Care Bears Evolution Chapter 1
One small step.
(The Facility of Evolution, Washington DC)
On the upper floors of the Facility of evolution, was the head scientist and owner of the building Roy Baker. A practical genius in engineering, and who everyone is saying will be the future of humanity. Instead of focusing on the next advance on cellular devices or gaming consoles, Roy instead focused on the next step of humanities evolution as a whole. His company made products such as limb enhancers, exoskeleton spines that could enhance someone's posture, making them more flexible or even taller. Making the most unathletic person athletic. Some people considered his work to be a way to cheat life, or even dangerous in a way to control other people. Of course he has tried every one of his inventions on himself, Guaranteeing their safety and ensuring to all of his supporters and the public the benefits. Despite his success in making tools to further humanities evolution. There has been something that Roy has been desperately trying to research and understand. Some still believe them to be myths, but he and a few others have witnessed them. The Care Bears and Care Bear cousins. For a while now Roy and a few others have been documenting sightings or rumors about them. Saying that they saw these creatures flying through the sky in clouds, others reporting them hanging around children. The scientists weren't really comfortable with going to those children's parents' houses, or trying to address them alone without it looking bad. So instead Roy had the brilliant idea of starting a forum about mythical colorful bear sightings. Once the site was completed Roy sat back and watched. Slowly, people began to join the forums to talk about the topic at hand. At first Roy had to filter through all the trolls or people that just straight up lied, knowing that there were going to be people that found the idea preposterous and silly and wouldn't take it seriously. Soon however he started finding genuine people with genuine stories. To confirm this, he would ask what they were like and what they did. These were mostly the kids that actually had interactions or adventures with them, they would tell the tales they had and what problem the colorful creatures would help them with. Roy began to believe more of these tales as the kids were actually giving out names and descriptions. This would cause some other kids to confirm or deny, making it easier for Roy to tell who was telling the truth. Roy got the name of what their species was called. The Care Bears, and those that were not bears were called cousins. To Roy's delight, some kids even knew the actual names of certain ones.
Through all the comparisons and things being confirmed. He got the names of Tender Heart Bear, Brave Heart Lion, Champ Bear, Cheer Bear, Grumpy Bear, Bright Heart Raccoon, Treat Heart Pig, Wish Bear and Funshine Bear.
The names were odd to Roy, but he was intrigued. Their names seem to have a meaning to them and what they're about.
What further interested Roy however was that these creatures had magical powers. From what he had heard, they could summon these cloud cars which some of the children were lucky enough to ride in. They seem to also possess some sort of innate ability to process their feelings in a positive ray of light. This seemed to be their main way to defend themselves from threats. How the kids were describing it, they practically shot love and positive feelings towards their enemy, it had the power to alter any type of negative emotions into positive ones. It also seemed like some kids mentioned these dark entities known as shadows, these shadows seem to be the doing of someone called No Heart. This peaked Roy's interest as well, not only were there magical colorful creatures, but there was also some sort of dark wizard causing mayhem. Some of the things Roy heard he would not believe, the only reason why he's taking so much interest in this is because of all the stories, rumors, and weird phenomena that's happened throughout America. There was an incident where a whole town practically lost its color. Everyone in that town was acting strange as well, practically all the emotion from them had vanished. Another incident happened where the townspeople reported purple lightning destroying buildings, and shadows chasing people. Those who were directly affected by the color drain town couldn't remember what had happened to them or what caused it. And those that had their town destroyed by the lightning couldn't recall what caused it, and don't know why the shadows suddenly disappeared. All any of them could remember was feeling a nice warm feeling bathe over them before everything turned back to normal.
Connecting the dots, Roy put together that it must have been The Care Bears doing. They must have fixed everything and use their powers to make everything right. What concerned Roy though was not knowing their intent and why they were helping humanity in the first place. What bothered Roy as well as the fact that people couldn't remember anything afterwards. It seems that the Care Bears selected a very few to know who they were. It mostly seems like those who were helped by them personally got to remember them. Not all encounters with the Bears or cousins were exactly on the best terms with some of the kids at first however. Some of the kids' stories stated that they were the aggressors, or even bullies to some of the kids the Care Bears help. Sometimes the conflict could easily be resolved by the Bears letting the kid know that there actions were wrong and that they shouldn't act that way. The thing that unsettles Roy however, was the fact that some kids didn't listen and even threatened to bully and hurt the Bears as well. It seems that if the bullies were not going to listen to reason. The Bears and the cousins would step in and use their powers on them. Practically altering their minds and moods. To most of the kids on the forum everything turned out alright in the end, the bullies learned their lessons and they all became friends. This however didn't sit right with Roy. Although these beings seem to help in a positive way, they had very strong and persuasive powers that could alter people's moods. What if one of them went rogue, and decided to use their powers in a evil way? It didn't seem like humans were immune to this stare power the kids were calling it.
Meaning humans didn't have a defense for it. Roy wanted to stay positive and just look at all the good they have done. But he was also a cautious and careful person. Knowing that these are some of the questions that should be asked. And to be frank, he knows next to nothing about these creatures and why they exist. Roy didn't want to be a conspiracy theorist but there could be a small chance that they would use their powers to influence humanity. In a way that's what they were doing despite them having Noble intentions. The fact that they couldn't always get the desired results with just talking things out proves that they can use their powers to shift things in their favor.
There was just so much Roy didn't know about these creatures, and he wanted to find out as much as he could.
From all the research and information Roy has gathered, he knows that these creatures aren't just simply living in the clouds. If that was the case humans would have already found them, satellites would have picked them up. It seems, at least what Roy was thinking, they are in another plane of existence, hidden from the world until they're needed. It didn't help that none of the kids or anyone that has actually interacted with them has ever taken a picture. He doesn't know if it was just out of courtesy, or if these creatures told them not to. It would seem Roy would have to start from scratch to get any kind of hard conclusive data on these creatures. Right before Roy was going to leave and leave the forms to the moderators he had selected. There was one picture uploaded from the user Reserved_Otaku that changed everything. This picture was a clear photo of a Brown Care Bear with a big red heart in the center of his tummy. In the picture the Bears seem to look surprised, making Roy believe that as they took the picture they were spotted.
User: Lucky_Charms584: "oh wow is that one of them? they look like a stuffed animal!"
User: DreamscapeZZZ: "that has to be Photoshop,that's not real!"
User: Jolly_RancherXD: "No! I know that one it's Tender Heart!"
The Forms immediately began to blow up from that one picture. Many of them were giving upvotes. Due to the immediate traction this was getting, Roy was starting to believe it was real. This could be a big clue to his research and he immediately decided to look into who this Reserved_Otaku was.
(Reserve otaku DMs)
User: RoyBaker: Hello there.
About 2 minutes before a response
User: Reserved_Otaku: "Hi…… am I in trouble?"
User: RoyBaker: "What makes you think that?"
User: Reserved_Otaku: "I….I just wanted to see how people would react… I was curious to see if people actually knew what they were."
User: RoyBaker: "I see. Well in your photo it seems like you were spotted, it didn't hurt you did it?"
User: Reserved_Otaku: "No. I was just startled is all. He turned around as soon as I snapped the photo. Once I had it I ran as fast as I could. I could hear him telling me to hold on and stop. I didn't listen, not wanting him to follow me all the way to my dorms, So I ran to a bus stop. Luckily it was full of a lot of people and the bus was just arriving. I wasn't far from my dorms and could easily walk there in about 10 minutes. But I was so afraid that he would follow me. I ended up taking the bus all the way to the terminal. It was a 2 hour drive to get there. I then spent the next few hours hanging around the terminal making sure I wasn't followed. Eventually I took the bus back to my dorms once I knew I wasn't being watched or followed."
Roy was amazed at the caution she was using. Doing all that to make sure she wasn't followed by him. Roy knew if he was in the same situation he would do the exact same thing.
User: RoyBaker: "Well glad to see you weren't hurt or anything. What you just posted is something a lot of people aren't going to believe. And the ones that do believe it will only confirm any questions people will have. So listen, you're not in trouble. To be honest that's why I created this website. It's all to do research on these creatures. So we can better understand them."
As Roy was typing he was also looking over Reserves bio. He noticed that her bio says she was a female, that she was 20 and was in college. What was interesting is that she was studying to become a scientist. Not to mention the college she was attending was in Washington DC and was only an hour away from this facility. This got Roy thinking that perhaps the two could meet and possibly work together on a project concerning these creatures.
User: RoyBaker: "So hey I know this is sort of out of the blue. But on your bio it says you attend a college that's not too far away from the Facility of Evolution. I also noticed that you are studying to become a scientist. If you're still interested in wanting to figure out more about the Care Bears. Perhaps we can work together on it? I can bring you in as an intern, I will of course pay you for your time and we will have others that will work on this special project and give us all the tools and research materials we would need. Just like you I am very curious about these creatures. They could be the key to advancing everything. But beforehand we need to make sure that they are 100% safe and can be reasoned with. Would you help me pursue this Dream?"
There was a 10 minute delay before Reserved finally answered.
User: Reserved_Otaku: I…. Don't know…. That would be a big commitment to take the internship as I am attending this college. I must admit I am very curious about them too. But I don't know if what I did got them upset or if my life is in danger… I don't really want a Target on my back, if they haven't already painted one on me."
This gave Roy an idea, one that can help her while also keeping her close and safe.
User: RoyBaker: "Would you be able to take online classes for the topic you're studying? If not, I know we have classes here that you could take that would teach just about the same thing you're looking to study. If you would join our department, we would also provide you your own room and all your lessons would be free. You would still get paid as well for your time."
It only took her 5 minutes to think and respond with her answer.
User: Reserved_Otaku: "I think I would like that… I believe they do have online classes but I would have to fill out a form to let them know I'm switching from public attendance to online. I will also have to have some time to pack everything I would need to go and let them know I'm leaving the dorms here."
User: RoyBaker: "Perfect then! I will make sure everything will be in order for you here while you take care of that. I will be looking forward to working with you to unravel the mystery of these Care Bears. I feel like this is just the first step to something extraordinary!"
With that all wrapped up, Roy said his goodbyes and logged off. Excited at the prospect of having a partner to help him with this research.
