I'm bored in class with nothing to do so new chapter! Next we're going back to the past so ENJOY!

Chapter 1

Into the Breach

Perspective: Jared

The Venator was absolutely stunning, I stared out the windows of the bridge as we hovered over New York City.

From up there the skyscrapers were dwarfed, but even from the towering heights I looked down into Central Park, I could see the park was swarmed with thousands, if not millions of people looking up at the Venator.

"General, let's get you suited up." The engineer said.

I walked into a room with Smith, the suit I saw before me was stunning.

"What do you think?" He asked.

"It's... Incredible...but.. It's very demonic." I replied.

"Yeah, you're actually the first person besides the engineering team and I to see it, so I'm anxious to get reactions on it from personnel. It's our attempt to make you more threatening, after all you will be the face of the United States military, and you're going to be going up against dinosaurs, it wouldn't hurt if you looked a bit more intimidating. Now, try it out." He said as he pushed a button.

The suit disassembled itself from the front, revealing a human sized space.

I nervously stepped in, I hadn't worn an exoskeleton since my friend had been killed. I stood silently as my body was enveloped in the volcanic plates that made it up.

"Now that is the kind of thing you'd see in a night terror." The engineer joked.

"Speaking of which, we need a nickname for you, I'm thinking General Night Terror fits nicely." Smith said.

" Okay fine." I replied.

"Now, since you will be on the ground when we're in the past, I will command the ship during the mission, but other than that, this is yours to command." I stepped onto the bridge and all the officers stood at attention.

"Captain on deck!" They shouted.

"And Jared!" He shouted to me. I looked back at him.

"Try to act positively around the baby. Don't want him unhappy." He said with a sympathetic smile.

I turned away silently and made my way down the bridge.

I sat down in the captain's chair. I looked around. Then forward.

"Let's do this." I said calmly.

A massive, multicolored portal opened in front of the ship.

And we drifted slowly into it.

After a moment of darkness, we came in orbit around an alien planet, it was only vaguely recognizable as our prehistoric world.

I moved to the docking bay and prepared for ejection.

I was to make first contact with the mother of our target.

"I stepped into a tube." As the countdown began, I realized what I was about to do.

Suddenly I was shot from the tube and began rocketing towards the ancient earth.

About a thousand feet from the ground I fired several rocket boosters in my palms, feet and back and came to a gentle stop on the ground.

I began searching for the mother.

After several grueling hours of searching, I located her on top of a ridge overlooking the valley.

I climbed to the top and confronted her.

She stood across from me fearsomely, but I also saw something that supported the proposed intelligence theory, I also saw a hint of curiosity in her eyes, she looked me over as if trying to figure out what she was looking at.

I quickly jumped onto her head and took out a syringe, holding a brain implant that would allow her to understand me.

I inserted in quickly and she roared in pain. I stood back and held my hand out in a halting position.

"Stop!" I shouted quickly.

She seemed to be thrown off by this and stumbled back.

"You speak?" She mumbled.

"I can do a lot more than speak." I replied.

"What did you do to me?!" She demanded.

"I gave you the ability to understand me." I said.

"What are you!?"

"I am a member of an advanced race of mammal called a human. I come from the distant future, roughly 70 million years from now."

"Why are you here?!"

"For all of human history, our intelligence has vastly out done any living organism we'd ever encountered. We looked amongst the stars for intelligent life beyond our world. We are still looking. But it turns out our answer was much closer than we'd ever imagined. We dug up a skull that showed readings unlike anything anyone had ever seen. It allowed us to finally uncover the greatest find in the history of mankind."

She looked back and motioned for her children to back away.

"You." I said looking over her shoulder.

She jerked her head at me again.

"What do you want?"

"I'm looking for and extremely important member of your bloodline, it is absolutely imperative that I find him. One of your direct offspring."

"Quicks! Step forward!" She ordered.

I scanned his skull cavity.

"This is not the one I'm looking for."

"He is my only son."

She replied in a hostile tone.

I looked into her eyes, the same tell tale signs that would be seen in a human.

"You're lying." I replied. "You have a clutch of eggs then do you not?"

"No!" She roared.

" I understand that you want to protect him, but he'll be better off if I help." I said.

"And why should I trust you?!"

"Because, I already found the clutch, that dinosaur is a lucky little guy that I showed up when I did, otherwise he'd be in this friendly fellow's stomach," I said holding up a dead raptor by the neck.

"You want him to be a successful Hunter? You can teach him that, let me just make sure he shows up alive for all of your lessons." I said, tossing the raptor at her feet.

so yeah, we're taking this much slower than the first time around, so as always, thanks for reading! Let me know if this is an improvement or not! And I will see you (hopefully) for chapter 2!