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Note: really, really cool conspiracy in this chapter
Chapter 5: Cloak and Dagger
Raptor - X
Isla Sorna - Summer 2003
10:00 P.M.
"Miss Harding? there's a package for you, It arrived on the supply ship this afternoon."
Harding said "Thank you"
Ellie was curious "what you got, there?"
Sarah said "I was able to get Hammond to disclose the papers on how they made the raptors and a data disk containing a DNA readout, he owed me for a favor I did him a while back."
Ellie asked "what favor was that?"
Sarah grinned "getting Ian come to this Island a couple of years ago"
Ellie lit up like a Christmas tree "the famous incident in San Diego, you'll have to tell me about it some time."
Sarah smirked "you can count on it, well lets see what's in here."
Conference Tent - CampSorna
2:00 A.M.
Ian strode up to the tent with Grant and Billy
Ian annoyed "Why do the girls insist on calling a staff meeting at two in the morning, I mean, isn't a fourteen-hour day enough?"
Billy made the mistake of contradicting Ian "I'm sure the girls have a good reason for getting us out of bed."
Ian said "Your new to our little Dino survival group, am I right? Try to remember. Because of the magical mathematics of chaos theory, I'm never wrong, and It sometimes scares me, now whether or not Its urgent, they didn't have to wake everybody up at two in the morning."
Grant Sighed and saw one of the soldiers walking past "You noticed ever since the incident with the T-REX last week the military men have been stiffs, Its like they think their in a war zone."
Ian (who is never wrong, at least this time) says "well technically this place is as dangerous as one."
Billy greeted "Hi sarg!"
The sergeant smiled and waved
They enter the tent
Ellie greets them "good morning gentlemen, I see we're up early."
Ian smirks
Sarah continued Ellie's sentence "as you know the papers from Ingen arrived last night, we'll we spent all night researching and we've found something very disturbing."
Ellie finished "as you know Ingen made the raptors one to two feet taller so they would be more fearsome, at first they tried to enhance and tweak the natural growth hormone of the raptors; but they would die hours after birth, so they looked around and finally found a compatible hormone that met their needs, the human growth hormone, however the raptors that developed were dying of cancer, so! they added one final touch to their DNA, a developmental hormone which would control cell development and reduce the chance of cancer ten fold, unfortunately this also increased their intelligence, which was evident due to the behavior the game warden at Jurassic Park TM described."
Grant was shocked "So are you saying the reason the raptors are so smart is because their brains are wired similar to that of a humans?"
Sarah corrected "well in a manner of speaking, yes, the DNA they added, mutated the raptor brain to be closer to that of a humans."
Billy was curious "so are you saying the raptors on this Island are just as smart as we are?"
Ellie answered "well based on the X-Rays and data; I'd have to say, yes."
Ian was so shocked he cracked "I knew it, I knew it! These things would be end of man, that's chaos, who would have predicted the perfect formula for making man's demise would be man's demise, hmm, hahahahahahaha! This is funny; does anybody find this funny? Well due to this stunning revelation, I'm going to go do some calculation on this blank blackboard over here, let see? Hmm..." He continues rambling quietly and writing formula's while the conversation goes on.
Ellie continued "so we have good news and bad news, the good news is we can decipher their language..."
Sarah picked up there "and the bad news is, these things are a serious danger to mankind, should they get off this island, our survival as a race could be forfeit."
Billy spoke up "what does that mean in English?"
Ellie answered "it means, If raptors could get off this island and spread to the three major landmasses that make up the populated continents, it could mean the end of all mankind, the extinction of the human race."
Grant frowned "now you sound like Ian"
Sarah corrected "well that's the extreme worse case scenario, but if these animals get off this island there will be deaths, we definitely won't be on the top of the food chain in any of the places they would inhabit."
Billy asked "so?"
Grant answered his unfinished question "this is bad, we need answers!"
Sarah "well lets find out, just how useful the military is. saddle up were going to the Igen research compound, with luck, they'll have the answers we need at their Hatchery."
Forest Near the Ingen Compound
3:00 A.M.
Come on Marty! you can do it! You just have to slip by two more of them, what the are they anyway hunting machines, If it weren't for all their chatter giving me info on they're positions and If they'd heard me, I'd of been caught already, well these new eyes work wonders in the dark, It's like daytime!
Raptor 1: "Have you done any good hunting lately?"
Great, they're in my way!
Raptor 2: "nah the place is pretty dry around here, there is a point of interest near the beach that some of the big guys have been checking out, last week there were rumors around about a female rex that charged something near the river and came out of it in really bad shape, turns out she was full of holes, once our guard duty is over, I'm gonna check it out. Want to come?"
Raptor 1: "Well there's a good chance we could get killed; but if I turned down your offer it'd be dishonorable and cowardly, so, I'm in."
Raptor 2: "well look on the bright side, if you die, everybody would say your were the bravest raptor they ever knew."
raptor version of a chuckle
They're raptors, what the hell is going on here, how could it be possible, damn this has got to be some twisted nightmare?
Darn rocks, my knees are hurting; of course the rocks!
Ill catch their attention by throwing the rock at a tree?
I throw the rock, it hits a tree on the other side of the hill, they leave to check it out.
now's my chance, suckers!
I start to run towards freedom.
Then, I run strait into a raptor.
Oh god I'm hearing its voice, why can I hear them? argh!!, get out of my head!
Raptor : "well hello little fellow, why do I seem to keep running into you?"
Marty: ugh, man I can't get rid of these voices! I'm going insane or I'm close to death; unless, it must be what they did to me! well whatever it was, they probably didn't finish it, otherwise I'd be green and scaly. you know maybe it works both ways I could try who knows I could trick him then get away. "do me a favor stop talking for a sec, I'm so confused, I feel like I'm going bezerk."
Raptor: "whoa, you can talk! I guess eating you is out of the question"
Marty: "I was about to say the same thing, sort of."
"well I guess your going to knock me out and get those two bozos that your with to take me back to that darn lab!"
Raptor: "oh no, I'm not with those two, their part of the river pack, I have a feeling your in a lot of trouble, well the pack elders did say your kind were nothing but trouble; curiosity got the better of me, me and two of my buddies have been scouting you out; you were very interesting to watch, after studying you they wanted to hunt you; but I found you first, so It was my choice, I thought we should leave you alone; but I just never turns out that way, huh?."
Marty: "um, yes, right" Breathe Marty, Breathe "Listen, do you know any hiding places that the river pack doesn't know about.
Raptor: "Well there's the cave me and my buddies hang out there, if I hide and any of my buddies come by and I'm not there If they hear you or ugh, smell you, tell them Fang hid you, that will be your best guarantee of not getting eaten. Follow me"
Marty and the raptor head to the cave
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Cave Entrance
4:00 A.M.
Marty: "thanks, um, you know I usually don't smell this bad, Its just I've been running for hours and I haven't had a bath in days, not since I ran out of soap two days ago."
Raptor Fang: "what's a bath?'
Marty laughs
Marty: Fang, your ignorance is refreshing "a bath is bathing"
Raptor Fang: "I'm not following you, you lost me at the part about bathing."
Marty: this is going to be harder than I thought "when you wash yourself, with a certain plant oil, to get rid of dirt and that keep away that ugly smell your catching a whiff of."
Raptor Fang: odd little quirk their species has, hmm maybe I'll try it, things do get boring now and then. "oh okay, if you need water there's a stream at the back of the cave or you can try the waterfall over there, listen I better head back before my buddies get suspicious."
Fang Leaves
Marty: "the stream is a spring so, I can't pollute my only source of drinking water, I'll use the waterfall and the lake" Note to self: thank mom for the Rainforest survival guide, oh and turn to chapter 7 : Natural Soap.
Marty heads to the waterfall
Ingen Compound - Genetics Lab 1
6:00 A.M.
glass cracks under boots
Ian Malcom, Alan Grant, and Rick Johnson, the research assistant, and "Homer" the squad leader walk into the lab
Alan orders "Ian check out the computer system, Homer cover us, and Rick look around but don't touch anything let us know if you find anything of interest, I'll examine the embryo's and bag them for Ellie
snaps on gloves
Alan talks "well, here goes!"
reaches toward the tank
Rick calls out "Dr grant, you better come look at this!"
pulls back hands, takes off gloves
Alan asks " what is it?"
Ian fills him in "It's a genetic resequencing chamber, something has recently broken out of it?"
Alan asks "How do you know?"
Ian hands Alan a broken piece of glass with blood in the tip and shows him a bag of broken glass saturated with blood
USS Venture - Research Lab
9:00 A.M.
Sarah Harding was getting restless, these things weren't adding up and in ten minutes she had a staff meeting.
Why was the blood human? Why was it recent? What was Ingen doing?
And why are the cells mutating?
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Staff Meeting
9:10 A.M.
Ian was finishing presenting his research
Billy asked "so what you're saying Ingen kept the fact that they used human DNA secret to all but Peter Ludlow and the Genetic Technicians at site B, and Hammond had no Idea about the human DNA"
Ian answered "Precisely!"
the room becomes quiet for a minute
Alan picked Sarah to finish up the meeting "Sarah, what did you find from our samples?"
Sarah Began "Well based on the DNA analysis, I'd say the blood closest is that of a human male between the ages of 14-17, there's not much else I can tell you, except that the DNA is mixed with an Reptilian Genome."
Ian asked "whoa wait a minute, What genome?"
Ellie answered "Well we found that the cells were in the process of mutating, since the genome was reptilian we Checked Ingen's Reptile list and looked at the DNA schematics, what we found was disturbing."
Sarah continued "The normal cells were infused by T cells containing raptor DNA, the result is the DNA in the normal cells are becoming unstable, at any time whoever was in there could just..."
Rick asked "what?"
Ellie spoke up because Sarah was at a loss "We don't really know; the lab personnel are observing the samples progress in the lab; but only time will tell what could happen."
Alan "just what could happen?"
Sarah answered "well, based on our current data one of three things could happen... one he could break down at the cellular level... two his DNA could become fully raptor... and three his cell structure could become completely unstable resulting in a constant state of mutation."
Ian freaked out "SEE! That's Chaos! How could you be 100 sure what would happen? It's one of the times SCI-FI can Become SCI-FACT..."
Billy was skeptical "are you sure two or three can happen? I mean come on! What about cancer?
Sarah answered "well due to the fact this was done in a controlled environment cancer is very unlikely, in fact almost Impossible."
Ellie spoke up "The fact is because he broke out and basically put a monkey wrench in the works, means almost anything could happen."
Sarah said "we've got good news and bad news, the good news is we might be able to stop the process. the bad news there's a 60 chance it's too late to save him."
Then the squad leader "homer" at the end of the table spoke up "Well, with the man power we have we wouldn't be able man a search party not to mention most likely if we go searching around, we're going to loose people."
Billy asked "then what do you propose we do, homer?"
'Homer' the squad leader answers "well, there are two things we can do, not search, or take infrared scans for human body heat, unfortunately if he is no longer human, as you claim, we might not find his location.
Grant said "well, we can't just do nothing, I vote for infrared."
Homer said "If he's alive and human, we'll find him"
Sattler spoke up "well then, if he's still alive, you better find him quickly otherwise he'll be too far gone to save."
Cave
10:00 A.M.
I feel a rush of instinct and pain my muscles bulge and I can't control it, my hands and feet turn into clawed killing utensils, in the rush of my nerves I feel so strong, and I howl an inhuman screech!
Marty wakes up
"ugh, my head" what the hell did they do to me! this is hell, It's getting hot in here!
Marty rubs his head and opens his eyes
loud almost inhuman scream
End ch5
what happened to Marty? find out in the chapter 6 : freaky stuff
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