Chapter 14:

"If we don't move, the T-Rex won't see us, and therefore he won't harm or kill any of us." Neo said quietly to the others. Cera looked to Neo, "That may work with the 'T-Rex,' but what about the other dinosaur?" Cera quietly asked back. Neo didn't think about the other dinosaur that was with the Rex, so he didn't give her an answer.

Then, Neo saw that a lightning bolt struck the mystery dinosaur, the dino's head jerked back slightly, the dino's body flashed white, and then after the white flash faded away, and he saw Q in his disguised form, "Q?" Neo asked the dinosaur. The dino that Neo saw get struck said something to the Rex, and the Rex walked away.

The dinosaur responded, "Yes, Neo. It is me, but only you can see me when I SHIFT into a dinosaur. I found an opportunity to take control of my body, but this opportunity will not last much longer. It won't be too much longer until I will be kicked out of my body, and then I'll be a ghost again." the dinosaur told Neo. The others were hearing the conversation, but they couldn't understand what Neo and Q were saying to each other.

"So, is there anything else about what's happened to the Earth in this time that I should know about? I don't know if José had explained everything to us or if he didn't explain everything because he... I don't even know what happened to him or Violet." Neo said. Q lowered his head, "What happened to them is their mindsets have been reset to how they were originally, carnivorous and murderous. Because the timeline has been altered, all carnivores that are in this time period, or are brought into this time period will have a very small window of time before they go back to their original carnivorous state, myself excluded and I still do not know what phenomenon causes this to happen. But even when I'm not in control of my body, it still is strong enough to resist the urge to kill creatures like you and the others." Q said back.

Then, Q looked up and then around the area. He saw that there were no other dinosaurs that could see them, and he wanted to take Neo somewhere else, but at the same time, Q did not want the others to see what he was about to do, "What I'm about to do next is going to hurt a little, and I'm only going to do it so the others won't follow us." Q said, lowering his head again.

Neo got a chill down his spine, "What are you going to do?" he asked him. Q didn't say anything. He lifted his head up, and he made his eyes go pure red, and his head went straight down towards Neo, and he opened his mouth, and then he was holding Neo by his legs with his teeth. And if that didn't scare everyone else enough, Q opened his mouth again, and Neo disappeared, "He ate Neo!" Cera screamed.

Then Q swallowed, and then ran away. The others were too petrified to even attempt to follow Q. When Q saw that the others were out of sight, he started gagging, and then he puked Neo out, along with the bones of another animal, "Ugh! Bleh! (Looks up to Q) Why the hell did you do that?!" Neo yelled at him. "You don't need to speak that language anymore." Q said.

"Still... why did you do that?!" Neo yelled again. "I told you... to make sure that the others will not try to follow me. You were supposed to hold on." Q told him. Neo raised a brow, "Hold on to what? Your tongue?!" Neo yelled yet again. Q sighed, "No, my teeth. You were supposed to hold onto my teeth." Q answered.

Neo looked back up to Q, "Why?" he asked, slightly calmer. "So I didn't actually swallow you. So either you've got butterfingers, you couldn't find a tooth that you could grab, or you did but it was slippery, or a combination. Anyway that's not the reason I separated you from the others. The reason that I did that was because I needed to give you something before you even attempt to try and survive in the world." Q said.

Neo stood up, "That being?" he questioned. Q lowered his head again, "I'm going to give you the ability to shapeshift. But you cannot shapeshift into any dinosaurs." Q started to say. "What? Most of the things that are currently roaming the planet are dinosaurs. Why can't I become one?" Neo asked. "Because if I give you the ability to become a dinosaur, I will die. Both my body, and my spirit will die." Q said.

Neo still wanted to be able to become a dinosaur, "Can't I become like herbivorous or omnivorous dinosaurs?" he queried. Q sighed, "I might as well allow him to become dinosaurs because he won't stop asking me questions." Q thought.

He looked back at Neo, "Okay, I will allow you to become any dinosaur except for one, the Indominusaurus Rex, AKA me. You can still become an Indominus, but it will kill both you and me because only one Indominus can be alive. If there are any more than that, there will be a tear in the space-time continuum if those 2 Indominus stay alive. That's why it will kill both of us, to ensure that there are no more Indominusauruses roaming the planet ever again. Anyway, the other things that you can become are animals that people believed to roam the planet before them, including the dinosaurs. Other than that, you can become different people, and you can change into a few other creatures that never actually lived." Q said.

"Go back to your house, Neo. There is someone there that I told to study everything about how the world is now. He'll tell you what to do in certain situations that you may come across while you're out in the dinosaurs' world." Q added. ThenNeo started seeing Q in his disguised form, and then in his true form, and then back to his disguised form, and then back to his true form again, "What I'm seeing... is that going to be a problem?" Neo asked.

Q looked down at him again, "My body is starting to block me from controlling it. I have to leave my body, or else it will start to kill everything that moves, including you and everyone else. I'll always be watching over you and the others, Neo." Q said before Neo saw his body flash white again, and then it faded to reveal that Q had left his body and that his body was in it's true from.

Then, Q called the Rex back, and Neo froze. After a short period of time, Q and the Rex started walking away into the distance, and once they were out of sight, Neo started walking back towards everyone else. When they saw him, they couldn't believe how he escaped, nor did they want to even ask, "Who were you talking to?" Shortfoot asked after Neo had come back.

Neo didn't want to tell them the truth because Q didn't want them to know what had happened, "Uh... no one." Neo replied. Shortfoot got a skeptical look on his face, "Yeah. OK then." Shortfoot said to himself. Little did Neo know that Shortfoot had actually followed Q, and he understood the language that Neo and Q were speaking in, "Why is Neo trying to hide the fact that Q gave him a shapeshifting ability?" Shortfoot asked himself.

Neo started walking towards his house when he heard a familiar voice call to him, "Neo! It has been a long time!" Neo looked around, trying to figure out where the voice had come from, "I know that voice from somewhere... but I can't pinpoint who it is or where I heard that voice before. Then, Neo heard the voice again, "Come on, Neo! You should know exactly who I am."

This time, Neo turned back around and saw a person walking from Neo's house, "Hey there, Neotigator." the person said. Then, Neo remembered who this person actually was, "Brother!" Neo and the other person said in unison. They both ran towards each other and gave the other a big hug, "It's so good to see you again, Neo." the person said with joy.

"Same to you, brother." Neo replied. After that quick family reunion, Neo introduced his brother to everyone, "Everyone this my brother, Jake. Jake, meet the gang." Neo said to the brother and the others. Jake looked at all of them, "2 saber-toothed tigers, 4 woolly mammoths, 1 sloth, two possums, 1 weasel, 1 Pteranodon, 1 Tyrannosaurus Rex, 1 Oviraptor, 1 Triceratops, 1 Stegosaurus, 1 Sauropod, 1... Apatosaurus and Brachiosaurus hybrid, and 2 Homo sapiens. We've got quite a bit of variety right now, dinosaurs, people, and mammals from the Ice Age, from the movies and from the real-life Ice Age period." Jake commented.

Neo was unsure whether that was a compliment, or an insult, because he knew that Jake did not like a large amount of variety on some occasions, "Jake, do you like this amount of variety, or do you dislike it?" Neo whispered to his older brother.

Jake turned his head towards Neo in surprise, "What? Do I hate it? Hell, no! I love it! I enjoyed studying all of these creatures. Oh, and speaking of studying, a friend of yours who goes by the name Q, he told me what was going to happen 2 months before it actually did happen. At first, I didn't believe him, but when I heard about what was happening at the Jurassic theme parks, I realized that the dinosaurs would escape if the people there continued creating new dinosaurs faster than they could adapt to keeping an eye on them, so I set up shop in our guest living room, on the 3rd floor. I started traveling around the world about 2 weeks after the dinosaurs took over our world. I had someone protecting me while I took boats, planes, cars, and helicopters to different parts of the world. Any carnivorous dinosaur that saw me when I was on the ground, about half of the time, they seemed to have been possessed or something, but they never attacked me. Except for this one really large, and white dinosaur. It was a Baronyx that looked 100% identical to Rudy from Ice Age 3. Q had warned me of this dinosaur, he told me that this dinosaur wasn't actually called Rudy by anyone outside of the Ice Age period. Q told me that his real name was Grim." Jake said.

That got everyone's attention, "Grim?" Shortfoot asked. Jake looked over to him, "Do you know that name?" Jake asked. "Unfortunately, we know him very well," Shortfoot responded. "Yeah. He tried to kill us. He captured me and Neo and he threw us into a cave." Shira said from behind. Neo then thought of something, "Jake... we've been in this time period for about 2 hours. How long does it take for carnivores' mindsets to be reset?" Neo asked his brother, putting his hand over his gun holster.

Jake looked over to him, "It takes about 16 to 24 minutes for that to happen. Why you asking?" Jake said. "If that's true, then why haven't Shira and Diego gone rogue yet?" Neo asked again, getting ready to pull out the weapon. Jake looked back at the 2 of them, "Oh, they won't be affected." Jake said. Neo got confused, "I thought you said ALL carnivores were affected." Neo said back.

Jake got also got confused, "Did I really say that?" he asked everyone. Everyone nodded their heads, "Oh, sorry. I meant that only carnivorous DINOSAURS will be affected. All other carnivores are immuned." Jake told them.

They all sighed, "So... where has this all happened?" Ruby asked Jake. Jake looked at her, "It has happened... basically everywhere. It's happened in Asia, Europe, China, Tokyo, everywhere except any places that are extremely cold. To give you a little more perspective, I have been living through this 'Jurassic period' for about 5 years now, and I have found many disturbing facts about what happened." Jake whispered back to his little brother.

Neo breathed a sigh of relief, "Ok. Let's go back inside the house and you can tell us more." he said. Jake smiled, "Okay, little bro." Jake replied.

After everyone was safely inside the house, Jake started explaining everything to everyone in as much detail as he could, "OK, to start off, this all began on July 27th, 2008 after the Indominus broke free in Jurassic World. Now, the Indominus escaped and started wreaking havoc throughout the park. It allowed the Pteranadons to break free because the Indominus communicated with them, and it told them to take out the helicopter that was sent out to kill it." he said before Cera interrupted him.

"How do you know that it was saying that to them?" she questioned him. He looked at her, because number 1, I was there in the birdcage, and number 2, I can understand many different languages of creatures, including dinosaurs. I'm an animal whisperer, I can understand almost any creatures that ever roamed this planet. Anyway, the Pteranadons got out and started going after all of the guests. They only managed to pick up one person, a woman. They lifted her into the air, but they eventually dropped her into the water exhibit that held the Mosasaurus. Then, the Indominus disappeared for a while, and they had to use Velociraptors just to find the Indominus and then kill it. Unfortunately for them, the Indominus was part Velociraptor and it communicated with the Raptors, which then made the Raptors turn against the people hunting the Indominus. Needless to say, all of the people going after the Indominus with the Raptors were all killed except for five, including me. I was staying in the genetics lab when two adults, male and female, along with two adolescents came into the lab. Why they did I was unsure of, but then my boss's boss, Hoskins, started 'packaging' the dinosaur embryos and he was going to take them away. Then, a Raptor came in and went for Hoskins. He thought that because this Raptor was 'trained,' that it wouldn't attack him if he put his hand up to tell it told stand down. But I could tell in the Raptor's eyes that she absolutely hated Hoskins because she bit his hand, knocked him down, and I'm pretty sure ate his heart and lungs out. The other four started running, to where, I did not know, so I just followed them. A Raptor then burst through the glass and started chasing us. When we got outside, the other 2 Raptors that were sent to kill the Indominus cornered us when the 3rd Raptor came up from behind us. The Raptors didn't straight up kill us because they recognized both me, and my good friend Owen Grady, who had imprinted on the Raptors along with me when they hatched. Owen took off the camera that the people had put onto Blue, the alpha Raptor, but then the Indominus came over, and told the Raptors to kill everyone, except for me. The only reason that I can theorize as to why the Indominus did not want me dead was possibly because it knows that I created it with Dr. Wu. It must have known that I was the only other one that would be fully able to take care of it. I actually walked out from the Raptors circling us, and one Raptor was about to launch at me had the Indominus not order the Raptor to stand down. For some reason, the Raptors then changed sides back to Owen and the Raptors tried to kill the Indominus, but it killed all the other Raptors except for Blue, whom it had thrown her into a storefront. The only thing that I got very worried about was when Claire Mitchell released a T-Rex to kill the Indominus. The Indominus almost immediately started beating the T-Rex up, both literally and figuratively, until Blue and the T-Rex managed to get the Indominus to the edge of the Mosasaurus exhibit when the Mosasaurus jumped out of the water, grabbed the Indominus by the neck, and then dragged it down into the water. Then, I focused on the T-Rex and Raptor. With the Indominus gone, or so I thought, I was worried that the T-Rex, the Raptor, or both of them would kill me, but neither of them even paid attention to me." Jake continued.

No one dared to interrupt Jake now, they were all wanting to know, "After the Rex walked away and Blue was 'dismissed' by Owen, the four offered me a way off of the island, but I couldn't leave. I had created all of the dinosaurs on the island along with Wu, but Wu had already left the island, and I didn't want the animals all to die. So ultimately, I stayed behind to take care of the dinosaurs. And that turned out to be a good thing, every single dinosaur in the park knew that I was one of their creators, or you could say I was their universal 'parent.' They all respected me and the decisions I made. I kept the carnivores from eating the herbivores and omnivores, and the carnivores knew that if they killed me, they'd either run out of food or they would die because they were still lysine deficient, and I kept the carnivores that way just in case they tried anything I didn't like." Jake kept explaining.

"After the four realized that I really didn't want to leave, they left for one of the ferrys that were coming to get everyone off the island. I walked over to the water, and stared down into it, thinking about the Indominus. I actually really liked the thing because it was a new species we had created. It may have been very deadly, but it would've never hurt me. But as I started walking away from the water, I heard muffled roaring coming from under the water, I saw the water turn red at the far end of the exhibit, and I saw the Indominus swimming to the surface of the water. After it surfaced, it saw me and then swam over to my end of the exhibit. It climbed out of the water, and it started staring at me. Then, it started making noises at me which I figured out that it was talking to me. It knew who I was, it knew where it was, and it just seemed to know everything about the island and its geographical location. I asked it how it knew all the things that it did, and it told me that it knew all the things it did because it was a supernatural being. I asked if she... or he because it changed its gender from female to male, had a name he wanted to be called, but he never gave me an answer, not then at least." Jake finished. "A supernatural being? Q is a supernatural being because of all his abilities." Neo said. Jake looked over to him, "When did the Indominus tell you that his name was Q?" Neo queried him.

Jake thought about it, "Actually, he never did tell me. The only reason that I figured out his name was because there was a story written about an Indominus called Q on the website called 'FanFiction.' I read the whole story from the first chapter until the last. But when I heard the same thing from the Indominus at Jurassic World, I went back to FanFiction to check to see if the details were accurate, but the story was not there. I checked my browsing history, and the story seemed to have been erased because there were gaps in the browsing timeline on every single day that I had ever read the story. It was still in my Favorites Bar, but when I got to the page, it said, 'There is no story with this title.' I went to the author, TLBT Nerd's page, which was still there, but my private messages to TLBT Nerd (Which BTW, you are welcome to send any PM requests about how you might want the story to go on to me) about the story never existed. I then sent a message to TLBT Nerd about the story, and his reply was, 'What story? I had an idea for a story with that exact plot, but I never published it, or even wrote a single paragraph about it.' So it seemed that story was erased from existence, and anyone's knowledge of it except for mine. Strangely enough, the Indominus said that the timeline had changed. I thought he meant my computer's timeline, but he actually meant the real timeline. I didn't believe him at first, but he actually shrunk himself down to about my size, he put a claw on the computer, and then the story was there again. I was shocked, and I asked him how he managed to get the story back, and he said that the story was his life story, and him doing that made me want to believe that he was a supernatural being. Then, he took his claw off of the computer, and he went back to full size, and then he told me what was going to happen, and he mentioned you, Neo, as well as everyone who is here now." Jake said.

Neo understood, Jake was the one Q had warned him about the dinosaurs taking over the Earth, "Are all carnivorous dinosaurs on the Earth, besides Q, hostile?" Neo wanted to know. Jake thought about it again, "Actually, no. When I was in Jurassic World, Q told me to activate our secret time machine. That's how the scientists actually studied how the dinosaurs really behaved, and I don't know when or where he set it to, but I ended up in the Land Before Time, and there was another man there, he saw me and he came over to me, 'Who are you?' he asked me. I told him my name and what I did for a living. I guess he liked what I worked as in this time, and he asked me if I could help him and a friend set up something that involved the dinosaurs. I was excited, but at the time he didn't tell me exactly what he was planning to do with the device. Then, a small and white Baronyx that looked just like Grim, only smaller came over and spoke to me, and I quote, 'Hey, you look familiar to one of my enemies.' I didn't know what he was talking about, so I asked him, 'Who do I look like to you?' He started walking around me, 'You look like someone called Neo. I had held him prisoner for a few days before he and his friend escaped. He was aided by my arch enemy, Q. He and I used to be best friends until he lied and betrayed me.' he said right before snarling. The man told Grim, 'Hey! He may look like Neo, but if Neo had a brother, I would know for a fact. Because I don't recognize him, he is not any relative of Neo! Now you 2 help me with this!' I recognized the man as Neo's real father. And I was thinking that it was such a good thing that I was born before our mother hooked up with that... man. Anyway I'm taking too long to get to the point so I'll just skip to it. Just a few days before we used the device, Neo's father... I mean Frank, was overviewing their plan with Grim, and I had just finishing setting up the device's power, which was fully functional, when I overheard them talking about something, 'So, we bring all the carnivores on Earth to this time, 1993, when the Jurassic Park scientists have already created just the carnivores. They'll need more room for the rest of the carnivores, so they'll either add-on to the current Jurassic Park, or they'll create a new park somewhere else. Once we infect them with this, we'll tell them not to take over the planet until July 27th, 2008. At that time, I know there will be enough dinosaurs to kill a fair amount of the population to show the people that they cannot control dinosaurs anymore. Just trust me, Grim. Jake, get over here, NOW!' he said. I walked over, and he asked me something, 'How much did you hear?' I realized that somehow he must have known that I was listening in, 'What do you mean? How much of what did I hear?' I replied, doing my best not to look, or feel too nervous. Then, he sent Grim over to me, and he started smelling me, 'I can hear deceit and nervousness coming from his tone of voice. I can smell that... he is lying! He heard our entire conversation. Besides, it's on the cameras, too!' Grim said. That's when I realized that I had screwed up, I was the one who had installed the cameras so we could see if anyone else tried to intrude, but my cameras ended up getting me caught. They played the footage from the camera at the machine, and it showed that I walked towards the conversation, and I started writing notes, I actually can't remember why I started writing down what they were saying, but I realized that I shouldn't have listened in or wrote those notes. They both looked at me after viewing the footage, 'Well, well, well. You must be a relative of Neo, because only he was able to hide his nervousness as well as you did. Now we have to kill you because I know that you'll warn that little son of a bitch! Grim! Tear him limb from limb.' Frank said. I saw Grim start running at me, then he jumped into the air, and I ducked, and Grim flew over my head, and he hit the side of the machine, which then activated it, and it started pulling everything that was not strong held in by something, Frank flew in first, then Grim, and I was holding on for dear life on the lever that controlled the power. I tried turning it off, but the pull just made it so the switch couldn't be set to off. Eventually, the lever broke, and right before I was pulled into a black vortex, the machine exploded, which caused a large, incinerating explosion wave to start spreading across the land, and it made the air temperature hotter than the hinges of hell. Me, Frank, Grim, and every single carnivore from the Land Before Time ended up on July 27th, 2008. We all ended up in different parts of the world. I ended up back in the mansion, and I don't know where Grim and Frank ended up. But, the real reason that the carnivorous dinosaurs are like this is because when the device was activated, it spread a neurotoxin through the carnivores that were in the vortex, causing them to become pure murderous. But the infection that they originally wanted is slightly modified. All the carnivores actually won't attack you unless you purposely attack them, they do not attack children under the age of 13, because kids younger than 13 most likely won't know much about dinosaurs, if anything at all, and if you accidentally attack them, if you put your hands up, like you're being arrested by the cops, and you get down on your knees, they won't kill you. And they can tell the difference whether you accidentally attacked them and got down, or you purposely attacked them and you try to fool them, they will kill anyone who tries to fool them into thinking that you accidentally attacked them. There is some good news, though. In total, there are around 250,000 carnivores on the Earth that are immuned to the infection, and they are willing to help people, and Q is obviously one of those, but he is the leader of a pack that is not immuned to the infection. He doesn't want to let them see him help any people, or herbivores, because the carnivores in his pack depend on him. That's why he sent the T-Rex away before he gave Neo that ability, he didn't want the Rex to see what he was going to do. There is another one that is very loyal if you gain his trust, he is always called 'Grumpy.' Let that name sink in a little, Neo." Jake said.

Neo thought about the name, "Grumpy", "I know that I've heard of that name from a movie, but which movie?" Neo quietly said to himself. Jake walked over to Neo, "I'll give you a hint. He's in another movie in another Land." Jake whispered. Then, Neo remembered, "The Land of the Lost! Grumpy, the... T-Rex?" Neo said.

Jake clapped, "Good job! Yes, Grumpy is very loyal IF you can gain his trust." he congratulated his brother. Spike tilted his head, "There's a dinosaur named 'Grumpy'?" Spike asked, slightly confused. Neo turned back to him, "In the movie, that's just what he's called by the characters. Here's what he looks like." Neo said, picturing Grumpy in his head.

Neo then got taller, his skeleton started changing, his got a tail, his arms grew small, (Insert sad trombone music clip) and he then looked like Grumpy, "Whoa! I can understand why he's called Grumpy." Cera said. Neo looked down to her, and he snarled, and he hit her with his tail, "Wah!" Cera screamed before smacking into the side of Demon.

"What'd you do that for?!" she yelled at Neo. Neo walked over to her, "Because that's how Grumpy acts. He's very sensitive about people making rude comments about him. If I was the real Grumpy, he probably would've eaten you, like he did Rick Marshall. And you don't want to go down the same path that Rick did with Grumpy." Neo said to her, turning back into himself.

"Now that we know who were going to acquire as an ally, where is he?" Shortfoot asked Jake. Jake laughed, "Where is he? All I know is he's somewhere in Russia, the largest place on the globe. The main attack from the dinosaurs were in Russia because it's a very big place, and the dinosaurs assumed Russia had good weapons. We've got to go to Russia by normal vehicle. Planes are out, cars can't exactly drive on water, there are Mosasaurs' lurking in the oceans, so no boats, there's only one other option... we're going on a helicopter ride." Jake said.