Phineas and Ferb Visit Jurassic World! - Chapter 7: The Beginning of Trouble
A/N: Hi everyone! I've got another great chapter for this story written and ready for you all to read. Thanks to everyone who's been showing support to this story. In today's chapter, will Perry, Owen, Nick and Ellis escape the Indominus rex? Who is Doofenshmirtz's contact? Can Candace keep her mind off of busting her brothers? You'll find the answers to these questions in this chapter. I hope you guys like it!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything related to Jurassic Park/World or Phineas and Ferb except the very characters I've made up.
The great white beast rose to her full height and gave a mighty roar that reverberated through the air.
"Run!" Owen cried. He, Nick, Agent P and Ellis took off toward the nearest exit. "We can make it out through this way!"
The I. rex gave a loud snort and started to pursue them, crashing through the thicket and trampling anything that got in her path. Each footstep the beast took sounded like thunder, shaking the earth and causing everything around to quake. It would be a miracle if they escaped this creature alive. Nick was just about to rush forward and open the door when the Indominus beat them to the exit. She growled and swiped her claws down at them. The nearest target, Ellis, was quickly swept up in I. rex's claws. He cried out in fear as the monster threw him into the air and opened her jaws.
But Perry was equally quick to react. He swiped out his grappling gun and pulled the trigger. The hook and the rope it was connected to sped forward and wound itself around the dinosaur's jaws, closing them tightly shut and allowing Ellis to land on her snout. "Ahh!" Ellis screamed.
"Nice shot, Perry!" Owen said.
The Indominus rex tried hard to dislodge Ellis, who was clinging to her nostril's for dear life, shaking her head back and forth. "Somebody get me off this thing!" he shouted. A moment later, the Indominus swung her head upward and Ellis was thrown up into the air and over the side of the paddock walls. "You owe me five dollars!" he cried.
From the observation area, Claire tapped the glass to get the three's attention. "What are you doing just standing there! Run!"
"Now's our chance," Nick said. With the dinosaur blocking their way from the door through which they came in, they had to make their escape via the paddock's larger door. But as soon as they turned to run, the Indominus snapped her jaws free the rope once clenching them shut and bellowed. She saw her prey and began the chase. This time, she was determined to make a kill.
To Owen, this was one of the most terrifying moments of his life, even more so than when he faced off with the raptors. With every second, he knew the dinosaur was closing in on them. At this size, Owen thought, I bet she can eat us all in one gulp!
Above the scene of the attack, Claire quickly rushed over to Nick's control panel and monitor that controlled the main entrance to the paddock. She began furiously typing a command into the keyboard. "Come on, come on, come on!" she groaned. "This had better work." She pressed one of the keys and the door began to open. "Yes." But as Owen, Perry and Nick got closer to salvation, a chilling though occurred to her: If the door is open, then I. rex will be able to get out too! Frantically, she pressed the key that controlled the OPEN/CLOSE function for the gate.
"Why's the door closing?" Nick asked in alarm. "Don't they want us out of here?"
"Sure," Owen said, "but not that."
The Indominus snapped her jaws and knocked down a tree as she grasping for the trio. Perry chattered as he ran alongside Owen. There wasn't much time. If they didn't reach the gate before it closed, they'd be goners for sure...But wait! Owen, Nick and Perry darted through the gate before it closed, and so did the Indominus. She lunged forward and the gate closed on her immense body, causing her to yelp in pain. Even still, she pushed with all her might and the door started to give way. Within another moment or two, she'd be free!
"Find cover!" Owen exclaimed. He and Perry ducked underneath a large construction crane while Nick crouched behind a truck.
Perry glanced from under the crane just as the giant carnivore burst from containment; he gasped at what he saw. Now out in the open, the entire animal could be seen. She was humongous in size, bigger and taller than a T. rex. Though she looked like a T. rex, she differed in many ways. In addition to the dozens of gnarly teeth, her head bore a pair of characteristic horns above her eyes. A row of spines grew along the back of her necks, and also on the back of each arm. Her hands ended in four, sharply-clawed fingers. Her feet were large and bird-like in structure, indicating this creature was a fast runner. And last but not least, her back and neck were covered in several rows of tough, armor-like osteoderms. This was the Indominus rex in her full glory – quite possibly the most dangerous predator ever to walk the earth.
Alerting the world to her presence, the Indominus gave a mighty, almost raspy-sounding roar and approached the crane Owen and Perry were hiding under.
"Oh great," Owen whispered. "She's got T. rex in her DNA, so she can probably smell us under here."
As Owen predicted, the Indominus began to taste the air with her snout, slowly moving her head toward them. Perry removed his hat and pulled out a sharp knife. Then he cut one of the cables underneath the crane that was filled with brown, smelly oil that spilled out on him. Perry pushed the cable toward Owen. Owen grabbed it and nodded as the two of them covered themselves in the oil. Hopefully, it would cover their scent.
Not more than a moment later, the Indominus rex's snout appeared from above. Her nostrils flaring, she was definitely searching them out. Tense, precious seconds endured as her jaws came into view, no more than a foot or two away from our protagonists. The jagged teeth only looked more menacing up close and sent chills down Perry's spine. He and Owen exchanged glances, knowing not to make a sound. Finally, the dinosaur seemed to figure that there was nothing worth eating underneath the crane, so she lifted her head back to its proper height.
The sound of rapid footfalls alerted Perry and Owen to Nick as he sprinted away from the truck, hoping to make a get away. Indominus noticed too; her head snapped in the direction of the sound and she cackled. She turned violent again as she knocked over the truck to access Nick. Nick screamed as he ran from the beast that thundered behind him.
"No! Not me!" Nick exclaimed as he disappeared behind the other side of the paddock. The Indominus was on his tail in a flash and also disappeared behind the other side. Then, Nick's loud scream was heard before it abruptly stopped. It was followed by a hostile roar. Owen looked at Perry and vise versa – the inevitable had happened: the hybrid had claimed her first victim. Even still, they remained almost motionless under the car until the footsteps of the dinosaur indicated she'd moved away.
"That was a close one, Perry," Owen said. "It's kinda like old times, huh?"
Perry chattered in agreement.
"Yeah, I think so too. Say, we kinda make a great team."
Perry held up his fist, to which Owen responded with a fist-bump. They looked up to see a worried Claire and Ellis running toward them.
"Oh my gosh!" Claire exclaimed. "Are you OK? After the I. rex got out, I thought you two were goners."
"We heard someone scream," Ellis said.
Owen replied, "That was Nick. He didn't make it."
"I...see."
"We need to evacuate the island. If that thing remains loose, something tells me a lot more people are going to die today."
"There's an implant in her back," Claire said. "We can track it from the Control Room."
"Great," Owen said. "But how are we going to get there?"
"We can use my car." She looked at Perry. "Just don't shed all over the place, OK?"
Perry glared.
Having joined Zach and Gray, Candace and Stacy rode the monorail to the Gyrosphere Station in the island's northern plains. The line was long, but since Zach and Gray had fast-passes, they were able to skip ahead.
"That's one of the two things I really hate about theme parks," Candace said. "The long lines and hearing–"
"Hey, Ferb, I sure am glad we found out what we're going to do today!"
Candace stopped walking mid-step and her right eye began to twitch. "Wait a minute..."
Zack asked Stacy, "Um, is she OK?"
"Yeah," Stacy answered. "I don't know if you know this, but Candace has got this irresistible urge to get her brothers busted whenever they're working on a new project. She's pretty adamant about it."
Candace said, "I know that voice anywhere! Phineas!"
"We're over here, Candace!" came the reply.
Candace rushed past the crowd, until she spotted Phineas, Ferb, Isabella, Bajeet and Buford working around a dismantled gyrosphere, one of those hamster ball-like vehicles tourists could get inside and ride into the Gyrosphere Valley, where many of the park's largest and most impressive dinosaurs could be seen.
"Phineas! What are you doing?" Candace demanded.
"We're remodeling a gyrosphere," Phineas answered. He showed her the blueprints. "We're gonna increase the speed on this baby and add legs."
"We are also going to install a pair of hands so we can interact with our environment from the inside," Baljeet explained.
Gray, Zach and Stacy approached.
"Hey guys!" Gray said.
"Oh, hey Gray," Phineas replied. "You met our sister. Sweet."
"Yeah, she's pretty cool. Whatcha doin'?"
Isabella glared irritably at the usage of her catchphrase.
"Well, like we were telling Candace," Phineas said, "we're doing some improvements on the gyrosphere."
"Are you even allowed to do that?"
"We asked the Gyrosphere Station attendant and he said it was fine."
Candace turned to the attendant. She asked him, "You just let them take apart one of your hamster balls?"
The attendant shrugged. "They had good intentions, so I–"
"Don't you think they're a little young to renovate a gyrosphere?" Zach asked him.
"Well, they did build an entire picnic-themed amusement park."
"What's that?" Stacy asked, pointing to a large carousel constructed right next to the waiting line. Although in the place of horses were cartoonish-looking dinosaurs.
"We built that earlier," Phineas explained. "That's in place so that children can ride on it without getting bored while waiting to ride the gyrospheres and so that their parents don't have to listen to their kids' groaning and complaining about the long weight. Pretty cool, huh?"
As the carousel stopped, some children got off and teenagers got on (they were too bored to wait in line any longer). The carousel started and the teenagers still looked bored.
"Aw, man," one of them said. "This is almost as boring as waiting in line!"
"Looks like we have a boredom reaction," Baljeet observed.
"I'm on it," Buford said. He pressed a button on a little remote that caused the umbrella above the carousel to fold up and the poles connecting the cartoon dinosaurs to the ride suddenly rose up into the air and the entire ride began to spin faster, constantly moving the dinosaurs up and down.
"This is more like it!" one of the teens exclaimed.
Candace groaned. "If you ask me, this looks like the perfect bu–"
"Candace," Stacy said. "We're on vacation. Let's go ride the gyrospheres."
"B-but, I've got to–"
"Come on, Candace." Stacy led her friend away from her brothers and toward the queue of waiting gyrospheres.
Buford turned to Zach and Gray and said, "By the way, that British brunette girl was looking for ya in the petting zoo."
"Her name was Zara, Buford," Baljeet told him.
"Yeah, we know," Zach said.
Isabella asked, "Well aren't you going to try and find her?"
"Nah. She's slowing us down. That's why we ditched her."
"But she is awfully worried," Phineas informed them. "I mean, your aunt entrusted her to take care of you guys and it's a pretty big park."
"She'll get over it, right Gray?"
Gray shrugged. "Um...I guess."
"See? She'll be fine." Glancing quickly at the gyrospheres, he added, "I guess we'll catch up with you guys later. See ya around."
"Um, OK," Phineas said. "Bye, Gray."
"Bye, guys," said Gray as Zach began pulling him toward the gyrospheres.
"Well that could have gone better," Isabella stated.
Phineas nodded. "Yeah. I guess the best thing we can do is tell Zara we found them."
"How do we do that?" Baljeet asked. "And better yet, how do we also keep track of where Gray and Zach are at the same time?"
"Simple, you and Buford can go back to Main Street and try to find Zara. She's probably in the same general area. Ferb, Isabella and I will finish this gyrosphere and keep an eye on them."
"That's a lot of people out there," Buford said. "We've got a lot of searching to do."
"Which means we had better get started," Baljeet confirmed.
"Dad, Main Street's that way," Vanessa said, pointing down the road opposite to the direction they were going.
"I know, Sweetheart," Doofenshmirtz replied. "But we're not going to Main Street. My contact's waiting for me in the ACU headquarters."
"ACU?"
"Automatically Computerized Unit," Norm said.
"No, Norm," Doofenshmirtz corrected. "ACU stands for Asset Containment Unit. They're the guys who are in charge of making sure the dinosaurs stay in their cages." Doofenshmirtz winced. "That kind of makes me wonder why they called it the Asset Containment Unit. Why didn't they just call it the Dinosaur Containment Unit or something. Oh well, I guess that's why the world's still full of mysteries."
Doofenshmirtz drove his pick-up truck (technically it was a rental) toward a large building the middle of the jungle. After parking the truck, they loaded the equipment onto a cart and rolled it up to the front door, which was guarded by two men with guns.
"Sorry, sir," the guard on the left said, his voice deep and manly. "Authorized personnel only."
Doofenshmirtz argued, "But we're working for–"
"Sorry, sir. You'll have to turn around, get back in your car and–"
"But you don't understand. My contact's in there. I've got to touch bases with the guy."
"Sorry, but you can't–"
"Let 'em in, Cooper," said a masculine voice from behind the entrance.
Cooper and the other guard nodded and stepped out of the doorway, allowing Vic Hoskins to step out.
"Well if it isn't Hoskins," Doofenshmirtz said.
"Hi, Dr. D.," Hoskins said. "I see you have all the equipment for the...-inator."
"Yep. I've got it all right here. By the way, I don't think you've met my daughter. Hoskins, this is my daughter Vanessa. Vanessa, this is my contact Vic Hoskins."
Vanessa nodded politey. "Uh, hi, Hoskins."
"You forgot about me, sir," Norm said.
"Oh yeah." Doofenshmirtz cleared his throat. "Hoskins, this is my robot, Norm."
Hoskins looked the robot up and down. "O...K. Well, we've got a busy day here at the park, so why don't you bring all the stuff inside so we can see it."
"Sounds good to me."
Norm looked at the size of the entrance. "I don't think I can fit in there, sir."
"You just stay out here. We shouldn't be in here that long anyway."
"So Vanessa," Hoskins began, "you ever been to Jurassic World before?"
"Nope. This is my first time, not that I've seen much of anything yet."
"Ha. Well I guarantee you won't be disappointed."
"So what are you planning to do with my Dad?"
"You see, Vanessa," Doofenshmirtz said, "like I told Perry the platypus, the evil scientists at the Jurassic World laboratory–"
"Actually they're not evil scientists," Hoskins interrupted. "They're just ordinary scientists."
"Whatever. Anywho, they created a new species of dinosaur. It's a hybrid."
Vanessa raised her eyebrows. "A hybrid?"
"Yeah," Hoskins said. "Essentially, we got the desired features of several different species of dinosaurs and added them to the base genome of a T. rex."
"What are the other species?"
"Classified."
Vanessa groaned. "Serious?"
"Our head geneticist – Dr. Henry Wu – didn't want me spilling any information."
"OK then. What's the hybrid called? Or is that classified too?"
"That's not. It's called Indominus rex, meaning 'untameable king'."
"Scary, but still easy to pronounce," Doofenshmirtz said. "Kind of like Picasso."
Hoskins looked out a nearby window before he continued to speak. "Everyone thinks of that creature as a nothing more than a dangerous theme park attraction, but she's so much more than that."
"So where is she? Cause once I get this -inator set up, we'll be ready to rock n' roll."
"There's been some slight complications."
Just then, a nearby door opened and 10 ACU troopers marched out, holding taser rifles and other weapons.
"What's going on here?" Vanessa asked.
Hoskins said, "That's the thing. We had a mishap with the Indominus rex earlier and now she's running free on the island."
"Great," said Doofenshmirtz sarcastically. "What are you going to do about that?"
One of the troopers – Katashi Hamada – spoke up. "We're going after it with everything we've got."
Hoskins added, "Speaking of which, that would be the perfect time to test out the Dino-Trust-inator. How fast can you get that thing ready?"
"I can build it pretty quick. Let's do this thing!"
A/N: So we finally know who Doofenshmirtz's contact is. The stage is being set for a very chaotic day at Jurassic World! What do you think is going to happen next? As usual, be sure to favorite, follow and review on this story and I'll publish the next chapter in two weeks. Carpe Diem!
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