A/N: Not sure if I mentioned this or not, but this is my final Jurassic Park story. If I already have then just ignore this. I also want to apologize if you thought Jake was too much of a Gary Stu. I'll admit he could have those qualities, which is why I brought Henry in more and more and show that they were equals and when I lost Henry in Demons of the Future, perhaps unsurprisingly that story went into a bad tailspin and turning it into a very long disaster of a fic. I might write a different, better, version of what happened during Sorna's fall that's more in line with the other Demons stories but it'll probably be a long time before I do.
Oh yeah and sorry for the lack of updating in forever, I couldn't figure out how to end this story but now I have a better idea.
Nublar: Jake and Henry were looking through the various devices on the shelves of the laboratory.
"So how long do you think Graves thought it would be before we found this place?" asked Jake looking at a device from all angles before comparing it to something in Graves' binder and reluctantly placed it on the counter. The next device he chucked into the trash behind him.
"That's a good question," Henry agreed. "Why don't you ask him?"
"Ha, ha," said Jake sarcastically. He certainly wasn't going to be asking that velociraptor anything. The less he knew about its intelligence the better. But Jake was also relieved to know that Henry was probably thinking the same thing as he had yet to ask anything of the creature either.
"Ah this should be handy," said Henry triumphantly as he produced a device that looked like carjack.
"What is it?" asked Jake still rummaging through more shelves. Henry flipped the device on as 'Graves' began wrenching about in various directions as if in severe pain.
"Dino Dog Whistle," said Henry with a grin. He then shut it off and Graves returned to normal.
"You think the others heard it?" asked Jake slightly concerned.
"No, according this its range is limited," responded his coworker. "And apparently it also works as a dinosaur attractor as well."
"Swell," said Jake. "Turn it into a spray and you'll be all the rage at the local dinosaur club scene."
"Oy," said Henry as he set the device down before turning around and leaning against the wall length table.
"Jake what are we going to when finally confront these things?" Henry asked desperately.
"Shoot first ask questions later," said Jake gruffly.
"Is it wrong that I'm having doubts?" asked Henry disturbed.
"No," said Jake frankly. "But I don't know what else we can do."
Henry nodded and just crossed his arms, troubled.
"Let's just get it over with," he decided. Jake nodded and grabbed another piece of equipment and crammed it into his jacket along with the rest of them.
"C'mon, the time for talk is over," said Jake as he reloaded his guns, spun the barrels and snapped them closed and the two exited the building with Graves in tow.
Pit: The group were pushing themselves out of the hole the Raptors had dug.
"Damn dinosaurs," said Stephanie as she collapsed onto the ground out of breath as Doctor Grant and Billy pulled themselves up beside her followed by Danni and then the remaining three other workers.
"They're just being who they are," said Grant as the group moved away from the hole as quickly as they could. "It's just, they don't know any better."
"I'm surprised to hear that coming from you," said Danni. "Henry used to go on and on about how much you came to loathe the dinosaurs after Nublar."
"I've had a lot to think about since then," Grant admitted as he pulled out a stick of gum and popped it into his mouth. "I'm not happy about all this, but…there's not much else that can be done about it at the moment. The only key now is to stay alive."
"Right, let's try and regroup with the others," said Danni nodding as the group moved on through the jungle. In the shadows, the super-intelligent dinos followed in silence.
Elsewhere: Jake, Henry, and Graves moved through the dense undergrowth.
"So that thing telling you much?" asked Jake to Henry as the other scientist was using a tracker that in theory would locate the DRP dinos.
"Off and on," Henry said as he hit the thing as the dots on the scanner blinked on and off intermittently. "I think Graves only had this thing half-completed before he was k-…passed away."
"Yeah…Graves," said Jake still not sure what to make of Graves video message to them. Henry was also just as stumped.
"Life's never black and white is it?" he asked.
"No, no it's not Henry," said Jake slightly disappointed. "But such is life. I'd say we're examples of that fact more than Graves was."
"Yeah…I guess we are," Henry decided. "So how do you think this is going to end?"
"Badly," said Jake knowingly. Henry nodded in agreement as he shouldered his bag of items from Graves' lab.
"Yeah it always does," said the other scientist before sighing. "Do you miss the old days?"
"Sometimes," responded Jake wistfully. "But who knows where we would've been if nothing had gone wrong at first because according to Ian, chaos is inevitable."
Sorna, 15 years ago: Jake stood on the docks as the wind and rain whipped all around him from the tropical storm now advancing steadily on Nublar. Finally through the steadily pounding waves, the boat from Nublar was seen with its floodlights illuminating the area.
"Finally," said Jake shivering in his raincoat as the boat made its way to the dock as workers ran about in the rain quickly tying the ship to the dock. Immediately the workers who were disembarking began running off the ship to the vehicles waiting for them as Jake watched them go before finally, the last one got off the boat and he stood there as the rain drenched his white labcoat as he tried in vain to cover his head with a manila folder.
"It was the best of times," Henry quoted.
"It was the worst of times," Jake finished with a huge grin as he reached out his hand and Henry shook it laughing.
"Oh man, did I tell you how glad I am that you asked me to come here?" asked Henry dryly as the two advanced towards Jake's car. They got in and Jake turned the key in the ignition and the car rolled off after the departing convoy as the boat slowly began back up behind them, despite the fierce storm pounding against it.
"So how was Nublar?" asked Jake trying to make conversation as he concentrated on his driving.
"The same," Henry responded. "How is Sorna?"
"The same," Jake chuckled. "Except for this damn DX Virus."
With that he reached his right hand behind him and began feeling around through all the trash in the back of the car for something. Finally he produced a folder and handed it to Henry.
"That's the preliminary stuff, I've got more back at the lab," he said. Henry looked through the folder before noticing Jake's forlorn glance.
"What?" Henry asked.
"Did he say anything?" asked the other scientist hopeful. Henry shook his head.
"Nothing," he responded shaking his head as the vehicle pulled into the garage in the Workers Village and the two made their way through the storm towards the Operations Building. "Last I saw was him departing into the jungle as the storm began brewing on Nublar. But he did see me off on the boat."
"Really?" said Jake interested as they walked through the building to his office. "What'd he say?"
"Sheep'll be the Death eXtraordinaire of us all," said Henry bewildered as he held his hands up in defeat before entering into Jake's cubicle and Henry took one seat and Jake the main one.
"Weird," said Jake sipping his old soda on his desk through the straw. He wrote the line down followed by a big question mark.
"So…," began Dr. Wu nervously. "How're you holding up?"
"Okay I guess," said Jake noncommittally as he used his foot to push a lower drawer closed that contained a stuffed dinosaur with a pen through its neck. "I have my good days and my bad. I dunno, we'll see."
"If you, ummm, ever want to talk about it," began Henry. Jake chuckled.
"I'll be fine," he promised with a not so disarming smile. Henry let it go for now.
"How's the Gojirasaurus Quayi?" asked the scientist instead. Jake's face brightened at that.
"Like you wouldn't believe," he said pleased with himself. "Do you want to see it?"
Henry yawned as a thunderclap was heard outside.
"No I'd better get some sleep now before things turn ugly," he stated. Jake shot him a thumbs up as Henry gave him a smirk and lazily walked off. As he did, Stephanie appeared.
"Hi-yo!" she said to Jake as the scientist laughed briefly.
"What's up?" he asked. Stephanie shrugged.
"The phone died," she responded disappointed. "And Sam says it is atmospherics so I'll have to wait until the storm passes. So I wanted to know if you were up for a late night dinner."
"What're they serving?" asked Jake curious. An orange blur blazed past his open door and then Collin appeared breathing heavily.
"Does that answer your question?" Collin laughed as the other scientist bolted out the door for the mess hall.
Nublar, present: Doctor Grant pushed his foot across a dirt path that was nearly as wide as a vehicle. He softly shook his head as he reminisced the past before looking up at the rise in elevation that Stephanie and Danni were standing on with the other workers.
"So that's where the Visitor's Center was?" asked Billy snapping a photo. Grant nodded.
"The place where things began and ended," he observed sagely before adding disgusted. "And INGEN did their damndest to make sure no one ever knew about it."
Billy nodded and took another photo while Grant looked off into the nearby treeline and sighed when a small green dot vanished into it.
"What?" asked Billy worried at Doctor Grant's expression.
"Nothing," said Grant. "It's just…what I'm about to tell you is to be held in the strictest confidence."
"Okay," said Billy bewildered.
"They're watching us," said Grant. "To what end I don't know but they are."
"Oh," said Billy a little scared at that. "So what're we going to do?"
"I don't know," Grant confessed. "But we'll play along with their game for now and see where it leads us."
"Should we tell them?" asked Billy of Stephanie and Danni. Grant shook his head.
"No, they might do something that could make this whole situation worse," responded the paleontologist. "We'll tell them if the situation requires it."
Billy nodded and the two headed up the embankment towards the group.
Jungle: Jake and Henry continued to follow 'Graves' as he led them to destinations unknown.
"I miss Sorna," Jake stated. "I wish I was there now leading the efforts to clean it up."
"I actually miss Jurassic Park," Henry responded. "Back before all of this madness, before Jeffrey, before…conscience."
"Yeah but eight bucks says we would still be in this same mess regardless of whether we had caught Nedry before he went rogue," Jake decided.
"Maybe you're right," Henry conceded. Graves tensed up and began smelling the air as Jake and Henry stopped and watched him. Henry hit the tracker but it still came up blank as Jake aimed his Long Colt in a sweeping pattern of the jungle around them. He looked at Henry who was looking around nervously before Jake produced his second Long Colt and held it up to Henry. The scientist looked at it, then at him, and nodded all business as he took the massive revolver and also aimed it into the jungle…as a velociraptor hurtled out of it all claws extended and mouth wide open ready for the kill. Both scientists drew their weapons on it before Graves slammed into it from the side and kicked it along the ground. The two scientists then opened fire on the thing and tore it to pieces.
"C'mon, where there's one there are others," said Jake heading off after Graves who had bolted into the jungle. Henry took one last look at the carcass and then flung the gun up into the air, caught it by the barrel and slammed it into his outer coat pocket before following them.
Elsewhere: "Yeah it was here alright," Grant agreed. He was squatting down next to the gravel path and poking at a darkened area. "The main gate was right here."
"Wow," said Billy looking up into the sky that was slowly becoming overcast at where the gate had once stood. "So it was like that thing back on Indigo?"
"Yeah," Grant acknowledged. He stood up and looked at it.
"What've they got in there, King Kong?" he recalled before slightly chuckling to himself. "Ian you son of a bitch, you were right…"
"I wish I'd been able to see it but I never came to Nublar," Stephanie said sadly. "Now c'mon let's keep moving."
The group followed the path of where the roadway had once been into the 'park'.
Elsewhere: Jake and Henry were following Graves when the Velociraptor stopped and sniffed at a filled in pit on the ground.
"Well, well, well, after all these years we meet again," said Jake looking down at the thing. "The pit from hell."
Henry nodded. The two were at the former location of the Velociraptor Cage.
"Do you want to talk about it?" asked Henry once more like had on Sorna all those years ago. Jake shook his head like he had then.
"No, it's all in the past now," Jake decreed. "I've lived in the past for far too long and it's time to move on. Let's go."
Henry watched him leave and then he shared a tired look with Graves before being startled at how human the creature was acting. He then fast walked out of there as fast as he could rather than think any more about it. Graves followed suit and then all three were headed for the Visitors Center.
Nublar, 14 years ago: Lightning and thunderbolts arced everywhere in the torrential downpour as the tropical storm continued pounding the poor island. It was in this mess that Doctor Graves came to a halt in his jeep and got out with his briefcase. He held it over his head to try and protect himself from the elements before he entered into his shed. He flipped on the lights and threw his coat on the rack before sitting down at his workstation. Roars slowly drifted from the other occupants of the room, a group of extremely intelligent Velociraptors and other bipedal carnivores.
"Later," he commented waving them off. The dinosaurs slowly slinked back as Graves shuddered involuntarily. The DSIPs were becoming more carnivorous everyday and it was beginning to worry the scientist. He hadn't known what he would do once DSIP was activated, but now that it had he still couldn't come up with any logical reason for their continued existence. At times he had considered using them for nefarious purposes, but it had only been in his moments of hysteria. And then Henry and Jake had gotten involved.
"Idiots," Graves cursed. He hadn't wanted to like them originally, especially after usurping the job that had been his good friend Dr. Marko's. But they had exceeded even his dim expectations and had done their best to be accommodating to his gruff demeanor. And they'd won him over though he didn't like to admit it. Marko had said the same thing when they had talked over the years and it was true. But he couldn't involve them in this project, it was too dangerous. And so he was left with even more concerns than before. The dinosaurs began hissing again as Graves stood up and ignored them before heading to a Velociraptor that was still caged up. Graves produced a syringe and directly injected the solution into the dinosaur's brain. He then took out his keycard and gave it to the dinosaur and then held up two rags that the dinosaur sniffed and then it looked at Graves and nodded as the scientist unlocked the cage and the creature vanished from the building.
"Good luck little one," thought Graves sadly before turning to the video camera in front of him and calming himself. He sat down and put a tape in the machine before taking one last look at the dinosaurs slowly moving towards him from across the room.
"Jake, Henry, I can only trust that you're hearing this and if you're not Jake Whitacre or Henry Wu, could you please stop watching this and please give this tape to them if they are even still alive," said Graves as he wiped the sweat from his forehead. "Henry, Jake, I was hoping you would come because if you're watching this then that means I am dead…"
Nublar, Present: Doctor Grant leaned over a sheer drop of concrete and looked out at a tree that had all the branches on one side of it completely torn off.
"Oh the memories I had of that tree," he said to Billy who was continuing to document their excursion with his camera. "I survived death from carnivorous animals from the past only to be nearly killed by a mechanical beast from the present."
"So over there's the T-Rex pit?" asked Billy point off to a nearby grassy area.
"Yeah," said Grant nodding as he stood back up and they walked over to it and then into the grass and threw up his arms.
"It was standing right here and I was with Ian in our tour car over there where Ms. Steferson is standing and it reached out with it's clawed hand and shook the fence," explained Grant while Billy was completely engrossed in the story. "Then Gennaro took off and the wires snapped one by one until there was nothing left between the Rex and freedom."
Grant now walked out from the grass and onto the gravel path that had once been the main road.
"It then walked between the two vehicles and gave a might roar," continued the scientist as a Velociraptor roar tore through the air. The workers aimed their weapons in various directions while Stephanie aimed her Long Colt into the forest as nothing emerged from it.
"And then we beat a hasty retreat," said Grant as Danni waved for the others to follow her and they took off.
Former Dilophosaur Paddock: Henry and Jake listened to the roar as Graves once more sniffed the air cautiously.
"Guess they found their comrade," said Jake with an evil chuckle. Henry groaned and the two continued down the path.
"This is what got him you know," Henry said cryptically as he jerked his head towards the grassy area to their right.
"Huh?" asked Jake confused.
"The dilophosaurs, they were the ones who got Nedry," Henry further explained. "A few miles that way they found his chewed up corpse in one of the jeeps and forensic analysis detected venom around his eye sockets."
Jake shuddered at that. "Yikes. I hate him for what he did, but nobody deserves to go out like that."
Henry agreed with that statement. "I just don't what could've done differently with him either. We did try and be his friends but he was just such an ass."
Jake laughed at that despite himself and his earlier sentiment. "Of for…forget it let's just keep moving."
The two began walking.
"Though they never did find those embryos we think he stole," Henry added as an afterthought.
Triceratops Meadow: "I loved her when she was a kid and now I see she's the most beautiful thing I ever saw," Grant remembered as the group wandered through the tall grass.
"It's too bad we didn't get to see a Triceratops on Sorna," Billy said regretfully. Grant snorted at that.
"I think we saw enough dinosaurs on that trip as it was," he commented. "But I agree she would have been beautiful."
"Damn," said Stephanie suddenly looking at the ground. "Raptor tracks, we are being followed."
"Well that's hardly a surprise," said Danni. "Wonder when they'll make their move?"
"I guess we'll find out," said Stephanie gripping her gun tightly before heading off into the taller grass with the team. Behind them on the road, Jake, Henry, and Graves watched them.
"Told you we'd find them eventually," Jake gloated. Henry groaned and Graves rolled his eyes, a human mannerism that Jake and Henry had just come to accept.
"I hear that!" said a voice cutting through their thoughts. Both scientists jumped as Gerry appeared with his team. The workers looked at the Velociraptor cautiously as Jake and Henry nodded at them before resuming their attention on the team below.
"So where're these Super-Intelligent Dinos?" asked Gerry surveying the landscape.
"They're there, five on the left three on the right," said Jake pointing in the different directions at dinosaurs moving amongst the grass.
"So why not attack them now?" asked Gerry curious as he lifted up his rifle and aimed it into the grass.
"We're too far away," explained Henry. "They're holding the others hostage and they're waiting for us to come to them before they make their move on us."
"I guess Muldoon was right, 'clever girls'," Gerry recalled shivering briefly. "So what do we do?"
"We leave," answered Jake as Henry nodded in approval. "If we keep up this game we'll loose. The trick is to get them to come where we want them. Now c'mon we're going back to Indigo. They want us they'll have to catch us there."
"You sure?" asked Gerry a bit concerned. Jake nodded as Henry pulled out his radio.
"Attention, it's going to get dark soon so we're going to retire back to Indigo for now," said Henry into the radio.
"But they're nearby!" Stephanie protested. "We can get them here and now!"
"No," said Jake harshly. "We're leaving now, stay if you want but it'll be your own funeral."
With that he shut off the radio and motioned for the team to leave. Stephanie growled angrily before giving it up as the team headed back the way they had come while the dinos scattering in the direction of the four corners of the globe. They later gathered above the landing pad and watched the humans return to their flying machines, noting in particular Henry Wu and Jake Whitacre and watched in silence as the vehicles flew off in the direction of the third formally INGEN owned island. The dinosaurs conferred on their next plan of attack and agreed that they would bide their time until conditions became favorable and then they would attack. They had waited this long, they could afford to wait a little longer...but not much longer.