High over the Pacific, far from the Costa Rican coast, an airplane flies. It totes a very adorable package from Enid, Oklahoma.

Her name is Amanda. She's got a small body, and keeps her blonde hair short. She sleeps near the back of the plane. If Enid knew what she was doing...

Outside, the plane flies through some turbulence. Its structure is rattled.

Amanda wakes. She rubs her eyes, and looks around. She doesn't recognize where she is. It looks like a bus. All the seats are vacant. It smells really nice in here...

Amanda looks out the window, and screams. She's over 35,000 feet over the surface of the Pacific Ocean.

She rushes to the cabin, ready to beg the pilot to tell her what happened. Alas, there is no pilot in the cockpit. A recorded voice, however, addresses her concern. He identifies himself as NASH, an AI.

Far ahead, five islands lie in the ocean. All across them, herds of brachiosaurs, corythosaurs, parasaurolophi, stegosaurs, and triceratopses graze on the local flora.

Sixty-five million years after their host bodies died, these terrible lizards have come to call the Five Islands home. The best of them never wonder about the inferior species that colonizes and develops the continents of this...much-since-evolved planet.

Few of them suspect what's high in the sky. Most of them have bad eyesight, and NASH is too far up for them to behold him.

Amanda asks NASH if he can take her back to land. As excited as she is up here, she's worried about not being surrounded by friends and relatives all the time.

NASH elaborates that he understands. (Not really; he's a robot, and can't feel.) But a boy Amanda really likes knows her, and knows she enjoys experiences like this. He drugged her, and left her aboard this aircraft, the Master Sergeant, and instructed NASH to take her so far out from monotony, that by the time she...

Static invades NASH's mind. Amanda can't understand what he says.

On a computer screen near the throttle, NASH's own logo is displayed. The logo vanishes, and is replaced, rather promptly, by a logo Amanda doesn't entirely understand: "VELOCITY."

From side to side, the Master Sergeant's engines turn themselves on and off. Amanda screams, as the plane's mercurial behavior causes its own turbulence. Outside, the ailerons and flight stabilizers flip up and down, making Amanda airsick. At stern, the rudder turns back and forth, adding to Amanda's sickness.

The hatches open, taking in wind. Amanda screams, and clings to a seat for dear life.

On the upside, the hatches close themselves. On the downside, it seems the plane has a new pilot.

The new AI hisses, and makes reptilian noises. Amanda doesn't understand them.

Outside the plane, the ailerons turn back up. The rudder turns to one side. Amanda rolls across the plane deck, and her roll is stopped by the narrow hatchway between the seats and cockpit. She's panting, and panicking.

She stands. A very tall pinnacle stands near the center of Isla Sorna. The Master Sergeant's flying right at it. VELOCITY, the plane's new pilot, is making pleasant reptilian noises.

In a hurry, Amanda runs to the cargo hold. It takes a while for her to get past the chest's latches. She opens it, loads the satellite phone with batteries, powers it, and tries to call for help. She panics. She waits. It's like the ringtone doesn't know how to stop buzzing in her ear.

Someone answers. Amanda's so scared, she takes some time to find her own voice...

The Master Sergeant skids through the mountains. It loses the ends of its wings. It rolls fervently, and throws Amanda and its gear all over its cabins. Amanda has several close encounters with the heavier bulk of the plane's gear.

What's worse, the locks of the Udesky and Cooper arsenals come undone. Blades fly out, and have near-misses with Amanda.

Luckily, the plane levels out-while upside down. Everything falls to the plane's ceiling. Amanda lies across the ceiling, overwhelmed. She gapes...and laughs out loud.

She screams, when the plane's wings get wedged between two cliffs. They streak loudly, causing Amanda to cover her ears with her hands. At long last, the Master Sergeant skids to a stop. It lists to bow, causing Amanda to scream again as all of the loose gear slides back towards the cockpit.

Surrounded by gear, and staring up at a plane's deck, Amanda can't move. She doesn't have to be too close to a window to sense she's in a tight spot.

All around the cliffs, the pteranodons fly. Far below, it must be a thousand-foot fall. And the ground is patrolled by hungry ceratosaurs and giant spinosaurs.

Whoever that boy is, Amanda's never loved him more. But she will NEVER forgive him if she doesn't get out of this alive.