did you wind up in this place?" Aurora asked our 'coworker.'

"I was walking home from work. I am employed- rather was at a restaurant near the theater district. It paid ok, and I was just getting by. But not enough to own a vehicle so I had to walk to work. Anyway, about two weeks ago I was walking home when a panel van pulled up. Three lizard creatures jumped out and grabbed me. They said they were going to give my directional-less life meaning. I then woke up here."

"That is similar to our experience. We were abducted from the hover vehicle show at the City Center under a false contest." Aurora said.

"What type of company abduct citizens off of the street?" Neil exclaimed.

"Companies that do this." Sarah said showing us a ugly discolored scar on her arm. "This was from the corrosivity test."

"We have got to get out of here!" I squealed.

"Good luck with that!" Neil's neighbor a black haired man in his late twenties who was also dressed in similar clothing said to the four us. "I have been here for over a month! The food is horrid- they give you just enough to stay alive and that is the only compensation you receive for your employment. In the time I have been here I have never gotten the full run of the facility only the labs so I don't know how tight security is."

"Rory! They are coming for you!" Someone from one of the cages down the hall said.

We heard the door to our wing slide open and two more aquatic beastials entered. They looked at Aurora, Neil, Sarah and myself and then Rory.

"This one will do." One of them hissed opening his cell door.

"Time for a few more tests." One said picking him up.

"Not again!!!" Rory screamed as he was carried away.

Our first night at Beastial Beauties was horrid, our sleep was constantly interrupted by the screams of fellow- 'lab animals' who were having Heaven knows what being done to them by the beastials who worked at the facility. Added to that was the constant fear that no one knew when they were next; when Grady and his minions were coming for you.

In the morning Rory was returned to his cage he had burns over 40% of his body. Two guards gently placed him down the floor of his cage along with his breakfast nourishment the yellow vile of liquid peach I had been familiarized with being a prisoner of Wundagore Castle.

Aurora, Sarah and Neil were horrified.

"Employee 104." One of the creatures said turning to me. "Ready for your second day?"

"Do I have any choice?"

"No."

The two carried me from my cage down several hallways back to one of the labs I had been by yesterday evening. I was brought in to yet another small 12' x 12' room and strapped to a chair.

Again I was immobilized; I could not move. After five minutes a researcher entered the room a female masked reptilian alligator- lizard thingie carrying a pad containing of what looked to be make-up.

"Good morning employee 104. I trust you slept well?"

"Not really, the screams and wailing of my fellow employees being tortured all night affected my sleep patterns." I replied.

"Sssssorry about that. They were supposed to make our labs sound proof- but that was overlooked when the facility was constructed."

"Uh what are you planning to do to me?" I asked scared to know the answer.

"A ssssensitivity test. I am going to test some cosmetics the company has developed. We think that they are safe for use, but need to know for ssssure."

That morning the female beastial tested several styles of blush, eyeliner, lip gloss and lipstick on me observing the results. Fortunately I did not have any adverse reactions to the chemical compounds that they were comprised of. Only extreme embarrassment.

When I was returned to my cell that afternoon Neil and Sarah were gone.

"How did it go? By the way that is an interesting look." Aurora said to me.

"It was fine just very embarrassing." I replied through my makeup.

"Alexander, we have to get out of here."

"I know. But how? It is not like we can overpower the guards."

But then if I could only get to my PDA and contact Lord Tiger. He and my mistress had to be looking for me by now. But I don't even know where they put our clothing.

Just then a blood curdling scream echoed from down the corridor.

"AAAHHH!!!!"

That sounded like Neil.

"What are they doing to him?!" Aurora screamed.

Neil was crying when the guards returned him to his cell an hour later.

"My eyes! I can't see!"

He told us the researchers tested some type of eyeliner on him that was highly caustic. It took his sight.

Aurora's turn came that evening. The researches conducted three tests on her- toxicity, corrosivity and sensitization. When she returned to her cell he his arms and face were scarred. Burnt by the chemical compounds that were tested on her.

"You need to treat her injuries now!" I yelled at the guards as they were leaving.

"Yeah, we will get right on that." Came the snarky reply.

Aurora, Neil and myself were imprisoned at the Beastial Beauties research, development and test facility for the next four days. We witnessed and experienced unspeakable misery and unspeakable horror on a grand scale. It was shocking that this was allowed to even take place in an enlightened society such as this.

On the morning of the fourth day....

Day 203

"No research today employees!" Grady said at the morning feeding. "We have visitors this afternoon."

"Yay." Came the muted response.

"You are to be on your best behavior."

Our captors weren't lying. Around noon four guests arrived for a walkthrough of the facility. I surmised that they were beastials of prominent importance for them to be given a complete tour of the complex.

I got a good look at each of them as they walked through our area. There was a distinguished looking buffalo, rhino and kangaroo. But the fourth guest was the one that interested me the most- a six foot tall big horned sheep who turned ghostly white when he walked by my cage and I stared directly at him and he stared directly at me before hurrying down the corridor.

"Who were they?" Rory asked.

"Some beasts of prominent importance. Maybe customers?" I said. "I think I may be leaving real soon." I said as Sarah, Rory, Neil and Aurora looked at me strangely. One of them recognized me."

"Why is that?" Rory asked.

"Alexander is involved in the resistance and is wanted by the empire." Neil said to Rory.

Not one hour later Grady and his aquatic minions returned to my cell.

"Employee 104 you are coming with us."

"I thought the experimentation and torture, excuse me- research was suspended today because of the visitors." I said trying to stand.

"They have been." The creatures said entering my cage and plucking me up from my bench. "You have been dismissed."

"I am being fired?" I said surprised.

"You are a wanted rebel and dissident of the empire." Grady said to me. "Had I known, you would not have been hired."

"Gee, you should have better screening practices for your interviews." I said as I took one final look at my cell block and cell mates. "Avenge me my friends!!!"

The three days I spent as a lab animal for Beastial Beauties testing, research and development, took its toll on me. I was weak, dehydrated and malnourished. My arms and legs had chemical burns on them, my face was swollen with blisters and I couldn't walk on my own. The aquadic beastials returned my clothing and PDA to me and carried me to the edge of the facility's property- its gates and literally dumped me there on the ground in front of two Knights of Sevren.

"Biff, Looper! Long time no see! You guys seemed to have recovered well from the Animalitia ambush!" I said to the two wolves with mock bravado.

The brown wolf looked at the black wolf as he pulled out his scanner. They attempted to scan the tracking chip in my shoulder, but it had been deactivated.

"He looks like Alexander Winter." The black wolf said to the brown.

"That is not possible he was apprehended five weeks ago." The brown wolf said to the black.

The two then looked at me very carefully before sniffing me to verify their suspicions.

"Alex Winter?"

"Power to the pack!" I moaned as I passed out.

Some hours later...

"Alex! Alex are you still with us?" A grey middle aged wolf said patting me on my head.

"Sir Wolf?"

"Lie still." The Commander of the Knights of Sevren Castle ordered me. "Biff, Looper!"

I was lying naked on a table in the castle's infirmary while my rescuers treated my wounds and injuries. Under Sir Wolf's direction Biff ran some type of triangular device over my legs and abdomen. Looper did the same to my arms and face. The devices documented my injuries for my medical record while at the same time healing them; removing all physical traces from my encounter at the research, development and test facility. But not the emotional ones.

"Thank you." I said to the two warriors.

"We are not done yet." The black wolf said turning me over and continuing the procedure on my back, arms and legs.

"Nice butt." The brown wolf said.

"My mistress seems to think so." I quipped.

"Alex do you want to explain to me what you were doing at that facility and why you are in my city?" Sir Wolf asked me while Biff and Looper continued working on me.

I answered his question with a question.

"How did you find out I was there?"

"We received an anonymous tip." The black wolf working on my back said.

"I was on a mission for Lord Tiger."

"What type of mission?" Sir Wolf asked crossing his arms.

"I was ordered to impersonate Alexander Winter, to spy on his family to make sure that only he was working for the rebellion."

"What did you discoverer?" The brown wolf behind me asked.

"That Alexander was the only rebel in his family. His mother, father, brother and girlfriend are only sympathetic to the rebellion. They allowed Alexander to join. But it didn't appear that they were active with any group trying to overthrow the High Evolutionary as far as I can tell." I said to the grizzled wolf and his two subordinates. "I was supposed to observe the family for a few days but my mission was interrupted."

"Interrupted how?"

"I stumbled on a conspiracy. Commander the facility Biff and Looper picked me up from. Do you know what goes on there?"

"Just that it is a product test and development facility for Beastial Beauties Cosmetics." The wolf warrior said to me.

"You got that right. But do you know HOW they test their products?"

"No."

"With unwilling human test subjects." I said starring the commander in the eye.

"I was attending the hover vehicle show downtown three nights ago when Alexander's girlfriend and little brother were abducted after winning some 'grand prize.' We were transported to that facility and became lab animals for the scientists and researchers there. Sir Wolf, they are abducting innocents off of the streets and experimenting on them!"

"So that explains the rash of abductions." Looper said to me.

"Really?" I said to the three wolves.

"There have been a lot of human disappearances across the five cities the last several months." Biff said. "We have about thirty missing in World Three alone."

"My forces have been investigating them in their spare time but that hasn't been much because of everything that has been going on." The commander reluctantly admitted.

"So with the Animalitia and the Liberate Counter Earth Now movement consuming resources, it fell to the bottom of the list." I said dejected.

"Alex, How many humans did you see at that facility?"

"Over one hundred. I was number 104 and the only one to escape. Alexander's brother and girlfriend are still being held there against their will as are many others."

"That solves that mystery." The black wolf said to his commander.

"Sir Wolf you are going to rescue them are you?" I asked looking at him.

"We will Alex, but we need you to tell us everything you saw there no matter how insignificant."

With that my mission was over, I was taken back to Castle Wundagore within the hour where I was debriefed by Lord Tiger and Lady Ursa while Sir Wolf and his forces raided Beastial Beauties.

"Alexander's parents did not suspect I wasn't THEIR Alexander, neither did Aurora or Neil. My mission was going well until we were abducted and experimented on testing cosmetics, makeup and perfume to make sure they were safe for sale." I said looking at the table in the knight's private meeting room.

"It must have been very hard for you." Lord Tiger said sympathetically.

"The last three days, I witnessed some very difficult things." I said to the commander. What was even harder was realizing that that company was taking the innocent citizens right off of the street. They claimed they were giving us jobs, giving our lives meaning. Funny. No one was ever paid for their services, only tortured."

"It is alright pet you are safe." My lady bear said to me.

I Immediately got up from my chair and ran to hug her.

"I never thought I could hate someone as much as I did those that worked at the facility. I mean if I had the power. I would have burned that place to the ground."

"How did you manage to escape?" My mistress asked.

"Well today the facility was toured by some guests. One of them must have 'recognized' me and informed Sir Wolf. An hour later I was 'fired'. The wolf pack picked me up from the facility and brought me back to Castle Sevren."

We watched as Sir Wolf and his forces raided the facility and freed its prisoners including Aurora, Neil, Rory and Sarah who were asking what had happened to me. Sir Wolf just said that I had been taken into custody because I was a wanted rebel, thus setting the record straight. The wolf pack did not find employee 98 however.

Beastial Beauties was exposed for the vile, vicious and corrupt organization they were. They were shunned by the human populace and sympathetic beastials for their shady business practices which hurt the company's profitability and reputation- so much that they went under a week later.

The leaders behind the human abductions and experimentations were given a slap on the paw- because, you guessed it they were only kidnapping humans. But of course this incident didn't do much for beastial human relations on Counter Earth.

As a result of my experience, I was a wreck and would be for some time. Lady Ursa and Lea would try to counsel me to help me deal with my trauma. But they were not the beastials I needed to see in order for me to start healing from this incident.

I hadn't said to anyone that it had been Sir Ram who had recognized me during his tour of that development, research and test facility. I had pondered why he was there that afternoon. Was he under cover? Was he on a mission? I had assumed so, that was why I hadn't said anything to my mistress or Lord Tiger during my debriefing.

Day 211

One afternoon a week later, I had finished my instruction with professor Love, I decided to conduct some personal research on Beastial Beauties, the business, its operations, leadership, its owners- the company's rise and fall....

What I discovered made me run right out of the lair and to the science wing of the castle looking for a certain big horned sheep.

"SIR RAM!"

"Afternoon pet." He said as condescendingly as I entered his lab. "What can I do for you today?"

I found the evil beastial examining a dissident who was strapped to a horizontal table with wires and probes connected to their torso, groin and legs. There was a leather mask placed over the victim's head with what I assumed were breathing tubes coming out of it.

"I came to thank you for that anonymous tip to Sir Wolf and his forces that freed me from that test facility last week. That was quite nice of you to do."

"You are welcome boy." The evil beastial started to say before I cut him off.

"But that incident raised some questions, why were you there that day- touring the facility? Why the anonymous tip? Why didn't you tell Sir Wolf you were there? That also caused me to wonder. So I started researching Beastial Beauties the company and the corporation. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that you were one of the owners."

The ram smiled wickedly after I made him.

"You weren't there undercover, that day you were touring one of your business interests Sir Ram. I want you to explain to me why you were an owner of a business that abducted the helpless, the powerless, the innocent and experimented on them?!"

"We do what we must to get ahead boy." He answered to me simply returning to his test subject.

That short answer further incensed me.

"To get ahead?! Beastial Beauties is now out of business- history sir knight as is what you invested in it. In its wake a lot of the second class citizenry, the humans who were lab animals at that facility have been damaged. I wouldn't be surprised if the vast majority become dissidents or separatists and join the rebellion! Congratulations and well done Sir Ram, by doing what you must to get ahead you have single handedly made your job and those of the knight core that much tougher. There is a word for that- I think it is called karma.

"YOU FORGET YOUR PLACE BOY!"

"NO, YOU FORGET YOUR PLACE KNIGHT!" I roared back angrily.

You have hit a new low Sir Ram. I can overlook you punishing, torturing and experimenting on the guilty, the condemned in order to protect the empire, but not innocent, law abiding citizens. That is just wrong."

Sir Ram's test subject made a muffling sound from beneath the leather mask. At my loud outburst.

"Be quiet Alexander! Not now!" The evil beastial chided his experiment.

(That is Alexander?!)

"Sir Ram I was experimented, poked, prodded and tortured at that place with many other humans including Alexander's brother and girlfriend. How do you think Aurora Cross and Neil Winter view beastials, the High Evolutionary and the empire now as a result of what happened to them?"

Alexander's muffling turned into roars beneath the black leather mask when he learned that Aurora and Neil had been experimented on by a business Sir Ram owned.

"You know for being one of the most brilliant minds on this world you can be so stupid. You claim that what you do is for the empire, to preserve the master's rule. Well stunts like this does not help the cause!"

The evil beastial acted as if he were about explode but managed to compose himself.

"Who else knows of this?" He asked me growing concerned.

"Only us. There are no words to describe what I experienced Sir Ram. There is nothing you can say to me to even begin healing my physical or mental wounds." I said turning my back to him. "I could have exposed you to Lord Tiger, but I didn't. I did not say it was you who I saw at the facility that afternoon. I was only able to discover your secret through an awful lot of digging. I have feeling others will too and it will make your life very difficult. Including Alexander who now also knows- you better keep an eye on that one." I said looking at the now enraged rebel.

"Is that a threat HUMAN?!"

"No it is a premonition. If I were you I would make this right. Start a new cosmetic corporation, have them apologize for Beastial Beauties transgressions by compensating all of those who have been wronged in order to make them whole again. I would go as far as to offer them jobs at the new company. I would also have that corporation award Aurora Cross the grand prize she won that night at the hover vehicle show." I said leaving the evil beastial to stare at his now enraged test subject.

(And if I were you Sir Ram, I would never turn your back on Alexander ever again. Cause if your new favorite experiment ever got loose, he would come after you.) I thought to myself as I departed the evil ram's lab.

A month later a new cosmetic company did launch from the ashes of Beastial Beauties- Counter Earth Cosmetics. They issued a public apology for the heinous actions of their predecessor. They even compensated Beastial Beauties' 'lab animals' as it were for their pain, misery and suffering and even offered them jobs within the corporation. Those who were desperate enough and in need accepted. I heard that Aurora was one of them.

Sir Ram later did apologize for wronging me indirectly he went as far as to say he would make me whole again as well. I guess it was then that I finally started healing and was able to move on despite being incredibly angry at him.

When Lady Ursa adopted me eight months ago she forbade me from exploring Counter Earth on my own. There were things I wasn't ready to see. Situations I wasn't ready or even prepared to deal with. During my undercover mission with the Winter family, I started to see those things and experience those situations and in doing so I realized in reality that there were two Counter Earths- the one the beastials lived in and then the one everyone else did. A ride-along some days later with my mistress would reinforce this fact.

To Be Continued....