The Stegosaurus turned towards the Allosaurus, bellowing. He pounded his front feet, whilst swinging his tail vigorously at the Allosaurus. When the Allosaurus did not back off, he turned sideways to them, and his plates flushed a deep-red brown. The Allosaurus took a few steps back at this intimidating display, but they did not retreat.

The Diplodocus juveniles, disturbed by the stegosaur's attitude of alarm, began to mill about, swinging their tails in fear. The Allosaurus, their element of surprise ruined, struck. The first darted forward, past the Stegosaurus, and launched towards the nearest member of the group, sinking its teeth in the juvenile's rump. The sauropod briefly stumbled from the shock of the blow, but it was still standing. However, the Allosaurus maintained a vice-like grip on the sauropod, digging its heels in and preventing it from fleeing. Its comrade joined it, biting and clawing at the sauropod's flanks, tearing its flesh. Eventually, the sauropod's legs buckled and it collapsed into the water. The lead allosaur shifted its bite to the young sauropod's spinal cord, severing it. The allosaurs stood back as the dying sauropod entered its dying spasms; a kick from even a dying Diplodocus could severely injure them. However, the sauropod's spasms petered out and, after about ten minutes, it died. The Allosaurus roared in triumph and dived on the dead sauropod, like stray dogs to an open bin.

The other juveniles had scampered away, past the Stegosaurus, and had disappeared down the canyon. The Stegosaurus had resumed feeding, as if there had been no disturbance; it knew that, in the bloody calculations of the allosaurs' reptilian minds, the lure of the immediately available meat outweighed attacking the potentially dangerous, heavily armoured Stegosaurus. Jack scanned the canyon; it was a perfect opportunity to bring back all three of the creatures, but how… Suddenly, a thought occurred to Jack. He had a plan.

Jack gathered Adrian and Alice and began to explain; "Remember how we caught the Ornitholestes? We grabbed the sauropodlet corpses and pulled them through? Well, I reckon we do the same thing, but bigger. We use a winch, grab the dead Diplodocus and have them chase it through the portal." Adrian and Alice nodded; it seemed like a good idea.

Using a trail of vegetation as bait, they managed to send the Stegosaurus through the portal. Once they'd sent it through, they'd been surprised to find Yolanda and Collete manning the portal. The two filled them in on what had happened; Kyle and Nikolai were out both looking for the Apatosaurus Drew and Cynthia had brought back and about 30 Coelophysis that had escaped earlier. The latter story was the stranger; apparently, the electronic door lock had failed, for seemingly no reason. But, they could worry about that later; it was time to implement Jack's plan for the allosaurs.

Sneaking past the feeding carnivores, Jack hooked the hook end of winch into the sauropod's leg; the winch was attached to a park jeep, which Adrian was driving. Jack gave the thumbs-up signal, to which Adrian activated the winch, which began pulling the sauropod carcass away. The allosaurs took notice of this and began to move towards it, hissing at the Jeep. Jack yelled over the walkie-talkie, "Hit the pedal! Now! Adrian whirred the Jeep into life and began to drive forward, moving the sauropod carcass along with it. The nearest of the allosaurs roared at Adrian and they both tore after the meat. After Adrian had reached the mouth of the canyon, Alice activated the portal, which the Jeep , dragging the sauropod carcass with it, tore through. The Allosaurus dived through the portal after the carcass, like dogs after a tennis ball.

After a few minutes, Adrian returned through the portal, saying "Jack! Your plan worked; Yolanda and Collete are getting the allos into the vet pens. And it was an awesome idea, too!". Jack punched the air triumphantly and said, "Yeah!" Alice looked at her brother and smiled, "Well, Commander Modesty", she said fondly, "What's the plan?" Jack, emboldened by his success, stated "We head thataway!", he said, dramatically pointing at the direction in which the juvenile Diplodocus had headed. Today was getting to be a good day.

Meanwhile, in Wyoming, Drew woke up from his sleep and gave out a yawn. He'd slept surprisingly well; the night had been rather quiet, aside from the occasional sound outside the tent. He suddenly heard someone moving outside; one of the team must have woken up already. He rubbed his eyes, stretched and clambered out of his tent to find Cynthia standing outside. Surprised at his arrival, she gave out a small gasp and backed away from Drew, "Don't do that!", she said, mock-indignantly. Drew, changing the subject, said "Early riser?" Cynthia said, "Yeah. Beautiful, isn't it?", she gestured to the vista. "Yeah", Drew said, "Yeah". Cynthia states, "Reminds me of Africa, a bit. Only with dinosaurs. " Drew said, "You were in Africa?", to which she nodded, "Yeah, before I came here." "Anyways", she said, pointing at the large basin they were looking at, "Back on subject; I was walking round this morning and, wouldn't you know, it, I found tracks. Sauropods. Big ones, too. Fresh, and headed approximately", she pointed approximately northwest, "That way." Drew looked at her, flabbergasted, "How did you-". Cynthia smiled at him and went, "Said I was in Africa, didn't I? You pick up a few things"

Shortly after the dramatic events in the canyon, Jack was walking with a little bit of a spring in his step. They had tracked the juvenile Diplodocus to the edge of the forest, but there had been no sign of them so far. Jack, Adrian and Alice looked around, for any sign of the young dinosaurs.

As they walked under a tree, suddenly, there was a loud, squawking cacahony. The three humans looked at each other, weirded out by what had just happened. Looking up in the tree, they saw a small flock of pterosaurs looking down at them. There was a vague resemblance between them and the Peteinosaurus back at the park, however, these lacked the prominent tail, had a proportionately shorter head and much larger eyes. They were dull grey in coloration, fading to tan on the belly. They had the large eyes and colouration of a nocturnal animal, like a bat or a nightjar.

Adrian said, under his breath, "Anurognathus; a common pterosaur of the time. They're nocturnal; I think we just woke them up." Jack smirked, "Anurognathus was an insect eater, right? I got an idea." Leaving a trail of mealworms on the ground, Jack, Alice and Adrian waited for the Anurognathus flock to alight on the ground, before setting up the portal. Transfixed by the glowing orb, the flock flew through the portal, moving as if a single entity.

After the Anurognathus had been sent through the portal, Jack briefly paused; there was a weird smell in the air. It was a weird scent; it smelt almost like something was… burning. He went rigid; that wasn't his imagination. He could smell smoke in the air. Adrian and Alice went rigid too; they had memories of the Carboniferous forest fire. Suddenly, smoke blew in the air, like some sort of malignant wind. They turned round to see flames were moving through the forest, getting closer and closer to them…

To be continued.