Sorna, two weeks later, 5 and a half months since the fall of Nublar: The trees shook as a Parasaurolophus emerged from beyond them only for seconds later to have a projectile streak by right at it and explode tearing off a large chunk of its body, spraying blood and guts everywhere.

"Got 'em," said one of the workers as he lowered his RPG launcher from beyond a black hummer that had been right in front of it.

"Excellent," said Jake as he looked at the still raining body parts. He made a mark on his clipboard before the two got back in the vehicle and headed down the road.

"This is Jake, that's one more taken care of," the scientist said into the radio.

"Check," came the response back from Embryonics Administration.

"Where to next?" asked Carly in the driver's seat. Jake was about to respond when suddenly the radio crackled to life.

"This is Unit 17 and we're pinned down at the intersection of Roads 8 and 19 in Quadrant C-4. We're under attack by Ankylosaurus's and they've managed to make both vehicles be immobilized!" shouted a voice as dinosaur roars were heard and gunfire was heard. Jake quickly consulted the map.

"This is Jake Whitacre I'm a couple miles away from you and are responded to your distress call," he said into it. "Although we're only one vehicle strong, is anybody else nearby?"

"Yeah this is Unit 6. We're about 10 miles away and will respond once we finish off a pair of Allosaurs we've discovered trekking inwards," said another voice over the radio.

"Check," said Jake. He then shut off the radio and took out his Project ELE packet.

"Let's see here, ankylosaurs," he said flipping through it. "Ah here we go, shoot for the legs because once it's immobile it's no longer a threat. Just watch out for the club on its tail is all."

"You're not going to finish them off?" asked Carly confused.

"Those dinosaurs have bone armor equivalent to that of a tank, conventional weaponry can't bring it down otherwise," said Jake. "Its legs are the only vulnerable part on it."

"Oh," said Carly. "Cool."

The vehicle rounded a bend in the road and suddenly plowed into an obstruction in the middle of the road.

"It's a good thing we're in a hummer or the whole front end probably would've been crumpled," said Carly composing herself after being rattled by the crash.

"Back us off now," said Jake harshly.

"Why?" asked Carly before she realized what they had hit. "Oh."

She threw the stick into reverse as the anyklosaurus that they'd smashed into roared at them angry. The vehicle leapt backwards as the tail swung around and bashed in the driver's side door.

"Now you see why we should avoid the tail," said Jake looking to his side at the heavily dented door that was now pressing up against his legs. The vehicle rolled back a couple feet and stopped while nearby they could see Unit 17 firing at the various ankylosaurus while taking cover behind their two badly damaged trailblazers.

"Let's roll," said Jake yanking out his Long Colt. The two workers in the back seat nodded.

"What about me?" Carly asked.

"Run interference," said Jake simply. He tried to open his door but it wouldn't budge so he shot out the front window and crawled out onto the hood and hopped onto the ground. The other two workers followed suit and exited the vehicle armed with M16s. The nearby Ankylosaurus roared at them and began charging. The three workers calmly swung up their weapons and began firing at the creature. It got only a couple feet towards them before its kneecaps were blown out from under it and it collapsed. Even immobile, the creature still roared at them with bloodshot eyes.

"That's lysine madness for you," said Jake as the trio walked past the dinosaur that did it's best to swing its tail at them even though they were out of range. The trio advanced towards the other dinosaurs as they opened fire on them. Several fell but still more poured out of the woodworks as trees fell left and right thanks to the ankylosaurus' ability to go through anything unfazed. The trio managed to make a hole in the dinos ranks as they made their way to Unit 17.

"Come on," said Jake the workers cowering behind the two damaged vehicles. "Let's go."

The five workers reluctantly abandoned their posts and nervously walked towards the Jake and the two others who stood point as no more ankylosaurus appeared, but those that were immobile on the ground continued growling even as their mouths began to foam over.

"Looks like that just about does it for them," said Jake triumphantly.

"Not quite," said one of the workers pointing down the road.

"Shit," said Jake angrily. "Alright you guys start heading to the next checkpoint. I'll go get Carly and meet up with you guys."

Two ankylosaurus were bashing their tails against the hummer that Carly was in. Jake snapped in a fresh six bullets into his Long Colt before running towards the hummer in the distance. The others reluctantly nodded and left; those that could walk fine supporting those that had been injured in the ankylosaurus assault. Jake meanwhile began firing off a couple rounds at the two ankylosaurus causing the two of them to growl at him and angrily and walk towards him.

"C'mon let's go," shouted Jake to Carly. She tried to start the Hummer but it refused to turn over. She sighed reluctant to get out of the vehicle.

"I can't hold them off forever," said Jake. He aimed at the dinos feet, but before he could fire, the dinos immediately dropped down covering their legs. Jake looked at them wide-eyed as he lifted up his Long Colt and the two dinosaurs got back up and continued onwards towards him. Jake swung back the gun back at them and again they squatted down.

"Oh great," said Jake realizing the battle was over. During the first few days or so, the information provided by ELE had worked wonders in being able to bring down the stray dinosaurs that the various Units encountered around the island. But soon things changed, the dinosaurs began recognizing their tactics and began working to overcome them. Soon ELE was proving less and less useful as the dinos began teaming up with other dinos in order to swarm the checkpoint en masse. The overwhelmed Units had no choice but to fall back or risk death, if not worse being eaten, and as a result there were loosing upwards of seven to eight checkpoints a day. At this rate they were going to run out of places to fallback to as they would all be squeezed into the Workers Village within a month, yet they had no choice but to keep on fighting.

"Of course that still doesn't even begin to cover the fact that more and more dinos are being encountered that are no longer on the verge of lysine madness," thought Jake extremely unsettled by this turn of events. The two clear-eyed ankylosaurus were evidence enough of this fact, but how they were getting lysine was still beyond him.

"We destroyed the fields didn't we?" thought Jake slightly worried. Carly meanwhile had managed to escape the vehicle and was making her way towards him when one of the ankylosaurs noticed her and started advancing towards her. Jake fired a shot at it and the dino turned to stare at him.

"That's right, focus on me," thought Jake. The two dinos looked at each other a little bit confused, hunting prey wasn't something they were used to, before deciding to focus on Jake. Jake breathed a sigh of relief before a third ankylosaurus came crashing through the trees and made a beeline straight for Carly.

"Shit," said Jake as he realizing just how limited his options were. The two ankylosaurus were still between him and Carly yet she was unable to defend herself from this new threat. Then to make matters worse, Jake had only four rounds left in his gun. The scientist growled angrily before aiming his gun and firing.

"Carly, run!" shouted Jake. The hummer exploded as the bullet ruptured the engine block flinging debris everywhere as Jake tore off followed by Carly as they left the dazed dinosaurs behind. After a couple minutes of running, both slowed down breathing heavily.

"Well that was a close call," said Jake with a small grin. Carly meanwhile began slowly tearing up.

"You okay?" Jake asked concerned.

"Not again!" she shouted angrily. "I can't stand constantly staring death in the face every day! It's too much!"

"You're not going to die," said Jake as both starting heading down the road.

"My life has been placed in danger more times than I can count over these past two weeks!" shouted Carly. "I've either run into or ran from every kind of dinosaur we have on this island! My luck isn't going to hold, people have been severally injured since those fences have failed, so when's my luck going to run out? I can't take it anymore, I can't."

"So don't think about it," Jake advised. "I certainly don't."

He snapped open his barrel to reveal the four remaining bullets as he searched his pockets for any more only to realize he was out.

"Hope this'll last," he thought a little worried.

"Not think about it?" demanded Carly. "There's nothing else to think about!"

"Sure there is," said Jake.

"Like what?" Carly asked.

"Like when the time comes that we wrestle back control of this island from the dinosaurs," said Jake with a grin.

"Given all we've seen lately I think that's only a fool's dream," said Carly.

"I doubt that very much," said Jake. "This island can still be reclaimed, maybe not now, maybe not tomorrow, maybe not even for another decade, but the opportunity will one day present itself when we can. And when that day comes you can be sure I'll seize a hold of it. This island will not be ruled by the dinosaurs forever. Life is not about to find a way here."

Carly began laughing.

"What?" Jake demanded.

"Nothing, you just reminded me of Hammond that's all," she said. Jake's blood went cold at that statement.

"What makes you say that?" he said trying to keep the anger out of his tone.

"When I used to work at Nublar right before it went under, I remember Hammond having a conversation with Ian Malcolm about life finding a way and Hammond seemed equally dismissive of the belief that 'life will find a way'. Funny how you are arguing the exact same thing," said Carly.

"Hammond and I are nothing alike," said Jake bitterly. "He would kill a million humans to ensure that his dream, his vision, would succeed. The man was a monster and a menace. You know I may not see eye to eye with Peter either, but at least he's not stupid enough to put humanity above those things. Humanity's well being supersedes any care or concern for the dinosaurs."

"So whereas Hammond would kill a million humans to save one dinosaur, you on the other hand would kill a million dinosaurs to save one human?" asked Carly. "Don't take this the wrong way but that sounds like opposite sides of the same coin to me."

Jake sighed and just shook his head.

"What?" demanded Carly.

"You're extremely tired and you're just talking nonsense," said Jake not wanting to get upset with her.

"Or maybe I'm just going sane in an insane world!" shouted Carly beginning to wobble all over the road.

"Maybe," Jake conceded shrugging. "But if that's the case-."

Jake whipped his Long Colt around and aimed it at Carly who screamed and leapt to the ground as Jake fired it. The bullet whizzed past her and smacked into an angry pachycephalosaurus that had just emerged from the tree-line right next to her.

"Then it's just a cross I'm willing to bear," finished the scientist as he lowered his smoking gun. The dinosaur spit blood from its mouth before collapsing, the bullet having penetrated even its bony dome skull.

"And another one bites the dust," said the scientist happily. He then noticed Carly was still lying on the ground not moving. Jake rushed to her side to find her alive but unconscious.

"Great," he said holstering his gun. Jake looked at Carly awkwardly wondering how to get her to their destination. Clearly dragging her was out of the question but then how?

"Well John, let's see if that fireman's carry has any real 'weight' behind it," said Jake aloud while simultaneously groaning at his pun. He placed his gun on the ground and awkwardly stooped down and after a couple tries managed to drape Carly across his top shoulders.

"Ah shit," he said in pain from the extra weight. "You're right John I do need to work out more."

Jake barely managed to pick his gun back up without falling over before he stumbled off while secretly hoping that he didn't encounter any more trouble along the way.

Later: Carly groaned and held her head as she looked up at a bright light above her.

"Where am I?" she asked still a little bit woozy.

"In the realm of consciousness," said a detached voice. Carly painfully tilted her head to see Jake sitting next to her deep in thought with his hands crossed in front of his face, his right hand still clasping his Long Colt.

"Where are we?" asked Carly.

"In one of the many bunkers adorning Sorna," said Jake leaning back in his chair and resting his feet on the table that she was laying on.

"How'd I get here?" asked Carly not about to get up. "The last thing I remember is saying something about…Hammond-Hammond? Why the hell would I talk about him?"

"I think you were delirious from lack of sleep," Jake surmised not willing to reveal what she'd said to him.

"I hope I didn't offend anybody," Carly said. "I have a habit of speaking my mind when I'm tired and cranky."

"Relax," Jake assured her. "You didn't."

"So how'd I get here?" Carly asked finally sitting up.

"I carried you," said Jake still wincing at his aching shoulders. "We met up with Unit 17 at the next checkpoint only to realize that it had been abandoned with evidence of dilophosarus tracks in the nearby area. Needless to say whoever was manning that checkpoint had every right to run once they heard that telltale hooting sound they make. At that point we got a communiqué from home base indicating that Unit 6 had run into a little trouble of their own regarding those allosaurs and would be unable to pick us up. So we immediately came here and you've been out cold for the past few hours while we patiently wait for an evac."

Carly looked around to see a couple members shifting uncomfortably in their chairs while attempting to get some sleep while atop the steps she heard the soft sound of plastic hitting concrete.

"Full house!" shouted a voice at the top of the stairs as another voice groaned.

"Hey Jake what've you got?" asked the same voice. Jake leaned forward and picked up a group of cards that had been lying on the table next to Carly.

"A loosing hand," he responded. Laughter erupted as to members of Unit 17 descended the stairs.

"Ah too bad, looks like you lost again," said one of the two members. Jake shook his head before pulling back on the trigger of his gun causing the gun to click empty.

"I still think you're cheating," the scientist said leaning back in his chair.

"Too bad you can't prove it! Ha, ha," laughed the other worker.

"Status report," Jake said with a grin as he cut off the worker's gloating. The worker mock scowled before sitting at the edge of the table as Carly sat up and slid off of it and towards a group of canteens nearby.

"It's quiet for now, but that also means the radio hasn't been active either and that disturbs me more than anything else," said the worker. Jake nodded his head also concerned.

"Since Carly's finally awake, I think we need to get moving," he said finally. "We've been here too long as it is and with the checkpoints falling one after the other we're only getting ourselves farther and farther away from civilization."

Jake got up and the other workers did too as they grabbed their weapons and headed for the stairs.

"Hold up," said Jake as walked over to a nearby rack and began tossing radios to everyone before unlocking the rifle cabinet and began tossing more rifles to the various workers before handing out shells to all of them.

"I don't want these," Carly protested when Jake handed her a pair of rifles.

"You don't use them just hold onto them," said the scientist as he gave her some bullets. "But believe me; you're probably going to want to."

The others nodded solemnly and headed up the stairs to the outside. They emerged into the daytime sun with the workers fanning out and taking up defensive positions around the front door. Jake emerged with a rifle in his hands, he'd holstered his Long Colt as he didn't want to waste it's remaining ammo, and directed it's aim along the tree line. He nodded satisfied and swung his arm down the roadway as the team headed down it.

"How long of a walk are we talking about here?" Carly whispered to Jake as she walked alongside him.

"It's about five days back to Embryonics Administration," Jake said before smiling as Carly winced at that statement. "But there should be a motor pool a day and half away."

Carly breathed a sigh of relief as Jake briefly laughed before both continued down the road in silence.

"And what's between us and it?" she asked finally, not wanting to know.

"I don't think you want to know," Jake warned.

"Look," said Carly a little bit upset. "I already know that dilos are out there, so what could be worse then them; raptors, deinonychosaurs, spinosaurs, rexes?"

"Something much, much worse," said Jake solemnly.

"What?" demanded Carly. "What could be worse?"

Jake swallowed hard before answering her question.

"Dimetrodons."