Phineas and Ferb Visit Jurassic World! - Chapter 10: Race Through the Valley
A/N: Ah, yes. This should be a fun chapter. First, I'd like to apologize for not publishing last Friday like I usually do. I was crazy busy that day and will continue to be busy on Fridays for a while. BUT, I will be able to start publishing on Mondays from now on! By the way, if you have been reading my work since last you, you probably know that I am involved in the Nanowrimo (National Novel Writing Month) challenge, which requires me to write a 50,000-word novel during the month of November. Of course, if I'm doing that, I can't write fanfiction chapters too. But unlike last year, where I just postponed my fanfiction chapter publishing, I was able to get ahead this year. I actually went ahead and finished "Phineas and Ferb Visit Jurassic World!" before November so I could continue to publish chapters and not have it interfere with my Nanowrimo writing. Sweet, huh? Again, thanks for all the awesome reviews you guys have posted for this story. I'm glad you all are thoroughly enjoying it. Without further ado, let's get started! Please enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything related to Jurassic Park/World or Phineas and Ferb except the very characters I've made up. I also don't own Jimmy Fallon (obviously), and any appearances he makes in this chapter are based on his appearance in the film, not his appearance in real-life.
Zach pushed the joystick to the front and the gyrosphere sped forward out of the forest, quickly followed by the gyrosphere holding Stacy and Gray. A few moments later, the giant theropod dinosaur erupted from the vegetation, issuing a hideous roar. Though the teens didn't know it yet, this was Indominus rex, the hybrid now loose in the park and ready to kill. She charged after the fleeing vehicles.
"Go! Go! Go!" Gray called.
"That's what we're trying to do, Gray," Stacy told him.
"Herd of ostrich-o-saurus coming up!" Zach said.
"Gallimimus!" his brother corrected.
The two gyrosphere drove straight into the fleeing herd. The Gallimimus were wonderfully designed for life on the run, as their bodies were streamlined and their legs were lengthy. The creatures squawked in terror as the carnivore raced after them and the gyrospheres.
"Watch out for the tree!" Candace called. The gyrospheres and Gallimimus agilely dodged the tree that they nearly crashed into.
Zach said, "Don't worry, I've got this. I'm a pro at driving this thing."
"Look out!"
From behind, the I. rex rushed forward with open jaws. Zach moved his gyrosphere out of the way, but Stacy were swept aside by the beast's massive head. "You guys OK?" Zach asked.
"We're fine for now!" Stacy answered. "We've got to escape this thing somehow."
The Gallimimus suddenly changed direction, to quickly for the gyrospheres to follow. Before them was a herd of at least a dozen Apatosaurus, lazily browsing on the island's lush flora. Maybe they'd help slow down the hybrid? Zach and Stacy steered the gyrospheres directly into the herd. The I. rex roared again; this got the sauropods spooked and they began to walk briskly in the opposite direction (since they were so heavy, they needed at least three feet on the ground at all times, meaning they could only swiftly amble, like an elephant). A giant foot nearly squashed Zach's gyrosphere.
"Yikes!" he exclaimed. "These guys are big!"
Candace screamed "Watch out for that one!"
Zach was dodging the feet of stampeding sauropods right and left.
"Right," Candace directed, "no left...the other left!"
"I'm trying my best here!"
Then Gray's voice was heard on the intercom. "Zach! Behind you!"
Zach and Candace looked back too late as a terrified Apatosaurus "ran" up behind them. Its front right foot hit the gyrosphere, causing it to twirl and spire out of control. Zach tried to gain back control of the vehicle, but he failed.
Stacy's swift hands were helping her gyrosphere avoid the sauropod's mighty feet as they swept by. But it was getting increasingly difficult as they reached the middle of the herd. More sauropods were stampeding by at every moment.
"Where's my brother and Candace?" Gray asked. "I don't see them!"
"We'll look after we get out of this–"
"Watch out!"
Just then a fleeing Apatosaurus "ran" up to the gyrosphere and her front left foot landed on it. The giant foot sent a spiderweb of cracks running through the thick glass before it completely fractured into smithereens. Slipping in the ball, the sauropod bellowed as it fell to the ground with a thunderous thud. Stacy and Gray were cast out of the gyrosphere on impact and landed on the grass-covered ground near their wrecked ride. As the rest of the sauropods briskly ambled away, Stacy and Gray sat up, looking at the busted gyrosphere and the downed Apatosaurus.
"Well, I guess our ride's totaled," Gray said.
Stacy shrugged. "But at least we lost the predatory dinosaur, right?"
"No we didn't!"
Out of the haze, the ominous shape of the Indominus rex appeared. Her stature was as awe-inspiring as it was terrible. She growled contently – this is exactly what she wanted to happen. Now that the gyrosphere was useless as protection, her prey was defenseless.
Stacy bit her lip. "T-that's a b-big d-dinosaur..." Stacy said with a quiver. "That's way more scary than those Allosaurus we met in the Jurassic! Gray, what kind of dinosaur is that?"
"Not sure," he answered. "I haven't seen it in any of my dinosaur books, or on the internet or in dinosaur documentaries either. It looks kind of like a Giganotosaurus, but it has four fingers."
The I. rex gave a loud snort as she slowly approached her prey...suddenly the fallen sauropod's whip-like tail came up and whacked the mighty carnivore in the head. The I. rex snarled in surprise as the Apatosaurus picked herself up off the ground and bellowed. Her tail created a loud snapping sound, like a whiplash. I. rex growled at this challenge and attacked. She lunged at the herbivore, only to quickly recoil when the sauropod once again swung her mighty tail.
As the fight continued, Gray saw Candace and Zach's gyrosphere nearby and he and Stacy rushed over to them.
"Are you guys OK?" Stacy asked.
"Well if you consider being stuck in a gyrosphere with a huge carnivorous dinosaur nearby great," Candace said, "We're doing fantastic."
Gray asked, "You can't get out?"
"The hatch is jammed," Zach responded. "We're literally stuck in here."
"Can you roll back to the station?"
"Nope. The control's are all messed up too. Must have been the impact that knocked us out of control."
Candace scoffed, "Some vacation this is turning out to be. How are we going to get back to the station now? We don't even know where it is from here."
Stacy gasped. "That might not be our biggest problem."
"What is then?"
"That!"
Stacy pointed to another dinosaur coming out of the distance. This one was 15 feet tall and had a large round body and long legs. But something seemed very different about this dinosaur; as it got closer they saw that the dinosaur was actually some type of machine. Candace glared.
"Wait a minute..." Candace muttered. "I know who built."
"Phineas and Ferb!" Gray exclaimed. "We're saved!"
"Hey guys!" Phineas called as they reached the teenagers. "Need a lift?"
"What is this thing?" Stacy asked.
"We're calling it the Sphere-a-raptor, because we used a gyrosphere for the body and the entire vehicle looks like a–"
"A raptor, we know," Candace groaned. "Just get us out of here."
"You bet."
The Sphere-a-raptor's leg lifted up and used its sickle-shaped claw to break the glass of Candace and Zach's gyrosphere. The two teenagers anxiously climbed out and stretched their legs. A loud roar from the dinosaur fight drew everyone's attention to the scene. The Indominus once again rushed toward the Apatosaurus, but this time she got a successful bite. The sauropod yelped and kicked the monster away with her front foot. Then she reared up on two legs, using her tail as a counterbalance and returned her front legs to the ground with a loud thump.
"What's going on?" Isabella asked. "I don't think that dinosaur's supposed to be in Gyrosphere Valley."
"It's not," Zach confirmed. "That's what got us in this pickle in the first place."
Indominus rex was about to attack the sauropod again when she noticed the humans standing nearby. Snarling, she broke off from her fight with the Apatosaurus and charged towards them.
"She's coming!" Candace squealed.
"Get in guys," Phineas urged. He opened the hatch and Stacy, Candace, Zach and Gray climbed in. Once everyone was settled, the hatch was closed and the Sphere-a-raptor took off down the plain, with I. rex not far behind.
From the Jurassic World's Security Station, Vic Hoskins watched a large monitor on the wall with Vanessa by his side. They just watched the ACU troopers got dispersed after the Indominus rex had turned back into a dinosaur. Hoskins rubbed his beard, deep in thought.
"That didn't go as planned," Hoskins concluded.
"Pfft," Vanessa said, "that's my Dad for ya."
"He does this kind of thing a lot, right? I know he's always building machines to bring down some type of dangerous animal–"
"It's a platypus. Perry the platypus."
"A platypus? Isn't that a little beaver-duck thing from Australia that lays eggs?"
"Yeah, but the one my Dad fights isn't your ordinary platypus."
"I see. And how does he defeat the platypus?"
"He doesn't. See what usually happens is my Dad will build some big -inator to accomplish his goal, Perry the platypus comes over to destroy it, my Dad traps him, my Dad explains how his -inator's going to be used, then Perry escapes, he and my Dad fight, the -inator is destroyed and then it's back to square one. That's how 99% of the summer days go at my Dad's place."
"Wow. Doesn't he get...I dunno, bored?"
"He's still hopeful. He wants to take over the entire tri-state area."
"Hm. Good luck to him then. In any case, I don't know how we're going to get that I. rex captured. It's gotta be contained, otherwise it'll tear this park apart."
Vanessa placed a hand on her hip. "What are our options?"
Hoskins smiled. "Since you asked...there's an ex-military man who works at this park named Owen Grady, and he's been training our pack of Velociraptors."
"How's that turned out?"
"Beautifully." Hoskins went over to the monitor's control panel and after typing in a few keys, a view of the Raptor Research Arena came up on the screen. At present Blue and Delta were on screen, snapping and snarling at each other. As this continued, Charlie and Echo darted past. "Ever seen Dog Whisperer?"
"Yeah."
"Well, Owen's like that with these raptors. They respond to and carry out his commands. They view him as the alpha of their pack, see? For the past two years, I've been working on an application for these raptors so we can use them for military operations. Just think, if we get a bunch of these raptors on the battlegrounds, countless human lives wouldn't have to go out there, fight and die. Raptors are so much more equipped for warfare than humans are. They're more deadly than dozens of foot soldiers."
Vanessa cocked her eyebrow. "So you wanna use them to bring down the I. rex."
"Exactly. I've breached my plan of using the raptors for military operations, but Owen Grady and Simon Masrani haven't thought it was a good idea. This could be our window of opportunity to finally use these raptors. There's only one way to bring down this hybrid. As the old saying goes, we can fight fire with fire."
"Then just ask Mr. Masrani to let you use them. He's the boss, right?"
"Yeah, but in the past he's sided with Owen. They both think the raptors are too dangerous to use in the field. The circumstances might change his mind though..." he looked at Vanessa. "Say, I don't think he'll listen to me, but if you brought up the subject, he might be a bit more receptive to the idea."
"Why me?"
"I've breached the subject loads of times. They're probably tired of hearing me talk about it. Actually, I know they are."
"That still doesn't explain why you want me to do it."
"You're the only person around here who even slightly sides with me. What do you say?"
Vanessa shrugged. "Sure, I guess."
"Great. You'll be saving a lot of lives, Nessa."
"Watch out for those trees!" Isabella called.
Ferb made the Sphere-a-raptor jinx to the left, dodging the trees of the dense jungle as they tried to outrun the terrifying I. rex. Candace tapped on Phineas' shoulder.
"Can't this thing go any faster?" she asked.
"Sorry, Candace," Phineas said. "It's really hard navigating through these trees."
Behind them, the Indominus roared, anxious to finally capture her prey. Ferb continued to move the tail from right to left, as Phineas increased the speed. Unfortunately, it was too much and the machine's head got caught in some tree branches and completely broke off.
"We're headless!" Isabella declared.
Then the right leg became caught on a tree root and was dislocated from the body. Everyone screamed as the Sphere-a-raptor crashed to the ground.
"And we're down," Gray moaned.
"Not good," Stacy said. "It's still coming for us."
Slightly slowed down by the thick vegetation, the Indominus rex kept coming. Her sharp claws, normally useful for slashing into prey, made short work of the local flora. Zach and the others quickly unbuckled their seat belts, opened the hatch and ran from the totaled Sphere-a-raptor. By then, the Indominus had freed herself and continued her pursuit. Now, she had the upper hand and decreased the space between herself and her prey. Phineas and the gang rushed out of the jungle and into a clearing filled with long grass and situated near a small river. Not more than a few seconds later, Indominus joined them, uttering a terrible growl.
"I can't do this! I can't keep running like this!" Candace screamed.
"We have to Candace!" Phineas told her. "Besides, we've done this before."
"Yeah, but last time we didn't have to—ah!"
Candace came to a halt as she and the others reached a cliff next to a waterfall that dropped bunches of liquid into the river below.
"We're trapped!" Gray exclaimed.
Behind them, the Indominus rex got closer and closer.
"We're gonna have to jump!" Zach said.
"You crazy?" Gray asked. "That's gotta be a thirty-foot drop!"
"We have to," Isabella told him.
Zach said, "On the count of three...one...two..."
But everyone jumped on two. The Indominus lunged forward and snapped her jaws shut on empty space as her prey fell into the water below. The great creature released a deep bellow. Phineas was about to surface when he released the animal was still waiting there above them at the top of the cliff. She was waiting to see if they had survived the fall. A few seconds passed and I. rex assumed they were gone. With a disappointed grunt, she turned and walked back toward the jungle. Everyone surfaced to take a nice deep breath.
"I couldn't have held my breath for much longer!" Stacy said. "I'm soaked. Where's the shore?"
Ferb pointed to the riverbank and everyone paddled to shore.
"I knew this was a bad idea," Gray said as the group walked through the intimidating jungles of Isla Nublar. "First, we shouldn't have stayed in the valley when they told us to go back. Second, we shouldn't have went into that Apatosaurus herd. Third, we should have run back to the station after we got rescued–"
"It's OK, bro," Zach said. "We'll be fine."
"Yeah," Isabella agreed. "We escaped that...thing...and that's what's important."
"Does anybody know where we are?" Candace asked.
"According to logical reasoning," Ferb said, "Since the Gyrosphere Valley is located in the northern region of the park, near the perimeter fence, and because we also went through the perimeter fence, we should be near the northwestern portion of the island."
"Whoa," said Zach. "I didn't realize your brother talked."
"Ferb's a man of few words," Candace uttered. "Speaking of which, where's Buford and Baljeet?"
"They're looking for Zara in the park," Phineas answered.
"Zara!" Baljeet called. "Zara! Za–*cough*. Za–*cough*. Oh dear. I believe my throat is getting horse."
Buford came up behind Baljeet, carrying a plate of sausages. He picked one up and took a bite. "Mm," he said, "delicious!"
"Buford! How are we supposed to find Zara if I am the only one actually trying to find her."
"By exactly what you're doin'. We'll find her."
"You mean I will find her. You are not helping."
"Sure I am."
"And...how so?"
He took another bite of a sausage. "I'm supervising."
"Lucky them," Candace muttered. "At least they're somewhere safe and out of dangers way." Just then, a loud, distant bellowing sound was heard. Candace shivered. "What was that?"
"Probably a Brachiosaurus," Gray said. "There's gotta be something out here in this jungle."
"Like that, perhaps?" Stacy asked.
Before them, in the denseness of the jungle, was a set of stairs leading to a pair of old wooden doors.
"What's this?" Phineas asked. "Whatever it is, it looks pretty cool. Let's check it out."
"Yeah, cause anywhere's safer than out here in the jungle," Candace said.
A/N: Rule #1 in Jurassic World: When they want everyone to return to the Gyrosphere Station, you'd best better return! Zach, Gray, Candace and Stacy sure wish they went back. Now they've got the I. rex on their tails and they're somewhere in the deep jungles of Isla Nublar. Meanwhile, Hoskins is trying to use Vanessa to convince Masrani to let him use the raptors to take down I. rex. How will this turn out? You'll have to wait and see! In the meantime, please be sure to favorite, follow and review on this story and I'll catch you guys later! Carpe diem!
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