Jurassic Lands

by Twixst of the slough

Blue lost her family, her alpha is gone now, & she is the sole raptor left on the island. After being rescued from an Ingen plot by a castaway named Kenny, Blue realizes that she doesn't have to be alone anymore. But Blue can't forget the horrific nightmares & hallucinations that she now suffers, & Ingen's coming back to seize the islands. A war is coming. M for lemons & more

10. Chp 9: Revelations (Part 1)

Hello everybody! What a wonderful year it has been!

[Tens of thousands of guns cock and point at me]

Oh yeah… I forgot that you all more than likely hate me. Please allow me to explain?

[Guns lower slightly]

The past year has not been wonderful. It has been one big pile of shit. Family troubles, college, traveling, it has been so busy and so full of shit. But let me tell you all something.

I'm the shitty one.

You want to know the real reason why I haven't actually uploaded a chapter in a fucking year? Well here's a hint: it's none of the above.

The real reason is because I procrastinate… a lot. I had PLENTY of time to write between when I ended my senior year of high school and started college, as well as the weeks between the end of my freshman year of college and the start of my summer statistics class, but I procrastinated in writing this.

Don't get me wrong, I fucking LOVE writing for all of you. The problem is that it takes so long for me to get in the zone and to make significant progress in writing. I get distracted easily because my focus is very fragile. I need to have the perfect environmental surroundings in order to write and if there's an argument happening around me, if the area where I am is too hot, or if I think that I'll have to stop writing within half an hour, then I won't be able to write anything.

This is by no means an excuse, nor a request for your forgiveness. Besides I don't think you'll forgive me for making you wait this long. I just wanted to let you know why I have taken so long to write this and edit the past six chapters. You don't have to forgive me, I just hope that you can understand me.

I wanted to let you know that I have edited the previous chapters for THE LAST TIME. Chapter 3 hasn't seen much improvement, so you don't have to go back and look at it. The thing is that, I don't have a solid plan for writing. I write by the seat of my pants. I have several pages of notes, a pretty solid idea of how I want the story to go, and I look at my notes to make sure that I'm not forgetting anything. Apparently, I forgot to do that. Chapters 4-5 have pretty much been rewritten so I strongly suggest that you look back at them and reread them (since the end of this chapter will be confusing to those who don't. I also recommend that you reread 6-8, as they've also seen some changes. I have started informing you on when I edit and upload chapters, that way you don't have to read through them to see if they've changed. Again, this is the LAST time that I go back and rewrite them. You gotta dance with the one that brung ya...

I know that what happens in this first scene isn't exactly what I said in the preview for this chapter, but screw it.

Disclaimer: I do not claim any ownership over the Jurassic Park/World films or their stories. All credit goes to the staff and creators of the movies and inspirations that I drew from. This includes but is not limited to: Universal Studios, Legendary Entertainment, and Industrial Light and Magic. I also do not claim ownership over any musical themes or songs that I use in my story. I strongly recommend that the original source of the music that I use are checked out so that they get the due credit they deserve. If any conflict arises because of these musical tracks then I will be more than happy to remove them. Please don't sue me, I am just a humble writer trying to entertain fans of dinosaurs.

Remember: {Braced text is dino speech that Kenny can understand.}

[Bracketed text is dino speech that Kenny CAN'T understand.]

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"Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe."

Gail Devers

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[February 4th, 2016- 1:26 am

Old Visitors Center]

[Blue's POV]

"BLUE! BLUE! WAKE UP WE HAVE TO GO NOW"

I was forcibly shaken awake as I saw Kenny with a frantic look in his eyes shaking me.

"What's-what's going on Kenny?" I asked, somewhat groggily, yet alert at the same time.

"It's InGen, Blue!" Kenny franticly said as he pushed me up onto my legs. "They came back and somehow managed to find us. We have to leave now!"

"But we don't have a way to get off of the island now." I said after I shook my head to get rid of my drowsiness.

Kenny led me out of our nest and quickly grabbed his backpack before putting it on and grabbing his guns. He frantically ushered me down the steps and out the front doors.

"Don't you worry about that Blue! We just have to hide." Kenny said as we ran through the woods next to our home. "Once I get you somewhere safe we can figure out a way to take them out."

I was about to ask him where we were going and why we weren't taking our jeep, but I was cut off by the sound of a helicopter approaching us.

"Shit! They found us!" Kenny shouted as a spotlight shone down on us. "Run, Blue! RUN!"

I tried to move faster but I couldn't as I fell onto the ground. My legs has gotten tangled up in some vines. Kenny started to run back to me but cried out in pain when he was gunned down by the people in the chopper that were chasing us.

"Kenny! KENNY! PLEASE NO!" I cried as tears started flowing down my face while Ingen soldiers ran towards me. "PLEASE GOD NO!"

I felt myself being grabbed as I struggled to get myself free.

"Hold the bitch down!" I heard someone say as I felt a needle poking at my neck. "I said hold her down! I need her to be held still so that I can get a clean injection!"

I kicked at the guy holding my legs and was able to knock him back. Immediately after I gained a bit of movement I was able to reach up and lash out at the man trying to hold onto my arms. I got a clean cut on his arm, only… the scream sounded weird.

[9:41 am]

My eyes snapped open and I jumped up onto my legs as I saw that I was still in our nest. I was breathing frantically and sitting down as my heart was beating extremely quickly. I felt that my scales were slick with sweat. My head was pounding and I raised a claw to my muzzle as I tried to steady my vision. The first sounds that I clearly heard was the loud booming clap of thunder and the heavy rain pounding against the tarps that Kenny had tied up over the gaps in the ceiling.

"What-what h-happened to m-me?" I asked as I finally steadied myself and felt my head clear.

"It's okay Blue, you just had a really terrifying nightmare." I heard a strained voice say. "I'm just glad that you're awake and okay, girl."

I looked up and in an instant, I felt my blood turn ice cold. Kenny was leaning against the dresser that he had in the balcony while sitting down. He was holding onto his right arm and I saw that it was bleeding as his hand only covered about half of the cut that I gave him. I whimpered in shock and sadness as I stepped back and tripped over our nest as Kenny reached out with his injured arm.

"Blue, please. It was an accident." Kenny tried to tell me as I scooted away from him. "You didn't mean it. It's not that bad."

"That's bullshit." I thought to myself as I got up and backed away from him. I looked at the stairs and Kenny caught my gaze.

"Blue, please don't go…" Kenny pleaded.

"I'm so sorry…" I sobbed as I bolted towards the stairs, nearly losing my footing as I ran towards the front doors and bolted out of the building.

No matter what I thought, I never looked back at the old park center. I couldn't. I would never be able to go back there after what I've done. I felt my heart continuing to beat much faster than normal and my head was pounding. I felt the tears from my eyes streak down the scales on the sides of my muzzle. The only sounds I heard were my whimpering and quiet, broken sobs as I ran through the forest and sheets of rain.

I didn't know how far I ran, or how long I did. Despite not having skin or any form of clothing on, I felt soaked as the pouring rain fell in sheets and ran off of my scales. When I slipped and fell face-first into the wet mud, I crawled over to a tree. I stopped where I was and I didn't even look at my surroundings as I just fell onto my back against a tree as I started full-on sobbing.

"I can't believe it! I can't believe I fucking did that! How could I, how could I hurt him? How could I possibly hurt the love of my life?!" I wailed as I leaned against the tree. "I love him. I love him so much and I hurt him so badly!"

I continued sobbing and wailing as my cries echoed off the trees. I didn't care if anyone heard me…

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[Kenny's POV]

"I know why she did it, she was just really scared." I said as I leaned against the dresser while Yumi held a large medical bandage against my upper right arm. "I think that she had another panic attack, only this one was in her sleep."

Yumi reached her head under my arm and grabbed the bandage with her teeth while making some kind of sound.

"What was that?" I asked to which Yumi held up a claw and finished tying my bandage. Then she reached down to her ankle and started to unfasten something that was wrapped around it. "I'm just saying, you shouldn't talk when you have something in your mouth."

Yumi sat down and unhooked the small belt strap that was keeping it on her ankles before standing up and picking it up with her mouth. She then walked over to me and put it in my lap and motioned to it. I opened the small leather package and inside was what looked like an earpiece that had MASRANI global written on it with an r in a circle next to it. I looked at it and then back at Yumi.

"Do you want me to wear this?" I asked, to which Yumi looked at me with half-lidded eyes and a flat face. "Okay, okay."

I put the earpiece on my right ear and immediately got an earful from Yumi.

"{Are you fucking serious? I give you an earpiece and you have to ask me to put it on?}" Yumi ranted "{What? Did you think that I just wanted you to look at it, like I was fucking advertising it? The newest invention created by a collaboration between MASRANI global and Yumi Nteel of the Arms Nteel pack. A wonderful bridge in the communication between humans and dinosaurs alike, guaranteed to-}"

"Okay, okay, Yumi. I get it." I quickly apologized. "I'm sorry, okay. I honestly didn't know what you wanted me to do with it."

"{No, no Ken. I should be the one apologizing to you.}" Yumi said, lowering her head and tail to the ground in submission. "{It's just, what happened with Blue made me upset. I wanted to show that to both of you this morning. I wanted this to be a happy morning but instead those words are the first ones that you heard me say. I'm really, really sorry, Ken.}"

"Yumi, it's okay. I forgive you." I told her, ruffling her head. "It's like you said, you didn't mean to act like that. I understand why you're on edge. Your niece just ran out sobbing after having a panic attack in her sleep. What were you wanting to tell me?"

"{That you shouldn't have tried to wake up Blue while she was in the middle of a nightmare.}" Yumi said. "{Isn't that what you wrote in your journal?}"

"Yeah, you're right." I answered before the shock of what she said took me. "Wait a minute, you read my journal?"

"{Of course I did.}" Yumi said. "{I needed to know what has been happening to Blue, and you seem to know her better than I do, despite how much time I've been spending with her.}"

"{Is everything okay in there?}" I heard my mom say. "{Where is Blue?}"

"{You should probably get dressed.}" Yumi told me. "{I'll go and give her the bad news.}"

"Okay, thanks." I told her.

I started to reach into my dresser and get some clothes that I had retrieved from the gift shops and stores a couple of days ago. As I was pulling on my Rexy t-shirt and vest, I noticed that my laptop was sitting on top of some sort of open book and that it had a sticky note attached to it. After I got my cargo shorts, belt, as well as my socks and hiking boots on, I read the note. It said: "Make sure that your raptor girlfriend reads this too. We want BOTH of you to see it. By the way, charge this first. Whoops." Just like before, this one didn't have an actual signature on it.

After I had finished gathering up the usual stuff that I kept in my pockets, picked up the laptop and made sure that I didn't lose the page that the book was on, whatever it was, I headed outside to where I heard my mom crying as Yumi comforted her. I was glad that I had attached a tarp to act as a small shelter for the front doors of our home. When they noticed me walking towards them Mom looked at me and saw my injury.

"{Oh my god! Are you alright, Kenny?!}" Mom asked me.

"Yeah, I'll be fine." I said as I waved my right arm in the air, forgetting that was the injured one. "It's not deep."

"{Why did you bring your laptop out here?}" Yumi asked me.

"I think someone here wants to leave us, specifically me and Blue, a message." I told them as I sat down between and in front of them before I opened the laptop and powered it up. "I thought that it would be best if I showed it to you first. Why don't you two meet me over at the garage around the corner, that way less of us will get soaked. You don't mind, do you mom?"

"{No, of course not, I don't want your cut to get infected and/or take longer to heal.}" Mom told me.

"I just remembered that I gotta charge this up anyways, so we can talk about something else while we wait." I said as I headed back inside.

I knew that there was a solar-powered generator inside of the garage and that it, at the very least, had most of it's power so I headed straight there with my laptop, as well as a few towels in my backpack. When I got there, the first thing that I did, was set the laptop on a counter and lifted up the garage door. As soon as I did that, I saw a soaked Yumi and mom standing outside. I knew that mom couldn't get in here without crushing and damaging things, so I motioned for Yumi to come in and started to dry her off. Yumi smiled and nuzzled her thanks while chirping once I had finished drying her off.

"Let me get you something soft to sit on." I started to say before Yumi put a claw on my shoulder and stopped me.

"{Don't, we have business to do.}" Yumi said as she looked me stern in the eyes. "{You called us over here for a reason, let's get to it. I'll lay down on the concrete.}"

I was surprised by her stern, yet fair nature. I knew that she was right though, so I walked around the trailer and got the solar-powered generator before plugging it in and walking back over to the front of my jeep. I sat down in front of it and motioned for Yumi to sit down next to me. As if knowing that I wasn't going to let her win without giving her at least some form of comfort, she sighed in resignation while sitting down next to me and laid her head in my lap.

"I never knew that something like this would happen the last time I was here. If that hybrid hadn't broken out, I would have been able to spend so much time with Blue, and all of you as well." I said as I noticed them staring at me in curiosity. "Well, I guess now I have to tell you all, don't I?"

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[December 27th, 2015- 8:00 am]

[Isla Nublar- Hilton Resort and Spa, room 1501]

"GAHHHH!" I screamed as a the sound of a loud T-Rex roar woke me up instantly and made me kick off the sheets in fear. In a hurry I reached for the phone on the night stand, almost knocking it off, and picked it up.

"Good morning, Mr. Serno." The receptionist, Vivi Anrens answered. "This is the wake up call for 8:00 am that you requested."

"Ugh… thanks for that Vivi." I groggily thanked. "I forgot that I asked for a T-rex sound to be played. It worked by the way."

"Well I am glad to hear that Mr. Serno." Vivi cheerfully asked. "By the way, you know what today is right?"

My eyes widened and I jumped out of bed screaming in joy while still holding the phone to ear.

"Oh shit, I almost forgot!" I shouted into the phone. "Today I finish my training! I can't wait!"

"Owwww…" I heard a mocking groan of pain. "I think I've gone deaf in my left ear."

"Oh sorry about that, Vivi." I apologized. "Well I should get going, thanks for waking me up."

"It is no problem, Mr. Serno." Vivi happily replied. "I hope that you have a great day at work!"

"Thank you, Vivi!" I told her. "Bye!"

"Bye." Vivi said as she hung up.

I put down the phone and it took a few minutes for me to get over the excitement of what was going to happen today. When I did, I flipped out.

'YES! I AM GOING TO BE A PALEO-VETERINARIAN!" I shouted in joy.

"SHUT THE FUCK UP!" I heard a male voice shout from the next room.

Remembering my manners, and the time, I hurried up and got dressed. No sooner than I had ran out of my room did I remember that I forgot to get a shower. I quickly ran back into my room and got my shower, as well as changing into some clean clothes, I headed down to the lounge for breakfast. I ate what I usually did at hotels, two waffles, some eggs, sausage, muffins, pastries, orange and apple juice, fruit pieces, and toast.

I looked around and saw that some people were giving me odd looks when I accidentally choked on some of my food due to how fast I was eating it. I also looked kind of sloppy, but I didn't care what they thought of me, not at all. All that mattered to me was getting done so that I could hurry and get to her. As soon as I had finished eating my meal and set the plates and silverware on a rotating rack to clean them, I was already rushing out the door and heading to work.

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"Hey, Lowery!" I called on the phone as I headed to work.

"Oh hey, cous!" Lowery asked. "What's up?"

"I was just on my way to work and I wanted to know if I needed to stop by there for anything." I asked as I drove onto a service road. "Oh and to also say hi."

"Well gee, thanks for saying hi to your cousin." Lowery mockingly laughed. "Anyways yes, since today is the last day of your training you need to meet with Claire Dearing and Simon Masrani today to sign a form."

"Oh, alright then." I said and prepared to turn around before Lowery stopped me.

"Don't turn around! If that's what you were thinking of." Lowery quickly warned. "You don't have to come here right now, just make sure that you get it done before 2:30."

"Well thanks, dude! I have a time reserved soon for a meeting with them." I said as I had my finger over the "end call" button on the steering wheel of the Mercedes-Benz that was provided to me. "I'll see you later!"

"Okay, dude! Have fun with your friends. I know that they have been waiting ages for this." Lowery said. "Bye, man!"

"Bye." I happily said before pushing the end call button.

I continued driving forward, my excitement growing as I saw the raptor research arena and quickly pulled into an available space on the dirt road for me to park in and quickly got out once I had parked and promptly locked my jeep. As soon as I did, Owen came over to the area of the walkway that overlooked the parking lot. I saw that he had a dismal expression on his face, I guess because he was expecting Hoskins. However his expression softened when he saw that it was me. I smiled and waved at him before I ran up to the walkway with extreme speed and saw Blue and her sisters sleeping in the middle of their paddock under the shade of a tree.

"HI, BLUE!" I shouted. "It's me Kenny!"

I was given some looks from some of the men on the walkway and I instantly became sheepish and started to kneel down in shame. I looked down at Blue and she was giving me a groggy-pissed off look. I dropped my sheepish look and looked back at her.

"I'm sorry, Blue." I apologized as her sisters started to get up. "I was just so happy to see you because I have a great surprise that I wanted to tell you. Still though, it… it was really wrong of me to just barge in here and rudely wake you up from your beauty sleep. I'm… I'm really sorry, Blue."

Blue's eyes were still narrowed in my direction but they soon slowly softened. She lowered her head and looked at the door where she was held before a hunt and then at the ground, seemingly in thought. After at least a minute she looked back up at me, at first having a neutral look on her face but then she flashed me a small grin, as well as raising her right arm before lowering it. I then heard her speak a bunch of barks and chirps as she looked down at the ground next to her.

"Really? You really mean that Blue?" I asked and saw her nod her head twice.

"You understood what she said? Completely?" I heard a man with a thick accent say.

I turned and saw that Barry was the one talking to me. Owen was right behind him, he motioned for Delta, Echo, and Charlie to get up.

"Not completely. I couldn't understand a word she was saying." I answered as I stared into Blue's beautiful and deep, amber eyes. "But I understood the words behind them. You get that?"

"No." Barry simply said after a short pause.

"Come on you three! I let you sleep in for longer than usual today." Owen called to Delta, Echo, and Charlie. "It's not my fault that you have been staying up at night, especially you, Blue!"

"Anyways, I understand the intent, the messages, the meanings behind their speech, their sounds. It's something that I've always been able to do. I don't know why or how, but in a way, I can understand their emotions. It's not just by looking into their beautiful eyes, I can tell you that." I simply told him and Owen. "Did you get that?"

"I got that you think Blue's eyes are beautiful." Owen wittily said. "Hey, Blue! Ken here thinks your eyes are beautiful!"

"STOP THAT!" I said as I tried to cover Owen's mouth as Barry held me back while laughing. "I don't care if Blue hears that but what about the others? What about Hoskins?"

"Eh, you got a point the- Do you think Kenny's eyes are beautiful?" Owen quickly said. Blue glanced at me and nodded her head just once while giving a small, happy smile.

"What did I just say?" I quietly (actually) hissed through my teeth.

"Oh don't worry about it, Hoskins isn't even here." Owen casually said as he motioned for Barry to let me go. "By the way, Blue thinks your eyes are beautiful too."

"Yeah, I got that." I said as I crossed my arms before lightening up and looking at Blue. "Thanks so much, Blue!"

Blue smiled at that and I just lovingly stared back at her eyes for several moments until our attention was broken by her sisters nudging her and a bucket being subtly pushed into my hands. I looked over to see Owen and Barry giving me sincere smiles. I realized what they were wanting me to do and I couldn't help but breathe faster in excitement and grin very widely.

"Do you really mean it?" I quietly whispered. "Can I? Please?"

"Of course." Owen whispered back. "You have definitely earned it."

I grinned happily as I turned to face Blue and her sisters and saw them squawking and chirping at Blue who appeared to be covering the sides of her muzzle with her claws. Charlie was nudging Blue in her side while her tail accidentally swatted into Echo's neck, who snapped at her in response. I whistled to get their attention and they all looked up at me, dropping their jaws in excitement.

"Okay, you four! Before you begin your training, we have decided to give you some food! This is a courtesy treat to help get you ready." I announced. I smiled back when they smiled at me. "Perhaps I can give you some coffee too-"

"NO! NO! No coffee!" Owen quickly and frantically told us. I saw that Echo was cringing when Owen said that.

"Okay…" I muttered before asking Owen a question. "Uhh, who do I feed first?"

"Charlie. Remember, I'm in charge, not Blue." He answered before leaning in to whisper in my ear. "Make sure to save the biggest piece of meat for her, to reward her for being patient."

"Okay." I replied before turning to the raptors. "Eyes up, you four!"

All of them raised their heads up as requested. I grabbed a piece of raw venison and raised it up.

"Alright, Charlie! Here ya go!" I praised as I tossed the venison towards Charlie.

"She must not have eaten much last night." I thought when I saw Blue tense up, as if she was about to catch Charlie's food but stopped.

I reached into the bucket to grab another piece of venison to feed Echo but when I looked up, I saw Charlie with her food partially in her mouth and trying to give it to Blue, who was shyly stepping back.

"What's Charlie doing?" I asked Owen.

"She's offering her food to Blue." Owen said as Blue shook her head while softly barking. "Charlie has so much respect and admiration for her big sister that she often tries to give Blue her food, entire meals even. Blue has been trying to gently decline lately because she's noticed that Charlie is getting quite thin."

"That's so sweet." I gently told him as I picked up Echo's food.

"Hey, Echo!" I shouted, getting her attention and tossing the meat. "You've been doing really great!"

Echo chirped at me as she leapt for her food and caught it. She happily chewed on her meat and gulped it down as I got Delta's breakfast out of the food bucket.

"Okay, Delta, here's your food!" I said as I tossed it down to her.

She jumped up to catch it in her mouth and almost landed on Blue when she hit the ground. Blue nipped in her direction and quietly barked at her. Delta quickly finished her meat and sadly chirped back. Blue nuzzled her and I reached for her food.

"Alright, Blue! Here's yours." I announced as I reared my arm back and tossed it to her. "You earned it."

Blue eagerly jumped up and caught the meat in her jaws and chewed on it before gulping it down. When she was finished she looked up at me as she licked her lips and happily chirped in thanks at me.

"You're welcome, darlin'." I replied as we got lost in each other's eyes. Our stare was broken when Owen gave Blue and her sisters their orders.

"All right, you four!" Owen shouted, causing Blue and me to shake our heads as we were brought back to reality. "Your training exercise for this morning will test your kill zone hunting strategies."

Blue and her sisters, as well as everyone present at their paddock were paying very close attention as the training exercise was about to start.

"Half an hour ago a pig was released onto your game trail. Your mission is to chase down the pig and to lead it back here." Owen instructed. "Extra side paths have been opened up that lead to doors too small for you to fit through. You must prevent the pig from going into those side paths and guide it back towards this location."

I saw that Blue and her sisters were distracted by something on the other side of the main entrance to their paddock for handlers. When I saw them growl I looked over my shoulder and saw a Mercedes-Benz G-Klasse with the number 06 on the back.

"Oh fuck me." I quietly hissed as Owen whistled to get Blue's and her sisters' attention.

"Hey! I wasn't finished talking to you four!" Owen sternly said as I walked over to Barry. "You cannot, I repeat CANNOT kill the pig or deliberately injure it while on the trail. If you do, then you will fail and you will receive no rewards. Are we clear?"

Blue barked deeply in understanding and her sisters did the same.

I nudged Barry in his shoulder and nodded towards the parking area. He turned his head and saw Hoskins getting out of his car.

"Merde." Barry sighed and walked over to Owen and whispered in his ear. "No honor."

"Got it." Owen whispered back before raising his arm up. "Ready… Go!"

Owen shoved his arm forwards Blue and her sisters ran off in the direction of their game trail. I smiled as I already heard them making calls to each other, becoming amazed by their coordination with each other.

"Good luck, girls!" I called as they passed through the exit. I heard Blue chirp back as she and her sisters left. I laughed before whispering to myself. "I love you."

"You better leave." Owen said as Hoskins approached the steps. "Hurry back though, they shouldn't take more than an hour."

"Alright, I got a meeting with Simon and Ms. Dearing anyways." I said as I turned to leave. "See ya."

I growled as I walked down the steps and saw Hoskins coming up. I knew why he was coming. He wanted to personally oversee the training exercise that had just been launched. On previous exercises Blue and her sisters had been allowed to kill their prey; however, on this hunt they weren't allowed to do that. Hoskins believed that it would be very tempting for Blue as well as her sisters to refrain from killing their prey on sight; so if they did not, then they were "tame". We passed each other on the first landing of the stairs and we both purposely shoulder-checked each other as we passed, giving insults as well.

"Bleeding heart." He muttered.

"Kiss-ass." I hissed back.

I walked over to my Mercedes and buckled up while the car was starting. I looked back and saw that Owen and Hoskins were arguing. I knew that Owen would be able to get Hoskins to shut up, he has always been able to do so before and I knew that he would now. I smiled at myself and drove off to the Innovation center to complete my final paperwork.

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I quickly pulled into the employee parking lot and didn't even bother to back in like I normally did. I probably forgot to lock my Mercedes too. It was already 9:55 am and I needed to be at Ms. Dearing's office by 10:00 am sharp. Apparently she was booked all day and had no time to waste since it took time to travel everywhere. I knew that I could relate to that. It had taken me about twenty minutes to get here and it would take me about the same to get back to Blue's paddock. I almost didn't make it here in time because I almost crashed into a tree when I started to daydream about Blue.

I was running almost as fast as I could without running into anybody (which I almost did to at least five people, all of whom told me to slow down) or sliding past the hallways that I was supposed to go through. I saw her door open about twenty feet in front of me and was about to stop to enter it when it swung shut and hit me in the face, knocking me to the floor. It opened up and I saw Ms. Dearing and Simon Masrani in front of me.

"Oh my god, Kenneth! Are you okay?!" Ms. Dearing asked me.

"Can I please get worker's comp for that?" I half-groaned, half-laughed, causing Ms. Dearing to groan in exasperation. "Owww…"

"At least your sense of humor wasn't hurt." Simon chuckled. "As for worker's comp, no; since you're not a worker here yet. The good news is, however, that you are about to become an official Jurassic World Veterinarian right now."

"Darn. Oh well, let's get started then." I eagerly said getting up. "By the way Ms. Dearing, I prefer to be called Kenny, you know?"

"Okay, Kenny. Let's get this paperwork finished. I have places to be, things to do, and no time to waste." Ms. Dearing clarified as we walked over to her desk.

"Woah, woah, Claire. Slow down, we don't want to miss anything." Simon told her as he sat down next to me. "This is very important."

"We should be telling him to slow down." Claire dryly half-laughed as she sat down. "I can assure you that I have other things that are important to do as well."

"Actually Ms. Dearing is kind of right. I really need to get back to the raptor research arena soon." I said.

"Very well then." Simon replied. "Claire, do you have the paperwork?"

"Of course I do." Ms. Dearing answered certainly. "That's the whole reason we're here. I wouldn't lose it."

"Just making sure." Simon replied

I started reading the application but Ms. Dearing stopped me by putting her hand on the paper.

"That's all the same; the only thing that is new is the last sheet which clarifies the risks that you are taking and asks for your signature which signifies your understanding of them and your inability to contest them." Ms. Dearing said as she handed me a pen.

"Heh, CLAIREifies." I chuckled as I turned to the last page.

"Just read and sign it." Ms. Dearing flatly requested while pointing to different blank lines. "Print here and here, sign and date here."

"I Kenneth Serno," I began to read in my head, printing my full name for legal purposes. "Do hereby understand that I am applying for a job that holds a very real and great danger to my personal safety and mentality AT ALL TIMES. RISKS INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO: SEVERE PHYSICAL INJURY, HIGH LEVELS OF PHYSICAL AND MENTAL STRESS, DISMEMBERMENT OF LIMBS, RISK OF PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HANDICAP, AND DEATH. By signing this legal contract, I hereby waive all rights, liabilities, and risks to my personal well-being, and agree to not hold Jurassic World, MASRANI GLOBAL, InGen, nor any of their affiliated or associated companies, nor sub-companies responsible for any work or non-work related injuries, financial difficulties, or inconveniences to myself nor others.

I have read, understand, and accept all of the terms and conditions stated in this application and acknowledge that they shall be held effective and binding for the entirety of my career here at Jurassic World, and may be amended, removed, or altered at any time, for any reason with or without notice to myself. It is my duty to keep myself up to date on any changes to these terms and conditions. By continuing my employment here at Jurassic World, I hereby acknowledge that I am agreeing to these terms and conditions and are unable to contest them in a court of law."

As soon as I had finished reading the rest of the paper I signed and dated it before handing it back to Ms. Dearing. She took it in her hands and smiled at me before sticking her hand out.

"Welcome, to Jurassic World." She told me. "You are now officially a Jurassic World veterinarian."

Simon held his hand out to me as well and I shook his as well.

"Congratulations, Kenny." He happily told me. "We are very, very glad to have you."

"Thank you, sir. You too as well Ms. Dearing." I gratefully thanked. "I assure you that this time will be well spent."

At the mention of "time", both me and Ms. Dearing looked at our watches and saw that they read 10:06.

"Crap." We both said at the exact same time.

Ms. Dearing started to quickly gather up her things while I almost fell backwards in my chair while trying to get up. We both ran towards the door and fortunately I managed to get there first. I was already out of the hallway by the time that she got into it.

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I kicked up an enormous dust cloud as I skidded to a stop at Blue's paddock. I didn't know if Blue and her sister's were back here yet and so I made sure to get back here really quickly. Luckily there was no one else on the roads between the Innovation Center and here, so that really shortened the time that it took. I jumped out of my car and locked it before running towards the stairs.

"Hold." I heard a voice say and I looked up to see Owen facing the inside of the arena.

"Shit, I'm late!" I growled to myself and bolted for the paddock, accidentally knocking my sunglasses off of my head. I prepared to turn around but just gave up on the idea and kept running for the paddock.

"Hey!" Owen shouted to Blue and her sisters as I saw them looking around. "Okay, eyes on me."

I saw Blue's eyes lock onto mine and slightly smiled, however that drew Owen's attention onto her and he sternly called her name a couple of times.

"Watch it!" He ordered, inadvertently setting off a chain reaction of protests from her sisters. "Charlie, hey! Don't give me that shit! Delta, lock it up!"

I figured that they were listening when I heard Owen say "good" before telling them that they were moving. I got to the top of the steps and saw Barry motioning me over to him. I quietly walked over so as to not draw the attention of Blue or her sisters again. As I was watching Blue and her sisters move into a new position, I saw Charlie whack Echo in the neck forcefully with her tail again and had to stifle a laugh when Echo snapped at her again.

"Fourth time today she's done that to her." He quietly chuckled. "Look at all of them."

"I know." I dreamily whispered back as Owen held up his hand again.

"Hold!" Owen commanded before praising them. "Hey that's good. That is damn good."

I saw Owen reach into a bucket hooked onto the railing and smiled when he pulled out more food for them. I was happy that they were getting food again. I knew that velociraptors were opportunistic feeders and that they ate food whenever possible. In the wild, meat can't really be stored in cool, cold places like a refrigerator for humans and so raptors had to make the most of their catches. I knew that raptors often hunted and killed more than they ate, but that is true for most modern-day predators as well. It is better to kill and eat more than you need, thus ensuring that you eat your fill and so do your packmates, than to kill too little and not have enough to go around. Since Owen and the other handlers (including me) were in control of when they eat, we have to keep a strong balance between mealtimes, and giving out food as rewards. We don't want to spoil them, but we want to make damn sure that we don't starve them. Rats and small chunks of venison for example hardly chalk up to a Parasaurolophus.

"Very good! See, Charlie, that's what you get!" Owen praised as he tossed her food to her, which she happily caught in her mouth.

"I guess Charlie and Blue are getting to understand each other better." I thought when I noticed that Blue didn't try to catch the food and that Charlie didn't offer her food to Blue this time.

"Echo, there you go! Delta!" Owen said as he tossed Echo and Delta their respective food.

I noticed that Blue was happily staring at me again and I figured that it was because I was spending so much time around her paddock lately.

"Blue?" Blue's attention was taken off of me as she looked towards Owen, eagerly, yet very patiently awaiting her food. "This one's for you."

Blue waited until Owen tossed her food and didn't jump this time, instead simply standing where she was and elegantly caught it in her mouth before chewing and swallowing it.

"Hold. Eyes up." Owen ordered, raising his hand again before swinging it down. "Go!"

Once Blue and her sisters moved to another part of their paddock me and Barry headed over to Owen. We all laughed in happiness and celebration of their completely accomplished mission.

"You finally did it, man!" Barry congratulated as I fist-bumped another trainer.

"That was fucking amazing, Owen!" I continued as I came over to him. "They did exactly what you ordered them to and were mostly patient for being pretty hungry."

"Sure wish that Blue would stop getting distracted by you though, Kenny." Owen replied. "I wish I knew why it's just you and no one else. Except for Leon everyone else has been around them way longer than you have."

"I sure wish I knew. You're right about everyone being here longer than I have. Other than the last two months, the only other times that I've been here are when my parents took me." I answered, honestly wondering why Blue was paying so much attention to just me. "I can't even count how many times I've visited her and the others."

"I'm worried that she's starting to see you as an alpha." Owen said.

"What?" I asked in shock and confusion. "What do you mean?"

"She's paying more attention to you whenever you're here than me. You saw how many times she got distracted by you today. So… wait. Did you get all the paperwork that Claire and Simon needed you to?" Owen asked.

"Yeah?" I asked, wondering where he was going with this.

"Then you're fired. I can't have her and her sisters becoming distracted and following anyone who is exceptionally kind to them." Owen said.

"WHAT?!" I shouted.

"Dude, I'm just kidding with you. Oww..." Owen said as he held his right ear. "I wouldn't dream of firing you even if I could. Besides, if I did, then there is absolutely no way in hell that my girls would listen to me anymore."

"He's right you know." Barry told me. "They adore you."

"Owen!" We heard an all-too-familiar voice shout. "I was starting to think I hired the wrong guys, but, damn, you got them eating out of your palm."

"This fucking guy…" I hissed between my teeth.

"You came on a good day." Owen replied. "It's not usually a happy ending."

"Is that why you're not sending in your reports?" Hoskins asked.

"Yeah. We'd hate to have an 'accident'." I lowly said to him.

"You know what would happen if they hurt me." He replied.

"I wasn't talking about them." I said in an even darker tone.

"We've been busy." Barry interjected, bringing us back on subject.

"Not too busy to cash your paychecks." Hoskins replied, doing a fake-out lunge to which none of us flinched at; Barry actually moved towards him.

"Uh, what do you need, buddy?" Owen asked.

"Buddy." I sarcastically chuckled.

"A field test." Hoskins answered.

"Oh fuck me…" Me and Barry said in unison.

"Hey. I've just seen they can respond to commands." Hoskins said. "We need to take the research and get it on its feet."

"These are wild animals, Hoskins." Owen warned. "Trust me, you don't want them in the field."

"I just saw a bond. A real bond." Hoskins continued. "Between man and beast."

"What you just saw was respect, trust, and love." I sternly told him. "All of which you clearly lack."

"Now you listen here you little-" Hoskins started to say to me.

"You're in our way." Owen interrupted.

"Come on. We're the same." Hoskins sighed, directing his attention back to Owen. "Were dogs of war."

"You were." I fake-coughed.

"We know that the military needs to reduce casualties." Hoskins unconvincingly tried to say sweetly. "Some people think that robots are the future."

Me and Owen weren't convinced, again, and started to walk away. Hoskins however, refused to give up on his annoying infomercial.

"Look, nature gave us the most effective killing machines 75 million years ago." Hoskins continued. "And now we know that they can take orders."

"We finally make significant progress and that bullshit is the first thing he says?" Barry asked. "Make a weapon?"

"Doesn't surprise me." I said, knowing that what I was about to say would tick him off. "Isn't the first time he tried to steal a weapon."

"Shit. Come on, gents." Hoskins sighed, clearly getting aggravated. "It's grown-up time. Drones can't search tunnels and caves. And they're hackable. The minute a real war breaks out, all that fancy tech is gonna go dark."

"Yeah, but that tech's not gonna eat them if they forget to feed it." Owen said as I looked down and saw that our raptor friends were listening intently to us, except for Charlie, who ran off quickly down a path when Echo snapped at her.

"Or if their tech actually likes them." I added. "I know these girls ain't dogs, but the reason why dogs in war do so well with their units is because they bonded with them, not just because they ordered them to do something and promised a treat."

"Look at these creatures. They've got millions of years of instinct in their cells, instinct that we can program." Hoskins said. "Their loyalty cannot be bought."

"Hypocrite." I fake-coughed again.

"These guys are gonna run straight into the enemy's teeth and eat them, belt buckle and all." Hoskins went on.

"What if they decide they wanna be in control?" Barry asked.

"Well, then we remind them who is. We terminate the rogues." Hoskins replied. "Promote only loyal bloodlines."

Barry scoffed at this and walked away, laughing at Hoskins's ignorance.

"What? What's so funny?" Hoskins wondered as Owen whistled.

Meanwhile I was audibly growling at Hoskins's suggestion and decided to let him have it.

"I cannot believe that you would honestly suggest that we send these dinosaurs into armed conflicts; all under the guise that it would 'save lives'. When in reality their lives would be ended very painfully." I growled in his face, noticing a brief instance of fear flash over his eyes. "Loyalty, trust, and love are NOT genetic! You think that you can just destroy all that; murder the ones who stand up for their packs and their families, and still expect them to follow the huge piece of shit that you are?! You are so fucking stupid if you honestly believe that! Even moreso if you think we'll let you do that!"

"Is he growling?" Hoskins asked after a long pause.

"I don't know, and I don't care what he's doing." Owen answered. "You come here and you don't learn anything about these animals except what you want to know. You made them, and now you think you own them."

"We do own them." Hoskins simply replied. "Extinct animals have no rights."

"They're not extinct anymore, Hoskins." Owen told him.

"Exactly. We're sitting on a goldmine." Hoskins said. "And Masrani is using it to stock a petting zoo."

"Petting zoo?!" I said. "He's creating a nature reserve to educate people on them."

"He just wants to teach people some humility." Owen countered to Hoskins. "He doesn't make weapons. Unlike InGen he's being honest about what he puts on the list."

"You think that the eighth richest man in the world is only into oil, telecom, and family fun parks?" Hoskins chuckled. "He's so diversified he doesn't even know what he owns."

"How long has Ingen been practicing this pitch?" Owen asked rhetorically.

"Since the day we hired you out of the Navy. You knew the end game." Hoskins answered. "These animals can replace thousands of boots on the ground. How many lives would that save?"

"How many lives would it end?" Owen asked as he stepped into the waiting area of the paddock and shut the door. "Of who's?"

"War is part of nature." Hoskins told us both. "Look around, you two. Every living thing in this jungle is trying to murder the other."

"I'm looking at a real animal right now." I flatly said to Hoskins as Owen tried to get Blue and her sisters to come over to the staging area.

"War is Mother Nature's way of testing her creations. Refining the pecking order. War is a struggle. Struggle breeds greatness." Hoskins said as Owen came over. "And without that, we end up with places like this, charge seven bucks a soda."

"Do you hear yourself when you talk?" Owen asked.

"I wish I didn't hear him." I said.

"This is gonna happen. With or without you boys." Hoskins said to us both. "So if you want to have a chance to do 'what's best' for your boys-"

"Girls." Me and Owen corrected at the same time.

"Whatever, if you want to make sure that you're able to do 'what's best' for them when this takes off, I'd sign up right now." Hoskins warned. "Progress always wins, dudes."

"Maybe progress should lose for once." Owen suggested. "Kenny is right. My girls- not just them- but all of these creatures have rights, extinct or not. What's more, they have feelings, personalities, and free will to make their own choices. You are in for a world of shit if you think that you can just take all of these things away and expect it to work. Also, you do not blackmail me with the lives of our girls!"

"Pig loose!" We heard a man shout while also hearing pig squeals. "Pig loose!"

I ran up the stairs to get a better view of the situation and got to the top just in time to see Leon get pulled over the edge of the railing by Echo.

"LEON!" I shouted as I looked down and saw him land flat on his back on the ground.

Unfortunately, this attracted the attention of Blue and her packmates.

"Oh no…" I hissed as Leon slowly started to crawl away from the raptors.

I saw ACU gunmen coming up the stairs and onto the pathways as Owen opened the inner door to the paddock.

"OWEN, NO!" Barry shouted.

Owen crawled under the bottom of the door as soon as the gap was large enough for him to fit through and saw the ACU gunmen taking aim at Blue and her sisters.

"No, no hold your fire!" He shouted while running between Leon and the raptors, the latter turning to face him and hiss. "Hold your fire. Do not fire."

I lifted the barrels of the taser rifles away from Blue and her sisters while Barry stopped the inner door to the paddock from moving up any further. Owen stuck his hand and palm straight out in front of him in an attempt to calm his girls down.

"Put 12 amps in these animals, they're never gonna trust me again." Owen stated as Barry pulled Leon through the opening.

"Stand down." I quietly ordered. "Let him do this."

The ACU soldiers in front of me paused for a moment before giving a hand signal to stand down and to lower their weapons.

"Blue, stand down. Stand down." Owen gently ordered, to which Blue snapped her jaws at him. "Hey, hey! What the fuck did I just say?!"

Delta started moving forwards and fortunately Owen noticed this.

"Delta, I see you." Owen commanded as she growled in defiance. "Back up!"

I silently watched as Owen appeared to be successful in calming down his girls, making sure to watch Charlie and Echo too.

"Okay. Good, good. Charlie?" Owen said before turning to face Charlie. "Charlie! Stay right there. Good."

Blue, Delta, and Charlie were all acting less agitated now. I was surprised that Echo hadn't tried anything yet. I was snapped out of my thoughts at the next words that came out of Owen's mouth.

"Close the gate." Owen requested.

"What?!" I shouted.

"Are you crazy?" Barry asked.

"Hey. Just trust me." Owen calmly said.

"Close the gate!" Leon pleaded.

Barry hesitated for a moment before giving in to Owen's request and hit the button to close the gate. As it started to do so, Owen waited for a couple of seconds before turning and rolling into the waiting area. Blue and her sisters ran towards him and slammed their faces into the metal bars. I flinched in response when they yelped in pain at the impact.

"Good thing I'm employed here now." I muttered to myself as I watched Blue and her sisters bicker and argue at the situation. "I hope they're okay."

I honestly wanted to ask them but I knew that Owen would get upset if I did, right now at least. I got frustrated at being unable to help them so I decided to head to the front of the paddock to talk to Owen.

Unfortunately Hoskins was still there when I reached the front, and he did not hesitate to irritate us.

"Well, it sure looks like they're not fully trained." Hoskins said. "Maybe our field test should wait."

"Yeah, your field test should be suspended... indefinitely." Owen replied. "I told you that they're still wild animals."

"I guess you're right about them being wild animals. This field test is going to happen though, you can be damn sure of that." Hoskins told us.

"Look, Hoskins. I know that this is really hard of me to ask of you." I spoke with a hand on my forehead. "Hard because of our not-so-friendly relationship; but I really need to ask a favor of you."

"What? What do you want from me?" Hoskins sighed after a pause.

"Fuck off." I simply stated, causing Owen to laugh audibly.

"Fuck this, I'm done with you two." Hoskins huffed before walking away.

As soon as Hoskins was out of earshot Owen came out of the waiting area and started talking to me about a personal thing.

"Look, Ken. I wanted to thank you for what you said to Hoskins earlier. I know that Blue, Delta, and Echo were all listening to you when you gave Hoskins hell, and let me tell you, what you said, it really meant the world to them." Owen said, really warming my heart.

"You don't have to thank me, Owen." I said sincerely. "I'm just so glad that I could finally be a part of this and that I could be of some real help to you and them."

"No, I really do have to thank you." Owen insisted. "I can't imagine my girls being sent into a live-fire zone. It really scares me and honestly, it breaks my heart to imagine that it will happen if Hoskins gets his way. I know that they are highly skilled, but they're just not ready to go to war and I don't think they ever will be. I just don't want their lives to be taken away. I-"

"Okay I'm going to stop you right there." I said, putting my hand on his shoulder. "I give you my word that I will not let anything happen to them. They mean as much to me as they do to you. Hoskins may think that that he has his plan figured out and that he can do anything that he wants to Blue and her sisters, but he's wrong. He doesn't know you, he doesn't know me, and he sure as hell does not know them. He won't hurt them. I promise you that."

"We're heading to my bungalow tonight." Owen said after a pause. "Every so often I take my girls out there to sleep under the stars. The last time we went was five months ago. I want you to join us. I really mean it."

"Wait, do you mean stay out at your bungalow, with Blue and her sisters?" I asked in disbelief. "Sleeping together in one area?"

"Yes." Owen answered. "They trust you. They really do. It would mean so much to them if you would join us. You can reveal your surprise employment to them there. They'll really love to hear it."

"Owen," I said, tearing up. "I would be honored to join you and them out there. I really am. Thank you so much."

"You're welcome, Ken." Owen replied. "It's the best I can offer to a member of the pack."

"Now I'm a member of your pack?" I asked. "This-this means so much to me. Thank you."

"It's no problem." Owen said. "I must ask you not to tell Blue and her sisters though, or else it will ruin the surprise and I won't be able to get them to focus for the rest of the day."

"Don't worry, I won't." I said before looking at my watch. "Well I have to go, I need to finish my training. I got a gallimimus with a broken ankle to help."

"I'll make sure to tell Charlie exactly what you said to Hoskins. I want to make sure that she knows." Owen replied. "Don't you worry about having to go now, it's alright. I have to go see Claire for something later on anyways."

"Ugh, that can't be easy." I sympathized, to which he laughed at. "Well, I gotta go. Once things calm down here will you please check up on Blue and the others, make sure they didn't lose any teeth when they slammed into the fence? Also I'm worried about Charlie, she ran off earlier when Echo snapped at her. I don't know what happened this time to make Charlie actually run off crying."

"Will do." Owen agreed. "As for Charlie, I'm pretty sure why."

"Well, I'm off. Wish me luck!" I bid farewell. "Bye!"

"See ya, Ken!" Owen told me. "And don't worry about luck, you don't need it."

"Thanks!" I said before heading off.

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[11:40 am]

I pulled into the parking lot of the Dinosaur Medical Center and backed into the parking space that was reserved for me. I locked the doors to my car and made my way into the building. I was thankful that Simon had reserved a spot close to the building for me a couple of days ago even though I wasn't an official employee here. I was glad that I was finally able to be of great aid to the dinosaurs here. Today was the final day of my training. Speaking of which…

"Oh, Mr. Serno, how pleasant it is to see you. You're quite early today, you know?" The receptionist, Lucy greeted me. "The surgery isn't scheduled until noon."

"It's no problem for me, I just really wanted to make sure that I was here early and completely prepared. I still need to get a shower here to make sure that I am completely cleaned and sterilized." I told her. "It would be a very bad idea to do a surgery on a conscious gallimimus while rushed and covered in contaminants."

"Oh yes, I understand that." Lucy told me. "Just so you know, your uniform has been disinfected, sanitized, and sterilized and is ready in the closet next to the fitting rooms. I trust you know where it is… right?"

"Yes, Lucy, I snuck in here unauthorized to see Echo." I sheepishly replied while rubbing the back of my head. "You remind me every time I come here. Besides, that's the whole reason I got this job. Anyways, I'll go get my hazmat suit."

We both laughed at that with how much Lucy described the cleansing of my uniform.

"Yes, I know. I just love to mess with you." Lucy said, calming down. "Anyways, I wish you much good luck in your training appointment."

"Ain't nothin' to do with luck." I simply said. "Thanks, and please, call me Kenny."

"Sure thing, Kenny!" Lucy said as I walked down the hall.

I was almost skipping/running in glee as I was about to help another dinosaur in need. Throughout the past four weeks, I have been reading textbooks, taking tests, and watching other veterinarians do operations on dinosaurs. I have even practiced on fake parts from various dinosaurs (like cpr dummies). However, today was the first day that I would be working hands-on with a live and fully-conscious dinosaur, instead of just watching from behind a window or standing in the back of the room.

As soon as I had gotten a shower and dressed, I made my way to the operating room where the rest of the staff that would be part of this training operation were waiting for me. They were my instructors and training assistants that I had been working with for the past four weeks. Mr. Yares, a bald, middle-aged man with brown skin and Mr. Gopul, a slightly younger man who had bright amber skin and wispy brown hair.

"Ah, there you are Kenny." Mr. Gopul told me. "You're late."

"Late? Please." I scoffed. "I'm ten minutes early."

"Considering how you normally show up an hour early before you actually need to, that's late for you." Mr. Yares replied.

"Anyways, while I would love to talk pleasantries more, we have a gallimimus to care for." I said while putting my hands together. "Where is she?"

"Gallimimus number 48 is in the resting area just outside of this room." Mr. Yares told me. "Your training assistants, Nancy Tabis and Wyoming King are in the vestibule between here and there."

"Number 48… that's Sally isn't it?" I asked.

"Correct." Mr. Gopul answered. "Your task is to bring her quietly into this room through the vestibule and get her to lay down on this mat."

"Then you will demonstrate the cast removal saw and show that it will not hurt her. Furthermore, you must keep her calm and distracted as Wyoming draws blood for analysis and will inject anesthetics while Nancy removes the screws for the external fixator." Mr. Yares told me. "During this procedure she will more than likely experience some pain and may jerk, kick, and scream. Again, you must calm her or we will be forced to completely sedate her and you will fail the test. Do you understand?"

"Absolutely." I agreed while nodding my head and holding my hands at my side.

"Then you may begin." Mr. Yares said.

I walked into the vestibule to see Wyoming King and Nancy Tabis, the two assistants who had been training with me since I started two months ago. Wyoming had short orange hair and brown eyes with a peach skin tone, while Nancy also had peach colored skin and red hair with the exception that her hair was slightly darker and fashioned into a ponytail. Both of them were wearing the same sterilized uniforms as me.

"Hi, Wyoming." I greeted. "You ready, Nancy?"

"Are you ready, Kenny?" Nancy asked with concern in her voice. "This isn't exactly going to be easy."

"What she said, everything before this was all dummies and tests; but you're dealing with a live animal, not just live, but completely awake." Wyoming calmly told me. "You sure you're ready for this?"

"Of course I'm ready, I have to be. This isn't just about the test for me, it's about helping a living creature here." I replied. "I'm going to do this."

"I guess we'll have to see." Wyoming said.

"I'm not trying to prove anything. I'm just doing what I can for them." I said. "I need you two to stay here. When I lead Sally in here, you two are going to be the next new faces that she sees. I don't want her to get freaked out by seeing four new faces all at once."

"You got it." They both answered in unison.

"Alright… here I go." I said to myself before walking forward and opening the door.

As soon as I walked into the room where Sally was resting, she turned her head to face me and quickly got onto her feet.

"Hello, Sally." I said as I held my hands up in innocence, unfortunately this startled her and caused her screech in shock as she backed away. "Hey hey hey, you're okay. I am a friendly person who is going to help you. Okay?"

I saw that she was still looking around and was very nervous so I spoke quietly to calm her down.

"It's okay to be scared here. I understand why you might be." I softly spoke. "White rooms, random strangers sticking you with needles, holding you in one spot, it's okay to be scared of that. I would too, but I'm not; because I know that this is a safe place, and I want you to know that too."

Sally backed away from me and unfortunately tripped over the bulky cast on her ankle, causing her to fall onto her back.

"Whoa whoa, careful there. That is why I am here." I gently said as I walked over to her very slowly. "I am going to help get that off of your ankle, so that you may return to your flock. I know that it may hurt a little now, and it may hurt more when taking it off, but I promise you that I am going to make the whole experience as painless as possible okay?"

Sally rolled onto her side and looked up at me, still scared but no longer shaking and screeching.

"Will you please trust me?" I asked after I stopped moving.

Sally slowly got to her feet and turned her head towards me. After a few seconds of hesitation Sally lowered her head and tail to that they were close to the ground. I recognized this as a sign of submission and I now knew that I could take her into the exam room.

"There you go." I praised, holding out my hand. "Now, if you would like, you can take my hand and walk with me into the room. That way you can feel safer."

Sally looked into my eyes with a clearly nervous expression on her face and whined quietly. Although she put her left arm in my right hand, I felt that it was tense. To help calm her down, I put my other hand overtop of hers and felt her muscles relax.

"Thank you, Sally." I said, looking her in the eyes. I noticed a calm look in them now. "Now let's move forward, okay?"

I led Sally forward, making sure to go slow so that I didn't frighten her and also so that she didn't trip again. I knocked on the door to the vestibule four times and when it opened up Sally jumped slightly at the noise, and outright screeched in shock and fear when Wyoming and Nancy's faces were the first things that she saw. She broke contact with my hand and quickly stepped back from the two new creatures in front of her, almost stumbling over her cast again.

"Sally, Sally, it's okay. This is Wyoming and Nancy. They are who I am training with. They are not going to hurt you either. I promise." I quickly stated. "All they are going to do is draw some of your blood in a nearly painless manner and inject some medicine into your body that will make this procedure more painless. They will also be taking the screws out of your ankle so that you can join your friends and family. Nancy, Wyoming, why don't you come on over and say hello to her?"

"Umm, should we?" Nancy quietly asked Wyoming.

"I'm not sure." He answered.

"Come on, don't be rude." I told them. "You three should get to know each other before we move on."

"He's right." Wyoming told Nancy before coming over to Sally with her.

I put a reassuring hand on Sally's shoulder as Nancy and Wyoming came in front of Sally.

"Sorry about that, Sally. I'm Nancy." Nancy apologized as she slowly raised a hand up. "I just saw that you were obviously scared and I didn't want to frighten you anymore before we began treatment on you."

"What she said. There are two more new faces beyond that other door and if we had introduced them to you at the same time as ourselves, then you would have really freaked out." Wyoming agreed. "It's so nice to meet you, my name is Wyoming."

"Your hide is so smooth." Nancy noted as she rubbed Sally's neck. "It feels so nice."

"Your scale color is very beautiful. I love the sunflower yellow colors on your neck and tail." Wyoming said. "They really blend well into your tiger orange sides and straw yellow underbelly."

Now that Sally had gotten used to Nancy and Wyoming's kind nature, she was loving the attention that she was getting and rubbing back against their petting and rubbing of her scales affectionately while chirping in happiness. Nancy and Wyoming were laughing whenever Sally nudged their heads with her own.

"Are you two ready to get her cast off and take her screws out?" I asked. "I'm sure that Mr. Yares and Mr. Gopul are wondering what's taking us so long."

"Yeah, let's go." Wyoming agreed.

"We have been in here for a while." Nancy said. "Not sure how long."

"Well then let's go. Sally," I said. "Shall we?"

Sally smiled in agreement and placed her two-clawed hand in my own.

"We'll get the doors." Nancy told us.

"Thanks." I replied. Sally also chirped in appreciation.

We led Sally out of the room and through the vestibule into the exam room. As soon as Sally saw Mr. Gopul and Mr. Yares looking at her she tilted her head in confusion before looking at me and making a deep chirping sound.

"These are my instructors: Mr. Gopul, and Mr. Yares; they taught me everything that I know so that I will do a great job in treating you." I told her as I looked up at her head.

"Hi." Mr. Yares simply said

"How are you doing?" Mr. Gopul asked.

"Okay Sally. I'm going to need you to lie down on your right side here okay?" I requested, to which she did immediately. I then turned to Wyoming. "Hand me the cast removal saw please."

As soon as Wyoming did that I knelt down next to her and started rubbing the scales behind her ear holes, making her purr affectionately.

"This is the saw that I'm going to use to remove the cast around your ankle. It cuts only through oscillation. That means that it will only cut through very hard surfaces." I showed Sally after the saw was handed to me. "See? Won't cut me."

I kneeled down on one knee over Sally's left leg and readied the cast removal saw. I then looked towards Nancy and Wyoming.

"Okay Nancy, I need you to get ready to remove the screws for the external fixator. Wyoming, I need you to draw blood while I remove the cast. As soon as that is done, Nancy, you will remove the screws while I keep Sally calm and distracted." I instructed. "Wyoming, as soon as I have removed the cast, I will need you to inject the anesthetics; so it's important that you have drawn the blood and have the anesthetics ready by the time that I have removed the cast. Okay?"

"Got it." Wyoming replied as he was coming over with a syringe. "Ready when you are, Kenny."

"I'm ready." I said as I started up the saw while Wyoming kneeled next to me. "Sally, remember that this won't hurt. Just let me know if the saw gets hot."

I started cutting the cast while Wyoming started to draw blood from Sally's upper left thigh. I noticed Sally cringe when Wyoming stuck a needle into her scales and she reflexively tensed up. I smiled reassuringly at her as I continued cutting the cast. When her eyes made contact with mine, she visibly calmed down and relaxed her leg. Wyoming withdrew the syringe and injected another one, causing Sally to tense up again although she slowly relaxed this time and did not tense up the third and final time that Wyoming injected another syringe into her. I looked down and saw that the cast had been almost completely cut through and after another few seconds, I was done on the side that I was currently on.

"We're halfway done Sally. For the next half I am going to need you to lift your left leg slightly." I happily said as I removed the saw. Sally complied and lifted up her left leg, granting me access to the other half of her cast. I then looked over at Wyoming. "Okay, Wyoming, I am going to need you to inject the anesthetics now so that when Nancy goes to remove the screws they should be taking effect."

"On it." Wyoming said as I started cutting the cast.

"Nancy, are you ready to remove the screws?" I asked as I continued.

Wyoming knelt next to me and started injecting the anaesthetics.

"Yes I am." Nancy answered as she stood behind us, holding a special screwdriver in her hand.

"Okay and… there we go! The cast is completely cut now!" I cheerfully said as I removed the two halves of the cast from around Sally's ankle, revealing the metal plating that was around the upper portion of her foot and ankle. "Have all of the anaesthetics been injected, Wyoming?"

"Yes they have." Wyoming replied.

"Okay Nancy, you're up." I said as Wyoming stepped away. "We got six malleolar screws to remove. Are you ready to take them all out?"

"Yes I am." Nancy firmly answered. "Remember, you have to keep her calm so that I can remove the screws without causing accidental harm to her."

"Got it." I replied before kneeling down and looking at Sally.

"Remember, Sally. This may hurt some so we want you to be ready. We are going to do our best to make this treatment as quick and painless as possible." I stated. "Are you ready?"

Sally looked hesitant to answer but she soon stuck her head out and put it in my lap and looked up at me with a gentle smile on her face.

"Is that a yes?" I asked.

Sally answered by nuzzling her head into my lap further and slightly nodded.

"Alright. Since you're ready, we can start." I said with a smile. "Nancy, you may begin."

Nancy started by going for the top Malleolar screw on the left side of Sally's ankle. As soon as she started Sally's leg tensed up and jerked slightly, not enough to really impede Nancy's work, but enough to let me know that Sally was in pain. I picked her head up out of my lap and directed it towards me.

"Sally, Sally! It's okay. We're going to help you but we need you to stay still and to stay calm." I sternly told her. "We are going to get these screws out of you and we're going to get you to your flock."

"Okay, that's the first screw." Nancy notified. "Five more to go."

"See that Sally?" I said. "That's one screw down."

Sally just looked up at me with nervous eyes and I noticed that she was breathing heavily as Nancy removed the other screw on the side that she was currently on. Sally was clearly getting scared and was hyperventilating slightly.

"Don't worry, Sally." I cheerfully said. "We're making much more progress and you are doing very well."

I seemed to have calmed her down slightly. She was still hyperventilating slightly but it was less than she was doing before. She also still had a very nervous look in her eyes but was no longer shaking. I turned my head and noticed that Nancy was just finishing removing another screw on the back of Sally's ankle. I was curious as to why Nancy went to remove a screw on the back of Sally's ankle when she answered me.

"Hey, Kenny?" Nancy spoke up.

"Yeah?" I asked and saw that she was motioning for me to come over to her.

"Just so you know, we're moving onto the side where the bone fracture first occurred." Nancy warned while whispering. She's probably going to be in a lot of pain during this part so you need to keep her under control."

"Got it." I whispered back before kneeling down next to Sally. "Don't worry Sally, that was the third screw. We're halfway done now. It's all downhill from here

As soon as I kneeled down next to Sally's head I put my hand on the back of it and started rubbing reassuringly to calm her down. Nancy started removing the top screw on the right side of Sally's ankle and a few seconds in, Sally started freaking out. She jerked her leg back and screeched loudly. This made Nancy lose her grip on the screw and her screwdriver. As soon as she picked it up she glared at me.

"Kenny!" Nancy shouted.

"On it!" I said. "Sally!"

When Sally didn't listen to me and tried to move her leg into a position to stand up I jumped into action. I knew that I had to keep her calm otherwise this would only get worse. Regretfully, I pinned her down by putting my knee on the side of her chest while leaning my weight onto her and holding her neck

"SALLY!" I shouted with a growl lacing its way into my voice. "Listen to me! You need to stop moving or else this will only become even more painful for you!"

I seemed to have shocked Sally with my sudden shout and although she was still shaking and whimpering, she was no longer trying to get up. Not wasting any time, Nancy got back to work on removing the third screw in Sally's ankle. When Sally started tensing up again I continued talking to her.

"Look, I know that I promised you that I would make sure that you experienced no pain at all, or at least that we would make sure that this operation is as painless as possible; I had, and still do, have every intention of keeping that promise." I sternly told her. "Hey! Don't look at Nancy! Just keep your eyes on me, okay? The anesthetics are just one thing, but you staying calm is another. This is very painful right now, yes?"

Sally loudly chirped in agreement while moaning and groaning in pain as Nancy got closer to removing the third screw.

"Well it could be worse." I told her, earning a crazed look from her. "Look, if you keep jerking around and try to run away right now then that could make a fracture appear again. Then you would have to come in here AGAIN to undergo another treatment that may involve MORE shots, MORE screws, and MORE pain. If you do not stay calm and stay still then this will only result in more pain for you and I promise you that none of us, especially you, want that!"

"Okay that's the fifth screw removed." Nancy told us as she set it on a surgical tray that was next to her, along with the previous four. "One more to go."

"You see that, Sally?" I said with a slight smile on my face, taking my weight and body off of her. "Because you were staying calm while I was talking to you, Nancy was able to remove the fourth and fifth screws and it made the whole experience quicker and less painful. We have one more screw to remove. Can you please stay calm and stay still so that we can get this over with soon?"

Sally was hyperventilating again and had a very stressed look in her eyes but she laid her head in my lap again and nuzzled her head into my stomach, signifying her agreement. It's like whenever she laid her lead in my lap and nuzzled me, she was curling herself up for safety.

"Go ahead, Nancy." I told her.

She nodded her head and started to remove the last screw. As I expected, Sally moaned and tensed up as she started to experience pain again. She started breathing heavier and pushing her head into my stomach more, looking for safety. I rubbed her head reassuringly with my right hand while I rubbed her neck with the other. I started to shed tears at seeing her in such pain like this. I truly wished that we could just give her more anaesthetics so that she wouldn't be feeling such pain. I knew that wasn't possible though as Wyoming already gave her the maximum dose that was allowed, anymore and it would pose a very high risk of harming her health. It was then that I got an idea.

"Hey, Sally." I asked in a gentle voice, causing her to look up at me with eyes filled with tears. "I have an idea on how to distract you from this pain. Why don't you talk to me about your flock? I love going on the Gallimimus rides and seeing other members of your species run around the fields. It's so beautiful to see them run, sleep, and just enjoy life in nature. Could you please tell me what that's like for you?"

"You'll have to save that for another time, you two." Nancy said, I looked over and saw that she was holding up the last screw.

"Well would you look at that Sally?" I said as I rubbed her head. "We're all done!"

"Yes we are." Nancy said as she removed the plates from around Sally's ankle and upper paw.

"Kenny, Nancy, Wyoming." Mr. Gopul spoke, getting our attention. "You all did very well."

"Agreed." Mr. Yares continued. "Your performance and cooperation during the entire operation was marvelous and well executed."

"Thank you, teachers." We all thanked at once.

"Again, well done, all of you." Mr. Gopul said. "Nicholas, you may call the MVU and arrange for ACU to tranquilize… uhh… OH Sally here for transport to Gallimimus Valley."

"Alright." Mr. Yares agreed.

"Hold on!" I called out, drawing their attention. "Oh uh… sorry. Excuse me, but… I was thinking that… maaaaybe we don't need to tranquilize her."

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"What?" Mr. Yares asked, taking his hand off of the phone.

"Are you serious?" Mr. Gopul asked.

"They're right, Kenny." Wyoming said. "There is no need for her to remain awake while she is transported to Gallimimus Valley."

"We're done here, why do you want her to remain awake any longer?" Nancy followed.

"We don't need to sedate her." I simply said.

"And why is that?" Mr. Yares asked.

"It would be better for her health. Not just her physical health but for her mental health as well." I told them.

"You are still failing to explain to us why that is." Mr. Yares said.

"Look, all I'm trying to say is that I understand these dinosaurs not just biologically but psychologically as well." I explained. "I've gotten through to them, bonded with them, hell… I've even had actual conversations with them. I know them. Allow me to explain why walking Sally out of here, to the MVU, and ride in the back with her to Gallimimus Valley would be more healthy than simply sedating her and doing that."

"Go ahead." Mr. Gopul replied, I noticed that he sounded unconvinced.

"Sally here has clearly gone through a traumatic experience, while it may not have been as particularly traumatizing as say being mauled, it was still painful and frightening nonetheless. Sally is just 15 in the age of a gallimimus right?" I spoke, earning a nod from everyone in the room. "That means that she is still pretty young. Still young enough to develop phobias. What's more is, from what I learned when looking over the records of this facility as part of my training, the last time Sally was in this facility was four years ago. That experience was just a simple vaccination so it was relatively pleasant for her. As I said earlier, this experience was not like that, so it means that she had a negative experience."

When I got no response, I kept going.

"When children and young adults undergo an operation that involves opening their skin, they are sedated so that they do not experience pain, or at least do not remember it. That way, when they wake up the treatment is over and they get to go home. Sally here, clearly did not have that happen to her. She has undergone a very painful and frightening experience; and now you want to sedate her and send her home? That's just not right." I said.

"Actually that is right. Standard procedure is to sedate the asset, transport to the DMC, perform whatever treatments are necessary-if that requires sedation then that is done-, sedate again, and then transport the asset back to the appropriate area." Wyoming told me.

"But we didn't sedate her during the treatment. If we end up doing that now, then the last thing that she will remember is experiencing such frightening pain here. What's more is that she will be swarmed by the other members of her flock, all asking her what happened to her and where she went." I explained. "She will be forced to recall these traumatic memories and will become even more upset. Because of this, further treatments, not just for her but for other members of her flock as well, will become much more complicated and will have a much higher chance of resulting in injury for both humans and dinosaurs."

"And how can you be sure that she will not injure humans and/or other dinosaurs if we just allow her to walk out of here?" Mr. Gopul asked.

"I can be, and am sure that Sally will not injure other humans and/or other dinosaurs because allowing her to walk out of here to the MVU will be relaxing to her. Not just relaxing, but it will also be seen as a symbol of triumph for her." I said. "If she walks out of here, then she will realize that she just underwent a traumatic and painful experience, and survived. What's more, she will know that she had support from the people here. It will be very invigorating for her and it will be very psychologically healthy for her. That will turn this negative experience into a positive one. She will also tell other members of her flock about this, and that will in turn make future visits for them more pleasant and peaceful for them as well as us."

"Do you have any data to support these claims?" Mr. Yares asked me.

"No I do not." I answered. "I don't need data. I have first-hand experience, which is knowledge from a primary source. I know these creatures, and I promise you that Sally will not hurt anyone or anything on the way out of this building and on the way back to Gallimimus Valley."

Mr. Yares and Mr. Gopul turned to face each other and started to whisper into each other's ears. I really wished that I could tell what they were saying. I just hoped that I was able to convince them to keep Sally awake. I looked down at her and saw that she was looking up at me with a large smile on her face. I couldn't help but return the smile and I knelt down next to her.

"Don't worry, Sally." I said while rubbing her head. "I am going to make sure that you get the most humane treatment as possible."

"Kenny." I heard a voice call and saw that it was Mr. Gopul. "We have talked it over and we have reached a decision. We are going to allow you to perform this request of yours on one condition."

"What is it?" I wondered.

"If Sally here hurts one person or asset, or causes trouble for anyone else by scaring them for example, then you will fail all of your training and your employment here will be terminated effective immediately." Mr. Gopul told me. "What's more is, any future employment applications that you send to this park will be voided as soon as they arrive. Do you understand?"

"Yes, I do." I agreed.

"Really?" Mr. Yares asked in surprise. "That was a quick answer."

"Simple question." I replied. "I am completely sure that Sally will not do any of the things that you have described."

"Very well then." Mr. Gopul spoke. "Nicholas, you may call the MVU now. I'll call ACU and tell them to have only their taser prods drawn."

"Is that really necessary?" I asked.

"Kenny, they're allowing you to go through with this crazy idea of yours." Nancy said.

"Yeah, don't push your luck." Wyoming continued.

"Alright." I said. "Well Sally, looks like we will get to walk out of here."

In a few minutes we heard the outer doors to the room where Sally was originally being held open. I looked down at Sally and held out my hand for her to take, to which she happily did with her left arm. After she stood up, I put my other hand overtop of hers to reassure her and led her out of the exam room, through the vestibule, and through the room where she was sleeping earlier. Once we entered the hallway where small rail cars transported dinosaurs and various equipment throughout the facility, we were greeted by four ACU members, each of whom was wielding an active taser prod that was sparking with blue electricity at the tip. I noticed that Sally was looking at me with a slightly nervous expression on her face.

"Don't worry about them, Sally." I said in a calm voice. "I'm here for you."

"C'mon, let's move." One of the ACU soldiers spoke.

"Let's go, Sally." I said as I led her onto the rail car that was waiting for us.

Sally and I stepped onto the rail car and the ACU soldiers took position around us. Two of them were in front of us, while the other two were behind us. I noticed that Mr. Yares and Mr. Gopul were coming with us, while Nancy and Wyoming were heading off in the other direction. I was snapped from my thoughts when the rail car started moving, which almost made me and Sally lose our footing, although we managed to avoid falling.

"You'll be back home before you know it, girl." I told Sally, still watching over her.

Sally chirped happily in response

It wasn't long before we had arrived at the gate for medium sized dinosaurs. When we got there, the doors were already opening. I saw that once they had completely opened there was an MVU with a large trailer waiting for us. Unfortunately there were also four more ACU soldiers waiting for us with active taser prods. I had considered asking them to at least turn them off, but I remembered Wyoming and Nancy say that I was lucky enough to convince my instructors to let me walk Sally out of here.

"Alright, Sally. We're going to need you to step into the opening you see in front of you okay?" I requested, causing Sally to give me an unsure look. "It's alright Sally, I'm going to be getting in the back with you."

Sally seemed reassured now, so I had no problem leading her into the back of the MVU once the lift folded out. As promised, I went into the back with her and sat down next to her on the floor of the vehicle. However, the ACU wasn't having that.

"Excuse me, Mr. Serno. You're going to have to sit down in one of these seats and buckle up." An ACU soldier told me.

"Really?" I asked. "Why?"

"Uhh, because we're going to be in a moving vehicle." He said.

"So? Sally here doesn't have to buckle up." I countered before pointing to the bottom of their seats. "Neither do you."

"Oh. Well you're also forgetting that it's 340 lbs heavier than you." The man next to him said as the other guy felt for a seatbelt. "Now sit down and hold on so we can get moving. Lunch is in an hour."

"Ugh… fiiiiiiiiiine." I groaned as I sat down in the seat closest to Sally. "And Sally is a she. Remember that."

"Everyone's settled in. Over." One of the ACU soldiers spoke into a radio.

"Roger. Over." A voice spoke through the radio.

"What? Over." Another ACU soldier spoke into his walkie-talkie.

"Nothing, Roger. Over." The soldier on the other end of walkie-talkie replied.

"Just so you know, we need bucks back here." Roger notified.

"What did you say?" The person next to him spoke.

"Nothing, Buck." Roger replied.

"Bucks needed in rear of MVU." A voice said over the radio. "Roger, Roger."

"Hey, Sally?" I asked, getting her attention. "Since we've got about half an hour before we get to your home, how about you tell me about it and what your life is like there? You know, since we never got to talk about it while we were treating you. I'm very interested in hearing about it, especially from you."

Sally looked happy to tell me about it, so she started talking in her own language while Roger, Buck and the other ACU soldiers kept talking and getting their names confused.

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It wasn't long before we had arrived at Gallimimus Valley. Me and Sally were kind of sad that we had gotten here so quickly. Sure we had finished talking about what life was like here for her and what experiences she had, and so moved on to other subjects; but we were really enjoying getting to know each other. I knew that I pretty much couldn't understand what Sally was saying, and she seemed to understand that; but still, we were really enjoying talking with each other. That's why as the lift was lowering us to the ground, I was starting to tear up.

"Well Sally… here we are." I said, still somewhat upset at having to see her go. "Welcome home."

"Don't worry, Kenny." Mr. Gopul said. "This isn't the last time you'll see her."

"Rick is right." Mr. Yares continued. "You live here now so you may see her in the DMC again or in this valley."

"Woah, I forgot they were still here." I thought as I didn't notice that they were in the back of the MVU with us.

"They're both right." I agreed as I turned to face Sally. "I know that we'll see each other again soon. We can count on that."

I wrapped my arms around the base of Sally's neck and she lowered her head while making a purring sound and I found that I was making a similar sound as well. Reluctantly we broke apart and Sally turned to head back to her flock.

"Goodbye, Sally!" I shouted.

Sally chirped her farewells in return before slowly running away from us and further into the valley.

Something then clicked in my mind.

"Wait a minute." I muttered before speaking up. "Mr. Yares, you said that I live here now. That privilege is only granted to employees of Jurassic World. Does that mean that I passed the exam?"

"You most certainly did." Mr. Yares told me.

"And you definitely earned some extra credit with your performance in leading Sally back here without incident." Mr. Gopul agreed.

"See? I told you that I would get her back here safely while she was awake." I said.

"I guess you did." Mr. Gopul replied. "Still, you do know that there is a reason why we sedate assets when we transport them back to their homes, right?"

"Yes I do." I answered. "It is so that they do not escape containment during transport and cause panic as well as possible damage and/or injuries amongst the park or visitors."

"Very well, as long as you understand." Mr. Yares said. "Just please, don't expect this to happen all the time, alright?"

"Agreed." I replied. "Do we understand each other?"

"Yes we do." Mr. Gopul said. "Now, let's head back. I'm starving."

"Me too." I laughed as we got into the MVU.

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[1:50 pm]

I returned to my room at the Hilton Resort and Spa to clean myself after I got back from the DMC. I decided to skip lunch with the other employees because I really wanted to get back here and write in my journal. After I had taken a shower to clean myself off of any dirty contaminants that I had acquired from the surgery with Sally. As soon as I had changed back into a forest-green t-shirt with a picture of Rexy on it and some blue cargo shorts, I was sitting at the desk in my room and writing away.

" [12/27/15 1:53 pm] Boy has today been a really great day so far! Early this morning I went to see Blue, Delta, Echo, and Charlie at their paddock and I was a bit too excited to see them. I woke Blue up from her sleep.

I don't think she liked that. At all.

Still, Owen came over and woke the rest of them up pretty much immediately after that so it wouldn't have made much difference had I done it or not. Even still, it was very rude of me to wake Blue up from her pleasant rest and I hope that Blue doesn't hold it against me.

In other news… I FINISHED MY TRAINING TODAY! I am now officially an employee of Jurassic World! I helped a gallimimus named Sally with finishing the treatment on her formerly broken ankle. I was able to calm her down and talk to her while my assistants took out the screws in her metatarsal bones. It was a very painful experience for her and I am so very glad that I was there by her side for the entire operation. I am also very happy that I was able to convince my instructors to allow Sally to remain awake while we transported her back to her home.

Sadly, this day hasn't been all fun and joy as I described earlier. That's not to say that it's been horrible, no. The thing that's upsetting me is that Vic Hoskins is desperately trying to turn Blue and her sisters into living weapons. What's more is that he wants to send them into an open warzone. Throughout their entire lives, he's been trying to get data on them, run computer simulations on their abilities, get Owen and Barry's reports on them, he wants everything, through whatever means necessary. I gave him some real hell earlier but there's still a part of me that believes he won't stop. Well no matter what he or anyone else that he's working with tries, I WILL NOT let them be hurt or killed by anyone or anything. I will do all that I can do to protect them. They mean the world- no more than that- to me. I care about them so much. I will keep them safe. I know that I am a veterinarian here, but I am also a caretaker for them. Not just that, but I am also a member of their pack (as stated by their alpha, Owen). Packmates give their lives for each other.

I'm going to see them again later today, but for now I'm going to get some lunch.

See ya, Kenny Serno.

With that, I closed my book and gathered my stuff before heading out of the room. Once I had gotten into an elevator to take it to the ground floor, I pulled out my cell phone and unlocked it to look at some pictures. While I had a lot of varying pictures, I knew which ones I was looking for in particular. Christmas was just a couple of days ago and there had been a lot of fun during that day as well as the night before. The innovation center had played Christmas movies, there had been fossil digging events to find presents, and lots of other fun games and events. While I had participated in a lot of them, most of my day was filled up with me going around the island attending the various attractions here.

Anyways, I found the picture that I was looking for. It was when I paid a special visit to the raptor paddock during Christmas Day. During that day, I was allowed to take the entire day off from training. Christmas was very special to me here, mostly because I got to spend a lot of time with Blue and her sisters. The previous days before that, I was pretty busy so I wasn't able to spend much time with them. That had upset me and I could clearly tell that they missed me very much. I could tell by them getting very affectionate and joyful whenever I arrived there. I understood now what Owen meant when he said that they were paying more attention to me than to him whenever I was around. The picture that I had Barry take was of me and the raptors, surrounded by Christmas gifts. I had been planning for weeks on what to get them, and I made sure to make each one very special.

For Charlie, I had gotten her a create-your-own dino plush. It was mostly based on a Baryonyx and was blue with specks of yellow and brown. I decided that since Charlie was still pretty young (about 16), and was always playing with any toys/rewards that Owen had gotten her whenever I saw them; that getting a plush for Charlie to play with would be very sweet. Owen wasn't too thrilled about Charlie getting something filled with stuffing, so I told her to be very gentle while playing with it, making sure that she understood that her teeth and claws were very sharp and that if she wasn't careful with it, that she would tear it apart before she was able to enjoy it.

As for Echo, I knew that she loved art, specifically paintings and drawings. So I decided to make her a drawing to commemorate the conclusion of my training here. It was of when I had comforted her in her exam room at the DMC while playing my guitar for her. I drew several musical notes and special symbols around us. I even hid a very special one overtop of her. When I pointed out to her what it meant while whispering in her ear, she started crying and chirping gratefully to me.

I got Delta something special that she could relate to. This one I wasn't able to get/make on the island and had to ask a friend of mine to make and ship to me. It was a collection of rawhide bones that I had vaguely designed to resemble the shape of a fat man. Delta found the coloration odd and when I noticed her squinting at it and tilting her head in thought I quietly whispered to her what the coloration was supposed to resemble: Hoskins in his standard uniform. Owen had to take a phone call when I was telling her this so I took full advantage of it. I told her that it was a gift that she could take her frustrations with Hoskins out on so that she could vent. I revealed to her that I would've made it resemble him more but I was worried that Owen would figure it out and think that I was taking things too far, so I did the best I could. When I told her this, she looked at me and gave me a sincere smile while softly barking her appreciation.

Blue really loved the gift that I had gotten for her. I was well aware of the fact that Blue had been under a lot of stress lately with Hoskins's presence becoming more frequent lately, the same for his moles and allies. This was causing her to become more and more concerned for the safety her alpha and her sisters, as well as myself. Throughout the past three weeks, I noticed Blue pacing around her paddock a lot, scratching herself, and I often caught her chewing on something like a bone or a branch. I knew that velociraptors were known to chew on the bones of their kills as a way to clean their teeth to prevent their dental health from declining, but Blue was doing it waaaay more than normal. Owen was even having a hard time getting her to stop this habit of hers. He told me that she has been much more nervous and anxious lately and that she only did these things when she was very anxious or nervous about something. I told him that I had already figured that out.

That's where my gift comes in. I decided to buy her a shiatsu neck and shoulder massager from Brookstone as a Christmas gift, making sure to get measurements of her neck and shoulder width beforehand. After a little bit of persuasion, I was able to convince Owen to let me put it on her and when I did, she loved it. The second I turned it on, Blue visibly relaxed her muscles and calmed down. She hissed softly while breathing out and closed her eyes in pleasure as the massager started heating and kneading her shoulders and lower neck. She was in such tranquility that she started making a deep rumbling/purring sound that sounded like "MmMmMMMMmmmMMmmMMMMmmMmmmm". I couldn't help but chuckle when I saw that she had her eyes half-closed when Barry took the picture while Owen held up Charlie's plush and the drawing that I made for Echo.

Smiling warmly at the precious memory, I put away my phone when the elevator doors opened and I went out of the hotel and went to get some food. I knew that there were so many places here to eat and it was pretty hard to decide. I decided that since it was hot, that I would get something from Dairy Queen. Since the Monorail is attached to the hotel, I decided to take that to Main Street. This wouldn't be very different for me today, I practically took the monorail every day to work. What was special about this trip was what Aqua was doing. Whenever I had to go to training, I would usually need to leave early in the morning, before the park opened, so I would scan my ID card and a monorail would come to pick me up. During these trips not much happens, I'm usually alone on the monorail, and it usually takes me over Aqua's lagoon. Most of the time I can see her sleeping on the surface of the water, occasionally she'll be swimming around and splashing water as a way to play with herself.

Not this time. I was alerted to something happening by a lot of people shouting and I turned to see that Aqua was being fed. As soon as I had turned to face the window, we were right over her lagoon and she was leaping up to snag a great-white shark that was hung on a zip-line. I was amazed at being able to see such a marvelous sight for free. Normally, I had to reserve a ticket in order to see her get fed, and even then I wasn't able to do that too often, with training and all. Still, I was happy to see such a marvelous creature enjoying her fans. I could tell because she was clearly smiling.

Once the monorail had stopped at main street, I went straight to Dairy Queen while admiring the happy and excited moods of thousands of families. I had gotten a chicken strip meal and an oreo blizzard. However it took no more than three bites into a chicken strip for me to abandon my meal to to the seagulls.

"The next T. Rex feeding will begin in ten minutes." A woman on the PA stated.

"T. Rex! Come on, man!" A kid shouted, keeping me from hearing the rest of the message, although I didn't need to in order to know where to go.

"It's happening! It's happening!" I shouted with glee as I bolted towards the T. Rex Kingdom.

"Let's go!" The kid behind me shouted over the exhausted remarks of another with him, his older brother I assumed.

I knew that I could run faster than the average person but I wasn't able to run as fast in this crowded hallway so I had to exercise great care to not give anyone a sprain by running into them. Still, I had to hurry because only about 40 people could be allowed into the viewing log at a time, and the further back you were in the line, the less likely you were to be at the front… if you wanted to be.

Luckily while other people were swarming the regular line on the right, I was able to run to the VIP line and enter it before anyone else did. As I skid to a stop I saw that a guy named Travis was staffing the VIP line again.

"You're becoming a real regular around here." Travis said as I flashed my wristband that I put on earlier.

"Yup! Never get tired of seeing them." I happily said while hopping with excitement.

"Sure wish that was true for everyone here." Travis replied while signaling to move on. "Next!"

I started running down the hall again before getting stopped by another staff member after about ten feet, who promptly asked me to slow down. Reluctantly, I did. However, I made sure to move as fast as possible without having him tell me to stop again. I didn't have much farther to go and soon I was at the viewing glass, having secured one of the last few spots in the front row. I saw a flare fly down in front of us and started shuffling my feet with excitement while making very happy and high-pitched "eee eee" like-chirping noises. A few seconds later Rexy came out of the forest and the noises that I was making got louder. I didn't care if anyone thought I was weird, besides, some 10-year-old was chanting "Eat it! Eat it!"

Rexy approached the goat that was acting oddly calm until she got about 10 feet away from it. It was at that moment that the goat tried to start running away but got stopped by the loose rope that was keeping it tied to a metal pole. Rexy walked up to it, very professionally I noted, and started to tear into it. Normally, an average person would be pretty much grossed out by seeing a T. Rex rip a goat apart and eat it, which most of the crowd was. But I wasn't normal. I excitedly watched Rexy eat her meal like I hadn't before. I was so happy that wasn't true for me though, and even more happy that each visit was like I was reliving my very first experience with Rexy.

I was snapped out of my thoughts by getting bumped in the side and I looked down to see that it was the same kid who was nagging his older brother to get here.

"Sorry." He apologized as he looked up at me before returning his gaze to the forest in front of us.

I returned mine as well and saw that Rexy was continuing to chew on the goat, apparently savoring the taste of each bite. However what happened next had me screaming like a… actually I couldn't describe how silly I was acting. While Rexy was swinging the goat meat around in order to get it into her mouth easier, her gaze fell on the viewing glass, specifically the part where I was. She looked straight at me and I saw that a gentle smile came onto her face, before she returned to her meal. In reality it was only for a couple of seconds, but it felt like so much longer for me. Anyways, I flipped out.

"OH MY GOD! SHE SAW ME! SHE SAW ME!" I shouted.

"NO!" I heard a voice yell from behind me. "Sorry but some… adult is fangirling over a dinosaur seeing him or whatever."

I laughed sheepishly at that and saw that Rexy was finishing up her meal. Once she had finished she glanced back at us. I put my hand on the glass and Rexy started to walk towards it but a quick and loud air horn sound made her wince before glaring up at the attendant who triggered it. Rexy slowly shook her head and smiled at me before walking away.

"Goodbye… Rexy." I slowly whispered.

"That was so cool right?! Wasn't it?" The younger, blonde-haired kid asked his brother as the crowd started to clear out.

"Huh?" He asked, taking out his earbuds. "What did you say, Gray?"

"Come on, Zach. Were you even watching?" Gray asked again.

"No, man." He replied. "Besides I was in a call with mom and someone was flipping out over the… dinosaur seeing him."

"T. Rex." Gray clarified.

"Whatever." Zach dismissed. "Did you see who that was?"

"Uhhh…" Gray started, barely looking in my direction. "No not really, I was too busy watching Rexy."

"Yeah… okay. " Zach said before turning away. "I'm going to the bathroom, wait for me at the exit to this place."

"Okay!" Gray agreed before turning to face me.

"Thank you." I said.

"Hey, excuse me, but you two need to leave here so that we can get this place ready for the next feeding." An employee asked. "Could you please do that?"

"Alright." We both complied at the same time.

As soon as we got outside we started talking while sitting on a bench.

"Thanks for not telling him that I was acting like a little girl in there." I said.

"You're welcome, sir." Gray told me. "I'm the same way."

"Ah, you don't have to call me sir. I'm only twenty." I said. "My name is Kenneth, but that just sounds weird so I go by Kenny."

"I'm Gray." Gray introduced as I shook his hand. "With all due respect Kenny, you sure don't act like a twenty-year-old.

"No offense taken. I get this way every time I come here." I said. "How come you weren't recording in there? Everyone else was."

"I couldn't get a good shot." Gray said. "That… and I don't have a cell phone."

"You poor thing." I said as I put a hand on his shoulder.

"It's alright, I'm going to be getting one on my next birthday." Gray told me. "What about you?"

"I don't need to." I answered. "I've seen her so many times I don't need to take anymore videos."

"How many times have you seen Rexy?" Gray wondered.

"I don't know, I stopped counting after 124." I enthusiastically answered.

"You've been here more than 124 times?" Gray asked after his jaw dropped for thirty seconds.

"Oh no… way more than that!" I said. "Rexy is very beautiful, and the way that she walks up to the log, so professionally and full of swag."

"That's so awesome. You're right about Rexy by the way. This is the first time that I saw her." Gray stated before noticing my wristband. "So you're a VIP too?"

"Yeah, my Dad was in the Navy so he was able to get me this." I said. "What about you? Are your parents waiting for your brother?"

"No, they're back in the US." Gray answered sadly. "My aunt is here though, but sadly she's in a bunch of meetings now and couldn't be with us."

"Where does your aunt work?" I asked out of curiosity.

"Actually she works here." He said. "She's in charge of this place."

"Wait a minute… is your aunt Ms. … I mean Claire Dearing?" I wondered.

"Yeah, how did you know?" Gray asked in confusion.

"She's my boss." I answered. "One of them at least."

"You work here?!" Gray exclaimed in amazement.

"Yup." I said. "I'm a paleo-veterinarian. I treat dinosaurs for varying diseases, calm them down, even treat their broken bones. I get along really well with them."

"Wow… that's so cool!" Gray shouted in excitement. "I wonder what I'm going to be when I get a job."

"I'm sure you'll figure it out." I said with a pat on the shoulder. "I'm also sure that it will be something you'll like."

"Hey, Gray." Zach said as he came up to us. "Let's go."

"That's my brother, Zach." Gray said as he got up. "See ya later."

"You too." I replied as I gave him a fist bump and then went to give his brother one. "Bye, Zach."

"Yeah… no." He said. "I don't know you."

"Hey, Gray!" I whispered, loud enough for him to hear. "Pass this on."

I then fist-bumped Zach and motioned towards his brother. Gray grinned and went over to his brother and gave him my fist bump.

"It's from him." Gray said. "Since it came through me it's not from a stranger."

I laughed when I saw Zach's head go back in exasperation. It was then that I heard my cell phone ringing with the sound of Rexy's roar. I looked at it and got excited when I saw that it was Simon Masrani.

"Hello, Simon!" I happily answered. "How are you doing?"

"I am doing great right now, Kenny!" Simon greeted.

"Relatively speaking." I heard another voice say.

"Who's that?" I asked, holding the phone slightly away from my ear. "And why are you yelling?"

"That's Oliver Saros, he's my flight instructor. We're on speaker right now." Simon told me. "I'm flying towards the Innovation Center. In fact, that's why I am calling you. Are you free right now?"

"Yes. I'm free for the rest of the day." I answered. "Why do you ask?"

"It's a surprise." Simon simply said. "Could you please meet me at the Innovation Center helipad in about 15 minutes?"

"Sure!" I agreed. "I'm just outside the T. Rex kingdom now. I'll be there really soon."

"Glad to hear it, Kenny!" Simon replied before the call ended.

Not wanting to be late, I quickly made my way to where Simon would meet me.

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I was looking at my watch and saw that it read 3:00. I was beginning to wonder where Simon was when I heard helicopter blades approaching. I didn't have to wait much longer as JW001 approached the landing pad and I noticed that it was shaking slightly as it landed, however there weren't any problems as the skids touched the ground.

"Hello, Simon!" I greeted.

"Greetings, Kenny!" Simon returned. "C'mon, climb aboard."

"Wait, we're not staying here?" I asked.

"No, I never said we were. I'm taking you to a special place." Simon replied. "Now Simon says 'come on in!'."

"Well since Simon says…" I laughed as I did what he requested and buckled in, taking off and setting down my backpack to do so.

"So how was-" Simon started to say.

"Wait till we're in the air." Oliver told him.

"Bahhhh, okay…" Simon agreed.

We waited a few minutes until we were flying northwest before we resumed our conversation.

"So, Kenny, how was your training?" Simon asked.

"It was great!" I answered. "I really helped out a Gallimimus named Sally get her cast off and took out the screws in her ankle."

"Screws?" Simon wondered. "What happened to her?"

"She got her ankle broken while flocking a couple of months ago." I said. "It was really painful and frightening for her as they were taken out since she was awake. Luckily I was able to calm her down and I talked with her as we transported her back to Gallimimus Valley."

"You talked with her?" Simon asked. "How did you understand what she was saying?"

"I couldn't really." I answered. "While I felt like I understood, I couldn't tell what the words she actually said were. Anyways, I passed my training."

"I'm glad to hear that!" Simon said cheerfully. "So how has the rest of your day been?"

"Mostly good, but there were some things that I wouldn't regard as happy." I revealed.

"Dear child, confess to me your strife!" Simon humorously requested.

"One thing is about Hoskins." I said.

"Oh boy…" He replied. "What does he want now?"

"A field test, but I don't know what that means." I answered. "He saw that Blue and her sisters didn't kill or injure the pig in their hunt so he thinks that they can be controlled."

"Ah they can't be controlled. I told Claire this morning 'The key to a happy life is to accept you are never actually in control'." Simon told me.

"He should really learn to just leave them and us alone." I said. "He's wanting to send them into actual war zones. You know what that means: gunfire and artillery bombardment."

"Great…" Simon sighed. "Well we can't fire him without raising a fuss, but don't worry, I'll see what I can do for them."

"Thank you so much, Simon." I said. "This really means alot to us."

"It will be alright." Simon replied. "So, what was the other thing that you wanted to talk to me about?"

"It's about something that I heard from my friend Travis while I was in line to see Rexy." I told him. "I said that I never got tired of seeing these dinosaurs and he said that he wished everyone felt how I did. Are people really getting tired of seeing these amazing dinosaurs?"

"Sadly, it seems so." Simon answered. "I wish it wasn't true."

"But why?" I responded in what sounded like a plea.

"Because people are fickle." Simon said. "'They aren't cool anymore.', 'They look boring.', 'Can I go back to our room now?' Those seem to be the responses that we're getting."

"I wish people would just accept dinosaurs being alive again as cool enough." I grumbled.

"I do as well, Kenny." Simon admitted. "Unfortunately most people- adults and kids alike- are seeing dinosaurs as animals at a zoo, or a movie, or video games for example. One can only play a video game for so long before they get tired of it."

"Well, I always love seeing them." I said.

"Again, you are not like most people, Kenny." Simon told me. "However with the profits for Jurassic World dwindling, we've had to find other ways to raise the funds for this place."

"I thought you didn't care about profits and costs?" I asked.

"Just because I don't particularly like thinking about expenses and profits doesn't mean that I can just ignore them." Simon said. "If we cannot raise money then we won't be able to maintain and care for these animals. Then where will they be?"

"So how are you planning on appeasing the people and corporations that sponsor Jurassic World?" I wondered.

"Sorry but I can't exactly say right now." Simon answered. "All I can say is that we made a new dinosaur."

"Made?" I asked.

"Yes, made." Simon said. "Don't worry, I'll tell you all about her later; as for now, we have arrived at our destination."

I saw that we had passed over the Triceratops Territory and were approaching a clearing of grass that was in front of a forest. As we came in for the landing the helicopter started to shake and Oliver grabbed his seat. Simon made a quiet squeal-like sound and pushed a couple of buttons on the dash.

"Got it… got it." Simon repeated in confidence as he leveled the helicopter and landed it on the ground. "Here we are."

We noticed that Oliver was looking at Simon and not saying a word.

"What?" Simon said. "I landed us safely."

"Sure…" Oliver simply stated before we got out of the helicopter.

"Kenny, welcome to-" Simon started to say before we heard a whistle behind us. We turned around to see that the helicopter blades were still spinning and that the engine was still running. "Oops."

After Simon had turned off the helicopter Oliver put a hand on his forehead in exasperation as Simon came over to me.

"Kenny, welcome to our newest attraction at Jurassic World." Simon introduced as he gestured to a covered sign that was on a path into the forest. "This is our new two-hour hiking trail that is completely free of charge. It winds and travels through the forest in front of us and hosts a wide and diverse arrangement of prehistoric flora to see. Along this trail there are benches to rest at and take in the quiet and tranquil scenery."

"Wow." I gasped in amazement. "It looks amazing!"

"You haven't seen anything yet. I gave it a special name." Simon said. "Would you like to see what it is?"

"Yes please." I replied.

"I give you…" Simon announced as he pulled the cover on the arched entrance down.

What it read had me crying tears of joy into Simon's shoulder as I noticed who it was named after. Around a 2d figure of a green pteranodon, it read:

Zon Memorial Trail

"I had contruction on it begin the week after you were hired." Simon softly spoke as he returned my hug. "Your younger brother was very special to you and inspired you to pursue a career path that you truly cared for. In doing that, he made it so that you could extend your love and care to others and so that you could keep them safe. That is truly worth recognition and honor."

"Thank you so much." I said as I pulled away from him and wiped my eyes. "This really means so much to me."

"I am happy that I could make you feel this way." Simon replied. "It officially opens next week, but I wanted you to be the very first to walk on it."

"Thank you, sir." I said. "May I please walk on it now?"

"Why are you asking me?" Simon joked. "Do you really think that I would say all that and deny you access to it?"

"Sorry, I just still can't believe that you did this all for me and Zon." I admitted. "Thank you. I'll head right in."

"Hold on, Kenny. There's still something that I need to tell you." Simon said, so I turned around. "Like I said, this trail should take about two hours to complete. I won't be here when you finish but when you do, you should give me a call and I'll come to pick you up."

"Alright, I will." I agreed.

"Be sure to let me know what you think of the trail." He added. "I'll see you later."

"Okay, bye!" I waved before heading off into the trail.

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I had been walking for about half an hour before I decided to sit down at a bench and pull out my phone. I had been thinking back on my visit to the T. Rex Kingdom and pulled out my phone once I had sat down. Rexy noticing me had brought up a really sweet memory from a decade ago. It was when I was with my dad and it took place during my very first visit to the T. Rex Kingdom on Jurassic World's opening day.

After a few seconds I had unlocked my phone and was watching the video that my father had recorded.

[Video Time Stamp- 05/29/2005 8:20 pm]

"Here you go." Dad said.

"What?" An employee asked in confusion.

"I want this moment to be remembered. I need somebody to record it." Dad requested. "Please, Jeff?"

"Alright." Jeff reluctantly agreed.

"It's already recording." Dad notified. "Just point it towards us and Rexy when she comes, okay?"

"Yeah, okay." Jeff said before handing him a flare. "I take it you want to throw this?"

"Can I do it, please? Pretty please?" The younger me innocently asked.

"I'm sorry, Ken." Dad told me. "This flare is really dangerous and it could hurt you."

"Aww… but I wanna!" I whined.

"Don't worry, Ken." Dad said. "I'm going to let you feed Rexy."

"Okie!" I said.

My dad stepped further into the alcove where the employees here normally threw the flare. He lit the flare and threw it into the forest. Meanwhile, I was covering my eyes and wincing at the bright light.

"Kenny, what's wrong?" My dad asked when he saw me whimpering.

"The light, it hurt." I whimpered, starting to cry. "It big."

"Well you will be alright Kenny, it's okay. I promise." Dad told me. "The bright light shouldn't have bothered you, but it's supposed to be that way for safety."

We then felt several large thuds, as evidenced by me grabbing onto my dad's leg and the camera shaking.

"Look Kenny! There she is!" Dad announced as the camera focused on me grabbing the rail next to my dad in excitement.

"Is that Rexy?" I asked, saying Rexy like 'Wexi.'

"Yes she is." Dad said.

"HI REXY!" I yelled.

Rexy looked at us in confusion and then directed her gaze towards the metal pad where her food usually was, apparently expecting a meal.

"Rexy, do you remember me?" Dad asked, to which Rexy just continued looking at us. "Would you like some tasty meaties?"

Rexy looked at my dad and tilted her head in confusion. She did this for a few minutes before we saw her eyes widen and she stepped closer to us while wearing a huge grin on her face, she was also making a bunch of various calls and deep barking sounds. I looked down and saw that Rexy was looking up at us with beady eyes.

"Daddy, why is she smiling at us like that?" I wondered, slightly concerned. "Is she going to eat us?"

"No no no, no Kenny. She's not going to eat us." Dad said quickly to reassure me. "She is just very happy to remember me."

"Yay!" I cheered before my dad picked me up.

"Rexy, this is my son, Kenny." Dad introduced, and Rexy made a hooting sound in response. "Kenny, could you please say hi to Rexy?"

"Hi, Miss Rexy!" I greeted.

"Why are you calling her Miss Rexy?" Dad wondered.

"Because she is big, older, and her name is Rexy." I answered. "And I always call big, older girls Miss."

"Well that is very nice and considerate of you, Kenny." Dad told me. "Would you like to feed Miss Rexy some tasty meaties?"

"Yes, pretty please." I requested. "May I?"

"Of course you may." Dad allowed. "Here you go."

"Thank you, Daddy!" I said before trying to throw the meat. "Here you go Miss Rexy!"

I threw the meat down to Rexy but I accidentally aimed too far to the right and missed Rexy entirely. Rexy lowered her head to the ground to eat the meat while my dad handed me another piece of meat.

"Here you go, Kenny!" Dad said.

"Here some more tasty meaties!" I announced, getting ready to throw another piece of meat.

"Kenny wait!" Dad tried to stop me as Rexy was looking up at us again. "Not yet!"

However, I had already thrown the meat and while Rexy did see it coming, it was still a bit too high for her. She tried to catch it in her mouth and she did. The thing was though, while she was able to swallow it without choking, she stepped on a rock and lost her footing, causing her to fall right onto her back and side.

"Sorry Miss Rexy!" I apologized as Rexy moved her feet in the air for a couple of seconds before rolling onto her side.

My dad set me down on the metal flooring as Rexy got to her feet. Once she had, she looked up at us with a frustrated expression before her face lightened up and she made several deep chuffing sounds.

"Is she... laughing?" Jeff asked.

"Yes she is." Dad answered. "Kenny, why don't I throw the rest of the tasty meaties?"

"Aww, okay." I said.

Dad threw the rest of the meat and Rexy caught each in her mouth perfectly. Once he was finished he hooked the bucket onto the railing and lifted me up again.

"Well Kenny? Did you have fun meeting Rexy?" Dad asked me.

"Yeah!" I cheerfully said.

"Rexy? What about you?" Dad asked her. "Did you enjoy meeting my son?"

Rexy made a very deep barking sound while lowering her head and nodding slightly.

"Well, why don't you two say goodbye?" Dad suggested. "We have to go now."

Rexy made a short barking call as she looked up at me.

"Kenny?" Dad said while looking over at me.

"Do I have to leave?" I whined. "I want to stay. Can I, please?"

"Kenny, we have to go. It's 8:30." Dad told me. "You have to be in bed in half an hour. We were lucky Rexy was still awake when we got here. She has to sleep too, you know?"

"Aww… okay." I admitted. "Goodbye, Miss Rexy!"

Rexy tilted her head and smiled at me before turning around and walking away.

"Okay, Jeff." Dad said as he put me down. "You can turn the camera off now."

[End Video]

With that, the video stopped. I meanwhile was shedding tears at the happy memory. I chuckled at the fact that I was so formal in calling Rexy "Miss." even back then. I set my phone down on the wooden bench while I wiped away my tears and walked over to the small creek next to me to read a name card for a plant. I had just knelt down to read it when the ground shook and knocked me onto my butt. I looked forward to see that there were several large, three-toed footprints in front of me.

"What the hell…?" I muttered. "Paw prints…?"

I looked up to see... something moving and within a few seconds, an enormous off-white colored dinosaur with dark orange eyes and black-slit pupils appeared right in front of me. She looked like she had well-developed muscles and that she had depressions in her muzzle, as if her scales were wrapped tightly around her muscles. Her eye sockets were between two of these depressions, with sharp horns overtop of her eye sockets. I saw that she also had what looked like protofeathers on her elbows as well as all the way down her neck and back. I also saw that she had pretty long arms and claws with three digits and what looked like an opposable thumb.

"Camouflage?" I muttered to myself, noting that none of her physical attributes would reflect an ability to camouflage.

I noticed that the dinosaur in front of me was growling audibly and that her eyelids were narrowed. I quickly got to my feet and realized that I had just made a stupid mistake. The dinosaur quickly stepped into the water towards me growling and I stuck my arms out in front of me, palms open.

"WOAH WOAH!" I shouted, seemingly stopping the dinosaur. "I am not a threat, I promise. I do not want to hurt you. I can be a friend. You are very beautiful, you know that?"

I noticed that she was still glaring at me and that her gaze had tightened when I said that she was beautiful and that I could be a friend, as if she didn't believe me. I slowly stepped backwards before kneeling down and slowly grabbing my phone. As soon as I grabbed it she growled and I kneeled down further. I glanced at my phone and saw that it was still on. Moving slowly so as not to aggravate the dinosaur in front of me any further, I accessed the camera app and angled my phone towards her before taking a picture. That was when I noticed something strange…

"Oh my god… you're bleeding." I spoke after seeing a chunk of her flesh missing around the base of her neck, specifically near her left shoulder. "Are you okay? Can I please treat it?"

I heard a chuffing sound that sounded like a scoff. I thought that I could help her so I lifted up my arms after putting my phone in my pocket.

"Look see? I'm unarmed." I revealed while lifting up my shirt as well. "No weapons at all."

When I looked back at the dinosaur's head I saw that her upper lip on the right side of her muzzle was lifted up.

"Is that… a smirk?" I wondered before realizing. "Oh shit…"

Instinctively I dropped to the ground on all fours, almost as if I was about to do a push up, and I felt the rush of air as the dinosaur's jaws snapped shut just where I had been. Immediately I broke into a run underneath her and tried to get as far away as possible. Unfortunately I didn't get very far as I saw the dinosaur's head look underneath her chest, and no sooner had I gotten past her hind legs did she swing her tail at me and sent me flying at least 20 feet.

This knocked the wind out of me and as I tried to get to my feet I was sent sprawling back onto the ground. I looked back and saw the dinosaur walking towards me and I tried to get to my feet again, this time managing to do so. I moved as quickly as I could while wheezing to get away from the creature that was trying to kill me. I pulled out my cell phone and started to move away while trying to access my contacts. My hand was shaking but I managed to tap Lowery's number. Although I was still wheezing, I was starting to get my breath back.

"Lowery…" I wheezed once the call had connected, oddly he picked up on the first ring.

"Ken wh- r a- aa- ou?" I heard his voice speak. I could barely understand him.

"Lowery… ACU… Zon Memorial Trail!" I said.

"I ca- un-and." I heard the call warp and glitch before a dial tone sounded.

I didn't have much time to interpret the situation as I felt a large object slap at my right side that sent me crashing into the ground. I got my face out of the dirt and turned over to see the dinosaur stomping her right hind paw onto the ground where my phone was, she even ground her paw into the dirt while staring at me. I noticed that the spine quills on her neck and back had a pale blue glow at the tip. I was snapped out of my observations when I saw that she was starting to run towards me again while snarling.

I was crawling backwards when she dived at me with her head, jaws wide open when I swung my legs over my chest causing her to make her head hit the ground with a massive amount of force. Not wasting any time, I immediately got to my feet while grabbing dirt with my hands. As soon as I had gotten to my feet I threw my fistfulls of dirt into her eyes before she had gotten her head out of the ground. While I succeeded in temporarily blinding her, I just pissed her off and she swiped at me with her claws and swept my legs out from under me, slashing my right one in the process.

Despite my injuries, I got back to my feet and broke for the trail entrance. I saw the bench that I had sat at and ran in that direction. As soon as I got to the trailhead I kicked off my shoes before kneeling down and taking off my socks. I was able to cover most of the torn skin by tying them around the torn skin. I was just finishing tightening them and making sure that I had adequate pressure on them when I realized that I had some cuts and bruising on my torso under my torn shirt.

I noticed that the bruising wasn't particularly widespread but I was still worried about the possibility of internal bleeding. I was also worried that my adrenaline rush would wear off before I got back to the center of the park. Luckily for me, I didn't have to worry about losing my adrenaline rush anymore because I heard the pained and angry roar of the dinosaur behind me and the next thing I knew, I was bolting towards my destination at a very high speed. Although I didn't know it at the time, I was mistaking the aching in my thighs for the huge thuds of the dinosaur.

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"I need to see your badge." Was the first thing I heard as I stumbled out of the elevator while wheezing. "Sir?! Your badge!"

"Here's... my... fucking... badge!" I shouted between wheezes with a growl lacing it's way into my voice. I showed him my bloody shirt and leg and he immediately backed off.

"Call it off right now!" I heard a voice order and saw that it was Owen.

"You are not in control here!" Ms. Dearing countered.

"What … what the fuck... was…. that thing…. out there?!" I demanded, drawing everyone's attention onto me. "That dinosaur…. nearly killed me!"

"Dear god, Kenny!" Lowery exclaimed. "What the hell happened to you?!"

"A whiteish-grey... dinosaur nearly killed... me on the Zon... Memorial Trail, that's what!" I answered before grabbing my side and leaning on his desk.

"Here." I heard a guy next to me say and saw that he was offering me his chair, which I gladly sat in while groaning.

"That dinosaur that nearly killed you was the Indominus Rex." Owen answered as I started to get my breath back. "A genetically-engineered dinosaur that this place made, and they're going after her with non-lethal weapons."

"What?" I half-yelled/half-groaned as the man who offered me his seat wrapped his outer-shirt around my leg. "You need to get those men out of there! They don't know what they're dealing with."

"You should listen to him, Claire." Owen said.

"ACU can handle this!" Ms. Dearing yelled.

"100 meters to the beacon." Vivian announced.

"Kenny, you were out there, what can this thing do?" Owen asked.

"She cut off my call here when the spines on her back glew." I answered as ACU approached something in the water. "Not only that, but she identified that I was communicating through my phone and deliberately destroyed it before coming for me."

Ms. Dearing turned her head to me and was about to say something but was cut off.

"Blood's not clotted yet." Katashi Hamada reported as he held up a chunk of flesh. "It's close."

"What is that?" Simon asked in confusion.

"That's her tracking implant." Owen answered. "She clawed it out."

"How would it know to do that?" Ms. Dearing asked.

"She remembered where they put it in." Owen said.

"Ms. Dearing you need to get those men out of there." I warned. "She left that there as bait, it's a trap!"

"What? No!" Ms. Dearing retorted. "You're being ridiculous!"

"You don't understand! She can-" I started to say.

"IT CAN CAMOUFLAGE!" Katashi finished.

We were all left in silence as the Indominus grabbed Katashi and started to crush him in her claws. The other ACU members started to shoot liquid tranquilizer darts at the Indominus, however this had very little effect and didn't slow her down at all. Suddenly she threw Katashi to the ground who landed in a puddle. He had just gotten his head out of the water and was sucking in a huge breath when the Indominus crushed him under her foot. His heart rate monitor redlined. While the ACU members were shouting his name, we were all left horrified as we saw her foot grind him into the ground just like she did to my phone. No one made a sound as the water turned red with blood.

"Get back!" We heard Lee shout as they started jabbing at her with taser-prods.

We noticed that this only pissed her off even more as she moved away from those who were stabbing at her. Then she turned the tables on everyone. She roared in fury and knocked one member away with her tail and sent him flying into a tree. She then grabbed Craig with one of her hands and threw him behind her over her back. We winced at hearing his spine audibly snap and his lifebar redlined.

"The liquid tranquilizers aren't piercing the hide!" Another soldier shouted into his radio. "It's too thick!"

Cooper shot a net onto the Indominus's mouth and she immediately started clawing at it with her hands. I was constantly looking between each of the soldiers screens and my vision focused on Lee's. He was approaching the Indominus from behind her and to the right while firing his tranquilizer gun. She looked out of the corner of her eye and saw that she was being flanked. Without even turning to face him she shoulder-checked a tree and sent it crashing onto him, killing him instantly with a ringing tone to match. While doing this she grabbed and clawed at another soldier with her right hand before throwing him to the ground while her left claws impaled him as she held him down. Another flatline. We heard someone desperately plead to get them out of there. We realized that she was managing to tear off the net on her face and as soon as she had done so, she roared in fury at Cooper while swinging fiercely at another two soldiers with her tail.

"Run! Run!" We heard another soldier shout as the Indominus snatched Cooper in her jaws and tore him apart, flinging his insides everywhere.

We saw Meyers and another soldier dragging a third with a wounded knee as Miller walked towards the Indominus while firing live-ammo from a shotgun. She approached him while smiling, barely phasing from the onslaught before crushing him in her jaws. Each flatline was more piercing than the last.

"Evacuate the island." Owen ordered as the remaining soldiers ran to their cars as the Indominus followed.

"We'd never reopen." Ms. Dearing flatly replied as the ACU soldiers got in their vehicles. "Ever…"

"You made a genetic hybrid, raised it alone in captivity." Owen said as the soldiers started to drive away. "She is seeing allllll of this for the first time. She does not even know what she is. She will kill everything that moves."

"Do you think the animal is contemplating its own existence?" Simon questioned as the ACU soldiers slowly gained distance from the Indominus.

"She is learning where she fits in the food chain, and I'm not sure you want her to figure that out." Owen said.

"Not just that, but she's lashing out at us." I spoke up. "When I made eye contact with her on the new trail, I saw hate, anger, and sadness. I used to see that every time I looked in the mirror. She suffered, now she's going to make damn sure we do as well."

"Exactly. She wants revenge and she will take it from everyone and everything here, whether they are responsible or not." Owen agreed. "Immediately after she busted open the door to her paddock, she went straight for Nick. She knew he was hiding in front of the truck but she didn't go around it, oh noooo… she deliberately knocked the truck out of the way, and waited until Nick realized he was fucked. That's not even the bad part… she was grinning right before she killed him. Grinning."

"She scoffed when I offered to help her and I even genuinely complimented her beauty." I noted before groaning as a wrap was tightened on my torso. "I was lucky to notice that she was smirking when I revealed that I was completely unarmed."

"Did you hear that? She is having fun terrifying us. She wants us to be afraid, and that is more dangerous than you can imagine." Owen continued. "Now, Asset Containment can use live-ammunition in an emergency situation. You have an M134 in your armory. Put it on a chopper and smoke this thing!"

"We have families here!" Ms. Dearing countered. "I'm not going to turn this place into some kind of a warzone."

"You already have." Owen told her. "Because of your isolation and terrible mistreatment of her, now no one can become friends with her! Kenny showed genuine concern and friendliness to her and even offered to help heal her wounds, and look what happened to him!"

"Mr. Grady, if you're not going to help, there's no reason for you to be here." Ms. Dearing said, I noticed that she avoided calling him by his first name.

Owen groaned in exasperation while knocking over all of Lowery's dinosaur figures. I saw that he went over to Simon to talk to him although I couldn't understand what he was saying. I decided to get out of my chair and helped Lowery pick up his dinosaur figures, groaning audibly in the process.

"You don't have to help me." He told me. "You need help. You're bleeding."

"I need to be here. Besides, I'm going to be getting some soon." I groaned.

"Hey Claire!" We heard Owen shout after he entered the elevator. We turned and saw him flipping her off with both hands, which obviously irritated her.

"Ms. Dearing," Vivian spoke. "Please remember that just because we have families here doesn't mean that we can simply ignore this situation. You saw what the Indominus did to Kenny and to the ACU."

"Yeah, they went out there with 12 members and only four made it out alive." Lowery pointed out.

"Claire, you saw that her hide was too thick for the liquid tranquilizers to penetrate them. You know how I feel about tranquilizing animals and how it borders on animal cruelty." Simon spoke up. Lowery nodded his head and gave a thumbs up in solid agreement. "We can't use liquid tranquilizers, she's not stupid enough eat drugged prey and have that knock her out, we don't have any options left. Putting her down is the only humane treatment left for her."

"Okay. I'm going to close everything north of the resort." Ms. Dearing said after a pause and looking at the camera feeds on the screen in front of her. "This is a Phase One, real world. Bring everyone in."

"This is a Phase One, real world. I repeat this is a Phase One." Vivian spoke into her headset. "Bring everyone back in."

"Real world." I chuckled. "Got a real great idea on why it's called that."

"Yup. It's been fantasy for the past nine years." Lowery said. "Time to face reality."

"God creates dinosaurs." I said.

"God destroys dinosaurs." Lowery replied.

"God creates man." I said.

"Man destroys god." Lowery spoke.

"Man creates dinosaurs." I replied.

"Dinosaurs eat man." Lowery continued.

"Woman inherits the earth." I said.

"Woman genetically modifies dinosaurs." Lowery said.

"Dinosaurs eat everyone." I finished.

"Chaos…" We both chuckled.

"I can hear you two." Ms. Dearing told us.

"We know." We both replied in unison.

"Mr. Serno-" Ms. Dearing started to address me.

"Kenny." I corrected.

"Kenny, what I told Mr. Grady applies to you as well." Ms. Dearing spoke. "If you are not going to be of any useful help to us, leave. Now."

"Kenny could you please come over here?" Vivian asked. "We want you to look at something."

I gave Ms. Dearing a cocky expression to which she rolled her eyes at before I walked over to Vivian.

"You said that you saw this thing first hand, yes?" She asked me.

"Yes, I did. I was about a half-hour into the Zon Memorial Trail when I came across her." I answered.

"Wait, you were all the way over here?" Lowery asked as he pointed to where the Zon Memorial Trail was. "That is at least two miles from here. That should have taken you at the very least three hours to get back here, even longer with how badly you're injured."

"I couldn't tell if she was following me, I thought that she was always right behind me. I think it was because of an adrenaline rush that I made it back here." I answered.

"Even still, uninjured you couldn't have been able to run back here in as little as 35 minutes." Vivian said.

"I can run even faster than that." I told them. "In my hotel room I have the plaque from Guinness World Records for the World's Fastest Man.

"No way." Vivian gasped.

"Look, while I would love to talk about this more, we have more important things to discuss." I said sternly. "We were talking about where I encountered the Indominus, right?"

"Yeah, you're right. Back on topic." Lowery admitted before pointing back to the map. "You said you were a half-hour into the Zon Memorial Trail right?"

"Yeah." I agreed. "I was looking at a plant label when she found me. I was trying to read it and suddenly the ground shook. I looked up and saw several large footprints in front of me, and that's when she dropped her camouflage."

"See that? That's what I was saying. She can camo." Lowery told Vivian. I saw that he was looking at a video feed of paddock 11. "But that paddock is mostly infrared cameras. So, the only way she can hide from thermal, was if she could change her heat signature."

"No animal can do that." Vivian said. "Let alone dinosaur."

"I know, that's what I've been saying this whole-" Lowery started to say before getting cut off.

"Show it again." Simon requested.

Lowery turned back to his screen and rewound the footage before playing it. The footage showed the Indominus walking through her home when she stopped between some trees. She looked up at the camera as she started to disappear.

"This is the infrared camera right?" I asked.

"Yes it is." Lowery told me.

"How does she know where the camera is?" Simon asked.

"Not only that, how does she know what it is?" Vivian asked.

"Wait a minute…" Lowery muttered before switching to another camera. "We never thought to look at this before because we couldn't see her, but watch this, watch the wall."

We saw that pawprints were going towards the wall, when all of a sudden scratches started appearing on the walls. A dust cloud appeared on the ground before more claw marks showed up on the wall, this time even higher up.

"She didn't want us to see what she was doing so that when we noticed she couldn't be seen, we'd send people in there to investigate." Lowery said. "She knew how the cameras and their infrared functions worked exactly. Bonus points for doing it next to the only door that she can fit through."

"Why the fuck would you send people in there?" I asked in a stern voice. "Why not just call here from the paddock observation room?"

"We were experiencing communication issues with the paddock for the past couple of days." Vivian answered. "If what you said about your phone not working when the Indominus was around is true…"

"No it's true, couldn't understand a word he was saying when he called me." Lowery replied. "Then we got cut off."

"Then the Indominus was testing her abilities before she staged her escape." Vivian finished.

"Show the footage of the Indominus attacking the ACU." I requested suddenly.

"What?" Lowery and Vivian exclaimed in shock.

"I thought of something." I stated. "I won't have you play much. Please do it."

Lowery hesitated for a moment before sighing and doing as I requested.

"Go back to the beginning." I asked.

Lowery did that and as the footage played, I pointed towards the chunk of flesh that is in the river.

"Pause it." I requested. "Look at that. She ripped out the chunk of her flesh that contained her tracking and shock implant. That means that she knew what it was, where they put it in, and how it worked."

"That was years ago." Simon said.

"Doesn't matter, the fact that she knew all of that means that she was fully awake when it was implanted in her and that she remembered what it did. She understood what the people around her were saying and how she could manipulate it." I told them. "Other than Velociraptors, I've never seen a dinosaur use deductive reasoning in the field before."

"What are you talking about, Kenny?" Simon asked.

"Although the people who put the implant in her may not have said that it was a tracking implant or what it did exactly- they may have, we don't know- but she knew that a: something was put inside of her body, b: we knew where she was even when we couldn't see her, and c: that what was put inside of her body must tell us where she is." I answered. "That's why when she changed her scale-color and heat-signature in the past, she learned that we never thought she escaped; we knew that she was still in the paddock and that everything was okay. There was no evidence to suggest that she had escaped. Using that knowledge, she made herself invisible to all the forms of tech that we used, created those scratch marks on the walls, and waited."

"She was watching me, Claire, and Nick, when we came to her paddock for a progress report." Simon deduced. "We couldn't see her very well because she was behind some trees. Claire, didn't you say that she could sense our heat signatures."

"Yes." Ms. Dearing answered before turning back to talk with another worker. "Like some snakes."

"I don't know of any dinosaurs that can do that." Simon muttered before talking to us. "So she could definitely see us; perhaps she saw and/or heard my helicopter coming in. You're saying that she waited until we left and no one was watching her? That's when she tricked us?"

"Exactly, and there should have been more people watching her." I replied.

"That doesn't make any sense." Vivian said. "We can detect her gps signal from within the observation room for her paddock as well as here. When Ms. Dearing and Owen went to the paddock they should have been able to tell where she was. Her scale-color and heat signature we know can change, but her gps signal should be just fine."

"Gps signals have a low-incident yield right? Or a low-fail rate?" I asked. "What I'm trying to say is, while she can change when and how we see her, gps signals show up all the time right?"

"You're asking if they have no technical malfunctions or software glitches correct?" Lowery wondered.

"Yes." I clarified.

"Yeah. For the Indominus they have been relatively stable, most of the time." He answered.

"Most of the time?" I asked. "What do you mean by that?"

"Well there have been a few blips with her implant in the past." Lowery told me. "Whenever the cameras were down for maintenance or experiencing errors, we weren't able to tell where she was. We had ACU head to the observation room and they saw that she was walking around right in front of the window, even laying down sleepng sometimes."

"Wait a minute, that means that when she saw that people came to her paddock and visually confirm that she was there, she learned that she could hide her gps signal as well." I realized. "This wasn't just an overnight thing that she cooked up, she's been planning this for years!"

"Oh my god." Simon spoke. "She knew our every move before we even thought of them."

"It gets worse." I said. "Look at this footage. She ripped her tracking implant out of her body after she escaped, left it there in the river as bait, and waited for the ACU to come for her. Play it some more; on Craig's camera."

We heard Katashi shout that the Indominus could camouflage before she grabbed him while he was trying to run away.

"Pause it." I told them. "Look at her, see how she's not trying to kill him now, just keeping pressure on him?"

"I'd rather not, but what about it?" Vivian wondered.

"She's taking him as a hostage." I revealed. "She believed that if she held him out in front of her, that the rest of the ACU wouldn't attack their own ally. When they did, she realized that there was no point in keeping him alive anymore."

"Why can we see this footage?" Vivian asked. "If the Indominus can really disrupt electronic communications, why didn't she mess up the visual and audio communications between the ACU team and here? She clearly knows what cameras and radios are and how they work."

"She wanted us to see and hear them die." I realized, causing Vivian gasp and cover her mouth in shock. "She's smiling and grinning when she kills people."

"How can she be so sadistic?" Lowery wondered.

"What's more, how would she understand what her implant was for, how to lure us out there, and taking hostages?" Simon wondered. "I get what you said, Kenny, but what I don't understand is how she was able to plan all of this."

"Because she is not just extremely intelligent, she's completely sapient as well." I answered.

"Sapient?" Lowery wondered. "Really?"

"It's just as you said, Simon." I said. "She knew and understood how to do all of those things. Those are clearly examples of logical and rational thinking."

"So she's as smart as us." Simon figured.

"Or even smarter." I replied before turning to Ms. Dearing. "Ms. Dearing, what is the Indominus Rex made of?"

"The base genome used in it's creation is a T. Rex." Ms. Dearing answered. "As for anything else in its DNA, it's classified."

"Classified my ass!" I said loudly as I stood up fully. "T. Rexes can't disrupt phone lines, they can't camouflage, they can't change their heat signatures, and they can't tank through GUNFIRE! So tell us what she's made of!"

"I DON'T KNOW!" She shouted back, turning to face me. "I had virtually NOTHING to do with its creation. NOTHING!"

"Then who did?" I demanded.

"Henry." Simon answered. "Dr. Henry Wu. He's the one who oversaw her creation, all of the dinosaurs here for that matter."

"So he's the one who made her life shit?" I asked. "He's the one who prevented her from having a companion while she was growing up?"

"No." Simon told me. "Claire? Would you care to explain?"

"Three days after the Indominus Rex hatched from its egg… it attacked and ate its sibling." Claire answered after a sigh. "It took $26 million dollars to create the Indominus rex alone, the same for its sibling. I decided against the creation of another one in order to avoid wasting more money."

"Do you know how much money you could have saved by raising her with a friend or a sibling?" I asked before turning to Simon. "And you allowed this?"

"Of course not, a friend of mine by the name of Brian Avoy motioned for another one to be created so that the Indominus would not be raised alone." Simon clarified. "That one was her sibling, the one she ate."

"Did this Brian guy request for another one so that she wouldn't be alone?" I wondered.

"Yes, he did; a year-and-a-half ago. I told him exactly what I told you. I also told him that the Indominus tried to eat a worker's arm and break the glass, both in the week before." Ms. Dearing replied. "He made some really convincing points when he threw a lamp at a window and broke both."

"Sounds like he knew what he was talking about." I remarked.

"Just what exactly is your problem?" Ms. Dearing asked me. "So far the entire time you've been here all you've done is be snarky and protest every decision I've made. So tell me Kenny, just what exactly is your problem with me?"

"My problem is that you don't understand these creatures like I do." I told her.

"Of course I understand them." Ms. Dearing scoffed.

"Really?" I asked in disbelief. "I'm assuming that after the Indominus tried to break the glass to the observation room in her paddock, she looked into your eyes and you looked into hers. So tell me Claire, when you looked into her eyes… what did you see?"

I was done being formal with her. Claire's mouth opened a few times but nothing came out. That was all I needed to know.

"You would be able to answer my question if you understood these dinosaurs psychologically like I do. You would be able to tell me the emotions that you saw in her eyes." I said as I started pacing. "I was hired here when I made a special- and unauthorized, I'll admit that- trip to see Echo in the DMC. She had been crying all day, all day, and no one understood why. I went back there, talked to her, reassured her, and bonded with her."

"I am aware of that." Claire simply stated. "How is this relevant?"

"Because I understood what she was feeling. She was feeling deep sorrow over missing her family, and I knew how she felt." I answered. "How this relates to the Indominus, oh you have no idea how bad it is."

"Try me." Claire dared.

"Tell me, how big is the Indominus's paddock?" I asked.

"1000 square feet." She answered.

"And how big is she?" I questioned. "Length, height, and width?"

"Currently 40 feet and four inches long, 18 feet and seven inches tall, and six feet and ten inches wide." Claire replied.

"Those measurements mean that her paddock, the place she has grown up her entire life, is too small for her. Don't forget that you said currently. That means that she is going to continue growing." I continued. "What you have done is essentially stick her inside of a solitary cell, never let her see the outside world, and never let her have any positive experiences or interactions aside from the food and water that you give her; and I'm assuming you don't hand feed her anymore."

"You have one minute to get to the fucking point before security escorts you out." Claire warned.

"You tortured her, by sticking her in a paddock that is too small for her, and never let her have any friends or family." I said. "It's no wonder she's so psychologically traumatized, you did this to her! Look at how happy Owen's girls are with each other and him. I understand why the Indominus is doing this to us."

"I can't believe it!" Claire exclaimed. "You're agreeing with her!"

"I never said that! All I said is that I understand why she's doing this!" I shouted at her. "She lost her only sibling at an age where she probably doesn't even remember. I know what it's like to lose a sibling. HE DIED IN MY ARMS! Do you have any idea what that's like?!"

"DO NOT BRING MY FAMILY INTO THIS! I have heard this from Brian, Owen, and I am not going to go through this a third time!" She shouted back. "Your minute's up."

"Sir, you need to come with me." The security guard requested.

"I know where the fucking door is." I grumbled as I shook off his arm and quickly walked towards the elevator to keep out of his reach. When I pushed the button, I heard something that made me growl.

"One more outburst like that and I will have no choice but to terminate your employment." Claire notified. "Do you understand?"

"I'm willing to give my life for these wonderful creatures." I simply stated as the elevator doors opened. After I pushed the button to take me to the entrance I looked her in the eyes. "Do you really think firing me will stop me from caring for them?"

The elevator doors closed before I heard her reply, if she even gave me one.

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I tried to make my visit to the first aid station as quick as possible but the nurse there wouldn't let me take and apply my own bandages. It took me a while to convince her to let me leave, but I eventually managed to on the promise that I would not reopen my injuries and that I would have the helicopter airlift me off of the island no later than 6:00 pm.

Having finished my "treatment" or lack-thereof, I made my way towards the Hammond Creation Lab. On the way, I noticed that everyone was leaving and that the staff were wrapping up their activities.

"Due to technical difficulties, all our exhibits are now closed." I heard a woman on the PA state before the message began to repeat in Portuguese.

I sighed in relief at this while leaning against the wall for support. While I was still very upset with Claire for her involvement in ruining the Indominus's childhood, secretly I was very relieved that she was taking action and closing off the rest of the park as well. I was worried not just about the rest of the families here, but for the rest of the dinosaurs as well. The Indominus wouldn't kill just people and staff, she'd kill anything that is a part of this park as well. My heart skipped a beat and I found myself breathing heavily at the thought of Rexy as well as Blue and her sisters being slaughtered by this creature.

"No… no. I-I can't think like that! I have to trust in them!" I thought to myself. However, even with how much I believed in those words, that still didn't take away my feelings of fear. Luckily I was distracted by shouting.

"I NEVER ASKED FOR A MONSTER!" I heard a voice with a thick accent shout and instantly recognized it as Simon's

"'Monster' is a relative term. To a canary, a cat is a monster." Dr. Wu said. "We're just used to being the cat."

"Then the time has come for this cat to be put to sleep." Simon suggested before turning to Dr. Wu and pointing at him. "For good."

I moved to a corner of the wall that met the glass one so that Simon or Dr. Wu wouldn't see me. I wondered what Simon and Dr. Wu were arguing about. Perhaps the genetics of the Indominus. Regardless, Dr. Wu wasn't taking it well.

"How dare you!" Dr. Wu said back. "You act as though I need Hammond to protect me but I don't! It wasn't just because of him that I got to where I am today, the whole board appointed me to this position!"

"I am aware of that." Simon replied. "It was because of your work in genetics that you were made chief geneticist of InGen."

"Oh it's more than that. There was another before me: Dr. Laura Sorkin." Dr. Wu revealed. "She wanted to cross-reference the DNA strands and fragments with the others found and recreate the dinosaurs using pure DNA. I showed the board that by using frog, bird, and lizard DNA, we could save time, money, and the migraines that Laura gave all of us."

"I am aware of your 'improvements' to the genetic codes of the dinosaurs." Simon said, adding quotation marks. "But none of that will be relevant effective at 11:59:59 pm this evening."

"What are you talking about?" Dr. Wu asked.

"I told you that I would have the board shut down everything you've built and all of your work." Simon clarified. "I also said that this park will be shut down. For good. This Park and Isla Sorna are to be declared as nature reserves by the United Nations effective 11:59:59 pm."

"Oh not you too." Dr. Wu protested. "It was bad enough having to hear that from Laura."

"Oh yes me too." Simon replied. "John Hammond originally built Jurassic Park as a theme park, and while we were discussing the possibility of Jurassic World, he told me about Laura. You weren't the first. Sure she was a little extreme- taking Gerry Harding and his friends as hostages and all -but her heart was in the right place, she legitimately cared for the dinosaurs and wished for this land to be declared as a nature reserve. After the San Diego incident in 1997 he was able to persuade the board as well as the US and Costa Rican government to leave the islands alone and to let the dinosaurs on these two islands live their own lives; to help them, by avoiding them. However that wasn't enough, do you know what changed?"

"Do tell…" Dr. Wu asked in a strained voice.

"On October 28th, 2000, a gang of 20 poachers decided to land on Isla Sorna and hunt down a Spinosaurus to take its hide and bones as trophies. They were successful. They attacked and killed a resting adult female Spinosaurus." Simon discussed. "What they hadn't expected was the close proximity of her mate and their daughter. The mother was killed right in front of her daughter. This is known because the responding agency was approaching the site via helicopter at the time. The adult male attacked the poachers and reduced their numbers to 14. On the chase back to their boats, three more members were killed. The agency decided to leave them on the island as justice by destroying their boats. I think you can understand what happened to the remaining men."

"How does this affect me?" Dr. Wu asked.

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"Because InGen has gone unregulated for far too long. The corporate shareholders and attendants have become unsatisfied with the simplicity of dinosaurs and have demanded that we overstep our moral and ethical bounds if we want to keep our ties with them. Jurassic World's purpose is and always has been, to be a bridge between John Hammond's dream of a theme park, and Dr. Laura Sorkin's dream of a nature preserve for the dinosaurs." Simon told him. "The people who came here would learn all about the dinosaurs and how important they were to people, all in a safe and entertaining manner. Excitement, and knowledge, all in one. But because of the necessity of the creation of a creature as dangerous, and unsafe as the Indominus Rex, especially with how she was raised; the time has come for InGen to be shut down. Permanently."

"What?" Dr. Wu flatly asked in disbelief.

"You are to turn over all embryos, all of your equipment, and all of your research to Masrani Global, and we shall take proper care of them while transporting them to the proper division of the United Nations that John Hammond has arranged, and that I am now directing." Simon concluded. "Come midnight this evening, you're fired."

"Do you honestly think that this will change anything?" Dr. Wu hysterically asked. "We're not always going to be the only ones who can make a dinosaur. Are you honestly so naïve as to believe that others aren't out there, doing what we are?!"

"I don't care about what they're doing right now, if we need to deal with them, then we will do so when the time comes and only if necessary." Simon said. "However, as for you Henry, you've got my undivided attention."

"You can't do this to us. You can't do this to me!" Dr. Wu retorted. "We have come so far, we have done so much! To take all of this away, it's insanity!"

"He's starting to sound crazy." I thought. "Why is he acting like this? What is he so desperate about?"

"Of course I can. I own and direct MASRANI GLOBAL, which owns InGen. Do not forget that I am your boss!" Simon countered beginning to raise his voice. "This is not insanity, let me make this clear to you! Insanity is ignoring this situation, and you have gone so far beyond what I am willing to overlook."

"This is what Simon is not willing to overlook?" I wondered. "What else has InGen done?"

"InGen has gone unsupervised for a very long time, far too long. The filling-in of the gaps in the genome of the plants and animals that InGen has created is a far cry in-and-of itself to the ethics of nature, but I learned that what this company has done from its inception is far worse." Simon said. "The spinosaurus that I mentioned earlier- the male one- he wasn't put on InGen's list of cloned dinosaurs. Not just him, but many, many more creatures were not revealed to have been created. The fact that InGen was not honest about what they have been creating reveals that they did not want others to know about it. Why that is, is unknown, but that brings up the possibility that this company is using dinosaurs for things other than entertainment and knowledge. No one would question a spinosaurus on a river adventure, but hiding its creation, and then having Alan Grant personally tell me that no one knew about it; that's when I got suspicious."

I noticed that Dr. Wu wasn't able to come up with a reply, and that he was beginning to avoid making eye contact with Simon.

"The spinosaurus, the IBRIS project, the Indominus; tell me Henry, are they really for entertaining and informing the public, or did you have more ulterior motives in mind?" Simon inquired, stepping closer to him. "You look tense."

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"Sir, I'm going to need you to step back." I heard a voice request, distracting me from Simon and Dr. Wu.

"Hey you need to let me in there!" Owen requested. "I need to know what that thing is made of. It is very important."

"I'm sorry, but I have been given explicit instructions to keep you specifically from entering." The security guard informed.

"I don't have time for this." Owen said before trying to walk past the security guard.

"Sir!" The security guard shouted as he put an arm on Owen.

"Hey! Do you think I'm the one you need to be worried about right now?!" Owen shouted while his arms were held up in an innocent gesture, drawing everyone's attention. "Back off!"

I decided that I would give Owen some help. Doing my best to avoid detection, I acted like I was on my phone and started to walk forwards into the lab. Unfortunately I didn't get very far.

"STOP RIGHT THERE!" A voice shouted when I had gotten no more than half of my right foot into the lab. "That means you Mr. Serno. You're not going in there either."

"Are you kidding me?" I asked in an irritated voice to which he shook his head at.

"We are not finished, we'll talk more about this later." Simon told Dr. Wu before walking towards us. "What are you two doing here?"

"We want to find out what the Indominus is made of." Owen answered.

"Yeah, we're worried about the dinosaurs and everyone here." I continued.

"Well don't." Simon told us. "I'm handling this. As for you two… you've caused enough trouble for yourselves."

"What?" I asked.

"Come on…" Owen said.

"Look. I know that you have the best interests in mind, but you've already done enough." Simon said while putting his arms around us. "You did what you could, now it's time for us to do our job. You two need to rest. That goes double for you Kenny."

"Alright." I agreed. "I'll rest up, I promise."

"I'm glad to hear that Kenny." Owen said.

"As for you, Owen." Simon spoke. "You should go and visit your girls. From what I've learned, you've been away from them for a while now. I'm sure that they miss you."

"Alright, you're right." Owen agreed. "I'll go and do that."

"Thank you, both of you." Simon thanked while patting us both on the back. "I'll see you two later. Oh Kenny, your backpack is in the lost and found, you left it on my helicopter."

"Bye." We both replied at the same time.

As soon as Simon had left us, Owen turned to face me.

"What was he talking about, when he said that you had caused enough trouble?" He asked me.

"Can we please talk about it somewhere else?" I asked after looking around. "Somewhere where there aren't as many people?"

"Sure." Owen said. "Let's go upstairs to the balcony room. There shouldn't be as many people up there now."

With that, me and Owen left the Hammond Creation Lab to find an elevator to take us upstairs since it was still kind of painful for me to walk on my injured leg. Fortunately there was one close by to the lobby of the Innovation Center so we didn't have to walk far. Once inside we started our conversation about what I did.

"So… tell me what happened after I left the control room." Owen requested. "I'm assuming that's what Simon was talking about."

"Well to put it nicely… I really chewed out Claire about how she was involved in raising the Indominus." I answered. "I… did not like what she said."

"Did you give her hell like you did to Hoskins earlier today?" Owen asked as we stepped out of the elevator. "Come on, let's sit down."

"Pretty much." I replied as I sat down. "She threatened to fire me."

"Oh great…" Owen sighed. "What did you say to her to make her threaten to do that."

"I basically yelled at her for making the decisions that helped ruin the Indominus's life. I asked her what the dimensions of the paddock 11 were and the dimensions of the Indominus." I answered. "I learned that the paddock was too small for her to have a positive experience with it. I related that to being raised in a solitary cell for your entire life."

"So how did that result in the threat?" Owen wondered.

"That wasn't just it." I told him. "I also learned that Claire was the one who prevented the Indominus from having a friend or a sibling while growing up, even after she had matured more. I knew of the psychological benefits of growing up with a sibling, and when Claire told me that she didn't bring another dinosaur into the Indominus's life because of money… I just snapped."

"Oh… so that's why." Owen realized.

"It's just… I know full well what that's like. I know what it's like to lose a sibling and to miss them dearly." I told him, starting to cry. "I understand her, I understand why she's doing this. I want to save her, so that she can live. I just want her to know that."

"Kenny, you can't." Owen told me. "You can't save her."

"What?" I asked in disbelief while wiping my tears away. "But… I know why she's doing this, and now you do as well! We can do this!"

"Kenny. We can't." Owen flatly said while looking me in the eyes. "She has done too much damage. There's no way that everyone will be able to get off of the island safely if the Indominus comes any closer to here. She will kill everyone for making her suffer. She has to die. I'm sorry."

"But…" I whined before groaning and putting my head in my hands. "Why is this so hard for me to accept?"

"Look… let me tell you a story from my days in the Navy." Owen said. "It's not long, but that's not the point."

"Hmm?" I asked as I pulled my head out of my hands.

"Back when I was still training dolphins in the Navy for hunting and detecting enemy mines, I wasn't allowed to get too attached to them." Owen explained. "There was no telling when they would be called out for a mission, and which missions they would return from. This was decided so that our attachments wouldn't prevent necessary service from being provided to those who really needed it."

I sat up straight to make sure that I heard everything that Owen was telling me.

"Early in my service, I was taking care of a lot of sick dolphins. This was over the course of a long period of time. Now, despite the fact that we weren't supposed to get too attached to the dolphins in our care, I did. I really loved animals, and I was very persuasive back then." Owen continued. "Whenever a dolphin in my care got very sick, and the possibility of euthanization came up or was discussed, I would always protest that decision. I brought up the possibility of continuing treatment and medication on them."

"Doesn't all that cost money?" I wondered.

"Yup, and lots of it." Owen answered. "Eventually, your father- my commanding officer- saw that I was depleting a large amount of money. He knew that I had to stop drawing so much money to my division."

"What did he do?" I asked.

"He talked to me. He talked to me about what I was doing; how it was affecting myself, how it was affecting other people, and most importantly, how it was affecting my dolphins." Owen said. "The thing that he really wanted me to remember- and what I want you to remember as well- was 'Try to save a life when possible, but always know when a life can and can't be saved.' Do you understand that?"

"I-I think so." I told him. "I think I always knew that the Indominus couldn't be saved, but now that I've talked to you about it, it's easier for me to accept. Thank you."

I then decided to hug him, to which he happily returned… and I immediately regreted it.

"Owowowowowowowow!" I uttered.

"Sorry." Owen apologized.

"No, I asked for that." I chuckled.

"Wait, did you go to a first aid station?" Owen asked.

"Yeah, I did." I told him while lifting up my leg and my new shirt. "See, fresh bandages!"

"I think that what you went through would require more than just replacement bandages." Owen said. "Did they really let you go with just that?"

"Yeah. Kind of…" I answered

"Kenny..." Owen inquired.

"Okay, okay so I was able to convince them to let me go on the promise that I wouldn't reopen my injuries and that I would leave via helicopter no later than 6:00 pm." I revealed.

"Go back there and finish your treatment until they say you're done." Owen ordered. "Please don't make me pull rank on this."

"Okay, I promise that I'll do that right now." I promised and went to the First Aid Center.

"Thank you." Owen said as he put a hand on my shoulder before we separated.

An hour had passed and after getting some proper treatment in the First Aid Center, I made my way to an employee's only parking lot to get my car. I made sure to uphold my promise to Owen and Simon to get some rest and proper treatment. Having done that, I decided to go and pay Blue, Delta, Echo, and Charlie another visit. I was really missing them and wanted to spend some more time with them. I was going to ask them about any possible injuries they got from slamming into the cage after trying to attack Leon. I had just gotten in my car and was starting to drive towards the exit that would lead to their paddock. However, all it took was one sentence to have me driving in the opposite direction.

"Ladies and gentlemen, due to a containment anomaly, all guests must take shelter immediately." A woman on the PA announced before the message began to repeat.

"Shit! A containment anomaly?!" I yelled in disbelief. "What's going on now?!"

"Attention Aviary employees, there has been a containment breach." A man on the PA alerted.

I heard screeching above me and looked up to see an enormous swarm of Dimorphodons and Pteranodons heading towards main street as an air raid siren sounded.

"Oh fuck…" I gasped before flooring it and driving towards the ACU armory.

I had only driven for a couple of minutes before I saw several armored cars coming from the opposite side of the road. The lead car pulled in front of me and stopped me from moving while the rest of the cars pulled around them.

"Turn around!" The man in the passenger seat shouted at me. "We need all employees to respond to the containment breach! Aviary or not!"

"I need to get a tranquilizer rifle!" I shouted back.

"We have plenty of them!" He told me. "Come on!"

After saying that, the ACU soldier pulled out around me and drove off. As soon as I had a clear opening in the stream of cars, I turned around floored it towards main street with the others. Since I hadn't traveled far from the parking lot that I had came from, it wasn't long before we passed it. I looked in the driver side mirror and saw that some of the birds were flying towards us. I pushed down on the gas pedal and started to accelerate with the rest of the ACU. I heard a honk come from behind me and when I looked in my side mirror I saw that a pteranodon had latched on to the driver's side of the car. When I saw that the guy driving was having trouble keeping his hand on the wheel, and that the other people inside weren't able to get a clear shot at the giant bird, I decided to do something risky.

I turned the steering wheel to the left and once I was sure that I was completely out of the path of the car behind me, I slammed on the brakes and knocked the pteranodon off of the car. She screeched at the impact and fell onto the ground where she rolled off to the side of the road. The driver signaled his thanks and we pulled off to the side of the road, having arrived at main street.

I quickly jumped out of my car and caught a taser rifle and prod that another soldier tossed to me.

"All units, take position on boardwalk." A man on the PA ordered. "Use liquid tranquilizers. Do not fire live ammunition. I repeat do not fire live ammunition."

"Check your fire and pick a target!" A man ordered.

"Here!" Another soldier said to me while handing me a few ammo clips.

"Thanks!" I replied before running out to take back control of the situation.

When I ran out onto main street, there was total chaos. Thousands of people were running over each other, trying to get away from the birds that came from the aviary. Countless Pteranodons, Dimorphodons, and various other species were tackling people to the ground and pecking/tearing at their skin, a lot of pteranodons were even impaling people with their beaks. At first the situation appeared hopeless but I snapped myself out of my thoughts when a man had his left eye stabbed by a beak. I started taking aim at the prehistoric birds and shooting them down with tranquilizers. I had taken down at least 12 of them when screaming caught my attention. I turned and saw that several Pteranodons and Dimorphodons were picking up kids and baby dinosaurs at the Gentle Giants attraction and instantly ran over there.

Making sure to check my fire before I shot, I took aim at a Pteranodon that was trying to fly away with a young girl in a red jacket. Once I was sure that I had a clear shot, I fired at the Pteranodon and hit her square in the upper chest. She fell asleep instantly and in doing so, released her grip on the girl. I quickly dropped my tranquilizer rifle and caught the girl, almost losing my grip on her due to how high she was dropped from.

"Get inside! Go!" I shouted and led her inside to a nearby building.

I turned around and took hold of the situation. I saw a dimorphodon and another Pteranodon, each trying to fly away with a baby dinosaur. The Pteranodon was trying to grab a baby triceratops by the hind legs and the Dimorphodon was trying to take a Brachio-Apato-Bronto… a sauropod. Since they were moving around a lot I couldn't get an easy shot, so I slung my tranq-rifle over my shoulder and grabbed the taser-prod that I had on my back. As soon as I had activated it I went for the Dimorphodon first and jabbed her with the live electricity, then did the same with the Pteranodon. However, when I jabbed at the Pteranodon, the electricity reflexively made her tense up and this caused her talons to dig into the triceratops's scales. As soon as the baby triceratops hit the ground, she started to panic even more and knocked a handler off her feet.

A couple of Dimorphodons took this as an opening and landed on her while trying to tear at her skin. Not wasting any time, I jabbed each of them with the active taser prod and sent them sprawling onto the ground. I helped her up to her feet and she signaled her thanks before wrestling the panicking triceratops to the ground. I heard a couple of screeches behind me and turned to see the two Dimorphodons starting to fly towards me before falling to the ground. I looked up to see that a couple of staff members had shot the two birds. I ran towards them and used the taser-prod to pole-vault over the fence.

"Help get these children and people inside now!" I ordered taking a moment to tranquilize a pteranodon attacking a juvenile stegosaurus. "Make sure to help the handlers with maneuvering the baby dinosaurs inside as well."

I heard a high-pitched screaming coming from above me and saw that a black-haired woman had been picked up and was being tossed around between Pteranodons as if they were playing with her. I took aim at the Pteranodon that was currently holding her but instantly shifted away. I knew that even if I did have a clear shot, making the Pteranodon that was holding the woman fall asleep would instantly kill both when they hit the ground. So I decided to do the next best thing, taking away their options. I did this by taking aim at the Pteranodons and Dimorphodons that were over the water, since that's where the Pteranodon that was holding the woman was flying. Unfortunately this had little effect as the Pteranodon dropped her into the water.

I immediately started running towards the water when I realized that she had been dropped into the Mosasaurus's lagoon. I regretfully pushed several people out of the way while shouting at them to get inside and to find shelter. Almost instantly though, I was grabbed by my right arm and looked up to see that a pteranodon had grabbed me and was digging into my skin. Being grabbed caused me to drop my tranq-rifle and as a response I started punching at the pteranodon's stomach with my free arm. When this didn't work I realized that I still had my taser-prod on me and tried to move my left arm to grab it. This however almost made me drop it and I was just barely able to save it by catching it on my shoes. I moved my leg around and swung the taser prod so that I caught it in my arm. Activating it with my hand I moved it so that I was able to plunge it into the pteranodons chest. This caused me to fall onto my side on top of Nobu, making me groan at the impact. I got to my feet while holding my side and realized that I hadn't been lifted as high as I thought. I grabbed my taser-prod and was about to jump down to the ground when I saw that a Dimorphodon was flying straight towards me.

"Even here, the girls just won't stop throwing themselves at me." I muttered before moving the taser-prod around so that the prod-end was at my feet.

Looking straight at the Dimorphodon, I swung the taser-prod like it was a baseball bat and connected with the Dimorphodon at the base of her neck. She screeched at the hit and fell straight to the ground. Looking down, and after making sure that I wouldn't jump on anyone, I jumped down to the ground. As soon as I had done so, I picked up the dimorphodon and moved her out of the way so that no one would run over her and crush her.

After I was done this, I felt pain in my right leg and looked down to see that it was bleeding again. I silently cursed and I looked up to see that Owen was looking straight ahead and had a panicked look on his face. I turned around to see that two kids were running towards us with a groggy pteranodon following them, crashing into boardwalk furniture on the way. I saw that even with a tranquilizer dart stuck in her chest, she was still flying somewhat. Taking action, I grabbed a metal chair and, after waiting a second, threw it straight up where it connected with an audible clang and knocked the Pteranodon out instantly. She fell to the ground with a thud and slid for several feet before stopping within three inches of the younger kid's neck.

"Are you two okay?" I asked as I ran over to them. "Wait a minute… Gray?"

"Kenny?" Gray asked in realization as I helped them up.

"We should get inside." I stated as I began to lead them towards the closest building, however Zach pulled away.

"Aunt Claire's over there!" He said.

"Look it's not… wait. Claire?" I realized and turned around to see a dimorphodon on top of Owen and said Dimorphodon promptly being knocked off by Claire with the butt of a rifle and shot four times in the chest. Owen pushed the dimorphodon off of him and stood up.

"Is that Aunt Claire?" Zach asked.

All of our jaws dropped when we saw Owen kiss Claire on the lips.

"I don't know…" I answered after a long pause.

"Zach! Get down!" I heard Gray shout and turned around to see a Pteranodon coming over the roof of the arcade building and barely had enough time to raise my taser-prod up. I caught the Pteranodon's open beak around it. I was pushed back several feet while I did my best to keep my face out of the way of her beak. I was trying to avoid getting pinned to the ground and it got even harder when the Pteranodon put her wing claws on the prod in an attempt to push me to the ground. It was at that moment that I got a dirty idea.

I kicked the Pteranodon in her cloaca.

With a very high pitched shriek, her eyelids tightened and she fell backwards onto the ground while tensing up and groaning. A staff member with a taser rifle came over and aimed at her but I stopped him.

"She's not getting up." I simply said before kneeling next to her. "I'm sorry."

"Zach! Gray!" Claire shouted as she ran over to her nephews. Smiling at that, I picked up my taser-prod and used it as a crutch while I walked over to Owen.

"Did you just kiss Claire?" I asked in confusion.

"Yeah, did you just kick a pteranodon in the groin?" Owen asked.

"Yeah, feel sorry for her." I replied as I sheepishly rubbed the back of my head.

"I felt that." Owen said.

"So did I." I softly answered after looking back at the still-groaning Pteranodon and shuddered.

"Who's that?" Zach asked, loudly enough for me and Owen to hear.

"We work together." Claire simply answered.

"What smells like shit?" I asked, causing Owen to chuckle.

"I don't want to talk about it." Claire told me.

"Hey." Owen spoke up. "We gotta go."

"Okay." Claire agreed before grabbing Zach and Gray. "Come on. Come on."

"Make sure that she doesn't have an overdose!" I warned to a soldier and pointed to the dimorphodon that Claire shot four tranquilizer darts into.

"Kenny, let's go." Owen spoke up and I turned to catch up to them.

"Where are we going?" I asked, doing my best to hobble along.

"To the Control Room." Owen said. "We gotta find out what we're going to do now that Simon is dead."

"Kenny!" Claire shouted as I stumbled and fell to the ground.

"What?" I asked while breathing heavily.

"The ACU mounted an M134 to JW001 and used it to pursue and take down the Indominus." Owen told me as he helped me to my feet. I was barely able to understand him, since I was still in shock. "She saw them coming and ran towards the aviary, barely getting hit by the gunfire. She broke a hole in the aviary wall and scared the birds into attacking the helicopter. He crashed into the top of the aviary and the rest of the birds came here."

"He survived, right?" I asked in disbelief as we walked through a corridor. "Same for the ACU. Right?"

"I'm sorry." Owen answered. "An ACU soldier was dragged out of the helicopter and another flew into the front. When they crashed it was a fireball."

"I can't believe this…" I mumbled before hearing a phone ring.

"Lowery, I'm on my way back to you." Claire answered after picking up. "What do you mean 'use the raptors'?"

"Son of a bitch!" Owen grumbled.

We heard a helicopter flying overhead and looked up to see that it strongly appeared to be military-like.

"You shouldn't say 'bitch'." Gray said as we heard banging on the door behind us.

"InGen." I audibly growled, seeing the logo emblazoned on the side. "That motherfucker."

"Or that." Gray added.

"Take the kids. Get them someplace safe." Owen told Claire.

The door busted open and revealed a swarm of people with a pteranodon perched on the spinosaurus skeleton while screeching at them.

"SHIT!" Me, Owen, and Zach shouted at the same time.

"Get in! Get in!" Owen ordered.

Owen climbed into the driver's seat while Claire got in the passenger's. When Zach and Gray got in the middle that left me without a seat. I immediately ran around to the trunk and opened the door to throw in my taser-prod. Immediately after I climbed in and tried to shut the trunk door, almost falling out when Owen started driving in reverse.

"You got this! You got this!" Zach said while Gray shouted for Owen to go faster. "Hurry! Damn, it! Drive!"

"Buckle in!" I shouted after managing to shut the trunk door, not noticing the irony of my position.

Owen quickly turned the vehicle and pulled into an alcove to avoid running over anyone. Me and Gray were thrown back when the car suddenly stopped and we both cried out at the impact.

"You two okay?" Zach asked.

"Yeah." Gray asked. "I'm fine."

"Ken?" Zack asked me.

"Owwwwwwww…" I groaned while holding my side.

"Well you're alive, there's that." Zach said before looking at the swarm of people running by in front of us. "This does not feel safe."

"Can we stay with you?" Gray asked.

"I am never leaving you as long as you live." Claire answered but was quickly cut off.

"Nono, no him." Zach and Gray quickly clarified.

"Yeah definitely him." Gray added before turning and pointing at me. "Oh and you too."

"Thanks…" I wheezed while holding my side. "God, I hope a rib's not broken…"

"How long are we going to stay here?" Claire asked.

"Till the screaming and running stops." Owen said. "As soon as that happens, get on an ATV and follow us Kenny, I want you to be with us when I deal with Hoskins."

"WE." I added. "And you got it."

"I can't believe that this is happening." Owen said. "It's bad enough that this creature is killing for sport, but now that bastard Hoskins is wanting to sick my girls on her. He knows how dangerous she is!"

"Please watch the language, Owen." Claire requested.

"Aunt Claire, we just saw Zara get eaten by the Mosasaurus right in front of us." Zach said. "I think we can handle some bad words."

"Zara- Zara's dead?!" Claire asked in shock before she started to cry. "Oh my god… she was supposed to be getting married next week."

"I'm sorry." I said in sympathy.

"I never should have put her off on you, I should have just spent time with you two myself." Claire told them. "Then she may have still been alive."

"You were just doing your job." Zach replied. "It's my fault that she's dead."

"I've seen you two three times since you were born and two of those were funerals." Claire sobbed. "Now, I'm going to see you at another."

"Aunt Claire, I'm the one who wanted me and Gray to run off; I'm the one who wanted us to stay out and ignore the recall message." Zach said. "It's my fault."

"Okay both of you shut up!" Owen spoke loudly. "It's no one's fault. Claire, you should have spent time with your nephews and learned how old they are. Zach, you shouldn't have abandoned Zara or ignored the recall message, and the employee at the Gyrosphere line should have activated the automatic recall function on them. You all made mistakes, but guess what? So does everybody else. Like I made with letting Hoskins get near my girls. It's normal to make mistakes, so that you learn from them."

"He's right." Gray agreed.

"Oh, Owen, what did you mean when you said that the Indominus is killing for sport." I asked. "What's going on?"

"She killed at least six apatasauri in a field, and left them there to slowly bleed out. I was able to give the last one alive peace as she died in my arms." Owen told me. "We also came across several other deceased dinosaurs on the way to the gyrosphere valley: Baryonyx, Parasaurolophus, Stegosaurus, we don't know how many. We didn't want to count."

"Why is she doing this? I understand to us, but why the other dinosaurs?" I wondered. "Shouldn't she be able to sympathize with them?"

"Don't forget that she scoffed at your genuine offer of help to her, she didn't trust you, and thought that you were crazy in asking her if she was okay, considering her hatred towards us, and how she was raised." Owen said. "As for the other dinosaurs, remember when I said that she's learning where she fits in the food chain? Well there's more to it than that. She will kill everything that does and doesn't move, because she doesn't know who or what to trust anymore."

"It's so sad." I said. "Even for the Pteranodons, Dimorphodons, and the other birds in the aviary. They were just hungry and terrified. You know how territorial they are in protecting their young and their flock right? To have them abandon everything and attack the park in a panic, it's just scary."

"Well then when we get to Hoskins, we'll make things right." Owen said in a reassuring voice.

"Yeah!" I agreed.

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An hour later, night had already fallen. Me, Owen, and the others pulled up to the raptor paddock and saw dozens upon dozens of para-military soldiers and equipment. We saw crates, armed soldiers, and heavy ordinance. I was audibly growling at the scene and the fact that Hoskins had come so far in his plans to use Blue and her siblings to hunt and kill the Indominus. I learned from Owen that the only reason why the board of MASRANI GLOBAL assigned emergency ops to Hoskins and his mercenary group was that they were the only people present equipped and prepared to deal with the situation. Barry radioed us on the way here and informed us that 2 ½ hours ago these mercenaries had arrived on the midwestern shore of Isla Nublar with amphibious landing craft. They set up camp there despite being unauthorized at the time and had set up radio jammers so that no one would be able to tell them to leave. That's why Barry wasn't able to contact us when he found them. By the time anyone had found out, the board had ran out of options. Simon was dead, the ACU had lost a sizable portion of their staff, and the Indominus was getting closer to the park; Hoskins and his group were the only ones equipped to deal with the situation. Me, Owen, and Claire all got out of/off our vehicles and quickly walked over to where we saw Hoskins walking towards us. I heard Blue chirp happily when she saw Owen coming into the area.

"The mother hen has finally arrived." Hoskins greeted before immediately being slugged in the face by Owen.

I heard Delta screech loudly in glee when Hoskins was hit by Owen's fist.

"Get the hell out of here, and stay the fuck away from my animals." Owen ordered.

"Hoskins, you wanted this to happen, you son of a bitch!" Claire said to his face.

"You bastard! As soon as Simon died you saw your chance to use Blue and her sisters as weapons of war!" I continued while leaning on my pseudo-crutch. "That's the whole reason you started this project, isn't it?!"

"Oh Jesus!" Hoskins shouted back at us. "How many more people have to die before this mission starts to make sense to you?"

"It's not a mission." Barry clarified. "It's a field test."

"This is an InGen situation now. Okay, there are going to be cruise ships that show up here at first light. Everybody's gonna get off this island. You're gonna watch a news story tomorrow about how you all saved lives." Hoskins said. "No, no, better yet, how your animals saved lives!"

"They've never been out of containment." Barry told us. "It's crazy."

"Let's move it out!" Hoskins ordered to his men, I heard Echo shrill loudly when he did this. Hoskins then turned to face us. "This is happening! With or without you!"

"This isn't just about the Indominus, I can clearly tell that." I said to Hoskins. "So cut the bullshit, cut the lies, and tell us what all of this is really about!"

"You're right. I'm done with beating around the bush with you two. If they kill that monster, we're taking those raptors and sending them into priority combat zones." Hoskins agreed, making me growl when he said 'if'. "They will be the new rapid-response unit of the United States Marines. The triple R: Rapid Raptor Response."

"THAT DOES IT!" I yelled out and with as much force as I could muster, swung my right foot between Hoskins's legs. Blue and her sisters hooted very loudly when I did this.

Hoskins fell to the ground with a satisfying cry of pain and I immediately stood over him while giving him a death glare.

"I HAVE FUCKING HAD IT WITH YOUR ABUSE OF THESE LOVING CREATURES!" I shouted in his face before jabbing him with the active taser-prod each time I listed what I was about to say. "Gunning down a family of pteranodons in Canada and their children in cold blood! Deliberately breaking Delta's foot by dropping a car battery on her and then laughing about it! Psychologically torturing the Indominus and treating her like a slave!"

I reluctantly turned off the taser prod and leaned on it before continuing my rant.

"I am fucking done with your obsession on taking Blue, Delta, Echo, and Charlie, and sending them into open warfare! I am done being nice with you! They will never listen to you or anyone like you!" I shouted in his face. "Owen, Barry, and me understand them, and they understand us! We love each other! We are a pack! If anyone tries to take us apart then we will end them! Packmates stick together no matter what! Do I make myself clear?"

"Get off me!" Hoskins yelled at me in anger.

"Answer me!" I demanded.

"GOD! YES!" Hoskins answered.

I took my foot off of his chest and turned to see that the men who came over when Owen punched Hoskins had drawn their guns on me. I took one look at them and started to walk past them.

"Get those fucking pea-shooters out of my face." I ordered, pushing a gun away. "Oh, and your safety's on."

"You intentionally broke Delta's foot?!" I heard Owen angrily interrogate Hoskins as I walked towards the staging area where the planning was going to occur. "You did that to her?!"

"I'll keep you safe, all of you." I whispered as I leaned on the desk and held my sapphire raptor necklace. "Now and forever."

"Damn, I've never seen you like that." I heard a voice say and saw that it was Barry.

"What I said, I meant every word of it." I replied.

"I'm sure you did." Barry agreed. "I feel the same way about Delta, except that I'm more subtle in my insults to Hoskins."

"I'm done being subtle with that bastard." I muttered. "How come you're so close with Delta?"

"A friend of mine named Rebecca died during a flash flood in France and I'm fostering her daughter, Emily." Barry answered. "Delta really reminds me of Rebecca. She is creative, organized, and inspirational."

"I'm sorry to hear that." I admitted.

"It's alright, you didn't know. I never told you about that before anyways." Barry said. "What about you? How come Blue is so special to you and dear to your heart?"

"It wasn't anything special at first. Sure I thought she was pretty when I first met her, but we really connected over the last five years. I found out that she was a girl who was passionate about her desires, a bit stubborn and impulsive," I answered, and Barry laughed when I said 'a bit'. I chuckled as well before continuing. "Okay, really stubborn and impulsive, and always pursued her own freedom and desires. I love that. So we became really great friends."

"I can't believe that Hoskins broke Delta's foot." Barry said. "I thought someone tripped and the car battery just happened to fall on her."

"That's not how it went down." I replied. "I saw him do it. We were the only ones up there. I saw him pick up the car battery, hold it over her sleeping body, and drop it on her. He laughed for a couple of seconds and then acted like he didn't do it, yelling for Owen to get up there and that it was an emergency."

"I won't let him get away with doing that to her, or this." Barry swore.

"Neither will I." I agreed.

"Okay, hate to break up your conversation; but we have to get to work." Owen said as he walked over with the paramilitary group.

"Got it." I agreed as me and Barry stepped to the side.

"We know that she is in sector five." Owen started by pointing to a spot on the map. "This is a game we call hide-and-seek. It's a scent drill. We've done it about a thousand times with these animals. In fact we did it this morning."

"That creature has been running around all day, how are they supposed to track it down?" A soldier asked.

"We've already got that covered." Barry answered.

"When they get on target, and they will get on target," Owen continued, looking directly at the soldier who asked the question. "wait to engage. Velociraptors are pack hunters. They like to herd the animal into a kill zone. That's when we take our shot. Get a clear shot, wait on my command, and give her everything you got."

Owen lifted up an arm and pointed at everyone in the room, making sure that they were all listening.

"We got one good target, gentlemen." Owen concluded. "Do not, I repeat do not shoot my Raptors. Please."

"Got it?" Barry asked.

"Yes, sir!" The soldiers acknowledged.

"Dismissed." Owen said before turning and walking towards the ready cages for Blue and her sisters. "Ken, come on."

"Okay." I agreed and hobbled over to him. "Let's get them ready."

Owen opened up the door to the waiting area and allowed me to enter first. I looked in to see that a few soldiers were tending to Delta, Echo, and Charlie. Seeing that no one was with Blue, I decided to head over to her, while Owen went over to the soldier helping Charlie get ready. As soon as I got in front of her I noticed that her eyes were already locked onto me. However when I got closer she started sniffing deeply and starting glancing between my eyes and my bandaged chest, arm, and leg. I noticed that she saw my blood soaked through a new wrap on my leg and her eyes widened in concern. I chuckled in understanding.

"Don't worry, sweetie. I'll be fine. I'll heal from this." I softly said while rubbing her chin. When she didn't stop whining I kneeled down on my uninjured leg and looked her in the eyes. "Blue, please, look at me. I promise you that I'll be okay. Don't you trust me?"

When I asked her that, her expression softened and I saw a small smile come on to her face, which I more than happily returned. I started to softly scratch and rub at the left side of her muzzle. When I did this she started purring and closed her eyes while trying to press herself into my hand. I felt my heart warm at this and I started to rub the right side of her muzzle as well.

"Hey, Kenny." I heard Owen say. "Please let me over there, I need to get her ready."

"Okay…" I sighed after a short pause. "Sorry, Blue."

I reluctantly pulled away from Blue and heard her whine when I did so. I decided to stay close to her so that while Owen talked to her, I would still be near her. She growled softly as Owen approached and crouched down in front of her, probably complaining about how I had to move away from her.

"Easy, Blue." Owen requested. "Easy. Attagirl."

This seemed to calm down Blue somewhat. It also may have been because of how close I was to her, as I saw her looking at me. As a matter of fact, her sisters were staring intently at me too and looking at my blood-soaked wrap.

"What I told her goes for you three as well." I told them. "I'll be fine."

"You don't scare me." Owen softly taunted, which I laughed quietly at. Blue quietly chirped at Owen and made a chuffing sound, which I took as chuckling.

"Owen." We heard a voice speak and turned around to see that it was Gray, and Zach was next to him. "Are they safe?"

"No, they're not." Owen simply answered, and I nodded in agreement.

"What are their names?" Zach wondered.

"Well to start off, here's Kenny." Owen started. "I just let him in today. Very loyal, dedicated, and caring."

"You're part of their pack?" Zach asked in confusion.

"Yup." I agreed. "I'm an omega."

"Hey, I treat you all equally, no one here is worth anymore than someone else." Owen told me while pointing.

"That's so cool." Gray said. "What about the raptors?

"Well, you got Charlie." Owen continued while pointing at her. "She has the olive-green coat with the black stripes on top. She's the youngest and is very childish. Since she's so unpredictable and immature, I have to keep my eyes on her all the time."

Charlie barked in protest at that and I laughed at her reaction.

"You know I'm right!" Owen countered with a smirk on his face. "I counted that you hit your sisters with your tail six times this morning!"

"She's like you, Gray." Zach teased.

"Hey!" Gray laughed, lightly pushing his brother. "What about the others?"

"There's Echo." Owen said, continuing his introduction. "She has sandy-brown scales with blue stripes scattered across her body and a long scar on the right side of her muzzle."

"How'd she get it?" Zach asked. "And what's up with her jaw? It looks… off."

"She and Blue battled for dominance four-and-a-half years ago. She lost and got that scar while her jaw was permanently offset, we couldn't fix it without risk of greater injury." Owen explained.

"Too bad they can't get braces." Zach sympathized. "Although they suck."

"They do?" Gray wondered.

"Yeah." Zach agreed. "You'll find out when you get them."

"Here is Delta." Owen continued once Zach finished talking. "She's the one with the teal scale color, blue markings, and she is usually Blue's second in command."

"What?" Gray wondered.

"I'll get to that in a moment." Owen replied. "This one's called Blue. She has a silver and jade-green scale color with a tan underbelly and a metallic-blue coating over her scales, her most prominent feature is a blue stripe with a white outline that runs from her eyes, all the way to the tip of her tail. Delta answers to her. She's the beta."

"Who's the alpha?" Gray asked.

"You're looking at him, kid." Owen answered.

"You are such a badass." Zach replied while Gray looked on in awe.

"Hey, Owen, look who's coming." I said while motioning towards the open space in front of us. Claire came over to the metal fence and leaned onto it next to Zach and Gray.

"So… this is who you've been spending all your time with." Claire implied.

"What can I say?" Owen asked. "She gets me."

"What's the holdup? Let's roll!" A man shouted on the PA.

"This ain't a good idea." Owen stated. "Especially if it works."

"And why might that be?" Claire inquired.

"There's no plan in place to get them back here." Owen replied. "I'm taking advantage of that. As soon as this is over, they're going free."

"Are you kidding?" Claire asked in shock.

"No, I'm not." Owen said. "Once we kill the Indominus, I'm letting them go. I'm letting them live their lives free now. They deserve it, and I'll stay with them."

"You're… staying here?" Claire repeated in disbelief.

"Well I never said that." Owen said. "But I am their dad."

Claire was at a loss for words when Owen said this, so were me and the girls.

"Look, if I do stay, I'll keep in touch." Owen told her. "If not, then we'll figure something out on how to deal with Hoskins. He's not taking them when they win. I'll tell you what I mean by that later."

Owen then looked around at the surrounding area and I wondered what he was looking at.

"Zach, Gray. Here's a radio." Owen addressed as he handed them a spare portable radio. "When I call you I want you to run towards the planning room that you saw me and Barry in earlier. I want you to shout my name and make it seem like I'm over there. I need you to distract the soldiers around here. Can you please do that?"

"Wait, what do you mean when you call them?" Claire asked.

"Kenny, it's time for you to say goodbye to my girls." Owen said. "I want to show you something, Claire."

"What?" I wondered in my mind.

"You need us to distract the people around here?" Zach said. "We can do that. Right, Gray?"

"Yeah." Gray replied.

"Thanks, you two." Owen said. "This really means alot to us."

"No problem." Zach said.

"Claire, Kenny, come on. We don't have much time." Owen told us before reaching for his radio. "Barry, we're ready."

"Got it." We heard Barry say from the other side of the radio, and promptly heard the people on the catwalks above us moving away from where we currently were.

"Let's go, we don't have much time." Owen noted before leading us out of the waiting area and around the paddock. He looked around before swiping a card through a slot. "Hurry! Hurry!"

After we had gone in through the door Owen quickly shut it behind us, making sure to do it softly so that way we wouldn't draw any attention to ourselves with loud noises. Owen gently put a hand on my shoulder, nudging me along since I was clearly zoned out.

"Goodbye?..." I thought, still in shock as he led me through another door and used his clicker.

This immediately caught Blue's attention as well as that of her sisters. They pulled their heads out of their ready cages and turned to face us with a series of chirps. Claire jumped at this and immediately grabbed Owen's shoulders and he motioned for her to stay silent.

"Alright, you should say your goodbyes." Owen told us before looking at his watch. "I'd say that we only have a few minutes at most."

"Please Owen, I don't want to… please don't make us do this." I requested, starting to tear up.

Blue and her sisters all agreed with me, looking between me and Owen while making various chirps and whines.

"Look, I hate to do this. I really do." Owen said while leaning down and putting his hands on my shoulders as well as Blue's. "But no one's going to be coming back to this island, if I could have it any other way, I would choose that option in an instant. Sadly, that's not a luxury we have. So I made sure to take this time to allow you all to say goodbye. I know that this is hard now, but trust me when I say that it would be even worse if you never got to say your goodbyes to each other."

I heard sorrowful whining behind me and saw that it was Charlie who was doing it. She approached me and I saw that there were tears streaming down her face. It truly broke my heart to see her crying and pleading with me. I patiently waited until she finished before saying my farewells to her.

"Oh, Charlie. I guess I really do have to leave the four of you. I am so sorry that I have to leave all of you. You all are so special to me. Do you remember that drawing I made of you, Charlie?" I spoke to Charlie. "That drawing was my very first drawing of you. I am so happy that I was able to show it to you and give you it. When this is all over, will you please keep it with you to remember me by?"

Charlie shook her head up and down in agreement and stepped closer to me to nuzzle the side of my head in sadness. Starting to cry, I returned her nuzzling and hugged her close to me. Echo nudged the right side of my head and chirped sadly. Deciding to let her older sister say her goodbyes as well, Charlie stepped to the side and allowed Echo to put her claws on my shoulders.

"Echo, I can't tell you how many times I have thanked you for helping me to get this job." I told her to which she softly chirped and barked at. I then softly ran my hand over the scar on her muzzle. "I wish that I was trained and able to treat this and your jaw when they got hurt. But I am so grateful that we were able to bond during that vet visit in September. Sure it got me in trouble but it was so worth it. I'm so happy that I was able to play my guitar for you. Please, keep the card and the drawing that I gave you. Are they still at Owen's bungalow?"

Echo nodded in agreement and I leaned in closer to her head for what I was about to say.

"You should take your sisters to meet your family after this is all over." I whispered. "You should also reveal your surprise to them. They won't freak out, I promise. They trust you."

Echo whispered back in my ear. I knew that she was telling me okay. I nuzzled her and rubbed the sides of her neck before I turned to face Delta, who I noticed was audibly sniffling. I was crying even more when I said my farewells to her.

"Delta, I am so sorry that I didn't get you much over the years other than my time and a get well sculpture. I will have you know that when Hoskins broke your foot, I stole his keys and threw them into the ocean and I also filled his gas tank up with water. Anything more extreme and he would have suspected something. But I am so happy that today, I was able to make you feel much better by putting that sadistic bastard in his place." I said before hugging her. "I'll miss you."

Delta softly trilled and rubbed my shoulders while nuzzling me and making sad chirping noises. She tightened her grip on me for a short second before pulling away and stepping back for Blue. I turned to her and immediately noticed that she was visibly shaking and trying to hold back her tears.

"Oh my dear Blue. I am going to miss you so much." I said as I put a hand under her chin and started rubbing it tenderly. I was really crying now. "All these years that I have been with you and your sisters, they are the most precious thing that I have ever received. Nothing, absolutely nothing means more to me than the treasured memories that we have made. I still have the matching necklace of the one that I gave to you. I have worn it every single day since I first got it, I'm wearing it right now and I will make sure to wear it every single day from now on. I promise you that."

'Owen! Where are you?" A man outside asked loudly. "It's time to go!"

"Zach, Gray, do it now." Owen spoke into his radio, and we heard shouting coming from outside. "Kenny, it's time to go."

"I'm so sorry, Blue. I have to go now." I cried while hugging Blue tightly. "Your eyes are so wonderful, and you are so very beautiful, Blue. I love you."

I reluctantly pulled away and started to walk away from them while immensely crying. I was almost at the door when I heard a shrill behind me. I spun around and was promptly knocked onto my ass by Blue, who stood over me and held me close to her while wailing and making low-pitched sounds. When I felt her pressing her neck tightly against me, I started crying even more and moaning in sorrow myself.

"I'm so scared, Blue. I don't want to let go. I'm so scared that I'll never see you again." I cried into her chest while pulling her closer to me. "You mean so much to me and I'm so scared that I'll never be able to see you again, that I'll never be able to play with you anymore, and that I'll never be able to hold you like this. I don't know how, I don't even know if it's possible, but I'll find a way to see you again. It may not be here, but I promise I will."

"I'm sorry, all of you." Owen told us, I noticed that his voice sounded strained. "We have to go… now."

"Let's pull away on three okay, Blue? When we do, we say goodbye, we turn away, and we don't look back." I suggested, and felt Blue nod her head in agreement after hesitating. "1… 2….. 3. Goodbye, Blue."

With that, I pulled away from her as she said goodbye, turned away, and started walking towards Owen and Claire. I felt them grab my hands and helped me walk towards the door. With each and every step I felt the amount of tears streaming down my face, as well as the temptation to turn my head around sharply increase. I kept forcing myself to walk forwards and to keep my head straight. When we reached the door, Owen and Claire gently nudged me through the door before coming through themselves. Owen shut the door before whispering something in Claire's ears. He then turned and reached into a cooler and grabbed something wrapped in a towel.

"Goodbye, Ken." Owen said while looking at me.

"Goodbye." I quietly spoke.

"Come on, Kenny." Claire told me.

Claire led me through another hallway that branched off from the one we came in. Meanwhile I was hearing Owen ask where everyone was and why they were just standing around. As soon as Claire and I went through the door at the end of the hallway, we were on the inside of the paddock. All of a sudden, Claire turned around and wrapped me in a tight hug. This surprised me, but nowhere near as much as what she said next.

"I understand… I understand." She softly said. "I am so, so sorry."

"That's all I wanted to know." I replied, returning the hug. "I just wanted to know that."

"I truly do." Claire said as she pulled away. "Come on, there's a special boat waiting for the employees at the east dock."

"How am I supposed to get down there?" I wondered.

"Here comes Barry with your ride down there." Claire answered, pointing towards the sound of a motor approaching. Barry pulled in front of us and got off of the ATV that he was riding.

"Here you go Ken. The tank is full and the GPS is programmed to take you on the alternate service road, straight to the East Dock." Barry informed. "Please get there as soon as you can, and please, stay safe."

"I-I I'll-l try." I stuttered in grief before putting my voice back together. "Please, promise me you'll keep them safe. Also, when you kill the Indominus, please, try to make it quick and painless."

"We will." Barry promised before leaning in to give me a hug. "Goodbye my man. Dieu vous bénisse."

"Thank you." I said. "Thank you so much."

Deciding not to stay any longer than I needed to, and so as to not cause any trouble. I shifted the atv into drive and left the closest place I considered to be a home. I had spent so many years here throughout my life, half of it in fact. Sure, I had visited the various attractions and exhibits, but ever since I had first met Blue and her sisters, seeing them every time that I came here was the light of my life.

"Dear Heavenly Father, please watch over my dearest friends as they prepare for battle. Grant them your strength and your protection." I prayed as tears streamed down my face. "Protect them, and watch after them. Please keep them safe so that I may be reunited with them in the coming future. Amen."

I didn't bother to wipe away the tears on my face, I wanted to remember them. I felt each and every one of them run down my face on the ride back. I had no idea how long it took me to get to the boat that was waiting for us, but it felt like it was hours. When I got to the boat, the ramp was still down and so I drove onto it and turned it off after parking it. Once that was done, I walked to the back of the ferry. I was acting like everything was okay, just being so systematic.

"Hello, Kenny." I heard a voice speak to me and saw that it was Vivian. "Are you okay?"

When she asked me that innocent question I just broke apart.

"How can I be okay when the most important ones in my life are going into a warzone?! I sobbed while leaning over the railing before shouting at Isla Nublar. "Blue, Delta, Echo, Charlie! Please don't die on me! I want you to live! I want you to stay alive! Please…"

I fell to the floor of the deck in a fetal position while continuing to sob and mumble "Please" over and over again.

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[Present day and time]

"I didn't sleep at all that night, or the night after that. The next night, I had to take sleeping pills in order to get to sleep." I sobbed as I had my arms wrapped around Mom's. "Every night since then, I had nightmares about losing Blue and her sisters. I saw them being torn apart, crushed, drowned, suffocated. Every. Single. Fucking. Night."

"{Kenny, my dear.}" Mom spoke, holding me tightly. "{Please know that I understand how you feel. I am so sorry that you had to experience that all by yourself for a whole month.}"

"{She's right, and I understand as well.}" Yumi continued. "{I wish that you never had to go through that. It is so depressing to think that you had to experience all of these severe negative emotions for all this time. I'll have you know that Blue wished for you to be here every single day and night for the entire time between the time Jurassic World fell, and the day that you rescued us from InGen.}"

"{Yumi is right.}" Mom agreed. "{The night Jurassic World fell, Yumi came to me with Blue practically dragging herself along the ground. That night, she was completely shattered. She stayed awake all night, wailing and crying out for you and Owen.}"

"That's just it! It's my fault that Blue is going through this!" I sobbed. "She wanted me to stay and I should have! When Barry gave me that ATV I didn't have to go to the boat, I could have driven to somewhere else on the island and waited until everybody had left. I could have helped her after everything was over."

"{It's not your fault, Kenny.}" Yumi said. "{You had absolutely no way of knowing what would happen.}"

"Yes it is. I-" I started to say before being roughly pushed into the muddy ground.

"{SHUT UP! Listen to what I am about to tell you!}" Mom shouted, surprising me. "{You had literally no way of knowing what was going to happen that night! You did what your alpha ordered you to do and you left. You did good in doing that. Now, did you have any way of knowing that psychotic and sadistic hybrid was going to kill Echo, Delta, and in a way, Charlie?}"

"In a way? What-?" I started to ask while getting up before Mom leaned over me and held me to the ground.

"{Your mother is talking to you! Now shut up and answer my fucking question!}" Mom roared in my face while glaring at me, somewhat scaring me. "{Did you have any way of knowing and foretelling that the Indominus was going to turn Blue and her sisters against the humans sent to kill her, that she was going to kick my ass at first, and did you know that Echo, Delta, and Charlie were going to die that night while you were riding back to the boat or when you were leaving this island? YES OR NO?!}"

"No." I sobbed as I looked into her demanding eyes. "I didn't."

Mom took her foreclaws off of me.

"{That is because you trusted Blue and her sisters as they trusted in you.}" Mom soothingly spoke as she offered me her right forearm to help pick me up while using her left for support. "{You had faith in them and their abilities. You honestly believed in them and that they would kill that creature. While it was at such a grave cost, Blue needed your support and trust.}"

"{That kind of moral strength is not easy to use. It takes immense amounts of courage and integrity to make such a hard choice as the one you made that night.}" Yumi said. "{I know that it may not seem like it, but you made the right choice that night. A lot of people died that day and the following night; you staying may have only added to that number.}"

"You're right. If I had stayed, InGen probably would have shot me on the spot just like they did to the pteranodons." I admitted. "I guess it's a good thing they didn't see me right away when I came back here."

"{What did you just say?}" Mom asked, and I realized what I had just said.

"What?" I asked in innocence. "Fuck…"

"{You said 'when I came back'." Mom inquired as she stepped towards me.

"Okay I admit it." I said in resignation. "It wasn't a total accident that I landed here."

"{You deliberately came back here?}" Yumi asked in shock.

"Welllllllll… yes and no." I said. "I came to the area on purpose, but I rigged the rest so that it was an accident."

"{What are you talking about?}" Mom asked in confusion.

"Okay so you see, ever since the incident here at Jurassic World, the waters and airspace surrounding Isla Nublar have become restricted." I answered. "The way international waters work is any water within twelve miles of any nation's shores belongs to that nation and they are free to exercise authority in that water. Anything beyond that is international, and open waters."

"{So what does that have to do with you coming here?}" Yumi asked.

"I was just about to get to that." I answered. "The United States now owns Isla Nublar but they still have agreements and treaties with Costa Rica. Both countries have now expressed that it is explicitly prohibited to travel to Isla Nublar and/or Isla Sorna through air and/or water. However, since I wanted to come back here so badly, I made sure to check out each and every law and their terms and conditions to make sure that I wasn't doing anything illegal in case I got caught. I didn't just mope around for a month, I found my chance to come back here."

"{And how was that?}" Yumi replied. "{It seems like these laws were very specific.}"

"Oh they are, but the great thing about specifics is that there is no room for interpretation, allowing loopholes." I said. "There is this joint law issued by the United Nations Security Council and the International Maritime Organization that allows any ship, private or commercial, to travel through restricted waters with immediate notification, or docking at the closest ports- even if they're restricted- if the inhabitants of the craft are in immediate life-threatening danger. When I saw that there was a tropical depression developing in the Muertes Archipelago and there was a strong chance that it would develop into a storm, I seized my chance. I got to Tamarindo, Costa Rica as quickly as I could and waited to see if Tropical Storm Destiny would turn into a hurricane. When I learned that it would, I headed here. I made sure to stay just outside of the restricted waters."

"{Oh, Kenny. You fucking idiot!}" Mom groaned. "{Do you know how STUPID that was of you to do? To gamble with your life like that?!}"

"Mom, I didn't plan to go through with it!" I told her.

"{You just told us you did!}" Mom yelled at me.

"Mom, wait!" I said as I walked back into the garage and grabbed my journal before opening it and showing it to Yumi. "Look, right here in my journal, January 27th, I wrote down that I was going to head back to Tamarindo."

"{He's right.}" Yumi said, looking up towards Mom.

"I wasn't writing that down to be fake, I was genuinely planning on going back to see if I could come up with a better, less-dangerous plan." I answered. "Like having my boat's solar panels start failing for example. I wasn't going to wait until I was on the eye-wall to go here; danger is subjective after all, so I was going to wait until the rain started getting heavy and head here before the wind kicked up. It's not a lie if you believe it."

"{You are still a fucking idiot.}" Mom sighed. "{Is your laptop charged yet? I want to go find Blue.}"

"Then go and find her." I said as I went over to my charger and checked it. "Yeah I got enough charge to play it now."

"{I'm still going to watch this with you two.}" Mom declined. "{I want to know what we're dealing with before I go out there.}"

I sat down next to Yumi with my back to the garage door opening so Mom could see and then opened my laptop and showed it to them as a video file popped up and took up the whole screen. What we saw, scared us to the point where we were all shaking.

[Time stamp- 2/4/2016 / 1:46 am]

"{Hello assholes!}" The young dino brother in the cloak that me and Blue met in the innovation center a while ago greeted while waving his right three fingered claw. "{We're in your home!}"

"{Quiet!}" The sister scolded, hitting her brother in the head, not too hard, just enough to get the point across. "{Anyways, yes, we're in your home. We're coming for you two.}"

"{Oww. Yup, you're not even safe in the night! Because we can see you in it.}" The brother cheerfully said. "{We're lucky because we can see in the daylight and at nighttime, so no matter where you go, where you hide, or where you fight; we will rip you to shreds, and feed you both to our packmates.}"

"{You took our mother away from us, our father, our aunt, and our uncle away from us. What's more, you took our previous pack away from us and killed all of them.}" The sister said as she focused on her scarred eye. "{See this? You took away my favorite eye.}"

"{If you assholes take away anything from this message other than the fact that we hacked into your laptop and your drones,}" The brother warned quietly. "{Remember what my sister is about to tell you two.}"

The sister then turned the camera that she was holding away from her and turned it forwards as it shifted into the brother's claws. I saw that the sister's strange five-fingered claws were more than what I thought they were. At first, I thought they were just a strange weapon that she had somehow acquired, but I noticed that they were in fact: prosthetics. They didn't just include her claws, from the looks of it, they replaced most of her arms. This was strange to me because of the fact that there was no way that dinosaurs could get this kind of technology by themselves, someone had helped her with this, and helped her survive whatever severe injury caused her to need these prothstetics.

I was snapped out of my thoughts by Yumi tapping me on my left shoulder and pointing at the camera. The camera then focused on two forms in front of them, a velociraptor and a human: Blue, and me. We saw her lean over us as she pulled a knife out of a strap tied around her left ankle and held it up to Blue's neck. I literally could not describe the rage that I was feeling right now. Not only did these strange dinosaurs chose to threaten the life of the one person who meant everything to me, they taunted us about it. Then the knife was held up to my neck as well before it was pulled away and the camera turned away from us. A little while later the camera was shifted back into the sisters hands.

"{Do us a favor and stay alive.}" The sister said. "{We want to be the ones to kill you, and we will. We know EXACTLY where you live.}"

"{Yes, so no matter where you run and hide, we will find you, and we will kill you.}" The brother said, complete with a thick accent.

"{Is the accent really necessary, Liam Neeson?}" The sister asked.

"{Can't you let me have fun?}" The brother whined.

"{Look, not now. When we get back okay?}" The sister sighed. "{Anyways, we're gonna leave now. Remember what we told you, okay?}"

"{Bye-bye!}" The brother waved before he was hit in the head again.

"{Shut up!}" Was the last thing we heard before the video cut off.

"Mom…" I growled. "Go find Blue. Sniff her out."

"{Got it.}" She agreed before running off.

"Whoever they are, I am going to kill them." I swore. "I will not let them hurt Blue."

"{Here.}" I heard Yumi say, although her voice sounded muffled. "{They left this.}"

I turned and saw that she had a book in her mouth. I looked at the cover and saw that it was the Holy Bible. I opened to the page where the sticky note was and saw that a passage was highlighted (Psalms 72:4) that read "May he vindicate the afflicted of the people, save the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor." The sticky note that was on the page read "Make sure that you keep this. You're gonna need it."

"I'm definitely going to kill them." I said, before noticing that Yumi was staring at the laptop. "What's wrong, Yumi."

"{It's those two dinosaurs. They just seem so familiar.}" Yumi answered. "{I feel like I've heard their voices before.}"

"Look, I'd love to learn more, but we have to find Blue." I told her. "She's out there, alone, injured, and those two are also out there."

"{You're right.}" Yumi agreed. "{What will you have me do?}"

"Go with mom, see if you can think of any places that Blue may go to when she's feeling depressed or moping." I ordered. "I'll gather up my things and see if I can track down where she is. Maybe I'll be able to sniff out where she is."

"{You? Smell her out? How?}" Yumi wondered.

"Look we don't have time to worry about that. Go!" I replied.

"{Okay.}" Yumi told me before running out the garage door.

I quickly set my laptop and the bible down on the workbench in the back of the garage before running back to the lobby. I had gathered up my backpack as well as my guns and was just running back into the garage when I heard a loud clicking noise. I had just clipped the hook of the winch to a pipe on the side of the garage to make sure that it was working and was trying to figure out where the clicking noise was coming from when I saw something run into the garage and get clotheslined by the wire from the winch of my jeep that was running really fast. Whatever ran in was choked and instantly flipped onto its back while knocking several things onto the ground, having hit the workbench in the back of the garage.

"Oww, that was not a doorway." I heard a masculine voice groan in fluent English.

I immediately scrambled to my feet and aimed my M16A4 at what ran into the garage. I saw that what ran in here was a dinosaur that resembled a theropod and had forest-green scales on his upper neck and back that faded to an ultramarine blue on his tail and underbelly. He also had light electric-blue swirls across his sides and tail. I noticed that he had vibrant Blue feathers that trailed down his spine and the whole length of his tail, along with a few patches around his elbows.

"Hey get up! No, wait, stay down!" I demanded, realizing that having this dinosaur get up would probably be a bad idea.

"Ugh, okay. I'm already down on the ground." He groaned as he looked around. "Why are you being so demanding?"

"Don't you know that I'm pointing my gun at you?" I asked in confusion.

"Your gun?" He asked before quickly scrambling to his feet and sticking his arms out. "Woah woah, don't shoot me! Don't shoot me! I didn't come here to kill or hurt you. My name is Cobalt."

It was at that moment that I saw both of his cloudy blue eyes and put two and two together.

"Oh my god… you're blind." I realized.

"Gee thanks captain obvious." He said before getting serious. "Look I hate to rush introductions but some raptor friend of yours named Blue is hanging off of a cliff right now."

"WHAT?!" I exclaimed in shock.

"Damn, dude! I'm blind, don't make me deaf too!" Cobalt called out while wincing.

"Where is she?!" I demanded.

"Follow me!" Cobalt shouted before running forward and getting his neck caught on the wire to the winch again. I immediately ran over and caught him by his back so that he could get some stable footing again. "Thanks."

I quickly took the winch off of the pipe and started to retract it before Cobalt started shouting at me.

"Come on! She's barely hanging on as it is!" He shouted.

I frantically looked around for a way to drive with the winch out and got an idea. I turned off the winch and clipped the hook to the front of my jeep before jumping in and turning it on.

"Show me the way." I requested.

"This way." Cobalt yelled before running onto the broken road, with me taking off after him.

[Play Phoenix Music- Vindictus]

"There! There she is!" Cobalt shouted and I saw that we were at the exact same cliff that I slipped off of the day after I had arrived here.

I saw her clawed fingers gripping the concrete barriers and continuously slipping, while she tried to get a grip. I gasped in shock and immediately jumped out of my jeep without turning it off. I ran over to her and grabbed her claws, trying to get as strong a grip as I could.

"Kenny! Kenny! I-I'm sorry! I didn't mean to jump!" Blue frantically shouted as she tried to get a foothold but kept slipping and scratching on the rocks.

"What-what are you talking about?!" I asked as my feet kept sliding in the mud.

"She said she saw someone called Gwen!" Cobalt said as he grabbed at my torso and tried to pull me and Blue up. "She also thought she saw you. I was trying to calm her down but she kept talking crazy."

"Who's Gwen?!" I asked.

"That's what the Indominus was calling herself." Blue answered, almost slipping again. "She said- I thought she said that if you didn't come out of the woods that she was going to kill me!"

"But I was never here!" I shouted as I braced my foot against the wall and tried to get some leverage to pull Blue up.

"I know! I had another panic attack when I thought more about how I hurt you! I had such a real hallucination!" Blue told us while we were starting to lift her up before we lost our grip on her. I was barely able to grab hold of her claws again and keep her from falling. "Kenny! Please just let me go!"

"What?!" I exclaimed in shock. "NO! I'M NOT LETTING YOU GO!"

"Listen to me!" Blue demanded. "I'm already dragging both of you down! I'm too heavy for you two to pull me up."

"That's bullshit!" I yelled at her. "We probably weigh just as much, if not more than you!"

"But you two still aren't able to pull me up!" Blue said. "I care about you Kenny! I've already caused enough of a burden on you! I don't want to cause you to die."

"Fuck no! You have never been a burden on me!" I shouted as I got a firm grip on her claws. "Cobalt! I need you to take out the bundles of rope on the sides of my backpack! Start by taking out the pronged metal first!"

"Okay!" Cobalt shouted at me and I felt him do just that. "Now what?"

"Kenny! Let go!" Blue requested. "I'm slipping!"

"I need you to connect them to the concrete wall! Make sure they have a firm grip." I said before feeling wetness on my hands. I immediately looked over the concrete wall and saw Blue slowly falling in front of me.

She was the only thing I kept looking at while I screamed her name and jumped over the wall, feeling the air rush past me as I started free falling.

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So I guess you can say that I left you on a real cliffhanger, eh? I'm so sorry.

It's really late for me but I just wanted to get this out. I will make no more promises on the potential dates for when I will upload the next chapter. I am sick and tired of making these promises that I am not able to keep. I am currently taking College Algebra and Civil and Environmental drafting & design. Work hasn't overwhelmed me yet, so I cut the bullshit and got to work and finished this chapter. So I will make no more promises for the deadlines aside from this: I will NEVER stop writing. You all can rest assured that even though chapters may be few and far between, that whenever I have comfortable periods of time available, that I am in front of a screen, writing the next chapter to entertain you all.

Thank you all for bearing with me and for patiently waiting for this chapter to come out. Again, I hope that you can understand me and the hard work that I have to go through in life. Family, college, and much more… They all keep me busy, but again, I will ALWAYS be writing this until the end.

Thank you so much!

Brian's last name: Avoy. Is a reference to an actor who played Victor Frankenstein in the movie of the same name: James McAvoy. Acknowledge that Brian was a father to the Indominus, a creature referred to as a Frankenstein's monster.

PS: Could you please give my friend Pokemon Trainer Sonic some help? He needs votes on a poll he made on his profle page.

Edited and uploaded 9:34 am 9/5/17

Just added something to this author's note about Brian. It's above the ps.