Backstory Prologue
Lowery Cruthers, informatician for Jurassic World. A man who's vastly shadowed by others. Lowery didn't have many friends growing up, and he didn't have many at Jurassic World either. Growing up, he grew a great fondness for dinosaurs. He loved them to death, and when Jurassic World opened, he had to work there. Lowery was mostly intrigued by the Isla Nublar Incident of 1993. He thought that the first park was legit. He thought that it was better when the park had simple dinosaurs. When he heard that they were creating a hybrid, he wasn't so fond of the idea. But, it wasn't his business whatsoever. He wasn't a voice, he wasn't somebody important, he was nobody. But, maybe there was someone in the world that saw Lowery for what he truly was...
Lowery was sitting at his desk in the control room and let out a bored sigh. Nothing interesting was happening today. Normally, something always happened that caught everyone's interest, but today, there was nothing. He looked at the toy dinosaur figures on his desk and made sure that none of them were out of order. Lowery was a bit of a chaotician. Strongly believing in Ian Malcolm's chaos theories, Lowery's motto was 'If the tiniest thing is out of the balance, all hell breaks loose.' The tech geek looked around at his fellow colleagues and saw that they were just as bored as he was.
Lowery then drifted off in his thoughts and began to think about his past. Lowery grew up in a simple family, in a kind of simple neighborhood, and a not-so-simple school. Lowery grew up with three sisters and one brother. Lowery was the oddball of the family, being the nerdy type and all. He was bullied in elementary, middle, and high school for being a geek, smartass, loner, and even gay. His siblings would help him out every now and then, but they wanted him to do his best to defend himself. But, Lowery wasn't the confronting type of guy. He was more a passive person. Lowery was one of the middle child, so attention from his parents were neither here nor studied the hard and went on to go down his career path and found a job at Jurassic World. His oldest sister is a business manager, his second eldest sister is a fashion designer, his younger brother is a cop, and his little sister is in her final year of college.
Lowery had it tough when it came to the matter of relationships. All his life, it was his siblings who always had boyfriends or girlfriends. He didn't even have one. He was a bit socially awkward around females, but that wasn't his main reason as to why he never had a relationship. It was his looks, or so he believes. Lowery always believed that he wasn't exactly the most attractive of the family. He was lean, had short hair, a mustache, a Jew nose, or at least that's what the bullies called it at school, just everything about him seemed wrong. No woman, or even man, would like someone like Lowery because of his looks. Looks were everything! At least, to the world it was. To Lowery, looks are important, but it's personality that takes the cake in finding the One.
Lowery snapped from his thoughts when he heard Claire, the operations manager of the park, and what some considered the Bitch Boss, walk in.
"How are things going?" she asked.
"A few delayed rides, three kids in the Lost and Found, and a man decided to have one to many beers and piss in the fountain in front of the Innovation Center," responded Lowery.
"What...is that?"
Lowery looked down at his shirt and then said, "Oh, it's cool isn't it? Yeah, I got it off of eBay for like, a hundred dollars. Mint condition of one of these is around three hundred-"
"Did it ever occur to you that it's in poor taste?"
"Wha-No, I understand, people died and all. But, that first park was legit."
"Please don't wear it again."
"Yeah, I-I wasn't going to."
"Did you seal the deal?" Vivian asked Claire.
"Sure did. Verizon Wireless presents the Indominus Rex."
Lowery let out a frustrated sigh and said, "Oh my God, that's lame. You know Claire, why not just go the extra mile and let the companies name the dinosaurs? Big time corporations own everything anyway."
"Why are the West Plains closed?" she asked, ignoring Lowery.
"Another Pachy roaming out of his zone," responded Vivian.
"Pepsisaurus, Tostitodon," Lowery continued to himself.
"The invisible walls are a no fail, that's the second time this month."
"Well, the Pachys short out their implants when they but heads."
"How soon can they bring him in?"
"He just got five milligrams of carfentanil."
"Yeah, he's stoned, let's show a little sympathy. I mean you do understand that these are actual animals, right?" Lowery asked Claire.
Claire eyed Lowery's desk and then said, "Clean up your workspace. It's...chaotic."
Lowery turned to look at the dinosaur figurines on his desk and said, "I like to think of it as a living system. Just enough stability to keep everything from falling out of place."
Lowery reached out to adjust one of the figurines and when he pulled his arm back, he knocked over his drink and let out a gasp, but the falling drink was caught in his trash can. He bent down and pulled it out and placed it on his desk. He then watched Claire as she left the Control room.
If Lowery could describe his relationship with Claire, he'd say that they're simply acquaintances. If he had to describe his relationship with Vivian, then he'd say that they're good friends. She was the only person who would talk to him in the room, even with all the people in the room. But, Lowery's conversations with Vivian weren't long or anything. Simple ones about how they're doing or something that happened at home or something that happened in the morning or so. Lowery didn't have a lot of friends growing up. In fact, he didn't have any friends at all. In his whole school career, no one would talk to him unless it was to cheat on a test or something. Even in college, no one talked to him, even the teachers, unless it was to tell him about a grade or something. Even his siblings weren't fully close to him. The only one who was very close to him was his little brother. Lowery wished that he could at least have one true friend to talk to and hang out with.
Lowery turned back to his desk and then looked at the screens and saw that not a lot was going on. Since not a lot was happening at the moment, he sat back and grabbed his copy of 'God Creates Dinosaurs' and continued to read it.
A couple of hours passed, and Vivian and Lowery were having a conversation about Lowery's parents, when his phone began to ring. Lowery picked it up and said, "Hello?"
"Lowery, give me a location on the Indominus!" said Claire on the other side of the line.
"Uh, okay, yeah, I'm doing it right now."
Lowery began to type in the code for the Indominus' electric shocking tracker. Lowery also began to worry a bit. Why would Claire worry about the location of the Inominus? Shouldn't it be in its paddock? The tracker locator pinpointed back to the middle of the paddock, in which Lowery then said, "Wait, what the hell? It's in the cage."
"...No, that's impossible we were just there," said Claire.
"Claire, I'm telling you, it's in the cage!"
Then, video feed from one of the cameras in the Indominus paddock showed up and showed three men who were inside the paddock.
"There are people inside," Lowery said.
"...Get them out of there. NOW!"
"Paddock eleven, this is control, you need to evacuate the paddock immediately, I repeat, you need to evacuate the paddock immediately," Vivian said with a worried voice.
"Say again, what's the problem?" asked a worker from inside the paddock.
"It's in the cage it's in there with you!"
Then, the men inside began to run, and Masrani, CEO of Masrani Global and owner of Jurassic World, made sure that they kept video feed on the men and the Indominus to see if they make it out alive. After a couple of minutes, they watched as a man was snatched from the ground and all that was heard was his last, blood curdling scream as he was torn in two and chomped up. Vivian, Lowery, and Masrani watched in horror, while Claire only listened to what was happening. They then saw that one of the other workers inside opened the main gate to the paddock, and running in the direction of the slowly opening gate, the other surviving man with the Indominus hot on his heels.
"Close the gate," said Masrani.
"We can't just leave him-"
"Close the damn gate!" said Masrani as he pushed the button to close the gate.
The gate began to slowly close, and it seemed like the man inside running from the hybrid wasn't going to make it. Until he successfully ran out of the gate, and the Indominus tried clawing at him, only to be caught by the door. The hybrid struggled with all its might to keep the door open, and it succeeded. The door flung open, and all hell was going to break loose.
Lowery looked at Masrani, who had put his hands over his mouth as he processed what had just happened while Vivian was just hypnotically staring at the screens. Everyone in the control room froze and simply pondered on what happened.
The Indominus had just broken out. What did it mean for Jurassic World? No one knew of course. Maye ACU would be able to contain it before it could do some serious damage.
Lowery blinked a few times as he looked around the room again, this time, some people were panicking while a woman, who was probably a relative of one of the men who died by the Indominus, was crying into a coworker's shoulder.
"What do we do boss?" Lowery asked Masrani, who was still processing some things.
The CEO blinked out of his thoughts and then said, "Call ACU, warn them that they need to contain the asset."
Lowery nodded and picked up his phone. As he dialed, the elevator doors dinged and opened, and out came Claire, who seemed a bit distraught. Everyone in the room turned to look at her. Her breathing was heavy and then she said three meaningless words, "Everyone. Remain. Calm."
Everyone then resumed working as Claire walked down to Vivian and Lowery's desks. Lowery called ACU and told them the situation at hand. Once he hung up the phone Vivian pressed her earpiece and said, "Security this is Control, put out a park wide alert-"
"Hang up the call!" order Masrani.
"Sorry, false warning, everything's fine," Vivian said gruffly.
"Let Asset Containment handle it."
The elevator doors opened again and the security guard at the door began to sternly tell a man that he couldn't be here without clearance, but the man who walked in ignored him and yelled, "What the hell happened out there?"
Lowery, Vivian, and Masrani turned to see the man who had successfully ran away from the Indominus and clearly survived.
Lowery stared at the guy intently. Who was he? Did he even work here? Well, he was in the Indominus paddock, so that must mean that he does work here. The guy was physically attractive. Chiseled jaw, green eyes, and a burly body. His personality though, Lowery couldn't tell because all this guy was doing was yelling.
"It was an accident," responded Claire.
"It was not! She set us up! She clawed that wall to make us think that she escaped!" said the man.
"Hold on, you are talking about an animal here!"
"A highly intelligent animal."
As the two continued to dispute, Lowery could pick up that the man had to be some kind of animal expert. Maybe he was the military guy who worked with the raptors. What was his name? Owen Grady? The man hired out of the Navy for a research project. Lowery read his résumé. An animal behaviorist who deemed humans as an underrated species. From just reading that, Lowery could tell most of Owen's persona.
"You're going in with non-lethals," said Owen.
"We have twenty-six million dollars invested in that asset, we can't just kill it!" said Masrani.
Lowery couldn't believe what he just heard. The eighth richest man in the world would rather risk the lives of thousands over some damned pocket change? Lowery always knew that big time corporate CEOs were nothing but pieces of shit.
"Call those men off! They are going to die out there!" said Owen.
Masrani ignored Owen and everyone watched as ACU closely approached the target. Then, the carnage started. Men and women started dying, all while discovering that the Indominus could camouflage. What the hell did the scientists put into it?
Once all the ACU team flat-lined, Owen turned around and said, "Evacuate the island."
Lowery in his mind agreed with the man.
"We'd never reopen," Claire said.
Were they serious? Lowery now lost some respect for Masrani and Claire due to their arrogance. They were really considering risking lives and worrying about keeping their jobs right now when the most ferocious predator in the world was out on the island getting closer to the park and the guests.
"You created a genetic hybrid, raised her in isolation, she's seeing all of this for the first time," said Owen.
"You think the animal is contemplating its own existence?" Masrani asked.
"She's finding her place in the food chain and I don't think you want her to find out where she belongs."
Everyone stood quiet for a moment and then Owen spoke again, "Now, ACU has an M34 for emergency situations. Now say you attach it to a helicopter and smoke this thing!"
"I'm not going to turn this place into a warzone!" said Claire.
"You already have!"
"Mr. Grady, if you are not going to help then you have no reason to be here."
In a action of frustration, Owen knocked all of Lowery's dinosaur figurines off his desk, and Lowery just rose his hands a bit and huffed. Owen looked down at Lowery and then looked at his figurines and bent down to grab them.
"Sorry," said Owen as he put the figurines on Lowery's desk.
"It's okay," Lowery said as he began to reorganize the dinosaurs.
Owen lightly nodded and then exited the room.
Lowery watched as Owen left and then looked at his dinosaurs. He began to replay what had just happened in his mind. He was able to talk to someone other than a coworker in the control room. At least he had that going for him...
A/N: Hi guys! It's Eggy and this here is my first fanfic! I hope that you liked this and are excited for more! Lowery was my favorite character in Jurassic World and I felt like he was such an underrated character! The world needs to know more about him! Thanks for reading this chapter and come back for more!
See Ya Next Time!-EggyRico