So this is mostly just a transitional chapter to establish things to come, I will go on a bit of a tangent that I kind of regret including dragons and unicorns among the species of Mizzer which one of its themes is its emphisis on scientific rationality that the inclustion of mythical creatures doesn't really make sense even though I do give pretty scientific explations for the dragon's fire breath and the unicorn's ability to cure poisons with their horn there is still that doesn't fit in with the disbelief in the supernatural like water dragons ability to fly without wings and control the weather or the unicorn's more fantasical healing like mending broken bones in an instant, these species live apart from the rest of the Humanimals, since I established in earlier tales Mythical Creatures as among the Humanimals abducted from Mizzer I'm kind of stuck with it but it does reenforce the idea that the mythical creatures revealed their exiestance shortly after Humanimals were first created hinting they were informed it was time to show themselves and that the Mythical Beasts were were with Humanity since at least the Middle Ages before they went into hiding do have more in common with both humans and normal real animals compared to the Dinosaurs whose explation was they were brought back via Jurassic Park style cloning and thus are suffering disononce borderline PTSD because they are displaced in time the world of their genetic memories is not the world they're living in hence why they're hostile to both humans and modern day Humanimals (At least some of the Dinos are) snd the Dinosaur Shamans keep secrets from the Dragon Shamans
During certain points the tunnel got narrower and Emerald had to get down on all fours, most of what Don could see was her brilliant emerald green, spaded tail swishing back and forth as he followed her.
"I'll tell Kevin about you..." Emerald began to say
"Who's Kevin?" Don asked
"He's my best friend," Emerald said "He's a Black Cat Humanimal, we were friends when we still lived on Mizzer, the night of the Invasion we were captured together, he was given the job of a bank clerk, since he works in a very fancy part of the city he's regurally able to secretly steal some good food from the fancy resturants and get them to Humanimals in hiding who need it, he's one of the secret supply runners, Humanimals with jobs who secretly get supplies to the Humanimal Fojitives who have to hide in the hidden and forgotten places in the city, it is extremely dangerous work if you get caught..."
"I can imagine..." Don sighed
Meanwhile on the Sapphire Blue Planet, one of the Federation's human technician working the radar caught something that could mess up the whole plan.
"Uh oh..." The Guy said when he saw what was approaching "Here comes the Bad Year Blimp..."
(Of course the Federation was now just beginning to realize they had been learning and absorbing these ancient bits from Earth's 20th Century Pop Culture like the Goodyear Blimp because brave Mizzer Humans had been secretly going back to Mizzer to rescue the artifacts from Earth's past and putting them on the Intergalctic Internet much to the chagrin of the Wrangler Empire, and they had been doing this from before the Humanimal Civil Rights movement on Earth)
"They've called in the Specialists..." One Sergent said with dread in his voice "...If they discover us here, we're worse than dead, they have punishments that can barely be comprihended!"
Meanwhile back on Planet Earth on the Fellowship Spaceship that had been left behind, Caesar, using the Wizard of Oz book as a cheat sheet, won the round proving the book was written on Earth, before moving onto the 'Solar Lightning Round' Sal announced that Caesar could pick a prize.
An assortment of various items appeared on screen, the only one that appealed to Caesar was what appeared to be an Alien Computer so he clicked on that.
Sal gave the decription "Upgrade problems? GleebleCo has the answer! The X-5 Disposable Computer! Guaranteed obsolete the moment you open the box!"
Zeb who was listening this was rearing up on her hind legs to shake her arms in furry in hearing this!
"Just bring it home and throw it away! Batteries not included..."
As the screen showed a box with the 'prize' being loaded onto a space mail truck and they could hear the voice of Sal that due to a 'slight production backlog' delivery of all prizes will be delayed till the next cosmic cycle...Whatever that meant...
"The prizes are nothing but junk!" The Little Zebra Filly was just barely able to keep from screaming "And even then you're probably not gonna get it!"
But Caesar merely shrugged "If the prizes are all junk than who cares if I get it, I don't care about getting a prize anyway...I'm just in it for the fun!"
And all the Cubs saw a devilish gleam in their Chimp Brother's eyes they had never seen before they all felt a shiver go down their spines.
That's probobly the last scene of the Caesar Subplot for this story but it does establish A, the Game Show is slimy for giving away junk prizes (At least until the final prize, if you've played the game) and that Caesar doesn't care about prizes he is just an incredibly bored child who is seeking a thrill