Chapter 38: Corruption
After Neo pulled the gun on him, Jake was very suspicious about why he was trying to hide Spike's corpse so badly. Jake tried his usual way to weasel information out of Neo, but this time, Neo wasn't falling for it, he just stayed completely silent, "Fine. I will look at those corpses, one way or another." Jake thought. Neo and Jake were walking back to the house when Megan and the others came running up to them.
Immediately, all the dinos went on guard when they saw the weapons that they all had, "No! No! They're friends! Friends!" Neo said to them. They all backed down, "At first we thought you were kidding when you said you had all those bizarre weapons, but you weren't. These will be good at killing those… (Looks and sees the Megalo and Carno) hybrids‼" Megan yelled.
They all aimed at the Carno first, "NO‼ Don't-" Neo tried to say before they opened fire. Right as they were opening fire with Neo's advanced weapons, the Carno deployed metal armor on its skin, which resisted most of the weapon fire, but eventually, some damage did start to show. The damage was only cosmetic, however.
Then, Neo remembered that they were using weapons he created, so he started snapping his fingers, very quickly snapping with his right, and then his left, then left again, and he did them in a pattern. Once he stopped, all of the weapons stopped firing, and they all powered down, "What the hell?" Megan yelled, shaking the pulse rifle she was holding. Neo walked over, "My weapons, before you opened fire on the Carno, can be deactivated with a finger-snapping pattern. That Carnotaurus Rex is a friend, but he probably isn't now that you tried to kill him." Neo said to them.
All of their eyes opened wide, "Oops." was all Megan said. The Carno retracted his armor, looked at the people, not Neo or Jake, and he snarled at them, "Run‼" Megan shouted. Jake stepped in front of them, "I wouldn't if I were you. You run from him, you die. You get on your knees and surrender, you live. Maybe." Jake said. That final "maybe" didn't fill any of them with confidence.
"Megalo, tell the Carno that these people mean no harm, but they are just naturally defensive against hybrid dinos." Neo said. The Megalo did so, and the Carno looked at them, it looked like it was about to eat them. It gave some snarls at the Megalo, "He said that he will forgive them, but only this once. If they try to kill him again, he will eat them." it translated.
Neo looked at Megan, "Keep that in mind next time. (Turns to Carno) Ask if his armor is damaged other than visually." Neo said to the Megalo. It translated this to the Carno, and he deployed his armor, which was no longer dented. It was completely fixed, "I'll take that as a no." Neo said. Then, a classic Volkswagen Beetle drove by them all, opened its hood, snatched up Neo inside, closed its hood, and then continued driving, "Get that car!" Megan yelled.
Jake put his hand up to stop everyone, "No, don't. I got this. Herbie!" Jake yelled. The Beetle came skidding to a stop. It turned around, and Jake walked towards it, while he made everyone else stay back, "Herbie, don't be afraid of them. They are all friends of me and Neo. Please release him." Jake said to the vehicle. Herbie opened his hood, and Neo stepped out, "Thank you, Jake." he said.
Neo then turned to the VW, "Herbie, if I want you to save me, I'll ask. Go back to the garage, please." Neo said. Herbie obeyed and drove back into the garage. Everyone else came rushing over, "What was that all about?" Megan asked. Neo started to speak, "Oh, nothing. It was just Herbie thinking I was in danger. Usually, we don't let him out much because 1, he's too aggressive of a driver, and 2, if he senses severe danger, mostly to himself and us both, he gets a little bit…" "Vicious." Jake finished.
Neo nodded, "Yeah. If he senses a threat to himself, me, and Jake, he goes from the calm and patient sentient being that he is, to a defensive, yet a powerful killer. And, yes, I DO mean killer. If you become a big threat to him, he will kill you, but he has never gotten to that point because we've kept him inside." he said. Megan was about to say something, but then there was that same ear piercing, prolonged roar.
And, once again, there was One-Eye, "Back so soon?" Neo said to the Rex. One-Eye heard him. Neo looked to the Megalo, "Can you and/or the Carno kill One-Eye?" Neo asked. The Megalo was baring its teeth at One-Eye, "No, we actually cannot. Before I broke myself free, Grim was having severe troubles getting One-Eye to follow his commands, and he had to keep killing him and then recreating him with psychological modifications that he felt would make One-Eye more cooperative. It didn't work." the Megalo said.
Neo looked at him, "Then…how did Grim get One-Eye to go after us?" Neo asked again. "He didn't." the Megalo answered. Neo's eyes opened, "So…One-Eye isn't on Grim's side, but he's also not on our side? He's…wild?" he queried. The Megalo nodded, "Shit. This changes things." Neo thought. Then, Neo retreated, and everyone else followed suit. One-Eye gave a roar—not the ear-piercing one—and he gave chase.
The Indominus roared back at One-Eye while backing away, but Jake told it that it was too dangerous, and it followed after them. As they were running, some Raptors tripped and fell, and One-Eye simply just stepped on them and killed them. Neo saw Central Park ahead, and he got an idea, even though he wasn't 100% sure that it would work perfectly, "Head into Central Park! Once we're inside, split up into groups! He can only chase one group at a time! Once he gives chase after one group, all regroup at the center of the park, and the chased group will lead him to us and we'll all attack him at the same time!" Neo yelled.
The Megalo looked down at him, "Can't we all just attack him now?" it said. "Technically, yes. But if we split up, he won't be expecting it." Neo replied. They all agreed, surprisingly, and they ran into the Park and immediately split up into 5 different groups. The Megalo, Megan, and her friends went straight. A quarter of the Carnos went a little to the right. Neo, the C-Rex, and a quarter of the Raptors went farther to the right. Jake and the other quarter of the Raptors went far to the left. And the other quarter of the Carnos went far to the left, almost turning around.
One-Eye got slightly confused, but he saw Neo with the Carno Rex and Raptors and went after them. At first, Neo was struggling to go faster than One-Eye, but then a Raptor noticed this, and it lowered its head, lifted Neo up, lifted its head up, and Neo did a backward summersault, and he was now riding on the Raptor's back, "Thank you." Neo said to the dino. Everyone else saw One-Eye giving chase after Neo and his group, and the all regrouped at the center of the park, and Neo caught a glimpse of them standing ready at the center, and he looped back around towards the center.
But first, Neo made them do some serpentine-like patterns due to One-Eye's incapability of rapid course correction. It worked. One-Eye got confused, lost Neo, which gave him a few seconds to get the center to wait. He made it, and One-Eye picked up his scent. When he got to Neo, everyone was waiting for him. He stood there, as if thinking, "Neo. If you really want to fight One-Eye properly, think of him as large prey that you're hunting, and…well you'll see." Jake said.
Neo was curious to know what Jake meant, but before he could ask, One-Eye curled up his toes, digging his claws into the ground, and he started sprinting at them all, and the dinos started sprinting at him. Neo thought of One-Eye as his prey, and something mysterious happened. His skin became scaly, feathers emerged all over his arms, his body, and his legs. His skeleton conformed to that of a Deinonychus. His teeth grew sharper. His fingers went from five to four, and his nails turned into claws, and his head changed into the head of a Deino, "Holy shit, I can become a Deinonychus? Sweet! (One-Eye roars) Oh right." Neo thought.
Neo started sprinting. One of the Raptors jumped onto the side of One-Eye, got thrown off, and Neo boosted off of the Raptor and he dug his claws into One-Eye's side as deep as he possibly could. Apparently, Neo's claws were much sharper, because One-Eye let out an incredibly loud howl of pain when he dug them into his skin.
One-Eye tried to turn his head around to grab and throw Neo off, but he knew what One-Eye was trying to do, so he climbed onto the back of his neck, where he couldn't turn his head around that much. As everyone was hurting One-Eye, the Carno Rex clawed One-Eye's other eye, and he thought he blinded him. Jake saw this, "C-Rex, it doesn't work that way!" Jake yelled.
The Carno had looked back at Jake when he said this, and the moment he looked back, One-Eye's jaw was coming towards his neck. The Carno quickly deployed his armor just in time. One-Eye's jaw gripped his neck just after the armor fully deployed. But then, One-Eye bit down, and his teeth went right through the armor. Jake saw this, and he was shocked, "Oh, no. One-Eye's teeth can pierce armor. Either that or his jaw is just extremely strong. Either way, One-Eye was currently the only thing that could pierce Grim's armor." he thought.
During this fight, Jake was shooting One-Eye all around with a TEC-9 in his right hand, and a G18 in his left, both were set to 3 round bursts. He had already loaded them both with Neo's specially designed explosive rounds, and he was careful not to friendly fire.
Neo was clawing into One-Eye's neck, and he was also digging in his toe claws into his neck by moving his legs like he was climbing and he couldn't find anything for him to stand on. One-Eye gave a screech, but the attacks didn't cease. He was getting hurt faster than he could even attack. Eventually, though, there was another roar, only this one was easily heard over everyone else, but it wasn't like One-Eye's. It was much deeper, and its echo was like thunder.
Then, a Yutyrannus Rex came into the Park, and it did its sonic roar at One-Eye only. To everyone's surprise, One-Eye's skin did not get blown off. In fact, it just knocked him over. Neo wasn't affected by the dino's roar, but he was knocked off when One-Eye fell over. The Yuty seemed to ignore everyone else, who had all stopped attacking to stare at it.
It approached One-Eye and grabbed him by his neck, and it started to lift him up, but then One-Eye kicked it in the face, making it release its grip on him. The Yuty staggered a little, its lower jaw was bleeding, and it spit a little blood onto the ground. It looked back at One-Eye who had already dug his claws into the ground again, "What is it with digging their claws into the ground?" Megan thought. Neo leaned over and whispered in her ear, "They do that so they get a small boost when they start running so they get to their top speed quicker. It's not a very big boost, but it is noticeable if you were to do it as a dino. Plus, if a dino needs to push something very heavy, it provides them with a more powerful boost to push the said object."
The Yuty also dug its claws into the ground. They both stood there for a few seconds before One-Eye started sprinting, and the Yuty did, too. When the two got within close range, One-Eye tried to grab the Yuty by the neck, but it bit into One-Eye's snout, and it threw him down to the ground. Then it grabbed his neck, and One-Eye tried to kick it again, but the Yuty bit down into his neck harder, and it put its foot down on top of his. Then, they Yuty lifted its other foot up, and it held it just above One-Eye's stomach, and it seemed to extend its claws in length, and then it was like stroking One-Eye's side with its foot. One-Eye started struggling, and the Yuty thrashed his neck slightly, biting down a little harder.
Eventually, One-Eye stopped resisting, and the Yuty released his neck from its jaw. One-Eye was bleeding very heavily around his neck, but then the Yuty quickly swiped its large toe claw across One-Eye's stomach. Then the Yuty let him go, and One-Eye stood up. The Yuty gave a growl to him, which everyone else understood as "Get out." One-Eye then quickly sprinted away. Neo gave a sigh of relief, but then the Yuty looked at him, "Oh, no. No. No. No. No. No, no, no, no, no!" he said, trying to scamper away. It lowered its head down to him, and it bared its teeth at him.
When it did that, it raised its head back up, and then a bright aura appeared around it. Then, the aura quickly disappeared, and there was Q as himself. Neo was joyous at first, but Jake saw that there was a certain look in Q's eyes. Jake put his hand in front of Neo and stopped him, "Hold on. Something's not right." Jake said. Neo took a small step back.
Jake approached Q slowly, "Q? Are you alright?" he asked. Q didn't say anything. Then, José and Violet stepped forward, "Bro? It's us." José said. Q looked at him, "I know. And that's the problem." he said. Everyone was confused now, "What? What problem?" Neo asked. Then, there were footsteps that were heard all around them, "They found us! How?" Neo said.
Immediately, their eyes went on Q, "Did you…?" Jake began to say. Then, hordes of Gorgosauruses surrounded them, "I'm sorry. I didn't have a choice. You see… (Reveals where Blue cut him days earlier) …I was cut by Blue a few days ago, and she spit something into my bloodstream. Ever since then, I gradually started losing my mind. I was nearly on the brink of insanity. But then I realized why I was going insane. I was trying to resist the irresistible, fight the unwinnable. Once I knew what was happening to me, I knew what I had to do." Q said.
Then he disappeared, "I can't believe it happened, especially to Q, and I won't believe it. Violet, we've got some work to do." José said to his sister. Then, they disappeared as well. The Gorgos took everyone else towards Grim's lair. They completely ignored the Megalo and Carno Rex, who acted like they were chasing the people, and they stood there until the Gorges were out of sight, then they both deployed their stealth armor.
The stealth armor was only given to a select few of Grim's hybrids. It was essentially an upgraded version of the normal armor, except the normal metal armor could configure into the stealth version. When deployed, it makes the creature invisible, and it immediately blocks their scent completely. The only way to be able to detect a dino with the stealth armor deployed is by their heat signature.
Their heat signatures with the armor were not completely visible, but it was noticeable with a trained eye. The Carno and Megalo walked up behind the last 3 Gorges, and they were about to attack, but then they heard Megan give a whistle. They were a little confused by what she did, and they stopped. The Gorgos, on the other hand, didn't seem to even hear her.
But then, a roar came from the sky, and everyone looked up to see a giant winged creature descending upon them. Every person there recognized it as a dragon. Megan whistled again, and she pointed to the Gorgos, who had now stopped and looked up. And then the dragon started breathing fire on the Gorgos, while being careful not to breathe on the people.
This fight was easy due to the dragon's flight capabilities combined with its fire breath. The Gorgos were cooked within seconds, and surprisingly, no trees caught fire. Automatically, Neo and Jake were interested in this dragon, "Jake…are you seeing what I'm seeing, or am I high?" Neo said, staring at the magnificent creature. Jake shook his head, "I see it, too." he said.
Megan whistled once again, and the dragon landed. Megan turned to them, "Neo. Jake. Meet Scorcher." she said. Both Neo and Jake's jaws dropped, "Wait, WHAT? You KNOW this dragon?" Neo said in both shock and amazement. Megan nodded, "Know him? We raised him." she said. Then both their jaws practically came unhinged, "Raised him? How?" Jake said, mystified.
Megan began explaining how they raised the magnificent creature. "For a long while, me and my friends were stranded on Isla Sorna, with some of the worst dinosaurs roaming freely on it, including that dreaded Spinosaurus. Anyway, one day, half of us went down to the beach, and the other half stayed at the compound. I was part of the group on the beach, and I noticed strange footprints that I did not recognize from any dinosaur on the island. We followed them, and they let to some kind of sandpit that gave way, and we found ourselves in a small cave. Everything was frozen in there, surprisingly, and we found a nest full of eggs that seemed to be preserved in the ice. Naturally, we had to examine the eggs, so we got out our pickaxes, and we all went to work. After many painstaking hours of pounding at the ice, we finally were able to remove the eggs, and we took them back to the compound for the others to examine them more. 3 long days later, Marcel discovered that they were a dragon's eggs. None of us could believe it. We all knew the myth about dragons, but our beliefs were about to be tested. One of the eggs started moving after we had unfrozen it. The embryos inside didn't freeze to death. We all were expecting a dinosaur, but when we saw what emerged from the eggs, it was a baby dragon. At first, when we saw the wings, we thought it was a Pterosaur, but when we saw the little teeth and the horns on its head, we all had to face the fact that we were wrong, dragons did exist. Long story short, we basically took care of this guy for 6 years before he started being able to kill on his own, harness his fire, and he started showing much independence, and he has, more or less, been free to wander around, but he knows not to wander too far or he won't hear me whistle when we need him."
Both Jake and Neo were impressed, "Wow. That is fricking awesome! A dragon in the scales." Neo said to Jake. Then, Scorcher put his hand down on top of Neo, "I… I mean flesh!" Neo said quickly. Scorcher then gave a snarl and released him, "He doesn't like anyone to even briefly add the word 'scales' to a sentence when they are talking about him." Megan said. Neo was panting slightly, "Yeah. Now I know." he said.
Hello, everyone! I'm just here to let you know that I will be putting this story on hold for a while. Don't panic. This will only be temporary. New chapters for this story will still be posted, but they will be much more spaced out. I will be making another story and posting chapters to that one as well as this one. Don't forget to leave a review on the stories, and I will see you all in the next one.