Chapter 14 - The Cliffhanger

Tai and Cody were driving through the rain toward the High Hide. Cody had told Tai where it was and Tai couldn't think of another place to go where Cody would be safe. The nest was to far away.
"Can I ask you something?" Tai said to Cody but kept his eyes on the road.
"What?" Cody replied.
"When did you guys get here? Like . . . How long have you been here?"
Cody looked at Tai in disbelief. It was then that Cody realized that he really didn't know how long they had been there. And he couldn't remember when they had gotten there. So Cody made a guess, "A few days . . . three maybe?"
Tai shrugged, "I'm not surprised. I don't know how long I've been here."
"I know." Cody said, looking out the window.
Tai looked at him funny, "What?"
"There's a time difference here" Cody explained, "Back home, you were gone only a few days. While here . . . You've been here a year or so."
At those last few words the car swerved a little and stopped. Out of shock, Tai had turned to his raptor form and had jumped out of his seat belt. When the car stopped, the creature had hit it's head on the windshield and growled in frustration. This was the first time Tai had turned raptor form on front of Cody. The Velociraptor looked at the young, shocked boy next to him. The dinosaur tucked him hind legs underneath him, making him look more bird like. "When did this happen to you?" Cody asked.
Tai morphed back, "When I was born." Tai had a 'Don't talk about it' tone when he answered Cody, so Cody dropped the subject.
When they reached the High Hide, Eddie was there waiting. Cody unaware of the danger and Tai was hoping that no one would be there. Tai knew it was safer in the High Hide then it was on the ground. Eddie joyously allowed Tai and Cody into the High Hide and started moving the object up to the tree top. Tai was uncomfortable but it was his only choice, he really wasn't having the best of luck with trying to save as many lives as he could. He willingly got in the high hide with Cody and Eddie. It started to rain harder as the high hide stopped at the top of the tree. Cody looked up at Tai, "Where are they?"
Tai looked at Cody trying to find a comforting answer but was distracted a light turning on in the distance. He looked up, someone was in the trailer. "Are they safe there?" Cody asked, seeing the light too.
Again Tai was unable to answer, but this time for another reason. There a roar from one of the Rex's coming from inside the forest making all three of them look back. Tai turned off the lantern next to him, putting them in total darkness, "Eddie? Is there anyway to communicate with the trailer?"
Eddie handed him a small phone, and Tai put it to his ear, it was ringing.

* * *
Satu and Ken carried the baby Rex to the back of the trailer and and laid it on a table. Ken hurried to a cabinet and opened it. He took out two different first aid kits. Meanwhile Satu had taken a washcloth and was drying the struggling animals leg. She took a needle and a small bottle out of one the kits Ken brought over. "What's that?" Ken asked.
"Morphine. It will calm him down."
The phone in the trailer was ringing but they both ignored it. Satu put the needle into the baby's hip.
A few minutes later the baby had calmed and had stopped struggling. Satu and Ken began to clean the deep gash that was in the animals leg. Ken was surprised that it hadn't hit the bone it was so deep. Soon Satu began to stitch the wound.

* * *
"No answer, what a surprise." Tai said putting down the phone, "I'm gonna kill that girl. Eddie how do I get down from -- ?" Tai was about to turn to Eddie when he felt something round pressed against the back of his neck. There was a yelp from Cody and Eddie told Tai to turn around. Eddie was holding Cody by the collar of his shirt over the side of the high hide with Tai cornered facing the barrel of a gun.
"Don't move" Eddie said with a glaze in his eyes.
Cody was holding on to Eddie arm for support. There was a sudden jolt and the high hide began to lower. This caused Eddie to stumble, dropping both the gun and Cody. Tai was going to go for the gun but went for Cody, throwing himself over the side of the fence of the high hide. He grabbed Cody by the arm. He was hanging by one arm over the side of the high hide. There was suddenly a loud noise and then a sharp pain in Tai's shoulder. Tai looked up at his shoulder of the arm that was holding on to the high hide. It was bleeding. He looked up at Eddie, a little light headed. Eddie had attempted to shoot him, but missed and the bullet had gone through Tai's shoulder. Tai's grip was loosening when he heard another shot. Then Eddie was to his knees, clutching his hand. He had been shot in the hand. Tai looked down from where the shot had come from. Keiko stood there beaming up at him. Tai smiled down at her. She smiled back.
When the high hide was within a few feet of the ground, Tai jumped down and handed Cody over to Keiko. "Get him somewhere safe." And before Keiko could answer back, Tai had dashed off through the forest toward the trailer. Keiko glared over at the whining Eddie and then walked off, carrying Cody. Cody asked about what happened to Tai to make him turn to a dinosaur. Keiko turned to the small boy and began to explain that they were not from Earth but from this planet, what happened to them, the scientist, and everything else that happened. Unfortunately this kept her from being aware that she was being followed.

* * *
After about ten minutes the wound was stitched completely and they began to bandage up the leg. It was about when they were finished that Tai burst into the trailer, "For once in your life Satu," Tai slammed the door behind him, "Would it kill you to pick up the phone?" Tai walked over to the baby, "Help me get this thing out of here."
"Wait Tai," Satu said, "We need to--"
Suddenly there was a grinding noise and the car that was with the trailer rolled passed the window next to Tai.
"What is it?" Satu asked.
"Mommy's very angry." Tai replied.
It was quiet. To quiet. The three of them waited, looking out the one window, the wrong window. On the other side, behind them, a huge head came down and looked in sideways. It growled, which caused Tai, Satu, and Ken to look back. The T-Rex roared at them. Another T-Rex looked in the other window and growled at the three people inside. The two Rexes looked in at the baby that belonged to them, and one nosed the trailer a bit, knocking it on two wheels for a second before it came back down with a thunk. The three people inside were thrown around the room of the trailer, then they finally backed up against the back of the trailer. The glass protective wall stopped them from hitting their backs against the hard, cold, iron, door. "This isn't hunting procedure Tai" Satu said.
"I know" he responded.
"They're searching."
"I know."
"They came for the infant."
"Lets not disappoint them then" Tai said as he reached for the baby Rex.
Satu carried the animals head over her shoulder, while Tai carried the rest of the body. "Ken, get the muzzle off will ya?" Satu asked.
Obediently, Ken gingerly took the muzzle off the baby. As soon as it was off, the infant began it's crying, and the Rexes outside followed them every step of the way. Tai opened the door, only to be face to face with one of the only creatures that he and Satu couldn't fight. They let the infant run to its parent and Tai closed the door quietly.
* * *
Keiko and Cody walked through the dense forest as Keiko explained to Cody about what happened to them to make them like this. "There was one of us you has their biological parents alive, but we don't know who."
"Then how do you know they're the parents of one of you?" Cody asked.
"Bambi has done a lot of research and discovered that some how they are still alive, and most likely on your earth." Keiko stated.
"Why do you say they're on our earth?" Cody asked.
"Because nobody survived the attack after Malone shut the security of in the colony."
"How do you know for sure?"
"You're asking a lot of questions."
"I know."
"Tai hates that."
"Do you?" Cody asked.
"No."
"Then why does it matter?"
There was silence. Then. . .
"Who's Bambi?" Cody asked. Keiko threw her arms in the air in frustration.
* * *
Tai was sitting on an office chair, Ken on another one trying to catch his breath, and Satu sitting on a desk next to Ken. "I beg people to listen to me." Tai said, "I speak perfectly well, I don't have any accent on me."
"Aw shut up Tai" Satu said.
"So what are you going to tell Ryo when he discovered you disrupted to hunting patterns of the Rex family?" Tai asked Satu.
"What are you talking about?" Ken asked.
Satu explained, "That baby was taken away from its nest and parents terrortory. The Rexes had to get out of their boundaries to find it, therefore, we changed their hunting patterns." Tai suddenly stood. Satu looked up at him, "What's the matter?"
"That's why they're still here." he said.
"Huh?" Satu and Ken asked simultaneously.
"Hang on this is going to be bad." Tai simply said, just before the trailer started to tip. The Rexes had come back and were turning the trailer over. The three were tossed around inside as the trailer was flipped onto its roof.
Ken ran to the door and tried to open it, it wouldn't budge. "Hang on to something!" Ken shouted.
"Hang on to something!" Tai echoed. The second half on the trailer was suddenly thrown over the side of the cliff.

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Moonstone: Oh the irony of that ending an that title, ha ha!!

Tai: How many 'close calls' am I gonna have?

Ken: I lost count, but I get my own next chapter so nyeh nyeh *Sticks tongue out at Tai*

Tai: Shut it Kaiser.

Ken (fuming): You said you wouldn't call me that!

Moonstone(to Tai): He's cute when he's angry.

Tai: Gross.