Hey guys, thanks for all the reviews, favs and follows. Also, one of the humans's equipment will be based off the mech suits from Avatar(James Cameron) and this fanfic might contain environmental themes.

Manny opened his eyes groggily and looked around.

The space around him was small and it the color of the walls seemed like that of a rock and there were several bars. He immediately recognized that this was some prison and wondered how he got there but then he thought back. The last thing he remembered before he blacked out was being cornered by some strange humans and the strange humans had also captured his family as well and all the inhabitants of the island. "So you're finally awake," said Diego, who was in a cage across from him. "Where is this place?" he questioned. "Not sure," said Diego, "But you've been out for a long time."

But then, he thought of his family.

"Ellie! Peaches!" he shouted out loud and even trumpeted. "Manny," said a familiar voice, "Dad?" came another. "You're alright," he said with relief. "Where are you?" asked Peaches. "That was the same thing I was going to ask you and Ellie," he replied. "They're right in the places next to you and you cannot see them because of the wall," informed Diego. Manny grunted. Even though he was close to his family, he could not see them and at least they wouldn't be separated. "Hey Manny and family," said Sid the sloth, who was in a cage next to Diego. "Sid," said Manny, unconcerned. "Where are we?" he asked. "No idea," came Diego's voice. "Did you hear something?" came several strange voices. "Who said that?" said Manny. "Wasn't me," said Peaches. "Me neither," said Diego.

Then, two figures came down and when Manny looked at them closely, they looked very much like humans and they were wearing something and it wasn't like what humans normally wore and it was black with a sinister-looking symbol on their chest.

"Was it me or did those animals just talk?" said one. "Hey! we animals always talk," Manny shot at them.

The two gasped. "So our ears weren't lying after all, we've got to tell the boss about this," the other said and they bolted out, leaving the herd surprised.

"They understand us?" said Sid.

CEO Alois Avaritia sat in his office looking at a digital account of his fortune. He was the richest man in the world and he had not obtained his wealth through honest means before. He remembered back in the late 2010s when he was a young man and his present day company, the Consumus Corporation was just a small-time company that sold simple electronics and other goods and was dwarfed by the other companies. But then, their chance came when, in the 2020s, the Earth was depleting and using up resources thanks to overpopulation and global warming and many species were endangered and it was then, a war broke out over remaining resources, which damaged the world and caused huge environmental and economic damage. Despite that, the Consumus company was able to thrive by stockpiling resources and hiding it safely and waiting out the resources war. Then, in the late 2020s when the resources war was winding down, Avaritia made his move. He offered the remaining resources he had stockpiled for a huge price and many people, who were desperate and starving paid whatever they could do afford them and it was by that, the Consumus company started to become wealthy. Over time, as the world recovered from the resources war, the Consumus Corporation continued to accumulate wealth and become richer until it dwarfed other companies and put them out of business and pretty much produced everything, from electronics, to food produce and zoos and even space mining. But the wealth came at a cost. Some of it was accumulated through corrupt and imoral means and Avaritia let some people starve just because they couldn't afford resources and also greatly damaged the environment, causing the extinction of many species and Earth was heavily polluted but humans were still able to thrive. At that time, the Consumus Corporation was the most powerful company in the world and it was strong to the point that it had some influence in government, sponsored the construction of a lunar colony and a colony on Mars and asteroid mining operations.

Alois Avaritia sure was very proud of what he had done and best of all, he never had to worry about being sued because the Corporation always hired the best people and had great lawyers. In spite of this wealth, he wanted more and it would lie in zoos but the problem was that there were not much animals left and were extremely hard to find and even if the Corporations employees did find some, poachers may have gotten there before them. But then, an idea popped into his head, time travel. He would send people back in time to get animals from the past, specifically ice age animals and dinosaurs but he would get the ice age animals first and worry about the dinosaurs later. So far, he had gotten news that the animals have been captured and also told them to scour the past to find more. Also, to prevent any environmental damage done in the past from having an effect on the present, they installed a powerful device called a Time Tower to do that and there was a central time portal where the forces entered the ancient world. Now with animals and the fact that some people would want to see animals in the flesh, there was no doubt he would get even more rich.

"Mr. Avaritia!"shouted several employees who had come into his room. "What! and this better be important," he shouted. "It is sir, the animals can talk,"

Alois's mouth dropped wide open. "You're bluffing," he said. "We can prove it, and I think they have human feelings as well," the employee said. At the sound of human feelings, a sadistic thought came into Alois's mind, "Show me," he said.

Manny felt very bored inside of his cage and didn't talk with his family. He was instead, battered with feelings of homesickness and wanted to escape this strange place. But beside that, he had a feeling that this world was dangerous.

"So these are the talking animals," said a voice.

Manny turned his head to see that it was the two humans from earlier and another human was with him but his clothing was shinier and was a little chubbier than the two humans. "Who are you and why are we here!" Manny demanded.

The chubby man was shocked when he spoke. "So it is true," he said. "I can turn this into profit," he said again. "What is profit?" said Manny to the man. "None of your concern," he said, with indifference. "Wait a minute," said Manny suspiciously, "You're the reason why we're here, are you?" he demanded. "Such smart animals," said the man,"And I've also heard that you have human feelings as well," he said with a sinister tone. "Separate the other two mammoths from this exhibit and put them in the other part of the exhibit and also, as bonus, place the sloth with the sabertooth," hoping that the sabertooth would eat the sloth.

As more humans came into the room and tossed chains over Ellie and Peaches and led them out of the cages, Manny watched with shock and sadness. "Daddy," cried Peaches with tears in her eyes, as she was looking at her father. "No! I will not let us be separated again!" shouted Manny and he tried to shatter the bars but instead got an painful electric shock which forced him to back away from the bars but he still kept on trying to break them, but to no avail.

"Try as you might but you can never break these electrically enforced bars," the chubby man said. Manny could do nothing but look at the man with great contempt and anger. "Manny!" cried out Peaches and Ellie together and then, the two struggled against their chains and Ellie slung some of the humans into the wall and the other humans responded by pulling out taser staffs and shocking her with it until she lost consciousness. Peaches attempted to intervene but was kept back by the humans who threatened her with the taser.

The two mammoths were led to the other side of the exhibit by the humans and the chubby human also left, saying into a communicator," take the sloth and sabertooth tiger to their proper exhibits and also fill the mammoth exhibit with mammoths." "Yes sir," came the other voice on it.

Meanwhile, Louis, who had managed to crawl out of his crate saw Ellie and Peaches being led away and tried to go help them but felt intimidated by the humans's equipment. But he would find help. But how?

"Alois Avaritia's last name means greed in Latin and do you think it suits him? Also, I'm sure you know who is the fanfic's main antagonist now.