Phineas and Ferb Visit Jurassic World! - Chapter 14: Mission Indominus
A/N: I hope everyone had a great Christmas. I know I did. But you know what I can't believe? This will be my last chapter for the year 2015! 2015's coming to a close so quickly. 2016 will be here in a blink. I think you guys will really like this chapter, because there's a special character who's going to make a cameo appearance. And no, he's not who you think! 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.
As the sun vanished from the skies of Isla Nublar and it became dark, Hoskins and Vanessa watched as each of Owen's raptors were restrained in their metal harnesses as ACU troopers (along with extra military soldiers Hoskins called in earlier) were getting ready to release the raptors and hunt the hybrid dinosaur. The raptors didn't appear to be very happy, but Hoskins believed this was the only way to take down the Indominus rex.
"This is a terrible idea," Barry said. "It's crazy."
"How crazy?" Vanessa asked.
"These animals have never been out of containment. This is a risky move on Hoskins' part. We don't even know if the raptors will obey us once they're set free."
"Owen Grady has a sophisticated relationship with these raptors," Hoskins told him. "They instinctively know who their alpha is."
Barry crossed his arms. "Really? And how much do you know about raptors?"
Ignoring Barry's question, Hoskins went up to one of the harnessed raptors and grinned. The raptor's eye watched him warily as a snarl escaped its mouth.
"Hey, boy," Hoskins said. He looked up at Barry. "What's his name?"
"Delta is a girl," Barry told him.
Hoskins reached his hand out in an attempt to pet the dinosaur, but the raptor shrieked loudly, causing Hoskins to recoil in surprise. "Must mean she likes me."
"She looks like that at things she likes," Barry confirmed. "And that's usually what she wants to eat."
Hoskins grimaced.
"You did at least tell Mr. Masrani we're doing this, right?" Vanessa asked. "I don't think him and Owen are going to be very happy."
"Given the circumstances, I'm sure they'll understand."
At that moment, a jeep drove into the lot and parked, allowing Mr. Masrani, Hamada, Doofenschmirtz, Carl, Monogram, Agent P (now wearing his fedora) and a very irritated Owen Grady to get out. They walked quickly toward Hoskins.
"You little backstabber," Owen muttered. "You better not have touched any of my raptors!" He clenched his fist. "Once I get my hands on you-"
Perry ran in between Owen and Hoskins and held his hand up, shaking his head. After Owen (reluctantly) unclenched his fist, Perry took a deep breath... before jumping up and smacking Hoskins' jaw with his fist.
"Sheesh!" Hoskins yelped, rubbing his sore jaw. "That smarts. Never been beat up by a monotreme before."
"Thanks, Perry," Owen said. "I might've knocked that little worm unconscious otherwise."
"I know what that's like," Doofenshmirtz said. "Perry the platypus has a bit of a wallop in his fists."
"What are you doing with the raptors?" Masrani asked.
"OK, just hear me out boss, we're just-"
"Just what?" Owen bellowed. "There's no excuse you could give that would be good enough, Hoskins! You're not using my raptors."
"Hey, how many more people are going to have to die until this starts making sense to you? That I. rex is going to keep killing more and more people and if we don't stop it, this entire park's gonna be Chapter 11 by morning."
Owen scowled harshly at Hoskins, still not fond of the idea of his raptors being let loose. "How many more people might die because we let the raptors loose?" Owen asked him quietly.
"Nobody's gonna die because of your raptors. That's why we've got backup."
Then, another jeep drove into the lot, this one carrying Phineas, Ferb, Isabella, Buford, Baljeet, Candace, Stacy, Gray, Zach and Claire. When they began getting out, Perry removed his hat and dropped to all fours.
Candace gasped when she saw Vanessa. "Hey! Vanessa!"
"Oh, hi, Candace," Vanessa answered. "What are you doing here?"
"We were just on vacation until...today's events happened. What about you?"
"I'm here with my dad. He's working with this guy, Vic Hoskins."
Buford asked, "So why we back here again?"
"This lunatic Hoskins," Owen explained, "is trying to convince us that letting the raptor squad loose to bring down the I. rex, Buford."
"I. rex?" Gray asked. "What kind of dinosaur is that?"
"Indominus rex, or I. rex for short," Hoskins said, "is a genetically-modified hybrid dinosaur that Jurassic World's geneticists created in the lab."
"And now it's loose," Owen added.
"Is that by any chance the same dinosaur that chased us back in the jungle?" Isabella asked.
"Yeah, it's the same one," Carl answered. "That thing's scary!"
"You're telling me," Stacy said. "So how are you guys planning to capture it?"
"That is what we are trying to figure out," Masrani answered.
"I'm telling ya," Hoskins argued. "Using the raptors is our only option."
"You want to let the raptors out of their cage?" Phineas asked in surprise. "But...they are extremely dangerous!"
"Phineas is right," Baljeet confirmed. "According to my calculations, between the Jurassic Park related incidents of 1993, 1997 and 2001, there have been at least 12 human fatalities caused by raptors. And I am sure that is not all of them! Velociraptors are the most dangerous of all dinosaurs."
"Not as much as the Indominus," Hoskins countered. "I. rex is a sophisticated predator...very intelligent. She can even blend into her environment seamlessly like a cuttlefish."
"Yikes," Zach said. "Have you tried shooting it down."
"Yeah we did," Doofenshmirtz answered, "but it didn't turn out so well. It turns out she has tough armor too."
"We have only once choice," Hoskins said. "We have to use the raptors!"
"There must be a better solution than that," Masrani said.
"Fine boss, let's here it."
There was a moment of silence. Unfortunately, no one had any better ideas. Phineas rubbed his chin.
"Guys, I think I'm kinda stumped on this one," Phineas admitted. "I was gonna suggest using our Sphere-a-raptor, but that Indominus rex would have made minced meat of it for sure."
Masrani regrettably was forced to agree with Hoskins. "I do not believe we have another option here." Owen looked up in surprise, but Masrani continued. "However, I'll leave the decision up to you, Mr. Grady. They are your raptors. Do you think it is possible?"
Everyone looked to Owen. Then Owen looked at Claire, and finally at Perry the platypus. Perry raised his eyebrows and lightly nodded his head (careful to make sure Phineas and Ferb didn't see him). Owen turned to Hoskins, who eagerly awaited an answer.
"Alright," he said at last. "But if we do this...we do it my way."
With everyone gathered around, Owen began to relay the plan. "OK," he began. "We're going to try and get this done as quickly and safely as possible for both the raptors and ourselves. According to someone named Agent T, we know that the Indominus is hiding somewhere in Sector 5. So that's a start. This is a game that we call hide-and-seek. It's a scent drill. We've done it about a thousand times with these animals. When they get on target – and they will get on target – wait to engage. Velociraptors are pack hunters that use coordinated attack patterns. They like to herd the animal into a kill zone. That's when we take our shot. Make sure to get a clear shot, wait on my command and give her everything you've got. Keep in mind, we only have one – just one – target, gentlemen. Do not, I repeat, do not shoot my raptors, please. I want all soldiers within a maximum of 30 feet from the target. You five, (he was talking to Phineas, Ferb, Isabella, Baljeet and Buford), I want on the sidelines, ready to assist the raptors at any moment they need it."
"You got it, Owen," Phineas said.
Now, are there any questions."
Hamada raised his hand. "Do we have a back-up plan."
"Yes, if we fail to bring down the hybrid, Dr. Doofenshmirtz is going to be standing by with his Dinosaur-Trust-inator." He turned to Doofenshmirtz. "And you're positive it works?"
"Completely positive!" Doofenshmirtz affirmed. "I've tested it three Dimorphodon. They're as trusting as a puppy dog, except those bulldog puppies. Those dogs just give me the–"
"Actually, Doofenshmirtz, I want your Dimorphodons on standby too. If you see the Sphere-a-raptor go in, send the pterosaurs in as well."
Hoskins nodded in approval. "Excellent, Owen."
"Save the praise, Hoskins," Owen said sharply. "We've got a dinosaur to bring down."
"OK, guys," Phineas said as he admired the work they'd done on repairing the Sphere-a-raptor. "Let's do a system check. Periscope eyes?"
Isabella looked through the eyepiece and smiled. "I've got a visual, Phineas. So, check!"
"Cool. Tail-steering?"
Ferb moved the tail from right to left and gave a thumb's up.
"Excellent. Arm movement?"
Baljeet moved the arm he was in control of on the left, and Buford moved his arm, which was on the right. Then Buford clenched the Sphere-a-raptor's hand into a fist and bumped it into open palm of the hand Baljeet was controlling.
"Buford..."
"Sorry, Dinnerbell," Buford apologized. "Check."
"And last but not least, leg-power!" Phineas reared the machine back and kicked out with its right foot. "Check! We are ready to role!"
Meanwhile, Claire, Gray, Zach, Candace, Vanessa and Stacy were watching Owen and Barry as they "bonded" with their raptors, who were restrained in their muzzles. Owen went up to Blue and gently rubbed her head. The dromaeosaur growled.
"You don't scare me," Owen told her.
"Aren't they amazing?" Gray asked. "Velociraptor mongoliensis! And they're trained!"
"Can't say they look very attractive," Candace huffed.
Blue released a hideous snarl and began to shake within her restraints. Owen chuckled. "She's very sensitive about her appearance," he joked.
"Are they safe?" Stacy asked him.
Owen looked at her and shook his head. "No, they're not."
"What are their names?" Zach asked curiously.
"Well, you've got Charlie, Delta, Echo...and this one's called Blue. She's the beta."
"Who's the alpha?" Gray asked.
"You're looking at him, kid."
"How on earth do you tame one of these things?" Zach asked.
"Unlike a dog or a cat, raptors don't obey you because they're expecting a reward. It's about having a relationship with these animals based on respect. I had to be with these animals the moment they were born because it causes them to imprint on me. Without a relationship with them, there's noway to master these animals."
"You don't need months of training to get them to listen to you, you know," Doofenshmirtz said. "That's why I've got my handy-dandy Dinosaur-Trust-inator! With one zap from his baby, and the dinosaur will instantly develop trust in me! No tiring hours of training necessary!"
Owen frowned as he looked at the three Dimorphodon sitting obediently behind Doofenshmirtz. Instead of the instinct to hunt and kill being self-restrained by the trust Owen had developed with his raptors, they merely stared off into space, as if in some sort of trance.
"They look kinda like they're being mind-controlled," Gray noted.
"Well...yeah, I mean, you could think of it that way. But they will do whatever I bid them to do! Just wait till I get back to the Tri-State Area with these guys!"
"Developing a relationship with wild animals," Owen said, "is a lot more complicated than zapping them with a ray gun meant to boost their 'trust hormones'. It's more complicated than any gadget a scientist could cook up in a lab."
"But you see the result of my Dinosaur-Trust-inator! It works perfectly!"
"Does it?"
With that, Owen walked over to Claire, who was observing from behind the safety of thick metal bars.
"So this is who you spend all your time with," Claire said.
Owen nodded. "Yeah, pretty much." He sighed.
Hamada called out: "OK, everyone! We're ready! Get into your positions now! We're launching Mission Indominus in two minutes! I repeat! We're initiating Mission Indominus in two minutes!"
"This is a bad idea," Owen told Claire. "Especially if it works."
Claire, Candace, Stacy, Vanessa, Gray and Zach watched everyone make the final preparations from the safety of a mobile veterinarian unit truck. Phineas, Ferb, Isabella, Buford and Baljeet were inside the Sphere-a-raptor, ready to charge forward. The ACU troopers, the InGen Security soldier reinforcements, Doofenschmirtz and his pterosaur trio were in military vehicles, ready to follow the raptors into the jungle. Barry was on his four-wheeler, revving it up. Meanwhile, Owen walked over to the cells that held his raptors. Their snarls could be heard from outside, as they were ready to be freed. Owen took out the tracking implant Hamada retrieved from the Indominus and held it in front of the cells holding. The raptors sniffed the scent of their quarry. They knew the game and knew what they were after.
"OK," Owen said. "They've got the scent." He turned to Leon, the man responsible for letting the raptors free. "OK, Leon," Owen announced as he mounted his motorcycle. "Let them out in three...two...one...now!"
Leon pressed a button on a remote and the gates to the raptors' cells flung open, freeing four ravenous reptiles into the open. As expected the raptors raced away from the paddock and toward the jungle, following the scent of the I. rex. With that, Agent P pulled up to Owen on his own scooter (the darkness shielded Perry's secret identity from his owners), and they exchanged nods. Then they drove into the jungle after the raptors. Following them were the rest of the troops. The jungle was dark and foreboding at this time of night, but the raptors, Owen and the others had a mission to do.
Owen and Perry, working together as in old times, sped up and found the raptors running up alongside them. Completely focused on their mission, they paid no attention to either Owen or Perry. With great agility, the raptors swerved around trees and rocks and leaped over or ducked under fallen logs. These animals were made for the chase. As they ran, the raptors communicated to each other with bird-like calls, making sure they were together and knew what they were doing. Somewhere not far behind was the Sphere-a-raptor, moving through the jungle with almost as much agility as the raptors themselves.
"When we get back," Candace said, "my brothers are going to get so busted!"
"I think we have more important things to worry about right now than getting your brothers busted," Stacy told her.
In the front seat, Claire watched the action in the jungle via a hand-held monitor. The teens watched from behind.
"You're boyfriend's awesome," Zach commented.
"I never thought we'd be seeing a raptor hunt today," Gray said.
Suddenly, a short little man dressed as a big-game hunter with a bulbous head and a double-barreled shotgun ran into view. "Shhh! Be vewy, vewy, quiet!" he said. "You never know where a wabbit might be hiding!"
"Elmer Fudd!?" Zach exclaimed.
"What are you doing?" Candace demanded.
"Someone said 'wabbit hunt', so I thought someone saw a wabbit."
"First of all, it's pronounced 'rah-bit'. Second of all, Gray said 'raptor hunt', not 'rabbit hunt'."
"Wapta hunt?"
"Rap-tor hunt."
"Dat's what I said. Wapta."
"Yes, I mean, no...I mean...err" Candace scowled.
"Isn't he in the wrong canon?" Claire asked.
"Yeah, you're right," Stacy confirmed. "He's definitely in the wrong canon."
"Don't you know you're in the wrong franchise, Elmer?" Candace asked.
"Well, I figard dat since dis was a cwoss-over, I might as well look awound here and look fo any wittle gway wabbits."
"Would you just get out of here!?"
"Fine, I'm going. Sheesh!" Elmer Fudd shook his head and began walking away. "Those wed-heads always wub me da wong way."
Candace slapped her forehead. "Anyway, what's going on?"
"I think the raptors are stopping," Claire answered.
As Blue, Charlie, Delta and Echo reached a small clearing in the jungle, they came to a stop. Owen held up his fist, indicating all those behind him to slow down and get into position.
"Why are we stopping?" Isabella asked.
"I think the raptors have found something," Baljeet responded quietly. "We had better be ready in case they can not take down the Indominus themselves."
Barry, Perry and the other soldiers crouched alongside Owen. The raptors glanced at their surroundings, as if they sensed something was nearby. Blue shrilled quietly to her sisters, tensing ever so cautiously. Finally, the forest in front of them appeared to move as a colossal nightmarish beast slowly revealed herself. Her camouflage had hidden her well against the jungle backdrop and she was slowly moving toward the raptors. This was Indominus rex alright.
"They should be attacking any moment now," Isabella whispered.
"Hate to break it to you, but those raptors aren't attacking," Buford said.
Flaring her nostrils, the Indominus slightly twitched her tail and made a low grunting sound. Blue responded with a combination of bird-like calls of her own. Indominus then began to make some noises that sounded very familiar to Owen...sounds that he heard everyday when he worked with his squad...
"Something's wrong," Barry said. "They're communicating."
Phineas opened the hatch of the Sphere-a-raptor and whispered, "Owen, what's going on?"
Owen nodded. "I know why they wouldn't tell us what that thing's made of. It's part raptor."
The hybrid made a guttural-gurgling sound that caused the raptors to slowly look back in the direction of the humans.
"They're onto us!" Owen exclaimed. Suddenly the raptors snarled and the Indominus made a loud growl.
Doofenshmirtz rushed to the front of the group. "Out of the way, guys! It's trusting time!"
Doofenshmirtz fired the Dinosaur-Trust-inator and the I. rex spasmed as a large volt of energy ran through her bodies. The raptors called to each other in confusion as their new alpha yelped in surprise and fell to the ground in a loud crash that shook through the entire jungle.
As the dust settled, Doofenshmirtz walked up to the fallen Indominus and nervously placed his free hand on the animal's snout. "Guys, I think I've done it!"
A/N: Ha, ha, ha! Interesting chapter, huh? Doofenshmirtz really thinks that he's conquered the mighty Indominus rex! I guess we'll see how that goes in the next chapter. And I bet you guys didn't expect to see Elmer Fudd in here either! I thought it would be kinda funny for him to get mixed up with "raptor hunt" and "rabbit hunt", so I figured I'd include him in this chapter. Probably won't have Bugs Bunny make an appearance here, but hey, at least we saw Elmer! I'll publish a new chapter soon, but in the meantime, please be sure to favorite, follow and comment on this story! Carpe noctem! (That's Latin for "seize the night".)
PS. Also, be sure to have a very, very HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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