25. REGROUP
Based from the movie Jurassic Park 3 written by Peter Buchman, Alexander
Payne, and Jim Taylor
Thursday, July 14, 1999 Isla Sorna, Hill
Alan Grant stopped at a high rise near the Aviary, looking down at it through the fog with the six other people. He remembered how the Aviary on Isla Nublar looked. It was much smaller then the one on this island. He guessed that since this was the island where all the testing and breading was done that they needed a large facility to work with the Pteranodons. Grant wondered however, why Malcolm hadn't seen the Aviary when he was on this island. He'd make it a goal to try and figure that and some other things out as well. The Dilophosaurs were another one of the mysteries that Grant wanted answered. Could it have been possible that the team that was working with Muldoon hadn't really been destroying things, but they were really recreating and making new animals? That was a very odd way to look at things, but it did seem logical at the same time even though InGen had been long since bankrupt and out of business.
Grant looked at everyone low on breath. Muldoon was sitting on a rock fixing his gun and reloading it. Guitierrez sat on the ground looking at his injured leg with Nash and Daniel trying to set it, while Eric and Ben looked around probably trying to find the Kirbys. Grant didn't really understand how such a nice kid like Eric could've came from assholes like Paul and Amanda Kirby.
Then, Grant noticed the other man wearing the wire frame glasses and torn suit. He automatically assumed that it was Hammond's nephew. Grant walked over to the man and sat next to him. "You're Peter Ludlow, aren't you?"
"Yes, I am," Ludlow replied. "Do I know you?"
"Not really," Grant said. "But I believe that I'm the one that's going to save your life. At least I hope."
"So do I," Ludlow said, as he got up and walked away from Grant. Ludlow wondered how someone like that guy could be the one person that was going to save them. He and Muldoon had been marooned on Isla Sorna for at least three years and they had tried every possible method that they could ever think of to get off the island and failed each time.
"We must get off of this damn island now," Muldoon implied still sitting fiddling with his gun. "If we don't we're all going to die! Now that we've left the safety of the lodge, we'll more then likely enter some real danger."
"Where are my parents," Eric asked, looking in all directions into the foliage. "Mom, Dad!!!"
"Eric, don't scream," Grant yelled. "That's a very bad idea."
"Sorry," Eric said sadly. He wished his parents were with them. He would feel so much safer if they were around. Although he did feel safe with Dr. Alan Grant, whom of which had been in one of these situations before, as well as Robert Muldoon. Both of these people had survived Jurassic Park once before and he was sure that they would make it out alive again. He was also glad that he was finally around other people besides Ben Hildebrand. He'd had to deal with Ben alone for a whole day before he found Muldoon and the strange Ludlow guy.
The reason why he hated being around Ben alone, was because the only thing that Ben would talk about was some non-sense with Ben not wanting Eric to be Bi-Sexual anymore. Eric really hated it when people tried to get him to change the way he felt about other people and the way he lived his life. Eric's mom and dad had never tried to change his mind or anything. They just wanted Eric to be happy with however he decided to live his life. Eric had never liked Ben Hildebrand, because when he first found out that Eric was Bi, he'd immediately tried to give him a talk about how he shouldn't be that way and some other bullshit that Eric didn't listen to. Eric was just happy to finally be around other people now.
"Um, They're probably following us, just a little farther behind," Guitierrez said. "Let's continue onward."
They all went forward into the foliage and came out at a large valley where there were several Stegosaurs grazing in the fields as well as Maiasauria eating from the trees. Nash thought to himself, "This is the same place I landed the plane, when Cooper was killed by the Tyrannosaur." "There is nothing here worth looking for."
"Wait a second," Muldoon pointed. "Who are those people? Are they more of your team?"
"No," Grant replied. "Those are Biosyn hunters. They're here for one reason and that's to take animals off the island."
"But there's only five of them," Muldoon implied. "How could they possibly catch dinosaurs with only a small handful of people?"
"There were at least fifteen people before," Daniel replied. "Where did the rest of them go?"
"Looks like their camp was attacked," Grant said squinting in the sunlight. "They must've been killed."
"Wait a second," Ludlow said, looking out at the people in the valley. "Are you saying that those people are trespassing on this island again?"
"Again," Ben questioned.
"Yes," Ludlow replied a little annoyed. "Lewis Dodgson, whom worked for that company, came here with two other men about four years ago trying to steal dinosaur eggs to take back to his company. After that happened former InGen board members including myself decided to come here and destroy the island's inhabitants secretly, so we wouldn't have to worry about some stupid animal loyalists like people from Earth First getting involved. There are a few of those people that I can't stand like Nick van Owen and Edward Campbell... Anyway, things went bad as Robert said before and we were stranded here. I vote we go down there and show them all how we treat trespassers."
"You've got my vote as well," Daniel said. "I'm with the EPA. I was sent here to deal with these people anyway."
Ludlow laughed. "The EPA? You've got to be kidding. If you were with the FBI, I'd take you more seriously, but my God you're an idiot for trying to challenge Biosyn. You wouldn't stand two minutes down there with those guys, and it looks like at least one of them is a skilled animal tracker."
"I don't want to interact with those bastards," Grant replied irritated at Ludlow and Daniel. Ludlow was defiantly like Hammond. They were one in the same. Grant wouldn't be surprised if Ludlow had actually come here to take animals back to the mainland himself instead of destroying them. "We forget about them now. Come on!"
"You're kidding me," Daniel said. "This is our chance to take them out. They may have the famous Roland Tembo, but we have the even more famous Robert Muldoon and."
"Wait a second," Muldoon interrupted. "Did you say Roland Tembo?"
"Yes," Daniel replied confused.
"That is my brother," Muldoon said. "I haven't seen that dirty bastard in years. He and I were claimed as the greatest of the great white hunters in our days."
"Well," Daniel began, "we still have to stop them."
"No we don't," Grant said. "Now let's go."
"Hold it," Guitierrez said looking straightforward, shivering. "I see something moving up ahead."
"It's probably your imagination," a voice came from the foliage behind them. Everyone turned around to see Billy, Paul, and Amanda come out of the foliage. Eric smiled and ran to his parents.
"Mom, Dad," Eric yelled, running up to his mom and hugging her while he cried.
"I thought I'd lost you," Amanda cried. Then Ben ran up to Amanda as well and kissed her.
"Hey hunny," Ben smiled.
Right then everyone heard a jingle from what sounded like a phone ringing. Amanda looked at Paul. "Paul, is that your satellite phone ringing?"
* * *
Roland Tembo was sitting beside Ajay Sidahu on the ground beside the one remaining vehicle that the Biosyn team had. Roland was trying to clean some mud off of his .600 Nitro Express while the two men watched Rossiter, James, and Darris talking off to one side about a plan to capture an adult Rex and use the baby as bait. Roland really thought it was a bad idea to even consider trying to take an adult Tyrannosaur off of the island and back to the mainland, but apparently no one ever listen to him except for Ajay, whom agreed with Roland about not getting the adult Rex, but Rossiter was their boss and they had to do what he wanted so they couldn't go against him.
Suddenly the three men off to the side stopped talking and were listening to the wind. Roland and Ajay heard it also. It sounded like a really annoying cell phone jingle. Roland and Ajay stood up and went over to the other three men.
"Is that your phone Mr. Rossiter," Roland asked.
"I didn't even bring a phone with me," Rossiter replied. "All we have are radios. I don't have a clue where that's coming from."
"It actually sounds like it's coming from up the hill at the far end of the valley," Ajay implied, pointing in that direction.
"Must be Dr. Grant's team," Rossiter smiled. "They may try to ambush us. Just be ready with your gun Mr. Tembo. I don't want any surprises. I've heard from some of my contacts that they should have at least three mercenaries with them. We'd better be careful."
* * *
"Yeah, I better answer it," Paul replied looking in his pockets. "Where did I put that thing? I gave it to Nash and then... Nash you have my satellite phone!"
"But I threw it at the..." Nash cut himself off. "Oh shit!"
Guitierrez suddenly started screaming and pointing. They all turned in the direction of his finger points. The team saw an adult Tyrannosaur staring right at them breathing hard while the phone still rang.
"Run," Grant yelled as he started running to the right on the edge of the foliage. Everyone else started running at full speed following Grant. The Tyrannosaur roared and started doing the same. They all kept running until they saw a building up ahead. "Straight for the building," Grant yelled as he suddenly realized that there were several Stegosaurs and Maiasauria stampeding beside them.
* * *
Roland Tembo turned around at the sound of the loud roar that he'd just heard. The other four men turned around as well to see an adult Tyrannosaur chasing the herds of herbivores that had escaped from the hunters earlier.
"What's going on," Rossiter asked.
"The Rex is going for a kill it seems," Roland replied.
"I hate to mention this Roland, but I think we aren't alone in this valley," Ajay said looking straightforward.
"Of course we aren't alone," Roland said irritably. "There are dinosaurs in the valley."
"No Roland," Ajay replied. "I think that Dr. Grant's team is being chassed by the Rex!"
"That's no matter to us as long as they don't get in our way," Rossiter said. "We have to get that Rex now while the getting is good."
"The hunt is on," Roland yelled.
The five people ran to the remaining vehicle and jumped in. They started out toward the stampeding Rex, Stegosaurs, Maiasauria, and Grant's team.
* * *
Alan Grant and company all continued running toward a building in front of them. The Tyrannosaur continued to follow as everyone ran, getting closer and closer to the building. Grant made it first as he opened the door to the building and started letting everyone in. Grant then noticed that Ben Hildebrand had been kept from running at the same speed as everyone else, because of the stampeding herbivores. The Tyrannosaur was now getting closer with every long step that the Behemoth took.
"Ben," Amanda yelled. "Hurry!"
Ben Hildebrand was unable to do so as the Tyrannosaur scooped him up in his mouth just like he'd done to Cooper earlier. Amanda screamed as the animal did this. Grant then shut the large door to the building. The animal's roar was heard from the other side of the door as it shook it trying to get in.
Muldoon was speechless at all of this. The Adult Tyrannosaur on Nublar wasn't ever as vicious at his methods of attack. He wasn't even as fast as this Rex. Muldoon looked around the room and realized where they were. "Damn! We're back in the Aviary!"
* * *
Ed James drove the jeep as fast as he could, getting the hunters closer to the adult Tyrannosaur that would save Biosyn from going into chapter 11, like InGen did in the early ninety's.
Roland was halfway standing in his seat, holding a tranquilizer gun in hand. He fired it sending the dart right at the animal. The Rex turned around roaring at the invaders.
James took this as a time to turn around and get the hell out of there. He put the jeep into reverse and started going backwards down the valley.
Roland meanwhile, was trying to reload the tranquilizer gun as fast as possible. He then fired it again at the animal sending the dart into the animal's mouth.
At this the Rex went crazy stopping it's chase with the jeep, to stomp around in pain and agony. The Rex started getting really shaky and couldn't stand to stay on its feet anymore. The animal then fell to the ground.
Roland smiled as he jumped out of the jeep with the other men. They all stood before one of the two only animals in their quarry.
"This is just what we need to save Biosyn," Rossiter implied smiling. "I will accomplish what Dodgson could never do. Call the choppers, Ed. Dieter go retrieve the infant. I want a boat to be here in three hours so this animal will be out of here. And hurry up, I'd love to be airborne before the female knows we're here."
* * *
"How is that possible," Grant asked. "We were going away from the aviary!"
"The aviary spans through a large portion of this section of forest, Dr. Grant," Ludlow replied sighing.
"How about we do less talking and more walking," Daniel implied. " We need to get out of here before that animal finds its way in."
"Well, Rex just feed so he won't be coming after us for awhile," Muldoon said. "Our problem still exists with the Pteranodons though."
"I can't believe you just said that," Amanda yelled. "That was my boyfriend you asshole!"
Muldoon looked at Amanda from top to bottom and cocked his left eyebrow. "Then his problems are over."
Amanda looked at Muldoon was tears in her eyes. "Go to hell you bastard!"
"Oh, believe me," Muldoon began, "We're all already in hell."
"That's enough," Daniel yelled. "There will be no more fighting on my watch. I have had to listen to Paul and your bickering throughout this whole fucking trip, and I."
"Hey," Grant yelled, pointing toward Eric. "There is a child here! Watch your language!"
"Well I'm sorry," Daniel said. "But I think it's ridiculous to be going back into that Aviary."
"There's nothing we can do about that," Grant said. "Besides there may be a boat or something near the lower section to get us out of here."
"I actually do remember something about a boat being at the bottom of the Aviary where the water is," Muldoon said. "I think the river should lead us out of here."
Amanda walked over to Eric who was looking out at the fog in the Aviary. "What's wrong hun? Is it Ben?"
"No," Eric said smiling. "I mean... I'm sorry for you and all, but I never liked him."
"I understand how you feel hunny," Amanda said, holding her son. "I've lost a true love that I'll never have again. He even kissed me just a few seconds ago." Amanda was about to cry when she stopped herself trying to keep in control. "But at least I still have you hunny. You're all I've ever really needed."
"I know mom," Eric said trying to pull away from his mother.
"What's wrong," Amanda asked.
"Nothing," Eric replied.
Paul walked over to the two of them hearing what they were saying to one another. "It was Ben wasn't it? What did he do?"
"The same thing that he would always do," Eric said with tears filling his eyes. "After awhile of walking around in an old InGen building, things just start to affect people, and well, he just wouldn't shut up."
"He gave you those speeches again didn't he," Paul asked.
"Shut up Paul," Amanda said. "You have no proof to any of that. Let him speak."
"He's right mom," Eric said. "Ben started preaching to me about how it was a sin to like people of the same sex the way I do, and all of that. I couldn't get him to leave me alone. So, I started to run from him, and he would just run after me. Before I found the front entrance to the Aviary, you know, where the bottom of the hill is, he caught up to me and turned me around, and."
Eric suddenly started crying and pulled his head down into his father's chest. Paul stared at Amanda with an evil glare.
"Paul, I." Amanda began.
"Don't," Paul yelled. He turned back down to his son and lifted his head up with tears pouring down the poor boy's face. "What happened next?"
"He. He. punched me right in the face," Eric screamed. "And he. He just started kicking me over and over again! He wouldn't stop! And he just kept calling me a faggot! He was a madman!"
This had gotten the attention of everyone in the room. They were all staring at the Kirbys in sadness. There was extremely way to much tension surrounding them, that it made the dinosaurs outside the building seem more pleasing.
"That bloody bastard," Muldoon whispered under his breath. "Why didn't he tell me about it when they'd first arrived," Muldoon thought. "He must've been afraid that Ben would attack him again."
Muldoon had just recalled that Eric had entered the lodge a few minutes before Ben did, and the boy did look like he'd been beaten up, but Muldoon had just assumed that it was the dinosaurs that had caused it. However, now that he thought about it, Ben had hardly been injured. He felt like an idiot for not realizing this before now.
"It's too bad that Tyrannosaur got to him first," Paul said. "I would've killed him if it hadn't."
"Eric," Amanda said ignoring Paul. "Why would Ben do something like that? He would never hurt you."
"What makes you so sure of that Mrs. Kirby," Grant asked.
"You stay out of this," Amanda screamed now crying herself. "You have no idea what it's like to have a family. You don't know anything about this!"
Grant tried his best to stay calm. This woman had finally crossed the line, but Grant was the leader of this team, and wasn't about to just breakout into a fit of rage. "I'm going to do my best to pretend I didn't hear that Mrs. Kirby."
Billy looked around at everyone's faces. Even Ludlow seemed to be showing some compassion for the Kirby's, and Billy could tell from the first time that he'd met Ludlow that he was no good. Daniel was also paying attention as well, for he was usually writing stuff down, and now he was standing beside Billy barely holding his briefcase. Billy decided it was time to say something to lessen the tension.
"Alright people, let's give our flying companions a little revisit."
Everyone's gaze suddenly turned toward Billy, but the gazes weren't evil stares, which was what he'd expected. They were just staring blank, but everyone eventually nodded their approval.
Paul put an arm around Eric and walked with him trying to console his poor son as well. They all then walked down a spiral staircase away from the building where they could no longer hear the Tyrannosaur's roars.
They found themselves on a platform overlooking a sheer drop of jagged rocks into mist. The humans panted heavily. Grant looked to his side and saw another flight of stairs heading into yet another structure. He made a gesture for them to follow him downward.
They descended into the mist via the long staircase that overlooked the canyon. There was no hint of what lay at the bottom of the drop to the side of them. As they moved along, it was visible that the staircase ended at yet another platform similar to the one the Rex had just chassed them into before. Grant proceeded cautiously inside with everyone else following behind.
On the platform, there was a hatch on the floor. Grant bent down to open it and saw there was a spiral staircase heading straight down into misty oblivion. "This is crazy," Grant mumbled. "This must be leading to something, some sort of other facility perhaps. It can't just be a hiking trail. Robert, do you know where this leads?"
"Not a clue, Alan," Muldoon said shaking his head. "When we were in here, all we tried to do was kill the Pteranodons which we were unsuccessful at doing. We didn't explore the Aviary once."
"But you had to have seen Site B when you worked for InGen," Grant said confused.
Muldoon shook his head. "I was hired right after Nublar started construction. I was never allowed to go to Site B, and I'd also never heard that it had existed until I heard about Ian Malcolm's trip to this island."
They continued going farther into the misty area of the Aviary and started going even slower as to not make any more noise. They came into a small section of the platform that was covered by a head shelter made from the same material the bridge was made of.
They started through that area when suddenly the platform ended from a broken section of the bridge. The remaining area was still there but a section was missing making them unable to move any farther.
Then from out of nowhere one of the Pteranodons flew right in the way knocking several of the people down. They turned around and started running in the other direction while the Pteranodons flew toward the people's new direction.
One of the animals then landed on the covering and started pecking and trying to get at them, but then it feel through the covering into the section with the people. Everyone started slowly backing up with the Pteranodon following behind. Grant then kicked the Pteranodon in the head leaving no result except anger.
The people continued to the end of the platform. However they were all too heavy to support it all at once and the section that they and the Pteranodon were in started to break off and everyone went crashing down in the water. They all started swimming away when the Pteranodon crashed in the water. Then suddenly the caged platform crashed on the Pteranodon going straight to the bottom of the river.
Right then several other Pteranodons started swooping down, coming toward them.
Billy blocked the way of all of the animals sacrificing himself for the others. The animals started attacking him by pecking from all sides of his body. Billy could feel searing pain going throughout his body.
"Billy," Grant yelled. "No!"
"Get out of here," Billy yelled. "Just go!"
They did as Billy said with Muldoon and Guitierrez having to drag Grant away as he still protested into trying to help Billy.
They all continued running to a large gate. The Pteranodons were pecking at Billy as he screamed and tried to avoid them. The other people exited the gate not realizing that it was still part of the way open. Everyone then saw the boat in the water that Muldoon had talked about before.
"Everyone into the boat," Muldoon yelled. "Let's go!!"
Muldoon shouted more for everyone to get aboard the boat as he started the motor. He maneuvered the boat out of the dock and into the jungle river. The boat continued slowly down the river, into the darkness of the jungle.
Payne, and Jim Taylor
Thursday, July 14, 1999 Isla Sorna, Hill
Alan Grant stopped at a high rise near the Aviary, looking down at it through the fog with the six other people. He remembered how the Aviary on Isla Nublar looked. It was much smaller then the one on this island. He guessed that since this was the island where all the testing and breading was done that they needed a large facility to work with the Pteranodons. Grant wondered however, why Malcolm hadn't seen the Aviary when he was on this island. He'd make it a goal to try and figure that and some other things out as well. The Dilophosaurs were another one of the mysteries that Grant wanted answered. Could it have been possible that the team that was working with Muldoon hadn't really been destroying things, but they were really recreating and making new animals? That was a very odd way to look at things, but it did seem logical at the same time even though InGen had been long since bankrupt and out of business.
Grant looked at everyone low on breath. Muldoon was sitting on a rock fixing his gun and reloading it. Guitierrez sat on the ground looking at his injured leg with Nash and Daniel trying to set it, while Eric and Ben looked around probably trying to find the Kirbys. Grant didn't really understand how such a nice kid like Eric could've came from assholes like Paul and Amanda Kirby.
Then, Grant noticed the other man wearing the wire frame glasses and torn suit. He automatically assumed that it was Hammond's nephew. Grant walked over to the man and sat next to him. "You're Peter Ludlow, aren't you?"
"Yes, I am," Ludlow replied. "Do I know you?"
"Not really," Grant said. "But I believe that I'm the one that's going to save your life. At least I hope."
"So do I," Ludlow said, as he got up and walked away from Grant. Ludlow wondered how someone like that guy could be the one person that was going to save them. He and Muldoon had been marooned on Isla Sorna for at least three years and they had tried every possible method that they could ever think of to get off the island and failed each time.
"We must get off of this damn island now," Muldoon implied still sitting fiddling with his gun. "If we don't we're all going to die! Now that we've left the safety of the lodge, we'll more then likely enter some real danger."
"Where are my parents," Eric asked, looking in all directions into the foliage. "Mom, Dad!!!"
"Eric, don't scream," Grant yelled. "That's a very bad idea."
"Sorry," Eric said sadly. He wished his parents were with them. He would feel so much safer if they were around. Although he did feel safe with Dr. Alan Grant, whom of which had been in one of these situations before, as well as Robert Muldoon. Both of these people had survived Jurassic Park once before and he was sure that they would make it out alive again. He was also glad that he was finally around other people besides Ben Hildebrand. He'd had to deal with Ben alone for a whole day before he found Muldoon and the strange Ludlow guy.
The reason why he hated being around Ben alone, was because the only thing that Ben would talk about was some non-sense with Ben not wanting Eric to be Bi-Sexual anymore. Eric really hated it when people tried to get him to change the way he felt about other people and the way he lived his life. Eric's mom and dad had never tried to change his mind or anything. They just wanted Eric to be happy with however he decided to live his life. Eric had never liked Ben Hildebrand, because when he first found out that Eric was Bi, he'd immediately tried to give him a talk about how he shouldn't be that way and some other bullshit that Eric didn't listen to. Eric was just happy to finally be around other people now.
"Um, They're probably following us, just a little farther behind," Guitierrez said. "Let's continue onward."
They all went forward into the foliage and came out at a large valley where there were several Stegosaurs grazing in the fields as well as Maiasauria eating from the trees. Nash thought to himself, "This is the same place I landed the plane, when Cooper was killed by the Tyrannosaur." "There is nothing here worth looking for."
"Wait a second," Muldoon pointed. "Who are those people? Are they more of your team?"
"No," Grant replied. "Those are Biosyn hunters. They're here for one reason and that's to take animals off the island."
"But there's only five of them," Muldoon implied. "How could they possibly catch dinosaurs with only a small handful of people?"
"There were at least fifteen people before," Daniel replied. "Where did the rest of them go?"
"Looks like their camp was attacked," Grant said squinting in the sunlight. "They must've been killed."
"Wait a second," Ludlow said, looking out at the people in the valley. "Are you saying that those people are trespassing on this island again?"
"Again," Ben questioned.
"Yes," Ludlow replied a little annoyed. "Lewis Dodgson, whom worked for that company, came here with two other men about four years ago trying to steal dinosaur eggs to take back to his company. After that happened former InGen board members including myself decided to come here and destroy the island's inhabitants secretly, so we wouldn't have to worry about some stupid animal loyalists like people from Earth First getting involved. There are a few of those people that I can't stand like Nick van Owen and Edward Campbell... Anyway, things went bad as Robert said before and we were stranded here. I vote we go down there and show them all how we treat trespassers."
"You've got my vote as well," Daniel said. "I'm with the EPA. I was sent here to deal with these people anyway."
Ludlow laughed. "The EPA? You've got to be kidding. If you were with the FBI, I'd take you more seriously, but my God you're an idiot for trying to challenge Biosyn. You wouldn't stand two minutes down there with those guys, and it looks like at least one of them is a skilled animal tracker."
"I don't want to interact with those bastards," Grant replied irritated at Ludlow and Daniel. Ludlow was defiantly like Hammond. They were one in the same. Grant wouldn't be surprised if Ludlow had actually come here to take animals back to the mainland himself instead of destroying them. "We forget about them now. Come on!"
"You're kidding me," Daniel said. "This is our chance to take them out. They may have the famous Roland Tembo, but we have the even more famous Robert Muldoon and."
"Wait a second," Muldoon interrupted. "Did you say Roland Tembo?"
"Yes," Daniel replied confused.
"That is my brother," Muldoon said. "I haven't seen that dirty bastard in years. He and I were claimed as the greatest of the great white hunters in our days."
"Well," Daniel began, "we still have to stop them."
"No we don't," Grant said. "Now let's go."
"Hold it," Guitierrez said looking straightforward, shivering. "I see something moving up ahead."
"It's probably your imagination," a voice came from the foliage behind them. Everyone turned around to see Billy, Paul, and Amanda come out of the foliage. Eric smiled and ran to his parents.
"Mom, Dad," Eric yelled, running up to his mom and hugging her while he cried.
"I thought I'd lost you," Amanda cried. Then Ben ran up to Amanda as well and kissed her.
"Hey hunny," Ben smiled.
Right then everyone heard a jingle from what sounded like a phone ringing. Amanda looked at Paul. "Paul, is that your satellite phone ringing?"
* * *
Roland Tembo was sitting beside Ajay Sidahu on the ground beside the one remaining vehicle that the Biosyn team had. Roland was trying to clean some mud off of his .600 Nitro Express while the two men watched Rossiter, James, and Darris talking off to one side about a plan to capture an adult Rex and use the baby as bait. Roland really thought it was a bad idea to even consider trying to take an adult Tyrannosaur off of the island and back to the mainland, but apparently no one ever listen to him except for Ajay, whom agreed with Roland about not getting the adult Rex, but Rossiter was their boss and they had to do what he wanted so they couldn't go against him.
Suddenly the three men off to the side stopped talking and were listening to the wind. Roland and Ajay heard it also. It sounded like a really annoying cell phone jingle. Roland and Ajay stood up and went over to the other three men.
"Is that your phone Mr. Rossiter," Roland asked.
"I didn't even bring a phone with me," Rossiter replied. "All we have are radios. I don't have a clue where that's coming from."
"It actually sounds like it's coming from up the hill at the far end of the valley," Ajay implied, pointing in that direction.
"Must be Dr. Grant's team," Rossiter smiled. "They may try to ambush us. Just be ready with your gun Mr. Tembo. I don't want any surprises. I've heard from some of my contacts that they should have at least three mercenaries with them. We'd better be careful."
* * *
"Yeah, I better answer it," Paul replied looking in his pockets. "Where did I put that thing? I gave it to Nash and then... Nash you have my satellite phone!"
"But I threw it at the..." Nash cut himself off. "Oh shit!"
Guitierrez suddenly started screaming and pointing. They all turned in the direction of his finger points. The team saw an adult Tyrannosaur staring right at them breathing hard while the phone still rang.
"Run," Grant yelled as he started running to the right on the edge of the foliage. Everyone else started running at full speed following Grant. The Tyrannosaur roared and started doing the same. They all kept running until they saw a building up ahead. "Straight for the building," Grant yelled as he suddenly realized that there were several Stegosaurs and Maiasauria stampeding beside them.
* * *
Roland Tembo turned around at the sound of the loud roar that he'd just heard. The other four men turned around as well to see an adult Tyrannosaur chasing the herds of herbivores that had escaped from the hunters earlier.
"What's going on," Rossiter asked.
"The Rex is going for a kill it seems," Roland replied.
"I hate to mention this Roland, but I think we aren't alone in this valley," Ajay said looking straightforward.
"Of course we aren't alone," Roland said irritably. "There are dinosaurs in the valley."
"No Roland," Ajay replied. "I think that Dr. Grant's team is being chassed by the Rex!"
"That's no matter to us as long as they don't get in our way," Rossiter said. "We have to get that Rex now while the getting is good."
"The hunt is on," Roland yelled.
The five people ran to the remaining vehicle and jumped in. They started out toward the stampeding Rex, Stegosaurs, Maiasauria, and Grant's team.
* * *
Alan Grant and company all continued running toward a building in front of them. The Tyrannosaur continued to follow as everyone ran, getting closer and closer to the building. Grant made it first as he opened the door to the building and started letting everyone in. Grant then noticed that Ben Hildebrand had been kept from running at the same speed as everyone else, because of the stampeding herbivores. The Tyrannosaur was now getting closer with every long step that the Behemoth took.
"Ben," Amanda yelled. "Hurry!"
Ben Hildebrand was unable to do so as the Tyrannosaur scooped him up in his mouth just like he'd done to Cooper earlier. Amanda screamed as the animal did this. Grant then shut the large door to the building. The animal's roar was heard from the other side of the door as it shook it trying to get in.
Muldoon was speechless at all of this. The Adult Tyrannosaur on Nublar wasn't ever as vicious at his methods of attack. He wasn't even as fast as this Rex. Muldoon looked around the room and realized where they were. "Damn! We're back in the Aviary!"
* * *
Ed James drove the jeep as fast as he could, getting the hunters closer to the adult Tyrannosaur that would save Biosyn from going into chapter 11, like InGen did in the early ninety's.
Roland was halfway standing in his seat, holding a tranquilizer gun in hand. He fired it sending the dart right at the animal. The Rex turned around roaring at the invaders.
James took this as a time to turn around and get the hell out of there. He put the jeep into reverse and started going backwards down the valley.
Roland meanwhile, was trying to reload the tranquilizer gun as fast as possible. He then fired it again at the animal sending the dart into the animal's mouth.
At this the Rex went crazy stopping it's chase with the jeep, to stomp around in pain and agony. The Rex started getting really shaky and couldn't stand to stay on its feet anymore. The animal then fell to the ground.
Roland smiled as he jumped out of the jeep with the other men. They all stood before one of the two only animals in their quarry.
"This is just what we need to save Biosyn," Rossiter implied smiling. "I will accomplish what Dodgson could never do. Call the choppers, Ed. Dieter go retrieve the infant. I want a boat to be here in three hours so this animal will be out of here. And hurry up, I'd love to be airborne before the female knows we're here."
* * *
"How is that possible," Grant asked. "We were going away from the aviary!"
"The aviary spans through a large portion of this section of forest, Dr. Grant," Ludlow replied sighing.
"How about we do less talking and more walking," Daniel implied. " We need to get out of here before that animal finds its way in."
"Well, Rex just feed so he won't be coming after us for awhile," Muldoon said. "Our problem still exists with the Pteranodons though."
"I can't believe you just said that," Amanda yelled. "That was my boyfriend you asshole!"
Muldoon looked at Amanda from top to bottom and cocked his left eyebrow. "Then his problems are over."
Amanda looked at Muldoon was tears in her eyes. "Go to hell you bastard!"
"Oh, believe me," Muldoon began, "We're all already in hell."
"That's enough," Daniel yelled. "There will be no more fighting on my watch. I have had to listen to Paul and your bickering throughout this whole fucking trip, and I."
"Hey," Grant yelled, pointing toward Eric. "There is a child here! Watch your language!"
"Well I'm sorry," Daniel said. "But I think it's ridiculous to be going back into that Aviary."
"There's nothing we can do about that," Grant said. "Besides there may be a boat or something near the lower section to get us out of here."
"I actually do remember something about a boat being at the bottom of the Aviary where the water is," Muldoon said. "I think the river should lead us out of here."
Amanda walked over to Eric who was looking out at the fog in the Aviary. "What's wrong hun? Is it Ben?"
"No," Eric said smiling. "I mean... I'm sorry for you and all, but I never liked him."
"I understand how you feel hunny," Amanda said, holding her son. "I've lost a true love that I'll never have again. He even kissed me just a few seconds ago." Amanda was about to cry when she stopped herself trying to keep in control. "But at least I still have you hunny. You're all I've ever really needed."
"I know mom," Eric said trying to pull away from his mother.
"What's wrong," Amanda asked.
"Nothing," Eric replied.
Paul walked over to the two of them hearing what they were saying to one another. "It was Ben wasn't it? What did he do?"
"The same thing that he would always do," Eric said with tears filling his eyes. "After awhile of walking around in an old InGen building, things just start to affect people, and well, he just wouldn't shut up."
"He gave you those speeches again didn't he," Paul asked.
"Shut up Paul," Amanda said. "You have no proof to any of that. Let him speak."
"He's right mom," Eric said. "Ben started preaching to me about how it was a sin to like people of the same sex the way I do, and all of that. I couldn't get him to leave me alone. So, I started to run from him, and he would just run after me. Before I found the front entrance to the Aviary, you know, where the bottom of the hill is, he caught up to me and turned me around, and."
Eric suddenly started crying and pulled his head down into his father's chest. Paul stared at Amanda with an evil glare.
"Paul, I." Amanda began.
"Don't," Paul yelled. He turned back down to his son and lifted his head up with tears pouring down the poor boy's face. "What happened next?"
"He. He. punched me right in the face," Eric screamed. "And he. He just started kicking me over and over again! He wouldn't stop! And he just kept calling me a faggot! He was a madman!"
This had gotten the attention of everyone in the room. They were all staring at the Kirbys in sadness. There was extremely way to much tension surrounding them, that it made the dinosaurs outside the building seem more pleasing.
"That bloody bastard," Muldoon whispered under his breath. "Why didn't he tell me about it when they'd first arrived," Muldoon thought. "He must've been afraid that Ben would attack him again."
Muldoon had just recalled that Eric had entered the lodge a few minutes before Ben did, and the boy did look like he'd been beaten up, but Muldoon had just assumed that it was the dinosaurs that had caused it. However, now that he thought about it, Ben had hardly been injured. He felt like an idiot for not realizing this before now.
"It's too bad that Tyrannosaur got to him first," Paul said. "I would've killed him if it hadn't."
"Eric," Amanda said ignoring Paul. "Why would Ben do something like that? He would never hurt you."
"What makes you so sure of that Mrs. Kirby," Grant asked.
"You stay out of this," Amanda screamed now crying herself. "You have no idea what it's like to have a family. You don't know anything about this!"
Grant tried his best to stay calm. This woman had finally crossed the line, but Grant was the leader of this team, and wasn't about to just breakout into a fit of rage. "I'm going to do my best to pretend I didn't hear that Mrs. Kirby."
Billy looked around at everyone's faces. Even Ludlow seemed to be showing some compassion for the Kirby's, and Billy could tell from the first time that he'd met Ludlow that he was no good. Daniel was also paying attention as well, for he was usually writing stuff down, and now he was standing beside Billy barely holding his briefcase. Billy decided it was time to say something to lessen the tension.
"Alright people, let's give our flying companions a little revisit."
Everyone's gaze suddenly turned toward Billy, but the gazes weren't evil stares, which was what he'd expected. They were just staring blank, but everyone eventually nodded their approval.
Paul put an arm around Eric and walked with him trying to console his poor son as well. They all then walked down a spiral staircase away from the building where they could no longer hear the Tyrannosaur's roars.
They found themselves on a platform overlooking a sheer drop of jagged rocks into mist. The humans panted heavily. Grant looked to his side and saw another flight of stairs heading into yet another structure. He made a gesture for them to follow him downward.
They descended into the mist via the long staircase that overlooked the canyon. There was no hint of what lay at the bottom of the drop to the side of them. As they moved along, it was visible that the staircase ended at yet another platform similar to the one the Rex had just chassed them into before. Grant proceeded cautiously inside with everyone else following behind.
On the platform, there was a hatch on the floor. Grant bent down to open it and saw there was a spiral staircase heading straight down into misty oblivion. "This is crazy," Grant mumbled. "This must be leading to something, some sort of other facility perhaps. It can't just be a hiking trail. Robert, do you know where this leads?"
"Not a clue, Alan," Muldoon said shaking his head. "When we were in here, all we tried to do was kill the Pteranodons which we were unsuccessful at doing. We didn't explore the Aviary once."
"But you had to have seen Site B when you worked for InGen," Grant said confused.
Muldoon shook his head. "I was hired right after Nublar started construction. I was never allowed to go to Site B, and I'd also never heard that it had existed until I heard about Ian Malcolm's trip to this island."
They continued going farther into the misty area of the Aviary and started going even slower as to not make any more noise. They came into a small section of the platform that was covered by a head shelter made from the same material the bridge was made of.
They started through that area when suddenly the platform ended from a broken section of the bridge. The remaining area was still there but a section was missing making them unable to move any farther.
Then from out of nowhere one of the Pteranodons flew right in the way knocking several of the people down. They turned around and started running in the other direction while the Pteranodons flew toward the people's new direction.
One of the animals then landed on the covering and started pecking and trying to get at them, but then it feel through the covering into the section with the people. Everyone started slowly backing up with the Pteranodon following behind. Grant then kicked the Pteranodon in the head leaving no result except anger.
The people continued to the end of the platform. However they were all too heavy to support it all at once and the section that they and the Pteranodon were in started to break off and everyone went crashing down in the water. They all started swimming away when the Pteranodon crashed in the water. Then suddenly the caged platform crashed on the Pteranodon going straight to the bottom of the river.
Right then several other Pteranodons started swooping down, coming toward them.
Billy blocked the way of all of the animals sacrificing himself for the others. The animals started attacking him by pecking from all sides of his body. Billy could feel searing pain going throughout his body.
"Billy," Grant yelled. "No!"
"Get out of here," Billy yelled. "Just go!"
They did as Billy said with Muldoon and Guitierrez having to drag Grant away as he still protested into trying to help Billy.
They all continued running to a large gate. The Pteranodons were pecking at Billy as he screamed and tried to avoid them. The other people exited the gate not realizing that it was still part of the way open. Everyone then saw the boat in the water that Muldoon had talked about before.
"Everyone into the boat," Muldoon yelled. "Let's go!!"
Muldoon shouted more for everyone to get aboard the boat as he started the motor. He maneuvered the boat out of the dock and into the jungle river. The boat continued slowly down the river, into the darkness of the jungle.