"Lift me up," Gray pouted. "I can't see!"
"I'm not Dad and you're not five." Zack scoffed.
Akito soon gave Gray a lift up so he could see.
"Thanks." Gray smiled to Akito.
"Sure thing, little buddy." Akito smiled back up like a surrogate big brother.
Marc couldn't believe his eyes as he saw real living dinosaurs.
"Now do you believe us?" Akito and Estelle smirked to Marc.
Marc nodded jaw-dropped.
"This place is for little kids." Zack scoffed.
"Okay, what is with you?" Lee asked Zach.
"Yeah, you've been a pain ever since we got here." Felicity slightly glared.
"So, why have you been having such an attitude?" Eloise asked him.
"It's none of your business," Zack huffed. "I'm sick of being here."
"And I'm sick of your sass!" Lee glared.
They soon saw that Zara was busy on the phone.
"Scatter." Zack decided.
They all soon began to run.
'The next T-Rex feeding will begin in 10 minutes.' An announcement informed them.
"Come on, guys!" Gray smiled.
"Okay, let's go." Zack replied.
They all soon rushed into the T-Rex paddock.
'Parents be aware, this show may be disturbing for smaller children.' An automated voice warned.
"I can't wait to see it." Lee said.
Zack soon called a certain woman. "Hey, Mom."
'You were supposed to call me when you landed,' Zack and Gray's mother replied. 'Are you having fun?'
"Yep, we're having lots of fun with our new friends." Zack said.
'New friends?' The mother replied.
"It helps that Aunt Claire gave us passes." Zack continued.
This caused the mother to get nervous. 'Wait, she's not with you?' The mother soon asked. She then decided to call Claire and act as if she wanted to know how her sons were.
This would of course not go well for Claire as she answered the call. Simon narrowed his eyes as he was put down for a nap with some juice.
"Who's calling?" Cherry asked.
"It's my sister Karen." Claire replied.
Simon narrowed his eyes almost as if he could sense Claire was going to lie to her own sister about her sons, and where he was going to be right.
"Could you keep an eye on Simon for a minute?" Cherry asked Claire. "I'm just gonna get his snack for after his nap."
Claire nodded as she soon got onto the phone with her sister. Cherry nodded back and left while Simon was supposed to be napping, but was actually eavesdropping.
'Now let's see if my theory was right.' Simon thought to himself.
"Hey, Karen!" Claire smiled as Simon secretly implanted a device and had another one under his pillow so he could listen in on the conversation.
'Hi, Claire,' Karen replied to her sister. 'How's it going?'
"Oh, it's going fine." Claire said.
'Really? Because I just hung up with Zach, and he said that you weren't even with them and they were with some other kids they hadn't met before.' Karen replied.
Simon smirked as Claire was busted for lying.
'Yeah, look,' Claire tried to explain. 'Today turned out to be a really bad day for me. They're in great hands. They're with my assistant. She's British, so they invented nannies. Wait, are you crying?'
'This was supposed to be a family weekend, Claire,' Karen sniffled. 'You haven't seen the boys in forever. And I know how Zach will treat Gray if they're by themselves. And he can just be so mean. I'm not sure about those other kids though, but the girl Estelle seems to be babysitter material along with her boyfriend I think she called Lee.'
'See? They're in good hands." Claire said.
Simon still listened in as he took his nap.
"Cerise, I'm not sure if we should've let the kids go alone..." Forte sighed as Cherry was making Simon his after nap lunch which was mostly meat so he could drink the remaining blood and sharpen his baby fangs.
"Oh, don't worry, they're fine." Cherry said.
"You sound so sure of yourself for your children being in a park with live dinosaurs." Forte replied.
"Do I have to remind you that our kids are not normal?" Cherry looked up at him. "Atticus and I were lucky the first time, we didn't know much about ourselves back then, the first time we visited the park, we just left Cinderella."
"Oh, right." Forte said.
"See? They can handle this.." Cherry replied before holding up the meat clever as it dripped blood.
Mo cringed from the sight of blood.
"Oh, don't be such a Draculaura, Mo." Cherry teased about the vampire girl who was 'allergic' to blood back in Monster High despite being the daughter of Count Dracula himself.
"Can you put that away?" Mo asked.
"What's the matter, afraid of a little blood?" Cherry waved the blade.
"Cherry, please!" Mo gagged.
Cherry chuckled as she soon finished the snack and washed up the knife and packed up Simon's snack for now until he would 'wake up from his nap'.
"Whew." Mo sighed.
"It's okay, Mo..." Atticus soothed his wife. "Cherry didn't mean to scare you like that."
Cherry quietly chuckled in response to that which got her glares that didn't scare her this time, not even Atticus's Stare could do anything.
They soon arrived at a trailer. Cherry fed Simon his snack and after he ate, they were on the way.
"So, we're finally going to meet this Owen Grady." Atticus said.
"Unfortunately." Claire groaned.
"You love me, don't you, Simon?" Cherry cooed to her younger son in a way Drell would coo to his mole before he got back together with Hilda.
Simon nodded only once. Claire led them to Owen's bungalow which was near the sea.
"Nice place." Atticus said.
"We should have an adult vacation here sometime." Mo said as they were close by the sea.
"I'm not so sure." Forte said.
"You just went and made a new dinosaur?" Owen asked Claire after she got a hold of him.
"Yeah, it's, uh, kinda what we do here," Claire replied uneasily. "The exhibit opens to the public in three weeks. Mr. Masrani wanted me to consult with you."
"Since you have your way with the raptors and all." Atticus said.
"You want to consult here, or in my bungalow?" Owen asked.
Claire sighed. "It's not funny."
"A little funny." Owen laughed in response.
"I'm sensing some tension between you two." Forte said to Claire and Owen.
"It's nothing," Claire replied sharply before looking back to Owen. "We would like you to evaluate the paddock for vulnerabilities."
"If you would, please." Mo begged.
"Why me?" Owen replied.
"I guess that Mr. Masrani thinks, since you are able to control the raptors-" Claire started.
"See? It's always about control with you," Owen huffed. "I don't control the raptors, it's a relationship. It's based on mutual respect. That's why you and I never had a second date."
"Second date?" Cherry smirked at Claire.
"Excuse me, I never wanted a second date." Claire growled through her teeth.
"Who prints out an itinerary for a night out?!" Owen retorted.
The two began to argue about their first date together which revealed that they were once a couple.
"Aha! So you two were once a couple?" Forte asked with a smirk.
"Maybe, but can we please just focus on the asset right now?!" Claire sounded humiliated.
"Alright, alright." Forte smirked.
Cherry rolled her eyes slightly at her husband's behavior.
"But you might wanna change your shirt first." Mo said to Owen while covering her nose.
"We'll be in the car." Claire added.
They soon left Owen.
Meanwhile with the teenagers, they were now going to the Mosasaurus Feeding Show.
"This is so cool." Emi smiled.
'The Mosasaurus was thought to have hunted near the surface of the water where it could prey on anything it could sink its teeth into.' An announcer educated the audience.
"Ooh." Marc smiled.
Lee smiled since his smart brother was having fun for a change.
'Okay folks, let's see if she's still hungry after already eating today,' The announcer continued. 'She's a little shy so be nice and give her a hand when she comes out.'
"Is that a great white shark?!" Felicity's eyes widened.
"It must be bigger than I've read." Marc said.
Gray was super excited while Zach was staring at a picture of a girl he liked.
"Zach, look, she's about to come up." Akito told him.
"Oh, there it goes!" Vincent pointed with an excited laugh.
Soon enough, something huge came up out of the water. Suddenly, the big fierce reptile of the sea thunders out of the water and snaps it's jaw onto the Great-White dragging it under the water within lagoon and sending a pool of water over the audience. Soaked in water, the audience cheer and clap in total excitement and 'awe' to what they just seen.
"Yeah, splash zone!" Estelle laughed as she hugged Lee.
"Wahoo!" Lee cheered.
Zach smiling and was in disbelief to what he'd just seen, claps along with everyone else. The bleachers begin to move downwards.
"Whoa!" Marc's eyes widened as he hadn't expected that.
'Okay, hold on tight,' The announcer told them. 'We're going to give an even closer look at our Mosasaurus.'
"Ooh." Marc smiled.
When the bleachers stop moving, the audience are now sitting in the Underwater Observatory and are watching an underwater view of the reptile. Noise fills the attraction with cheering and clapping. The Mosasaur grabs the last of the great white shark eating it whole then rapidly biting it.
"It has 88 teeth." Gray pointed out.
"Awesome." Akito smiled.
"Hey, you wanna see something else cool?" Zack smirked.
"Yeah!" Gray beamed.
"Tell us what it is." Marc smiled.
Zack nodded as he went to do just that.
Back with the adults...
Simon actually fell asleep in his car-seat while Claire and Owen were on their way back to Paddock 11.
"Why do I have a bad feeling about this now?" Atticus asked.
"Because you have a Pinkie Sense or gas." Cherry deadpanned.
"Thank you, Cherry." Atticus seemed to glare in annoyance which made her stick her tongue out at him before sticking his tongue back at her.
"You two are so much like siblings." Mo teased.
"We know." Atticus and Cherry shrugged.
The construction crews are on break as Claire and Owen get out of the car. Owen stares up at the towering walls, looking unconvinced and more than a little uneasy.
"We've been pre-booking tickets for months," Claire told Owen. "The park needs a new attraction every few years in order to reinvigorate the public's interest. Kind of like the space program."
"Yep." Forte nodded.
Claire walks over to the flight up steps leading up to the observation tower. The others soon followed her up the stairs.
"Corporate felt genetic modification would up the 'wow' factor." Claire continued.
"They're dinosaurs," Owen scoffed. "'Wow' enough."
'He has a point.' Forte thought to himself.
"Not according to our focus groups," Claire smirked to Owen. "The Indominus-Rex makes us relevant again."
This seemed to make Owen to chuckle at the name.
"We needed something scary and easy to pronounce," Claire explained. "You should hear a four-year-old try to say 'Archaeornithomimus'."
"That's a tongue twister." Mo said.
"Can you say that word?" Cherry teased Simon as she carried him as he wasn't talkative for his age.
Simon responded by giving her a middle finger and a sharp glare.
"Simon!" Forte glared.
Simon glared back stoically and emotionlessly. They were soon in the observation room.
Supervisor Nick is sitting at his desk on his lunch break, munching a sandwich. Besides them, he's the only one present. Atticus began to look for the Indominus-Rex in the jungle through the glass. As before, he didn't see the I-Rex just the dense jungle of the paddock interior beyond the glass.
"Hmm... Where is she?" Atticus asked.
"What's this thing made of...?" Owen asked Claire.
The base genome is a T-Rex, the rest is... Classified." Claire replied.
Atticus soon secretly used his X-Ray vision to see where the I-Rex was. Mo stood beside Atticus as he worked his magic. Atticus soon found the I-Rex, only she wasn't moving. He then pointed so that his wife could also see.
"Maybe she's hungry?" Mo suggested.
Atticus shook his head as he had a feeling this was I-Rex's plan, but didn't understood how.
"What's wrong with her then?" Mo asked in concern for the dinosaur.
"I don't know yet." Atticus said.
Mo looked worried and concerned about the dinosaur as her husband examined it. Claire seemed to try to find the I-Rex even tried to get its attention by tapping on the glass.
"D-Don't tap on the glass..." Cherry told her.
"It's not a fish." Claire replied with a small scoff.
"It's still not coming out." Forte said.
"Something must be wrong." Cherry sighed about the dinosaur.
"Check the sensors." Claire said.
"How long has the animal been in here?" Owen asked.
"All its life." Claire replied.
"Never seen anything outside of these walls?" Owen then asked.
"We can't exactly walk it." Claire shrugged.
"Yeah." Cherry said.
There's a rumbling noise outside and a huge crane lowers a hunk of beef down from above.
"Oh, great." Mo groaned about the hunk of beef.
"You feed it with that?" Forte asked Claire about the meat.
Claire soon groaned as they acted as though they knew better than she did. "Is there a problem?"
"Owen, mind explaining?" Forte asked.
"Animals raised in isolation aren't always the most functional." Owen replied.
"Your raptors are born in captivity..." Claire retorted.
"With siblings," Owen replied. "They learn social skills. And I imprint on them when they're born. There's trust. The only positive relationship this animal has is with that crane. At least she knows that means food."
"That's right." Forte nodded.
"It's like when our kids were home-schooled," Atticus added, referring to himself and Mo. "Sure, they were home, but since they had each other, they weren't terribly alone, not to mention they met Tech and he became a great tutor for them while they temporarily moved to Acmetropolis."
"Tech would be an excellent college professor." Darla agreed as she felt the coyote was a better tutor for Eloise than Phillip was and it still gave her the freedom and luxury of not going to a public school.
"Where is she?" Cherry asked, referring to the I-Rex.
"What, is it in the basement?" Owen deadpanned to get back at Claire. "Is there a downstairs? Maybe it's in the rec room."
"She was just here." Claire said.
"Check the infra-red sensors." Forte said.
Claire went to do just that.
It performs a scan of the jungle. After a moment it emits an annoyed buzzing sound and flashes the readout "NO THERMAL SIGNATURES DETECTED." The other computer screens arranged around the room begin beeping in alarm and they all show the same words. They're not detecting any body heat inside the paddock. The Indominus-Rex isn't showing up.
"Oh, shoot!" Owen said before going off to a far off window.
"What's wrong?" Atticus asked before he saw what Owen saw and now knew what I-Rex's plan was.
"That doesn't make any sense," Nick remarked. "These doors haven't been opened in weeks."
"Then where could she be?" Mo asked.
Owen noticed a window and looked over to the others. "Were those claw marks always there?"
"What claw marks?" Cherry asked.
"Over there." Owen pointed out.
"You think it...?" Claire asked before she began to tremble out of fear as realization dawned upon her. "Oh, God!" she then ran off.
"We better go find out where she is." Mo said.
"She has an implant in her back!" Claire told the others while running off. "I can track it from the control room!"
"We'll go with you." Cherry said, referring to herself, Simon, Mo, Darla, and Viola.
Simon looked up to his mother stoically again with an angry glare in his eyes as always.
"I'll stay with you." Atticus said to Owen.
"Same here." Tech added.
"Oh, Tech." Viola bit her lip.
"Don't worry, everything will be fine." Tech assured her.
Viola frowned before she soon went off to let him do what he needed to do. The wall was soon shown with claw marks on it.
Claire is in her Mercedes racing back to the main area of the park, talking on her cell phone. "We have an asset out of containment! Put ACU on alert! This is not a drill!" she then quickly alerted.
"We hope the kids are okay." Darla gulped.
"I'll get Ellis." Owen decided.
"Okay." Atticus said.
Owen went to do just that. Viola hated to be away from Tech, but it was for the best. Claire soon called the control room. Lowery and Vivian chatted with each other until their phone rang. They soon answered the phone call.
"Yeah, hello?" Lowery took the call.
"Lowery, get me coordinates on the Indominus." Claire reported.
"And make it fast." Cherry added.
"It's urgent!" Claire begged.
"Okay, yeah." Lowery replied before doing what was asked of him.
