Animal War

A group of researchers had created an ingenious chemical concoction, whereby any animal that inhaled this gas, over the period of just a few weeks, became super intelligent. Kept under control in lab conditions, scientists were able to teach animals to speak and do math. Exposure the gas seemed to operate on an exponential curve, such that the more exposure animals received, the higher the calculated IQ for that animal was. A great grizzly bear was recorded at over 300 on an adjusted scale. The scientific world was amazed.

Needless to say, a conspiracy was brewing. Some of the animals had banded together and had synthesized vast amounts of the gas. Successfully, they released this gas into the environment. Animals from all around slowly began to acquire intelligence. Human beings saw it as a novelty and began to live with animals as equals. For a while anyhow. Animals soon learned of the enormous cruelty that humans had inflicted upon their kind for so long. Farming, hunting and the like were intolerable. The animals formed an army, and war was declared. Millions of humans died at the hands of the beasts, who were so much stronger and intelligent that our kind. It was an unparalleled victory by the animals.

Humans began to hide in small communities away from the animals, who had taken to the technology and comfortable living of the human cities. There was those human communities who still tried to fight, and there were those who merely wished to survive. No human dared enter a city.

One human, however, remained fearless. Free from the constrains of his peers, he ventured into the city. Upon arrival, however, he saw that all the animals had gone into some kind of hibernation. He ran and called for help from those in his community. Communities rallied together. They raided the city, and they stole the gas which perpetuated the intelligence of the animals and began to kill the sleeping beasts. But it soon became apparent that something else was happening... this was not a hibernation, but a side effect of the gas. Soon most of these animals will have either died, or lost all traces that they were ever intelligent. And so the humans began to take back the world which was once theirs. But a valuable lesson had been learned.