Prehistoric Park

Marine Fame, Pt. 1

Ron drove another load of supplies to the N2, and Dylan looked at the man as he unloaded everything.

"I have no idea what he's doing, but he's been packing like crazy for two days: every dinosaur and extinct animal book we have that isn't in Nigel's office is in that sub, he has enough food for about three months, for the entire capture team, Veronica and those Spinosaurs of his, and a minisub! He's up to something."

Ron hopped into the N2.

"Ok, now to get the team."

Dylan entered the sub and looked at Ron.

"What are you up to?"

"We're going on a trip."

"But where? Come on, Ron, you've been doing a lot of packing just for you and that raptor."

"The entire team, dumbass. We're going to capture some fish."

"A long term capture mission. Nice."

The raptor and Ron gave a chuckle, or an amused croon in the case of Veronica.

"I'm scared, Ron. That raptor's acting more like you every day."

"Well, any animal that spends time around someone for long enough starts to act like them, birds included, and evidently, dinosaurs."

Dylan sat down.

"What're we after this time?"

"Well, I decided to go after a famous shark first. No one's ever seen them, but the name's feared enough."

"What is it?"

"Carcharodon Megalodon."

Dylan laughed.

"You're shitting me. No one's crazy-"

Both raptor and human chuckled and crooned.

"I should've shut my fucking mouth."

"Go get the team. Nigel should be back from his mammoth trip."

"Just because Martha needs a real mammoth herd doesn't mean you can make jokes."

The raptor was the only one to show their amusement.

"Go get the team. I'm make one last trip and get the last of the supplies."

Dylan got out and got to one of the few American 4X4s in the park.

"The biggest motherfucking shark in history and Ron's planning to capture one? He's insane, and that raptor is taking after him! Then again, Nigel hired him because he is crazy." Ron and the young raptor drove back to the complex one last time.

Bob had heard of Ron's rather crazy plan.

Thankfully, he had a special area of the park's oceanfront penned in for big seaborne animals.

"Ron's not an idiot. If he can capture a Sarcosuchus, a shark can't be too hard."

Meanwhile, Ron and his team had boarded the N2 and were preparing to go out.

"We'd better have our wills in accord." "Oh, relax! All you guys have to do is set up the time portal!"

Michael, now one of Prehistoric Park's new game wardens under his younger brother's command, started crying.

"That thing is going to kill us."

Ron chuckled as Nigel boarded the sub.

"I heard you were going after some sharks."

"Megalodon. These guys are scared of it; hell, I'm scared, yet I'm going."

"They have good reason, Ron; Megalodon were almost the size of the whale shark."

Ron chuckled.

"Think bigger, Nigel. Biggest estimate is 20 meters."

Dylan laughed nervously. Ron activated the time portal.

"Alright, people. We're going through!"

Nigel got out of the N2 just before it went through.

The sub entered the waters of Oligocene California.

Ron and Veronica got to the minisub where the capture pens for the Cambrian animals were before Ron replaced them with the minisub dock.

He got into the minisub and Veronica followed.

He put on a headset and a modified one for Veronica, just so they could communicate with the N2.

"You should make landfall. I'll go looking for doom sharks." "Better you then us."

"Good luck, people. Set up base camp. We'll be back soon."

Back at the Park

Bob had set up a small anti-marine animal fence, so not even the biggest whale could break through.

"The fences are titanium and steel, so that those Megalodons can't break through."

Little did Bob know that Ron's monster shark was coming in very soon.

Back with Ron

"That's a big shark."

At 25 meters, this Megalodon was a female, bigger then any Carcharodon carcharias (scientific name for the Great White Shark) he'd ever seen.

Hell, it probably dwarfed most Megalodons!

"Veronica."

The Raptor crooned questioningly.

"We're going to need a bigger boat." (AN: I've always thought of Jaws as one of the last Megalodons on Earth, so Jaws needed a mention)

The shark was just cruising by.

It didn't see the sub.

Unfortunately, other Megalodons nearby did.

Ron started turning the sub away from the area, but the sharks were on his tail.

The sonar that Ron installed was going crazy.

He sighed as he calmly turned on the radio.

"DYLAN!"

"Christ, Ron, what's up?"

"I have a school of Megalodons after me and I hope those time portal buoys are set up!"

"A school? What, the students decide to go to lunch?"

"Not funny, Dylan. Time portal, now!"

"By your command, boss. Buoys are 200 meters away and closing."

The Megalodons would be half-way to eating a human and a raptor by the time they got there.

Thankfully, Ron's first job as a game hunter was to take care of a few great whites without killing them.

He drove a minisub like this one in a way sharks that a hard time catching.

Ron decided for some fancy driving.

The raptor hung on as Ron pulled the minisub through some hairy turns that the sharks couldn't match, but could follow.

Once Ron was past the buoys, Dylan activated the portal.

Ten Megalodons ended up in a salt water home at Prehistoric Park, where a new prey item, Texas Bull Steer, was to be fed to them.

Thankfully, the animals bred on their own, so all the keepers had to do was put them in the pens when it was feeding time.

Ron chuckled.

Megalodon was a success.

Back at the Park

Bob looked at the monsters Ron had brought back.

"My word."

Nigel nodded silently.

Megalodon was the biggest shark in history, bar none.

"Bob."

"Yeah, Nigel?"

"I think we're going to need a bigger boat."

"I think we need to get these sharks a bigger pen."

Back with Ron

Both Ron and Veronica got ashore with no trouble from any more Megalodons or other sharks and predatory whales.

"Enjoy being bait, mate?"

Ron chuckled as he patted Justyne's shoulder.

"No. I have a dinosaur to watch out for."

Just then, a weird looking wolf-like animal attacked the team.

"Great, Andrewsarchus mongoliensis. I hate these things. They aren't related to wolves or lions, but sheep!"

Veronica attacked the sheep-dog with her claws and teeth, mauling it badly and killing it with the sickle toe going into the throat, suffocating it and bleeding it out.

"That's what I love about raptors: no matter the odds, they always kill something."

She started eating the hoofed animal and Ron watched his baby raptor eat the mammal with no trouble.

"Sometimes, I love this job."

What, thought that I wouldn't try and bring back this evil shark?

Never think I won't bring back anything: Megalodon's my favorite shark, and I love that thing! Along with Spinosaurus and T. Rex, that thing could be the greatest predator of all time.

And why is Veronica taking after Ron? Easy: animals take after anything they stay around for a long time, in this case, Ron, and he nursed her back to health. Don't be surprised if she walks up to Ron with nesting material: I heard of a penguin doing that once.

Next time: in the Jurassic, the king of sea monsters is next.

Don't know what it is? Watch Walking with Dinosaurs part three.

Ja Ne!