A/N: Hey guys! I just wanted to say, thanks for the reviews on the story! I love reading what you guys think. Your reviews are a great factor in what helps this story going! So, I decided, since this is chapter 20, and I've been wanting to do this for a while, I'll start responding to some of the reviews. So, yeah...
Jack905: Don't worry, they will burn!
Guest 2: I hate villains, too. Well, not all the time. It depends to me on how stupid they are. You know, like if they're the ones that reveal their whole plan in ten minutes, instead of just taking action and full filling their plan. Man, I hate those kinds of villains, then again, isn't that what every villain does? XD
Cat girl: It's just some random chick that I decided to put into the story. But, she might return for more. Also, tell me the O.C idea. I love hearing my turtles tell me their ideas!
Mayhem in Jurassic Park
So, a lot has happened over the past few days this week. To make it short, the Grady family arrived on the island, Styler and Ortiz made Alice's hit list, and Owen and the others found a mysterious list with numbers, and some of the numbers circled in red. Get ready for answers, well, a few that is.
It was now Saturday, the day Claire, Owen, Lowery, and Ryan were going to inspect the old Visitor Center to see if they could find anything that would help them with the mystery of the drop off bag. Lowery took a handbag, and Ryan took a camera. They got into Claire's Mercedes Benz and drove off to the old Visitor Center. They arrived at around noon time, and Lowery found the place really eerie. The old Visitor Center was up, but in shambles. It was darkened over time and there was mass amounts of foliage that greatly spread all over the building. It was the perfect place for a horror movie to be shot at. And, it was the perfect place to hide something, or someone.
Lowery felt chills run all over his body as he and the others slowly approached the old building.
"Guys, do we really have to do this?" asked Lowery as he took a small step back.
"Lowery," said Claire, "are you scared right now?"
"Not scared, just, nervous."
Ryan rolled his eyes at Lowery and then said, "Lowery, would it make you feel better if we held your hand?"
Lowery looked at Claire and Owen, who had smiles on their faces, and then said, "You know what? Let's just go inside and get this over with."
The four of them were now standing in front of the entrance doors and Owen was slightly surprised that the doors were closed. Last time he and Claire were here, Alice had attacked them, and they left the door open.
"Think somebody's home?" asked Lowery.
"Seems like it," replied Owen.
"How can you tell?"
"Well, last time I was here, Claire and I were running away from Alice, and we left one of the doors open."
"Hm, well, let's just step in now, shall we?" asked Ryan.
Owen and Ryan opened the doors and everyone stepped inside. The lobby was dark, with small streaks of sunlight piercing through the skylight, giving them limited visibility, but enough so that they could get around.
This place, was the Visitor Center for Jurassic Park. When it was still in its final stages before opening to the world, back in nineteen ninety-two, John Hammond brought over Alan Grant, Ellie Sattler, Ian Malcolm, and Donald Gennaro to get it inspected and to get their positive words so that the park could open officially to the world. The Visitor Center back then was vibrant and full of life. Now, the fact that it's been twenty-two years, really shows. The aftermath of the battle between Rexy and the raptors remains, with the skeletons of the T-Rex and the Brachiosaur destroyed. The stairs leading to the upper level were surprisingly still intact, but Alice broke off a piece of the upper level when she was chasing Owen and Claire through the Visitor Center. Patches of grass were spread out on the floor. Branches were sticking out of small cracks in the wall. Vines were coiling around pillars and up walls, looking like a bunch of snakes coiling around each other. Like mentioned before, it was a place were the perfect horror movie could be done.
"So," began Claire, "where do we start?"
"Let's head to the lab," replied Lowery, "maybe we'll find something in there."
"That sounds like a good start," said Ryan.
The group then began to go their way to the lab.
Ian was walking through Main Street as he noticed a bunch of kids and adults near the entrance of the Innovation Center. Ian walked toward the group and was approached by his mother.
"Ian, what are you doing here?" she asked.
"I was just going to walk around here and probably visit the lab," replied Ian, "What's going on?"
"Well, all these kids are from an orphanage that got enough money to bring the kids here for a week and a half. We're separating some of the kids with the adults to show them around. Whichever kids are assigned to an adult, then they have to stick with the adult for the whole time they're here."
"Oh, well, is there a way I can help?"
"Uh, I don't know. You sure you want to help out?"
"Yeah. I love kids."
"Okay, let me talk to one of the caretakers and see if I can at least get one kid assigned to you."
Ian's mom walked over to one of the caretakers and then began to talk with them. Ian wondered what his mom was telling the person. Ian was surprised when he saw the person smile and then pointed out one of the kids. Ian's mom then brought over a little girl, who was four and a half feet in height, had pale skin, light blue eyes, rosy cheeks, and straight, long, straight black hair, which she kept in a high ponytail. The girl was wearing a dull turquoise unstructured sweater with a hot pink tank top, a light blue skater skirt with brown belt and dark gray leggings, along with black hiking boots. She was also carrying a vintage hiking backpack.
Ian was slightly nerved at seeing how this girl's face was expressionless, emotionless, just plain nerve wracking.
"Ian," began his mom, "this little girl here is Sarah Hopper. She's ten years old."
Ian put a big smile on his face when he bent over a little and said, "Hi Sarah, my name is Ian Grady."
Sarah didn't look up at Ian, or even put a small smile on her face. Ian arched an eyebrow and looked at his mom for an answer.
"Uh, Sarah is a little...er, mute."
"Oh, okay."
Ian wondered why Sarah was mute, but didn't want to go deep into it because she probably has some kind of tragedy behind her expressionless face.
"Well, Sarah. I hope that you and I can get to know each other a bit better. Since, I assume, you're going to be hanging out with me during your time here."
"Yeah, you are," said Ian's mom.
"Great! Come on Sarah."
Ian waited for Sarah to move, but she didn't budge. Ian then placed his hand on Sarah's hiking backpack and then gently dragged her along.
Owen and the others arrived at a room that had a small projection screen, and a few rows of red chairs, with lock bars in front of them. They walked down the rows and saw a door on the other side, maybe it led to the lab. They then began to head towards the door, when suddenly, the projector turned on, and John Hammond appeared on the screen, scaring everyone. The screen would faze and jitter a bit, with John Hammond's words being strangely cut and fidgeted. Claire looked at the projected man in front of her and then noticed that the lock bars were lowering. The group was then trapped onto the chairs, as John Hammond began to speak to them, and then Mr. DNA appeared and told them about how they recreated the dinosaurs. Then, the projector turned off, but Mr. DNA's voice continued to speak, as the room began to rotate. They saw the lab. The lab was barren, empty, and dead. It was dark, but, there seemed to be a small crack of light coming from somewhere inside the room. Claire saw something out of the corner of her eye in the lab and then said, "Hold it! There's something in the lab!"
"Oh, that's what you're focusing on right now?" asked Lowery as he tried lifting the lock bar off of him.
"How are these bars still durable?" asked Owen.
"On three, we all lift," said Ryan, "One, two...three!"
Then, everyone, with all their might, began to lift up on the bars, and they succeeded in getting the lock bars off of them. They then headed for the lab as quick as possible. When they arrived, the lab seemed the same as they saw it a few minutes ago. Claire began to look around to see if she could find what she saw from the other room. Ryan began taking pictures around the room, with the flash lighting up the room every few seconds. Claire reached the end of the lab and found what she had saw, and she gasped loudly at seeing what it was. Lowery then stood next to Claire and his eyes widened at seeing what Claire had found.
"Uh, guys, I think you might want to come and see this," said Lowery.
Owen and Ryan walked over to where Claire and Lowery were and were shocked at what they saw. It was impossible. It shouldn't have been possible. This was what Ortiz and Styler had found a few days back. This was what would bring Ortiz's downfall. It couldn't be real, but it was. It...was...a...egg. Claire hoped that this was just a figment of her imagination. Owen hoped that it was a hollow egg. Lowery hoped that it was just a replica of an egg. Ryan hoped that it wasn't real.
"Everyone else can see the egg on the table right?" asked Lowery.
Everyone nodded their heads and then continued to stare at the egg. The egg was sitting in a nest. There was really nothing else to it. It was a pretty big egg, meaning that there had to be something big inside.
"Is there something in there?" asked Ryan as he then took a picture of the egg.
"Well, if there is something in there," began Claire, "it must be dead by now."
"No," said Owen, "it's not possible. Whatever's inside would have hatched and then died short after."
"Unless, there's nothing inside at all," added Lowery.
Owen looked at Lowery and arched an eyebrow.
"Sh! Listen," said Ryan.
Then, a faint beeping could be hurt. Owen walked in the direction of where the beeping was coming from. As he walked forward, the beeping would get louder, and louder. he then saw something covered in foliage, and pulled all the leaves and vines off, revealing a heart rate monitor.
"Well, given this monitor, I think whatever's inside that egg...is alive," said Owen.
"What do we do?" asked Claire.
"Let's find out what's inside the egg," replied Lowery.
"Okay. Claire, you and Lowery stay here and try and find some kind of file that can tell us what's inside the egg. Ryan, you and I are going to check out a little bit more of this place," said Owen.
"All right," said Ryan as he walked over to Owen.
"Lowery, you've got your radio handy, right?"
"Yeah I do."
"All right."
Owen and Ryan stepped out of the room and left Lowery and Claire to look for some kind of file on what was inside the egg.
Ian decided to take Sarah to the petting zoo so that she could pet some of the small dinosaurs. Ian and Sarah approached a fence, and saw all the small apatosauruses, triceratops, and gallamimus running around.
"So, Sarah," began Ian, "you want to pet one of these girls, or maybe get on one and ride it around?"
Sarah didn't reply. She just stared blankly at the dinosaurs.
"Uh, Sarah," said Ian, "you there?"
Ian began to snap his fingers in front of her face, but, again, he got nothing. Sarah was going to be hard to get along with, but Ian had patience, at least a little bit.
"Well, how about we try going back to the Innovation Center and seeing the holographic dinosaurs, or maybe even visiting the lab?" Ian asked.
Sarah didn't respond, making Ian sigh in defeat. He then gently dragged Sarah along, again.
Ryan and Owen arrived at the computer room of the old Visitor Center and began to search the place. Ryan was checking the computer screens to see if they were on, and to his surprise, there was a computer screen that was on. He called Owen over and then said, "Seems like somebody was using this computer recently."
"Yeah, but who?" asked Owen.
"Beats me."
Ryan then scanned the rest of the room. All the other computers were off. Ryan then spotted a faint light coming from a distant room. He then walked over to one of the circular windows and saw that where the light was coming from was from a room with a door that said, 'Embryonic Room. Keep Cold.' Ryan decided to investigate and both he and Owen went over to the door. Owen opened the door with ease and then shivered at the instant cold that hit him.
"So, this is where they kept the embryos for the old park, huh?" asked Ryan.
"Sure looks that way," said Owen as he walked into the room.
Ryan stepped up to one of the tube-like embryonic chambers and lifted the lid, revealing the impossible.
"Uh, Owen," said Ryan, "look at this."
Owen turned and saw what Ryan was looking at. It was embryos, dozens of them. Some, however, were missing.
"Man, things just keep getting weirder and weirder," said Owen, "I wonder if Claire and Lowery found anything."
Claire and Lowery were still searching for a file on the egg that they had found, but no such luck. Lowery kept staring at the monitor, trying to figure out something. There was one thing on the monitor that caught Lowery's eye.
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What could it mean? Lowery then heard Claire say that she found something. Lowery walked over to Claire, who was holding a manila folder in her hand. She opened it and saw one sheet of paper inside. It was information on what was inside the egg.
"Oh. My. God," said Claire as she read the name of what was inside the egg.
"What?" asked Lowery.
"Look."
Lowery read over the file and realized what Claire had read. The thing inside of the egg...was an-
"Indominus Rex?" asked Lowery.
"It-It's not possible," said Claire as she backed up and leaned against the wall.
"Seems like it's possible."
"What are we going to do?"
"I don't know."
Lowery looked at the folder again and noticed another sheet of paper. He read over it and was confused by what he read. The paper had information about creatures that were literally half human, and half dinosaur. What the heck? Who would try experimenting with stuff like this?
"Claire, there's something else here. It seems like someone was trying to create human hybrid dinosaurs," said Lowery as he walked over to Claire and showed her what was on the on the paper.
Claire was astonished by the file.
"Who would do such a thing like this? How do we even know if this is even real? What if someone is trying to scare us off by telling us that they dealt with making human hybrid dinosaurs?"
"Once again Claire, this is not a Scooby-Doo episode. This is real life."
"Lowery, it doesn't make sense. It just doesn't."
"Well, then, what are we going to do?"
Claire thought for a few seconds, until she said, "I know that this might sound crazy, but, we're going to have to take the Indominus egg with us."
"Claire, do you hear yourself right now? You're talking about taking a Indominus to the park. We already have one, don't you think two would be a bit much?"
"Lowery, I'm not going to leave the egg here. What if it hatches, and then the Indominus inside grows wild and then one day goes to the park and destroys it?"
"That's a bit exaggerated don't you think, Claire?"
"Lowery, I'm going to take the egg. We're going to have to keep it in your bag though."
"Oh no. There is no way I am going to carry that egg in my bag."
"Would you do it for a Scooby snack?" asked Claire playfully with a smile on her face.
Lowery wanted to lightly smack Claire in the arm, but he also didn't want to get fired. Lowery scoffed at Claire's words and then said, "Could I get another raise?"
"I think I've given you enough raises. Look, we'll discuss something later. Right now, can you please just carry the egg in your bag?"
"Fine, whatever."
Claire and Lowery then walked over to the egg and put the egg in Lowery's bag. Claire took off her blouse and put it in Lowery's bag before the egg, so that the egg would be on something kind of soft.
"Okay, now, let's go find Owen and Ryan and tell them about this," said Claire.
Then, Lowery and Claire heard something strange. It was a kind of strange moan. But the moan sounded human, and animalistic at the same time. Well, actually it was more like the screech of a velociraptor, mixed with a human screaming now.
"What was that?" asked Claire as she gripped Lowery's arm.
"I don't know," replied Lowery.
Then, another moan sounded off, and this time Claire and Lowery turned their attention to the door. What they saw was simply, unreal. It seemed human enough. It was some kind of human, and a velociraptor at the same time. It had a human head, with a small snout and lizard eyes. It had razor sharp talons for fingers, like Alice, and human feet, with the big toe having a six inch retractable claw on it.
"Oh dear God," said Claire, "What is that?"
"It's some kind of human velociraptor," replied Lowery.
"Then the files were true. Someone made human hybrids!"
The human raptor then looked at Lowery and Claire and let out a screech that sounded a lot like a human scream. The hybrid stepped forward and Claire and Lowery took a step back.
"What do we do?" asked Claire.
"We run for it," replied Lowery.
"Good plan."
Once the human raptor was a good distance from the door, Claire and Lowery hit it into full gear and sprinted out of the room, with the human raptor following right behind them. Claire and Lowery soon found Owen and Ryan in the computer room.
"Claire, Lowery, what's wrong?" asked Ryan.
"Human-" said Lowery with each breathe, "Raptor...hybrid...after us!"
"Uh, Claire?" asked Owen.
"There's some kind of half human, half dinosaur, hybrid creature after us. We need to get out of here," replied Claire.
"What?"
"It was some kind of hybrid. Crossed between a human and a velociraptor."
"Are you guys sure you saw a hybrid?"
"Why don't you ask it yourself!"
Lowery was pointing to the doorway, where the human raptor was standing at, letting out its terrifying screams and moans. Owen and Ryan couldn't believe it. Claire and Lowery were right. There was a human hybrid dino on the loose. Owen and the others then began to look for another way out, but they couldn't see one. Owen turned his head and saw the glass that revealed the automated tour room, where they were trapped in earlier. Owen then told everyone to head for the glass, and once they reached it, Owen kicked the glass, shattering it. Owen helped Claire get over and Ryan and Lowery leapt over into the tour room. They proceeded to head toward the lobby, and once they reached the lobby, they were stopped by the human raptor, and another human hybrid. This time, it wasn't a human raptor, it was a human triceratops. It has a broken horn on its forehead, part of the bony frill was gone, and it had human hands. The triceratops human was gray in color, and the raptor was maroon with black stripes. The two hybrids were standing in front of the entrance doors, letting out moans to terrify the group.
"What do we do?" asked Lowery.
"Let's split up," replied Owen.
"What? Owen, are you crazy?"
"Look, we'll split up and then, once we lose these hybrid freaks, we'll regroup outside of the Visitor Center."
"Sounds like a plan," said Ryan.
"Claire, you come with me," said Owen as he grabbed Claire's arm, "Ryan and Lowery you two go together. Claire and I will go that way. You two go the opposite."
"Right."
The group then split and separated. Lowery and Ryan were followed by the triceratops, and Claire and Owen were followed by the raptor. Claire and Owen ended up in the kitchen, while Lowery and Ryan ended up in the computer lab again.
Lowery and Ryan were hiding under the desks, listening closely when the triceratops human would step loudly. Lowery felt his heart rate rise drastically. He never thought he'd be in a ridiculous situation like this. Lowery held his breath for a few seconds when he heard the hybrid step up next to the desk that Lowery was hiding under. Lowery held every fiber in his being not to let out his breath, nor move a single muscle. The human hybrid let out a ghastly moan, and then seemingly stepping out of the room. Lowery then got out from under the desk, and was picked up with the help of Ryan.
"You okay?" Ryan asked the tech geek.
"No, I'm not," replied Lowery.
"What's wrong?"
"I'm puzzled. How the heck can there be two dino-humans walking around? Including the fact that one is a carnivore and the other is a herbivore. What are they after?"
"What if they're after the egg?" asked Ryan.
"What? That's ridiculous. Why would they be after the egg?"
"Well, they seemed to show up after you and Claire took the egg, right?"
"That's true. But, that still leaves the question of why?"
Owen and Claire were sitting near the ovens in the kitchen, when the human raptor walked in, and let out a horrifying screech. The human raptor began walking through the kitchen, sniffing out Claire and Owen, who began to move slowly and quietly every time the hybrid took a step forward. Claire felt a few drops of sweat running down the side of her neck. She took quick, yet quiet breaths, and softly moved forward. Owen felt the room getting hotter, or it was probably just him. He watched as the human raptor would move forward, making both him and Claire move forward. The human raptor then let out a screech and looked over and saw Claire and Owen, and attacked them. The raptor grabbed Claire by her legs, and tried pulling her closer. Claire let out a scream as she began kicking away. Before the human raptor could pull her any closer, she gave a strong right kick, and her three inch heel dug through the hybrid's left arm. The human raptor let out a human yelp, making Claire wonder something. But, before she could think of anything else, Owen picked her up off the ground and they darted out the door.
"And you said that these shoes were ridiculous," said Claire as she and Owen ran down the hallway.
Ian was running out of ideas. He wanted to get at least one smile out of Sarah, but she wouldn't budge her lips on bit. Ian didn't know where else to take her, since the Rex Kingdom and Mosasaurus Bay were closed for the weekend. Ian wanted Sarah to meet Alice, but he couldn't do anything about it. Part of him did want to just take her there, but he didn't want to get in trouble. He was still surprised at how no one approached him about what happened a day ago with Styler. Ian then decided to take Sarah to the lab, to see if she'd find some kind of interest in genetics and the scientists that work in the lab. But, again, Sarah was a tough nut to crack, and she didn't let out any kind of smile or other facial expression. Ian had had enough, and then took Sarah to Alice's paddock. He'd deal with the people who would give him crap later. Ian and Sarah arrived at Alice's paddock, and Ian opened the window, where he and Sarah then sat down on the window ledge. Ian called out Alice's name, and the snow white scaled dinosaur appeared out of the brush in a matter of minutes.
"Hey Alice," began Ian, "how are you doing today?"
The Indominus let out a croon, telling Ian that she's been having an okay day.
"Well, that's good, I guess. Alice, this little girl right here is Sarah Hopper."
Alice stared at the hatchling in front of her and got a little closer and inspected the small one. The little one seemed strange. She didn't seem happy, as the other hatchlings would when they came to see Alice during her shows. Why was this little girl sad? Alice gave a small, concerned croon at Sarah, asking her what was wrong?
Ian turned his head to look at Sarah, and waited to see if Sarah would smile. Sarah didn't smile at all, and Ian let out another defeated sigh.
"Alice, you think you can do something to make Sarah smile, please?" Ian asked.
Alice could think of many ways to get Sarah to say something, like scaring the bejeezus out of her. But, Alice knew that that wasn't the right thing to do at the moment. Alice then thought of something else and retreated back into the brush for a few moments. Ian arched an eyebrow at Alice going back into the brush. What was she going to do? Ian hoped that Alice wasn't going to try and scare Sarah into saying something. Alice then came out of the brush and then lifted up her right hand and opened it, revealing a beautiful, elegant, white flower.
"A lily?" Ian asked.
Alice moved her hand closer to the child and let out a soft chirp, telling Sarah to take the flower. Sarah then began to observe the flower in the Indominus' hand, and then gently picked it up. She brought the lily close to her face and sniffed the white pedals. The flower smelled amazing. Sarah's lips then curled up and formed a big, beautiful smile.
Ian was taken aback and then said, "Sarah, you're smiling! Great!"
Alice let out a croon, telling her that she had a nice smile. Ian mentally smacked himself. If only he had brought Sarah here sooner.
Lowery, Ryan, Owen, and Claire reunited outside of the Visitor Center and got into Claire's car. They drove off as quick as they could.
"So, did any of that help with this whole drop off bag mystery?" asked Lowery.
"No, but a whole other mystery did," replied Ryan.
"Actually, two mysteries," said Claire.
"What?"
"Well, when Owen and I were in the kitchen, I was attacked by the raptor, and when I dug one of my heels into its arm, it let out a scream, that sounded a lot like a grown man."
"Really? Hm, sounds like this actually could be a kind of Scooby-Doo case."
"Ryan," said Owen, "now's not the time for jokes."
"Wait!" said Lowery, "Ryan can be onto something."
"What?"
"What if, now just bear with me, but what if the triceratops and raptor were, two guys in costumes?"
"No, now that is just absurd."
"Well, think about it. You said that when you kicked one of them, it let out a manly scream. What if you actually injured a guy in a weird hybrid costume?"
"Why would somebody dress up as hybrids and attack us?"
"Because they never wanted us to find the egg."
"Well, there's one question answered. But it still leaves why they would care about the egg, and who?"
"That is, if they actually are people dressed in costumes."
"We can conclude that something has been going on right under our noses this whole time, and we didn't know about it until now."
"Let's get back to Main Street. We'll discuss more of this when were not all shook up."
Talk about a discovery; Claire and the others found an egg, an Indominus egg. They discovered that someone had been working some kind of operation underneath their noses. nothing made sense. What was the deal with the drop off bag? What was the whole ordeal with the human-dinosaurs? Why had somebody kept embryos in the old Visitor Center? So many questions! But, at least there was one positive thing for this chapter. Ian met Sarah, and got her to finally utter out a few words! Oh boy, we can't wait to see what's next, right?
A/N: Pelt me with stones later you guys, I know that this doesn't solidly answer questions that have been hovering around in the air, but, patience, my dear turtles. Special thanks to Wanli8970 for giving us the character of Sarah Hopper. Come on now, give them a hand. Anyway, I hope that you guys enjoyed this chapter! I was literally having a Scooby-Doo marathon when writing this, so in a way, it was inspired, or based on the show, or something like that. Stick around for more of this story, and remember to leave reviews, if you feel like it of course.
'Til Next Time!-TM341