Gertrude, dazed at what just happened, sits there for a while. "Wh-what just happened?" she asks herself. Her body is tingling and her vision is blurred. Everything around her has a surreal aspect and she's not sure if she's alive, dead, or dreaming. Her enormous effort was wasted, just like that, and she's never felt such a miserable sense of failure before. As such, she just waits for the Endo-1 to arrive.<br/>Meanwhile, the lion gets a huge grin while following the rat. "Hey, Mr. Rat?" The rat turns around, "Yes? OH SH...!" and is engulfed by the lion, who leaves only the rat's tail outside his mouth. With a satisfied smile, the lion slurps up that tail, adjusts the struggling rat into a better position with his tongue, and takes a nice, satisfying gulp. The lion's throatfur pulses slightly and then comes to rest as the rat slips down the stretchy, muscled tube that is the lion's esophagus, landing, finally, in the death chamber called "the stomach."<br/>"*Urp.* I figured I'd tell you this now," says the lion, "but we're all very hungry after being in captivity for so long, and so far as I'm concerned at least, we're not all equal." With that, he runs off in the direction of the rabbit predator who was recently released, captured, then released again, in hopes of getting a somewhat bigger meal.<br/>Matter of fact, this isn't an isolated incident of betrayal. All over the place, the released predators begin eating each other, in order of the food chain. Some of the rats (but certainly not all) become meals to hungry wolves, foxes, cats, and others, and those wolves, foxes, cats, and others become meals to more accomplished predators such as cheetahs, alligators, dragon-morphs, and, most frighteningly of all, an actual full-sized great red wyrm, which begins snatching up stragglers as everyone makes an escape from the base.<br/>Interestingly enough, that rabbit the lion goes after, once the two are close enough together, turns around and disables the lion, then swallows him. The food chain is not necessarily dictated by species type, but by predatory accomplishment of individuals.