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The alternative ending is the last page, continuing after one reads chapter 4. I did this because the other two chapters were my original idea, but I felt not everyone would agree with this perspective. It's not bad or anything, it just might not be what the typical fans want is all. The alternate ending is a little more...child oriented and somewhat unrealistic (to me). The other two are more teen, older, and realer.
It all seemed like another day at the Cave for the Bears. Grizz was in the living room playing video games, Panda was in the kitchen reading an anime comic, and Ice Bear was at work, cooking for Chloe and the others, who was busy finishing some Calculus homework that she stated she had to finish before chilling with the others.
In the other room, Grizz could be heard shouting things like "YEAH, gotcha!" and "Oh, you little sneaky power-up". Grizz was heavily invested in his game, and the others had no idea what level he was even on.
Pan-Pan looked up from his comic to Ice Bear and asked him "Hey dude, when is the food going to be ready? I don't think it so long to make a grilled cheese". Panda, being the vegetarian he was, would not be eaten a panini with Chloe.
"Almost finished" said Ice Bear in his monotonic, calm-sounding voice. He did not even look back at Panda in his response, heavily invested in his culinary creation. While not much was being made, cooking was perhaps his favorite activity, explaining why he never mined cooking all the meals in the Cave.
Panda looked towards Chloe and eyed her homework. He could not make sense of all the numbers and letters and charts that were on the papers he saw. It made his head somewhat dizzy and amazed that Chloe could understand it all so well. He wanted to ask her how she knew what she was doing, but decided to not bug her and went back into his comic book. He could not get his mind off that smell that lingered around in the room, almost taunting him.
"BOOM! You…are…DEAD!" shouted Grizz from the other room, almost disturbing everybody else in the kitchen from behind him. The game made some pixel-jumbling sounds as everyone looked away from their stuff to give Grizz a hairy eye from behind his back. Grizz might be annoying at times, but he was still a good guy, and everybody knew that. He came walking into the kitchen to boast to everyone about how he just finished his "epic" takedown on the final boss of some Dungeon-Trappers game.
"Hang on Grizz, almost done" said Chloe as she was still face-deep in her homework, making scribbles and writing over stuff Grizz and the others may not even be able to comprehend. Grizz looked over anyway to see how far along Chloe was. He could tell she was on the last question. From out of nowhere, Ice Bear snuck up from behind and served his late lunch for everybody. He called the names of everybody individually as he slid the plates of food to all three at the table.
"Panda" he said as he slid a grilled cheese w/ some tomato slices on the side of the plate to him. Panda looked down at the cheesy-bread and was ready to dine, but not until after placing his comic down gently and far away from the food to avoid any staining.
"Grizz" came next. Ice had anticipated his older brother would finish just as he would his cooking. Knowing he had a much larger appetite than anyone else did, he served him, not one, not two, not three, but FOUR paninis, each one with the same toppings and condiments, but a different kind of meat. They all had lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, mayo, and some other food-oriented stuff in it. One was salmon, one was beef, another chicken, and the last was ham, identifiable by little signs taped on toothpicks. This was why Ice took so long, but again, he did not mind. Panda on the other hand; gave Grizz a stern look after seeing all the different sandwiches in front of him, silently scorning him even though Grizz did not see.
"Chloe" was last, who held back from eating her panini of ham, made to look just like Grizz's. She was finishing the last of her writing and, after just a few more seconds, she laid her pencil down and looked up at the marvel of construction before her. Ice Bear continued to stand, not caring that he had no seat, and went over to the stove to get his food. He made himself a BLT, not feeling all too hungry at the moment.
"Wow Ice. This looks incredible" said Chloe as she stared at the juiciness of her delicacy plopped in front of her.
"It is" called Grizz as he was chowing down already on his food. He had already killed one of his sandwiches in just a few bites and was ready to devour the next one, spitting out the toothpick, but on the floor, knowing full well to not do it on the table.
Panda decided to finally ask Chloe about her homework after he had swallowed the first bite of his grilled cheese. "Hey Chloe, what was that you were working on there? Math?" Chloe looked up from her sandwich, which she had not even taken a bite out of yet. Grizz continued to devour his, not even looking up, and Ice had walked back to the table to hear Chloe's response as he quietly enjoyed his bacon, lettuce, and tomatoes on bread.
"Yeah, it was calculus, the second." She replied, trying to sound humble.
"Second? There's different numbers of it?" replied Panda.
"Not exactually, just stages. At my university, there are up to eight different levels of the course, but unless you were going for mathematics or something like that, you only have to take the first one or two, possibly third in some majors, but IDK those ones."
Panda was a little surprised to hear her say eight levels. He finished his second bite and swallowed, responding with only "Eight!? Who would want to do that?"
Grizz looked up from his food and responded without even comprehending what they were talking about "If we're talking about video games, I'm sure eight levels of math would be a piece of cake!"Grizz smiled like was trying to show-boast himself, but all Chloe could do was chuckle at Grizz's response. She could not imagine Grizz going all the way to Calculus VIII.
"Well this is the second level. I already completed Calculus I back in high school."
Grizz stopped eating, having only one sandwich left to eat, and asked her "How did you do that?"
"Oh, well, I took AP Calculus my sophomore year, well…half-year technically." She continued on by explaining the difference about AP classes and regular classes. "The AP courses give people college credits if they pass, which I did, and those credits allowed me to skip the first level. Regular high school classes don't do that."
All the Bears realized that this was the first time Chloe has ever told them about her life before attending college. Hoping to keep this momentum going, Panda asks her "High school, huh? What was that like?"
Still not having taken a bite of her sandwich, Chloe looked shocked that Panda asked, realizing she has made a mistake bringing up the question.