A/N: I return my subjects! THE I's have it! Ya'll are getting another chapter! For any wondering, YES I have seen Jurassic World, and I bloody loved it! Indominus Rex was indeed a bloody clever girl, downright remarkable, really. I found that her death was rather sudden, however, amusing as it was.
And when I saw that there were so few Naruto crossovers with it and all the INSANITY that takes places throughout, well, the gears in my mind got to turning. As another note, this is a sort of prequel to the "Not Going Home" series as a whole, chronicling the adventures of our dimension hopping blond.
Therefore, before reading this, I SERIOUSLY suggest you stop and read that, first before venturing into the silliness that is this crack ficlet.
LET THE NEW ERA BEGIN! Also yes, I've purged another few stories as of this mark. Now...
...off we go! I proudly present another chapter for Clever Girl! Its meant to be short and sweet, so I hope ya like it! AND YES, I take some unabashed shots at Jurassic Park Three, here =D And yes, I strongly believe that there was more than one Spino only Isla Sorna. This story reflects that belief. I also credit the brilliant Muddle Not Fiddle by Evilfuzzy9 for inspiring me to do this. Now...
...for reals this time! Hope ya like it! Its nice and long! And the FEELS! Prepare yourself for the funny's AND feels! Its derpy, funny-full of fourth-wall breaking-silly, not to mention filled with drama at the end and...hey...HEY! WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?! GET OUT OF HERE! LET GO! YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO ME! I HAVE RIGHTS YOU-Mhrmrhrgle?!
"Quack."
...you...you DARE defecate upon my head?!"
"Quack?"
"Flee, duck. FLEE FOR YOUR LIFE!"
"QUACK~!
~Indy in a very strange moment...!
My Rex is...
STOP!
Stop stop stop stop STOOOOOOOOPU!
I, Uzumaki Naruto, god of all that is and ever was, am officially breaking the fourth wall here, readers! I cannot allow this story to continue like this!
We can't just jump to the meat of the matter like that! A lot of stuff happened before Indy met her sister! Like the time she shed her very first tear...ah! Or when I murdered that boy for talking about her ass! The duck incident! Raptors! Rexes! Tearful moments! So many touching of them! Not to mention my glorious ramen escapde! I SHALL NOT ALLOW THE AUTHOR TO GLOSS OVER IT! By the power of the log and all that is noodley broth, I shall not allow it!
ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL OF NEONZANGETSU! Aaaaaaaand...
...rewind!
(Hours earlier...)
Indy was lost.
There could be no other word for her precarious predicament as she threaded her way through the bustling crowds. Lost, alone, and hungry amidst endless throngs of walking meat sacks, all within arms reach. Longing to sink her teeth into them-okay, nope! Couldn't do that! Absolutely could not do that! No matter how much her stomach ached and grumbled-regardless of the hunger-she knew to give in meant disaster. Not for her of course, but for the trust Naruto had placed in her and her self-restraint.
Never had she lost him before; he always seemed to find her before she went too far.
Not today.
She'd told herself she was just investigating that strange feeling from before-yet when she'd turned around he was gone and she was alone. It felt like something was tugging at her, trying to get her attention but what? As if some entity had reached out across time and space and latched onto her senses, she felt herself drawn to it. Indy didn't even know what "it" was! Not in the least! She only knew that something-someone-was here on this island, and that something was calling to her.
That something had caused her to lose sight of papa.
Now, panic seized her. So too, did the hunger, striking with renewed force.
Grnrgle...
The young Indominus groaned softly, doubling over and leaning against a nearby wall.
'So...famished...
Naruto had stressed to her over and over again that she wasn't to feed on humans while on this island. Naruto was alpha and papa both. She obeyed his commands. But she was sooo hungry, and she loathed the taste of human food! Her eyes swiveled beneath the sunglasses, contemplating a particularly heavyset man waddling past in a shirt and shorts several sizes too small for his bulky body. A human would've looked away out of sheer disgust; Indy simply stared, following the obese tourist with hungry eyes.
Her stomach growled anew. Just a little flesh, it pleaded. Something to take the edge off.
Naruto would never find out; after all, what he didn't know wouldn't hurt him, right?
Surely a few bites wouldn't hurt-GAH! No! Nope nope nope NOPE! But it was so difficult...!
So many sights.
Sounds?
Smells!
Splat.
She stopped in her tracks, gawking as a wet, milky-brown substance spilled all over her face. The world stood still. Her mind as well, refusing to accept what had just happened. The chances of being shat upon on Isla Nubar were relatively high; the chances of the brown stuff falling upon her from a random bird, much less one of these, were slim to none. And yet, it had just happened. Fingers twitching she reached up, plucking the sunglasses from her face, exposing burning amber eyes. Those slitted irises locking on the culprit like a heat seeking missile.
"Quack."
The perpetrator alighted on the railing next to her, an insufferable smug look on its billed beak. For a long, terrifying moment, nothing happened. Indy stared at it, eyes flickering like embers behind her glasses. She felt like crying in that instant-until she felt something else. All the world stained itself red, the fires of hunger and the pangs of loneliness falling away as she glared bloody red daggers at the foul fowl responsible for shitting spectacularly all over her.
A duck.
...you...you DARE defecate upon my head?!"
"Quack?"
Indy twitched. Out came the claws.
"Flee, bird. FLEE FOR YOUR LIFE!"
"QUACK~?!"
In the end, Indy had canard for lunch.
Needless to say, security ended up being called...
...and promptly found themselves tossed into the mosasaur pen.
"Oh, fuck all kinds of duck!"
Naruto nearly facepalmed when he happened upon the aftermath of Indy's tantrum nearly an hour later. He knew her handiwork at a lone glance; the crater, the blood, the stain on the floor, all those...feathers. What? Rolling a piece of pummeled plume between his fingers, he took a moment to marvel at the sheer iron of his statement. She'd literally eaten the shit out of that mallard for taking a crap on her. Ah, benefits that came with knowing his little Indy...
"Oi," he grunted, grabbing hold of a random passerby, snagging the teenager by the arm. "Have you seen a girl? Bright eyes, silvery hair, looks exotic?"
Blech, kid looked like total tool.
"You mean the girl with the great ass? Totalllllllllly!"
Whatever else he might've said died as Naruto tossed him into the water himself. Within moments, he was Mosasaur chow.
"Nobody talks about my Indy like that."
"You there!"
"Hmm? What? Nope, wasn't me!" the blond blinked, turning his head rapidly from side to side. A poster was promptly thrust into it. Indy's scowling face stared back at him. Not quite a mugshot, but not a very flattering image, either. The waters of the cove were still a visceral red from where she'd thrown her pursuers to the mosasuar, panicked people still milling about. Well, so much for anonymity.
"Have you seen this girl?" the guard demanded, thrusting the picture of the camera footage at him with renewed force.
Naruto sighed.
"This is not the girl you are looking for." he drawled, waving a hand before the guard's visage, plucking at the strings of his mind. Honestly, it was almost second nature now; the guard's weak mind melted like putty at his touch, easily reshaped and molded to his will. Ah, one simply had to love the classics. The Star Wars universe had taught him well, indeed.
"This...is not the girl I am looking for." the man repeated blandly, his expression turning slack.
"You will forget this ever happened."
"I will forget this ever happened."
"You will now strip to your boxers and break dance like a fool until the sun sets."
"I will-
"Aaaaand that's my cue." Wisely, he walked away long before the man could divest himself of his uniform. Crisis averted, for the time being.
At that very moment, his mind was seriously lamenting his lack of Indy, panicking like any parent wold. The different? She could go on a rampage and start eating people! She'd made him disable her tracker long ago, and he hadn't thought to mark her with another Hiraishin seal after she'd torn the last one off. End result? He'd no way of finding her without going full god mode and revealing himself to the populace. And, as he had just seen firsthand, she didn't take well to being left alone.
Surely she couldn't cause that much trouble...?
"Hi."
"?"
Rexy stared down at this puny human in her pen, and wondered if she was food. It had just communicated with her. But it wasn't another rex.
"Are you what I'm looking for?" she warbled, sounding very much like one of her own kind.
Had Rexy possessed lips, she would have frowned.
There it was again.
Odd.
This little sack of meat had somehow wormed its way into her enclosure, and she wasn't rightly sure if it was a meal or not. She'd already had her fill of goat today. Was this a chance to hunt? Lowering her body on her pillar-like legs she dared to sniff at the puny creature standing near her foot. The strange girl didn't so much as budge. Odd. Most meat sacks shrieked and ran when she did that. Both baffled and confused, the massive dinosaur raised her head and inhaled-
"ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOARGH!"
The little meat sack didn't take too kindly to being roared at, no she did not.
A growl snaked through those teeth, emerging as a barking snarl.
In the next instant, another rex leered back at her.
"Bite me and I will eat you." it snarled a challenge.
Rexy bolted upright with a stard, blinking. The rex before her was gone, as though it had never been. All that remained of the Indominus was a muddy footprint. She looked about slowly, finding neither the girl nor the challenger where they had been only moments before. Momentarily, she considered searching for them...
NOPE.
She was getting too old for this shit.
Indy sighed softly to herself as the great beast plodded away. Only once she was certain of its departure did she dare emerge rom the foliage where she had hidden herself. The thought of tangling with another rex had been a frightening one, despite her bluff. This was not what she had sought, and she knew it was time to move on. Once Rexy had departed the enclosed paddock, she followed after her, humming softly. Devouring that duck had done wonders for her mood, it seemed.
It seemed she must search elsewhere. Because that strange presence was still there in the back of her mind, tugging her ever onward. She needed to find it. Whatever it was it was growing stronger now, vibrating upon her very bones, a steady thrum-thrum-thrum sound, like static in her ears.
She paid absolutely no mind to the gaping hole she'd made in the first place...
..nor of the Rex she'd inadvertently loosed on the island.
Claire Dearing felt her jaw drop as the alerts began pouring in, one after the other.
"WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?!"
It would be the beginning of a very, very, VERY long day...
Naruto was not good at hide and seek.
Not in the least.
Not at all.
He'd always been dismal-ah hell, he'd sucked royally!-at the game even as a child, and that was before he'd become a living deity. He hated chasing after people as a general rule, especially those who didn't want to be found. ESPECIALLY when said someone loosed a Rex on the park! He wasn't even going to ask how or why she'd done it; it was just like her not to give a damn about anything when she was focused on an objective, or hunting.
But this wasn't hunting. Everything she'd done thus far suggested she was looking for something. The chaos in the park was more a result of casual negligence on her part than anything else.
And, as much as he would have LOVED to ride a T-Rex like a bucking bronco, he had better things to do.
Things that involved tracking this little troublemaker down before she burned down half the island! He told himself he could just collect the old rex later if he really wanted to bring a souvenir-because Indy was so much more to him than that-
Indeed, by the time he'd picked up her scent again-nothing else to track her with-her path of carnage seemed almost singular.
"WHERE IN THE HELL IS SHE?!"
He had the most sickening sensation he already knew...
Indy chirped softly as she pushed the door to the pens open.
"Hello."
Blue squawked in surprise at the sudden noise, wheeling to face this sudden threat. "Intruder!"
Indy merely cocked her head, contemplating. Both hands folded behind her back, her amber eyes met those of the raptor, unflinching. Blue squealed, flashing her claws, but the interloper didn't retreat. Instead she took a step forward, arms at her sides. There was something...off about her. Blue didn't know what it was, but it set her on edge. Her every instinct screamed at her to submit or flee outright. This was no mere girl, she knew it somehow, but even so, she couldn't quite place her claw on it.
"Are you what I'm looking for?" she asked?
Blue paused.
"...are you talking to me?" she growled back.
Remarkably, the girl answered fluently.
"I'm also looking for my father," the hybrid continued calmly, not missing a beat, "Have you seen him?" she was quite proud of herself, really. Years on Isla Sorna had taught her to make use of every bit of her genetic makeup, she could speak as fluently in chirps and growls as she could with words. And now she vocalized her intentions clearly to the pack of raptors before her. "I need to find him. Will you help me?"
Before Blue could even formulate a response, the rest of the pack arrived, drawn by the commotion.
Swarming out of the undergrowth, snarling and hissing, they moved as one unit to encircle the intruder.
"Sisters." Indy marveled at the pack, slightly jealous as she made the connection. How nice it must be, to have siblings.
Charlie honked angrily. "She IS talking about us, isn't she?"
Delta looked at her like she'd grown a second head. "I say! What nonsense is this? She sounds like a raptor!"
"She does!" Echo huffed in disbelief, stalking forward. "Oi, you there! We have no idea what you're on about but this is OUR territory! Get out of here!" She tried nosing the strange human to get her point across, only for a sharp bark to put her in her place. Fangs flashed in the muggy afternoon and Indy snarled back, bearing her own pearly whites. In he next instant Echo found herself pinned, trapped by those deceptively weak-looking hands, clawed fingers on her throat.
"You will not disrespect me!" the bark radiated authority. "You WILL help me!"
Blue hissed.
Anything else she might've said was cut off by the sound of footfalls on the catwalk above.
"Okay girls, time for-WHAT THE HELL?!"
Owen Grady didn't even have words for what he was witnessing.
He didn't know who this young woman was, where she'd come from, or even how she'd wound up in his paddock when he wasn't looking. Not only was this place off limits from the park-as far off the beaten path as one could get!-but it was guarded by all manner of security. One did not simply "get lost" and wander this far into the restricted area. And yet for all intensive purposes, it seemed that this girl had done just that, evading all the guards and security measures in place.
And she was pinning Echo like it was nothing.
"What are you?"
Indy simply placed a finger to her lips.
"Shhh..."
"Raptors. No, of course she'd go see the raptors."
Naruto groaned as he recognized the telltale shrieks in the distance. He knew those vocalizations anywhere...and was that the roar of a motorcycle? No no no, probably just imagining things. There was no doubt in his mind where Indy was head now; her meandering path had taken her well into the restricted area and beyond...there was only one thing out here that could possibly be drawing her out...family.
And the worst part?
She was going to learn the hard way...
...sometimes blood doesn't always love you back.
She'd finally found it.
After what felt like days, but had really only been a few hours, of searching, Indy had finally tracked down the source. This strange sensation that had been pulling on her psyche from the moment she'd set food on the isle, it was here. She was mere moments away from finding the truth of that which was plaguing her so. She was...excited. And all that she needed to do was get inside. Well, that was the easy part. Almost terrifying.
Gulping, she tensed her body, took a running start...
...and leaped.
There was absolutely nothing to tell her that she was ascending, then falling besides the fact that her stomach appeared to be making a concerted attempt to relocate to her skull – the sky outside was utterly unmoving from her perspective. Leaning over to look down at her feet and arms she could see a whorled pate of colors shooting by from below as she fell towards the paddock, but the wind was nothing short of eerie.
For a terrifying instant her body was completely weightless, hanging between the heaven and earth. Indy could see her legs flailing wildly beneath her, searching for traction and finding none. Behind her, he was idly aware of disbelieving shout and cries of pure terror. Ohhhh, might've jumped too high. If she landed at the wrong angle...
...not something to look forward too.
A broken neck wasn't something she'd be able to regenerate from, either...
And on the off chance that she did make it without attracting undue attention, she would be alone against what, if her senses were to be believed, was likely a very powerful and very pissed off predator on equal or greater footing with her. In confined quarters no less. Not the most ideal situation in hindsight, but it was the only one that ended with her curiosity satisfied. The exhileration of this sudden lunge pounded in her ears, matching her hammering heartbeat.
In that moment, Indy just couldn't help herself. She whooped!
It felt oddly like flying, albeit without quite the same ride quality. The wind was roaring fiercely in her ears, but somehow her jump was kept level, so rather than let it fall wildly, she arced back at the gaping cell like an arrow loosed from a bow. It wasn't as bad as she'd expected really. It didn't change the fact that she was still falling from well on a mile up with absolutely no way to catch herself, but it was something.
And something was certainly better than nothing.
It suddenly occurred to Indy that she had no way of breaking her fall regardless-whether she made it or not was irrelevant. It was still going to hurt. And it did.
Clunk.
In that instant, all of her being focused on stifling the shout that threatened to come roaring out of her throat.
Her shoulder collided violently with the ground as she landed and rolled, popping out then back in again, mud and leaves flashing furiously across her face before she finally rolled to a jarring halt. Ow! A millions times! Ow! All around her she could feel-hear-her world spinning, rushing by, the occasional gasp leaping from her lips as she struggled to process this and the searing pain in her right arm. She allowed herself a brief moment to recover-to savor her triumph-before clamoring back to her feet.
The world was silent around her, holding its breath.
She wasn't sure she should have come here; snuck into this particular pen. But it was here that the scent was strongest, and here that she was determined to have her answers. A thought and she was back in her true body once more, tail thrashing restlessly behind her. It felt good to be back in her scales again, nothing to threaten her, nothing to harm her...
...almost.
Towering walls on either side threatened to stir her claustrophobia all over again, even in her large body she felt small and puny compared to those great towering monoliths. Of course, she could scale the walls at any time in her human form, but the towering spires invoked a strange sense of unease all the same. An irritated snarl snaked between her teeth.
The sudden presence of yet another dominant animal, however, commandeered her attention.
It wasn't long before she spotted the creature, lurking between the branches.
"Come out!"
Branches rustled, and something did.
Everything collapsed down around her as she saw the beast's bulk, met its cold gaze. She could feel it crushing her. Everything was moving so fast. She was drowning in water she couldn't see. Every fear she'd ever had came back to her at once. Monsters surrounded her. Her stomach inverted, her hope shriveled out of existence and her heart caved in.
Indy stared at her "sibling" in disbelief.
At first she felt awe, then shock, followed by fear, that fear swiftly becoming tentative when she saw the dead look in those eyes. Sibling. Sibling. SIBLING! The thought was both her own and not her own, burning like a star in the back of her brain. Thought itself was suddenly an effort, it took everything she had to remember who she was, to concentrate...
Indy glared back at her twin-was it a doppleganger or sibling?-for long several seconds without letting up, veins throbbing visibly in her forehead. Those amber eyes were cast in shadow, and gleaming with baleful lights as she struggled to make sense of this creature. Its angry lips were curled back almost of their own accord, barring her teeth in a decidedly vicious snarl.
"What are you...?
"ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US."
...what."
Another series of snarls and chirps.
"MY HOVERCRAFT IS FULL OF EELS."
"Mocked. I...am I being mocked, here?" Indy snorted in disbelief, baffled by the creature-her sibling?-odd vocalizations before her. "You, there! Beast! Erm...sister? Make sense!" Its grunts and warbles sounded warped and distorted, by comparison, mindless gibberish that made not a lick of sense besides. She stared at the creature for a long moment, this twin, this reflection of herself. It mirrored her movements, looked just like her, only larger-a good foot longer, deadlier, sleeker. But this...this was her sister! She felt it in her bones! Surely her sibling wouldn't...
"MY-
"Quiet!" Indy snapped, roaring, and the larger creature cowered as though it had been struck. "Cease your gibberish!"
There was a moment of shared silence between them-comprehension, perhaps?-as the two dinosaurs stared one another down. Indy clicked her jaw, irritated. This didn't make any sense. A sibling. She had a sister, or, at the very least, a relative. Why hadn't she been told? Naruto, surely he knew. And yet...he hadn't. They were family. Did that make this creature before her, this addled, dim-witted thing, family? Indy wondered at the idea, at having a sibling like the raptors.
"Very good. Now, are you talking to-
"SOMEONE SET US UP THE BOMB."
An orange eye twitched.
When it stepped forward she retreated. And it advanced again. A seed of dread planted itself in her gut.
"Could you please stop-
"THIS IS NOT SPARTA." Somehow, the gibberish sounding...menacing. Her "sister" advanced another step more, lowering its head.
There was an awkward silence in the enclosure.
"Okay, wha-
"RAAARGH!"
The attack as as abrupt as it was sudden; before she could finish that thought larger Indominus surged forward, bellowing mightily. Panic gripped her heart in a vice, confusion dulling her reactions. It was in that instant in a blindingly fast move, that her own sibling clamped its massive jaws around her neck. Then there was only pain. Time slowed as she thrashed-struggling against the agonizing vice against her jugular. What? No, that didn't make any sense...they were family...family didn't...
"Mine."
Indominus paused and cocked its head, listening. Its grip slackened, just enough for Indy to write free, headbutting her sibling and driving the larger beast away. Then she was falling, tumbling to the ground, bleeding-a great gout of red-as she clutched at her wounded neck. The wound was healing, but slowly, far too slowly, and her sibling was still oncoming...
"Mine mine..."
Now that Indy listened, she too, heard something.
"Mine mine mine...
And it sounded a lot like...?
...mine mine mine mine...
Indy's eyes teared up.
'Daddy.'
...mine mine mine MINEMINEMINEMINEMINEMINEMINEMINEMINEMINE!"
CRUNCH.
The dim-witted creature grunted in surprise as a sparking fist found its face, launching it out of the enclosure and through the plated wall with all the speed of a hellfire missile. Its body tumbled wildly in the air, claws, scrabbling for a handhold and finding none. Skidding across the gravel its tail lashed out out, anchoring its to a tree, slowing its descent as its momentum ground to a halt. Snarling, it roared...
...and something roared back.
"..."
Naruto stood over her and lowered his smoking fist, grinning like a madman. Blue eyes locked on the Indominus-Diny!-smoldering with all the wrath only a god could produce.
"Mine."
A/N: WHAT WILL BE THE FATE OF THE OTHER INDOMINUS?! Reconcilation, or destruction?! VOTE! Note, I'm gonna have to call her DINY, opposite of Indy, since she'd a dim-witted thing. Now, be sure and review!
Regardless, its going to be one hell of a throwdown, as next chapter wraps up this story! And leads onto another one...SO VOTE! VOOOOOOOOTE SO I CAN GET THE CHAPTER OUT!
Aye, this is a short series primarily to show how Naruto both met and "tamed" if you will, Indominus Rex, who will appear later on during his travels. Of course we all know she's a savage beast, but I like to think that she's misunderstood because of her horrible upbringing...just a little...
So...in the Immortal Words of Atlas...
...Review, Would You Kindly? Hope you enjoyed the story! And of course, enjoy the preview! Hope it makes ya grin! It also hints at another story...one that's gonna blow your socks off! For those of you who are familiar with Killa, Naruto's pet Xenomorph, well...SURPRISE! ALSO I HAVE IMPROVED UPON THE LAST PREVIEW, WHICH SHALL TAKE PLACE NEXT CHAPTER! BE SURE AND READ IT, I SAY! IT ELABORATES ON A GREAT DEAL OF INFORMATION REGARDING INDY'S EGGS!
(Preview)
Killa hissed.
"Mine."
Indy hissed right back, glowering up at the towering alien.
"MINE."
Naruto facepalmed.
"Oi, now...
"Oh, I've got an idea~!"
"I do not see the point of that." Indy sighed, looking up from her clawed fingers, uncaring as the the deadly razors shifted back to harmless human nails once more, "What could you possibly mean by-what you doing with my egg?" Amber eyes watched him intently, never once leaving the prize in his hands. She was wholly protective of her clutch, every one of them Naruto knew; just as he knew she was going to bite his head off if he didn't explain himself posthaste.
"Now wait just a second! Don't get all bitey!"
Pearly whites flashed. "Explain yourself."
Her offspring held limitless possibilities; even she herself admitted she didn't truly know what would hatch from the tiny cluster she'd spawned. Naruto's DNA, melded with hers...even a god such as him couldn't predict something like that.
"C'mon, its just one egg. I thought I'd go poking around with it."
"'Tis my egg." she hissed. "One. Of. Our. Children. Unhand it."
"Reading Shakespeare again, huh?" When her leer didn't abate he deflated with a sigh. "Look, if its that important to you, I'll just conjure up another one from your DNA. After all, we have to do SOMETHING with it. Its not like we could-oh."
"Oh? Oh, what?"
Naruto simply grinned. "I've an idea."
"You already said that."
"Libel! How would you like to meet me when I was first starting out?"
Her head tilted. "I do not see the appeal. I like you as you are; not some powerless weakling. Why would I wish to meet an alternate version of you?"
"I'll take you to my favorite hunting grounds~! Ever heard of the Forest of Death?"
The queen's head whipped around so swiftly he was certain she'd given herself whiplash.
Her eyes sparkled like diamonds in the sky.
"Truly?!"
WHAT ARE THEY FIGHTING OVER?! VOTE! R&R~! =D