A/N: Thanks for your feedback on the Dino Fights idea you guys! You are all awesome! Much love to you my turtles!
Guest 2: I gotta be honest with you, even I don't know who you are talking about when it comes to Alice having a mate. Also, Dino Fights could get them in trouble, unless the guests were to like it and Claire were to approve of it. But, we'll just wait and see...
Favorites/Brick Walls/The Prince and the Queen/The Sibling Illusion
Dom met Felix and Silas and loved them both. He also learned how to fish and with the help of beginner's luck, he caught his frst fish on the first try. Control was starting to work on a new kind of attraction for the park, which was for now called Dino Fights, but it was subject to change once they were finished with fixing the T-Rex hologram and Indominus hologram to battle one another. Ortiz was trying to find out who his Downfall was, and basically went to Jurassic World to see if Downfall would rear it's ugly head.
It was now Friday, and today, Dom was going to be meeting the Queen herself. Quick recap, the day before Ryan brought Ian back to Control and they asked him about Styler and why he did what he did. Ian responded that Styler said something about wanting to destroy Alice and the park with his own intentions and adding in that Styler was doing it for himself and once he offed Alice, he would kill Ortiz. Ian lied to Ryan and then when Ortiz got to the island, they told him about what they found and what Ian had told them. Ortiz was quite surprised by Ian's lie and wondered why he did it. Ian told Ortiz that he believed the CEO had good intentions and was a man of good heart, even after hearing about his heinous acts outside of InGen and Jurassic World. Ortiz stood flabbergasted at the young teen's response and then thought about his words. Ortiz had his own malintentions elsewhere, but he never wanted to bring them to the park. He only had one being on the island to deal with: Alice. But, Ortiz began to heed Ian's words, as if Ian was trying to tell Ortiz not to get into more stupid shit and to try and begin anew. Ortiz has only been CEO for a few months, so he was still pretty fresh in the business of being a CEO. Ortiz appreciated the fact that Ian was in a way covering for him. Ortiz then began to wonder of maybe Ian was hiding something up his sleeves.
Ian spent the night at Owen's bungalow and was the first to wake up in the morning. But, he went straight to the hammock. Ian loved where Owen's bungalow was located on the island. The soothing sounds surrounding the place we're so relaxing and peaceful. Ian felt himself falling into a deep slumber yet again, until he felt a massive weight come on top of him. Ian grunted and then opened his eyes to see one of his charasmatic uncles sitting on him.
"Uncle Owen, what the hell are you doing?" Ian said as he tried getting Owen off of him.
"Nothing, just relaxing here on my hammock," responded Owen with a smile.
"Ugh, dude, come on. Get off!"
"I'll get off if you answer a question."
"What?"
"A little bird told me that Ryan is your favorite uncle."
Ian's eyes widened and then he stared at Owen. Claire spilled the beans, but how and why?
"What little bird?" Ian asked.
"A robin," responded Owen
"Darn it Claire."
"How can't I be your favorite?"
"Ugh, Owen, why does it matter?"
"Because I always thought that I was your favorite. You even said it yourself one time!"
"Yeah, like ten years ago!"
"But, you still said it."
"Oh my Gosh, Owen, who cares?"
"Ian, just tell me why."
"You wanna know why? Okay, here's why. It's because you left for ten years, I never saw you, but mom always told me that you called via Skype and I was never there to see you. She always said that you simply sent your regards and that you loved me. Ryan was around more than you were. And, to be a hundred percent honest, you're not as fun as Ryan is."
Owen froze and stared at his nephew with slight shock.
"Not fun?"
"Owen, hear me out, okay? You're a cool guy, and great uncle. But, you're just not as loose as Ryan is."
"What made you say that I wasn't fun?"
"You said it yourself, 'Humans are an overrated species.'"
"You took my words to define your definition of fun?"
"No, but the fact that you have a small circle of friends made me make that decision."
"Ian, you are so lucky that you are an only child."
"Whatever Owen, even if I wasn't you would still love me to death."
Owen scoffed at Ian and then said, "What'll it take to make me your favorite again?"
"Just be yourself Owen."
Owen arched an eyebrow and then got off his nephew and said, "Be myself?"
"Yeah, just be yourself. Be the fun-loving Owen Grady that I knew when I was a kid."
"You still are a kid."
"That's a start."
Owen smiled at that and then flipped the hammock over, making Ian fall out onto the ground.
"And there's the reckless Owen I know."
Owen laughed and then helped his nephew up and then said, "I love you kid."
"Yeah, I love me too," responded Ian.
Owen scoffed and then ruffled Ian's hair.
"Say, you ready for Dom to meet Rexy today?' Owen asked.
"Honestly, I'm not as terrified as I should be. Part of me trusts Alice to watched out for the little guy, but part of me feels like Rexy would go berserk and murder the little guy," replied Ian.
"Everything will be fine."
"How do you know that?"
"I don't, but I just believe enough in Alice to keep Dom safe and for Rexy to treat the little kid like it was her hatchling."
"Well, we'll just see about that."
"Right. You want breakfast?"
"You cookin'?
"Yeah."
"Then I'll gladly pass."
"Hey, I'm not that bad a cook you know?"
"Owen, you burn water, okay?"
Owen lightly shoved Ian and then said, "You know what? You can starve to death, too."
"As good an idea as that sounds, I'm not going to starve."
"That's what I thought."
Lowery showed Claire the video footage and then told her about what Ian had told them about why Styler did what he did. But, something didn't click in Claire's mind.
"You really think that Styler had his own intentions?" she asked Claire.
"Well, we don't have anything concrete to fully pin something on him, but it's all we got to go off of," responded Lowery.
"Off of for what?"
"I don't know! And besides, Styler's hasn't shown up in a few days. Maybe he left."
"Or maybe he's dead," said Vivian.
Claire and Lowery turned their heads to look at Vivian who then asked, "What?"
"You think Ortiz offed Styler?" Lowery asked.
"No, but, Styler was around even after his and Ortiz's split."
"She has a point.
"Well, look, we'll just be on the look for anything suspicious. We aren't going to have some kind of CSI case on this island," said Claire.
"But, it's already been done. We still have to figure out that whole thing with the vandals, Gracie's been missing for a few days, along with Styler, and now we're not sure if what Ian told us was true."
"This is going to blow up in our faces."
"Then it's all our jobs to stop it from blowing up."
"Yeah, we know. But, what do we start with?"
"I'll go down to Security and talk to Commander Jones about the vandals, you guys keep looking into this whole Styler and Gracie thing."
"Fine."
"Call me if you found something that'll help."
"You got it Boss."
Claire then smiled and left Control.
"You think that all these things are connected?" Vivian asked Lowery.
"I honestly don't know. But, I'm sure that whatever's going on, it's bound to come pouring in at the same time."
"I just hope we're not running into brick walls."
"Same."
Lowery and Vivian then got back to work.
Ian was walking around the Innovation Center and then walked into the lab to look at some of the eggs. He hadn't been in here since Dom got out of his paddock and had a little adventure of his own. Ian stopped at an incubator that was filled with Apatosaur eggs. Gracie was the last Apatosaur on the island, well at least out of the adults. There were plenty of baby ones at the petting zoo. But, since Alice got rid of a good chunk, Claire thought it was a good idea to have more so that a thriving herd could be made in the future. Ian was then approached by a man who was about five feet and eleven inches to six feet and an inch. The man seemed to be in his mid 40s, possibly early fifties. The man had nice pale skin, Blue gray eyes, and a rusty beard. Even for a slightly aged man, the man had good physique and was wearing a short sleeve white polo, brown pants and brown boots.
"I hope these little ones are healthy in the future," said the man.
"Same," responded Ian, "you seem familiar. Do I know you?"
"We haven't met. My name is Reginald Miller, Chief Vet of this park. You can call me Reggie."
Reggie extended his hand and Ian grasped it and firmly shook the vet's hand and responded, "Ian Grady, I'm the one who imprinted on the hatchling Indominus and I'm currently studying to work in the medical field."
"Really? Vet's jobs every interest you?"
"Not until I came to live here."
"Wait, Grady? As in-"
"As in I'm Owen Grady's nephew."
"Ah, I see. Nice to meet you Ian."
"Same here Reggie."
"So, how is the little Indominus?"
"You haven't checked on him?"
"No, I haven't had the time to. You'd think that the predators on this island would be the ones I'd have to check on the most right? But, it's actually the herbivores that are the real rowdy ones."
"So, can you check on him?"
"As a matter of fact, I was going to go and check on him now."
"Oh, well I'll go with you then."
Ian then followed Reggie to the Indominus paddock. On the way there Ian asked Reggie a bit about his job.
"So, as the vet, do you get to see the files of all the dinosaurs?"
"Yes, I check them to see how healthy they were when they hatched and I'd they had any preexisting sicknesses and such," responded the aged vet.
"Interesting. You have any internship programs or something?"
"I might. You interested?"
"I wouldn't have asked if I wasn't."
"Well, I'll check if there is something for you and let you know as soon as I can."
"Great, thanks. Now, one more thing."
"What is it?"
"Have you ever looked over Alice's real files?"
"Yes, as a matter of fact I have."
"Really?"
"Yep, why do you ask?"
"Well, because a few people o know found this drop off bag that was holding what I now believe are falsified files of the dinosaurs on the island and I wanted to make sure of it by comparing Alice's file with the one in the bag."
"Uh, Dr. Wu said that the Indominus file was strictly confidential."
"And, where's Wu again?"
"Good point. Okay, after I'm done with Dom, come with me to my office and we'll look at the files."
"Okay, thanks for being so cooperative Reggie."
"Anything to help."
The two then arrived at the Indominus paddock, when Alice had just finished her second show for the day. As usual, Dom flew by and stole her guests. When Ian and Reggie entered, Dom frilled at seeing his human and then wanted to tackle him and the new human next to him. Alice didn't want Dom to tackle Reggie or Ian right now. But, the little guys thirst for a full frontal assault was just creeping at him. Dom was going to break the glass if it meant tackling down Ian. But, to his luck, Ian opened the window and then Dom lunged himself at the boy. Ian let out a grunt and then chuckled at the now sitting hatchling Indominus.
"Nice to see you too Dom," said Ian as he patted Dom's head.
Alice smiled at seeing Reggie. Reggie was a very nice human, with a true heart of gold. Reggie cared deeply for every animal on the island. He wouldn't sleep until he knew that an animal was all better. One time, a triceratops got sick for a week, and Reggie stood right by her side as he took care of it. He hadn't slept for any of those seven days. The man took his work seriously and never tolerated slacking off. His last assistant took a small five minute break, and it was the end for them because they ended up getting fired at that moment. Another of his assistants hesitated in giving him one of his tools during a dental checkup and was fired effective immediately. This is one man who takes shit from no one or thing. Alice loved this man because he cared for her health unlike anyone else she had come to know and love. Alice let out a happy croon at seeing the man, and he simply responded with a smile. Alice loved Reggie's smile. It was a warm and strong one. Alice could tell that Reggie was an Alpha in his own sense and when he committed to something, he fully committed to it.
"Alice! How are you doing honey?" Reggie asked.
Alice responded with a warm chitter and then she gently nudged Reggie making him chuckle.
"Well that's good to hear! Now, I'm here to finally check on this little bundle of energy on top of Ian."
Dom turned his head to stare at Reggie and then wriggled his hips and tackled the man down with a full on war cry. Dom then began to sniff Reggie and noticed a bit of a strange residue on one of Reggie's hand.
"Uh, Reggie, what's on your hand?" Ian asked.
"Oh, that's just a bit of dried blood from an injured pachy," said Reggie.
"Ah, okay."
Dom then nuzzled his face all over Reggie and then got off of him. Alice then dragged Dom back into the paddock to prevent him from escaping again.
"You're going to have to check on Dom from inside the paddocm. We had a little incident with Dom in which he got out and ran amuck through Main Street," said Ian.
"Oh, so that's what all the fuss was about," responded Reggie.
"Yeah, it was quite an adventure to get him back here."
"Well, let me check on the little guy."
Reggie then went down the stairs and entered through the door on the ground level. Once he stepped inside he walked over to Alice and Dom. Alice told Dom that this man was going to see if he was healthy.
"All right Dom, first, I'll check your teeth out," said Reggie, "Say Ah."
Dom looked over at Alice who told her sibling to open his mouth as wide as he could. Dom tilted his head and asked why. Alice then said to do it and she opened her mouth widely.
Dom then mimicked his sister's action and opened his mouth as wide as he could. Reggie then proceeded to check Dom's teeth. They were still young and new, so it would take some time before having to pull them out so that his adult teeth could grow and settle in, keeping in mind that he and Alice have human DNA in them. Reggie then shifted over to Alice and saw that hee teeth were doing fine. Reggie did an excellent job at pulling out the teeth that were protruding at strange angles, which resulted in Alice's jaw being slightly crooked. But, Alice's jaw was seeming to get straighter with each passing day. Reggie then went on and checked Dom's body and saw that there wasn't a single abnormality on the little guy.
"Well Dom's happy and healthy. I'll come by every so often and check up on the both of you. You keep Dom safe, okay Alice?" Reggie asked.
Alice nodded and then looked over to Dom, who had rolled onto his back and began to chew his tail.
"Dom, that's not good for your tail nor your teeth," said Reggie in a firm tone.
"Ah, Reggie, come on. Let Dom chew his tail. Look at how adorable that is," said Ian from the window ledge.
Reggie then stared at the adorable Indominus and then melted a bit.
"Fine, he can chew his tail if he wants."
Reggie then eimxited the paddock and waved goodbye to Alice. He then left the room with Ian following behind him.
"So, can we check out the files now?" Ian asked.
"Yeah," responded Reggie.
Ian then followed the vet to his office, which was located near the first aid station. Reggie's office wasn't big, but it wasn't small either. It was just enough for the vet. The room had a glass wall which was behind Reggie's desk, giving him a nice view of some of the trees on the island. Reggie's desk was pretty big. It was a bit messy. It had a few folders spread out on top of it, and a few pens and pencils were scattered about. There were a few file cabinets on either side of the desk, which was placed in front of the corners of the glass wall. There was also a small desk lamp on Reggie's desk, obviously to help him see whenever it was dark. Reggie walked over to one of the cabinets and opened it up and then pulled out a manila colored folder labeled 'Indominus Rex.' Reggie then handed the folder to Ian and Ian checked its contents. Ian pulled out his phone and pulled up a picture of the Indomines file he had found.
"What's that?" Reggie asked as he got behind Ian and looked at the photo on his phone.
"This is a picture of the possible false file that was in the drop off bag," said Ian.
"Well, there are obvious differences, the first being the species name."
"Yeah, and why is it that the number for this one is IR-03?"
"You think that there was a third Indominus?"
"Well, Claire only said that there were only two."
"There were only two."
"What if, this is Dom's real file?"
"That would explain why Dom doesn't look completely similar to Alice."
"The biggest difference factors being his eyes, and some of the protrusions on his neck and head."
"Even the most minor details can make a big difference."
"So, what you think that Dom is a whole different specie?"
"No, that's not what I'm saying at all."
"This just doesn't make anymore sense."
"Who did you say was carrying this bag around?"
"Zara Young, Claire's ex-assistant. My mom, Sarah Grady is now Claire's assistant. Claire and Owen found this lying around near the old Visitor Center in the Restricted Area."
"Hm, who was Zara giving this to?"
"Well, she was apparently working with two people who were working at the old Visitor Center, creating more dinosaurs and smuggling embryos off the island via specially made Barbasol cans."
"Well, what if she wasn't working for them?"
"What do you mean Doc?"
"Well, what if Zara was giving them false information? What if Zara was actually working with or for someone else?"
"It's a possibility, but, we don't have any evidence to prove it."
"Seems like you don't have evidence for many things."
"So, there's two things here: One, it's possible that there is a whole other kind of Indominus out there, or, this is Dom's true file."
"How else can we prove that this isn't Dom's file?"
"Well, I guess seeing the other Indominus, the one that Alice apparently ate when she hatched, file would help us."
Reggie got up and grabbed another Indominus file, which was the sibling that Alice ate. He opened it and then held it next to the file that Reggie had of Dom's records.
"Whoa," said Ian.
"What?" asked Reggie.
"Uh, this file doesn't match up to Dom's file whatsoever. Look."
Reggie looked at the records on the file that he pulled out and saw that Ian was right.
"You're right. Let me grab the file that I actually have of Dom's records and we'll compare them with Alice's."
Reggie grabbed Dom's file and then they held them side-by-side.
"They match," said Reggie.
"So, this is Dom's true records. But, who's records are these?" Ian asked as he held up the folder that Reggie gave him that didn't match either Alice nor Dom's files.
"I don't know. I'm going to have to run over this file and then compare it to some of the other dinosaurs on this island."
"Want me to help you out?"
"I'd appreciate the help."
"All right. Let's get cracking."
Reggie and Ian then began to look through each of the files until they could find a match.
Around the closing hours of the park, Owen led Dom and Alice to Rexy's paddock because it was time for Rexy to meet Dom. Or more, it was time for Dom to meet Rexy. The prince and the queen. That would make Alice a princess then. Owen then brought the two to paddock nine's door and he told them to wait until the door fully opened to step in. Owen then left to the false log, where Tim, Alexis, Claire, Olivia, and Casey were going to watch. The door slowly opened and Dom began to shift nervously. Alice chittered at him, telling him that everything was going to be fine. She also told him that he wouldn't be able to understand Rexy very well. Dom chirped and then, once the door was fully open, he ran inside and saw the dense forest around him. Of all the paddocks, Rexy's had to seem the most natural. The tall trees, the soothing forest air, and the firm soil. Dom looked around and couldn't see Rexy yet. Alice had told Dom that Rexy was massive, even though Alice knew that she was the same height as the Queen and that she was going to be a bit bigger than her. Then, a booming sound was heard and they continued in a pattern. It sounded like something was getting closer. Dom got a bit nervous and then moved over to Alice's leg's to seek a bit of comfort. Alice softly crooned at her younger sibling and then watched as the forest green scales appeared into her view. It was the Queen once again. Rexy made her presence more known by letting out a roar, startling Dom.
Rexy looked out and saw White One, and then she looked down and noticed a smaller White One. Did White One have a mate? Is that how the little White One came to be? Rexy rumbled at White One, telling her that it was nice to see her again.
Alice let out a croon, greeting Rexy and doing her best to tell Rexy that the small one was her little brother Dom.
Rexy shifted her amber gaze to Dom and rumbled at the small one.
Dom stepped out from behind Alice and then gave a small chitter.
Rexy tilted her head at the small one and then stepped forward until she was closer to Alice and Dom and began to sniff Dom.
Dom smelled different than Alice. They looked the same, but Dom had a different kind of scent on him. A more...masculine scent. Rexy then figured out that Dom was a male.
Rexy, being content at seeing a hatchling, rumbled her jaws on Dom, making him trill in response. Dom then jumped onto Rexy's snout and began to chew it, but Rexy could hardly feel a thing. Rexy was a little surprised by Dom's actions, but felt a small warm feeling in her heart. It had been a while since Rexy took care of a hatchling, so, she then deemed this small White One as another hatchling to take care of. Rexy tried shaking Dom off, but the little guy had a very strong grip.
Alice smiled at seeing Dom getting closer to Rexy and seeing that Rexy was a bit more content with Dom.
Rexy then simply let Dom continue to chew her snout and then told Alice to follow her once again. Seems like the Mother of Isla Nublar, has just received another child to watch over. What a strange family.
Everyone watched on as Alice followed Rexy deeper into the paddock and they all smiled.
"I expected a bit more of a different reaction," said Tim.
"Well, I guess we can all sleep at night now," said Owen.
Then, Ian and Reggie came into the false log, and stopped to catch their breath.
"Reggie, Ian, what's wrong?" Claire asked.
"Hold on," said Reggie as he placed his hands on his knees and caught his breath even more.
Ian caught his breath faster and responded, "We have made a discovery that will change everything that you've come to know."
"What?" asked Owen.
"Okay, so, you know how there were two Indominus eggs right?"
"Yes."
"You also know how Alice ate the other sibling?"
"Yeah."
"Well get this. Alice never ate her sibling."
Claire arched an eyebrow and everyone else stood with confused faces until Ian spoke again.
"Because her sibling...was never there."
A/N: Hey Turtles! How's life treating you? Good? Well that's fantastic to hear! Anyway, I hope that you guys enjoyed this chapter! Sorry to leave you guys off with a cliffhanger, but fret not! Friday will reveal more! Review and stay tuned for more of this story!
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'Til Next Time!-TM341
