In the jungle

"Hey now! Just calm down, Lex." Jane said, raising her hands in defence.

"Calm down? CALM DOWN?!" Alex snarled as she prepared to lunge at Jane, Caroline grabbing her before she could attack. "I'll calm down after I freaking strangle you, you braindead bimbo! Nobody will ever know how you died!"

"Girls! Enough!" Caroline snapped, doing her best to separate the two. "Killing each other isn't gonna get us out of this situation! Now, I partially agree with Jane that we should set up a society..."

"Excuse me, WHAT?!"

"Ha! Someone gets it!"

"But ONLY a temporary society where we have to survive long enough to get someone's attention. We aren't going to be living here! And until help comes, we're not going to be killing each other! Okay?!"

"Fine by me." Alex spat as she glared at Jane, the blonde shrugging in reply.

"Good!" Caroline said as she looked between the two. "Now, first things first. We're going to need to find food and shelter. So it's into the jungle..."

"Are you sure I can't kill her...?" Alex asked Caroline under her breath as Jane began humming and muttering the lyrics to show tunes.

"No." Caroline said flatly.

"Oh, sit right back and you hear a tale..." Jane muttered, humming the rest of the verse before letting out a yelp as Alex grabbed her by her hair.

"You utter one more lyric to that song, and I'll punch you in the mouth so hard that your great-great-great children will need dental work!" Alex spat, angry and annoyed.

"Okay! Geeze! No respect for the classics..."

"I have plenty of respect for that show." Alex commented, letting go of Jane's hair. "What I don't have is the patience for you right now! Hell, how do we even know you didn't blow up the boat yourself?!"

"Lex, calm on." Jane said flatly, dusting herself off. "You and I have been friends since before we were out of diapers. For as long as you've known me, do I look like I'm smart enough to rig a bomb?!"

Alex said nothing, but nodded in defeat.

Jane looked down and gasped. "Guys! Mushrooms!"

Sure enough, there was an entire field of mushrooms a few feet away. Jane raced forward and picked one up, but just as she was about to bite into it...

"Stop, you moron!" Alex snapped, swatting the fungus out of Jane's hand. "What if that thing's poisonous?!"

"That wild pig seems to be fine eating them." Caroline commented.

"See, Alex. If these are fine for a -" Jane began, only for her and Alex's eyes to go wide as they realized what Jane said. The two looked up and saw the back end of a large, wild pig that was munching away on the mushrooms. Jane and Alex looked at each other and blinked.

"You thinking what I'm thinking?" Alex asked.

"Pork chops for dinner, and bacon for breakfast?" Jane asked in reply, grabbing a piece of bamboo of the ground.

"You guys aren't gonna kill that piggy, are you?!" Caroline asked. "You guys know I'm a vegetarian."

"Survival of the fittest, Carol." Jane simply replied as she picked up a rock and used it to hit the bamboo in an attempt to break it.

However, the noise caught the attention of the pig, letting out a snort as it raised it's head. The three looked up and went wide eyed as it turned it's head. What they were staring at was not a pig!

After all, pigs didn't have two sets of eyes, bull-like horns on the top of their heads, and a parrot-like beak... Which opened up to reveal ten rows of shark-like teeth as it squealed aggressively!

"What the hell is that thing?!" Alex screamed in horror.

"It's evolution gone mad!" Caroline shrieked.

"Run!" Jane screamed as the three turned and ran through the jungle, the creature charging after them.

As the three ran, Caroline tripped over a tree root, falling into a hole in the ground with a yell and tumbling through the air for a bit before landing in a pool of water. As she emerged, she coughed and swam towards the ladder and climbed out.

Wait...

Looking up in surprise, Caroline looked around to see that she had fallen into what looked like some kind of bunker that looked uninhabited...

Barring the man and woman dressed in only tattered lab coats and loincloths that raced into the room with a knife and makeshift spear, respectively.

"EEP!" Caroline squeaked, plastering her arms over her body as she blushed and gulped.

"Keep running!" Jane yelled as she and Alex did so, the monstrosity on their tail.

"What do you think I'm doing?! Having a bake sale?!" Alex replied.

Suddenly, the two came to a stop as they came to a cliff face, cornering them as the boar-like creature cornered them. Jane and Alex whimpered and clung to each other as the monstrosity came closer.

"Alex!" Jane said fearfully, "Before we're gored, there's something I have to admit to you."

"Me too, Jane!"

"You go first!"

"No, you!"

"Okay. Alexandra Elise Jones, ever since seventh grade, I have had a monster sized c-"

SCREECH!

At the last second, a pair of clawed feet attached to a hawk-like bird the size of a hangglider swooped down and grabbed the creature, carrying the monstrosity off as two dumbfounded women watched it fly off. Alex and Jane turned to one another and blinked a few times before laughing nervously and letting go of each other.

"So..." Jane admitted bashfully, "Not gonna lie, I... Totally wet myself right now."

"Yeah, me too." Alex chuckled sheepishly, "But hey, I won't tell if you won't."

"Deal."

"So, what exactly were you going to say just now?"

"Oh, nothing." Jane lied, blushing a little. "You?"

"Same." Alex lied, also blushing.

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"We... Should probably find some shelter from these things." Jane said.

"Agreed." Replied Alex, before letting out a gasp of horror. "Caroline! WHERE THE HELL IS CAROLINE?!"

"So, let me see if I got this straight." Caroline said as she sat in a chair, eating some fruit as she looked at the couple on the couch in front of her. The three were in what looked to be some sort of housing unit of an underground bunker. "You two are geneticists who were paid by some rich hunter to create dangerous wildlife for his own private hunting island? And then things went wrong, the hunter became the hunted and you two had been trapped in this bunker and on this island for three years now?"

"That's the gist of it, yes." The man said, drinking from a canteen. "My wife, Sarah, and I thought one of those horrible things we made had finally gotten in."

"Sorry again, by the way." Sarah apologized. "Kyle and I have actually been wondering where you came from."

"We stumbled across this island when - " Caroline began, only to gasp in horror as she jumped to her feet. "Alex and Jane! That Boar Monster is still after them!"

"Not likely." Kyle stated, "What you're describing is a RazorBackbill. We gene sliced the DNA of a boar, bull, macaw, and bull shark to make that. Highly aggressive, but an herbivore. Most likely, it'll chase them out of it's territory and leave them alone once their -"

"Wait, wait, wait! There's more of you?" Sarah asked in surprise.

"Yes! And they could be in danger!"

"You can't leave now!" Kyle shouted. "It's going to get dark soon! Night is when The Ripper comes out! We'll take you out during the day when it's safe."

"The what?" Caroline asked.

"The Ripper." Sarah replied, "It was another animal that that idiot who hired us had us made. Part leopard, part flightless bat, part snake, part cobra, and part crocodile with the brain of the most dangerous animal alive: Human. That thing is the cause of all this."

"More the reason we have to find my friends now!"

"The Ripper is on the other side of the island now." Kyle said, "That said, she'll probably be heading back the other way like the other few times since we tracked her. It's safer to go out during the day."

"Relatively speaking." Sarah corrected, "The island is still home to predators and dangerous herbivores."

"Did you two create anything on this island that doesn't want to kill anything else?!"

"Well, there was the Lust Muskers." Kyle said thoughtfully. "We created those so our monsters could repopulate. It sprays a lavender scented musk at it's target or targets that will last for two weeks, more than enough time for them to reproduce with another member of their species. The lavender acts as a natural aphrodisiac. The target and/or targets are fully aware, of course, and the effected half will back away if the other half of the breeding pair rejects it."

"It's also quite easy to spot and recognize." Sarah added, "It's purple and white in color, has a heart shaped tail, and is basically a modified..."

"Hey, Alex? Are there skunks in the jungle?" Jane asked as she and Alex saw the Lust Musker standing in front of them, heart shaped tail raised...