(Isla Nublar-Jurassic World: Main Street)
Wu ordered the Bionic Rex to attack Ian and the others while Vince took Owen somewhere else. The group began to run as the Bionic Rex gave chase. The metallic dinosaur gave a growl and then tried biting Barry only to miss him by a few inches. The group then pivoted to the left and ran into Paddock Nine. They scattered about the paddock and hid behind various trees.
They thought about not moving at all, but they remembered that the Bionic Rex had the Indominus' brain, meaning that movement didn't matter to the robotic lizard. It's vision was heat sensed. It could locate warm bodies to find its prey.
Ian looked around the tree he was hiding behind and saw that the Rex was getting closer to Julie. Julie placed her hands over her mouth to not make another sound and waited to see what the Rex was going to do next. Barry ran out and got the android's attention. The Rex growled as it approached Barry, who began to step back with each step that the Rex took forward. Ian used this opportunity to run over to Julie and pull her to a different tree. Julie pointed in the direction where Claire and Lowery were. Both were hiding behind the same tree, but Lowery was making sure Claire was more hidden than he was.
Lowery and Claire may not have gotten along most of the time, but Lowery and Claire cared enough for each other to the point where they would risk their lives for the other.
Claire was worried about Owen and what was going to happen to him. Once they were out of this debacle, she'd go and find Owen and rescue him.
Ian tried his best to get their attention, but to no success. Since he couldn't get them to go to him and Julie, he decided to go to Claire and Lowery. He grabbed Julie's wrist and they walked slowly over to Claire and Lowery. Julie turned to see the Rex looking for Barry, who must've been hiding behind one of the trees. When they got to Claire and Lowery, Ian gestured toward the false log and whispered that they should get up there. The others agreed with him and they walked toward the door inside of the paddock that led to the false log. Ian saw Barry hiding behind a tree and pointed at the false log. Barry got the message and sneakily made his way to the false log. But, the Rex identified Barry's heat signature and began to chase him. Barry went into full sprint and the others soon followed his action. They made it to the door and opened it. Lowery was the last person to go through before sealing it. They ran up the stairs and went across the room with the viewing glass. They quickly looked out to see the Bionic Rex stare at them and then attacked the log. It bit down, splitting the room in two, but everyone was luckily on one side, the side that led to the exit of the paddock. They ran out of the log and we're back on Main Street and ran deep into the forest.
(Isla Nublar-Jurassic World: Raptor Paddock)
Vince pushed Owen against the ground and then put his knee on his head. Vince chuckled slightly as he pulled out his knife and ran the pointed end against Owen's skin gently so that it wouldn't cut his skin. He then lifted the knife up and held it in his hand and said, "Oh, this is going to be fun."
"Vince, why were you jealous of me?" said Owen.
"You know why."
"But, of that's the case, then why not try to be there for Ian now?"
"I shot him in the damn chest, I don't think I'll be able to regain trust from him anytime soon."
"Just, try giving it a shot."
"Enough of this stupid stalling. I brought you here to kill you, not to have a talking session."
Vince lifted the knife in the air and then threw his arm down to stab Owen. Owen closed his eyes and waited for Death's sweet embrace. But, Owen didn't feel anything. In fact, he opened his eyes to see that Vince wasn't moving. Vince's knee lifted off of Owen's face and Owen got up slowly. Owen turned around to see Vince covered in blood, his blood, and his neck in Blue's mouth. Blue snarled before ripping out Vince's jugular, killing him. Owen sighed a sigh of relief as he saw Vince die. One less obstacle to worry about on this damn mission. Only two obstacles left: Henry Wu and the Bionic Rex. Owen stood up and watched as Blue continued to mangle Vince's corpse.
"Good girl, Blue. Very good," said Owen as he walked over and patted Blue on her back.
Blue didn't respond as she continued to devour the corpse. Owen thought about how Ian would react about hearing his father being dead, but then again, Ian wouldn't really care.
"Blue, that's enough," ordered Owen.
Blue then stopped what she was doing and looked at Owen and put her head under his hand.
"We need to find the others and think of a way to stop Wu and his robot."
Blue responded with a bark and then began to walk outside of then paddock. Owen followed behind her as they went into the forest to look for the others. Owen remembered the earpiece in his ear and then pressed his finger on it and spoke, "Claire, Lowery, anyone there?"
"Owen! Are you okay?" replied Claire.
"I'm fine, but where are you guys?"
"We're in the forest heading towards the Valley. What about you?"
"I'm at the raptor paddock with Blue. We can meet up with you guys near the restricted area gate opening."
"All right. Sounds like a plan."
Owen took his finger off of the earpiece and he and Blue went on to the Valley.
(Half an hour later...)
(Isla Nublar-Jurassic World: Gyrosphere Valley)
Claire and the others arrived in the Valley and tried hiding amongst the herd of herbivores that was passing by gracefully. The Bionic Rex came out of the brush and searched for the humans. It didn't attack any of the herbivores, since it's sole mission was to kill the humans. All of them did their best to stay still and out of sight of the mechanical dinosaur. Claire and Julie were hiding behind a stegosaurus while Ian and Lowery were hiding behind an apatosaurus. Barry was hiding behind a triceratops that was lying down on the ground. The Rex stepped forward and began to sniff through its scent sensors. It sniffed the animals to see if any of them had any human scent. The Rex attacked the apatosaurus that Ian and Lowery were behind, exposing them out in the open. The two then began to run off deeper into the herd, but we're being pursued by the Bionic Rex. Lowery and Ian were about to run into the Restricted Area, when the Rex swung it's tail and hit Lowery. Lowery flew in the air and skidded on the grass, groaning in pain. Ian ran over to Lowery and picked him up. Lowery had blood coming from his shirt, meaning that the Rex had some kind of spikes on its tail or something. The two then slowly went for the Restricted Area and hid behind some trees.
Barry ran out from behind the triceratops and began to yell french words at the metallic tyrant lizard. The Rex turned around and began to walk towards Barry, who then ran off farther into the Valley.
Lowery continued to groan in pain as he sat down on the floor. Ian put his bag to the side and then tended to Lowery's injuries. He pulled Lowery's shirt off and put it over his shoulder and saw that he had four gashes on his upped body, two on his chest and two on his abdomen. Ian rummaged through his bag and grabbed some alcohol, which he got from Owen in case of an emergency, and needle and thread for stich ing up wounds, which he found in the resort.
"Lowery, this is going to hurt, a lot. I want you to do your best not to scream," said Ian.
"P-Put the shirt, i-in my mouth."
"What?"
"Put the sh-shirt in my m-mouth so that I can scr-scream into it."
Ian grabbed Lowery's shirt and stuffed it into Lowery's mouth. Ian then began to slowly poor the alcohol on his wounds, making Lowery scream loudly into his shirt, which muffled the scream.
Lowery had never had injuries as bad as this. The only time he got a terrible injury was when he fell off his bike when he was ten and he scrapped his knee caps, which hurt like hell, especially on burning asphalt. Lowery had never felt this much pain ever, even when he was kicked in nads.
Part of Ian wished that Lowery was numb right now, cause he felt bad seeing Lowery in this much pain. Ian grabbed the needle and thread and began to slowly stitch Lowery's cuts. Ian tried to be quick with the stitching, but careful with it at the same time. Barry could only distract the Bionic Rex for so long.
Ian finished stitching Lowery up and told Lowery not to move. But, Ian remembered Barry and thought that they had to move, fast.
"Lowery, do you think you can get up and move?" Ian asked as he took the shirt out of Lowery's mouth and threw it over his shoulder.
"With some help, yes I can," replied Lowery.
Ian then picked Lowrey up slowly and Lowery threw his arm over Ian's shoulder and put most of his weight on him for support. Ian quickly pressed his finger against the earpiece and spoke, "Anyone, we need to get out of here. Lowery is hurt and we need to get him somewhere safe so that he can rest a little bit."
"You can bring him over to the raptor paddock. It's empty and there's a small bunker in the paddock that he can stay in," said Owen over the static.
"All right, everyone head for the raptor paddock. But, don't rush getting over there, just take your time and get there safely please."
Lowery told Ian which direction to go to get to the raptor paddock while everyone was still hiding from the Bionic Rex.
Barry ended up jumping into a lake, where the Rex ended its chase since it couldn't go into the water.
The distraction gave Claire and Julie enough time to run into the forest, where Claire contacted Owen and told him to go back to the raptor paddock. Owen said that he sent Blue back to wait for Lowery and Ian, but he told her that he wanted to find her and bring her and Julie safely. Claire told Owen instead to get Barry from the Valley and bring him to the paddock. He agreed and went off to get Barry.
Barry got out of the lake and dried his clothes as best as he could. He then began to walk to where the raptor paddock was and was met by Owen.
"Where's Blue?" asked Barry.
"I sent her back to the paddock to wait for Lowery and Ian," responded Owen.
"What happened to you?"
"Well, Vince brought me to raptor paddock and then pinned me down to the ground. I stalled him a little bit, and it was the perfect amount of time, 'cause Blue came out and ripped out the man's jugular."
"Well, I suppose you are lucky. But, it's sad that Ian's dad met his fate."
"Ian won't care."
"You think so?"
"Well his father left his mother five years ago and went to jail. He was an abusive prick and nearly stabbed Ian mother. Now that we're here, he shot his own son in the chest and tried killing me, Ian's uncle. You really think that after all that, he'd care if he died?"
"At least a little."
"Well we'll see if he did when we get to the paddock."
"Right, let's get going."
Owen nodded his head and they went onto the raptor paddock.
(Twenty minutes later...)
(Isla Nublar-Jurassic World: Raptor Paddock)
Lowery and Ian arrived at the paddock to be greeted by Blue, who ran up to them and began to give small worried chirps as she looked at Lowery, who had some blood on his body.
The scent of blood invigorated Blue's nostrils and it made her want to kill Lowery, but Owen taught her better than that.
Humans were never supposed to be eaten, ever. It was the golden rule for the raptors.
Blue felt terrible, yet excited when she broke the rule, and immediately regretted it. The deaths of all those people made them targets, but it was worse when they betrayed the Indominus and killed all the raptors but Blue.
Blue was sad because her sisters weren't around anymore. The first time she saw Delta's carcass on the ground, she began to search for Echo and Charlie, only to find a few pieces of Charlie on the ground and a scorched Echo on a grill. Blue practically mourned over her sisters as the realization of loneliness and death came over her. She was now alone, and she had no one else like her out there, at least on Isla Nublar that is.
Blue followed Ian and Lowery as they went into the small bunker that Owen spoke about and sat Lowery down up against a steel wall. The room was small, with dirt being the base of the floor. It had four steel walls and a grate in the middle of the ceiling for air and sunlight to enter through.
Lowery shuddered as the cool metal touched his sensitive skin. Ian placed Lowery's shirt on Lowery's back so that it could make the wall not so cold. Lowery put his head back and stared at the ceiling.
"Take it easy Lowery. You need to rest," said Ian.
"No kidding," said Lowery dryly.
"You ever been hurt this bad?"
"No."
"That explains the over dramatic groans."
"What? It really hurts!"
"I understand that but if you don't want to get caught, you're going to have to tone down the groans."
"Fine."
"I'll be back. I'm going to wait for Claire and the others. I'll check up on you in an hour or less."
"Got it."
Ian stepped out of the small bunker and saw Blue digging around looking for something. This peaked Ian's curiosity as he approached the Beta.
"Blue, what are you looking for?" Ian asked slowly.
Ian wasn't stupid, he knew that Blue couldn't fully understand like Addilyn could. Ian simply waited yo see if Blue would respond in some way.
Blue's amber eyes met with Ian's electric blue ones and she tilted her head as she pondered on the sounds that came out of Ian's mouth. Blue gave a small chirp and a chitter before she continued digging holes in the ground. It seemed like Blue was digging the graves for the bones of her victims. Ian turned his head and saw the corpse of his father on the ground. Maybe Blue was planning on putting him into one of them. Ian walked over to the body and saw that Blue ripped out his jugular. Ian felt a rush of vomit rising in his throat, but swallowed hard as he pushed it down. He didn't find it necessary to vomit over seeing the body of his dead father. He wasn't worthy enough to be vomited over. Ian got down on one knee and began to inspect the body for anything useful. Ian found a knife, fully loaded pistol, and a few grenades. He put them in his bag and then was startled when Claire and Julie appeared out of nowhere.
"Girls, what happened to you two?" he asked as he helped them walk.
"Dilophosaurus," said Julie.
"What?"
"Four of them. We've encountered them before. They attacked us and we were nearly hit by their toxic venom," said Claire
Ian then grabbed onto Julie as they entered the small bunker and placed her against a wall opposite to Lowery. Claire looked at Lowery and gasped as seeing his injuries.
"Oh my, did the Bionic Rex do that?" she asked anxiously.
"Yeah, when it hit Lowery with its tail, the tail must have some kind of spikes on it, 'cause they cut him up. Four cuts, two on his chest and two on his abdomen," replied Ian.
"Poor Lowery, I never really appreciated his work. I know that he loves his job and kills himself doing it, and if it weren't for him, the Indominus wouldn't have been defeated."
"He deserves an award."
"He deserves more."
"We can discuss that later. Right now, the Bionic Rex is hunting us down. InGen has a facility somewhere that you guys didn't know about. They created another Indominus Rex, even though it was killed, but still. InGen has been working right under your noses and you never noticed. If you were to shut InGen down, I don't think it would do you any good."
"I still don't understand how they got away with the Sam Diego Incident. I mean, they set a T-Rex loose and it causes major damage and to top it off, the former and late CEO, Robert Ludlow, was killed by the same animal that he set loose. And, they still got off the hook? How do they do it?"
"I'm pretty sure it's the appeal of the masses."
"What?"
"Well, InGen is a big corporation, right? That means that they have lots of investors and sponsors. They don't just work on genetically resurrecting dinosaurs, you know? When they became a big militarized company, that's when the investors poured in. It's the people that work with them and the ones they work for."
"Makes some sense."
"But, I think this crisis happening here is going to be the icing on the cake to shutting them down."
"You really think so?"
"I'd like to believe so."
Claire sat next to Julie and continued to speak with Ian, "Even if we do shut down InGen and find a way to reopen the park, who will be in charge? Who'd be the company yo run it all? Who'd be in control?"
"Well, you'd be in charge wouldn't you? I mean, if all those companies are calling you and not someone else, then that means that you're some kind of higher power for the park. You'd have to pick a good company, that's why you'd have to think about choosing wisely, don't just shoot at it and make an impulse decision. Finally, when are we ever in control of anything? Look at the Indominus, people wanted something bigger, louder, more teeth, so you gave them one. But, you were never in control from the start. First, you raised it alone. You could've tried giving it a sibling or something."
"She ate it."
"Well, that's unfortunate. Then couldn't you have made another one after that?"
"Maybe, but we wouldn't know how the Indominus would have reacted."
"She's social and she can be friendly, with the right environment. Having a sibling was the definitive factor in her breaking out. Second, she was mistreated by the InGen workers. They injected her with needles, never cleaned her paddock, never paid attention to her. Hell, they never even put a live animal in there so that she could've at least hunted. Third, you kept her in a rather small paddock. She was going to be fifty feet long when fully grown, that paddock she was in wasn't going to contain her, and it obviously didn't. She wondered what was outside the walls and how much fun she could have killing people and other dinosaurs. The Indominus had choices to make. Did you know that she has some human DNA in her? She knows the difference between right and wrong. She probably never wanted to kill her sister. She probably never wanted to kill all those people and dinosaurs. Hell, she probably never wanted to exist!"
"I never thought of it from her perspective."
"When does anyone think like that? The only people that I know that think like that would be Lowery, Owen, Barry and myself."
"You bring up a lot of points that I can bring up to companies and their boards."
"Is that all that you think about Claire? I get it, it's nice to be organized, but there are times in life where you've gotta take things one at a time. If you keep preoccupying yourself with all of this, then it'll blow up in your face. Worry about getting off this island and saving the park, and then you can go onto companies and their boards."
Claire seemingly nodded her head as she pondered on Ian's words.
Ian left the bunker and saw Barry and Owen in the distance. He ran up to them and asked if they were all right. They told him that he was fine and then Owen took Barry to the bunker. Owen came out of the bunker to talk with Blue.
The blue streaked velociraptor have a happy bark as Owen got closer to her. Owen placed his hand on her head and rubbed the scales. She chitter in response and then ran off into the brush to find some prey to eat.
"If you do reopen the park, are you going to have to give her a new family?" Ian asked as he approached his uncle.
"Seems that way. I hope she doesn't kill them before they even get a chance to communicate. Blue is a very commanding and jealous animal. If you pay attention to another velociraptor, she starts throwing fits so that you can pay attention to her."
"Why not keep them separate then?"
"How so?"
"Just, keep Blue on one side of the paddock and have the newer raptors be on the other side, but make sure that there is a barrier so that Blue doesn't go into their territory and kill them."
"Interesting plan. I'll bring it up to Claire when the time comes. What about you?"
"What about me?"
"What are you going to do when you work at the park?"
"I'm going to work at the park?"
"You have a relationship with the Indominus, or Addilyn. I'm pretty sure you'd get the job of Indominus caretaker and expert."
"Well, I mean, it's not like I can't say no right?"
"Hey, legally, you're an adult, and you can make your own decisions, right?"
"Funny, very funny. But, I'd take it I guess."
"Good, you'd really like working here."
"I know I would. I mean, who wouldn't want to work with dinosaurs?"
Owen chuckled at the question and then watched as Blue came out of the brush, with a human hand in her mouth.
"That looks like Dad's hand," said Ian in a slightly dark tone.
"Yeah, Blue saved me from him before he could stab me to death," said Owen.
"Good job Blue. I'm very proud of you."
"Aren't you the least bit sad that your dad is dead?"
"It's hard to say. Yes, I'm sad that he's dead, but he wasn't an influence to me whatsoever. It's just, I feel, like, its-"
Ian trailed off before feeling a single tear stream down his right cheek. Ian didn't understand exactly what was happening with him right now.
"Ian, what's wrong?" Owen asked.
Ian couldn't find the words to say. His mind went blank when he opened his mouth to say something.
Owen didn't know what to do. Ian seemed to actually be crying over his father, but he wouldn't fully admit it.
"I-I think I'm crying over my Dad," said Ian slowly.
Then again, we could be wrong.
Owen then slowly wrapped his arms around his nephew as he continued to cry. Ian placed his chin on Ian's head and began to speak calming words to him and kept telling him that it was okay to cry over his father.
"Even though he was a terrible man, he'll always be my father," said Ian as he buried his face in his uncle chest, rivers of tears flowing from his eyes as he kept thinking about it.
Owen held onto his nephew as he continued to mourn, but was startled when he saw Addilyn walk up to the paddock and squeezed through the entrance of the paddock.
Addilyn saw Owen holding Ian, but something was wrong with Ian. Water seemed to be coming from his eyes, and his facial expression wasn't a happy one. This worried Addilyn a little bit. She stepped forward and gave a concerned garble. Owen slowly let go of Ian and stepped back. Ian looked up at Addilyn and then plastered a fake smile on his face.
"I'm fine Addilyn. It's just, I lost someone who was apparently very dear to me," he said as he placed his hand on her snout, making her croon softly.
Ian lost someone dear to him? When did this happen? Did Addilyn do it? Did InGen do it? The small human still let water poured down his face and the Indominus nudged Ian lightly.
"I'm fine Addilyn, really."
Ian then hugged the snout, making her chitter happily.
Addilyn wasn't stupid. The human in her could help her tell that Ian was lying. His body movement, facial expression and tone of voice gave away the fact that he wasn't fine. She then wrapped herself around him, and let Owen out by lifting her tail. Ian pressed up against her side and she nudged him with her snout. Ian was going to be there for a while.
Owen went down into the bunker and sat next to Claire, who was sleeping soundly next to Julie. He turned his head and saw Lowery sleeping as well and was concerned when he saw the stitches he had on him. Owen then put his head back against the wall and then slowly fell asleep.
A/N: Hey guys! I hope that you enjoyed reading this chapter and I hope that you come back for more! Review if you'd like, I like hearing what you have to say, it helps a lot! Anyway, stay tuned for more!
'Til Next Time!-TM341