Scrambling on the ground, you're able to take a hold of the key. Spinning around, scramble over to the box's door. In the time it took for you to get the keys, Tom had already torn apart two more armed guards as bullets slammed into and through his chest. Most of the staff had fled, excluding one who was trying to get into the locked English Werewolf Exhibit. The unarmed guard dove past you and grabbed his gun from the ground. Rolling over, he pointed his weapon at the beast at the same time he saw you sticking one of the keys into the box's locked door. "What are you doing!?" The door fell open, and the guard re-aimed his gun at you.
With out another option, you dive into the box, hearing the bullets fly past you before others hit the top of the box (now lying sideways). You hear the sound of a yelp as you lunge into the embrace of a woman with long dark red hair who was dressed in loose-fitting hides. The sound of the bullets cause you to wince, and when you open your eyes, you notice the golden yellow eyes of the woman glinting back at you. She was smiling. "My hero," she said sarcastically, but not without a tone of dangerous seduction.
There is another scream from one of the guards, just as another bullet is fired. You hear Tom roar in pain, and a sharp thin weight hits your shoulder with the force of eighteen-wheeler. The woman yelps again as the bullet exits from the front of your shoulder and embeds itself into the metal box's wall.
The pain. It hurts worse than anything you had ever felt before. There is another roar from outside. You try to turn around to look out the door, but the pain in your shoulder causes you to scream instead. You hear several more bullets fired, and finally a large amount of light in the box is bloated out. Everything starts feeling warmer as Tom's dying body lands behind you, blocking the box door.
"Fuck this," you hear from outside. It was the guard who shot at you when you dove in.
The woman's smile fades. "Move, meat," she says. "Let me out. You need to let me out." She starts trying to shove you backwards, but with Tom behind you, it was like being pressed into a massive pillow of fur. The cushion kept rolling you back, and the pain you were feeling was just too much.
You do notice the shadow standing over the air holes to the box. Looking up, you see the guard lower his gun, placing the barrel right at the hole. "You bastard," he mutters as he pulls the trigger.
*click*
The woman's smile returned. "Yes. Move!" Suddenly the sound of the zoo's alarm erupted in the air. She scrambled, getting her feet up behind her, using the box wall as leverage to push you even harder. At the same time, you see her face deforming into something much more bestial. You feel nothing but more pain as you are pressed hard into Tom's body, shoving the two of you back. You stare upward and hear more screaming. It ends quickly.
"We're leaving, lover," the woman says as you struggle to not black out from the pain. For some reason her mouth and neck are covered with blood. Much of her dress also seems torn. It would be so easy to sleep now... just to escape the pain.