The three of them were on the monorail heading to the Gyrosphere attraction, Zach and Gray were sat on one seat while Marissa was across from them, she watched as Zach pulled out his phone and ignored the call for what had to be the 50th time.
"Have you tried telling her, maybe you don't wanna talk right now." Marissa spoke once he's put away his phone.
"I did, she won't hear it." Zach responded.
"Little bit clingy?" Marissa guessed.
"Little more than a bit."
"Want my advice?" Marissa asked and Zach nodded surprised. "Tell her how it is. I can tell just by looking at you that you're not enjoying your time here because of her. No disrespect."
Zach shook his head. "I think I'm gonna break up with her. But for right now," Zach looked up at her through his lashes. "I'm gonna take the time to enjoy this."
Marissa smiled at his reference. "You know you're not half bad Mitchell."
"I could say the same about you Sanchez."
Their flirting was interrupted by Gray's question from out of nowhere.
"If Mom and Dad get divorced, will one of us be with Mom and the other with Dad?"
"What?" Zach asked disbelievingly, wondering where that came from. "Why would you say that?"
"Because they are."
"No, they're not getting- They're not getting divorced. Look, you haven't been around long enough. They've always been that way."
"They get mail from two different lawyers."
"That doesn't mean anything."
"I Google'd. They're divorce lawyers." A tear ran down Gray's cheek.
"All right, whatever. You know what? It doesn't matter. Okay? I'm gonna be gone in two years anyway. All my friends' parents are divorced." He looked over and saw the tears coming from Gray's eyes.
"Hey, knock it off. You gonna cry?"
"No." Gray said wiping his eyes.
"Look, you're gonna get two of everything. Right? Two birthdays, two Thanksgivings. Two—"
"I don't want two of everything," Gray said tearfully.
"Yeah, well, it's not up to you. There's a point you have to grow up." Zach said harshly.
"My parents are divorced." Marissa said surprising both boys. "I was probably around your age when it happened. And I know it seems like it now, but not the end of the world. Everything always works itself out. And whatever happens, it's not your fault." Gray nodded and took in every word she said, then before he or Zach could responded the monorail had stopped and it was time for them to move on.
Thanks to their wristbands they were able to move straight to the front of the line, much to the disgruntlement of the other patrons.
Marissa was on her phone texting Claire for updates on the park as well as her meeting with Owen but was receiving no response, which was strange. And unknown to her Zach was staring at her intently while Gray rambled on about how the dinosaurs were resurrected through science.
"The soft tissue is preserved because the iron in the dinosaur's blood generates free radicals, and those are highly reactive. The proteins and the cell membranes get all mixed up and act as a natural preservative. DNA can survive for millennia that way. Even if the amber mines dry up, they'll still have bones—"
"Shut up," Zach interrupted.
"What do you think is gonna happen from you just staring at her?" Gray asked loud enough for Marissa to look up from her phone and Zach to glare down at Gray.
"Thanks, man," Zach said angrily.
"You're welcome."
Marissa smiled then finally it was their turn to board the gyrosphere. "How many?" the teenager operating the ride asked.
"Three." Marissa responded and he pulled up the three seater gyrosphere, Gray climbed in first followed by Marissa then finally Zach.
"Later Mini," the operator said, "enjoy the ride."
"Hey, there. I'm Jimmy Fallon," a voice said as the man came onto the tiny screen in the sphere. He was dressed in a lab coat with what looked like a lab behind him. "Welcome to the Gyrosphere, an amazing machine made possible by science. Your safety is our main concern. Which is why you're behind our invisible barrier system which protects you from things like Dilophosaurus venom." He turned around and accidentally hit some bottles with his teaching stick which caused green liquid to spurt in his face. "One drop of this can paralyze you, so watch out." He looked at someone off-screen. "Is this real? It is?" He fell onto the floor.
'PLEASE STAND BY' displayed on the screen before Jimmy came back on the screen. "And for added protection, each vehicle is surrounded by aluminum oxynitride glass. So tough, it can stop a .50-caliber bullet," he picked up a gun and shot at a piece of glass, and it fell over, breaking the cabinet behind it. "The Gyroscopic technology will keep you upright at all times, so you've got nothing to worry about."
"Where are they?" Gray asked excitedly.
"Oh, man," Zach said.
He pulled ahead and they found themselves in the midst of a running herd of dinosaurs.
Suddenly, 'RIDE CLOSED' appeared on the screen over Jimmy messing something else up, with a voice saying, "Due to technical difficulties, all our exhibits are now closed. Please disembark all rides and return to the resort."
Gray sighed in disappointment, and even Marissa had to admit she was upset, this was her first time riding the sphere.
"Come on, we can stay out a couple more minutes," Zach insisted.
"But they said it was closed," Gray said.
"Aunt Claire gave us special wristbands, right? Rissa' has one too. We're all VIP, dude."
"I don't know about this Zach." Marissa protested softly.
"Come on. It'll be fun." He pushed the joystick forward and they propelled further into the valley as the dinosaurs took off, and it almost felt like they were racing them.
Zach's phone rang and this time pulled out his phone and put it to his ear. "Hey, Claire…I can't really hear you. Gray, Rissa' and I are in the hamster ball…Hello? Hello?" He pulled the phone away from his ear and turned it off.
"Something wrong?" Marissa questioned.
"Bad connection."
He moved them around the valley some more before they came upon an open gate, only it looked like it was open because something has torn through it.
"What happened here?" Zach asked. He looked at his fellow passengers. "Guys. Off-road."
"But they told us to go back," Gray said.
"I agree with Gray," Marissa joined in. "We've had our fun now it's time to go back, something must be really wrong. They don't close the park down for just anything."
"I'm just worried you're not getting the full Jurassic World experience." He put his finger over his lips and pulled forward through the gate.
Zach pulled up on a group of Ankylosaurus' and this time Marissa's phone rang. She pulled it out and this time it was Owen calling.
"Owen?" She said by way of greeting as she answered the phone.
"Mini, thank God. Where the hell are you?"
"I'm in the gyrosphere with Claire's nephew's."
"You guys need to come back in right now. It's a phase 1 real world, code 19 you hear me? Phase 1! Code 19!" Marissa's blood ran cold at those words and immediately start to tell Zach to take them back right now but was cut off by Gray raising a shaky hand to point to the reflection in the gyrosphere.
"Guys? Look."
The three of them slowly turned around to find a huge dinosaur rising above them that was white and unlike any dinosaur they'd had ever seen the blood on it's teeth showed that it carnivore. Then it opened its mouth wider than any dinosaur should have the ability to do and let out a huge roar.
"Go, go, go!" Gray screamed.
Zach tried to move the gyrosphere, but the dinosaur hit it with its foot, sending them all spinning across the forest floor and knocking them into several of the other dinosaurs.
"Hold it together, man!" Zach cried to a screaming Gray, his arm thrown across Marissa.
They finally stopped spinning when the dinosaur came near them again Marissa gripped onto Zach's arm tightly and held onto Gray with her other arm.
"Drive! Drive! Go!" Gray screamed to Zach.
Zach began moving the gyrosphere away, but one of the dinosaurs' tails rammed into it which propelled them into a tree and flipped them upside down. When Zach tried to move joystick, nothing happened. They were stuck.
They all watched in horror as the huge dinosaur fought with the remaining Ankylosaurus. It tried to bite the shell, but quickly realized it couldn't break through the hard surface and it managed to flip the shell over before biting the Ankylosaurus' head with a loud sickening crack. Gray looked away and Marissa buried her face in Zach's shoulder, the sounds being more than enough.
"We're safe in here, right?" Gray asked.
"Yeah, they're totally safe," Zach whispered trying to sound comforting, though it didn't sound like he totally believed what he was saying.
Zach's phone, which had fallen to the ceiling of the gyrosphere, started vibrating then, Claire's face filling the screen with the incoming call.
"Zach!" Marissa said urgently. "Get the phone, get the phone, get the phone, get the phone!"
The two of them started attempting to grab the phone before it drew the attention of the dinosaur.
"Guys," Gray whispered.
"I almost got it," Zach said.
"Zach?"
"Yeah?"
"Look."
Zach and Marissa looked up to find the yellow sinister looking eye of the dinosaur staring into the gyrosphere. The dinosaur placed its claw on the sphere then turned it around and then began moving it back to the upright position. One of its claws burst right through the supposedly unbreakable glass, making them all jump and shake with fear.
It opened its mouth and came straight for them. All three of them began screaming as the dinosaur's mouth tried to eat them through the glass. At first, it was unsuccessful with the slippery glass material. But then its teeth clamped down into the gyrosphere and hefted the whole thing up into the air. Then it slammed it back on ground, breaking the glass behind them.
Quickly Zach began to undo his seatbelt urging the other two to do the same. When the gyrosphere slammed down for the third time, the three of them fell out the back and onto the floor.
Zach covered Gray and Marissa as the dinosaur slammed the gyrosphere down over them the jagged broken sides barely missing them.
"Go! Go!" Zach screamed. The three of them got up and took off running, in no particular direction, just away from that dinosaur.
They made it into a clearing, and just when they thought they were safe, the dinosaur came barreling through the trees. They stopped running when they came to the edge of a waterfall.
"We're gonna have to jump," Zach said quickly.
"What?" Marissa shrieked
"I can't," Gray panicked.
"Are you ready?"
"No, no Zach. I can't swim." Marissa said panicking.
"Trust me alright." Zach said grabbing her hand. "You trust me?" Marissa nodded and gripped his hand tighter. "One, two - Come on!"
The three of them jumped off the cliff just as the dinosaur was about to catch them. Marissa had to let go of Zach's hand to try her best to move in the water. A hand on her foot pulled her down further into the water, and she saw Zach with a finger over his lips again Gray was close by him.
Finally, the dinosaur retreated from the waterfall and they all broke the surface, gasping for breath.
Zach hooked an arm around Marissa's waist when she started splashing around above water trying to keep afloat, "I got you, I got you." He said reassuringly, "It's okay, put your arm around me." he instructed and she did then he started kicking towards the edge, Zach helped Marissa pull herself to the bank and Gray was just behind. Gray quietly whimpered and Zach looked over at him.
"You jumped."
The both of them began laughing and Zach pulled his brother close to him.
"Rissa'," Zach said as he and Gray pulled away. "You okay?"
Marissa nodded shakily, Zach frowned but said nothing as he pulled her into a hug next. Gray joined in wrapping his shorter arms around them the best he could making it a group hug.
The question that was all on their minds though, they were too afraid to ask.
Now what?
Ivana Bocanegra: Yeah I wish the chapters could be a bit longer myself but with this type of movie it is what it is, this story was also a really impulsive decision. Speaking of your Havok/OC could I get some more backstory, I know you want her to have plant powers but is there anything about her life you'd like to see? It would really help my writing process. Much luv as always.
