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The Raptor Hybrid
The Teenage Sleuths found an old freighter at the East Docks and found a huge supply of Barbasol cans filled with dinosaur embryos. Owen and Claire are talking about whether or not to go to Isla Sorna to meet a raptor trainer on the island. Alice is worried if her Wild Side will take over her, causing her to hurt Dom and possibly cause another rampage. Ryan and Owen found all the teens and had them tell Owen everything they knew. Ian knew he was in for a long talk with Owen.
It was now Thursday, and something big is-a brewin'. It's a doozy. It was around ten in the morning when Ryan took Ian to Owen's bungalow. When they arrived, Ian saw Owen standing next to his hammock, with his arms crossed across his chest and a slightly irritated look on his face. Oh boy, was Ian in for it. Ian slowly approached his uncle and then waited for him to speak.
"Sit," said Owen as he gestured to the hammock.
Ian did as Owen said and sat on the hammock and waited for Owen to give him a speech. Owen stayed quiet for a few minutes before saying, "Why are you getting involved in this?"
"What?" asked Ian.
"You heard me. Why are getting involved in this?"
"I just wanted to help you guys out with-"
"We don't need your help. We can't have you getting involved because you are putting your life at risk."
"By what? Two people dressed in hybrid costumes? Freezing to death on a freighter that was freezing because it was the only way to keep the embryos preserved, even though they could go two months without the freezing temperature?"
"Don't get all factual with me Ian. It's great that you found that stuff out, but, that's not the point."
"Then what is the point?"
"To stay out of business that doesn't involve you."
"I'm sorry, isn't that pretty much what you're doing?"
"What?"
"Owen, you and Claire found a drop off bag and then started divulging into something that she was doing behind Claire's back. That is none of your business, it's Zara's."
"Yeah, and you know where Zara is now? She's dead. Digested inside of the Mosasaur's stomach."
"So, you think that just gives you more of a right?"
"Ian, stop trying to sway me from the point okay? Stay away from this and just focus on studying."
"No."
"'No?'"
"Yeah. I'm going to continue doing this because you guys would never have found this out, even with Lowery on your side. Lowery's a genius, is surprised me that he didn't figure it out sooner."
"Ian, I'm pretty sure you don't want your mom hearing about this."
"You wouldn't."
"I'm her brother, I can't keep secrets from her."
"I can't believe that I thought you and Ryan were going to be cool with me being involved in this, but it seems like I was very wrong."
"Look Ian, we just-"
"Don't want to see me get hurt! I know! I've heard that phrase most of my life. When Dad left, he said that what he was doing, he was doing it so that I wouldn't get hurt. Throughout middle and high school, Mom told me that phrase probably every other day! Before we moved out here, she told me it again. And now, with you two and this whole mystery crap!"
"Ian, calm down."
"No! I will not calm down! You think that because you and Ryan are my uncles, that you think that you have precedence over me? Please, give me a break! Uncle Sergio and Antonio gave me a bit more support."
"Support? What support? You're in way over your head. And besides, when was the last time you talked to those two?"
"Well, they would actually call me every week to talk. They would visit on the weekends. You know, after thinking about all of this, I don't get why they aren't my favorite uncles."
"We're your favorite uncles?"
"Yeah and you want to know why? Because you two were fun, free, and way more vigilant of me. Even though I hadn't seen you two in so much time, I yearned the day when I would see you two again. But, you think that since I feel that way about you two, that you can try to use that against me to stay out of something that I'm already involved in? Well, you guys are wrong. I knew it was a bad idea to come out to this island. I just never thought that it was going to be you two who would make this place suck."
"Ian," said Ryan as he tried getting closer to Ian.
"Don't! You two are sad and pathetic. I want you to have this before I go."
Ian pulled out a Barbasol can out of his bag and handed it to Ryan.
"When did you get this?" he asked.
"Before we ran out on the triceratops hybrid," replied Ian.
"Ian," said Owen before Ian interrupted him.
"I'm going back to the park now. I have to check up on Dom."
Ian got up and then began walking back to the park.
It took Ian over an hour to get back to the park and he went straight to the Innovation Center to check on little Dom. When Ian got into the lab and saw that small Indominus awake and causing a problem amongst some of the scientists, he came in and asked them what the problem was.
"We're just trying to get a small sample of his blood. We did it with Alice when she hatched, too. It'll help us see if they have some kind of deficiency or sickness," responded one of the geneticists.
"Well, let me hold him, maybe I can calm him down enough to get the sample," replied Ian.
They handed the small hybrid to Ian and he looked into Dom's vacant crimson eyes and the small hybrid warbled at him. Ian smiled and then rubbed his thumb on the back of Dom's head, making the small Indominus relax in his Imprinter's arms. The geneticists moved quickly and got the blood sample that they had wanted and thanked Ian for his cooperation. Ian nodded his head and then set Dom down to see if the small hybrid could move around more. Dom stood on his feet and then began pacing around the table. Ian was happy in seeing Dom walking around more. Ian also noticed that Dom seemed bigger now. He asked a geneticist if Dom seemed bigger, and the geneticist answered that Dom grew three inches already.
"Wow, he's growing fast," said Ian.
"Yes well, the cuttlefish gene in Indominus help accelerate their growth rate," responded the geneticist.
"Ah, okay."
Ian continued to stare intently at the small Indominus, until he was approached by someone.
"He's adorable," said the man standing next him.
"He is. Uh, I'm sorry, but, who are you?" Ian asked.
"Oh, right. Ricardo Reyes. I work here with Security."
"Ian Grady, I'm the one who imprinted on Dom."
"Oh, so you're the Grady kid I heard about."
"My uncle talks about me?"
"Yeah, sometimes, he can't shut up about you."
"Yeah, that's Owen."
"So, you plan on having that little guy meet Alice?"
"That's the plan."
"Cool. I want to be there when it happens."
"I think a lot of people will want to be there when it happens."
"Very true."
Claire was with Lowery at Control because Lowery was still trying to break through the firewall. While Lowery was trying to crack the firewall, Claire began to think about who the hybrids could possibly. There's two of them, so there could only be two people behind it all. There were so many people Claire could speculate, it wasn't going to be easy. Claire was disturbed from her thoughts when she heard Owen and Ryan step into the Control room.
"Whatcha got guys?" asked Ryan.
"I'm still trying to crack this firewall, while Claire tries to pin who can be hiding behind the hybrid masks," replied Lowery.
"I see. Well, we just had fun this morning getting scolded by Ian."
"You really thought he was going to listen to you?"
"Well, yeah."
"The whole 'We're his uncles' thing didn't work out, huh?"
"No."
"Well, I told you so."
"Claire, please, not now."
"Fine."
Claire got up and left with Owen. Owen was going to Alice's paddock, but Claire was going to the Innovation Center to see if Ian was there.
Owen arrived at Alice's paddock and saw the Indominus lying down on the ground. Owen opened the window and sat on the ledge as he asked, "Alice, what's wrong?"
Alice looked up and then let out a sigh.
"Is this about you thinking that you're going to hurt Dom?"
Alice nodded her head, but she wanted to tell Owen that the other reason was that she was having troubles with her Wild Side. Alice hated her Wild Side, especially when it started speaking to her.
"You want to eat this human. Just admit it and do it," said Alice's Wild Side.
Alice shook her head from her thoughts and tried thinking about something else.
"Why hide the truth? You want to break out again and destroy the humans for leaving you alone. You want to kill the hatchling because only you can be the only Indominus Rex."
Alice gave a shrill shriek and didn't even realize what she had done at all. It wasn't anything big and bad, but it sure surprised Owen.
"Uh, Alice," he began, "you do know that that's a tree right?"
Alice came to her senses when she realized that she had slashed a tree with her raven colored talons. Alice took a step back from the tree and then looked at Owen with sadness in her eyes.
"Alice, talk to me, what's wrong?" he asked.
Alice then turned and ran off into the brush and disappeared.
"Alice!" called out Owen as the hybrid melted into the brush.
Owen's radio began to crackle until Lowery's voice could be heard.
"Owen, what's going on?" the tech geek asked.
"I don't know, she just ran off all while looking sad."
"What are you going to do?"
"I think I'll go and find her and try talking to her. She's obviously got something that's bothering her that she won't tell us."
"All right. I'll join you as soon as I can. Ian and I have been working on something that might help with the language barrier problems."
"All right."
Owen went down into Alice's paddock in search for the hiding Indominus.
Claire arrived at the Innovation Center and went to the lab and found Ian playing around with Dom. Dom was jumping around tables, sometimes landing on Ian's shoulders before hopping off and landing on another table. Claire gave a light chuckle at seeing the little hybrid bounce around before saying, "Seems like a handful."
Ian turned to look at Claire and said, "Tell me about it. This guy's like a living bottle of five hour energy."
Claire laughed at that one. After a few seconds of calming down, she said, "So, I heard that you and your uncles had an...argument of sorts."
"Yeah, but it was really stupid. They wanted me to stay out of trying to help out with the mystery drop off bag."
"Did you mean everything you told them?"
"Depends on which part of what I said you're talking about."
"That they're your favorite uncles."
"Yeah, of course I meant that."
"They're just trying to look out for you."
"And I get that, and greatly appreciate and love them for it, but I just don't get why I can't help out. We found a freighter yesterday and found a big su[[ly of Barbasol cans filled with embryos."
"Really?"
"Yeah, we think that it has something to do with some kind of smuggling operation."
"Anything else?"
"Yeah, the hybrids showed up and tried to catch us."
"The hybrids? They haven't shown up since I saw them at the old Visitor Center."
"Huh, why would they both be involved in an Indominus egg and embryos in Barbasol cans?"
"I don't know."
Reyes then stepped into the lab and greeted Claire. Reyes walked past Claire and then placed his hands on a table while watching Ian and Dom paly around. Claire looked down at Reyes' arms and noticed something on his left arm.
"Reyes, what happened to your arm?" she asked him.
"Oh, this? My mom, when I was younger, used to punish me for being disrespectful or rowdy. There was this one time when she got so mad that she grabbed one of her high heels and hit me really hard with it on my left arm," replied Reyes.
"Ouch, that must've hurt."
"It did, you have no idea."
Claire nodded her head and then turned to look at Dom and Ian. Dom was just a little bundle of electric and energetic joy. He was so intrigued by the world around him and just wanted to explore it all.
After a few more minutes, Claire decided to go and visit Owen and Alice and began to head towards Alice's paddock.
Owen and Lowery searched a great length of Alice's paddock, but couldn't find her anywhere. They searched everywhere, especially since Alice most likely camouflaged herself. Owen was about to leave when he heard a soft snort and then turned around.
Alice mentally cursed at herself for giving herself away. Alice then transformed back into her white scales and stared at Owen.
"Lowery, she's over here!" yelled out Owen.
Lowery arrived in a minute and then asked Alice, "What's wrong Alice?"
The Indominus turned her head away and stared at a tree. Lowery rolled his eyes as he pulled out sheets of laminated paper, each with a letter of the alphabet.
"Alice, here are two sets of the letters of the alphabet. Ian and I wanted to see if you would be able to communicate with us by putting words together. So, we want to know, are you okay?"
Alice looked over as Lowery placed the papers on the ground, and then she approached slowly. Alice scattered the letters and searched for two letters to put together. Once she was done, she tapped the ground, and Lowery and Owen read what Alice had put together.
'No'
"What's wrong then Alice?" asked Owen.
Alice then took a few minutes rearranging letters. She spelled two words.
'Wild Side'
"Wild Side? What is that?"
"You mean like, the side that is telling you to destroy everything and be, well, wild?"
Alice nodded her head. She could finally communicate more with humans, and she hoped that Lowery and Ian could teach her bigger words in the future.
"Is your Wild Side bothering you?"
Alice nodded her head at the question.
"Is it because you're scared that you might hurt Dom when you meet him?" asked Owen.
Alice once again nodded her head. She was happy that they were starting to understand her a bit more.
"Alice, you'll be fine. I promise you that. I believe in you to be stronger than your Wild Side."
"Yeah Alice. And, we'll be there when you meet him, so, if anything starts going wrong, we'll be there to help."
Alice gave a soft croon and then placed her head between Owen and Lowery. She was waiting for them to show some affection towards her. Owen rubbed her snout, while Lowery simply patted it.
"We're here for you Alice," said Lowery.
Lowery had decided to stay for another hour to show Alice some words that she could put together. Afterwards, Claire arrived at the paddock and stood next to Owen and Ryan, who were standing in front of the viewing glass.
"How's it going gentlemen?" she asked them.
"We're trying to see what we can say to Ian so that we can move on from this," said Ryan.
"Guys, Ian thought that the argument was stupid and that he meant it when he said you two were his favorites."
"Really?" asked Owen.
"Yeah, he was just mad at the moment."
"Oh, well, we'll go and talk to him in a bit."
Claire nodded her head and then looked out to see Alice resting in front of the brush. Claire liked seeing Alice rest. It meant that the Indominus was at peace.
"You know, the weirdest thing happened at the lab. I was talking to Reyes and he had a scar on his left arm that his mom left him when he was young by punishing him with a hit of a high heel. It's weird because I inflicted the same damage to the raptor hybrid a few days ago, remember?"
Owen and Ryan were surprised and then looked out into the paddock. Ryan thought about Claire's words more and then realized something. He took a step back before saying, "Oh my God."
Claire and Owen turned to look at him, and then Owen asked, "What?"
"Ian."
Ryan then ran out of the viewing room, with Claire and Owen curiously following behind.
Ian was holding Dom in his arms, as Ian rubbed the back of Dom's head gently with his thumb. Dom had tired himself out from all the bouncing around. Ian was always happy when Dom tired himself out. It meant that Ian could take a small break. Ian hoped that when Dom grew up to be as big as Alice, he wouldn't be this energetic.
It was after closing for the day, and the scientists of the lab were gone already. It was only Ian, and Reyes when he came back to check up again on Dom and Ian.
"Oh, Reyes, what are you doing here?" Ian asked.
"I'm here to pick something up," said Reyes in a dark manner.
"Uh, what are you looking for?"
"Dom."
"Excuse me?"
"Hand over to kid."
Ian arched an eyebrow and then took a step back and said, "What? No."
Reyes pulled out a gun and then said, "Listen here, I don't have time to sit here and negotiate with you. Hand over the Indominus."
"I said no."
"Fine, have it your way."
Before Reyes could pull the trigger, Ryan came in and tackled him to the ground. Ryan was on top of Reyes as he then began to punch the gunman in the face.
"Stay away from my nephew!" said Ryan with each punch.
Reyes was now nearly out of it, and he was basically dazed on the floor.
"Ryan, what the hell is going on?" asked Ian.
"Reyes is one of the hybrids."
"What?" asked Claire as she and Owen came in.
"Yeah, I came to the conclusion when Claire told us how strange a coincidence it was that the raptor hybrid and Reyes had the exact same wound."
Owen looked down at Reyes and then asked, "Why'd you do it?"
"You really think...that I'm going to...tell you?" replied Reyes as he tried gaining his senses back.
Reyes then reached out for his gun and then aimed it under his chin.
"Reyes, no!" yelled out Owen.
Reyes then pulled the trigger, making Claire gasp and Ian turn away.
Blood began to pool around Reyes' head. Owen wrapped his arms around Claire and Ryan went over to check on Ian.
"You okay?" he asked his nephew.
"Yeah, I'm good."
Dom began to stir awake in Ian's arms, until Ian placed the small hybrid back into the incubator.
"Well, all that's left is for the other hybrid to show themselves," said Ryan.
"I'll call Security and Clean-Up to get rid of this," said Claire with a partially shaky voice.
Reyes was the velociraptor hybrid. Alice has begun communicating with Owen through the laminated papers with letters on them. It was going good, and now the mystery thickens! You guys are excited, right?
A/N: Hello turtles! How are you doing? Well, I just wanted to put this out there. I'm partially ruthless when it comes to killing characters, and by that, I mean that I can kill any and every character if and when I want to. Get connected to the characters, that way, if I kill them, it'll bring you to tears! *Laughs evilly* I love you guys, but, I have a list of who's going to die and who's going to live. You better hope that a favorite character of yours isn't on that list! Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the chapter and that you can come back for more! Review if you want and stay tuned!
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