So I realized this is mostly a transition chapter for the Viola Strierra side of the story so I decided what I would do is show what was happening with Caesar and his Herd Siblings with Bridget's Computer to pad out this chapter and while I'm doing that fill in a bit more about the differences between the individual cubs.
When Donatello was sent into the locker room to change into his uniform, of the City Maintenance Humanimals who were already in the locker room, Don felt all eyes turn towards him, those bright shining, jewel like eyes of the Humanimals, so rarely found in the Mutant Animals of his world a lot of Mutant Animals tend to have eyes similar to the ordinary animal, most Humanimal eyes were like human eyes but better...Like those on Anime characters, particurally the Shojo heroines with eyes every color of the rainbow!
In some ways this reaction from the Humanimals was more frightening then when humans just screeched and ran when they saw the Turtles, he understood to the Humanimals this was more an 'uncanny valley' horror seeing a creature like themselves but, doing it wrong in their view like when humans see a human with serious deformities.
"You're not one of us." Said one of them an orange tabby cat-man most of the Humanimals in this locker room were domestic cats and dogs, there were a few reptiles and the most exotic Humanimal in the room was a Black Rhinoceros-Man standing at the very back towering over everyone,
Don remembered Edward Green explaining the main reason they invaded Mizzer was because after going through their slaves like tissue paper, the Wrangler Empire suddenly found itself very low of the rare and exotic zoo animal species that are so popular are signs of wealth and luxury, on Viola Strierra itself they had an plenty of domestic cats and dogs and barnyard mammals and of course they ever abudant common rats and mice but as far as zoo animals were concerned, the only species that seemed to be left were elephants, monkeys and apes, bears, a surprisingly large amount of wolves, a few species of large cats, among the wild birds eagles and hawks were the only reprisentitives left and of the reptiles only there were only turtles and snakes remaining, what was really in demand were the beautiful graceful herbivores and otherwise inofensive 'prey' species of mammals and the colorful and otherwise exotic species of birds. Looking at this group it wasn't easy to tell who was a Mizzeran and who was born and bred on Viola Strierra.
Don remembered what he had been told to say, a coded message because they had to be careful that the Wranglers might be listening "I come from The One." Don held up his right hand as if taking an oath.
'The One' was the code name given to the Mage Monarch Marzipan, all the Humanimal Men gasped and sunk to their knees, after months and months of waiting, it seemed their prayers had finally been answered! Don admittadly felt more than a little flustered seeing this.
Briefly let's show what happened with Caesar and his Herd Siblings following the discovery of the Alien Tales Game Show.
The silhouettes of aliens were shown these were the various opponants the player could choose from, When Caesar rolled his cursor over an animal some text appeared showing what book they claimed to have written, a lot of the books Caesar had not heard of as they were all 'Older Kid' books and while he was already a very good reader, he admittedly did not speand a lot of time reading books, he preferred to do other things most of the time, but then he saw that one Alien claimed to have written 'The Wizard of Oz' that was one he knew! When they were being fostered Ichabod read that book for their bedtime story for several nights in a row! Ichabod said what his Father told him that the book, or rather BOOKS were better than the movie, because in the books it was always clear that Oz was a real place and that Dorothy went there, the movie changed her into as Jonathan phrased it 'An American Alice' and the reason was at the time the Wizard of the Oz movie was made there was a prejudice against fantasy movies they didn't think the audience would 'believe' in an actual fantasy world.
However it had been a while since that story had been read to him, Caesar feared he might have forgotten some details.
"Taylor..." Caesar whispered "...Go to Matoaka's room and get me The Wizard of Oz, I know she has it in there!
The little Flamingo Chick nodded and dashed off, the reason Caesar asked her was because he knew Taylor was the best reader after himself, because while Ichabod read all of them at bedtime, because Taylor being a bird preferred to be cuddled when her mammalian siblings wanted rough and tuble play she was the one Ichabod would dote on and he would read to her while the others were playing roughhousing games with Marzipan, so sitting at Ichabod's lap looking at a book nearly every day helped her learn reading much quicker. Caesar was the best reader, it seemed simply because he was a Mutant Chimpanzee he was simply the smartest out of all his Herd Siblings.
He clicked on the opponent apparently named 'Flaak of Siegels' (Flaak was the Alien's name Siegels was the planet he was from)
Sal's voice announced after Caesar clicked "Okay I'd like to introduce one of the galaxy's most delightful indivuals. Unfortunatly we'll have to settle for Flaak of Siegals."
And Alien appeared who looked like...A blue and green palm tree with eyes, and apparently this guy spoke entirely in rhyme.
"Don't get cute or I'll give you the boot!" The Alien sneered "I'm onto your game Earthling. You're all alike so take a hike!"
'They really don't know I'm not a human do they?' Caesar thought to himself as he mused on that 'You're all alike' comment
The species that Viola Strierra had is a reference to all the species that are mentioned as Underpeople in Cordwainer Smith's stories I realize that the Underpeople's species are chosen for symbolic reasons so they're obviosly going to be common animals but some species are explitly said to be extinct in Cordwainer Smith's future so we don't know the extent of the biospere in these stories.