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"Hello?" -Phone or radio.
"{Alpha!}" -Dinosaur language.
Grace Grady laid in the warm, humid mangrove mud as she slowly opened her eyes to look up at the treetops. As she laid there, she softly groaned from the aches and pains throughout her body. Slowly, her mind began to work as she remembered how she got to where she was. Having gotten some time off from a project she was working without much rest on with InGen, she had decided to pay her brother a visit after realizing that he had been trying to get in contact with her. Of course, wanting to surprise Owen, Grace decided not to tell him that she was coming at all. That had found Grace in Costa Rica having just missed the last boat of the day. However, Gradys, as her mother told her many times, never gave up and she tried to negotiate for someone to take her out to Nublar.
It was then that she had spotted someone she recognized as being a member of InGen's security. Even though Grace had forgotten his name, his features and that bald head she recognized. Walking over, she had interrupted his conversation with someone... For a few moments she racked her mind and then remembered. 'Dodgson... Something... Right, Lewis Dodgson, okay...'
The memories came quicker then. After he realized who she was, the InGen security guy had offered to take her to Nublar. So her, him, and Dodgson had hopped on a fishing boat and headed out. They had talked about things including her wanting to surprise her brother with her arrival. On the way though, a storm had broken and a wave had hit the boat and even though she felt Dodgson's hands on her back as if he was trying to steady her, she fell overboard. Part of her was suspicious though as the boat simply continued on as she tried to keep her head above the storm tossed waves. Her boots too heavy, Gracy had untied them between gasps of air and swam the best she could.
Desperate not to be smashed into a volcanic cliff that looked nearby, she swam for a cave even as her muscles protested their treatment. Swept through it, she found herself in the middle of a mangrove forest and made her way between the flooded trees until it had given way to more muck then water. Eventually though, even crawling was too much and she had collapsed.
Now though, Grace slowly got to her feet as she also being woken up by a massive boom that shook the ground beneath her. "Okay, Grace, come on... No pain, no gain..." Leaning against a tree, she took a deep breath as she tried to ignore how every part of her ached. Checking herself over, Grace let out a sigh as she realized that her Sat phone was still on her belt and in the waterproof case. As she grumbled, Grace took it out of the case and examined it. "Okay... Still working. Owen might not let me live it down, but I guess he knew his stuff... first things first though, got to find some place with reception."
Sighing as every part of her body felt like just laying back down in the mud, Grace began to track through the trees...
With a snarl as he rushed into the control room to the sound of alarms blaring, Dodgson glared at the nearest tech. "What the hell just happened!?" Attempting to tell him as she also tried to do her work, the tech wasn't fast enough as Dodgson grabbed her. "WHAT JUST HAPPENED!"
A chuckle caused him to drop her as he turned toward his head of security. "It was Willis, Lewis. Bastard slipped something into the mainframe and shut down all the safeties on the geothermal powerplant. That boom? That was it going up from the pressure in the pipes getting too high."
Since he now had a target, Dodgson stalked up and shoved a finger into the man's chest. "He was one of your men, Murphy! You guys cleared him for the project! How the fuck did you not realize what he was going to do!?"
However, the man only watched the screen with a blank look as he grunted. "Willis must have been undercover for years now, Lewis. And we only know that it was a two part program, so he must have slipped the other half in months ago. Can't be from a private concern, so must be a government. In which case there was no way for us to know."
Dodgson didn't care though as he growled. "It's still your fuck up, Murphy. Fix it!"
Narrowing his eyes, James Murphy glared at Dodgson who flinched back a bit. "I've already sent teams out after him and until we got the backups online, we're on emergency power-" He was cut off by a new series of alarms. "Report!"
One of the techs gulped and turned. "It's the program sir, we're getting cascading failures across the island! Backup generators also failing, engineering teams report that there were small explosions inside them! They're reporting that they must have been sabotaged!"
Face pale, Dodgson turned toward his head of security. "That means that the assets..."
His lips in a thin line, Murphy slowly nodded. "They'll be able to get out..."
As the lights became red, two workers near one of the pens paused after having sent a cow through the chute to it's death. "What the hell is happening?"
Looking around, the other frowned and shook his head as his eyebrows furrowed. "Some kind of test? Or maybe a drill?" Hearing a screech, he blinked and looked at the chute only for his eyes to widen as the indicator lights for the bottom chute door, made to close as soon as the cow was through, were off. "SHIT!"
Surprised, his fellow worker turned toward him from where he stood in front of the chute. "What is it?!"
It was then that he heard flapping and scratching and turned around in time for claws to grab him and drag him screaming into the chute. Not even caring, the other worker began to run down the hall as the screaming was cut short. Even the sounds of screaching and flapping were now enough to cause him to turn.
Thus, he didn't see the taloned foot attached to a feathered leg grab his head before the sickle claw on it was thrust into his skull...
The shadowed form had come close to the fence through the trees having heard the sound of screaming and explosions. It stood there as the light glinted off it's three horns attatched to an armored skull. However, unfortunitely for everyone else on the island, the creature noticed something. There, on top of one of the normally electrified cables that composed it's fence was a bird.
One that had not been electrocuted to death.
Several moments passed before the creature slowly strode toward the fence, a tongue lashing out from behind a row of massive, dagger-like teeth. Each foot step caused the massive, feet to sink into the wet soil as it kept one sickle claw, easily the length of a man, above the much. It stopped before the fence and briefly touched it, only to back away as it was not shocked.
It continued to back up into the trees even as branches scraped against it's armored back, it's spiked tail smashing other branches aside...
Then it charged toward the fence with a triumphant roar, knowing that the true ruler of the island was about to be free of it's imprisonment...
Having made her way out of most of the mangroves, Grace had climbed up into one to look around. A frown was on her face as she scanned the island she was on. All around her, massive volcanic walls of the caldera she was in rose up and cut the interior off from the exterior. It was then that movement on part of the walls caught Grace's attention. Bringing up her scope, one of the few things she had not lost when she fell overboard, Grace felt her eyes widen as she zoomed in. On one of the switchbacks was a man that was running from what resembled a group of oversized Compys, except they had Stegosaurus plates and spikes on their tail. The man had very nearly reached a vehicle when Grace nearly dropped her scope at what happened next.
One of the dinosaurs opened it's mouth and a tongue shot out over twelve feet and grabbed the man before he was pulled toward the advancing pack. Quickly pulling the scope away from her eyes, Grace tried to calm herself as she shook her head. "What in the fuck was that!?" Several moments passed before she placed the scope to her eyes again, but made sure not to look at where the pack of the creatures she had seen were.
Another bit of movement caught her attention and Grace watched as upriver from her, what looked like a sauropod walk out of the water. However, it looked wrong to her eyes. It had a fin running down most of it's neck which expanded to a mix of a sail and spines on the back. But it's head looked like more like a Spinosaurus and, as she watched, said head lashed out into the tall grass by the shoreline. Moments later, it lifted to reveal a dead goat in it's mouth which it swallowed. "Oh... Owen told me about that whole 'Bigger, more teeth' bullshit, but fuck me..."
Owen was talking with Vivian when his phone rang and he pulled it out to see that the number was that of his sister. With a scowl, he answered it and put it to his ear. "Dammit, Gracy? Where the fuck have you... Wait, what was that?" Slowly, his expression transformed from pissed to worried and he walked quickly over to Lowery. "Okay, okay, just one moment." Pulling it away from his ear, he leaned down to Lowery. "Can you track the call on my sat phone?"
A bit confused, Lowery just nodded. "Yeah... sure, might take me a bit, but I can do that..."
While he worked, Owen brought his phone back to his ear. "Okay, we're tracking you now, Gracy. Now what exactly is going on again?"
Through the speaker, his sister's voice drifted through with a slight bit of panic underlaying it. "I was coming to visit you and wanted it to be a surprise so I didn't call. But by the time I got to the docks in Costa Rica, the last boat had left for the day. Despite that I found a ride with one of the InGen security guys I recognized... bald head and beard... about his fifties?"
Blinking, Owen felt a slight chill go through him as it sounded like one of the InGen soldiers who had taken off with Wu. 'No... it couldn't be...'
However, Grace just continued. "Anyways, he was with some guy named Lewis Dodgson." Another chill went down Owen's back as part of him recognized that name. "The InGen security guy recognized me and I asked if they knew of any more trips out to the island and they said that they were transporting supplies and I could join them. On the way though we encountered a storm and I got knocked overboard, but I'm not sure about that."
As he clinched his hand into a fist, Owen glanced at the map to see that Lowery was narrowing down the source. "What do you mean by that..."
There was a snort on the other end of the phone. "What do you think I mean? Especially with how the boat didn't stop... anyways, I managed to swim to this island and got swept into some caves, coming out inside the island."
Searching his mind for what island it might be, Owen frowned. "Describe it to me..."
He could almost hear his sister's shrug over the phone. "Big, everything that I can see is inside a massive caldera. There's also what looks like a rise in the... east of the caldera and I can just see some buildings there." Grace continued as Owen wrote everything down and Lowery glanced at it. "But we got bigger problems then that, bro."
Now that caused Owen's eyebrow to raise, especially at the tone in her voice. "What do you mean by that?"
Utter silence was on the other end before Grace spoke up. "Owen... I've seen a number of what seems to be genetic hybrids of dinosaurs. A lot of them if what I see is correct. Also, whoever is on this island seems to have suffered one hell of a containment breach because they seem to be everywhere."
Paling, Owen tried to keep his heartbeat down as he had flashbacks to the Indominus. If anything, he got paler as his sister described what she had seen before he grunted. "Grace... listen to me carefully. I will be coming to get you as soon as I can, and I am bringing as much firepower and backup as I can. Stay where you are, I'll be there soon."
Warmth was in in sister's voice as it took on a joking tone. "I know you will, Owe. You always have my back." Several seconds passed before she sighed. "As for staying here, I'll try. But I can't promise anything as if any of those... things get close, I'm going to have to get the hell out of dodge."
Even though he was worried as hell, Owen only took a deep breath and let it out. "Okay... but I'm coming for you." He noticed that Lowery nodded as his sister hung up. "You got her?"
Lowery nodded as he zoomed in. "Yeah, I found the island she's at and it's a perfect match for her description."
A moment later, the Raptor trainer clapped him on the shoulder. "Good, I owe you big time for this, Lowery. And I won't forget it either..." He then turned toward Vivian. "Call up..."
He trailed off as he noticed that she was already on her own computer and making a phone call. "I'll call up the ACU and tell them to get ready and break out the big guns. Hopefully we'll do better this time."
Nodding, Owen rushed off to find Claire and let her know. Especially as he had an idea now of where Wu might be.
It was a sign of Owen's restlessness as the members of the ACU walked into the meeting room that he fidgeted. A moment later though, Claire placed a hand on his shoulder which calmed him some as Lowery finished setting up a projector. Once they were all in, Claire walked to the front of the room. Part of her noted that the female member of the Tun-Si tribe that Gerry and Jess had recommanded for the ACU managed to get through the door closed and was near the back. "I'm not military, so I'll be brief. I've called you all here for volunteers for a rescue mission on a nearby island."
All of the ACU members straightened a bit at that as they were used to missions to rescue tourists who got stuck on nearby dinosaur populated islands. One of them cleared her throat and spoke up. "Ma'am, what's the situation?"
Taking a breath, Claire glanced at Owen and then nodded. "Earlier this morning, Owen received a phone call from his sister, Grace Grady." She ignored the raised eyebrows and the looks toward her tense boyfriend. "Apparently she managed to hop on a boat that she was told was coming to Nublar to surprise Owen with a visit. Being as she's a high level Masrani and InGen employee, she had permission. That said, we know that it was actually a trap as the InGen security member is one of the rogues who headed off with Wu and his team during the incident with the Indominus. The other person with him is none other then what has been reported as Lewis Dodgson."
Hearing the name caused Nima to stiffen a bit in the back. "That hijo de puta is involved?"
Claire only raised an eyebrow at that before she nodded. "He is... now, Miss Grady was tossed off the boat during stormy seas, we suspect on purpose, but managed to survive and reach the nearby island. However... that brings us to the major issue... We suspect that the island is the one where Wu was brought by rogue InGen elements and that they have had a containment failure of some sort. A large number of genetic hybrids have escaped and Miss Grady is now in danger."
For several moments there was utter silence before Meyers, one of the survivors of the ill-fated ACU team who attempted to bring down the Indominus, spoke up with a pale face. "Multiple hybrids..."
Slowly, Claire nodded. "Which why we're asking for volunteers only on this mission. And you will be going in, grabbing Miss Grady and getting out. You are not going to be used to recapture any animals there. If you see Doctor Wu or any of his team, you can capture them as well only if it does not threaten your health." She pretended not to see the dark looks on a number of the troopers' faces. While some blamed her for the Indominus, when it came out that Wu and Hoskins had hijacked the project as a prototype for military dinosaur their ire had switched targets. "I'll say again, you are not going to try and contain anything, you are simply there to rescue someone and get them out. Nothing more, nothing less."
In the back, another ACU member spoke up. "What about anyone else on the island in question?"
There was a thin, grim smile on Claire's face. "We have informed both the American and Costa Rican governments in regard to what we have discovered. I have been personally told that the US military will be visiting the island by no later then tomorrow evening and will contain the incident. However, you may encounter members of the Unidad Especial de Intervención of Costa Rica who I have been told may also arrive on the island at some point in the next two days. In which case, stay out of their way."
Commander Austin had a similar grim smile on his face as part of him imagined what was going to happen before he cleared his throat. "Weapons ma'am? And do we have a map of the island in question?"
Nodding, Claire let out a breath. "Any and all weapons we have are available including the ACU0001 and ACU002 helicopters." More then a few of the ACU members grinned at the thought of seeing the new armed Augusta AW109s they had been given. On the screen behind Claire, Lowery brought up a map of an island which seemed to be inside one massive caldera. "The island in question is Isla del Crepúsculo and is thirty miles West-Southwest of where we are. As you can see, the island has high crater walls falling toward the caldera floor with three sea caves from which a interior river exits. We'll have a patrol boat there keeping watch just in case..."
Grace sat on the tree branch with her legs swinging below her as she looked at the sky above. Several moments of quiet passed before she turned toward the man who was in the tree across from her. "So... Willis, was it?"
The man glanced at her before he looked down at more growling. "Yeah... and no, I'm not telling you my full name either before you can ask."
Crossing her arms across her chest as she huffed and blew a sweaty bang away from her brow. "God... are all you spooks like this?" At the glare she got, Grace rolled her eyes. "My brother was in the Navy SEALs, Willis. I've hung out with some of his old buddies so I can spot someone like you easily. Anyways... what the hell are those things below us?"
With a sigh, Willis looked down at the group of animals that looked like a raptor and a wolf had a drunken one night stand. One of them leapt up with each of it's four legs tipped with a sickle-like claw, only to fall back to the ground. "Those would be Deinonycanis." Seeing the raised eyebrow, he shrugged. "They're genetic hybrids of dire wolves and deinonychus."
For several moments, Grace stared at him and then down at the animals below. "... Why in the fucking hell would they do that!?"
Shrugging, Willis leaned back against the tree trunk even as the seven creatures hissed and growled. "Dogs are easily trained, your brother showed that raptors could be trained. So they figured that mixing one of the largest, most powerful canines with a raptor species would create something easily trained for military applications."
As she felt a headache come on, Grace pinched the bridge of her nose. "Oh for... dogs and humans have co-existed for 10,000 years and probably far longer then that. We've basically adapted to each other to form a symbiosis. Wolves are not easily trained even from cubs... Who the fuck thought that combining the two was a good idea!?"
Willis gave a bit of a grin at her. "Did your brother ever tell you of someone called Vic Hoskins? These were his personal project of sorts." His grin became wider at her groan and the curses that streamed from her mouth at the deceased man. After a few moments, it calmed down and he cleared his throat. "So, uh... any idea how long they might hang around for?"
Raising an eyebrow, Grace looked down and shrugged. "Depends on how stubborn they are or if something else comes by. Easier prey would be one thing they might want, or if there's a bigger predator to scare them off. Either of them would be good in a sense."
While he closed his eyes and groaned, Willis shook his head. "Just great..."
Shifting the tactical vest on him slightly, Owen kept one hand on top of the restrained Blue's head. He leaned back a against the wall of interior fusalage of the helicopter as the Raptor huffed a bit before he looked to where Nima who was watching him. "By the way... thanks for backing me up there with bringing Blue and Roxanne along."
Nima only raised an eyebrow as she looked up at him with a shrug. "Both Jess and Gerry vouched for both of you and the Raptor. That's good enough in my book." Glancing toward a shifting Rexy, she raised an eyebrow. "You okay over there?"
With a grunt, the transformed T-Rex crossed her arms as she shifted position best she could with the straps holding her down. "Yes, just hate flying."
All Nima did was shake her head a bit before she turned back to Owen and nodded toward his rifle. "Interesting choice for a rifle."
Chuckling, Owen smirked a bit. "Yeah, well, the Marlin 1895' may not be too fancy. But it's rugged and simple, perfect for what I need." He then tapped the barrel. "Besides, it's made to drop big animals like bison at several hundred yards, and with dinosaurs that's what you need."
There was a slight smirk on Nima's face as the helicopter shook some. "I'm not disagreeing. Give me a good hunting rifle or shotgun over what the ones that the rest seem to be using. Still... at least it seems that Masrani outfits their people better then InGen did during the original park."
Even though the events around the first park were generally unknown, Owen was still somewhat interested to hear about some of the details. "So then, what did InGen give out their troops during the first park?" Catching the look from Nima, Owen shrugged. "Call me curious and we got time to spend before we arrive."
With a nod, Nima laughed a bit. "You won't believe this, but they gave the rescue squads that came to look for survivors AK-47s for their main weapons."
Utter silence met her as Owen tried his best to process that. "AK-47s... they gave their original security forces AK-47s to use against dinosaurs...?" At Nima's nod, he only shook his head. "Don't get me wrong, they're good guns but probably not my first choice against a dinosaur of any real size."
It was then that the pilot leaned out of the cockpit. "We're about fifteen minutes out."
Once more placing his hand on Blue's head, Owen slowly nodded. "Thanks." Looking down as Blue looked back up at him and softly whined, the trainer gave a grim smile. "Don't worry, girl. We'll let you stretch you legs soon enough..."
Claire frowned as he looked over at the screen which had Tim on it. Said person looked under a lot of stress as he drank from a glass of water. "So you're telling me that you suspect that the Feds may be involved?"
Grimly, Tim nodded as he massaged the side of his head. "It's too much of a coincidence after I got in contact with them. Especially as Biosyn's offices are getting raided by FBI agents across the country and I have sources that their offices in other countries are also getting seized by police forces. This is too coordinated to be anything but planned out well in advance."
There was a thoughtful expression on Simon's face as he considered this. "Biosyn has been in trouble since the rabies debacle in Chile. If they've been investigated since then, it makes sense..." However, Simon trailed off as Tim's expression became more grave as he received something on his computer. "Tim?"
All Tim did was hold up a hand. "Give me a moment..." After a few seconds, Tim held his face in his hands before he turned toward Claire. "I'm going to warn you now, I've just been informed that there's an entire MEU on it's way to the island. One that apparently just happened to be close by when they got their marching orders."
Neither Claire nor Simon believed that for a second before the red haired woman cleared her throat with a frown. "They know that we have the ACU performing a rescue mission, correct?"
With a frown, Tim sighed. "I've informed them as such as I am sure that Simon did as well." Masrani's owner nodded with a frown on his own face. "They've stated that they have no issue with that, though we should expect a team to make sure that we aren't attempting to pull a fast one on the military. So please warn them when they get back that some people will be interviewing them."
Despite the unease in her gut at the idea that they had no control over what was going on, Claire nodded. "I will be informing them..."
James Murphy raged as he entered the control room, one of the few areas of the island with any electricity. "WHERE THE FUCK IS DODGSON!?"
One of the techs jumped and looked at another nervously before he pointed toward another door. "He, um, said that needed to make a call on a sat phone and went down that hallway." Flinching some at the glare he got, the tech swallowed. "He hasn't come back yet..."
Several seconds passed as James' frowned in thought. 'Sat phone? Why would he go...' His eyes suddenly widened and his face went red with rage. "THAT SON OF A BITCH!" Running out of the control room, James' rushed down the hallway only to stop at the sight of one of the small armories open. One of the shelves contained what looked like black, metal boxes the size of shoeboxes which had a flaring cone at one end. They were all hooked up to chargers except for one that was missing. "You fucking bastard..." With a snarl, he brought his radio up to his mouth. "This is Murphy here, if any of you see Dodgson, you are ordered to detain the son of a bitch. Even if that means putting a bullet in his ass."
A moment later though, one of the team leaders came over the radio as James ran toward the nearby garage. "Sir? D-Team, we encountered Willis approximately six minutes ago with an unknown. Tried to capture both, but they split up... We lost Seth going after the female who lead him toward where Dilophospinus were."
His eyes narrowed, James' scowled. "And Willis?"
While he continued to jog into the garage, he received news that caused him to nearly throw the radio. "We lost him as well, Sir. Jack, Ann, and Elric are all dead... all shot and we know that Willis didn't have any weapons visible."
That caused James' to still as his anger became cold. "Did any of you hear any gunshots."
It took a moment and James knew that the Lieutenant was looking at the others before he answered. "No, Sir, no gunshots were heard. We didn't even know that they were dead until we stumbled across their bodies having been hidden in the underbrush."
Eyes shut, James attempted to calm himself for several moments. 'Not just corporate espionage then...'
However, his thoughts were then interrupted by another team calling in. "This is F-Team, we discovered a abandoned car here, Sir... It was wrecked and it looks like it was Dodgson's personal vehicle."
A savage grin crossed James' face. "What wrecked it and where's Dodgson?"
There was a beat before the team answered. "We found a Pachyceratops and we could see that it had a piece of one of the doors on it's horn before we drove it off. As for Dodgson, he's no sign of him and... wait, Sir, do we have any helicopters out?"
Confused, James blinked. "No, we don't have any-"
Suddenly the team came back over the radio. "IT'S A JURASSIC WORLD HELICOPTER! SHOOT IT DOWN, SHOOT IT DOWN!"
Another team member began to shout over the gunfire. "LOOK OUT! IT'S ARMED AND-"
The transmission suddenly cut off and James shouted into the radio. "F-TEAM! REPORT!" All he got was static before he shouted into it again. "REPORT F-TEAM!" When no answer came though, he scowled and nearly threw the damn thing. "Fuck... can this get any worse..."
Just then another transmission came over the radio. "Extraction Team... Sir, we got bad news, as we were evacuating the geneticists to the roof helipad, some of the Velocirapteryx managed to break through the roof entrance... we lost some of the eggheads..."
This time James actually threw the radio in rage.
Getting out of the helicopter, Owen removed the muzzle from Blue and looked around the mangrove area as water sloshed around their ankles. Behind them, Nima and Rexy also left the helicopter behind as it lifted off. "Okay, Blue... can you smell her? She smells like me."
Blue turned her head in various directions as she took a deep sniff, her claws digging deep into the mud before she chirped. "{I have her, daddy.}" She leapt onto one of the mangrove roots and smelt it. "{She went this way!}"
With a grin, Owen shifted his tactical vest a little along with his gun. "She's signalling she's got the scent."
Raising an eyebrow, Nima glanced at Blue who hopped from one foot to the other impatiently. "Pretty useful that. Well... let's get going." Pulling her machete out, Nima glanced around at the bird calls. "Tide's coming in again, so we hopefully won't lose the scent."
A moment later, she looked at Blue who seemed to snort at the idea. Owen just gave the Raptor a look, but nodded. "I don't think that she'll lose the scent. After all, a pack of Raptors did follow Doctor Grant and a group of people across Sorna, even when they went down a river."
Simply nodding, Nima took point and slashed through some of the undergrowth as they made their way through them, Blue leading them. Meanwhile, Rexy walked up beside Owen and softly growled. "Smell many things... some of them are wrong."
Humming, Owen glanced at the sky as he listened to the radio, including ACU0002's group who reported being fired upon and firing back. Moments later they stated that the threat was neutralized which caused Owen to nod. "Yeah... this entire island is wrong..."
Up above them, clouds began to slowly gather...
