Chapter 21: Extermination
Outside the Bunker
Dimitri, Scott, Erik, and Stephanie stood right outside the building where the bunker was hidden. They had decided to split up and search for Andrew and Dalton, but be back at the building in fifteen minutes regardless. Dimitri pleaded with Scott to stay in the bunker, but he was insisted on helping to make up for his wrongdoings. Dimitri knew he was only doing it to prove he wasn't scared of Hannah.
"Fifteen minutes," Erik reminded the group. "Andrew and Morgan Bruer went west after leaving the trailer. Dalton went south." Stephanie and Erik went south and Dimitri and Scott left west.
Dimitri and Scott continued down the trail until the trail appeared to disappear. More and more trees replaced the trial they were walking on. "We should turn back," Dimitri suggested. "If we go any further, we might not be able to find our back."
"If we go back know, we save ourselves, but we also leave Andrew to die. I don't know him, but if he's your friend, he's my friend, which means we have to do everything in our power to help him. We keep moving forward."
Dimitri reluctantly continued moving forward until Scott raised his hand, motioning for them to stop moving. "You go that way, I'll go this way, we meet back here if five minutes. Go."
Scott began to walk in his direction before Dimitri could respond. Dimitri shrugged and went the other way. Scott walked for two minutes until stopping in a field. Hannah Carnivalli was standing at the end of it. "You say me. I'm glad you came instead of turning around like a cared kitty."
"I'm not a coward," Scott insisted. "You want a conversation, I'll give you a conversation, but if you want a fight, I'll give you a fight."
"Tempting, but I think all I want to do is shoot you dead." Hannah pulled out her handgun and pointed it at Scott. Scott remained motionless, which confused Hannah. Scott had plenty of time and plenty of space to move while Hannah took the gun out, but he didn't take it. Hannah saw a why. They were in Stegosaurus territory and stegosaurus are extremely territorial.
Hannah dropped her handgun and the stegosaurus tail came swooping down on her. She dodged just in time for Scott to tackle her from, behind. "Are you done with this foolishness?"
"On the contrary, my dear Scott," she said ans she kicked him in the stomach, "This foolishness is just getting started." Hannah Hopped back up and got into fighting position. Scott regained composure and did the same. Hannah went in for the first punch. Hannah always did the same move so it was easy for Scott to duck down. Hannah immediately took her elbow and hit him across the face, a move that she had never used until now.
"You're pulling out all the stops."
"And you're holding back."
"Fine," Scott decided. "You want me to stop going easy on you? Then I won't say anything about the stegosaur's tail behind you." Hannah turned around to see the tail coming at her horizontally this time. She tried to duck, but the tail was to low to the ground and hit her anyways. Hannah flew across the field and landed against a tree. The pain was so intense that even Scott could feel it.
"Well, I guess my work here is done," Scott grinned as he turned to walk away. The stegosaur turned around to. He was now facing the injured Hannah. She couldn't stand up and at least one of her arms were broken. She was a sitting duck for the stegosaur to drag out of his territory.
"Curse me for being so kind and giving," Scott whispered as he ran back to the stegosaur's field. The stegosaur reached for Hannah's leg with his mouth until Scott ran between them, his arms spread out wide.
"What are you doing?"
"Don't question my generosity," Scott ordered. The stegosaur looked at Scott for a few seconds. "Look. I don't want to start any problems with a dinosaur and I don't want to go back to Maryland or Georgia in a casket where my tombstone would read "Here lies that guy who was killed by a vegetarian." I just want to take my friend out of your territory to safety. Can you understand that?"
Scot didn't quite understand what was going through his head. Why could a dinosaur understand humans? Domesticated animals can to an extent, but that's becuase they have a had social interactions since birth. When was the last time this stegosaurus saw a human? Suddenly, the stegosaur began to nod his head. Scott smiled and began to pick Hannah, her only good arm slung across his shoulders and limping on her good leg.
"You didn't have to do that for me."
"Yeah," Scott replied. "Yeah, I did."
Boat
Dalton had hoped that he lost Darren back at the fence. He took the path he knew Erik must have taken to arrive safely at the trailer and it was only a short time until he found the boat still tied to the dock that Darren, Erik, Andrew, and Dimitri arrived on. Dalton give Isla Sorna a good wave goodbye before boarding the ship. "I'm sorry to all of you left on the island, but I did not ask you to follow me. My mission it to protect Michelle's memory and that is more important than any of you."
"How touching," came Darren's voice from behind him. Dalton made a quick 180 to find himself staring down Darren's gun again, but this time there was no fence and Noah's Tablet was clearly in his hands. Darren's hands were red and bloody. He couldn't find the hole in the fence and he actually climbed it. "I'm a nice guy. You know that, so you can give me the tablet and I'll let you walk off this boat alive. You can go back and take the helicopter."
"Only Morgan knows how to fly it, and chances are she took it already."
"Well, then," Darren continued, cocking his gun, "It looks like that makes your job harder. I'm sure you can find a boat somewhere here or better yet, you can find the governor and plead for mercy and see if they'll take you home."
"If I don't go home with this tablet, I don't go home at all."
"That can easily be arranged. I will count to three. If the tablet isn't on that table by then, I will shoot you, you will fall off the edge into five feet of water and you'll most likely drown unless you can figure out someway to salvage yourself." Dalton didn't move.
"One." Dalton didn't even flinch. "Two." Dalton still remained motionless. "Three." Dalton still showed no signs of moving, so Darren pulled the trigger and the bullet zoomed out of the barrel and right into Dalton's shoulder. Just as Darren predicted, Dalton tumbled over the rail and into the water, dropping the Tablet on the floor. Darren didn't even bother to check on how well Dalton was doing as he was already turning the boat on, turning it back around towards Maryland.
St. Virgil's Hospital
"Lieutenant Governor Madison?" the woman at the reception desk ask. "Weren't you here earlier to see Max Gibson?"
"Yes I was," he replied candidly. "Now I'm here with FBI agent Eddie Harold to see a man named Ramon Avila. He's checked himself in today."
"No one by that name checked in today."
"He's using an alias," Eddie continued. "Jose Colon. Is he here or is he not?
The receptionist looked through the logs on the folder on her desk for a moment. "Yes he is. He is staying in room 284." The receptionist led Benji and Eddie down the hallway, up the elevator, and down another hallway, and into a room. Ramon Avila was on the bed inside and he didn't seem all too happy to either either of them.
"This is kind of like cheating," Ramon said. "You are supposed to catch my daughter on your own merit. You can't just keep coming to me for more clues. It insults your intelligence."
"Does it really?" Eddie asked. "Because my intelligence says that you know more about Piper's plan, past, and more importantly, current location than you've already told us. Start talking or I will get a court order to start unplugging some of these fancy machines.
"You should know by now that my daughter is waiting in this city. You would not be here if you did not know that. You know she has returned to this city to pick up Noah's Tablet from the former InGen employee Darren Sutter or Dalton Furrelle, which mean the most likely spot is at a pier.
"That's too obvious for Piper," Eddie pointed out, "Still, I have FBI and local police scouting out all the ports in Annapolis and Sutter's home town of Bethesda. We also have his wife detained, but the DA is breathing down my neck to let her go becuase she hasn't committed a crime."
"You're reaching," Ramon pointed out. "Piper is right under your nose and you are completely missing her.I know where she was, but she has already left it by now knowing that I would come here after visiting her. It's apartment 135 at the Chandler Plaza."
"Benji, call Dana and have you meet her there. I'm going to call the judge and see if I can do anything else to Mr. Avila so he can spill some more beans."
Trail
"The trailer's not here," Morgan observed. "Adam Baylin. You said his trailer was here. It's not here now. Where is it?" Morgan groaned. "I guess Adam caught wind of the situation over at Dalton's trailer. Well, whatever happened, it means we have no other choice but to return to the trailer and get back on the helicopter before those raptors come back."
"We can't!" Andrew yelled. "Those raptors must a have a tight perimeter around the area now. We left everything behind. The raptors know someone will be bound to come back for something. I don't want that to be us."
"We have no other choice," Morgan replied sternly. "Unless you have any other ideas, the helicopter is our only way off this island before the other dinosaurs pick us off little by little. Let's go."
Morgan took the lead, but after a few second, turned around, noticing that Andrew wasn't behind her. He was still standing in the same spot, seemingly brooding over an idea. Morgan didn't want to waste any more time than they had already wasted. "Let's go! If you don't have another plan, then we have no choice. We have to take the chance."
"It's not our only chance!" Andrew blurted out. Morgan looked at him with extreme interest. "I lied to you. I'm not from Adam Baylin's team. Adam Baylin doesn't exist. My name is Andrew Rayburn. I'm a junior at Adams High School in Annapolis, Maryland. I snuck onto Erik Maximoff's boat becuase I sympathized with your cause and wanted to join you, but I changed my mind after finding out none of you even cared about the dinosaurs."
"Andrew, what are you saying?"
"I got into contact with Dimitri Maximoff about an hour ago and he told me about Dalton Furrelle's past, which I used against him, causing the raptor attack. I caused it so that the helicopter is off limits, but we still have the boat I came in on. If we can find the governor, she'll take us back with her. I'm sure of it."
"I'm not going to jail," Morgan replied. Her words and demeanor were now almost exactly like Lance Savarin when Dalton fired him. "My parents don't know I'm here. I plan to keep it that way. Either I go back on that helicopter or I don't go back at all. I'd rather die in some foreign land than have my name tarnished on the Bruer family tree."
"It's not worth it, Morgan. You have to go home safely."
"Good bye, Andrew," she said solemnly as she she ventured back into the wooded area from which she in through.
Street
Kyle hadn't said a word in over half an hour. Every single word that came out of Blake Masters mouth was still resonating in his mind and he couldn't fathom how deep his mother was in on all of it. It was so far fetched, but he knew how smart his mother was. If there was a way to make that Tablet work without finding out whee that necessary bloodline is, she would figure it out.
Piper was behaving almost equally. She saw great promise and intelligence in her son as they drove down the street, which became the only thing she feared in the entire mission. He was smart enough to organize a meeting with on of her lackey's without her knowledge. No one had ever done that before. Now he knew almost everything about Noah's Tablet and he was both smart enough to put it all together , and yet no evil enough to use it for sadistic reasons.
Kyle's expression was one of disgust towards his mother. The day had rapidly changed him and now he wasn't sure who to trust. He knew he wasn't going to trust the FBI. Eddie Harold had already proven to him on two separate occasion how little he cares for the Norvell family's well being and is only interested in the bottom line. Dana Tomlinson seemed to him passive and indecisive. His mother was the only person he knew with a clear plan of action and he was finding himself disagreeing with it.
"Where are we going?"
"You should know that by now," Piper replied to her son. "After talking with Blake Masters, you should know everything. As a matter of fact, why don't you tell me where I'm going."
Kyle sighed in boredom and disappointment. "We're going to meet up with either of Dalton Furrelle or Darren Sutter, whichever one has the Tablet. Unless either of the them try anything funny, you'll pay them what you promised them. Dalton you trust to be honest with you, but he would rather go one way in his own mission than this. Sutter is more likely to retrieve it, but is also more likely to double-cross you."
"And what am I going to do with it?"
"You're going to flood the world becuase you're a sadistic bitch like that."
"Goos," his mother replied, pleased with his answer. "Soon, you'll learn to be one, too."