The weapons in this were taken or were based off units from the game, Tom Clancy's Endwar and as such belong to Ubisoft. The individual chars however are property of me and Cydra.

Authors note: This story is completely unrelated to mine and Cydra's saga stories.

The Third Energy Chronicles: Prologue

Third energy was supposed to be the answer to all of humanities woes. A beacon of hope that would end the global energy crisis. The world rejoiced as the first of the new Third Energy reactors, based in London prepared to go live. Too late humanity learnt that far from being a saviour…Third Energy was a nightmare…

Paris 2012

December, 21st

J.S.F-Controlled zone

36 hours since Third energy disaster…

Matthew and his sister ran through the almost deserted Parisian streets, hearing the steady throb of helicopter blades in the distance. "Come on, sis. We're almost there," said Matthew. He and his sister had been on a field trip with their college to Paris when the accident had occurred. Nobody really knew what had happened beyond that the Third Energy reactor complex in London had exploded, wiping out the city and its inhabitants and the leaders of the world's three superpowers.

Barely 12 hours later, had reports that the number of animal attacks worldwide had skyrocketed. What confused the shattered authorities were the descriptions. Apparently, Dinosaurs were responsible. At first the reports were laughed off…until the attacks were happening right outside in the streets. Chloe, Matthew and their group had been in the hotel when a group of the dinosaurs, apparently Velociraptors, had broken in and began slaughtering the guests while outside, the enforcer Corps and Joint Strike Force tried valiantly to repel them.

Matthew had watched the raptors tear apart the head of the school trip. He and his sister had been forced to hide in their hotel room. Chloe began to wretch. She felt nausea begin to overwhelm her body. She couldn't stop herself as she threw up all over the floor. "Oops," she said. "Never mind," Matt said, "I'm sure the hotel staff won't mind." He grabbed his sister and began to look for a way out.

The door into the room shuddered under a kick that caused the security lock to spark. "Oh great, we're in a remake of the fourth Jurassic park movie," said Matt, opening the window to the balcony. A tarpaulin cover was below. "It's better than being eaten," said Chloe, looking down. More snarls came from the door as the raptors tried to smash it again.

Outside in the streets, it was pandemonium. Panicked civilians ran for their lives as raptors flooded the streets, making unearthly screams to signal their packmates to attack. Blood flowed freely through the gutters from the hundreds of dead and wounded victims. The air hung with the smell of rotted meat... the sickening stench of the prehistoric predators.

One man tried to sprint down an alleyway, away from the carnage. He came face to face with a 20 ft long predator with a neck frill. The dinosaur's head flicked back, and a burning pain erupted in his eyes. The dinosaur had spat in his eyes. He didn't register much more as the Dilophosaurus lunged at him.

The army was valiantly fighting the horde of Jurassic monsters but it was a losing battle. A crash from behind the two said that the raptors had broken in. "JUMP!" yelled Matt and the two leapt off the balcony, landing on the tarpaulin and falling through to land on a very surprised Raptor who was summarily knocked out as a result.

Matt was seeing stars from the impact, and felt pain in his side from where he hit the dinosaur's side. He gasped as he got up. The sickening stench of the carnivore filled his nostrils and nearly made him gag and vomit.

Screams and machinegun fire punctuated the evening alongside car alarms and the snarls and roars of the dinosaurs. A European army soldier dragged them up. "Go...get out of here." he yelled, firing into the hotel lobby with his E3000 carbine before a raptor leapt off the balcony onto him and began mauling him. Matt and Chloe didn't need telling again and ran for it.

...

That had been an hour ago and now they were almost out of this madness. The thumping of a helicopter's rotors could be heard just ahead. A military chopper was busy loading passengers to evacuate them away from the area. Matt and Chloe rushed toward the chopper, ducking from the wind of the rotor blades.

"Everyone onboard!" A soldier shouted over the din of the rotors. Another solider put his hand on Matt's back and guided them into the chopper. A second later a phalanx of Hailstorm fighters flew over the buildings in the distance, a second before a wall of flame shot skywards. Chloe began to sniffle. Matt put his hand on her shoulder as the chopper began to lift off the ground on the soldiers signal, turning to join the fleet of US and EFEC choppers flying for the edge of the city.

...

Razorfang sniffed the weird hard skull of one of the strange mammals. The other carnivores had already been through here and had not spared many of them. He and his pack had been confused when the strange landscape had suddenly appeared around them, populated with the strange mammals which had fled left and right in panic.

"Where are we?" One of the other raptors, Firestorm, asked to him. "One minute we're minding our own business, the next we're here." One of the other raptors was helping the pack healer, Soulstar along. She had taken ill a few minutes after their arrival in the strange land. Another one, Bladeclaw, Razorfang's second, snarled. "You would think we had wandered into their nest for all the fuss they are making...and what strange thing is this?" he said holding up an assault rifle before tossing it to the side.

"I think it may be a weapon," Razorfang said, "I saw several others of us who had fallen to them." A squeal was heard from an alley, causing the pack to spin. A spitter came out an alley what was obviously one of the new creatures' young in its mouth. It fled when it spotted the pack, leaving its kill. Bladeclaw sniffed it. "This is their nest. No wonder they are fighting," he said. "I see," Razorfang said.

Suddenly a small object on one of the bodies squawked and began making the noises that the mammals had. Soulstar moaned in pain until it stopped. "Soulstar, are you alright?" Razorfang asked. Soulstar moaned. "That...that thing spoke...they plan to burn this place...we have to flee," she said weakly. Sabertooth, one of the youngest betas, snarled. "We should leave her. She will slow us," he said.

Razorfang snarled and struck him with his tail. "No one in this pack gets left behind," he growled, "Not you, not Soulstar, no one." A dark entryway seemed to lead down. "Quickly," he said before a shriek got the pack's attention. Several metal birds flew past in the distance, a second before deafening explosions shook the ground. After that the pack needed no encouragement. Soulstar was too weak to look up and anyway, she didn't know what the Paris Metro was.

...

Matt looked out at the inferno that they had just come to visit. He felt a great sense of loss looking at it…all those people. How did everything come to this? He was jarred out of his thoughts by a loud shrieking. He turned and saw something that horrified him

Several flying reptiles were flying full speed at the chopper. The first two flew onto the chopper next to them, ripping through the front and plucking the pilot out. The stricken chopper spiralled into the inferno below. Another of the pteranodons rammed the chopper, shaking it. A trooper fell out and was grabbed by it and Chloe fell out, only just saved when Matt grabbed her hand. "Pull him in," yelled another civilian.

They began to pull with all their might. Another soldier shot at the pteranodons and rushed forward to pilot the chopper. Chloe was shrieking. "DON'T LET GO!" she yelled. Matt was trying to pull her in, not made easy by the shaky chopper and the fact his hand was sweating. "Hang on!" Matt shouted. But it wasn't enough. Chloe slipped from his grasp. She screamed as she fell to the ground. "Chloe!" he shouted.

Matt had to be dragged back in to prevent himself throwing himself out after her. More jets flew overhead, dropping their payload and in minutes, the dark city below was crisscrossed with lines of flames. "Chloe!" he shouted, hot tears falling from his eyes.

...

Razorfang and Bladeclaw walked up the steps out into the morning sun. The firestorm had come and gone, leaving blackened streets and the strange burnt out objects some of the mammals had been in.

"By the old ones, What madness possessed them to destroy their nesting grounds?" said Bladeclaw numbly as the rest of the pack came up.

Razorfang shook his head, "I don't know. But by the looks of things, they were in a panic. Something terrified them. Probably us." Bladeclaw shook his head. "We should go...the rest of the pack will be wondering..." he said before a whimper from near one the burning husks got the pack's attention. One of the mammals, badly burnt from the looks of things was leaning against it.

"What the?" Bladeclaw asked. "It's one of those mammals," Razorfang said, "And this one is injured." Bladeclaw sniffed it. "It won't survive these injuries," he said solemnly. Sabertooth sniffed at it. "At least it can feed us so we can make it out of this madness," he said.

"Make it quick," Razorfang said, "This one has suffered enough." Sabertooth was about to pounce when a voice rang out. "Stop!" Soulstar shouted. Razorfang looked over as the healer staggered over. "I...I think I can help her...I don't know how I know but..." Razorfang snarled. "Fine...be quick though." Soulstar knelt down and was surprised to find herself whispering in the mammal's language. It was like she was watching the event from the outside. "Be calm...I can help you," she said.

The others watched as Soulstar spoke to the mammal. Razorfang watched with intensity. As they watched, Soulstar's eyes began to glow almost solid sky blue and as she put one of her forearms on the mammal's forehead, that began to glow too. The glowing spread down and encompassed the small mammal. Soulstar seemed to snap out of it and jumped back as the light became blindingly bright.

The others did so as well. Razorfang growled at the pain in his eyes from the intense light. The pack covered their eyes with their forearms or turned away. Finally the light faded away to reveal, where the mammal had been, a juvenile female raptor that was snarling weakly. "By the old ones..." said Razorfang quietly. "What have you done to her?" Bladestorm asked.

"Soulstar, what did you do?" asked Razorfang, walking forward to sniff the new raptor. "Soulstar, you freak," Sabertooth said, "You turned that thing into a raptor. And an ugly one at that." Soulstar glared and it would have erupted in a full on fight had Razorfang not put his foot down...literally. "There will be enough time for this later," he snarled at them. The new raptor opened her eyes at that. "She's awake," Soulstar said.

Bladeclaw helped the new raptor to her feet. "What do you remember, dear?" she said soothingly. The new raptor looked around fearfully. "Where am I? Who are you?" she whimpered, nuzzling close to Bladeclaw. "I should ask the same thing," he said to her.

The young raptor looked over as Sabertooth came close to sniff her, snarling in fury at him. Soulstar smiled. "Well...she's a good judge of character, whoever she is... She cannot go back to her herd now, Razorfang." Razorfang nodded. "Do you have a name, my friend?" he asked her.

Sabertooth snarled at Razorfang. "You cannot be serious...she is not one of us. She will not replace Sarline," he snarled. Razorfang roared at this and pinned Sabertooth. "You will not mention her again," he said before letting him up. Sabertooth growled, but said nothing. Razorfang let him up. "Now, as I was saying, do you have a name?" he asked to her again.

The young raptor shook her head. "I can't remember anything," she whimpered. Bladeclaw cooed comforting noises to the young raptor. "It's ok, little Firestar," she said. "Firestar?" Sabertooth asked. Bladeclaw glared. "Is there a problem?" she said. Sabertooth rolled his eyes but didn't say anything else. "Let's go home," said Razorfang.

End of prologue