Sorry for the delay and all had to work hard on this chap plus I also had homework and all to do.
Chapter 2: Isla Sorna Part 2
From a ridge, the group watches the hunters of Ingen ride on their jeeps and motorbikes to round up the herd of dinosaurs.
Numbuh 5 raises a pair of binoculars to her eyes and peers down at the sight below the ridge.
In the lenses of the binoculars, we can clearly see a mixed herd of midsize herbivores - - Hadrosaurs, Pachycephalosaurs, and Gallimimuses -racing across the plain below.
Malcolm, also staring through binoculars, lies on the ridge beside him. Sarah Harding is several feet behind them, her back pressed against a tree, unwilling to go to the lip of the ridge.
Through the binoculars we see a shaky point of view of the herd running. The binoculars whip to the right revealing a jeep chasing the herd. Not just one jeep, in fact, but a whole fleet of hunter pursuit vehicles!
There are two herding jeeps, one motorcycle, a speedier mini-jeep, and, further behind, a container truck and a wrangler's pickup truck.
Although there's a great deal of commotion below, up here it's almost eerily silent.
Even Beth's crew disapproved of the capture of the dinosaurs.
Most of them cringed in sympathy as they tripped a Parasaurolophus in order to detain it.
"Oh my lord, I see several violations of animal welfare here." Cried out Double D
"The poor things!" Numbuh 3 said nearly in tears as they watched the hunters capture a mother Triceratops and her baby.
"Those cruddy cowards, that's no way to treat a dinosaur!" said Numbuh 4
"Yeah, if Flint were here he wouldn't take this laying down! He'd teach those hunters a lesson." Said Sara Goodman
Only three of them seem to be getting ideas, Eddy, Mr. Blik, and Bloo watched the round and made a suggestion.
"Hey fellas I got an idea for another scam," Eddy said
"You think we can round up some ourselves," suggested Mr. Blik
"We could have our own park too" Bloo said
But everyone them gave deadly and scary looks, surprisingly even from Double D.
They yelped before apologizing "Oops, just kidding…"
Meanwhile in another ridge at least 500 miles from the group and the roundup, the crew's enemies were spying on them.
"Looks we're not the only ones spying." Spicer says to Goldar and Rito.
"I say, we jump them while we have the chance." said Rito, about to leap.
"Not yet! You want to spoil the element of surprise or expose ourselves to those mortals." Goldar snapped at him.
"Hey! " Jack said annoyed.
But before they even try to make a move against the good guys, a large shadow looms over them. The three villains turn to see the king of the dinosaurs roaring at them.
They scream as they fall backwards, tumbling down a large steep hill. Their communicators sound but they don't answer since they were still tumbling away from the Rex.
In another part their boss wonders aloud "Now where the heck are those idiots?"
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As darkness falls, the hunters have established base camp in an area they have trampled and cleared just below the ridge. Blue laser fences encircle the perimeter.
Half a dozen tents are set up around a central campfire.
The vehicles are all parked at one end, away from the tents. At the other end, there is a row of at least a dozen "capture containers," cages that hold the fruits of their roundup.
Up on the ridge, the group looks down at the scene through binoculars.
"Carninthosaurus - - compsognathus - - triceratops - - pachycephalosaurus - seems they went for herbivores or small scavengers." Mac said
"This is why Hammond was in such a hurry to get you here." Malcom said to Sarah Harding "He knew they were coming."
"My God, they're well organized." Eddie Carr said looking through the binoculars, "Every piece of gear, state of the art."
"That's Grownups technology for ya," whispered Numbuh 2 to his team
"I can't believe Peter Ludlow's running all this." said Malcom
"You better believe it, Malcom" said Beth
"He isn't. Check out the guy walking past the fire." spoke up Nick, looking through binoculars of his own.
Beth takes his binoculars and everyone peers down at the camp along.
Through the binoculars, they see a tough looking hunter named Roland, who's walking with his Hindu assistant Ajay, weapons and equipment slung over their shoulders.
"What is he the head hunter or something?" Bloo asked
"I've run into this guy before. In Brazil." Nick answered "He was spear hunting jaguars. Said it was immoral to go after them any other way. Thinking he's a hunter/philosopher. He's the one in charge."
"Night is falling, people. We should get back to base camp." Eddie says to the group.
"Absolutely." Malcolm agreed "We've indulged our curiosity long enough. Kelly and I are going back to the trailers with
Eddie to send the radio call for the boat. Who's coming?"
"We haven't come close to finishing our work yet." said Sarah Harding
"Yeah, most of us got a job to do." Beth replied
"Your work has been invalidated by their presence." said Malcolm "What Hammond needed to sway the public opinion was a record of his Lost World - - before it was found. It's too late for that."
"Look, you might as well know, Hammond told me these guys might show up." Spoke Nick "He honestly thought we'd have time to finish before they got here. But, in case we didn't, he sent a back-up plan."
"What back-up plan?"
"Me."
SMACK! He drops his pack on a rock and zips it open, pulling out some of the tools he loaded back in the garage - - a bolt cutter. A hunting knife. A pry bar.
"This guy's a tree-hugger." Eddy said aloud
"Sarah." Malcolm says to Sarah Harding. "I must get Kelly off this island now. So, I'll ask you one more time, and not again - - are you coming with us?"
She looks from him to Nick, who shoves implements of destruction into a tool belt and straps on.
"I can't let them get away with it, Ian." She replied.
"Numbuh 1," Beth said to the KND leader, "I think it's best if you and the others head back to the ship, try to get it airborne to avoid anything. I would ask to help out with Nick and Dr. Harding but I don't believe the KND got you trained when dealing with Dinosaurs."
"Point taken Beth," Numbuh 1 nodded "We'll meet you back at camp."
"Hey Ed boys, how good are you in making diversions?" asked Nick
"100%" Eddy said grinning widely.
"Wait, please, listen to me. We are teetering on the edge of a very unstable situation here. It's Gambler's Ruin." Warned Malcolm
"Say what?"
"A statistical phenomenon. Says everything in the world goes in streaks. It's real, you see it everywhere - - in baseball, in blackjack, in stock markets. Once things go bad, they tend to stay bad. Bad things cluster. They go to hell together."
"They're about to. For them." Nick said
He goes to the edge of the ridge and waits, holding out is hand for Sarah. She walks to the edge and pauses, looking down, frightened. She takes a deep breath, grabs Nick's hand, and goes over the edge. Beth and Sara (with the Eds holding on to them), on the other hand jump down after them.
In the jungle, within a small clearing a baby Tyrannosaur , was chained to the ground. It's cries out in pain and fear hoping it's parent will come.
This is what his captors were hoping, as they planned on taking them back to the main land.
Up in a nearby tree, Roland and Ajay have spread some broken branches crosswise to form a high hide of their own about ten feet off the ground.
They wait.
Roland raises his binoculars. The light of the camp spills all the way out here, illuminating some of the jungle. He scans it, searching for any signs of movement.
At the edge of the hunters' camp The small group scramble down a hillside and stop at the edge of the laser barriers.
There are three beams, each about two feet apart, the tallest almost six feet off the ground.
Nick reaches the edge and crouches. Sarah steps up onto his back and jumps over the top, landing with a Crunch. Nick backs up a few steps, jogs towards the lasers, and does the Fosbury Flops right over the top.
They creep along, hiding behind a stack of fuel barrels. They lean around the edge for a look. They're directly behind the row of vehicles.
They move into the open, covering the ground between them and the jeep. Reaching them, Nick hits the dirt and wriggles under the first one. Sarah stands lookout with Beth, the other Sara following close by with the Eds.
Under the jeep, Nick pulls the bolt cutter from his back pocket. He squirms along until he finds the jeep's fuel line and he snips it. He ducks out of the way just as the stream of fuel begins to pour into the dirt.
The woman and kids move slowly down the line, standing watch as Nick crawls out from under the first jeep and proceeds to the second. She hears another SNIP, then keeps moving, to cover him as he moves to the third.
Once they had finished with all the vehicles and the motor pool area was now soggy lake of spilled gasoline. The saboteurs walk casually across the camp, unnoticed. They pass several tents, the shadows of the partiers visible as they move inside.
They continue across the camp and arrive at the other side to face the caged animals. The carinthosaur that was tranquilized earlier stands there dully, eyes heavy and glassy, still under the effects. They pass a stegosaur, its row of fins bristling.
And finally they reach the largest cage, which houses a triceratops the size of a pickup truck. Nick pulls out his trusty bolt cutters. He looks at the group, a glint in his eye.
The guard meanwhile had to take a break. So the Eds along with Bloo put their prank into action.
While the guard known as Dieter Stark was doing his business, Ed and Eddy quietly sneak behind and steal his pants.
Double D was blushing madly both embarrassed and disapproving of his friend's antics. Even if he scolded them, they wouldn't listen to him and any loud sound might blow their cover to the hunters.
After finishing his business, the guard reaches to where his pants were. But to his shock they were gone. He curses in Swedish. He had been pantsed.
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In one of the hunter tents, Ludlow was displaying his idea of opening his own stadium park in Francisco. Then without warning the triceratops crashed through the tent smashing the models and plans.
Hunters go flying as the tent-covered triceratops, its horns tearing through the canvas, rumbles across the camp. Men shout in alarm, the triceratops bellows in anger and confusion, chaos reigns.
In the crush of people running every which way. Sarah and the Eds is swept off in one direction while Nick and the other two girls are buffeted in another. They shout, but cannot be heard over the fray.
The triceratops, blinded by the canvas shroud, stomps right through the fire in the middle of the camp and the tent bursts into flame.
Now really upset, the animal panics and lashes out in all directions, blasting through tents, demolishing and/or setting ablaze anything that gets in its way. Its considerable hindquarter slams into a parked jeep. Sending it rolling across the camp.
The jeep flattens the largest tent and slams down on its side. Its broken gas line sprays gas over the ground, the gas hits one of the dozens of small blazes the triceratops has left in its wake, and the flame shoots up the ribbon of gas.
The jeep explodes.
Out in the jungle clearing, Roland and Ajay, up in the tree, leap to their feet as a fireball rises up from the camp in the distance.
Suddenly, the entire burning jeep comes flying over the treetops,
"Ajay Look out!" shouts Roland.
Both jump down from the tree immediately before the jeep crashed on the treetop.
The gang take advantage of the downed lasers to slip past the borders of the camp and disappear into the jungle in one direction, while Sarah and the Eds vanish in the other.
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Beth, Nick and Sara Goodman break out into the jungle clearing, the same one where Ajay and Roland had their blind.
"Look!"
They see the baby tyrannosaur chained to the stake. It bleats in pain and Nick notices its wounded leg hanging at an odd angle.
"You poor baby..." Beth said
With one strong tug, Nick pulls the stake out of the ground.
The rest of the newly-freed animals now storm through the camp. The blue laser barriers bounce crazily and go out as the sending units are trampled underfoot by the fleeing animals.
At the edge of camp, the burning tent, which was the equipment tent, now detonates in a series of smaller explosions.
Dieter (who was struggling with some new pants) and several others are knocked to the ground by the series of concussive blasts. He drags himself up onto all fours, charred and bruised. A burning tire roll's slowly past him, spinning to a stop at
Roland's feet. Dieter looks up at him.
"Last time I leave you in charge." He says to him.
Sarah and the Eds wait patiently for their friends to come back. They hear a piercing shriek, near the stream along with some splashing of water.
The baby tyrannosaur was held in Nick's arms as he, Beth and Sara Goodman come over.
"Are you out of your mind?" said Sarah Harding
"She's got a broken leg," explained Nick "Get in the car before they hear us!"
"Do you have any idea what is?"
"Yeah so?" Beth said
"Beth, it could attract its parents here" warned Double D
"We can't leave her back there she needs help!" protested Sara Goodman
"Ian's not gonna like this." sighed Sarah Harding
They leap into the front seat of the car.
Back in the camp, Roland surveys the destruction. The fire has spread and several tents are now tongues of flame flapping in the air, the animals are gone or going, and their personnel are scattered and terrified. Dieter, who was leaning against one of the cages, hands over the snapped padlock from one of the animal cages to Roland.
Peter Ludlow, breathless, face smeared with dirt and smoke, staggers up to Roland. "What in Christ's name is going on?"
"Isn't it obvious?" replied Roland examining the padlock "We're not alone on this island." He throws the padlock in the fire.
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The AAV SLAPS through the jungle foliage zooming past Eddie Carr, who was handling the high height (makeshift tree elevator). From inside the car, we can hear the baby tyrannosaur screaming.
"What the hell was that?" he asked aloud
The small group in the van finally arrive at the trailer, with Sarah Harding coming in first.
"Hi, Ian. No lectures, please." She says to her boyfriend, then turns to the kids, "Guys stay back."
Malcolm's jaw drops open but no words come out as Sarah and Nick bring the baby rex through the door of the trailer
with Beth Sara and the Eds close behind, to the metal dining table and hold it down.
"Wow!" The Jellybeans, Mac and Bloo said in unison
Cool! Where you find him? Numbuh 4 inquired
"No, no honey!" protested Malcom
"Why not, he's cute!" said Numbuh 3
"She- it's a girl" Beth said
Sarah yanks open a drawer of medical supplies, holding a small syringe. Her shirt is streaked with blood from the baby's injured leg.
"Don't get too close, guys" instructed Sarah Harding
Nick tightens his grip on the animal and Sarah makes an injection into its thigh, over its loudly voiced objections. Finally, Malcolm finds words.
Sarah picks up a small ultrasound transducer and runs it over the animal's leg. A green and white skeletal image appears on a monitor next to the table. Nick straps his belt around the baby rexes mouth to keep it from snapping.
"Okay, there's the metatarsals - - tibia, fibula –"
"There it is! The fracture is right above the epiphysis." Double D said pointing at the screen
"That little black line means death for this infant. The fibula won't heal straight, so the ankle joint can't pivot when he stands on his hind feet. The baby won't be able to run, and probably can't even walk. It'll be crippled, and a predator will pick it off before it gets more than a few weeks old." Said Sarah Harding
Nick meanwhile had to strap his belt around the baby rexes snout to keep it from biting.
"Other animals are gonna hear this..." Kelly say nervous referring to the grunts, the muffled rex was making.
"Numbuh 5's point exactly." Numbuh 5 said
"Dad I want to get out of here. Want to go someplace safe. Somewhere high."
At his suggestion, Ian and Beth agree to take Kelly along with the kids to high hide while the others stay inside the ship until the rain stops to continue repairing it.
With the soft whir of the electric winch, the high hide rises up to its full height again, now bearing the kids, the teenager and the two grownups.
"Ok, this is the safest place, we can be." said Malcolm trying to sound calm.
"You're just making me feel better I remember all those stories you told" Kelly said still nervous
What stories?" Asked Lazlo curiously
""He means what happened at Isla Nublar before the military bombed it or so government agents say." Whispers Beth.
"Oh no, this is nothing like that. We're in a different situation right now,"
The silence was then broken as everyone heard a deafening angered roar echoing from the jungle.
One by one, they turn and stare into the night jungle.
"That doesn't sound good." Said Numbuh 2
Malcolm grabs the radio from Eddie. They try and contact the trailer, no answer. Enraged, Malcolm hurls the radio back to Eddie. There are ropes tied to the four corners of the hide, for quick descents, and Malcolm now hurls one of the ropes over the edge.
"Where you going Dad?" asked Kelly
She grabs hold of him, holding on to his arm with both hands.
"We're both going to see what's the hold up," Beth replied
"No please, stay here!"
"I'll be right Back, I give you my word" assuared Malcom
"But you never keep your word," cried Kelly
"Trust him, I'll keep an eye out for him." Said Beth, "The rest of you stay here, and report the situation to the Parthenon. and alert Sara Goodman tell her to meet us there."
"Be careful" Mac said
Without a word both teen and adult jumped down sliding on the rope. And disappeared into the jungle.
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In the high hide, Eddie and Kelly, and the kids stare trembling. In the distance, a flock of birds shriek and takes flight as the tops of some trees move, a whole section of forest suddenly coming alive, as if brushed by wind.
But it's not the wind. They hear noises, thuds in the jungle. And then another section of forest trembles. Closer.
Another flock of birds burst out of the treetops and swarms past the high hide. Whatever is moving in the trees gets closer still, until the trees right under the hide stir as the animal passes right below them.
Malcolm and Beth ran as fast as they could, across the base camp and toward the trailer.
The door to the trailer smacks open, startling them. Malcolm lunges inside and, in the same motion, the door bang shut behind him.
"Would it kill you guys to answer the phone!" Beth shrieked at them. "Help me, get this little lady out of here."
"No, no, we just-" argues Sarah Harding
A crashing sound breaks the silence. They whirl and look to the window, just in time to see the AAV tumbling by, rolling on its side!
"Mommy's very angry." Malcom says grimly.
A loud growl is heard. They turn around, outside the window, the head of a full-grown tyrannosaurus rex is seen.
From across the trailer, in the opposite window, another one lowers and peers inside. Everyone all freezes in absolute terror.
The other rex roars, deeply, a roar so low and loud it rattles anything in the trailer that isn't tied down. It pushes the trailer slightly with its head.
The rex outside gurgles, making maternal cooing noises. The baby rex, calm for the first time, gurgles back.
"This isn't hunting behavior! Not hunting - - they're searching. They're searching, they came for their infant." Sarah said
"Let's not disappoint them" said Ian.
Sarah and Malcolm lift the baby and carry it to the other end of the trailer. Outside, the two adult rexes stay with them, walking in the same direction, watching them through the windows.
Seen from outside, the light inside the trailers clearly illuminates Sarah and Malcolm as they carry the baby rex. The adult rexes tower over the trailer, twice as tall and nearly as long. They walk slowly alongside it, hunched over, watching their infant.
At the door to the trailer, Nick un-muzzles the frantic baby. Despite her fear, Sarah is trembling with excitement as well as she watches the animals move outside the windows.
Beth reaches for the door handle. The baby, excited, wriggles free of them and hands on the ground outside. Not wasting a second, Malcolm slams the door shut.
The group freezes, not daring to breathe. Outside, they can hear the snuffling and cooing of the animals as they inspect their young and then the soft thud of their footsteps, growing fainter as they move away.
They answer the radio phone where Eddie's voice is heard "They're going back into the jungle."
Edie Carr and the kids sag back against the railings of the high hide.
Malcolm's voice comes over the radio. "Kelly? Are you all right?"
She takes the radio, her voice shaky. "Uh huh."
"Wait there. I'll come up in a minute. Don't move, understand?"
"I understand."
Finally, Nick gets the tape into his video camera. Malcolm slumps against the wall of the trailer. Sarah and Nick sit on the floor leaning against the opposite wall, completely drained. Beth meanwhile is pacing as if anxious about something.
"You know, I beg people to listen to me. I use plain, simple English. I have no accent that I'm aware of . . ." Malcom says
"That should be an interesting chapter in your book."
"Forget the chapter - -it's a whole new book." Sarah Harding said "The debate over the parental instincts of Tyrannosaurus rex is now academic."
The suddenly slams open with Sara Goodman stepping in looking pale. "Guys, we have a situation!"
Beth raising an eyebrow opens the door, and steps outside. But almost immediately, she returns, backing into the trailer, very slowly.
"We got trouble! Hang on. This is going to be bad!"
Before anyone can ask something huge smashes into the side of the trailer.
The whole side implodes and they're thrown against the far wall. There is an earsplitting crack of electricity, the entire trailer rocks and sparks a brilliant blue, and then everything goes black, including the radio console.
Nick crawls over and looks out of the windows. Outside, the flank of one of the tyrannosaurs wipes past the window, revealing the second tyrannosaur, charging straight at the trailer!
"Hang on to something!" shouts Nick to everyone.
They hurl themselves at the nearest solid object and hang on for dear life.
The charging rex slams into the side of the trailer, which rocks up on one side. Bangs back down, and is quickly rammed again by the furious animal. This time the entire trailer rolls over, completely upside down.
Sarah, Nick, and Malcolm let go of their precarious handholds and drop onto the ceiling.
The tables, chairs, lab equipment, everything that's bolted down clings to the floor above them; everything that isn't rains down on them.
But the rexes aren't done. The trailer jolts into motion, sliding forward.
Seen from outside, the upside down trailer, which is the rear of the two trailers, slides along the muddy ground, pushing up earth in front of it.
In the trailer, Sarah Goodman, frantic, crawls to a window to get a look outside. She cranks her head to get a look at the direction in which they are being pushed. Her eyes widen at something she sees outside the window.
"They're pushing us over the cliff!" said Sara Goodman.
On the word "cliff" Sarah snaps her head towards the girl, utter panic raking her face.
The five of the crawl like hell towards the front of the trailer. The opposite end of the trailer reaches the edge of the cliff and starts to tip ever so slightly downward. Malcolm sees Sarah's torn and muddy backpack. His eyes light with an idea and scrambles over to it.
Through the windshield of the front trailer, which is right-side-up, Beth can see the two rexes hard at it, pushing the front end of the trailer.
The two teens managed to grab hold of the window bars. In the rear trailer, Nick has pretty good grip at the top of the trailer, but Sarah Harding can only cling to an air vent in the ceiling as stuff starts to roll and tumble past her, headed downhill.
The trailer continues to tip. Sarah, starting to be pulled downward, paws at the refrigerator, getting a grip on the handle.
The door, held by a safety latch, doesn't open.
Below now the trailer goes upright. The refrigerator bolts suddenly crunch free from the wall. The box strains on its power cord.
Still clinging to the handle, Sarah swings wildly as it starts to come loose, swaying above her. The safety latch on the door gives, it swings open, and a shower of food bangs off of her as gravity empties the contents.
Sarah loses her grip and plummets through the new vertical trailer. She screams, covers her head, and smashes into the rear window. The glass spider webs, but does not break.
They all shout to her. "DON'T MOVE!"
Sarah, stunned by the fall, blinks a few times, regaining her senses. She looks down, at the crashing surf so far below.
As she stares, the rocks seem to move even farther away from her. She blanches; the world spins around her.
Her breath fogs the cracked glass. Slowly, she tries to get up, carefully pulling herself up to her hands and knees.
But as she puts pressure on her hands, the glass CRACKS even more, tiny spider webs shooting out around her fingers.
The whole glass panel sags, bowing out around the bottom of the trailer.
Up above her, Malcom looks from her over to the satellite phone, which is precariously balance on the leg of the kitchen table, its number pad still glowing green.
"The satellite phone! Get it!"
Malcolm starts lowering himself towards Sarah.
Sarah looks to her right, at a metal grating that runs along the wall of the trailer. She shifts her weight, leaning on one hand to reach for the grating with the other.
Nick crawls down and reaches for the satellite phone, its antenna just six inches from his outstretched fingers. And the girls were too far from their perch to reach.
Malcolm crawls down towards Sarah as fast as he can.
Sarah leans toward the metal grating, and hairline cracks shoot out around her pivot hand, snaking through the glass. The splintered glass spreads like a disease, reaching the edge of the frame.
Nick has two fingers on the phone, but suddenly the whole trailer shudders and the heavy phone tips off the table leg and falls.
"HEADS UP!"
Malcolm thinking quickly grabs the backpack
The phone smashes into the glass below, completely taking out the back window. Sarah falls through, screaming, but manages to grab hold of the backpack Malcolm was holding.
Sarah dangles out of the bottom of the trailer, holding tight on the backpack.
Below, Sarah Harding pulls herself up inside and she and Malcolm mountain-climb through the trailer's kitchen. Sarah inadvertently kicks the faucet on as she struggles for purchase.
"Is everyone alright?" Beth asked
"Barely" Malcolm replied
Not for long look Sara says pointing. They noticed that the hanging trailer halted its descent because one corner of its wedged in the branches of a tree that grows out from the muddy cliff.
But now those branches were splintering.