As I sat in the cabin watching the snow fall I knew that Winter was here. I got out my Snow Shoes and made sure they were in good shape. I will not be doing much hunting for the next 3 or 4 months. Winters this high in the Cascades are hard and it takes a lot of work just to survive them. As the snow piled up around the cabin I thought about my journey to this place. How far from home I really was. It is hard to believe it has been 12 years since I left. I wondered how my friends were doing. I wonder if any of them even survived the night I left? We had found the old science lab a year earlier. We were running from a hunting party and fell into the lab by accident. It was a good place to hide and we avoided the hunters. As we explored the lab there were all kinds of machines and books and weird things we had never seen before. We started using the lab as our base of operations. We had been scattered all over the country side for several months after the hunters found our last safe house. Half our group were killed out right or taken on that raid. No one was really sure at what point in time the Sasquatch became the dominant species on earth. No one knew why it happened either. All we knew was that we were tired of always running from them and being hunted for food by them. We found books in the lab that told of the efforts of these people to solve the problem with the Squatch 5o years earlier. They obviously were not successful. There was no mention of what happened to the group so we assumed the Squatch had found them. Fore several months we went over the books and equipment in the lab. We discovered that they had developed a time travel device. They had intended to go back to a point in time before the Squatch were dominant and stop them from becoming the dominant species. We began to form a similar plan ourselves. We started working on the equipment to figure out how to make it work. We found old history books and discovered that in the early 21st century the Sasquatch population was very small and no one even knew the beasts existed. We also discovered that the few who did believe in their existence believed there were 4 different species. The abominable snowman in Asia. The swamp beast in the South east United states. The Texas Ape in South Central United states. and the Northwest Sasquatch in the Northwest. The scientists had figured out that there were many reports of sightings in many other parts of the Unites States, but they were all false. The plan that the scientists had come up with, we discovered, was to go back to a time before the Squatch were dominant and inform the humans of that time of the dangers of the Squatch. We do not know what happened to that plan, but the Squatch were as bad as ever. Our plan was a lot simpler. We would go back in time to the early 21st century. To a time before the beasts were even know to exist and make them extinct.
The time travel device was simple to set up from what we could tell. We had no idea how it worked, or what the trip would be like. We began to look for the right person to send back to complete this job. We began working on the power source. We discovered the solar power system they had and how to get that working. We cleaned off the solar panels, got them hooked to the battery system and got the batteries charging. We could find no one willing to volunteer for the mission. I myself was not willing to take on this task either. We figured we had plenty of time so we kept looking. The person taking on this mission would be trapped back in time more than 300 years before they were ever born. There was no way to bring them back.
The night I became the person to go on this mission was all one big screw up. Most of our group was away from the lab searching for supplies and food. There were only 4 of us left on guard duty. The Squatch attacked the lab in full force. We would not be able to hold them for long. We fired up the equipment and of the four of us I was the only one who might have a chance to complete the mission. I quickly jumped into the machine. the start button was hit and the machine started to whir and spin. I saw the Squatch come through the door as the machine wound up. Then nothing. It was not that it was dark, it was more that there was nothing around me. I do not know how long this lasted. The next thin i knew I woke up in the middle of the woods. I had no idea where I was.
It turns out I was in the Himalayan mountains. I was in a time and place that I knew nothing about. I had no idea where to go, how to communicate with anyone, how to survive even. I headed down hill until I came to a small village. I was able to get food there and get work herding sheep. I learned that the Yeti lived very high on the mountains and were supposed to be magical beasts. I was able to earn enough money to buy a few meager supplies so that I could start my mission. The yeti were not magical, they were just timid creatures that wanted to avoid all other creatures. I spent 5 years there wiping them out.
I found out it would be easier than i thought to get to the United states. I got to Florida and got a job picking fruit. I saved enough money to get my supplies to go after the Swamp ape. The Swamp ape, or Skunk ape as some called them were more aggressive than the Yeti had been, but they were relatively easy to exterminate. It took 3 years for me to get them all. So far the population documents we had found in the lab were right on the money. I headed for Texas.
There were only 4 beasts in all of Texas and Oklahoma. This sub species was already going extinct on their own, but I was ok with helping speed that process up. It took me just a few months to clear them out.
Now I was headed to California because there were a lot of reports of sightings there. I spent 2 years in California and never saw any Squatch. Lots of idiots that were sure they existed there though. I moved North into Oregon. I found a pair of them in Oregon around Mt. Hood. These were very different than the others. They were elusive and smart. They avoided people as much as possible. It took me several months to catch up to the two creatures on Mt. Hood. When I did, I knew this was the species that had taken over the planet. The only difference was these had not yet learned to hunt humans for food. After taking out the two on Mt. Hood I moved North into the Mt Rainier area. This was where the largest concentration of the creatures were. This beautiful area was where the nightmare began. I will finish my mission here.