Grant, Sattler and Arnold all ran to the waiting point in front of the helipad, looking up at the helicopter as it slowly hovered over the spot and gradually lowered itself down onto the landing zone. Malcolm strode out first to his associates, shaking their hands as Grant said "how are the passengers?"

"Still uh... still getting the hang of things, I think." Malcolm turned to Owen and Claire, motioning with his hands as if to summon them over. The Gradys looked at each other nervously, before finally stepping out and walking to where the others were. "Now, uh... Gradys, I'd like to introduce you to..."

"Dr. Ellie Sattler?!" Claire interrupted him as she began frantically shaking Sattler's hand, much to the latter's initial surprise. "Oh my god, I'm such a huge fan of your work!"

"Um... pleasure's all mine, Mrs Grady..." Sattler was clearly taken aback by Claire's behaviour, but kept a friendly smile on her face. Owen's eyes widened similarly when he saw Grant, who flashed a smile as he held out his hand.

"So..." he said, awkwardly but friendly in tone. "I take it you're Mr. Grady?"

"Uh, y... yeah, that's me. Owen." Owen was still slightly starstruck as he shook the old man's hand, not quite as excitedly as Claire had done with Sattler but still more than usual. "Hey, so um... look, Dr. Grant, you probably don't remember me, but... I actually met you once, back when I was a kid... you um... ha-ha... you were digging up this one raptor skeleton, and I was there too, I said it looked like..."

"Like a six foot turkey?" Grant chuckled a bit as this thought came to him. "Yeah, ha ha... yeah, I do remember that. And the claw too."

"Oh my god, yeah!" Owen laughed nostalgically at the memory as it came back to him. "God, that gave me nightmares for weeks, ha ha... still, made me the man I am today, I guess, so... I got you to thank for that, doc."

Claire looked past Sattler and Arnold as she noticed a few of the heads that were crossing by in the distance. She could recognise a few of the herbivores from the reserve, though they were in much larger numbers with others that Grant had rescued. Owen gently put a hand on her shoulder as she looked to him with a weak little grin.

"Yeah... yeah, I know..." she sighed as she looked away again, only for her eyes to widen as she noticed another familiar figure emerging from the woods. "M... Maze?"

Owen had to squint in the same direction his wife was looking, eventually catching sight of the girl as she walked from the trees. Even more surprising to him was the familiar raptor that was walking by her side. "Oh my god..."

Maisie patted Blue gently on the neck as they stepped fully into the daylight, only for her head to prick up as she heard some voices calling her name. She pondered this for a moment, before her head finally snapped up to see the figures standing in the distance calling to her.

"Owen... Claire...?"

"Maisie!" Both Owen and Claire shouted this as they started running towards their daughter, with Claire nearly stumbling several times as she sprinted. Maisie could feel her eyes go wide as they started flowing with tears and her heart almost felt like it was going to jump out of her chest with the relief and excitement that she felt to see her parents again. She was just able to overcome the sheer euphoria that was classing through her body so she could run towards them as well, being only about fifty yards away when she called back.

"You came for me! You actually came for me!"

BOOM! One of the abandoned laboratories suddenly burst into flames, setting off a deafening explosion that shook the island and everyone on it. Maisie was taken off her feet by the shock of the blast, falling onto her hands and knees as she turned to see Blue running away. "No! Blue, wait! Come back!"

"Maisie!" Claire called, but the latter ignored her as she followed after the raptor, only to freeze in her tracks as she saw the viscous, orange flames that were blazing through the trees. The wind of the fire was blowing Maisie back with it's strength, but it wasn't able to hide the distant but growing rumble of hundreds of loud, scared roars coming from the trees.

"Oh shit!"

A tsunami of carnivores, omnivores and herbivores of all sizes came gushing out of the jungle, all trying to escape the ravenous fire that was chasing them. Maisie turned and ran as fast as she could with the stampede, eventually reaching a tall rock and hiding behind it so they passed her. The beasts flew by with such power and velocity that she couldn't spot Blue during it, only just managing to spot a brief flash of teal before it was swept away in the crowd.

"Everybody get to high ground!" Grant called as they all followed him to a higher platform, with Malcolm just narrowly avoiding an Ankylosaurus as it ploughed into the helicopter and sent it plummeting off the cliff and into the ocean below.

Sattler spotted Lowery, Zia and Vivian running towards them, trying their best to manoeuvre around the stampede. "Lowery! What the hell is going on?!"

"It's the HLF! They're here!" Lowery called back, before Zia suddenly tackled him out of the path of a rampaging Stegosaurus. The beast suddenly roared out as a tranquilliser dart flew into her neck, landing face-first on the ground as several armed men ran towards them.

"They're gonna head for the cliffs!" Zia shouted as she reached the others. "Just like Nublar!"

"Wait, the cliffs... oh no..." Owen panted as he ran to one of the cliff-edge, muttering curse words to himself as he looked at the ocean to see the three large aircraft carriers all circling all sides of the island. Smaller boats were emerging from the carriers with HLF troops on board, all of them armed to the teeth with nets and tranquilliser guns, while several military-grade helicopters began hovering over the island above them. "No-no-no-no-no!"

"Get them to the ships!" Kingston was commanding the first group of troops as they tied up and loaded the already unconscious beasts, holding a tranquilliser in her hands as she shot down any dinosaurs that crossed her path. "Not one dinosaur gets away from us!"

She found herself preoccupied with the Brachiosaurus her men were tying up that she failed to notice the Triceratops that was thundering up behind her. Maisie noticed this, not even being able to stop and think about it as she darted over and tackled Kingston to the ground, shielding the trapper's body with her own as the large herbivores thundered over them. This lasted for a few seconds before the stampede calmed somewhat, with Maisie still shielding Kingston for a few extra moments just to be sure.

"Are you... ugh..." Maisie panted a bit as she got back to her feet, standing over Kingston with her hand out. "Are you okay?"

"Wow..." Kingston went wide-eyed as she looked up at her rescuer. She clearly had to get through a brief moment of shock when she actually saw who it was, but she seemed less afraid and more glad that the very being she'd been sent to capture had actually risked her life to save her. "Th... thank you."

Zzzip!

"Ugh!" Maisie wheezed out as the tranquilliser dart flew into the back of her neck, falling back unconscious into the arms of another masked soldier. Karla removed her mask and threw it aside as she looked at the girl she was holding, turning to Kingston as she said "we have what we need... get all the others onto the ships!"

"Maze!" Claire and Owen both shouted this as they saw Karla carrying Maisie over to the cages, throwing her into the smallest one and locking it tight. The cages were all loaded onto several platforms, which were lifted via crane hooks onto the boats to be taken to the aircraft carriers. Karla stood atop the pile of cages that Maisie's was apart of, grinning as she saw Claire, Owen and the others looking at her.

"You treehuggers tried your best!" She called mockingly through a megaphone as the crane lifted the cages up with her still standing on top of them. "But this is just how it's meant to be!"

Claire was hyperventilating, clenching her fists as her head and heart fumed with fear, worry and pure rage all at once. "No... no-no-no-no-no! Maisie!"

"Claire! Don't!" Owen called out to his wife as she frantically ran as fast as she could, panting aggressively as the cages got more and more out of reach. Claire was forced to stop at the very edge of the cliff, watching as the cranes lowered the cages onto the ships and they started floating away. They were far out of her reach now, and she couldn't do anything about it.

"MAISIE!" her lungs were hopelessly strained as she cried out with all her strength, falling to her knees as she threw her fist hard onto the ground. "MAISIE!"

The others all stood about a hundred yards away from where Claire was still sitting on the cliff edge. She'd been sitting there like a statue for a good half-hour, still staring off into the distance where the ships had gone with Maisie and the dinosaurs all imprisoned on it. From how she was sitting it seemed she had just about given up, and Owen had his hand to his face as he looked to the rest of the group.

Zia sulked miserably as she walked back from the woods, with the fire having finally been completely put out. "Well, we've searched the whole island. It's just like we thought..."

"She's taken everything?" Grant asked.

"Yep, everything. Rexy, Blue... they're all gone..."

"Do we have any idea where Karla's taking them?" Owen asked, before Sattler shrugged with a sigh. "What's she gonna do with Maze?"

"Who knows?" Sattler said. "Probably to sell them back to everyone we rescued them from. As for Maisie, well... she's either gonna be a test subject or she's gonna hang as a trophy in Sealy's private collection."

"That's never gonna happen. Not in a million years." Claire's voice suddenly spoke as they all turned, seeing her standing in front of them suddenly with her fists clenched and a steely, determined scowl on her still tear-stained face. "Ever since Nublar I've done everything in my power to protect those dinosaurs and Maisie, and if Karla Sealy thinks she's gonna stop me from doing that now, she's got another thing coming! Who's with me?!"

"With you? Uh... I'm gonna have to hear a plan before I answer that, Mrs Grady..." Malcolm snarked, before Owen stood by his wife and took her hand confidently.

"We're gonna get them back." he said as Claire grinned at him. "All of them. Whatever it takes."

"And how exactly are we gonna do that?" Vivian asked with a raised eyebrow. "The choppers are all busted, the lab's burnt down and they're probably half-way to the mainland by now. I mean... unless we grow gills and swim there we'll never get to them in time..."

"Well actually..." Lowery cut in as they all turned to him, a smug grin forming on his face as he put his hands on his hips. "There's one way we can still catch up to them..."