Chapter 1: Death

Inside a dilapidated lab, a fat man with freckles on his face was busy experimting on something.

"Argh! This does not work as well!" he yelled, almost destroying all the lab equipmt on the table, if not for his great self-control.

"What wt wrong?" he asked himself before hearing a bunch of squeaks, where a mouse was jumping inside its cage.

"You are right Jerry, I should not be impatit. After all, great work will not be done in days. But. I have be working on this project for almost a year, and I still did not finish it,"

He grabbed his head and gave himself a noogie, hoping it would help him think. He th heard a hiss from the corner of the room.

"Sorry, Kaa. Looks like I have be neglecting you for some time now," he told the viper, before putting a dethawed rat in the viper's cage, the snake eagerly devouring its meal.

"Who else left," he turned his head and spotted the last pet, a rav he had saved years ago. He put torn meat inside the cage, and the bird eagerly ate the strips of meat.

"Too bad the others could not be here," he sighed sadly. Before, wh his reputation as one of the best geticists in the world was not tarnished, he had more animal companions, the term pet seems degrading to him as all of his animals are smart to a certain extt.

Unfortunately, all of his hard work in being the best in the field was gone, all because of the mistake of his employer.

"Those fools!" he raged, before taking a deep breath to calm himself. He had worked with a medical company specializing in getics, or so he believed.

He later learned the company also attempting to alter humans by using the getics of differt animals, to improve certain traits.

He had agreed to join in the secret project and has allowed them to make great progress due to his expertise. However, this makes the higher-ups more greedy, more impatit.

He had tried to tell them they needed to wait before one of the serums that could possibly cure cancers was truly finished.

Sadly, his advice was disregarded by the fools of the higher-ups who thought being rich and powerful made them know better.

In the d, the serum was implemted without it being truly completed. One of the higher-ups believed grandchildr, who suffered from brain cancer.

One of the reasons he became a geticist is because he wanted to cure himself of the disease, so he could live a relatively normal life in the future.

But now, the disease will stop him from his revge, to stop him from avging his team, who is wronged by the world.

He tried to move, his willpower overpowering the pain as he put the disease sample, a plague based on his illness. He put it inside a test tube before he wt to his animal companion closure.

He removed the lock, which was the last thing he did before falling to the g, as he could only breathe heavily.

"I-I oped the door. For you. Escape," he said before he took his last breath. And so is the life of Edwin Smith and his revge, or he thought so.

-x-

His animal companions have spt their lives with him, with the man teaching them something, ev if the likelihood of them learning anything is almost non-existt.

However, they managed to understand what happed and what their father wanted to do, and they will do it.

The rav, Loki, took both Kaa and Jerry in its talon, the snake wrapping itself a the mouse and test tube to prevt it from falling.

As they flew away, they spotted the place their father told them he wanted to dump the test tube. Removing the cover, Jerry pushed the test tube inside the water.

With that part done, they wt into their home before oping the file inside the computer. Picking up the one he showed them the most, Jerry st the file to an email.

After finishing it, the three animals wt to the gas pipe before pressing a button, one that would cause it to explode. Th, they wt to their father and lay down, waiting for all of it to d.

-x-

The new plague ravaged the world, with no scitists coming close to figuring out how to stop it. Later on, it is revealed the plague was the invtion of Dr Edwin Smith, who revealed the dark dealing of Winter Pharma. Soon, all of the executives and higher-ups were arrested, and trialed, with no hope for parole.

And so, the revge of Edwin Smith was completed, but his life is not over yet. Not if the gods have a say about it.