Okay this chapter hops around a bit. Not as much as other chapters but it still hops around. So bear with me. :)

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Yours Truly- SilverSilence

In The Park

"I'm tired. Carry me Dr. Grant."

"But your too big to carry Cream. And his ankle is broken"

"But I'm really tired."

"It's okay Tails, I'll carry her, I don't mind."

Thump.

"Ugh, dang you're heavy."

Sonic winced at the increased weight on his ankle, but he kept moving. He looked up at the moon. It was about 9:00 p.m. The full moon was blurred by mists, and the trio's shadows spread across the field as they trudged on towards the woods. Sonic was lost in thought, trying to figure out where he was, after they had run away from the juvenile which thank the Lord, it didn't follow them, they had crossed the fence which the tyrannosaur had knocked down, so that meant they were somewhere in the tyrannosaur padlock. The last place Sonic wanted to be. In his mind he kept seeing the blue lines on the computer screen that symbolized the tyrannosaur's home range, He and the kids were in that area now.

But Sonic also knew that the tyrannosaur was isolated from the other animals, which meant they would know when they had left the tyrannosaur padlock when they crossed a barrier. They would run into a fence, or moat, maybe both. But he had seen no barriers so far.

The girl had nuzzled her head in the crook of his neck and was gently tugging on one of her long ears. In minutes she was snoring. Tails sleepily trudged alongside Sonic.

"How are you holding Tails?"

"I'm okay I think," Tails said, "But I think we are in tyrannosaur area."

"I'm pretty sure we are," Sonic said. "But I hope we get out soon."

"Are we going into the woods?" Tails said as they got closer to the said area. From where they were the woods looked dark and forbidding.

"Yes Tails," Sonic said, "I think we can navigate our way out of here by the numbers on the motion sensors."

The motion sensors were green boxes, three feet from the ground. Some stood on their own, others were attached to trees. They were all off, so the power must be still out. But all the sensors were marked; the one they just passed said T/S/04. As they entered the woods the next one said T/S/03, and then T/S/02, the numbers got smaller until the next one said T/N/01. Sonic figured that the motion sensors were placed like a compass, they started from the south, so the closer they go to the middle the smaller the numbers became, and then they got bigger as they headed north. Sonic hoped that meant the edge of the padlock was close; he was getting tired from carrying the girl.

"At least were going the right way," Tails said, as if to read his thoughts.

"At least…."

Tails stumbled on some vines and Sonic stopped waiting for him to get back up. Then the two set off again. "My parents are getting a divorce," Tails said suddenly.

"Oh, I'm sorry." Sonic said, he was a little uncomfortable but if the child needed someone to talk to, he would listen.

"My dad moved out last month. He has his own place in Mill Valley."

"Uh-huh,"

"He never carries my sister anymore, he never even picks here up. I think Cream must really like you if she wants you to carry her." Tails said.

Sonic shifted the girl to a bit more comfortable position, and "And he says you have dinosaurs on the brain?" he said.

Tails sighed, "Yeah."

"Do you miss him?" Sonic asked.

"Not really," Tails said, "Sometimes. She misses him more though."

"Your mother?"

"No, Cream. Mom has a boyfriend that she met from work." Tails said.

The walked in silence for awhile, passing T/N/06, then T/N/07. "Have you met your mom's boyfriend?"

"Yeah."

"And?"

"He's okay," Tails said, "He's younger than my dad, but he has like seriously no fur."

"What is he a mole?"

Tails laughed, "He could be."

"Does he treat you good?"

"He's okay," Tails said, "I think he just wants to get on my good side. Sometimes he and my mom argue, and I just sit in my room and play on the computer, but I can still hear them."

"Uh-huh….."Sonic said.

"Are you divorced?"

"No," Sonic said, "I've never married. Some of my students say I move too fast for the girls to keep up."

"Oh," Tails paused. "And now you're with Dr. Sattler?"

Sonic grinned in the dark, "No. She is my student"

"You mean she is still in school!"

"Graduate school yes," Sonic said, he looked at the motion sensor box as they walked past it T/N/13 they were getting farther. Thunder boomed in the distance, the storm had long since passed, and there was nothing but the sound of a occasional tree frog.

"You have any kids?" Tails asked.

"No I'm not married, never had any, and I never did adoption."

"Are you going to marry Dr. Sattler?"

Sonic looked away, and "She's marrying a nice doctor in Chicago sometime next year." He said.

"Oh," Tails paused, "Well then who are you going to marry?"

"I don't think I ever will Tails."

"Well, me neither."

They walked a little longer, "Dr. Grant?"

"Hmm?"

"I never asked, what happened to Professor Malcolm?" Tails asked.

Sonic felt a sudden pang, memories flashed through his mind like a slideshow. They were in the car- the rex was coming- Malcolm had asked what to do- Sonic didn't know- Shadow was out of the car- the rex had lunged- Malcolm was-

He blinked and shook his head, burying the memories away, "I don't know what happened to him Tails, I wish I knew."

"Oh….."

They walked on, then. "Are we going to walk all night Dr. Grant?"

"I don't think I could," Sonic said. "We'll have to stop, at least for a few hours." He looked at his watch, "We've got a least fifteen hours before the ship reaches the mainland."

"Where are we going to stop?" Tails said quickly.

"Ummm," Sonic was thinking about that. At first he thought a tree, but then it would have to be a really high tree to stay out of reach from the rex. But Cream could fall off, and the hard branches would be uncomfortable, they wouldn't get any sleep, at least, he wouldn't.

They needed someplace safe. He sorta remembered there were buildings scatter all over the park, a few in each padlock He didn't know what they were made for, but he knew they were there.

Of course, finding a barrier and crossing it was totally different from finding a building. Finding a building needed a different strategy and the best strategy was-

"Tails, hold your sister for me, I'm going to climb a tree and get a look around."

High up the tree Sonic had a very good view of the forest. It had taken him awhile to climb the tree, he had almost fallen a few times, and his ankle didn't help much, but he had made it. Surprisingly not far from where he was, there was the electric fence, and a concrete moat. Beyond that a grassy plain….

He heard a dinosaur bellow, but it sounded far away, he relaxed and continued searching. There! With Tails's night vision goggles he could see a dark strip of service road leading to a rectangular building. The roof was barely above ground level, but it was there. And thank heaven; it wasn't far, maybe less than a quarter a mile away.

As he came back down he heard Cream whimpering, "What's wrong Cream?"

"I heard an animal."

"It won't bother us. Are you awake now? Cause I need you to walk, come on."

He led them to the fence; it was twelve feet high, with a spiral barbed wire at the top. It seemed extremely high up in the dark. Cream was looking at it, unsure.

"Can you climb it?" Sonic asked her.

"Sure," she said, she handed him her mitt and ball, "Easy. But I bet Timmy can't climb it." She started to climb.

Tails growled at her in fury, "You shut up; I have had enough of climbing for one day, thank you!" He crossed his arms, "Besides I have my own method for getting over things."

"Tails is afraid of heights." Cream sang as she climbed higher.

"I am not."

"Are too."

"Am not."

"Then come and get me." She taunted.

Sonic sighed and turned to face Tails. The yellow fox was pale in the dark. The boy wasn't moving. "Tails's are you okay? Do I need to carry you? Or do you want to try you 'other method'"

"Well," Tails said, "I can't do it very well; I can't stay up long, so I'll have to meet you on the other side."

"What do you do?"

Tails took the baseball glove and ball from Sonic, "I'll show you." And with that, Sonic watched in shock as the two tails started to spin and slowly Tails's lifted into the air, past Cream and over the fence to the other side.

"Oh my word," Sonic said as he began to climb.

"It's freezing!" Cream gasped as she clung onto Sonic, who shivered as he slipped waist deep into the smelly water. Sonic shuddered, water, he so hated this right now. They had crossed the fence without trouble, Cream had torn her shirt on the barbwire, but they made it.

As they looked for a way out of the moat, Sonic looked at Tails, "How did you do that?"

"Did what?"Tails asked as he ran his hand over the smooth concrete, it was slippery, they wouldn't be able to climb it.

"You flew, Tails" Sonic said, "You flew over the fence."

"Oh that," Tails shrugged, "I learned I could do it when I was eight, I haven't told Mom, but I'm not very strong, so I can only stay in the air for a few seconds."

"That's amazing Tails, it really is." Sonic said, he tugged on the vine that was growing through the crack in the concrete. "You can do some pretty amazing things once you build your strength." He pulled harder on the vine, it held his weight, and "Alright kids climb up."

It took only a few minutes for them to cross the field over to the maintenance building, the past to motion sensors along the way, and Sonic notice with uneasiness that they were still off.

In the distance there was a tyrannosaur roar.

"Is he around here?" Cream asked.

"No," Sonic sighed, "We're in a different part of the park them him." They walked down the grassy hill and up to the building. In the dark, it looked like and unwelcoming war bunker.

Sonic walked up to the entrance, it was big enough for a truck, but blocked by thick bars of steel. Inside Sonic could see that the building was just an open shed, with piles of hay inside. He looked down, the gate was closed with a large lock, as he inspected it, Cream slipped through the bars, "Come on you guys."

Tails followed after, "You can make it Dr. Grant."

He was right; it was a little tight, but Sonic was able to ease his body through the bars and into the shed. No sooner he was inside, he felt dead exhausted.

"I wonder if there is anything to eat," Cream said.

"Not unless you like hay," Sonic said, he broke open and two bales and spread they hay out onto the concrete, the hay was warm and it would cushion them from the hard concrete floor. They all crawled onto the hay, exhaustion taking over them. Cream nestled up beside him, closing her eyes. Tails curled up on the other side of Cream, gently wrapping his arm around her.

There wasn't a sound. They were immediately asleep. Sonic lifted his arm up to look at his watch, but it was too dark to see. He sighed and let his arm fall back down. What a nightmare today had been, but there was still time to fix things….In a few….hours…..They needed to start…again…..Had to warn….control about the boat….raptors…..Needed to stop….the…raptors…

There was the sound of sauropods in the distance. But Sonic didn't hear. He could feel the warmth of the children pressing against his body…..

Sonic closed his eyes, and slept.

Muldoon and Gennaro walked into the control room as Omega let out a cheer, "Got you now you little bastard."

"What is it?" Mighty asked.

Omega pointed at his screen. It was covered in codes, links, numbers, and objects. "That's it," Omega said, obviously pleased with himself.

"That's what?" Mighty asked.

"I finally found the command that restores the original code. The command is called '' restores the linked parameters, namely the fence and the power. But there is a catch," Omega said, "It then however, erases the code lines that refer to it. It destroys all the evidence that proved it existed. Pretty smooth move."

"Okay," Knuckles said.

"Well let's see if it works," Omega said.

The screen buzzed, and then changed. A new list appeared.

"Look!" Knuckles said, he pointed out the control room windows, outside the big quartz lights were turning all over the park. They all went to the windows to watch.

"Alright," Omega smirked.

"Does this mean the fences are back on?" Mighty asked.

"You bet it does," Omega grinned, "It'll take a minute for the generator to heat up fifty miles worth of fence, but it's working."

"And the motion sensors?"

"Them too," Omega said, he turned to the vertical glass screen in the middle of the room. Bright red lines were running through the screen, tracing the electric fence line, symbolizing that the fences were powering up. "Half past nine," Omega grinned, "And we've got this whole dang system up and running."

Sonic groaned and a red light fill invaded his darkness; he opened his eyes and blinked as bright blue light was streaming through the bars and into the building. Quartz light: The power was back on! Sleepily he looked down at his watch, it was only nine thirty, he had only been sleeping a few minutes. He decided it wouldn't hurt to sleep a few more, after that, he would go back to the field and stand in front of the motion sensors. The control room would spot them, send down a car to pick them up, Omega would call the ship, and they would spend the rest of their night in their own beds at the lodge.

He would do that right away….In just a couple minutes that is. He yawned and closed his eyes again.

"Only three short outs," Omega said, "Could have been worse."

"Where are the short outs?" Mighty asked.

"Well, one by the tyrannosaur padlock….and we know why….." Omega peered at the glass, "One by the sauropod padlock, probably a tree, and another one by the jungle river."

"How about the motion sensors,"

"We've changed the code, so if they pick up any 'extras' we'll know it's Grant and the kids, but I don't see any extras yet," Omega sighed, "Haven't found the big rex either, he's probably sleeping, for all we know the humans could be sleeping too."

"Well, maintenance better get to work," Knuckles said, "Five animals are not where their supposed to be. I'll take the maintenance crews out now."

"Gennaro," Omega said, "You may want to see how Malcolm is doing, and while you're there, tell Harding that Muldoon will need him in an hour to help with maintenance. I'll go tell Hammond that we are finally cleaning things up."

As Mighty passed through the iron gates and went to the front door of the Safari Lodge, he saw Shelly coming down the hallway, she was carrying towels and a pan of steaming water. She looked up at him, "Oh hello Gennaro,"

"Please just call me Mighty," he said, "Can I help carry anything?"

"Oh, sure, thank you," Shelly smiled and she handed him the towels, "There's a kitchen at the other end, we're using that to boil water for the dressings. It seems the power is back on now,"

"It is," Mighty said, "How is he?"

"He could be worse," Shelly said, "But he's doing surprisingly well."

As they walked to the sound of laughter, he peered inside to see both Shadow Malcolm and Silver Harding laughing. Shelly walked right in, but Mighty was more hesitant.

Silver stood up and took the towels from Mighty, "He's pretty high on morphine right now. I couldn't resist putting in a joke or too. But come in, you don't have to worry about a Malcolm Effect here."

"I'm telling you not high enough," Shadow said, "Did they find the others yet?"

"No not yet," Mighty said, "But I'm glad to see that you're doing well,"

"Mmmm hmm, how else should I be doing," Shadow said, "I'm drugged up with morphine, I have a compound fracture on my leg, it will probably take ages to heal, and it producing a rather um…how shall I put this? Pungent smell I suppose? But I always say, if you can't keep a sense of humor…..

"Wow you really are high on morphine aren't you?" Mighty smiled, "Do you remember what happened to you?"

Shadow went serious, "Oh, of course I remember. Do you think the fact that be bitten by a Tyrannosaurus rex and it would escape your mind, yeah I don't think so. I'll tell you, I will remember this for the rest of my life. I my case however, that might not be long. But still-yes I do remember what happened."

Shadow went on to explain the events that happened, "It was my own bloody fault I guess, Grant had told the kids to stay in the car, I don't see why we shouldn't have done the same. Of course he was too close, but I panicked anyway. In any case, the bloody animal picked me up in his jaws."

"How?" Mighty asked.

"Torso," Shadow said, lifting up his shirt, "It's bruised, you can't see the bruises, but you can still see some of the puncture marks." A broad semicircle of punctures ran from his shoulder to navel. "Lifted me up in his jaws, shook me bloody hard, and then he threw me. And I was fine-terrified of course-but perfectly fine-right up till the moment he threw my Chaos knows how many feet. I broke my leg in the fall, but the bite wasn't that bad," he sighed "Considering….."

Silver looked over, "Most of the big carnivores don't have strong jaw muscles; it's all in the neck, the just hold on and shake, twisting and tearing. But for the smaller 'animals' Malcolm in this case, they just pick up, shake, then throw."

"That sounds about right," Shadow said, "I doubt I should have lived that, but the big guy just didn't have his heart into it. To me, he seemed rather clumsy."

Shelly crossed her arms, "You think he attacked halfheartedly?"

"It pains me to say it, yes," Shadow sighed, "But I don't honestly think I had his full attention, he had all of mine. But then, he weighs eight tons, I don't. Not like I'm complaining here though, I'm fine with him not eating me."

"Uh-huh," Mighty said, he turned to Silver, "They're going to repair the fences now, Omega says Muldoon will need your help herding the animals."

"Okay," Silver said,

"Just as long as Dr. Sattler stays here, and an ample of morphine." Shadow said, "That, and as so long as we don't have a Malcolm Effect here."

"Seriously, what is this 'Malcolm Effect' I keep hearing about?" Mighty asked.

Shadow smirked, "Modesty forbids me, from telling you the details of a phenomenon named after me." He let out a sigh and closed his eyes. In a moment, he had slipped off to sleep.

Shelly walked into the hallway with Mighty, "Don't be fooled," she sighed, "It's a great strain on him. When will the helicopter be here?"

"Helicopter?"

"Mighty, he needs surgery on that leg. Make sure they send a helicopter and get him off this island."

Knuckles listened to the gurgle of the jungle river over the sound of the portable generator. He turned to the maintenance van and saw one of the workmen coming out with a big power saw.

"No, no," he said, "Just ropes. We don't need to cut it." He turned back to the fence and looked at the small protocarpus tree that was leaning against the fence. It was one of many planted in the area the we used to conceal the fences.

It wasn't going to be a big job. All they had to do was pull the tree of the fence, remove the metal fittings, and mark it for the gardeners to fix in the morning. Twenty minute job, nothing big, but Knuckles knew that the dilophosaurs stayed near the river, but they could still spit their blinding venom through the fence at the workmen.

Ramón, one of the workmen walked over, he pointed east through the jungle. "Senor Muldoon," he said, "did you see the lights.

Muldoon squinted in the bright quartz lights as he looked east, other than the quartz lights, he could see nothing "What lights?"

"I saw it as we were coming out. It is very faint. You see it? It looks like the lights of a car, but it is not moving."

Knuckles squinted some more. It was probably just maintenance light. After all the power was back on, "We'll have to worry about it later," he said, "Right now we need to focus on fixing the fence."

There we go, it's been awhile, and you probably thought I had forgot about Sonic and the kids . Well I didn't and as you can see, they are good….for now…..Hope you enjoyed it. Please RR that would mean a lot. Thanks!

Yours Truly- SilverSilence