17. THE WORKER VILLAGE
Based from the movie Jurassic Park 3 written by Peter Buchman, Alexander
Payne, and Jim Taylor
Wednesday, July 13, 1999 Isla Sorna, InGen Complex
The rescue team made their way through the forest. Grant sighed as he continued to try to walk with his good leg. The bite from the Dilo was really hurting him. He just couldn't understand anything though. How did he get himself talked into going to this island in the first place? He knew the main reason was money, but at the time he was sure that they were only going to be making an aerial tour of the island not actually landing on it!
As he walked, he looked at the two Kirbys and wondered what in the world was wrong with them. They'd lost their minds the second they decided to go to this island of death. Why in God's name did they think that their son could possibly still be alive on this island? He saw so much death on Isla Nublar eight years ago that he'd almost decided to leave the profession of Paleontology. After seeing that juvenile Tyrannosaur eat Ed Regis like she did gave Grant nightmares for months, and that was just the beginning. Then there was the nightmares about the Adult Tyrannosaur that had swat him with it's tail sending him sailing in the air and going splat on the park road. It then took him a year to finally get the nightmares about the Velociraptors to leave his mind. Now he was back on another island filled with dinosaurs. Grant sighed again. There were more nightmares to come in the future.
They then came around a corner where they found themselves at a dead end. An embankment ended the tree growth. There was a large complex building with several small houses near the building. At the far end of the area was an open field with what looked like a small trailer at the far end where a cliff was. Grant thought "that must've belonged to Malcolm, because only he would be stupid enough to put a field vehicle near a cliff." Grant smiled. Making fun of Ian Malcolm always made Grant feel better.
"I bet ya Eric's in there," Paul said breaking the silence. "Don't ya think? I'd bet my bottom dollar." Paul starting running down the embankment with Amanda following not far behind.
"What do ya think it is," Billy asked.
"As far as I'm concerned," Nash replied. "It's the Four Seasons!"
They jumped down from the canopy, and started to walk down the embankment following the Kirbys. A moment later, they were on the campus of the village and a large building, walking past several small houses one bigger then the others with the word "Manager" written on the top of the door.
They went farther to see a small gas station with a destroyed red jeep wrangler in front of it. They walked into the back of the compound where the large building was, seeing an InGen logo above the door. "Bastards," Grant said staring right at the logo.
"Huh," Amanda asked.
"Shhh," Grant said. "Alright, let's move to the trailer."
"The trailer," Paul asked confused. "Why would Eric be in there? We must look in that building!"
"Listen Mr. Kirby," Grant began, "I want you to understand that we could find weapons or who knows what else in that trailer. That had to have belonged to Malcolm's team when they were here. We have no choice but to at least take a quick look around it."
Paul sighed. "Fine."
Grant led the team onward and toward the trailer near the edge of the island. As they approached the small trailer they could tell from the looks of the exterior of it that it had been attacked, because there were humongous dents in the sides of it.
The team moved around the trailer taking a good look at it and all around to make sure there was no danger.
"I think I know why this trailer is near the edge," Nash implied.
Grant perked up. He was crouched down looking at the tires. However, he now got up and went over to Nash. They were at the cliff's edge looking at the end. There at one time had been some kind of connector hooking this trailer to more then likely a second one. Grant peered down below at the rocky bottom of the island. There was nothing down there, but he was sure he knew what happened.
"Looks like Ian got more then he bargained for on this island," Grant said. "Come on. Let's see what's in this thing."
Grant moved toward the door at the front end of the trailer. He pulled on the handle unsuccessfully. The door was apparently jammed after so many years of not being used. Grant looked closer seeing that there was a lot of rust on the door handle and he looked at his hands seeing that some of it had come off on his hands. Grant whipped his hands on off on his shirt.
"Would you like some help," Amanda asked.
Grant turned around smiling. "I'm fine thank you."
Grant turned around and pulled again, this time not ready for it to open. The door actually opened this time flinging Grant back and to the ground. Everyone had a good laugh before Billy helped Grant to his feet. Grant grunted and shook his head as he stepped onto the trailer.
Inside the trailer was a complete disaster. There were all kinds of devices laying on the floor and scattered on the lab tables. There was one table in the center of the trailer that had some type of medicine bottles sitting on the edge of it.
Grant walked up to the table and looked at the label. He smiled as he read what it said. "Morphine. Who would've ever thought that Ian would need Morphine on a trip like this?"
Grant started laughing a little at this. Everyone else was confused at what was so funny so they just ignored Grant's rambling and looked around a little bit themselves. Udesky bent down to the floor and picked up what looked like a radio.
"Dr. Grant," Udesky said, pulling up the radio.
Grant walked over and took the radio. "Hmmm." Grant fiddled with the buttons on the radio, trying to get it to turn on. "It's broke."
Grant placed the radio on the table and continued to look around. There were two busted computers at the far end of the trailer. The monitors had crashed on the ground with all of the electrical equipment inside showing on the outer shell of the monitor.
Ben Talon looked at some packages on the table at the front entrance to the trailer. They weren't labeled, but just by looking at what was inside, he could tell what they were. Grant was now starting to walk back toward the front area of the trailer, so Ben ushered him over with his hand. Grant walked over and looked at the packages.
"Nonlethals," Ben implied. "They were just sitting here like someone was going to use them for some purpose."
"What purpose would Nonlethals cause," Grant asked.
"Well, this is something like." Ben stopped. He couldn't quite remember what it was called. Then he recalled what it was and snapped his fingers. "Alexander's ragtime band. That's what this. And this is what looks to be area-dispersal smoke cubes. They only produce smoke, but." Ben trailed off as he looked to the ground and something with a skull and cross bones on the label. He picked it up. "Looks like someone was having to decide on the best item to use on something or someone. They chose the right object in my opinion. These are Cholinesterase bombs. I'm telling ya Dr. Grant, if this was the best they had on taking something down, there's not going to be anything else in here worth taking for our use. We should go on in the labs."
Grant nodded in agreement. "Alright. Let's move out people."
Everyone left the trailer behind slamming the door as they walked toward the Site B labs. The team continued to walk forward as they neared the front entrance to the large InGen lab building.
"Alright. There's no telling what may be in here," Grant said. " Everyone.be alert." The group wondered into the facility. A reception desk, in front of them, had a phone on it. Amanda walked over to it, picked it up, but only to find the phone out of service. She slammed it down.
"Dang," Amanda said.
"You expected it to work or something," Guitierrez asked, smiling.
"No," Amanda said.
"C'mon.there's a hallway in that direction, let's take it," Paul said, already starting to walk down it going passed several offices in the building. All of the doors to each office were opened, and one room looked to have been a briefing room at one time.
"Eric," Amanda yelled.
"Ms. Kirby," Grant scolded. "Please."
"Sorry," Amanda said, looking away and crossing her arms. She was getting really tired of Grant bossing her around. She wanted to find her son and fiancé now. She didn't want to be sneaking around like they were spies or something. All she wanted to do was locate the two before something bad happened to them.
"Let's go," Paul said. They walked into the hallway. Behind them, sunlight peered through the windows, revealing a thick buildup of dust. The rest of the facility had an eerie darkness to it. The party continued into the hallway.
Paul and Billy saw two vending machines in front of them. "Oh my gosh, thank God," Paul said reaching into his pocket. "Let's see. ah, here's a buck. a buck ten. anyone have a nickel?"
Billy ran over and slammed his foot into the machine, causing glass to fall out everywhere. Amanda screamed at this sudden sound. Billy stocked up on snacks. Paul tried to kick the other one down as well, but the glass stayed intact. Paul then limped away from the machine, and they proceeded into the main facility, eating snacks consisting of Payday's and Snickers.
"I'm thirsty now," Amanda informed, putting her hand to her throat.
"Ms. Kirby we are fortunate to even find food," Grant replied, shaking his head.
They continued down some stairs, and started examining the various machines and devices. Among the devices were long aisles of embryo containment units and incubators. Amanda walked up to one of the machines where some broken dinosaur eggs were. She touched them and felt the smooth surface of the eggs. "So.this is how you make dinosaurs," Amanda asked.
"No," Grant said still looking around the room to see if there was danger. "This is how you play God." Grant then saw a hallway up ahead going off farther into the facility.
Alan Grant started forward while Guitierrez, Talon, and Billy followed him. Amanda, Paul, Nash, and Udesky managed to get their eyes off of the machinery and saw that their leaders were leaving and they bolted after them, afraid of what would happen if they were left alone.
Grant entered the hallways and picked up a flashlight on a shelf on the side of the wall. He turned it on but it didn't work. He sat it back down and continued forward. After about two minutes of walking through darkness, he came to a small room filled with computers, notebooks, and logs. He was suddenly compelled to take a look in the files to see just where the Dilophosaurs came from, because he remembered Malcolm telling him what animals were on this island and he didn't remember spitters being one of them. He ran over and turned on one of the computers. It flickered on with a low hum. It was very primitive, nothing compared to the computers Grant was used to seeing modernly. Grant still hated computers, but with Billy's help he was able to try learning how they worked and did now have some knowledge of them, but he still believed that they had it in for him.
He scrolled down through all of the strange files that consisted of island security, employee hiring lists, and employee comfort satisfactions. He continued on till he came to one marked Lines of Species. He opened it and a list spread down the screen. It listed all the different dinosaurs InGen created on Site B.
INGEN Bioengineering Species List for Site B Facilities
SA-Original Animals from Henry Wu
Tyrannosaurus Rex-Carnivore, self-proclaimed king of the dinosaurs. Very dangerous creature
Maiasauria-Herbivore, parental instincts.
Stegosaurus-Herbivore, very territorial, but only when herd is in danger
Triceratops-Herbivore, very dangerous creature when threatened
Procompsognathus-Carnivore, these are pack hunters that aren't dangerous when alone. However don't stay around if there are more
Velociraptor-Carnivore, extremely dangerous, stay away from at all times
Apatosaurus-Herbivore, humble and kind. Only danger consists of being stepped on
Hadrosaurus-Herbivore, stays around the Apatosaurs often, not dangerous
Pachycephalosaurus-Herbivore, very territorial and dangerous, domed skull is its weapon of defense
Carnotaurus-Carnivore, very dangerous and has a Camo ability that hides it from view of its prey
SB, new animals produced at Site C. Some moved here.
Suchomimus-Carnivore, very docile, but also territorial. Very fast moving and unpredictable
Dilophosaurus-Carnivore, very vicious and has a venom spitting capability
Pteranodon-Reptilian carnivore, unlike most Pterosaurs this one has teeth more then likely from wrong DNA sequences
Plesiosaurus-Marine Carnivore, the only marine species at Site B. Very dangerous animal
Othnielia-Herbivore, hangs around in trees and only attacks when threatened
Megalodon-Marine Carnivore, prehistoric shark, not created through amber, but from the combination of mutations from several breads of shark
Liopleurodon-Marine Carnivore, humongous creature and very dangerous
Segnosaurus-Carnivore, feathered creature that is extremely dangerous, almost as dangerous as the Velociraptors
The top of the list was marked SA, and then numbered ten species. Most of them Grant had seen in his visit to Jurassic Park.
About three fourths of the way through the file, SA switched to SB and began to number an entirely new list of dinosaurs. Dilophosaur was number two. Something called Plesiosaurus came later, and several other animals were listed, such as Pteranodons. Some of these were on Jurassic Park's original list that Ian Malcolm had read on John Arnold's computer on Isla Nublar. However some like the Plesiosaurs and Suchomimus were new and different. "It looks like InGen resumed their old tricks," Grant observed. He looked farther down to see a small note at the bottom.
Small Note from Dr. Wu
The SB list is still in the works as the newest dinosaurs at our Site C labs. All but one were tested and created on Isla Nublar. The Plesiosaurs were created here for the fact of no room on Nublar to do so. Their paddock here is much more useful to us for our testing and destruction of the DX virus.
"Or continued them," Billy replied. "Just because Nublar was evacuated and destroyed doesn't mean that Site B and apparently this place called Site C were at the same time. For all we know, InGen could have continued to produce dinosaurs and new species before Hurricane Clarissa ever hit."
"They had that window. That must be where these other animals came from," Grant agreed. Grant closed out the file and shook his head. "I can't believe they didn't learn their lesson as soon as Jurassic Park went haywire. Why continue," Grant griped. Grant looked down at the table again noticing some kind of medicine bottle sitting on the table. Grant picked it up and smiled as he realized that it was what he was looking for. It was the medication for the Dilophosaur poison. Grant took the small needle out of the bottle that was filled with the medication and injected himself with it. He suddenly started to feel a little bit better, but not too much. "That takes care of that."
Billy smiled. "Good. I didn't want to lose ya. If you go, then it's just me and these damn tourists."
"Same here," Grant replied, smiling. They turned and started to leave the room seeing that they were all extremely angry and staring at the two Paleontologists. "Sorry."
Amanda snickered and walked out of the room followed by the rest of the team. For once Grant and Billy weren't in the lead of the team, and they felt a little bad for what they'd said, however, it was only a little bad. The team continued down the hallway to exit the facility. They slowly walked back into the large lab.
Amanda looked around and was starting to get nervous and it was making her want to find her son even more. "Eric," Amanda yelled, again.
"Jeez. Amanda," Paul said. "Do you always have to yell that out? Dr. Grant says that's a bad idea."
"Dr. Grant this, Dr. Grant said that," Amanda said starting to get an attitude.
"Well why did we hire him if we aren't even going to use him," Paul asked.
"I'm looking for my Eric and Ben, and I'm going to continue yelling for them," Amanda said walking away from Paul with pride.
"Fine, then when one of those Tricicloplots comes after you, don't come crying to me," Paul said walking in his own direction.
"Amanda. please don't yell," Grant said. " With each of your screams you put us in more danger."
Amanda didn't really say anything. She continued looking around at all the devices and tanks. She then noticed a mannequin of a dinosaur, behind a tank. She looked at it very curiously. Then she leaned toward it, closely examining what she saw. Suddenly, the mannequins' eyes moved, and just as Amanda noticed it, the thing lunged at her, sending her backwards while she screamed.
"Amanda," Paul yelled.
"Everybody this way," Grant yelled.
The Velociraptor jumped through a tank, tossing glass everywhere. The group ran underneath the stairs. Grant, Nash, and Udesky shut gates on both sides of the staircase, shutting the raptor off from them. Instead, the raptor climbed up the stairs a little ways and started snapping at them through the cracks in the steps. It snapped only inches from Amanda's face. It actually scraped her cheek during one snap, cutting it and spilling blood onto the floor. Grant started toying around with the staircase and discovered it was really a ladder type staircase. It could be pushed up.
"Everyone push upwards," Grant yelled. "Use your strength!" They did so, and the stairs folded upwards, smashing the raptor where the stairs folded. The raptor let out a pathetic squeal.
Udesky and Billy opened the cages, and they ran into a hallway going behind the left side of the stairs. They came to another exit to the compound, and two more raptors appeared.
"Damn," Billy said.
"This way," Guitierrez said. Guitierrez ran down another corridor. Billy, Paul, Nash, Ben, and Grant followed him, as did Amanda. Udesky started to run in the same direction, but changed his mind and decided to meet them on the other side. So he took the other corridor. Grant, Guitierrez, Billy, Paul, Nash, Ben, and Amanda seemed to be trapped at a chain-link fence.
"Surely we can," Paul said.
"Hurry," Amanda yelled.
"There's no getting through," Grant said.
"Look," Nash yelled pointing upward. "Dr. Grant, up there, above your head." They looked up to see a hole in the ceiling, probably a ventilation shaft. Suddenly, two Velociraptors appeared at the end of the hall.
"Move," Billy yelled. They climbed up the fence, one after another.Amanda, then Paul, then Nash, then Ben, then Guitierrez, then Grant, and finally Billy. The raptors closed in on the fence, but missed Billy's leg by about two feet. They crawled down the shaft, and a little ways down, they discovered a nest of Procompsognathus'.
"Everybody, the other way," Grant said.
They all turned around, as Billy now lead the group. Billy moved rather fast with Grant right behind, Guitierrez was a bit slower, because of him helping Nash get through the area. Paul, Amanda, and Ben Talon stayed behind Guitierrez and Nash. Billy then saw a ladder. Grant saw the compies right behind them.
"Hurry up the ladder," Grant yelled.
Billy went up the ladder first, Grant let the Kirbys go, then he went on up with Guitierrez, Ben, and Nash right behind. One Compy jumped on Grant's belly and started biting at him. Grant grabbed it and threw it off with ease. They all got to the top of the ladder, and were in yet a higher level of the facility. However, when Grant got to the top, he found Billy, Ben, Guitierrez, Nash, and the Kirby's looking at something with a dead stare.
"What is it," Grant asked, questionably.
"Shhh," Billy and Amanda replied at the same time. Grant looked forward and his heart stopped, as he realized they had stumbled upon what was possibly the largest Velociraptor nesting system on the island.
"Nobody move or say anything," Grant said.
Luckily, all the animals were asleep. But how did they get up there? Grant and Billy both looked around for a solution to the problem, and Paul held Amanda close, while Guitierrez looked in shock at the animals and Nash shook in fear at the ugly animals. Ben just sat there not moving. Billy noticed sunlight coming from across the area.
"Look over there," Billy said.
"I see it but. look what's in front of us," Grant replied. Paul and Amanda then both pointed upwards. Grant and Billy looked in the direction to see a pipe leading to an overhead rail. It looked climbable.
"Paul, Amanda, Nash, Billy, climb that as quickly and as quietly as you can," Grant said. "Marty, Ben, and I will follow." Following Grant's advice, they did so. Grant and Guitierrez were the last to get up to it. They all quietly made their way over the raptor nest. Right then Amanda's part of the walkway broke loose, and she fell into the nest.
"Amanda don't move or say anything," Grant commanded, surprised.
"Catch," Billy said. Amanda looked up wide-eyed at Billy and caught what he threw down. It was an egg. All the raptors woke up, and saw Amanda. There were about thirty or so of them.
"Billy," Grant said, with wide eyes. "What in God's name.?" He was wondering how Billy had gotten a hold of a dinosaur egg.
"Amanda, don't say anything just stand there and hold the egg," Billy yelled.
"Smart Billy," Grant said. "Good thinking. but."
"Talk later," Billy replied. "Amanda, do as I say."
An alpha raptor approached Amanda, as the rest watched. "The alpha female is going to claim the egg back," Grant said.
"Yeah," Billy said. "However she is still in trouble. it will buy her some time though."
"Amanda.kneel down slowly," Grant said. Amanda did what Grant said, and kneeled down, her hands shaking very fast and breathing really hard.
"Now Amanda, hand the egg over to the animal, slowly," Grant said. Some of the raptors saw the rest of the party above them, but only seemed to care about Amanda.
"When she takes the egg, don't move," Grant said. Amanda was shaking very violently; she was too scared to do anything. She didn't hold the egg out.
"Amanda listen to me," Grant commanded.
"Honey do what they tell you," Paul pleaded. "Please."
"Holy shit," Ben said.
"Amanda," Grant said. "Hold the egg out. Toward the animal." Amanda paused for a moment, and finally, she held the egg out to the animal. The raptor approached her and started sniffing her. Amanda's shaking turned into nothing; she didn't move.
"God. oh God she's going to faint," Billy implied, now shaking himself.
"Amanda its okay," Grant said. "They are herbivores they won't eat you or harm you. Just give the egg over and remain still."
"Please," Paul pleaded, looking up to the ceiling with his hands together. "Please don't let anything happen to her. God."
"Now Amanda, what I want you to do next is stand up very, very slowly, after it has the egg," Grant said. The raptor moved toward Amanda and snatched the egg out of her hand. Amanda remained kneeled.
"Hey," Billy said. He pulled out the raptor chamber fossil from his pack.
"Give that to me, thank God you brought it," Grant said.
Billy handed the fossil over to Grant, and he proceeded to push air through it. It let off a very loud noise. The alpha raptor looked around, as the rest of the raptors walked toward the sunlight. They thought a raptor was calling them for help outside. The alpha raptor looked at Amanda some more, and finally, took off with the rest of the raptors. Amanda still did not move.
"Oh my God," Grant sighed with relieve.
"That was too close," Guitierrez said.
"Paul," Billy asked, looking toward the man sitting there with his eyes wide and shaking very hard.
"Heavens," Paul said. "God bless you two."
"Amanda. they are gone now. you are safe," Grant said, slowly so she would understand. He knew that she would be in shock worse then anyone he'd ever seen. This was even worse then when Malcolm was attacked by the Tyrannosaur on Nublar. This was going to be hard to get her through. Amanda slowly rose up, and looked at them.
"G. G. God! Oh," Amanda said still shaking.
"Amanda honey you are okay, it's all okay, we are leaving," Paul said, very fast. Amanda then passed out cold. She fell to the ground with a large thump, and lain there.
"I knew that was coming," Billy snickered. "Women."
"But at least they weren't mice," Grant said with a smile. "Then this would have been worse."
Ben tried to laugh but it only came out as a wheezing sound. He was breathing extremely heavily. Suddenly he fainted himself. He started to fall over into the nest himself, but thankfully Guitierrez noticed what happened to him.
"Our jock strap wearing agent is apparently just as bad as a woman," Guitierrez said laughing.
"Come on you four, let's get these two the hell out of here," Nash said.
"Right," Billy said. They climbed down from the overhead platform, helping Guitierrez to carry Ben down, and approached Amanda, who was already regaining consciousness.
"Amanda," Paul said. "It's okay."
"What. what happened," Amanda said confused.
"Remember when we were still married and we lost our old house in a poker game, and only I knew about it, and you asked me what was wrong and I told you not to worry about it, but you insisted to know, and you fainted when I told you," Paul asked.
"Yeah," Amanda replied.
"This time," Paul said. "Listen to me, and trust me when I say you don't want to know."
"Sense of humor," Billy said. "I used to have one of those."
"Me too," Grant said trying to remember the last time when he did do that. It seemed so long ago. "We have to get out of here before they decide to come back."
Suddenly Ben screamed as he came back to consciousness. He was sweating and moving around rapidly. Guitierrez was having a hard time keeping him under control as he grabbed Ben's mouth.
"It's alright Mr. Talon," Guitierrez said.
"What happened," Ben asked.
"Remember when we were still." Paul started and was cut off.
"I don't think that story will work twice," Grant interrupted.
Everyone had a good laugh and they all got up and walked out towards where the animals ran out. Then, they saw Udesky on the ground.
"Udesky," Nash asked, confused as to how he got down there and happy at the same time to see his good friend.
"I've been down here waiting for you guys," Udesky replied. "What happened?"
"Don't worry about it," Amanda said shaking her head. They climbed down the side of the building toward Udesky.
"Well," Grant said. "What should we do now on this wonderful field trip of death?"
"How about getting far away from here first," Guitierrez said.
"Good idea," Paul said.
"Yeah, let's find a canopy or something," Grant said. "You'd think that Malcolm would've put that hide closer to this area."
"Over there is a good-looking tree, we should go there," Paul said.
"Whatever," Billy replied, suddenly fatigued. "Come on."
Grant, Guitierrez, Billy, Udesky, Nash, Ben, and the two Kirby's, went for the safe jungle canopy to plan their next move. On the way, they found a skeleton. Billy walked over to it, and he found a deceased person's I.D. He looked at it puzzled.
"Hmm," Billy said.
"What's it say," Grant asked, coming over to him.
"Hard to read, but from what I can tell, the first name is Howard," Billy said still looking at it. "Looks like the last name is King and that he works for the Biosyn Corporation, or at least worked. Poor guy."
"If he worked for Biosyn, then he deserved it," Grant said. "Just like the people from the damn company whom are here now trying to pull the same tricks all over again."
"That's exactly what I was just thinking," Ben said.
"Do you know who Howard King was," Amanda asked.
"Yes," Ben replied shaking his head. "Howard King was a geneticist from Biosyn and actually Lewis Dodgson's best friend. King had come to this island with Dodgson and another man named George Baselton."
Ben took out one of his manila folders from his briefcase and started going through it.
"What are you doing," Paul asked. "I'm actually surprised that you still have that thing after what happened in that building."
Ben laughed. "Well, this thing is kind of glued to me, but I have to make sure to get all of this information down. It's the only way to make sure that the EPA knows what truly happened to the people on Dodgson's team."
"Would you like for me to take a picture of the skeleton," Billy asked taking out his camera.
Ben smiled. "Sure. That would be wonderful. Thank you."
Billy took a couple of quick pictures of the skeleton before the team continued walking through the foliage.
After a bit of walking, they came upon a tree high above the rest of the jungle. They didn't say anything. They just climbed. Once they got about fifteen feet up, they stopped. They began to rest. The team, with the exception of Ben, fell asleep after a long while of staring at each other fearing what would happen to them next. Ben was busy writing down everything that had happened to them on the island so far, and was in no need of sleep. However, the sky started to get dark around the island of Isla Sorna.
Payne, and Jim Taylor
Wednesday, July 13, 1999 Isla Sorna, InGen Complex
The rescue team made their way through the forest. Grant sighed as he continued to try to walk with his good leg. The bite from the Dilo was really hurting him. He just couldn't understand anything though. How did he get himself talked into going to this island in the first place? He knew the main reason was money, but at the time he was sure that they were only going to be making an aerial tour of the island not actually landing on it!
As he walked, he looked at the two Kirbys and wondered what in the world was wrong with them. They'd lost their minds the second they decided to go to this island of death. Why in God's name did they think that their son could possibly still be alive on this island? He saw so much death on Isla Nublar eight years ago that he'd almost decided to leave the profession of Paleontology. After seeing that juvenile Tyrannosaur eat Ed Regis like she did gave Grant nightmares for months, and that was just the beginning. Then there was the nightmares about the Adult Tyrannosaur that had swat him with it's tail sending him sailing in the air and going splat on the park road. It then took him a year to finally get the nightmares about the Velociraptors to leave his mind. Now he was back on another island filled with dinosaurs. Grant sighed again. There were more nightmares to come in the future.
They then came around a corner where they found themselves at a dead end. An embankment ended the tree growth. There was a large complex building with several small houses near the building. At the far end of the area was an open field with what looked like a small trailer at the far end where a cliff was. Grant thought "that must've belonged to Malcolm, because only he would be stupid enough to put a field vehicle near a cliff." Grant smiled. Making fun of Ian Malcolm always made Grant feel better.
"I bet ya Eric's in there," Paul said breaking the silence. "Don't ya think? I'd bet my bottom dollar." Paul starting running down the embankment with Amanda following not far behind.
"What do ya think it is," Billy asked.
"As far as I'm concerned," Nash replied. "It's the Four Seasons!"
They jumped down from the canopy, and started to walk down the embankment following the Kirbys. A moment later, they were on the campus of the village and a large building, walking past several small houses one bigger then the others with the word "Manager" written on the top of the door.
They went farther to see a small gas station with a destroyed red jeep wrangler in front of it. They walked into the back of the compound where the large building was, seeing an InGen logo above the door. "Bastards," Grant said staring right at the logo.
"Huh," Amanda asked.
"Shhh," Grant said. "Alright, let's move to the trailer."
"The trailer," Paul asked confused. "Why would Eric be in there? We must look in that building!"
"Listen Mr. Kirby," Grant began, "I want you to understand that we could find weapons or who knows what else in that trailer. That had to have belonged to Malcolm's team when they were here. We have no choice but to at least take a quick look around it."
Paul sighed. "Fine."
Grant led the team onward and toward the trailer near the edge of the island. As they approached the small trailer they could tell from the looks of the exterior of it that it had been attacked, because there were humongous dents in the sides of it.
The team moved around the trailer taking a good look at it and all around to make sure there was no danger.
"I think I know why this trailer is near the edge," Nash implied.
Grant perked up. He was crouched down looking at the tires. However, he now got up and went over to Nash. They were at the cliff's edge looking at the end. There at one time had been some kind of connector hooking this trailer to more then likely a second one. Grant peered down below at the rocky bottom of the island. There was nothing down there, but he was sure he knew what happened.
"Looks like Ian got more then he bargained for on this island," Grant said. "Come on. Let's see what's in this thing."
Grant moved toward the door at the front end of the trailer. He pulled on the handle unsuccessfully. The door was apparently jammed after so many years of not being used. Grant looked closer seeing that there was a lot of rust on the door handle and he looked at his hands seeing that some of it had come off on his hands. Grant whipped his hands on off on his shirt.
"Would you like some help," Amanda asked.
Grant turned around smiling. "I'm fine thank you."
Grant turned around and pulled again, this time not ready for it to open. The door actually opened this time flinging Grant back and to the ground. Everyone had a good laugh before Billy helped Grant to his feet. Grant grunted and shook his head as he stepped onto the trailer.
Inside the trailer was a complete disaster. There were all kinds of devices laying on the floor and scattered on the lab tables. There was one table in the center of the trailer that had some type of medicine bottles sitting on the edge of it.
Grant walked up to the table and looked at the label. He smiled as he read what it said. "Morphine. Who would've ever thought that Ian would need Morphine on a trip like this?"
Grant started laughing a little at this. Everyone else was confused at what was so funny so they just ignored Grant's rambling and looked around a little bit themselves. Udesky bent down to the floor and picked up what looked like a radio.
"Dr. Grant," Udesky said, pulling up the radio.
Grant walked over and took the radio. "Hmmm." Grant fiddled with the buttons on the radio, trying to get it to turn on. "It's broke."
Grant placed the radio on the table and continued to look around. There were two busted computers at the far end of the trailer. The monitors had crashed on the ground with all of the electrical equipment inside showing on the outer shell of the monitor.
Ben Talon looked at some packages on the table at the front entrance to the trailer. They weren't labeled, but just by looking at what was inside, he could tell what they were. Grant was now starting to walk back toward the front area of the trailer, so Ben ushered him over with his hand. Grant walked over and looked at the packages.
"Nonlethals," Ben implied. "They were just sitting here like someone was going to use them for some purpose."
"What purpose would Nonlethals cause," Grant asked.
"Well, this is something like." Ben stopped. He couldn't quite remember what it was called. Then he recalled what it was and snapped his fingers. "Alexander's ragtime band. That's what this. And this is what looks to be area-dispersal smoke cubes. They only produce smoke, but." Ben trailed off as he looked to the ground and something with a skull and cross bones on the label. He picked it up. "Looks like someone was having to decide on the best item to use on something or someone. They chose the right object in my opinion. These are Cholinesterase bombs. I'm telling ya Dr. Grant, if this was the best they had on taking something down, there's not going to be anything else in here worth taking for our use. We should go on in the labs."
Grant nodded in agreement. "Alright. Let's move out people."
Everyone left the trailer behind slamming the door as they walked toward the Site B labs. The team continued to walk forward as they neared the front entrance to the large InGen lab building.
"Alright. There's no telling what may be in here," Grant said. " Everyone.be alert." The group wondered into the facility. A reception desk, in front of them, had a phone on it. Amanda walked over to it, picked it up, but only to find the phone out of service. She slammed it down.
"Dang," Amanda said.
"You expected it to work or something," Guitierrez asked, smiling.
"No," Amanda said.
"C'mon.there's a hallway in that direction, let's take it," Paul said, already starting to walk down it going passed several offices in the building. All of the doors to each office were opened, and one room looked to have been a briefing room at one time.
"Eric," Amanda yelled.
"Ms. Kirby," Grant scolded. "Please."
"Sorry," Amanda said, looking away and crossing her arms. She was getting really tired of Grant bossing her around. She wanted to find her son and fiancé now. She didn't want to be sneaking around like they were spies or something. All she wanted to do was locate the two before something bad happened to them.
"Let's go," Paul said. They walked into the hallway. Behind them, sunlight peered through the windows, revealing a thick buildup of dust. The rest of the facility had an eerie darkness to it. The party continued into the hallway.
Paul and Billy saw two vending machines in front of them. "Oh my gosh, thank God," Paul said reaching into his pocket. "Let's see. ah, here's a buck. a buck ten. anyone have a nickel?"
Billy ran over and slammed his foot into the machine, causing glass to fall out everywhere. Amanda screamed at this sudden sound. Billy stocked up on snacks. Paul tried to kick the other one down as well, but the glass stayed intact. Paul then limped away from the machine, and they proceeded into the main facility, eating snacks consisting of Payday's and Snickers.
"I'm thirsty now," Amanda informed, putting her hand to her throat.
"Ms. Kirby we are fortunate to even find food," Grant replied, shaking his head.
They continued down some stairs, and started examining the various machines and devices. Among the devices were long aisles of embryo containment units and incubators. Amanda walked up to one of the machines where some broken dinosaur eggs were. She touched them and felt the smooth surface of the eggs. "So.this is how you make dinosaurs," Amanda asked.
"No," Grant said still looking around the room to see if there was danger. "This is how you play God." Grant then saw a hallway up ahead going off farther into the facility.
Alan Grant started forward while Guitierrez, Talon, and Billy followed him. Amanda, Paul, Nash, and Udesky managed to get their eyes off of the machinery and saw that their leaders were leaving and they bolted after them, afraid of what would happen if they were left alone.
Grant entered the hallways and picked up a flashlight on a shelf on the side of the wall. He turned it on but it didn't work. He sat it back down and continued forward. After about two minutes of walking through darkness, he came to a small room filled with computers, notebooks, and logs. He was suddenly compelled to take a look in the files to see just where the Dilophosaurs came from, because he remembered Malcolm telling him what animals were on this island and he didn't remember spitters being one of them. He ran over and turned on one of the computers. It flickered on with a low hum. It was very primitive, nothing compared to the computers Grant was used to seeing modernly. Grant still hated computers, but with Billy's help he was able to try learning how they worked and did now have some knowledge of them, but he still believed that they had it in for him.
He scrolled down through all of the strange files that consisted of island security, employee hiring lists, and employee comfort satisfactions. He continued on till he came to one marked Lines of Species. He opened it and a list spread down the screen. It listed all the different dinosaurs InGen created on Site B.
INGEN Bioengineering Species List for Site B Facilities
SA-Original Animals from Henry Wu
Tyrannosaurus Rex-Carnivore, self-proclaimed king of the dinosaurs. Very dangerous creature
Maiasauria-Herbivore, parental instincts.
Stegosaurus-Herbivore, very territorial, but only when herd is in danger
Triceratops-Herbivore, very dangerous creature when threatened
Procompsognathus-Carnivore, these are pack hunters that aren't dangerous when alone. However don't stay around if there are more
Velociraptor-Carnivore, extremely dangerous, stay away from at all times
Apatosaurus-Herbivore, humble and kind. Only danger consists of being stepped on
Hadrosaurus-Herbivore, stays around the Apatosaurs often, not dangerous
Pachycephalosaurus-Herbivore, very territorial and dangerous, domed skull is its weapon of defense
Carnotaurus-Carnivore, very dangerous and has a Camo ability that hides it from view of its prey
SB, new animals produced at Site C. Some moved here.
Suchomimus-Carnivore, very docile, but also territorial. Very fast moving and unpredictable
Dilophosaurus-Carnivore, very vicious and has a venom spitting capability
Pteranodon-Reptilian carnivore, unlike most Pterosaurs this one has teeth more then likely from wrong DNA sequences
Plesiosaurus-Marine Carnivore, the only marine species at Site B. Very dangerous animal
Othnielia-Herbivore, hangs around in trees and only attacks when threatened
Megalodon-Marine Carnivore, prehistoric shark, not created through amber, but from the combination of mutations from several breads of shark
Liopleurodon-Marine Carnivore, humongous creature and very dangerous
Segnosaurus-Carnivore, feathered creature that is extremely dangerous, almost as dangerous as the Velociraptors
The top of the list was marked SA, and then numbered ten species. Most of them Grant had seen in his visit to Jurassic Park.
About three fourths of the way through the file, SA switched to SB and began to number an entirely new list of dinosaurs. Dilophosaur was number two. Something called Plesiosaurus came later, and several other animals were listed, such as Pteranodons. Some of these were on Jurassic Park's original list that Ian Malcolm had read on John Arnold's computer on Isla Nublar. However some like the Plesiosaurs and Suchomimus were new and different. "It looks like InGen resumed their old tricks," Grant observed. He looked farther down to see a small note at the bottom.
Small Note from Dr. Wu
The SB list is still in the works as the newest dinosaurs at our Site C labs. All but one were tested and created on Isla Nublar. The Plesiosaurs were created here for the fact of no room on Nublar to do so. Their paddock here is much more useful to us for our testing and destruction of the DX virus.
"Or continued them," Billy replied. "Just because Nublar was evacuated and destroyed doesn't mean that Site B and apparently this place called Site C were at the same time. For all we know, InGen could have continued to produce dinosaurs and new species before Hurricane Clarissa ever hit."
"They had that window. That must be where these other animals came from," Grant agreed. Grant closed out the file and shook his head. "I can't believe they didn't learn their lesson as soon as Jurassic Park went haywire. Why continue," Grant griped. Grant looked down at the table again noticing some kind of medicine bottle sitting on the table. Grant picked it up and smiled as he realized that it was what he was looking for. It was the medication for the Dilophosaur poison. Grant took the small needle out of the bottle that was filled with the medication and injected himself with it. He suddenly started to feel a little bit better, but not too much. "That takes care of that."
Billy smiled. "Good. I didn't want to lose ya. If you go, then it's just me and these damn tourists."
"Same here," Grant replied, smiling. They turned and started to leave the room seeing that they were all extremely angry and staring at the two Paleontologists. "Sorry."
Amanda snickered and walked out of the room followed by the rest of the team. For once Grant and Billy weren't in the lead of the team, and they felt a little bad for what they'd said, however, it was only a little bad. The team continued down the hallway to exit the facility. They slowly walked back into the large lab.
Amanda looked around and was starting to get nervous and it was making her want to find her son even more. "Eric," Amanda yelled, again.
"Jeez. Amanda," Paul said. "Do you always have to yell that out? Dr. Grant says that's a bad idea."
"Dr. Grant this, Dr. Grant said that," Amanda said starting to get an attitude.
"Well why did we hire him if we aren't even going to use him," Paul asked.
"I'm looking for my Eric and Ben, and I'm going to continue yelling for them," Amanda said walking away from Paul with pride.
"Fine, then when one of those Tricicloplots comes after you, don't come crying to me," Paul said walking in his own direction.
"Amanda. please don't yell," Grant said. " With each of your screams you put us in more danger."
Amanda didn't really say anything. She continued looking around at all the devices and tanks. She then noticed a mannequin of a dinosaur, behind a tank. She looked at it very curiously. Then she leaned toward it, closely examining what she saw. Suddenly, the mannequins' eyes moved, and just as Amanda noticed it, the thing lunged at her, sending her backwards while she screamed.
"Amanda," Paul yelled.
"Everybody this way," Grant yelled.
The Velociraptor jumped through a tank, tossing glass everywhere. The group ran underneath the stairs. Grant, Nash, and Udesky shut gates on both sides of the staircase, shutting the raptor off from them. Instead, the raptor climbed up the stairs a little ways and started snapping at them through the cracks in the steps. It snapped only inches from Amanda's face. It actually scraped her cheek during one snap, cutting it and spilling blood onto the floor. Grant started toying around with the staircase and discovered it was really a ladder type staircase. It could be pushed up.
"Everyone push upwards," Grant yelled. "Use your strength!" They did so, and the stairs folded upwards, smashing the raptor where the stairs folded. The raptor let out a pathetic squeal.
Udesky and Billy opened the cages, and they ran into a hallway going behind the left side of the stairs. They came to another exit to the compound, and two more raptors appeared.
"Damn," Billy said.
"This way," Guitierrez said. Guitierrez ran down another corridor. Billy, Paul, Nash, Ben, and Grant followed him, as did Amanda. Udesky started to run in the same direction, but changed his mind and decided to meet them on the other side. So he took the other corridor. Grant, Guitierrez, Billy, Paul, Nash, Ben, and Amanda seemed to be trapped at a chain-link fence.
"Surely we can," Paul said.
"Hurry," Amanda yelled.
"There's no getting through," Grant said.
"Look," Nash yelled pointing upward. "Dr. Grant, up there, above your head." They looked up to see a hole in the ceiling, probably a ventilation shaft. Suddenly, two Velociraptors appeared at the end of the hall.
"Move," Billy yelled. They climbed up the fence, one after another.Amanda, then Paul, then Nash, then Ben, then Guitierrez, then Grant, and finally Billy. The raptors closed in on the fence, but missed Billy's leg by about two feet. They crawled down the shaft, and a little ways down, they discovered a nest of Procompsognathus'.
"Everybody, the other way," Grant said.
They all turned around, as Billy now lead the group. Billy moved rather fast with Grant right behind, Guitierrez was a bit slower, because of him helping Nash get through the area. Paul, Amanda, and Ben Talon stayed behind Guitierrez and Nash. Billy then saw a ladder. Grant saw the compies right behind them.
"Hurry up the ladder," Grant yelled.
Billy went up the ladder first, Grant let the Kirbys go, then he went on up with Guitierrez, Ben, and Nash right behind. One Compy jumped on Grant's belly and started biting at him. Grant grabbed it and threw it off with ease. They all got to the top of the ladder, and were in yet a higher level of the facility. However, when Grant got to the top, he found Billy, Ben, Guitierrez, Nash, and the Kirby's looking at something with a dead stare.
"What is it," Grant asked, questionably.
"Shhh," Billy and Amanda replied at the same time. Grant looked forward and his heart stopped, as he realized they had stumbled upon what was possibly the largest Velociraptor nesting system on the island.
"Nobody move or say anything," Grant said.
Luckily, all the animals were asleep. But how did they get up there? Grant and Billy both looked around for a solution to the problem, and Paul held Amanda close, while Guitierrez looked in shock at the animals and Nash shook in fear at the ugly animals. Ben just sat there not moving. Billy noticed sunlight coming from across the area.
"Look over there," Billy said.
"I see it but. look what's in front of us," Grant replied. Paul and Amanda then both pointed upwards. Grant and Billy looked in the direction to see a pipe leading to an overhead rail. It looked climbable.
"Paul, Amanda, Nash, Billy, climb that as quickly and as quietly as you can," Grant said. "Marty, Ben, and I will follow." Following Grant's advice, they did so. Grant and Guitierrez were the last to get up to it. They all quietly made their way over the raptor nest. Right then Amanda's part of the walkway broke loose, and she fell into the nest.
"Amanda don't move or say anything," Grant commanded, surprised.
"Catch," Billy said. Amanda looked up wide-eyed at Billy and caught what he threw down. It was an egg. All the raptors woke up, and saw Amanda. There were about thirty or so of them.
"Billy," Grant said, with wide eyes. "What in God's name.?" He was wondering how Billy had gotten a hold of a dinosaur egg.
"Amanda, don't say anything just stand there and hold the egg," Billy yelled.
"Smart Billy," Grant said. "Good thinking. but."
"Talk later," Billy replied. "Amanda, do as I say."
An alpha raptor approached Amanda, as the rest watched. "The alpha female is going to claim the egg back," Grant said.
"Yeah," Billy said. "However she is still in trouble. it will buy her some time though."
"Amanda.kneel down slowly," Grant said. Amanda did what Grant said, and kneeled down, her hands shaking very fast and breathing really hard.
"Now Amanda, hand the egg over to the animal, slowly," Grant said. Some of the raptors saw the rest of the party above them, but only seemed to care about Amanda.
"When she takes the egg, don't move," Grant said. Amanda was shaking very violently; she was too scared to do anything. She didn't hold the egg out.
"Amanda listen to me," Grant commanded.
"Honey do what they tell you," Paul pleaded. "Please."
"Holy shit," Ben said.
"Amanda," Grant said. "Hold the egg out. Toward the animal." Amanda paused for a moment, and finally, she held the egg out to the animal. The raptor approached her and started sniffing her. Amanda's shaking turned into nothing; she didn't move.
"God. oh God she's going to faint," Billy implied, now shaking himself.
"Amanda its okay," Grant said. "They are herbivores they won't eat you or harm you. Just give the egg over and remain still."
"Please," Paul pleaded, looking up to the ceiling with his hands together. "Please don't let anything happen to her. God."
"Now Amanda, what I want you to do next is stand up very, very slowly, after it has the egg," Grant said. The raptor moved toward Amanda and snatched the egg out of her hand. Amanda remained kneeled.
"Hey," Billy said. He pulled out the raptor chamber fossil from his pack.
"Give that to me, thank God you brought it," Grant said.
Billy handed the fossil over to Grant, and he proceeded to push air through it. It let off a very loud noise. The alpha raptor looked around, as the rest of the raptors walked toward the sunlight. They thought a raptor was calling them for help outside. The alpha raptor looked at Amanda some more, and finally, took off with the rest of the raptors. Amanda still did not move.
"Oh my God," Grant sighed with relieve.
"That was too close," Guitierrez said.
"Paul," Billy asked, looking toward the man sitting there with his eyes wide and shaking very hard.
"Heavens," Paul said. "God bless you two."
"Amanda. they are gone now. you are safe," Grant said, slowly so she would understand. He knew that she would be in shock worse then anyone he'd ever seen. This was even worse then when Malcolm was attacked by the Tyrannosaur on Nublar. This was going to be hard to get her through. Amanda slowly rose up, and looked at them.
"G. G. God! Oh," Amanda said still shaking.
"Amanda honey you are okay, it's all okay, we are leaving," Paul said, very fast. Amanda then passed out cold. She fell to the ground with a large thump, and lain there.
"I knew that was coming," Billy snickered. "Women."
"But at least they weren't mice," Grant said with a smile. "Then this would have been worse."
Ben tried to laugh but it only came out as a wheezing sound. He was breathing extremely heavily. Suddenly he fainted himself. He started to fall over into the nest himself, but thankfully Guitierrez noticed what happened to him.
"Our jock strap wearing agent is apparently just as bad as a woman," Guitierrez said laughing.
"Come on you four, let's get these two the hell out of here," Nash said.
"Right," Billy said. They climbed down from the overhead platform, helping Guitierrez to carry Ben down, and approached Amanda, who was already regaining consciousness.
"Amanda," Paul said. "It's okay."
"What. what happened," Amanda said confused.
"Remember when we were still married and we lost our old house in a poker game, and only I knew about it, and you asked me what was wrong and I told you not to worry about it, but you insisted to know, and you fainted when I told you," Paul asked.
"Yeah," Amanda replied.
"This time," Paul said. "Listen to me, and trust me when I say you don't want to know."
"Sense of humor," Billy said. "I used to have one of those."
"Me too," Grant said trying to remember the last time when he did do that. It seemed so long ago. "We have to get out of here before they decide to come back."
Suddenly Ben screamed as he came back to consciousness. He was sweating and moving around rapidly. Guitierrez was having a hard time keeping him under control as he grabbed Ben's mouth.
"It's alright Mr. Talon," Guitierrez said.
"What happened," Ben asked.
"Remember when we were still." Paul started and was cut off.
"I don't think that story will work twice," Grant interrupted.
Everyone had a good laugh and they all got up and walked out towards where the animals ran out. Then, they saw Udesky on the ground.
"Udesky," Nash asked, confused as to how he got down there and happy at the same time to see his good friend.
"I've been down here waiting for you guys," Udesky replied. "What happened?"
"Don't worry about it," Amanda said shaking her head. They climbed down the side of the building toward Udesky.
"Well," Grant said. "What should we do now on this wonderful field trip of death?"
"How about getting far away from here first," Guitierrez said.
"Good idea," Paul said.
"Yeah, let's find a canopy or something," Grant said. "You'd think that Malcolm would've put that hide closer to this area."
"Over there is a good-looking tree, we should go there," Paul said.
"Whatever," Billy replied, suddenly fatigued. "Come on."
Grant, Guitierrez, Billy, Udesky, Nash, Ben, and the two Kirby's, went for the safe jungle canopy to plan their next move. On the way, they found a skeleton. Billy walked over to it, and he found a deceased person's I.D. He looked at it puzzled.
"Hmm," Billy said.
"What's it say," Grant asked, coming over to him.
"Hard to read, but from what I can tell, the first name is Howard," Billy said still looking at it. "Looks like the last name is King and that he works for the Biosyn Corporation, or at least worked. Poor guy."
"If he worked for Biosyn, then he deserved it," Grant said. "Just like the people from the damn company whom are here now trying to pull the same tricks all over again."
"That's exactly what I was just thinking," Ben said.
"Do you know who Howard King was," Amanda asked.
"Yes," Ben replied shaking his head. "Howard King was a geneticist from Biosyn and actually Lewis Dodgson's best friend. King had come to this island with Dodgson and another man named George Baselton."
Ben took out one of his manila folders from his briefcase and started going through it.
"What are you doing," Paul asked. "I'm actually surprised that you still have that thing after what happened in that building."
Ben laughed. "Well, this thing is kind of glued to me, but I have to make sure to get all of this information down. It's the only way to make sure that the EPA knows what truly happened to the people on Dodgson's team."
"Would you like for me to take a picture of the skeleton," Billy asked taking out his camera.
Ben smiled. "Sure. That would be wonderful. Thank you."
Billy took a couple of quick pictures of the skeleton before the team continued walking through the foliage.
After a bit of walking, they came upon a tree high above the rest of the jungle. They didn't say anything. They just climbed. Once they got about fifteen feet up, they stopped. They began to rest. The team, with the exception of Ben, fell asleep after a long while of staring at each other fearing what would happen to them next. Ben was busy writing down everything that had happened to them on the island so far, and was in no need of sleep. However, the sky started to get dark around the island of Isla Sorna.