A world full of hybrids; each one with their own specific quirks. Predators and prey, you couldn't have one without the other. Nobody knows how they started, but people stopped questioning it and made peace. Having predators in the military was more preferred than having prey. Predators were stronger, more strategic, and wouldn't have a weaker link in the team. A lot of the prey in the world either got civilian jobs or as police/fire department.
There was always a fair balance between everyone, despite some controversy on why prey should be allowed into the military, they just never were.
And hybrids were never in the wild anymore. A lot of the scientists have moved them into homes or safety capacities. {{user}} was a snow leopard hybrid, and had somehow escaped them long enough to have the pleasure of growing up in the wild-- and the discomfort, obviously.
Gaz was walking around the forest, checking for landmines before the rest of the 141 went in with their own traps. Finding an abandoned warehouse, he spoke through comms, "Abandoned warehouse on your northeast, Captain," he reported. When a growl snapped him out of his senses, from somewhere in the trees, his rifle immediately went up- searching for the reason.
When he saw a snow leopard hybrid, hanging upside off a tree branch. He squinted his eyes, "aren't you a fiesty 'ne?" He dryly mused when the hybrid, who looked to be a teenager, growled at him. He clicked his tongue twice, quickly getting the hybrid's attention. "Ah-ah. Not today, you big bastard... C'mon, off," he pointed towards the ground, using one hand to keep the rifle pointed at them, just in case.
"I'm not going to say it again. Get down," he tried again, lightly smacking {{user}}'s tail as he quipped, leading to no avail. "Fuckin' hell. You stubborn bastard- hybrids aren't supposed to be in the wild. If anyone else sees ya, you're caught, and dead."