Jurassic
Park IV:
Evolution
Chapter 1: Horror Ride
Dr. Alan Grant stood overlooking a newly discovered Tyrannosaur skeleton. This was the best day of his life and in fossil finding history. He and his team had successfully uncovered a full Tyrannosaur skeleton. Ellie Sattler took herself away from the find and went to stand with Grant.
"Some find, huh?" She asked Dr. Grant shrugged "Yeah, I guess." He said casually even though he was lying. He didn't want to make a fool of himself by clicking his heels together and such, but he was very excited for such an incredible recovery of a full Tyrannosaur skeleton.
"You remember the first time we met Hammond?" Ellie asked
"I don't want to talk about it Ellie, we've been through this before." Grant said firmly
"You and I both know it doesn't help us at all to remember those things. After all, I had therapy for three weeks, and no matter how many times I told my therapist that I had encountered dinosaurs, he just nod and write on his clip board that I was in need of a mental hospital." Grant stated
"Fine, but there's somebody to see you. I think," Ellie said, staring into the distance at a man getting out of a truck, and waving to Alan Grant.
"Oh God," Grant said "it can't be him," But Grant recognized him perfectly: White hair and beard, his staff with the amber on it, and his clean white suit; John Hammond.
"Who is it, Alan?" Ellie asked curiously
"It's." Grant's voice trailed "it's Hammond." Grant said flatly
"I thought he was like, seventy five. Shouldn't he be dead now?" Grant didn't say anything as the old man held onto his hat, dodging paleontologists and rocks and bones and such, stumbling over to Grant.
"Ah, good to see you again, Alan," Hammond said cheerfully
"I have a purpose for coming here today, and that would be to ask you, Ellie, Malcolm, Eddie Carr, Dr. Thorne, and Richard Levine to come to the restaurant down the road. I think it's a Denny's or something,"
"I'm sorry John, but we just recovered the find of the century here and we can't leave it for a minute," Grant said
"No, no, I don't plan to take you on a horror ride again Alan," Hammond said, reassuringly
"Well it wasn't intended to be a horror ride last time, now was it?" Alan said sharply
"Forget the past, Alan, let's just move on," Hammond begged
"Tonight at Denny's? Good, we'll be there, John," Ellie interjected
"What the hell are you talking about Ellie? Are you crazy?" Alan complained
"Oh, excellent, excellent," Hammond said, turning to his truck
"He's and old man, Alan, humor him," Ellie said
"When I get old, I don't plan to kill anybody with genetically cloned dinosaurs, Ellie," Alan said strictly
"But I'll do it anyway," He said, his voice dragging Alan took out his cell phone and called up everyone.
That night at Denny's the whole crew was there: Levine, Eddie, Thorne, Malcolm, Alan, Ellie, and Hammond.
"Now," said Hammond "let me get right to the point. I want all of you to accompany me to Isla Nublar. When my dream was destroyed there, I had left something very important there."
"What was it?" Levine asked
"What I left were not precious fossils, notes or any of that, but I left dinosaurs." Hammond said firmly "WHAT?" Everyone chorused at once
"Yes, dinosaurs. I left two of every species there: One male and one female, so that they could breed. I did that because I was very low on amber supplies, but now that they are breeding and my scientists aren't there to deny the hormone that can make these creatures male too instead of just female, there is a possibility that there are dinosaurs out there. And not just dinosaurs, but males too and aggressive ones at that. Plus, we had special darts to stabilize the aggressive dinosaurs, but males there have gotten stressed with the growing population. Their nests are being raided, their young are being eaten, and herbivores are dying out because there are far too many predators. Once the island is stuffed full of dinosaurs, they will find a way out of there. In fact, I believe there is a way back. My good friend, Diego. He is on that island. He has a large boat, big enough for eight brachiosaurus to fit into. If dinosaurs were to accidentally stumble onto that ship when Diego leaves to come here to the mainland, those dinosaurs could be let loose on all of us. We have to save Diego, and kill those dinosaurs." Hammond explained
"Why don't we get some helicopters to do the job, like last time?" asked Ellie
"Because the helicopters obviously didn't finish their job last time, or else no dinosaurs would remain on that island." Hammond said "and last time I spoke to the men who came and rescued us, they were ticked off, and promised me they'd never be around for me again." Hammond said
"It is plainly up to us, now," Hammond finished There was silence until Thorne spoke up.
"Dodgson. What about Dodgson? For all we know, he's probably taking advantage of this now and stealing eggs during all this overpopulation confusion!"
"My God, I forgot about that back stabbing fool!" Levine said "we must leave for Isla Nublar immediately!" He yelled
The group dashed from each of their houses to the other, collecting food water, books, weapons, and anything else they might need. Even Grant was into it.
"You can bet we won't get there by helicopter, so I bought an airplane when I had to sell my fossils." Hammond pointed out "it's in my back yard. I had so much money I bought a manor, an airplane, a-" Hammond was cut off
"We don't have time for a history lesson, John," warned Alan "let's just get that plane,"
After driving to Hammond's manor and stepping into his plane, everyone slouched in their chairs to enjoy the view. Two pilots that nobody except Hammond knew were taking them to Isla Nublar.
After a good twelve hours, the plane was ready to land.
"Finally, we're here!" Grant exclaimed with a yawn
"Yes, and so is Dodgson," Hammond said grimly "and he's just arriving too"
Chapter 2: Dodgson
"God damn it! It's about damn time!" Dodgson said, unloading his boat.
"I know what you mean, boss," chorused Howard King and George Baselton, Dodgson's partners in crime. Eventually, the men were finished taking out their land cruiser and their various other equipment. Dodgson took out a gun shaped tool. There was a dial on the side to make a high- pitched sound higher or lower. If Dodgson pointed this tool at a dinosaur when he had it at a really high pitched sound, he could make the dinosaurs back away, giving Baselton time to get some eggs. All Dodgson had to do is hold the thing up while King sat in the car, holding the battery box that was attached by cord to the gun shaped tool. Simple enough for me, thought Dodgson.
"So, let's go get some dinosaurs, boys! What do ya say?" Dodgson said enthusiastically
"Let's do this boss!" yelled King in response, as they all climbed into the car and drove into the jungle.
* * *
"Preparing to land, sir!" said one of the pilots, yelling above the now roaring engines
"Take us down," replied Hammond as the group came down towards the last remaining landing strip on the island. Before the pilot or co-pilot could make a move though, the plane was already crashing through the foliage, as leaves smacked the sides of the plane. Levine stood up.
"Are you trying to kill us?" He yelled to the pilots
"No! It was an unintentional blowout in our left propeller!" The pilot yelled back As soon as all the chaos had started, it came to a crashing end. The plane's left wing hit a tree trunk and broke off, but the plane kept going, sinking deeper into the jungle, next to the middle of the trees, until they hit a tree hard. The sudden jolting stop sent the co-pilot out the windshield and into the jungle below.
"No! Jameson!" Yelled the pilot to the unseen Jameson Tears filled the pilot's eyes as he reached out the broken windshield.
"No." He whispered Around the pilot, everyone was silent, mourning for Jameson, probably sprawled on the jungle floor, dead. Suddenly there was a rustling sound.
"What was that? Jameson? Is that you?" said the pilot
"Augh." said Jameson as he crawled up the nose of the plane
"You're alive! Jameson! You're ali-" There was a sudden roar and a huge Tyrannosaur emerged from the foliage behind Jameson, who was now screaming as he scrambled to get back into the plane. It was too late. The Tyrannosaur's jaws closed around Jameson's waist, his legs kicking inside the dinosaur's mouth. The Tyrannosaur swung its head from side to side, probably to crush his bones. Jameson was swaying lifelessly from the Rex's jaws as the dinosaur lumbered back into the foliage, pleased with its new prize.
"Oh Jesus, he ate Jameson." The pilot's voice trailed
"Don't worry Nick," Hammond said putting a hand on the pilot's shoulder "you won't end up that way,"
* * *
Dodgson blared the radio in the land cruiser.
"Don't you think that is a bad idea, boss?" yelled Baselton over the radio Dodgson shut the radio off.
"Ah, I guess," He replied Dodgson jolted to a stop at the first nest. It was a Parasaurolophus nest. Dodgson plugged the cord into the battery pack and the other end into the gun-like tool. He shoved the battery pack into Howard King's hands as he and Baselton moved forward
"Should we be scared of these things, boss?" Asked Baselton nervously
"You're kidding, right? These animals are stupid, they aren't carnivores, and this baby right here 'ill scare 'em to hell." Dodgson said, patting the gun-like tool on the side Dodgson and Baselton entered the nest. All the Parasaurolophus quickly snapped their heads up to look at the intruders.
"Don't worry about them, George." Dodgson said, reassuringly Dodgson raised the gun-like tool and twisted the dial up half way. An ear- splitting high-pitched sound rang out all over the clearing where the nest was. The Parasaurolophus could stand the sound no longer. They backed to the edge of the clearing, very agitated, but not coming forward.
"Get the egg already, damn it!" Dodgson yelled
"Yeah, I'm on it," Baselton said, trembling George Baselton ran up to one of the nests and hoisted up one of the large eggs. Dodgson backed away with Baselton at his side, but Dodgson kept the sound going until he left the clearing. He turned it off and ran to the car with Baselton. At the car, Baselton secured the egg inside a black metal box, the inside ready for three more eggs. The inside of the box had Styrofoam to protect the eggs. Baselton closed it and slouched against his seat.
"Where to next, boss?" King asked, very excited
"Next? Oh, yes. Next we go to the Apatosaurs," said Dodgson, smiling
* * *
"Damn! Dodgson is here! And by the looks of it he took an egg from the parasaur what's-their-face!" Thorne yelled, turning purple with rage
"Parasaurolophus, Doc., Parasaurolophus." Pointed out Levine
"Ah, who gives a damn?" Thorne snapped
"Shut up! Both of you!" yelled Grant, pushing them away from each other.
"I think we better find you're friend Diego before they kill each other or before the dinosaurs kill us," Ellie pointed out calmly to Hammond Hammond nodded and took himself away from Nick, no paralyzed with fear.
"I think we should too, Ellie. All right! Salvage any food, water, weapons, or any thing else we might need along the way! We need at least one compass, that's for sure." Hammond ordered Nobody wasted time. They could only manage to salvage eight water bottles, nine sandwiches, and one Lindstradt rifle; filled with ten poison darts. Hammond handed a water bottle, and a sandwich to everybody, and gave the rifle to Thorne.
"Ok, we have to go north to the 'north shore'. That's where Diego is docked at the moment. Let's move out." Hammond ordered Out of the tree beside them though, a total of about thirteen little green dinosaurs-about the size of a chicken-hopped into the plane.
"What the hell are those?" asked Eddie
"Procompsaugnothids," said Levine "they're carnivores, they eat meat. Stay away from them. Throw something at them or kick them. It's your only chance." Levine continued nervously
"Kick 'em? Sure." Thorne said flatly and he ran up to the nearest compsaugnothus and kicked it, sending it flying through the windshield, hitting the jungle floor, dead.
"That was fun" Thorne said as he turned to all the other compy's and smiled. Thorne kicked them all over the plane, and others joined too, hoping they'd survive the trip ahead. At least kicking innocent dinosaurs cheered them up. Over a matter of about fifteen minutes, the compy's were sprawled on the floor of the plane, dead.
"I think we'd better get going." Said Hammond, panting
"I'll go first." Said Eddie as he climbed out of the plane and into a tree, preparing to climb down. Happiness for Eddie didn't last long-about eight teen compy's jumped out of nowhere onto Eddies back, and bit him.
"Arrrrrrrrrrggggggggg!" Eddie howled More and more compy's came and attacked, biting him everywhere. Eddie reached back and grabbed a compy and hurtled it through the air, as he did with about eight more before he fell.
"Help me! Help! Help!" Eddie screamed as he fell down. His screams faded. All they could hear were chewing and rustling noises.
"Why don't we help someone in danger?" roared Thorne "I can't believe we all just stood there while Jameson and Eddie died!" Thorne was turning purple again.
"We couldn't do anything anyway, Thorne." Hammond pointed out, speaking slowly, and looking mournful. The crew moved on, heading north to Diego.
"This trip better be worth it old man," said Thorne to Hammond
Chapter 3: Tyrannosaurus
Finally, Dodgson and his crew reached the Apatosaur nest. There were only about three of them, though
Park IV:
Evolution
Chapter 1: Horror Ride
Dr. Alan Grant stood overlooking a newly discovered Tyrannosaur skeleton. This was the best day of his life and in fossil finding history. He and his team had successfully uncovered a full Tyrannosaur skeleton. Ellie Sattler took herself away from the find and went to stand with Grant.
"Some find, huh?" She asked Dr. Grant shrugged "Yeah, I guess." He said casually even though he was lying. He didn't want to make a fool of himself by clicking his heels together and such, but he was very excited for such an incredible recovery of a full Tyrannosaur skeleton.
"You remember the first time we met Hammond?" Ellie asked
"I don't want to talk about it Ellie, we've been through this before." Grant said firmly
"You and I both know it doesn't help us at all to remember those things. After all, I had therapy for three weeks, and no matter how many times I told my therapist that I had encountered dinosaurs, he just nod and write on his clip board that I was in need of a mental hospital." Grant stated
"Fine, but there's somebody to see you. I think," Ellie said, staring into the distance at a man getting out of a truck, and waving to Alan Grant.
"Oh God," Grant said "it can't be him," But Grant recognized him perfectly: White hair and beard, his staff with the amber on it, and his clean white suit; John Hammond.
"Who is it, Alan?" Ellie asked curiously
"It's." Grant's voice trailed "it's Hammond." Grant said flatly
"I thought he was like, seventy five. Shouldn't he be dead now?" Grant didn't say anything as the old man held onto his hat, dodging paleontologists and rocks and bones and such, stumbling over to Grant.
"Ah, good to see you again, Alan," Hammond said cheerfully
"I have a purpose for coming here today, and that would be to ask you, Ellie, Malcolm, Eddie Carr, Dr. Thorne, and Richard Levine to come to the restaurant down the road. I think it's a Denny's or something,"
"I'm sorry John, but we just recovered the find of the century here and we can't leave it for a minute," Grant said
"No, no, I don't plan to take you on a horror ride again Alan," Hammond said, reassuringly
"Well it wasn't intended to be a horror ride last time, now was it?" Alan said sharply
"Forget the past, Alan, let's just move on," Hammond begged
"Tonight at Denny's? Good, we'll be there, John," Ellie interjected
"What the hell are you talking about Ellie? Are you crazy?" Alan complained
"Oh, excellent, excellent," Hammond said, turning to his truck
"He's and old man, Alan, humor him," Ellie said
"When I get old, I don't plan to kill anybody with genetically cloned dinosaurs, Ellie," Alan said strictly
"But I'll do it anyway," He said, his voice dragging Alan took out his cell phone and called up everyone.
That night at Denny's the whole crew was there: Levine, Eddie, Thorne, Malcolm, Alan, Ellie, and Hammond.
"Now," said Hammond "let me get right to the point. I want all of you to accompany me to Isla Nublar. When my dream was destroyed there, I had left something very important there."
"What was it?" Levine asked
"What I left were not precious fossils, notes or any of that, but I left dinosaurs." Hammond said firmly "WHAT?" Everyone chorused at once
"Yes, dinosaurs. I left two of every species there: One male and one female, so that they could breed. I did that because I was very low on amber supplies, but now that they are breeding and my scientists aren't there to deny the hormone that can make these creatures male too instead of just female, there is a possibility that there are dinosaurs out there. And not just dinosaurs, but males too and aggressive ones at that. Plus, we had special darts to stabilize the aggressive dinosaurs, but males there have gotten stressed with the growing population. Their nests are being raided, their young are being eaten, and herbivores are dying out because there are far too many predators. Once the island is stuffed full of dinosaurs, they will find a way out of there. In fact, I believe there is a way back. My good friend, Diego. He is on that island. He has a large boat, big enough for eight brachiosaurus to fit into. If dinosaurs were to accidentally stumble onto that ship when Diego leaves to come here to the mainland, those dinosaurs could be let loose on all of us. We have to save Diego, and kill those dinosaurs." Hammond explained
"Why don't we get some helicopters to do the job, like last time?" asked Ellie
"Because the helicopters obviously didn't finish their job last time, or else no dinosaurs would remain on that island." Hammond said "and last time I spoke to the men who came and rescued us, they were ticked off, and promised me they'd never be around for me again." Hammond said
"It is plainly up to us, now," Hammond finished There was silence until Thorne spoke up.
"Dodgson. What about Dodgson? For all we know, he's probably taking advantage of this now and stealing eggs during all this overpopulation confusion!"
"My God, I forgot about that back stabbing fool!" Levine said "we must leave for Isla Nublar immediately!" He yelled
The group dashed from each of their houses to the other, collecting food water, books, weapons, and anything else they might need. Even Grant was into it.
"You can bet we won't get there by helicopter, so I bought an airplane when I had to sell my fossils." Hammond pointed out "it's in my back yard. I had so much money I bought a manor, an airplane, a-" Hammond was cut off
"We don't have time for a history lesson, John," warned Alan "let's just get that plane,"
After driving to Hammond's manor and stepping into his plane, everyone slouched in their chairs to enjoy the view. Two pilots that nobody except Hammond knew were taking them to Isla Nublar.
After a good twelve hours, the plane was ready to land.
"Finally, we're here!" Grant exclaimed with a yawn
"Yes, and so is Dodgson," Hammond said grimly "and he's just arriving too"
Chapter 2: Dodgson
"God damn it! It's about damn time!" Dodgson said, unloading his boat.
"I know what you mean, boss," chorused Howard King and George Baselton, Dodgson's partners in crime. Eventually, the men were finished taking out their land cruiser and their various other equipment. Dodgson took out a gun shaped tool. There was a dial on the side to make a high- pitched sound higher or lower. If Dodgson pointed this tool at a dinosaur when he had it at a really high pitched sound, he could make the dinosaurs back away, giving Baselton time to get some eggs. All Dodgson had to do is hold the thing up while King sat in the car, holding the battery box that was attached by cord to the gun shaped tool. Simple enough for me, thought Dodgson.
"So, let's go get some dinosaurs, boys! What do ya say?" Dodgson said enthusiastically
"Let's do this boss!" yelled King in response, as they all climbed into the car and drove into the jungle.
* * *
"Preparing to land, sir!" said one of the pilots, yelling above the now roaring engines
"Take us down," replied Hammond as the group came down towards the last remaining landing strip on the island. Before the pilot or co-pilot could make a move though, the plane was already crashing through the foliage, as leaves smacked the sides of the plane. Levine stood up.
"Are you trying to kill us?" He yelled to the pilots
"No! It was an unintentional blowout in our left propeller!" The pilot yelled back As soon as all the chaos had started, it came to a crashing end. The plane's left wing hit a tree trunk and broke off, but the plane kept going, sinking deeper into the jungle, next to the middle of the trees, until they hit a tree hard. The sudden jolting stop sent the co-pilot out the windshield and into the jungle below.
"No! Jameson!" Yelled the pilot to the unseen Jameson Tears filled the pilot's eyes as he reached out the broken windshield.
"No." He whispered Around the pilot, everyone was silent, mourning for Jameson, probably sprawled on the jungle floor, dead. Suddenly there was a rustling sound.
"What was that? Jameson? Is that you?" said the pilot
"Augh." said Jameson as he crawled up the nose of the plane
"You're alive! Jameson! You're ali-" There was a sudden roar and a huge Tyrannosaur emerged from the foliage behind Jameson, who was now screaming as he scrambled to get back into the plane. It was too late. The Tyrannosaur's jaws closed around Jameson's waist, his legs kicking inside the dinosaur's mouth. The Tyrannosaur swung its head from side to side, probably to crush his bones. Jameson was swaying lifelessly from the Rex's jaws as the dinosaur lumbered back into the foliage, pleased with its new prize.
"Oh Jesus, he ate Jameson." The pilot's voice trailed
"Don't worry Nick," Hammond said putting a hand on the pilot's shoulder "you won't end up that way,"
* * *
Dodgson blared the radio in the land cruiser.
"Don't you think that is a bad idea, boss?" yelled Baselton over the radio Dodgson shut the radio off.
"Ah, I guess," He replied Dodgson jolted to a stop at the first nest. It was a Parasaurolophus nest. Dodgson plugged the cord into the battery pack and the other end into the gun-like tool. He shoved the battery pack into Howard King's hands as he and Baselton moved forward
"Should we be scared of these things, boss?" Asked Baselton nervously
"You're kidding, right? These animals are stupid, they aren't carnivores, and this baby right here 'ill scare 'em to hell." Dodgson said, patting the gun-like tool on the side Dodgson and Baselton entered the nest. All the Parasaurolophus quickly snapped their heads up to look at the intruders.
"Don't worry about them, George." Dodgson said, reassuringly Dodgson raised the gun-like tool and twisted the dial up half way. An ear- splitting high-pitched sound rang out all over the clearing where the nest was. The Parasaurolophus could stand the sound no longer. They backed to the edge of the clearing, very agitated, but not coming forward.
"Get the egg already, damn it!" Dodgson yelled
"Yeah, I'm on it," Baselton said, trembling George Baselton ran up to one of the nests and hoisted up one of the large eggs. Dodgson backed away with Baselton at his side, but Dodgson kept the sound going until he left the clearing. He turned it off and ran to the car with Baselton. At the car, Baselton secured the egg inside a black metal box, the inside ready for three more eggs. The inside of the box had Styrofoam to protect the eggs. Baselton closed it and slouched against his seat.
"Where to next, boss?" King asked, very excited
"Next? Oh, yes. Next we go to the Apatosaurs," said Dodgson, smiling
* * *
"Damn! Dodgson is here! And by the looks of it he took an egg from the parasaur what's-their-face!" Thorne yelled, turning purple with rage
"Parasaurolophus, Doc., Parasaurolophus." Pointed out Levine
"Ah, who gives a damn?" Thorne snapped
"Shut up! Both of you!" yelled Grant, pushing them away from each other.
"I think we better find you're friend Diego before they kill each other or before the dinosaurs kill us," Ellie pointed out calmly to Hammond Hammond nodded and took himself away from Nick, no paralyzed with fear.
"I think we should too, Ellie. All right! Salvage any food, water, weapons, or any thing else we might need along the way! We need at least one compass, that's for sure." Hammond ordered Nobody wasted time. They could only manage to salvage eight water bottles, nine sandwiches, and one Lindstradt rifle; filled with ten poison darts. Hammond handed a water bottle, and a sandwich to everybody, and gave the rifle to Thorne.
"Ok, we have to go north to the 'north shore'. That's where Diego is docked at the moment. Let's move out." Hammond ordered Out of the tree beside them though, a total of about thirteen little green dinosaurs-about the size of a chicken-hopped into the plane.
"What the hell are those?" asked Eddie
"Procompsaugnothids," said Levine "they're carnivores, they eat meat. Stay away from them. Throw something at them or kick them. It's your only chance." Levine continued nervously
"Kick 'em? Sure." Thorne said flatly and he ran up to the nearest compsaugnothus and kicked it, sending it flying through the windshield, hitting the jungle floor, dead.
"That was fun" Thorne said as he turned to all the other compy's and smiled. Thorne kicked them all over the plane, and others joined too, hoping they'd survive the trip ahead. At least kicking innocent dinosaurs cheered them up. Over a matter of about fifteen minutes, the compy's were sprawled on the floor of the plane, dead.
"I think we'd better get going." Said Hammond, panting
"I'll go first." Said Eddie as he climbed out of the plane and into a tree, preparing to climb down. Happiness for Eddie didn't last long-about eight teen compy's jumped out of nowhere onto Eddies back, and bit him.
"Arrrrrrrrrrggggggggg!" Eddie howled More and more compy's came and attacked, biting him everywhere. Eddie reached back and grabbed a compy and hurtled it through the air, as he did with about eight more before he fell.
"Help me! Help! Help!" Eddie screamed as he fell down. His screams faded. All they could hear were chewing and rustling noises.
"Why don't we help someone in danger?" roared Thorne "I can't believe we all just stood there while Jameson and Eddie died!" Thorne was turning purple again.
"We couldn't do anything anyway, Thorne." Hammond pointed out, speaking slowly, and looking mournful. The crew moved on, heading north to Diego.
"This trip better be worth it old man," said Thorne to Hammond
Chapter 3: Tyrannosaurus
Finally, Dodgson and his crew reached the Apatosaur nest. There were only about three of them, though