"Let's not go along the coastline, let's take a friggin route through the jungle." Kenji grunts accusingly, the group of 6 running away from a riled up stegosaurus.
"I'm sorry OK. This appeared to be the better way." Darius says, leading the charge with 10k taking the rear to keep an eye on Yaz who is running as fast as she can with her bruised ankle, using the branch 10k gave her as a crutch.
"Just keep running you two. We should be almost there." 10k tells them.
"Yeah and if we went by the shoreline we could be running from a raptor now, not a pissed off Stego." Brooklynn chimes in.
"I think... I think we lost it." Sammy says, looking back and seeing no sign of the dino.
"Phew. Man this is not what I was expecting this trip to be like." Darius sighs, sitting down against a tree with the others mirroring his action exhausted themselves.
"You don't say. I naturally thought we'd have to dodge man-eating dinos every other minute." Kenji jokes.
"Yeah, it has been a mess." Sammy agrees.
"Come on guys, focus up. We need to continue in a few minutes. This place isn't a good resting spot. On mainstreet we'll have a clear view of the surroundings and buildings to take shelter in." 10k tells the group.
"How's your back?" Brooklynn asks him.
"I'll live. Let's just try to stay focused until we're on mainstreet alright? There could be toro waiting for us around every tree guys." 10k tells them.
"He's right, let's continue." Yasmina says, getting up and hobbling towards their destination with her stick.
"Yeah, let's go." Darius agrees and they all get up, Brooklyn helping 10k up.
"Thanks, but I'm fine." He tells Brooklyn, his pride a bit hurt.
"I know. I just want to do what I can to repay you for saving my life." Brookyln tells him, a miniscule blush on her cheeks.
"Don't. If we're gonna keep score on who did what we'll all die on this island. We need to work as a team with everyone chipping in wherever they can." 10k says, the group walking towards main street at a relaxed pace.
"10k is right. We need to become a team. I mean we fought off Toro, but only together." Darius says boosting morale.
"Yeah!" Sammy agrees, receiving a scoff from Yasmina, who's still upset about Sammy lying.
"Come on Yaz we don't have the luxury to keep holding petty grudges anymore, Sammy knows she screwed up." , thinking back to Kenji's and 10k's words.
"Fine, I'll try." Yaz says defeated, Sammy punching the air happily.
"I think I can see it." Darius says a few minutes later, the group being able to see the large main street a couple hundred meters away.
"Finally. 5 hours man. It took us 5 hours to find the dang main street." Kenji whines.
"When we get there we should look for provisions and any kind of communication devices." 10k says.
"Food." Kenji pants excitedly almost drooling in hunger.
"Right with the constant running from Dino's it's easy to forget we need to eat." Sammy says.
"Hey, maybe I'll find a working camera to document our time here." Brooklyn says excitedly.
"Still concerned about your Brooklanders huh?" Darius asks, chuckling.
"Of course. I mean when we get back there's gonna be questions." Brooklyn replies.
"So not gonna look forward to that." Yasmina groans.
"Why? Because everyone will find out the big strong Yaz lost in a race to main street?" Kenji asks tauntingly, speeding up a bit.
"You!" Yaz curses and hobbles after the playfully running away Kenji.
"Guys. Come here, now. And keep quiet!" 10k tells them, leading Sammy by pushing on her back and pulling Brooklyn along by her hand.
Moments later the 6 teens are crouching in a bush nervously, the others staring at 10k confused while he looks around carefully, making a shushing motion when a couple Dimorphodon are flying between some trees next to them.
"I think they're gone." 10k says after a minute or so of the dino's flying past them and the group relaxes visibly.
"That was close." Darius says.
"No kidding." Kenji agrees.
"How did you know?" Brooklyn asks 10k intrigued.
"I could hear them." He answers, finally releasing her hand which he didn't know he was still holding.
Yasmina frowns a bit at this and is the first to get up, getting back to hobbling towards main street.
"Let's go." Yaz tells the others and they fall in step with her.
"Do you need some help Yaz?" Sammy offers the athlete, seeing her struggle to keep up with her stick as a crutch.
"OK, fine. I'd like some help." Yasmina tells Sammy after a long pause to think about accepting Sammy's help.
Sammy smiles and quickly supports Yasmina as they catch up with the others a few steps ahead of them.
"We should split up in groups while we look for anything useful." Darius suggests, the 6 reaching the main street.
"10k goes with Brooklyn and Yaz stays with Sammy." Darius says.
"Good." 10k agrees, taking the backpack from Kenji.
"Great then let's look." Brooklyn says, pulling 10k along by his hand, the other two groups also leave to search through the surrounding buildings.
"Man, what I wouldn't give for a cup of coffee." Brooklyn whines, standing with 10k in a former coffee shop, no table left standing, spills decorating the walls everywhere and rubble along with broken glass littering the floor.
"Electricity is out." 10k replies, flipping a lightswitch a couple times.
"Dang." She grumbles, brushing over the two machines behind the counter which could have given her her most desired drink.
"Let's look around." 10k tells her and she nods, the two searching in their own corner plus 10k looks in a supply room.
"Found anything?" 10k says.
"Nah, not really." She says, showing him some batteries and a scarf which seems to be mostly intact.
"Let's go to the next building." 10k says and they continue to look through the main street in their groups before meeting up in the middle after an hour.
"Anyone find a phone or anything?" 10k asks.
"We found walkie-talkies." Kenji says through the dino shaped device which changes his voice to a robotic one.
"I found this. And it says here that there is an emergency beacon on main street." Sammy says gleefully, showing them an article in a magazine.
"Well we got some proviant if you could call it that." 10k says, Brooklyn knocking on some frozen solid pizza.
"How are we gonna eat that?" Sammy asks doubtfully.
"It's sunny out. Let that big ball of warmth do the job." Kenji says, flopping down on a chair which is underneath a sun umbrella and sets down some bottles of water he and Darius found.
"Yeah, let's take a minute." Sammy agrees, joining him on another chair and takes a bottle, knocking against the one Kenji was raising as if they were cheering with cocktails.
Brooklyn sets down the ten pieces of pizza she and 10k brought on a small waist height wall near the table before joining the others, everyone but 10k sitting down in the shade of the umbrella.
10k in the meantime takes one of the bottles and pats Kenji's shoulder thankful before going into one of the stores selling toys.
"We already searched that." Darius tells their oldest member before he disappears into the store.
"What's that about?" Sammy asks, the others only shrugging while Brookyln looks at the store wondrously.
Barely a minute later the two hear a quiet thumping from the top of the store and see 10k standing on the flimsy looking roof of the store, taking something out of his pants and uses broken out glasses lenses as a teleskop.
"Coast appears to be... clear." He says, pausing before the end.
"What's that pause about? I don't like the pause." Kenji asks worried.
10k doesn't say another word and goes back into the store, leaving it shortly after.
"Why did you pause?" Darius asks.
"I think the T-Rex was here.".10k tells him, pointing at a tooth the large dino lost in its fight against the indominus.
"This place looks like there was more than one dino here, why does it matter if the Rex was here?" Yaz asks.
"Because there is a chance that we're in its territory." Darius explains.
"Which we really don't want to be. Because believe me Toro is easy mode compared to a T-Rex." 10k tells them.
"Alright, keep an eye out for the biggest friggin' Dino on this island, got it." Kenji remarks.
"What's our next move? After getting some chow?" Sammy then asks.
"Is there any information in your book about where the emergency beacon is located?" 10k asks the farm girl.
"No, just that it's supposed to be here. But maybe it's hidden. I mean everything here is designed to fit in the jurassic appearance." Sammy answers, knocking on a trash bin which looks like a rock with her foot.
"So we'll all have to look for it. It should be our number one priority for now, or what do you think Darius?" 10k suggests.
"Yeah. I mean once we get the signal up and running we can focus on staying alive until we get rescued." Darius agrees.
"Alright. We have a plan. Now, let me check on the pizza... Hey, get away from that!" Brooklyn says, shooing away some Compies which tried to steal the pizza, fleeing with 2 pieces.
"I think we can't expect much more of it until we find something to cook with." Brooklyn tells them, handing each one a slice of slightly mushy but warm pizza.
"Still better than that bar from Ben." Kenji says after eating his first piece with gusto.
"Ben..." Darius says to himself, falling into silence with the others also feeling down about their missing comrade.
"We can go looking for him sometime but first we should find a spot to use as our base once we turn on the beacon." 10k suggests.
"Yes I like the sound of that." Sammy says excitedly.
The remaining three hours with lights out the teens look around for the emergency beacon but are unsuccessful and decide to call it a day, sleeping on the floor of the store which Darius and 10k deemed to be the safest.
"Trouble sleeping?" He hears Yaz ask him when 10k shoots up, sweating bullets.
"Yeah, want to switch?" He offers, standing up and stretches his arms behind his head.
"Sure, thanks." She agrees.
"Did anything happen while we were sleeping?" 10k asks, sitting down next to her before the young girl stands up slowly and stretches her legs on a wall.
"Some compies stole some more of the pizza, but other than that it was quiet." She tells him, continuing to stretch for a bit before doing some push ups.
"working out before going to sleep?" he asks amused, looking at her curiously.
"Given what has happened since coming here... I need some sense of normalcy and this is the only way to get it for now." Yasmina tells him while continuing to do her workout, 10k joining her.
The two continue to work out for a few minutes in silence before she stops and looks at him with a smirk while he's doing sit ups.
"Now, doesn't that feel normal?" She asks.
"As long as you don't overdo it. Can't have you hurt your foot more or be too tired to escape a dinosaur." He tells her concerned and she nods.
"I'll do my best not to overdo it." She replies.
"Good, now sleep tight Yaz." 10k says, getting up from his workout and sits down where the athlete previously was keeping watch.
"I doubt I'll be able to sleep at all." The slightly younger girl replies.
"You can trust me. I won't let anything happen to you." 10k tells her reassuringly, placing a hand on her knee gently when she lies down close to him.
"I believe that, but I'm still scared. This isn't exactly how the trip was supposed to go. Honestly I'm impressed by how they handle it all." Yasmina says quietly, looking over to the peacefully sleeping 4 lying further inside the room.
"It's good to be scared. That way you won't make mistakes so easily." 10k says.
"You're not scared and seem to be right in your element." Yasmina replies, yawning a bit.
"I was a hunter. Me and my dad, that's how Masrani helped me. I unknowingly hunted something illegal and would have faced serious charges." 10k confesses.
"But believe me, I am scared more than any of you." He adds.
"Bold claim." She snickers, poking him playfully with her good foot.
"I'm scared I'll let all of you down. You've been so ready to trust Darius and me... I don't know if I'll be able to make the right decisions and get us out of here." 10k admits.
"Is that why you're pushing yourself so hard? I've seen your bruises, you should be on bed rest." Yasmina asks, sitting up once more.
10k nods wordlessly and nervously cracks his knuckles.
"Whatever happens I am glad to have you with us and take care of us." Yasmina tells him, hugging him from the side before stifling another yawn.
"Thanks, you should get some sleep now. Who knows how long we can stay here before something goes wrong." 10k tells her, rubbing her back.
"Alright, night 10k." She says, lying down almost directly next to him.
"Thomas, my name's Thomas." He tells her, seeing her smile at this before he focuses on keeping watch.