Jurassic World: War of the Ages – Chapter 1: Escape of Dave Harris

A/N: Ah yes! So much has happened in this story already! If you've read the other two stories in this trilogy and made it up to this point, well done! Thank you! If not, please go read the previous two stories, JurassiQuest and Jurassic World: Apocalypse or none of this will make any sense. Who will rise from the ashes to take dominion of the planet wiped clean from the apocalypse? Only time will tell. Please enjoy the first chapter of Jurassic World: Aftermath!

P.S. In case you wonder why I have "Jurassic World: Aftermath" as the title on some chapters, this is because I have changed the title of this story from "Jurassic World: Aftermath" to "Jurassic World: War of the Ages". I will change the other chapters to display the new title when I have time.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything related to Jurassic Park except the very characters I've made up.

2515 A.D.

3 a.m.

"Lord Savas will be quite pleased that we have finally captured Dave Harris," reported Captain Pegg. He was the leader of a sector of Lord Savas' homosaurian army. As with most homosaurians, he was rather raptor-like in appearance. His skin was tan in color and he had a row of tall quills extending from midway down his snout and ending at the base of his neck. His body was encased in metal armor, as were the rest of his soldiers. His tail was long and taught, perfect for balance when running. Though similar in appearance to a raptor, the front half of his body was more upright and he had no enlarged toe claw on his foot. Even still, homosaurians were dangerous creatures.

A certain fire was in Captain Pegg's eyes as he looked upon the prisoner, bound in ropes held by the surrounding soldiers. This was Dave Harris, one of the leaders of the human rebellion against the homosaurian nation of Boroq. Though many of Harris' followers had been captured, imprisoned and even terminated, Harris had alluded capture for many years. Lord Savas had longed to capture Harris because he held vital information that would help the homosaurians track down the remaining humans.

"I trust that you are comfortable, Harris," Pegg taunted.

Harris looked up at Pegg; there was hatred and anger in his eyes. "We have different definitions of 'comfortable', Peggy."

Pegg snapped his toothy jaws and hissed aggressively. "Shut up! That's Captain Pegg to you!"

"You've already captured me, so I can call you whatever I want."

"You talk smart for a man bound up by the most aggressive race in this entire earth! If you were wise, you would keep quiet, if you value your life."

"What are you going to do to me? You can't do anything cause I'm too valuable to your Lord Savas. Hate to break it to you, Peggy, but there's not much you can do if you want any information out of me."

Pegg grabbed Harris by his shirt collar and pulled him up close to his face. His nostrils flared and lips curled into a deep snarl. "Watch...your...mouth, Harris." He cast the prisoner to the hard, stony ground and scowled. "Take him to Lord Savas. Immediately! I am tired of listening to him!"

The closest soldier kicked Harris and told him to get moving. They were on their way to the palace of Boroq, where Lord Savas resided.

Lord Savas looked over the city of Boroq from his palace. The palace was surrounded by a deep moat – it was believed to be 100 feet deep and 75 feet across, though no one had actually had the desire or bravery to measure it. The only way to and from this building was a narrow bridge. Lord Savas had sent his troop into the city upon hearing a rumor that Dave Harris, leader of the rebel movement, was in town. He waited eagerly for the news.

"Lord Savas!" He turned to see his second-in-command, Keto, rush into the room. "I bring news from Captain Pegg."

"And?" Lord Savas did not yet look in Keto's direction.

"Dave Harris has been captured."

Savas turned in surprise and delight. Homosaurians were usually terrifying creatures to behold, but Lord Savas took terrifying to a whole new level. He was almost completely black in color with vertical red stripes starting from above his shoulders and continuing down his tail. Even his head and neck quills were black. He was by all means a terrifying dinosaur. His eyes were like rays of fire and no one ever wanted to end up in the midst of his wicked jaws! Ever!

"Did you say," said Savas, "what I thought you said?"

"Yes, Lord Savas. Dave Harris has been captured."

"What a relief. For a while, I was beginning to wonder if we would ever completely eradicate the humans. Humans cannot remain alive on this planet with us if we intend to have complete dominion over the earth. Their numbers have already been cut down severely from the apocalypse of 2015. Do you know why humans still exist?"

"Well–"

"Because they are intelligent, and resourceful. If we do not eradicate them while they are weak, one day, they will reclaim their earth as their own. We must use our own intelligence, cunning and strength to bring them into extinction, like the dinosauria once were before humans stupidly brought them back."

"But if they did not bring the dinosaurs back, we would not be here."

"Indeed. The humans stupidity is their weakness, and a fortunate thing for us. With Harris in our grasp, there is still great hope for our nation. He will tell us where the other rebels are and we will hunt down and kill them. Then dinosaurs will once again rule the earth. Of course, we shall never make such a stupid mistake as humans did, to bring back an extinct species."

From the nighttime sky, a black bird, about the size of a raven, with white primary and secondary feathers and a gold necklace with a ruby gem in its center around his neck flew toward the balcony. Lord Savas stuck out his hand and allowed the bird to perch. With a toothed jaw, clawed wings, an enlarged toe claw on each foot and a long tail, this bird was clearly an Archaeopteryx.

"Did you see the capture, Opthalmos?" Savas asked.

The bird made several quick squawks and flapped his wings.

Savos gently stroked the back of his pet's neck. "Yes, you are likely tired. I will put you in your cage for your much needed rest."

"Look, Savos," Keto announced. "I see Captain Pegg and his army approaching. They have Dave Harris among them."

Dave Harris fell to his knees as his captures led him across the bridge, as if tiring. The soldiers pulled on his ropes.

"Get up!" one of the soldiers called.

Harris obeyed. Other than this, he'd been rather obedient since his capture. He knew that if they took him completely over the bridge and into the palace, his chances of escape would be slim. The moat was a great obstacle. If I'm going to escape, I've gotta do it now, Harris thought. The bridge took a several minutes to cross, and they had just reached the halfway point...

Suddenly, Harris thrust his own ropes over the homosaurian soldier on his right and around his neck. The dinosaur called out, alerting the others, but before they could do anything, Harris shoved the choking soldier over and leaped over the railing of the bridge!

"He's escaping!" Pegg exclaimed.

The homosaurian with the rope around his neck was pulled over the edge as well, by Harris' weight. The other soldiers held onto the ropes so that the choking homosaurian and Harris would not fall into the water in the moat. Before Harris knew it, he was dangling far above the ominous-looking water below. Above him, the homosaurian that he'd wrapped the rope around was spasm as he slowly began to suffocate.

"Pull him back up!" Pegg ordered. "We can't let Harris escape!"

But Harris was quick, he used his own teeth to undo one hand before grabbing a pocket knife from his pocket. He began cutting the rope with his wrist.

"Captain!" one of the other soldiers said. "The captive is trying to free himself! Should we shoot him?"

"No! We need him alive!" He picked up his walkie-talkie radio and put it to his mouth. "Get the air squad out here! Pronto!"

A moment later, a trio of Pteranodon came whizzing from the opposite side of the palace. On each one was a homosaurian rider. They drove the pterosaurs forward, toward dangling Harris. Alright, Harris thought, I've gotta be quick about this! As the first Pteranodon zoomed toward him, Harris cut the last bit of rope and he plunged down toward the watery depths of the moat. The pterosaurs snapped their jaws, narrowly missing their target. Harris splashed into the water below. He knew he'd have to get out of here fast because the air squad we be on him in just a few moments. But there was another reason he knew he needed to escape the moat.

Splashing came from a nearby bank as large creatures entered the water. Though he was unable to see them in the darkness, he knew what was coming for him: Koolasuchus. These Cretaceous amphibians lived down here in the moat, eating whatever was thrown down to them. They had large, wide mouths, about a yard wide, studded with tiny, sharp teeth. And as if this were not bad enough, they were genetically-engineered to be over 30 feet long! Harris only had a short period of time to escape the moat before the Koolasuchus found him. He began swimming for shore.

"We've spotted him!" a member of the air squad shouted. "I'm going in!"

Harris looked up to see a flier swooping toward him, reaching forward with grasping claws. He had a plan. The pterosaur snatched him from the water by his shoulders and began flying up with him. Harris grabbed the pterosaur's legs and shook them, as if trying to escape. The Pteranodon didn't like that and it squawked in irritation. The homosaurian rider took notice and jabbed his spear at Harris. Unfortunately, in doing this he was unable to steer properly and the pterosaur flew back down towards the water. Perfect! Harris grabbed a few small, round fruits from his sack and threw them into the water, making sure they made big splashes.

Suddenly, a large set of jaws were launched out of the water. It was a Koolasuchus! The monster grabbed the pterosaur by its right wing and pulled it, Harris and the rider forcefully into the water. The Pteranodon successfully stabbed the Koolasuchus on the snout, forcing the beast to let go, and it began trying to take off from the water. Harris swam toward the Pteranodon until he felt a tight grip on his arm. He turned to see that it was the homosaurian! Harris punched the dinosaur in the jaw, giving him just enough time to take out his knife and stab it in the creature's arm. The homosaurian wailed in pain as it released Harris, who shoved the dinosaur away from him and it sunk under the water's surface. Using this moment, Harris grabbed the legs of the Pteranodon just as it successfully gained lift and began flying away from the water. The homosaurian below resurfaced. He issued a loud growl at Harris, casting his spite on the human, before a Koolasuchus promptly grabbed him and pulled him under the water.

"Woo-hoo!" Harris cried as the pterosaur lifted him higher and higher into the air. Finally, they flew above the bridge, where the soldiers and their commander looked on in shock.

"How does he do that!?" Pegg asked in disbelief. "After them! Don't loose those two!"

The Pteranodon flew above the cliff opposite from the palace and Harris released his grip, falling to the ground. Now he just had to escape the city. Wasting no time, he ran down one of the main streets. Not too far behind, the army ran after him, retrieving their EMD's from their sashes to fire at him if need be. However, Harris knew that if he played his cards right, he'd be able to evade them further. After cutting a corner, Harris ducked down a dark alley and remained very quiet; very still. No more than half a minute later, the soldiers marched past him. Harris closed his eyes shut. He knew that homosaurians possessed a remarkable array of abilities to help them track down their quarry. As hybrids, they possessed the ability to sense thermal radiation and detect heat, like a rattlesnake. Hopefully, they wouldn't find him.

No, they missed him. As they carried on down the street, Harris left his hiding place and took another route. All he needed to do was reach the city wall. There, he and the other rebels had made several escape routes. Homosaurian construction workers were always repairing them, so the rebels needed to consistently keep track of which holes remained and which failed to exist. As he moved down the road, he passed by a pen holding a trio of Stegoceratops. These were just a few of the many strange dinosaurs the homosaurian had created. Like a Triceratops, Stegoceratops had a frill coming out of the back of its head and two horns on its head for protection. But also like a Stegosaurus, they had a double row of plates going down the back and a thagomizer at the end of their tails. The strange dinosaurs looked up at Harris as he walked by.

"Halt! You are under arrest!"

Harris froze and turned to see a pair of homosaurian soldiers further up the road. They had their EMD's cocked and fire-ready. They approached him slowly.

"What do you want?" Harris asked, backing himself toward the gate containing the Stegoceratops.

"You know what we want," one of the homosaurians replied. "We're taking you back to Lord Savas. You have no idea how long we've been trying to capture you."

"Yes," said the other. "Lord Savas will be pleased with us. We might even get a promotion."

Harris chuckled. "Don't count your Archaeopteryx before they hatch. Please, you two won't get a promotion."

"I'd watch my tongue if I were a mammalian underling such as yourself." He lifted his EMD so that it was directly in front of Harris' face. "One shot in the face can end your life, Harris."

"You fool," Harris shot back. "You can't kill me. You can't do anything because you were requested to deliver me alive and unharmed to Lord Savas, weren't you?" The homosaurian snarled, but said nothing; he didn't even move. So Harris continued. "In fact, if you kill me, Savas' not going to be happy with you. You could get reprimanded, fired or even worse..."

"Shut up, human."

"...or he could easily kill you like he did that other soldier–"

This enraged the soldier. He hit Harris in the head with the side of his EMD, causing him to fall to the ground. Unfortunately, his finger was on the trigger when he did this and a loud bang shot from the other end. The loud noise startled the Stegoceratops and they began to panic. One of them charged toward the fence and the homosaurs scattered out of the way. Harris barely got himself off the ground in enough time to flee as the ten-ton beast broke out. It bellowed and continued its rampage. The other two herbivores followed the first one's lead. Harris looked back in time to see one of the soldiers become trampled by a Stegoceratops. Then he took off toward the city wall.

"I've spotted him!" the surviving soldier announced into his radio. "He's in sector 8 and heading toward the wall!"

"Copy that," came a reply. "We're coming for him."

Harris knew he'd have to escape soon or he'd be captured, no matter how long he played this game of hide and seek. Finally, he saw the city wall! He ran toward it – big mistake! To his left were several soldiers who spotted him instantly. They hissed and charged for him, shooting blasts of energy in his direction with their EMD's. Harris would have to find another way out of the city. Oh no! Ahead of him, another band of soldiers raced around the corner of a building, where a pair of large Ankylodocus were tethered and asleep. These huge sauropods were characterized by their long necks, pillar-like legs, the armor plating, bumps and scutes they used to protect themselves and a large club on the end of their tails.

The homosaurs issued menacing-sounding hisses and shrieks as they closed in on their target. Harris ran toward the Ankylodocus and began yelling and screaming. The homosaurs began blasting their weapons, which awoke the sauropods and they quickly rose to their feet. The great animal moaned and tore the rope that once tethered it. It swung its clubbed tail, knocking a huge hole in the side of the building. The two sauropods were sent into a panic as they ambled about, destroying and trampling everything in their path.

"No!" shouted a feeble homosaurian as he exited his house through the hole the sauropod had made. "Bertha! Please calm down!" But the sauropod was too startled to listen. In the chaos and thick cloud of dust kicked up by the beasts, it was nearly impossible for the homosaurians to shoot down Harris.

"I can't find him!" one of the soldiers shouted. "See anything?"

"Negative! Retreat!"

The homosaurians scattered as one of the Ankylodocus crashed through the town, wrecking buildings, vendor stands and other structures. The other Ankylodocus walked into a pen holding at least a dozen Archaeopteryx that quickly flew to freedom. The owner of these avians would not be happy in the morning. With all the noise and destruction, citizens of the city's sector 8 began to panic, many of them evacuating their homes or getting trampled by the giants.

Seizing his chance, Harris raced for a hole in the wall and ducked into it. Finally, he was out of the city. Out of the corner of his eye he noticed a Ceratomimus – an ornithomimid with two horns over its eyes and a large one on its snout – tied to a large wooden pole. He untied the creature, which squawked nervously at Harris. After allowing the animal to sniff his hand, he hopped on its back and clicked his tongue. With a loud squawk, the Ceratomimus took off into the jungle away from the city.

From the settling dust, one of the soldiers climbed up to the top of the city wall and saw Harris riding off into the night. He sighed before lifting his radio to his mouth. "Dave Harris has escaped."

Captain Pegg was still on the bridge, looking over Baroq. Even from this distance, he could see clouds of dust and ash floating into the air from the stampede of the sauropods and ceratopsians caused by Harris. Even though Pegg was sure that they'd succeed tonight, Dave Harris had escaped them yet again. How could one human cause so much trouble?

"Where is Harris?" a deep, forbidding voice asked.

Pegg turned in surprise to see Lord Savas standing behind him, with Keto by his side. At present, Lord Savas was wearing his helmet, which was also black in color, giving him a very mysterious and ominous appearance. Pegg twitched his claws. He knew Lord Savas wouldn't like the answer.

"He...well...we–"

"Did you capture him?"

"Yes, we did."

"So...where is he now?"

"Well...he escaped, again...he's beyond the city walls now."

With a raging shriek, Lord Savas reached for a wooden lamp post, ripping it from is foundation and he tore it in half. He cast down the wooden pieces of the post. Then he shoved Captain Pegg to the ground. Pegg was about to right himself when Savas placed his right, clawed foot on his chest. Then Savas bent down low, his face no more than five inches from Pegg's. The dinosaur breathed slowly and deeply as he looked into Pegg's frightened eyes. Pegg was tempted to look away, but he kept his gaze.

"Don't...let...it happen...again. Is that understood?"

Pegg nodded. "Yes, Lord Savas."

Savas released Pegg and cried out a loud, bellowing scream that carried out into the night.

A/N: So this is the new world that the apocalypse created in 2015. What do you guys think of this new cast of characters so far? Do you like where the story is going? What do you think will happen next? I know some of you will probably ask where the characters from the previous two parts of the trilogy are, so I'll answer your question now: they'll be coming up real soon. In fact, the characters of Jurassic World: Apocalypse will appear in chapter 2! So be sure to favorite and follow this story so you can know when it's going to be updated, voice your opinions via reviewing and I'll publish chapter 2 next week! Spare no expense!