Case 2: The InGen Conspiracy, Part 7
Disclaimer: Same as before.
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15 May 2000: Hal opened his eyes to find himself surrounded entirely by shining white. It was as if he was in heaven right now, or some close approximation of it. It was just like his dream earlier. "Hal, wake up." A voice said.
"Diane?" Hal said, turning and facing her, "I must be dead, because only the dead can see the dead."
"You came very close. But you're not. Wake up now, people need you to wake up." Diane said.
Harold Olden's eyes fluttered open and he found out he was lying on his left side. His ribs felt sore, but they weren't broken, he could tell. They were severely bruised, though. He stood up, shakily and saw Alan Grant and Tim Murphy standing over him.
"Welcome back to the land of the living. The T-Rex is still on the loose." Grant said.
"Shouldn't we stick around for rescue?" Hal replied.
"Bad idea, the Rex is still in the area and we're in the heart of his territory." Grant replied.
"Right." Hal replied, "Where are we heading?"
"Visitor's Center." Grant said.
"If we keep tabbing we can reach it by dawn." Hal replied.
"You do that, but I think we should get some rest." Grant said, "Not all of us are SAS operatives."
"Good point, but I think we'd best get out of the T-Rex paddock before we're dessert....." Hal replied.
"Good idea." Grant said as he heard the T-Rex roaring in the distance.
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Ivy's eyes fluttered open and she looked up to see the Allosaurus still loitering around the pool looking for any people that had survived the wreck. As far as she could tell, she wasn't injured. She could see the Allosaurus stick its head into the water, as if it were bobbing for apples. Silently she swam to the edge of the pool and ran smack into Ellie Sattler and Lex Murphy who motioned her to a stand of brush.
Aware they could do nothing to help the survivors with the Allosaurus, the three women crawled through an access tunnel towards the Visitor's Center and the control room and what they hoped was safety.
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"What the hell? What the hell? What the hell?" Arnold said.
"Ray?" Hammond asked.
"Fences are failing all around the park." Arnold said. As he was about to make the report the alarm sounded.
"The Raptor Containment Area's been breeched!" Muldoon shouted.
"Raptors loose in the park!" Arnold said.
"Add in reports that the T-Rex has escaped, the Allosaurus have broken from their pen and one of the tour boats has disappeared to that." Muldoon added.
It was to this chaotic scene that Ivy, Ellie and Lex walked in. "Robert, I wonder if you would be kind enough to take a gas jeep and bring back my grandson?" Hammond said.
"Sure." Muldoon replied.
"I'm going with him." Ivy said.
"Count me in." Ellie replied.
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Muldoon pulled the gas jeep up to the Tyrannosaur paddock. He could see one of the two Explorers was in tact, but the other was missing. "Alan!" Ellie shouted into the night.
"Dr. Grant!" Muldoon shouted.
"Hal!" Ivy shouted.
"Lieutenant Olden!" Muldoon shouted.
"I think this was Gennaro." Muldoon said, indicating a leg ripped off just below the kneecap.
"I think this was too." Ellie said.
"Unnnggghhh." Came a pained moan from under some thatching.
Ellie aimed her flashlight at the source, "He put a tourniquet on. Ian? Ian?"
"Remind me to thank John for a lovely weekend." Malcolm groaned.
"Should we chance moving him?" Ellie said.
A distant roar sounded just then. "Please chance it." Malcolm said.
"Ivy, c'mon!" Muldoon urged.
"The other car!" Ivy shouted.
"Alan!" Ellie shouted.
As the trio climbed into the paddock they saw three sets of footprints leading into the park, "Two adult footprints, we can rule out Malcolm and Gennaro for obvious reasons. It seems Lt. Olden and Dr. Grant are still alive." Muldoon said, "And Tim Murphy."
As they made their way up to the jeep Malcolm urged, "Let's go! We've gotta get outta here! We've gotta get outta here!!!"
The T-Rex roared as it appeared behind the jeep on the road. Muldoon floored the accelerator as Malcolm said, "Must go faster!"
"Shift! Shift!" Ellie shouted.
"Look out!" Ivy shouted as a fallen tree partially blocked the road.
"Down!" Muldoon shouted and the glass shattered as the windscreen came apart.
The Tyrannosaur's jaws closed on the passenger side mirror, narrowly missing Ellie's right arm. She backed away, screaming in horror. She shoved Malcolm onto the stick shift in the process.
"Get off the stick! Bloody move!" Muldoon shouted. Malcolm complied and Muldoon put the car in gear, managing to outrun the Rex.
"Think they'll have that on the tour?" Malcolm asked.
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"This is a good spot." Hal said, he had gone ahead of Grant and Tim and updated them with best routes and distances to the Visitor's Center.
"How far are we?" Grant asked.
"Roughly two miles." Hal replied, "Due west of us there's an open field, good way to cover ground but we're shit out of luck if the Rex or any other carnivores catch us out there."
"We'll have to take that chance." Grant said, "We gotta get to the Visitor's Center and see if we can't sort this out."
"We've been tabbing for a few hours now, notice the power hasn't come back on?" Hal asked.
"You're right." Tim replied, "But why? Shouldn't they have sent guys to fix it?"
"They're trying to contain the animals first. If I venture a guess the Rex, the Allosaurus, and God forbid the raptors are all loose in the park." Hal replied.
"We'll worry about that tomorrow." Grant replied.
"Right." Hal replied as they climbed a tree and as they got to a safe enough height they fell asleep.
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"Who better to get my grandson through the park than a dinosaur expert and an SAS officer?" John Hammond said.
Ivy was especially worried about Hal. 'Please God, let him be alright.' Ivy silently prayed.
Hammond was saying something about shutting down the system to erase everything Nedry did and the system would start up in its original startup mode. Arnold had volunteered to go to the circuit breakers and reset everything.
It was just then that Muldoon said, "We'd best get to the emergency bunker system until this blows over."
Ludlow knew there was nothing more he could do at this point. He had to act whenever the opportunity arose. Short of actually killing them by his own hand he could do nothing. He just hoped marauding dinosaurs would be enough to do the job. Maybe if he put Ivy at risk he could kill two birds with one stone. He knew that by the way Hal looked at her he would literally risk life and limb for her.
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16 May 2000: "The visitor's center should be just over the ridge, about a mile away." Hal said, they had started travelling through a path through the Brachiosaurus pen at daybreak.
"Life found a way." Grant said, holding up an eggshell.
"What?" Hal said.
"The dinosaurs. If you'll remember the tour, Dr. Wu said that the dinosaurs couldn't breed because they're all female." Grant replied, "Anyway, some West African frogs have been known to spontaneously change sex from male to female in a single sex environment."
"That's right. Amphibian DNA to fill in gene sequence gaps." Hal replied.
They continued on and climbed over the electrified fence into the Visitor's Center compound. It was strangely quiet. "Grant, get Tim to the emergency bunkers." Hal replied, picking up an M-16 assault rifle from a dead guard lying outside the Visitor's Center. He also grabbed his ammunition and tactical radio.
"What are you doing?" Grant said.
"I've got to look for any lost civilians. Like it or not, I'm still a soldier and its my duty to defend civilians in times of crisis. I'm on channel two." Hal replied.
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"Hello, anyone, this is Hal Olden, Royal Marines...."
Ivy grabbed the nearest radio handset and said, "Hal? Where are you?"
"I'm just outside the Visitor's Center." Hal replied.
"What are you doing?" Ivy asked.
"I'm sweeping the compound for any living civilians." Hal replied, "I'll get them into the bunkers."
"Be careful." Ivy said, sounding worried.
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"I will be." Hal replied. Ivy sounded worried over the other end of the line, but it was something he'd have to worry about later.
He'd made sure the guard's weapon worked properly and that the magazines were in working order. He was still a Royal Marine and he had a duty to rescue these civilians. He was going to start with the Visitor's Center first.
Hal could see that the guards were caught by surprise because in one back corridor he saw the remains of five dead guards and bullet holes in every surface. Several lights had been shot out and at least one grenade had been thrown. He could see the body of a velociraptor, shot full of holes lying some distance away.
All right that was one less raptor to worry about. There were still four more at large, though, and Hal knew he had to deal with them eventually. What he and the other humans on Jurassic Park didn't know was that the number of dinosaurs in the park, particularly raptors, was higher than projected. It turned out that there were wild raptors nesting at various places around the island. These wild raptors tended not to bother the tourists, because of the fact the fences were up, but now those fences were down, the raptors were starting to appear in large numbers.
Hal felt sick when he saw the body of a portly young man. His stomach and ribs had been hacked open, revealing a lot of lacerated viscera. Raptors were obviously on the loose in the complex.
He could hear the sound of a raptor crashing against a door down the hall. Hal ran down and saw a raptor crashing its powerful six-foot body against a door that was obviously barricaded and about to give way. Hal dropped to one knee, took aim and squeezed the trigger, dropping the raptor with three shots fired off in rapid succession.
He opened the door to find two of the resident lab techs and three tourists hiding in a specimen room. One of them was the older man from the River Cruise, "C'mon, I'll get you to the emergency bunker."
Hal moved with the skill of a highly trained and experienced soldier. "Quite good for one who tests Land Rovers for a living." The older man said.
"I spent a term with the Royal Marines." Hal said, telling a half-truth, not really wanting to reveal his Special Forces background to just anyone.
He crossed the hallway quickly and covering the area with his weapon he motioned with his right arm that it was safe to cross. The five people followed his advice, running and Hal made sure that their backs were covered. They had managed to make it into the bunker.
"Hal!" Ivy shouted, throwing her arms around his neck. Hal returned her hug with one of his own, relieved immensely that Ivy was alright.
"John's got a plan to get these people out of here." Ivy said.
"Dr. Grant, you and Muldoon head for the power station and get the power back on." Hammond said, "Ellie, Ivy go to the control room and reboot the computer system."
"I'll keep looking for survivors." Hal said.
"Hal?" Ivy began.
"I'm better on my own." Hal said, grimly, and stuffed extra magazines into the belt pouches of the dead guard's belt kit he had filched. He also took a couple flash grenades and put them on.
"Be careful." Ivy said, "We'll get to the control room and track down any survivors we see in the area."
"I will be." Hal replied, the M-16 and belt kit incongruous against his blue checkered collared shirt and jeans and sneakers. He adjusted the radio headset and said, "I'm on Channel Two."
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Alan Grant and Robert Muldoon crept silently through the jungle. Muldoon carried a shotgun he had taken from the armaments cabinet in the bunker. "The shed's right there, we can make it if we run." Grant said.
"No, we can't...." Muldoon replied, "Because we're being hunted, from the bushes straight ahead. It's alright, I've got her, run. Now!"
Muldoon crept off into the jungle after the velociraptor as Grant sprinted down the trail towards the maintenance shed.
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Inside the emergency bunker, Peter Ludlow put his wrist mounted tracking tag down and crept out of the shed. He knew that now he had to get rid of two pesky ACME detectives, and fast. Out of the two, he knew the woman, Ivy, was unarmed and that she would be the best choice of victim.
He stopped off at the genetics lab, grabbing a syringe full of a pale blue liquid. It was a deadly toxin that Dr. Wu had inadvertently discovered years ago. He grabbed the syringe and headed off to the control room.
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"Hal, there's three more survivors in the west wing of the hotel." Ivy said.
"Right, on my way." Hal replied.
Ellie heard the sound of a flash grenade going off and gunfire from the hotel over the radio. "Are you alright?" Ellie asked.
"Just fine." Hal replied, "I just ran into a few of our old friends, the velociraptors."
Neither woman was aware that Peter Ludlow was creeping closer to them to remove the problem of two pesky ACME detectives....
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TBC
Disclaimer: Same as before.
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15 May 2000: Hal opened his eyes to find himself surrounded entirely by shining white. It was as if he was in heaven right now, or some close approximation of it. It was just like his dream earlier. "Hal, wake up." A voice said.
"Diane?" Hal said, turning and facing her, "I must be dead, because only the dead can see the dead."
"You came very close. But you're not. Wake up now, people need you to wake up." Diane said.
Harold Olden's eyes fluttered open and he found out he was lying on his left side. His ribs felt sore, but they weren't broken, he could tell. They were severely bruised, though. He stood up, shakily and saw Alan Grant and Tim Murphy standing over him.
"Welcome back to the land of the living. The T-Rex is still on the loose." Grant said.
"Shouldn't we stick around for rescue?" Hal replied.
"Bad idea, the Rex is still in the area and we're in the heart of his territory." Grant replied.
"Right." Hal replied, "Where are we heading?"
"Visitor's Center." Grant said.
"If we keep tabbing we can reach it by dawn." Hal replied.
"You do that, but I think we should get some rest." Grant said, "Not all of us are SAS operatives."
"Good point, but I think we'd best get out of the T-Rex paddock before we're dessert....." Hal replied.
"Good idea." Grant said as he heard the T-Rex roaring in the distance.
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Ivy's eyes fluttered open and she looked up to see the Allosaurus still loitering around the pool looking for any people that had survived the wreck. As far as she could tell, she wasn't injured. She could see the Allosaurus stick its head into the water, as if it were bobbing for apples. Silently she swam to the edge of the pool and ran smack into Ellie Sattler and Lex Murphy who motioned her to a stand of brush.
Aware they could do nothing to help the survivors with the Allosaurus, the three women crawled through an access tunnel towards the Visitor's Center and the control room and what they hoped was safety.
~ ~ ~ ~
"What the hell? What the hell? What the hell?" Arnold said.
"Ray?" Hammond asked.
"Fences are failing all around the park." Arnold said. As he was about to make the report the alarm sounded.
"The Raptor Containment Area's been breeched!" Muldoon shouted.
"Raptors loose in the park!" Arnold said.
"Add in reports that the T-Rex has escaped, the Allosaurus have broken from their pen and one of the tour boats has disappeared to that." Muldoon added.
It was to this chaotic scene that Ivy, Ellie and Lex walked in. "Robert, I wonder if you would be kind enough to take a gas jeep and bring back my grandson?" Hammond said.
"Sure." Muldoon replied.
"I'm going with him." Ivy said.
"Count me in." Ellie replied.
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Muldoon pulled the gas jeep up to the Tyrannosaur paddock. He could see one of the two Explorers was in tact, but the other was missing. "Alan!" Ellie shouted into the night.
"Dr. Grant!" Muldoon shouted.
"Hal!" Ivy shouted.
"Lieutenant Olden!" Muldoon shouted.
"I think this was Gennaro." Muldoon said, indicating a leg ripped off just below the kneecap.
"I think this was too." Ellie said.
"Unnnggghhh." Came a pained moan from under some thatching.
Ellie aimed her flashlight at the source, "He put a tourniquet on. Ian? Ian?"
"Remind me to thank John for a lovely weekend." Malcolm groaned.
"Should we chance moving him?" Ellie said.
A distant roar sounded just then. "Please chance it." Malcolm said.
"Ivy, c'mon!" Muldoon urged.
"The other car!" Ivy shouted.
"Alan!" Ellie shouted.
As the trio climbed into the paddock they saw three sets of footprints leading into the park, "Two adult footprints, we can rule out Malcolm and Gennaro for obvious reasons. It seems Lt. Olden and Dr. Grant are still alive." Muldoon said, "And Tim Murphy."
As they made their way up to the jeep Malcolm urged, "Let's go! We've gotta get outta here! We've gotta get outta here!!!"
The T-Rex roared as it appeared behind the jeep on the road. Muldoon floored the accelerator as Malcolm said, "Must go faster!"
"Shift! Shift!" Ellie shouted.
"Look out!" Ivy shouted as a fallen tree partially blocked the road.
"Down!" Muldoon shouted and the glass shattered as the windscreen came apart.
The Tyrannosaur's jaws closed on the passenger side mirror, narrowly missing Ellie's right arm. She backed away, screaming in horror. She shoved Malcolm onto the stick shift in the process.
"Get off the stick! Bloody move!" Muldoon shouted. Malcolm complied and Muldoon put the car in gear, managing to outrun the Rex.
"Think they'll have that on the tour?" Malcolm asked.
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"This is a good spot." Hal said, he had gone ahead of Grant and Tim and updated them with best routes and distances to the Visitor's Center.
"How far are we?" Grant asked.
"Roughly two miles." Hal replied, "Due west of us there's an open field, good way to cover ground but we're shit out of luck if the Rex or any other carnivores catch us out there."
"We'll have to take that chance." Grant said, "We gotta get to the Visitor's Center and see if we can't sort this out."
"We've been tabbing for a few hours now, notice the power hasn't come back on?" Hal asked.
"You're right." Tim replied, "But why? Shouldn't they have sent guys to fix it?"
"They're trying to contain the animals first. If I venture a guess the Rex, the Allosaurus, and God forbid the raptors are all loose in the park." Hal replied.
"We'll worry about that tomorrow." Grant replied.
"Right." Hal replied as they climbed a tree and as they got to a safe enough height they fell asleep.
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"Who better to get my grandson through the park than a dinosaur expert and an SAS officer?" John Hammond said.
Ivy was especially worried about Hal. 'Please God, let him be alright.' Ivy silently prayed.
Hammond was saying something about shutting down the system to erase everything Nedry did and the system would start up in its original startup mode. Arnold had volunteered to go to the circuit breakers and reset everything.
It was just then that Muldoon said, "We'd best get to the emergency bunker system until this blows over."
Ludlow knew there was nothing more he could do at this point. He had to act whenever the opportunity arose. Short of actually killing them by his own hand he could do nothing. He just hoped marauding dinosaurs would be enough to do the job. Maybe if he put Ivy at risk he could kill two birds with one stone. He knew that by the way Hal looked at her he would literally risk life and limb for her.
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16 May 2000: "The visitor's center should be just over the ridge, about a mile away." Hal said, they had started travelling through a path through the Brachiosaurus pen at daybreak.
"Life found a way." Grant said, holding up an eggshell.
"What?" Hal said.
"The dinosaurs. If you'll remember the tour, Dr. Wu said that the dinosaurs couldn't breed because they're all female." Grant replied, "Anyway, some West African frogs have been known to spontaneously change sex from male to female in a single sex environment."
"That's right. Amphibian DNA to fill in gene sequence gaps." Hal replied.
They continued on and climbed over the electrified fence into the Visitor's Center compound. It was strangely quiet. "Grant, get Tim to the emergency bunkers." Hal replied, picking up an M-16 assault rifle from a dead guard lying outside the Visitor's Center. He also grabbed his ammunition and tactical radio.
"What are you doing?" Grant said.
"I've got to look for any lost civilians. Like it or not, I'm still a soldier and its my duty to defend civilians in times of crisis. I'm on channel two." Hal replied.
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"Hello, anyone, this is Hal Olden, Royal Marines...."
Ivy grabbed the nearest radio handset and said, "Hal? Where are you?"
"I'm just outside the Visitor's Center." Hal replied.
"What are you doing?" Ivy asked.
"I'm sweeping the compound for any living civilians." Hal replied, "I'll get them into the bunkers."
"Be careful." Ivy said, sounding worried.
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"I will be." Hal replied. Ivy sounded worried over the other end of the line, but it was something he'd have to worry about later.
He'd made sure the guard's weapon worked properly and that the magazines were in working order. He was still a Royal Marine and he had a duty to rescue these civilians. He was going to start with the Visitor's Center first.
Hal could see that the guards were caught by surprise because in one back corridor he saw the remains of five dead guards and bullet holes in every surface. Several lights had been shot out and at least one grenade had been thrown. He could see the body of a velociraptor, shot full of holes lying some distance away.
All right that was one less raptor to worry about. There were still four more at large, though, and Hal knew he had to deal with them eventually. What he and the other humans on Jurassic Park didn't know was that the number of dinosaurs in the park, particularly raptors, was higher than projected. It turned out that there were wild raptors nesting at various places around the island. These wild raptors tended not to bother the tourists, because of the fact the fences were up, but now those fences were down, the raptors were starting to appear in large numbers.
Hal felt sick when he saw the body of a portly young man. His stomach and ribs had been hacked open, revealing a lot of lacerated viscera. Raptors were obviously on the loose in the complex.
He could hear the sound of a raptor crashing against a door down the hall. Hal ran down and saw a raptor crashing its powerful six-foot body against a door that was obviously barricaded and about to give way. Hal dropped to one knee, took aim and squeezed the trigger, dropping the raptor with three shots fired off in rapid succession.
He opened the door to find two of the resident lab techs and three tourists hiding in a specimen room. One of them was the older man from the River Cruise, "C'mon, I'll get you to the emergency bunker."
Hal moved with the skill of a highly trained and experienced soldier. "Quite good for one who tests Land Rovers for a living." The older man said.
"I spent a term with the Royal Marines." Hal said, telling a half-truth, not really wanting to reveal his Special Forces background to just anyone.
He crossed the hallway quickly and covering the area with his weapon he motioned with his right arm that it was safe to cross. The five people followed his advice, running and Hal made sure that their backs were covered. They had managed to make it into the bunker.
"Hal!" Ivy shouted, throwing her arms around his neck. Hal returned her hug with one of his own, relieved immensely that Ivy was alright.
"John's got a plan to get these people out of here." Ivy said.
"Dr. Grant, you and Muldoon head for the power station and get the power back on." Hammond said, "Ellie, Ivy go to the control room and reboot the computer system."
"I'll keep looking for survivors." Hal said.
"Hal?" Ivy began.
"I'm better on my own." Hal said, grimly, and stuffed extra magazines into the belt pouches of the dead guard's belt kit he had filched. He also took a couple flash grenades and put them on.
"Be careful." Ivy said, "We'll get to the control room and track down any survivors we see in the area."
"I will be." Hal replied, the M-16 and belt kit incongruous against his blue checkered collared shirt and jeans and sneakers. He adjusted the radio headset and said, "I'm on Channel Two."
~ ~ ~ ~
Alan Grant and Robert Muldoon crept silently through the jungle. Muldoon carried a shotgun he had taken from the armaments cabinet in the bunker. "The shed's right there, we can make it if we run." Grant said.
"No, we can't...." Muldoon replied, "Because we're being hunted, from the bushes straight ahead. It's alright, I've got her, run. Now!"
Muldoon crept off into the jungle after the velociraptor as Grant sprinted down the trail towards the maintenance shed.
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Inside the emergency bunker, Peter Ludlow put his wrist mounted tracking tag down and crept out of the shed. He knew that now he had to get rid of two pesky ACME detectives, and fast. Out of the two, he knew the woman, Ivy, was unarmed and that she would be the best choice of victim.
He stopped off at the genetics lab, grabbing a syringe full of a pale blue liquid. It was a deadly toxin that Dr. Wu had inadvertently discovered years ago. He grabbed the syringe and headed off to the control room.
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"Hal, there's three more survivors in the west wing of the hotel." Ivy said.
"Right, on my way." Hal replied.
Ellie heard the sound of a flash grenade going off and gunfire from the hotel over the radio. "Are you alright?" Ellie asked.
"Just fine." Hal replied, "I just ran into a few of our old friends, the velociraptors."
Neither woman was aware that Peter Ludlow was creeping closer to them to remove the problem of two pesky ACME detectives....
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TBC