A large amount of animals had continued to hit at the cage doors once the silence had surrendered. Except those who knew Roxanne was either too upset to continue, or had lost hope.

Roxie was frozen to the spot. She looked to the tiled ground below her, having no emotion in her dark brown eyes. RJ swore that he had seen her eyes change to a complete black color as a tear fell to her prison floor.

Heather grabbed the metal bars that separated her from Roxanne. She had said something, but whatever she was trying to say hadn't reached the raccoon before her.

She knew that she would die here, she knew it almost the moment she had awaken, but the shock of it all had completely horrified her. All of the others that were here before them had been here for days, she just got here and she was already first in line.

"Just my rotten luck." She thought sadly.

"Roxie?" a small voice asked.

RJ tried to force a small smile, but gave up as Roxanne looked away from him. He sighed and sat with his back on his cage door.

"Look, I… I just wanna say that… it-it's not that bad. I mean, everyone dies eventually, but… I don't know. I'm not too good at cheering someone up when they're about to… well, ya know."

A tear ran down his cheek, but he quickly wiped it off. Across the way Roxanne wasn't doing any better, now she was trying to catch her breath as quietly as she could.

"What do you think it's like…? What happens after you die?" Heather whispered, asking no one in particular.

"Who knows Heather, who knows…?" Verne answered quietly.

The porcupine kids were starting to get upset now, asking their mother what was going to happen to their friend. Heather was beginning to cry herself. Ozzie was trying to calm her by talking to her, but nothing he said seemed to work. Poor little Hammy was frozen in the far left corner of his cage, sniffling and every once in a while whispered something no one could clearly hear. Lou was completely silent, except for the sounds he made trying to pry his rusted door hinges open.

"This is my entire fault…" Roxanne whispered to herself, which got Tim's attention and made him stop hitting at his door.

"No it's not, nobody is ever at fault for being captured--"

"But I knew the humans were going to capture us, and I didn't do a thing about it! I didn't even tell the others to run or anything! It is my fault!" she interrupted, a little louder than intended.

The grey squirrel shook his head sadly and sat beside her with the cage bars between them. He leaned his head on a bar and tried to make eye contact with her.

"That was a mistake, not your fault. The humans probably would have gotten at least one of you anyway, and then you would be separated from the one who was caught. Isn't that worse than everyone being together?"

Roxanne thought this over for a moment before she finally nodded in response. She looked at Tim who was waiting for her to say what she wanted to.

"At least… at least we're all here, I-I guess. Still, I'd rather not have the others go through this. My "mistake" cost them their lives."

Tim sighed in defeat and stood to face his door, he started clawing at his hinges and kicking at the bars. He was so hopeful that they would get out of this somehow, but that seemed unlikely to happen to Roxie as she watched him attempt to damage the door.

"I hate admitting this, but I think Teri was right. You really can't escape death forever."

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Hours went by sooner than expected. Everyone had given up, seeing that no one was strong enough to break the door, not even Teri. She did manage to crack a little bit of the cage though. It still didn't help any of them though. Teri even broke something while ramming her whole body into the cage walls, forcing her to stop.

The two men had walked back and forth, bringing papers and bottles filled with different liquids to the room with the yellow triangle on the door. Roxanne refused to talk to anyone as she waited for the end; talking about it to someone only made it worse on her.

RJ tried the hardest to get her to talk, but she stayed silent as she watched the humans walk about.

"Come on Roxie, it'll be alright… just talk to me… Please?" RJ said softly.

She shook her head and closed her eyes, trying to keep the tears in her eyes from falling. The younger man stopped at her cage and waited for the older man to get a key. As the man got the key and put it in the key hole, she looked up and for once looked RJ in the eye.

"Don't give up just yet Rox…" he whispered.

She said nothing as she looked away from him and let the scientist pick her out of the cage.

"Hmm. She isn't struggling; strange don't you think, Dr. Kirkling?" the younger man asked.

"All the better for us I say. The less they struggle the easier it is to drug them." Dr. Kirkling answered as he led the young man to the testing room.

"I can't give up and just let them kill her." RJ whispered to himself.

He clawed at bolts holding him in and bit at the hinges, hitting the cage as violently as he could. Everyone had stopped to watch as he desperately tried to open the door, awestruck at how badly he wanted to save Roxanne. Some just shook their heads as they watched the men take the raccoon into the room and close the door behind them.

Suddenly a loud crash of metal turned everybody's attention to the raccoon, who was now sprawled out on the floor in front of his cage. RJ stood up and quickly brushed himself off.

"RJ, use the tool box to open the door!" Verne informed.

RJ nodded in response and started toward the said box. He began pushing the tool box under the door handle, before the door had swung open. The young man stared at the raccoon before him, but then snapped out of it and tried to stop the raccoon from getting away.

"Dr. Kirkling! The other raccoon escaped! He's trying to get into the lab!"

"Catch him you oaf!" The doctor yelled.

He had Roxanne pinned down, who was now struggling to avoid the needle he had in his other hand.

"RJ, what are you trying to do? You're going to get yourself killed!" She yelped

"I'm trying to save you, and I know what I'm doing!" he replied as he leaped onto a shelf above Roxanne and the scientist.

"Trust me babe, I've been in plenty life threatening situations before!" RJ added as he jumped onto the doctor's head, causing him to drop his needle, but he didn't let go of Roxanne.

"Davidson! Get this pest off of me!" cried the old man.

"What do you think I'm trying to do, Kirkling?" Dr. Davidson replied.

He finally was able to grab RJ by his front and back paws, holding him vertically in front of him. Dr. Kirkling kept his hand on Roxanne as he got his needle off of the floor.

"Now, if she will hold still for another second we can start the experiment. Put that rat back in a cage, I have something planned for him."

With that he inserted the needle into Roxanne's side, and held her lightly by her stomach. Immediately the chemical began to take over, she shook violently and started to panic. RJ tried to struggle out of the doctor's hands, but he couldn't escape as he went for a new cage…

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I will update again either 8/8 or 8/9. It depends on which story out of the 2 needs to be worked on the most…