It was a fine spring day in Westchester. The children were laughing, the birds were singing, everything seemed to be just how it should. In Westchester, a normal day is a good day, and no news is good news. However, unforeseen trouble brewed down a small stretch of highway, leading out of the city and into a dark and mysterious place. A place where no human had visited for many years. It was the former home of Chem Co. Few of the townspeople had worked there, for fear they would be horribly scarred from the toxic chemicals and dangerous experiments taking part in the lab. Some couldn’t stomach the tests performed there. The residents of Westchester took shelter indoors when thick, noxious green smoke billowed from the buildings tall brick smokestacks. The hazmat teams wouldn’t even go near the building when spills occurred. Most of townspeople thought the building is empty. To be forgotten by time and left to reek havoc on future and far distant generations. They didn’t know the future wasn’t so far away.

Humans have long since found themselves to be the dominate species. Ever since they figured out how to start a fire or attach a rock to a stick and use it to kill an animal, they think they can conquer just about anything. In recent years they have decided to use lesser animals as a way to test things they would never do to themselves. Many of the scientists at Chem Co. never thought about what it would be like if the shoe were on the other foot, or hoof in this case. In the basement of Chem Co. there was a horrible secret that made the toxic chemicals housed above look like no big deal. The scientists had pens of pigs lined up in damp smelly rooms. These rooms never received natural light. All that illuminated the rooms was a small incandescent bulb hanging from the ceiling. The only time the pigs saw bright light was when the scientists came to feed them or inject them with some potent chemical “just to see what would happen”. Pigs lay in agony as chemicals ate away at their organs. Some of the pigs skin began to liquefy and fall off, while others got an injection that caused them to go blind. On one occasion, a scientist gave a pig too much, which caused its eyes to swell up and pop. The scientists kept doing what they normally did, without a care in the world. For years the pigs received injections of the experimental chemicals. Many died, but a few survived. A few on the other hand, received the only injection that worked well, too well.