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Suburban Anthro Animals learn all is not as it seems |
| [Introduction]
So while trying to think of a new campfire idea I had the initial idea of animals escaping the zoo and trying to live among humans as inspired by the kid's book The Great Escape From the City Zoo but while good for a picture book the idea of feral animals getting jobs and living among humans really strains suspension of disbelief but then I got an idea for an Anthro Animal story that touches on the themes of my Planet Mizzer stories without actually being Planet Mizzer which has a very specific culture Here we have anthro animals living in a bright and colorful suburban world like something out of Richard Scarry's Busy Busy World or even Bananas in Pajamas (Note there are no actual anthro fruits or vegetables among them) the various species live in nuclear families the children go to school and enjoy various wholesome activities this world is all they know no one seems to have tried to explore beyond the boundaries of this world. Little do they know they live in a highly controlled environment being monitored by human scientists conducting a massive experiment in animal uplifting for some reason or another Important Note! Note the age rating on this story! Since the world the anthros inhabit is meant to be evocative of wholesome cartoons for little kids, let's keep this story clean and concentrate more on the Platonic Cave plot |
| Name: Zachary 'Zack' Rattus Age: 16 Sex: Male Species: Norway Rat (Rattus norvegicus) Likes: Cheese Pizza, Soda, Skateboarding, Adventures Dislikes: Creamed Spinach. School, Boring Office Jobs Bio: Zack is the closest thing in this very wholesome ideal community to a 'juvenile delinquent' he hasn't really committed any crimes but he dresses like a punk, styling his head-fur into a mohawk. He doesn't like school mostly sleeping through most classes he prefers to spend his days skateboarding he doesn't want to have a 'boring office job' like his Dad has he seems to be getting increasingly aware of how limited this world is. Once again Zack was snoring his way through math class...Much to the annoyance of the teacher and all the other students, but they had given up on trying to wake Zack and getting him to pay attention. |
| Name: Jack Longears Age: 16 Sex: Male Species: Flemish Giant Rabbit version of the Domesticated Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus domesticus) Likes: Martial Arts, Junk food, Military history Dislikes: School, Salad greens - especially the plain kind, boring stuff Bio: Jack is interested in Martial Arts, often sneaking Jackie Chan and other such movies past his folks, if possible, so that he can watch them - they are also very funny. He hopes to enter a martial arts event at some point. Jack was trying to watch some clips of a Jackie Chan movie. Key word, trying. It was not easy when one had paranoid parents. |
| After the school bell rang Zack immediatly got on his skateboard and knew he wouldn't be heading straight home, he knew his parents had been complaining about his lousy grades for some time and had been threatening to take away his skateboard but each time he had called his parents' bluff besides he knew if they ever got serious he knew a little spot in the woods on the outskirts of town where he would just hide until things blew over...For now off to the skate park! |
| Jack soon managed to get himself to a place near the skate park, where he could try off some of the moves he'd seen in the movies, or, at least, the ones that looked practical. |
| Upon reaching the Skate Park Zack saw Jack the one Animal she still felt he could call a friend. The other Animal students would refer to them and 'Zack and Jack' "Hey Jack..." Zack said as he rolled by "...Still thinking about martial arts huh?" "You're still obsessed with skateboarding." The Rabbit replied "Have you ever stopped and wondered what are those strange creatures in those movies and TV shows though?" Zack asked referring to the humans "I mean I know the movies call them 'Hum-Mins' but have you ever seen a hum-min in town? We only ever see them on TV and nobody questions it! Some Animals think they're just a different kind of animal in some kind disguise like whoever dresses up as Barney the Dinosaur!" |
| "I'm still trying to picture what lizard would dress up like that," said Jack. "Looks like they are covered in fur, in addition to being purple." |
| Zack sighed "Look Jack..." The Rat said as he rubbed his arm "...I know I've been a real pill recently but...For some time I've been having these strange dreams...Like dreams that I want to get out of this town but I can't! LIke I keep running into invisible walls..." |
| "So, let's figure out a few things, like how big is the town limits, and what's past them," said Jack. |
| So they left the skate park and began heading toward the nearest edge of town... However the conversation had not gone unnoticed! Various secret cameras all over town monitored the Anthro Animals activities... "Did you hear what that Rat said?" Said one "Said having dreams of...Wanting to leave town and being stopped by invisible walls!" "We've never encountered this problem before!" "We had no way of knowing ESP would develop in the animals!" |
| "So, what do you think is past the town limits?" Jack asked. "Something like what's in those videos?" |
| There was a border of 'Woodland' all around the town to put some distance between the Animals' homes and the very edge of town for reasons Zack and Jack were about to find out. What seemed like more woodland with bushes and trees and sky with clouds above...Zack walked right into it! And the area bumped into...The images wiggled a little bit like the disturbed image of a TV screen! "Holy Moly!" Zack exclaimed as he touched the wall and realized what it was "It's a TV Screen! A giant TV Screen!" |
| "Why would someone do that?" Jack asked. "Film one section of a woodland to make it look like it belonged to another location? That, and the power bill would be high." He looked around. "How many?" |
| They began feeling around on this TV Screen wall...It kept extending to both sides and up as Jack tested by hopping as far as he could hop...A chill went down their spines as they both began to get the feeling that the sky above them was no real sky at all just a TV Screen programmed to show the 'sun' moving through the sky in accordance with nature and then showing the night sky when it was supposed to be night...But that left so many questions! If they had no sky...Where did the weather like rain and snow come from? Meanwhile the observers were beginning to panic... "A rat and rabbit have discovered the boundry!" "Should we have them eliminated like previous examples?" "No!" Came a deeper voice on the PA system "Some of the older animals remember the previous specimens who mysteriously vanished...If we kill these two teenagers it will set off alarm bells in the senior citizens that what happened to their peers was not a mere accident...We must go about this...Delicatly..." |
| "I think that we should tell someone about this," said Jack. "Heard a story or two about someone that vanished, without a trace. This might help to explain a few things. I think we get someone trustworthy in the law enforcement and fire departments to look into this. Still, if stupid movies have taught me anything - we need proof that something is going on. Let's see if we can bring one or more of these things down." |
| Jack rubbed his chin as he thought about who to tell first... "I think we should tell Mrs. Tortimer first..." Jack said "...That Tortoise is the oldest animal in town so she probably has the best idea of what's going on." |
(Don't you mean Zack?  I suppose that's the danger of rhyming names.)"But, first things first, and I can't believe I'm saying this, but we need to take one or more of these things," said Jack. |
| I meant Jack because the Rabbit seemed the more...Sociable of the two where Zack was kind of a loner and a punk who doesn't get along as well with the adults So meanwhile as the humans monitored Zack and Jack's actions...A very old man was sitting in his chair twiddling his fingers... "It's not yet time..." He said to himself "...The animals are not yet ready to be revealed to the public." |
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