Chapter 2: Animal Testing
Dr. Haven Mcgrade woke up on what appeared to be the field right outside the clinic he worked at, except a deer was looking at him as if it was waiting for him to wake up. "Hello, deer" said Haven. He wondered why he had woken up here after seemingly passing out when boarding the train, but brushed it off as a weird coincidence and entered the clinic. Inside, pretty much every type of living being that wasn't human was waiting for him. In front of all of them was One-One.
"Hello, passenger! Welcome to the train! We are in need of help trying to research this virus that were worried some other passengers have!" said Glad-One.
"Is this some kind of a prank?" asked Haven. "How did all of you creatures even get into the clinic?"
Glad-One laughed. "This is the the train's hospital car! It is one of an infinite amount of cars on the train, each with their own little world inside."
"But that's physically impossible! How can a train have infinite cars?"
"Anything's possible on the Infinity Train."
"So you're telling me this train has the resources I need to find the cure to the coronavirus?"
"Yes! The first thing we need you to do is test one of these corgis to see if they can get the virus."
Atticus was offended by that suggestion. "Wait, I'm not just going to let you use one of my people as a test subject! Someone could get infected!"
Suddenly, the messenger corgi got up. "I volunteer as the test patient."
"Messenger Corgi, don't you realize how dangerous this could be?"
"It's for the greater good."
Haven was reluctant to test such a dangerous virus on a corgi that was somehow sentient, but eventually he just told the corgi "If you insist".
Another corgi also volunteered to be tested, and within a few minutes they were ready to be tested in one of the offices. One of the train's robots somehow had a sample of the virus ready to be injected into the dogs. Haven carefully injected the sample into both of the dogs, and was surprised when the results came back a few hours later.
"One-One, I got the results back" said Haven. "None of them were affected by the virus, which means dogs must be immune to it".
"That's great!" said Atticus. "It means not only are the citizens of my kingdom safe, but that I can help as well."
"Wow, I didn't expect you to ask to assist me so soon."
"We corgis are quite loyal. Plus we're not sure how many denizens of the train are safe from it. Most of them have already left this car because they don't want to take that risk."
"Wait, does anyone on the train who wasn't in the hospital during that initial meeting know that this virus is a thing?"
"News tends to spread pretty quickly around this train. It's only a matter of time before the others know".