Chapter One
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Malone stands on the balcony of the treehouse searching across the Plateau. Veronica and Marguerite had set out earlier that day and they still haven't returned.
Roxton and Challanger had set out twenty minutes earlier in search of them and Malone offered to stay in case they returned. It's getting darker outside, getting dangerous for them to be travelling outside. On the floor below the electric fence spits and sparks fly accompanying the smoke and then silence, it's dead. Apemen are waiting in the trees below watching every move their potential dinner makes.
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MARGUERITE: Has it gone?
Veronica wanders in and stands at the entrance to the cave.
VERONICA: I think so.
The T-Rex thats been hunting them charges towards them and sticks it's head in the cave, Veronica jumps out of the way. They both run to the back of the cave.
MARGUERITE: I thought you said it was gone!
VERONICA: We'll have to find another way out of here.
They begin to walk to the other end of the cave while the T-Rex waits outside.
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Roxton joins Challanger at the lake, they had decided to split up to look for Veronica and Marguerite but so far there's been no sign of them.
CHALLANGER: They must be back at the treehouse by now.
ROXTON: Or they decided to make camp...There's still some light left we can keep searching.
CHALLANGER: Roxton it's pointless risking our lives when they're probably safe somewhere...If they're not at the treehouse we can set out first thing in the morning.
ROXTON: ...Seems like a reasonable idea.
They set out back towards the treehouse when raptors charge out of the bushes and run towards them. Roxton fires off one shot and a raptor goes down leaving four others facing Roxton and Challanger hungry and ready to attack.
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Marguerite points to a gap at the top of the cave.
MARGUERITE: We can get out through there.
VERONICA: Finally! We'll have to climb up.
MARGUERITE: Well I wasn't planning on flying up.
VERONICA: Can we have a little less sarcasm!
She climbs through the hole followed by Marguerite.
MARGUERITE: Hey you do what you do, I'll do what I do...Wow!
She looks at the sight in front of her.
MARGUERITE: Does something look different to you?
Veronica follows her gaze.
VERONICA: The cave must have brought us to another side of the Plateau.
MARGUERITE: I don't think we walked that far, and when did trees start to grow ten times higher than the Tower of London?
VERONICA: Yeah, that's unusual even for the Plateau.
The trees stretch high into the air, there scattered by flowers the size of an oak tree. In-between is a huge lake that looks to be the size of an ocean. To the left are normal sized trees and what seems like familiar territory.
VERONICA: We can go this way.
They both fall as the ground starts to shake.
MARGUERITE: An earthquake!
VERONICA: Oh my God!
They look in front of them and see a huge man, he kneels down to look at the and grins.
MAN: Dinner!
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London
An old man walks out of an elaborately decorated office, he closes and then locks the door and sets off down the corridor, he hears a voice behind him.
VOICE: Alfred.
Alfred turns around and smiles at the man before him.
ALFRED: Summerlee! Good to see you, how are you feeling?
SUMMERLEE: Perfectly well and ready to go.
Alfred looks at him puzzled.
ALFRED: Go? Go where?
Summerlee looks at him smiling.
SUMMERLEE: Well, back to the Plateau of course.
To be continued...
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