Anguirus111 Note: I may write an epilogue to this story, I'm not sure yet. And yeah I changed the title of this piece so sue me. Though of course I don't own the JP license so you'll get nothing in relation to it, ha ha.
Sorna: Jake drove away from the Workers Village as in the background more helicopters were seen coming and going. The scientist drove in silence as rain continued pouring in droves from the clouds while each flash of lightning seemed to illuminate some object that seemed like a dinosaur but in actuality was either just a tree or rock outcropping. Jake just breathed in and out deeply as he wiped the sweat from his forward as he proceeded further south of the Village.
Village: Henry Wu was lead down the various hallways of the main building by Gerry Harding as the line of workers continued streaming through the hallway.
"I really don't know what to show you," said Gerry helplessly. "It's not like there's anything new around here."
"I know," said Henry. "But I had to see it one last time."
"I guess I can understand," said Logan following them. "Though entering into the path of a hurricane is a little…rash."
"Meh," said Henry. "I used to make dinosaurs so rational choices went out the window long ago."
"You ever regret what you did?" asked Gerry, trying to determine the differences between Henry and Jake.
"No," said Henry. "But…I don't know, maybe we should've taken our time and not bowed down to Hammond's wishes."
"Jake felt similarly," Gerry acknowledged. "What with the West African Frog debacle."
"Did you guys manage to prove whether or not that was possible?" asked Henry as he popped in a stick of gum and began chewing on it.
"When we did some tests on a trip to Indigo they came up inconclusive but considering the amount of dinos we've encountered on this island…I don't see how they couldn't have," said Gerry as he accepted a piece of gum from Henry.
"So…what's with all the heavy artillery?" asked Henry innocently as a pair of Apache's went rumbling overhead.
"Well as I'm sure you're well aware the fences have failed, we need any protection we can get from the dinosaurs," Gerry said. "After all there's an armada on their way here."
"And why would the dinos be coming here?" asked Henry leaning against the massive black door that lead to the autopsy room.
"Some need meat, we're meat," said Gerry quickly.
"And it wouldn't have anything to do with that's behind me?" asked Henry lightly tapping his head against the door. Gerry dropped his head.
"Fuck," he said rubbing his eyes. Henry flashed a grinned.
"Can I see inside?" he asked. Gerry shrugged.
"Might as well," he said as he went to the keypad. "How did you know?"
"Rumors mostly then I heard a brief mention of ELE and then all the pieces fell into place," said Henry crossing his arms.
"Who else knows?" asked Gerry as the door slid open.
"Just the Board, the non-Sorna workers have no clue," responded the scientist. The door finished opening and Henry stepped inside as he waved his hands to clear away the stench from his nose. He looked at the rotting cadavers that were strong up around the room as he passed between them before reaching a computer terminal and flipping it on. He read through the data before musing it over.
"You figure out why the lysine contingency failed?" Henry called as he glanced over the edge of the screen back at Gerry who was hanging in the doorway.
"No," said Gerry snapping out of his reverie of Henry not caring about the contents of the room. He walked over with Logan to the console and both hovered over it.
"Jake suspected Hammond tried to pull a fast one on us, but the dinosaurs 'revolted' before we could find out," said Gerry. The building suddenly shook from a massive boom outside and the lights briefly dimmed before coming back on.
"And with Clarissa bearing down on us I don't think we'll ever got the chance," said Thomas as some drops of water began pouring in through the ceiling. Gerry nodded in agreement before Henry turned towards the corpses, deep in thought after having his interest piqued.
"How long until it's too late to leave?" he asked. Gerry consulted his watch.
"45 minutes. Any longer than that and you're…extinct I guess would be the word," said Gerry. "Why?"
Henry grabbed a box of surgical gloves and snapped one on.
"Plenty of time," he said moving towards a hanging cadaver of a pachycephalosaus which he pushed on its chain along its track and over to a nearby operating bed. He hit a button and the corpse crashed down onto the bed before Henry took out a second glove and put it on. Still chewing his gum he picked up a pair of foreceps and a bonesaw and looked at the corpse before turning to Gerry and Logan.
"You gonna help or not?" he asked. Gerry and Logan looked at each other before rushing to help him as more lightning flashes of lightning were seen outside accompanied by the hail of rocket fire from the airborne forces around them.
"I hope Jake's okay," said Gerry as he looked at his watch. "He should be there by now."
Hammond Research Center: Jake's hummer pulled into the parking lot of the building as Jake hopped out and yanked out his Long Colt before spinning it around on his finger and capping off a couple shots to take out a pair of leaping velociraptors before he ran into the building as another pair of raptors bounded over the vehicle and chased after him. The scientist leapt through the doorway and fired a couple more rounds behind before he slammed the door shut and the raptors smashed into the plate glass window and fell to the ground. Rather than risk blowing out the only windows that could withstand those creature's assaults, Jake proceeded further down the darkened hallway to the center of the building. Grabbing his flashlight he flipped it on to reveal severe damage along his path that was probably caused from small arms fire and seismic survey charges.
"God Sam you really did a number on this place," said Jake as he stepped over a piece of the collapsed ceiling. He continued down the corridor when he heard a creaking noise behind him. The scientist spun around and aimed at sound but nothing came of it. The scientist lowered his gun and proceeded further into the building before emerging in a massive open room that contained rows and rows of genetic testing equipment and computers. Jake calmly walked down the steps and onto the ground floor before walking over to a bin and reaching inside of it. After a couple moments of searching he finally found what he was looking forward and pulled out a piece of amber with a mosquito buried in it.
"This is what it all came down to didn't it?" he asked of the thing. "You getting stuffed on blood and getting stuck in tree sap. Nature simply dealt you a bad hand and nothing but a simple act would lead to having lasting repercussions. Now once again nature is turning on us wanting to kill us for simply being who we are. Ironic isn't it?"
The piece of amber did not respond and Jake briefly chuckled before getting ready to throw the thing against a wall, but he stopped himself.
"No, no we're both going to survive this. To hell with Mother Nature and her so called 'plan'," he said bitterly to the thing as he put the amber mosquito into a pocket on his jacket and walked over to a small device that had a large amount of wires trailing out of it. Jake flipped the device on and a string of numbers rushed past the LED screen on it before Jake entered in a code and then another string of numbers: 10:00. Jake checked his watch and was about to hit execute when he saw a shadow moving in the background. The scientist quick drew his Long Colt and fired at it, but the shadow avoided it and suddenly moved towards him at high speed. Jake shot a couple of rounds before the shadow was upon him. The embittered scientist took out a grenade and was about to pull the pin when an object emerged from the shadow and looked at him bemused.
"Oh for God's sake," said Jake disgusted. Jeffrey looked at him with a grin.
"Always with you it cannot be done," he said shaking his head.
"Will you get lost? I'm trying to blow up a building here," said Jake wiping off the sweat from his forehead.
"Yeah I'll bet," said Jeffrey looking at the timer device.
"So what do you want?" asked Jake.
"Just came to say goodbye," said Jeffrey.
"I thought you already said goodbye," said Jake as he made sure all the connections were tight.
"Well this time it's for good," said Jeffrey. "Sorna is soon to become a thing of the past, no pun and intended, and with your growing hatred you're going to leave Ingen behind forever and that'll be the end of me. You'll finally have forgotten the past."
"Doubtful," said Jake looking past the genetic sequencers and at the various dino carcasses that were strung up like dried meat.
"Somehow I think I'll always be battling my demons of the past," Jake observed.
"Probably," Jeffrey conceded. "But I guess you can't win them all."
"Is there something you want?" asked Jake annoyed. "I'd kind like to get out of here and not be stranded on this island."
"There is something I want. I want you to hit me as hard as you can," said Jeffrey.
"What?" demanded Jake.
"Heh, just kidding," said Jeffrey laughing. "No I just came to say that…I'm glad you didn't listen to me."
"You're the worst conscience I've ever heard," said Jake as he grabbed a nearby suitcase filled with C-4 and another timer and set it on the table.
"I'm your conscience, what's that say?" Jeffrey shot back.
"Beats me," said Jake as he hit the execute button and headed for the door.
"Yeah so thanks for not listening to me," said Jeffrey following him. "As a result of fighting this threat, you finally managed to realize why you were really fighting it."
"So I was supposed to let them be killed and maimed, just not delude myself into doing it for your sake?" asked Jake. Jeffrey nodded.
"That's about it really," said Jeffrey. "I told you before I can't let you continue this self-destructive course of destruction in my name."
"Did you say that?" asked Jake confused.
"Well that was ultimately the point," said Jeffrey. Jake shook his head in humility.
"Okay," Jake said confused. "Well…thanks…I guess."
"Yeah don't let it get to your head. Yeesh, you have the worse conscience I've ever heard," said Jeffrey shaking his head in shame. "Well see you around J."
"Cool," said Jake as he held out his fist and both rapped knuckles before Jeffrey faded away and Jake breathed a sigh of relief. But then he became all business as he tried to figure out what to do with the raptors, especially with the clock winding down on him. Jake took out his Long Colt and checked how many shots he had left before snapping the barrel shut.
"Oh hell the time for planning is over," said Jake as he yanked out a second Long Colt, this one entirely black and readied both of them. He shook loose the cobwebs and ran straight to the door where the two raptors were waiting for him, claws outstretched. Jake opened fire with both guns and the raptors went down in a hail of bullets before Jake holstered his silver Long Colt and grabbed the suitcase before bolting for the entrance. He ran out the door and into the blinding rain as more flashes of lighting went flying by overhead. As Jake made his way down to the hummer, a cadre of dinosaurs slowly emerged from the jungle dripping wet, roaring at him angrily. Jake quickly put the suitcase in the back of the hummer before taking out his second Long Colt and holding both out at arm's length away from his body while staring at the dinosaurs.
"My quarrel is not with you guys! Now back away, just leave me in peace!" yelled Jake as he pressed a release on the gun causing the top part of the guns to swing upwards revealing the mini-laser cannons inside. The dinos continued advancing.
"Shit," said Jake as he prepared to pull the triggers when suddenly the trees shifted and the last Carnosaur appeared, apparently having survived its ordeal with lysine depravation. Jake eyed it with hesitancy as the massive beast stared right back at him before the Carnosaur turned on the other dinosaurs and began taking them out left and right. Jake just ran for his vehicle and got in before slamming the door and locking it shut as a gob of dilophosaur venom hit the side windshield.
"Yikes," said Jake as he gunned the engine and threw the vehicle in reverse where it smashed into a very juvenile t-rex, throwing it off of its feet and into a cluster of pachycephalosaurs, before tearing off away from the dinos with them in hot pursuit.
"God, how can this day get any worse?" asked Jake when suddenly the Hammond Research Center exploded flinging dinos everywhere and lifting the hummer off of its wheel and propelling it forward.
"I had to ask," said Jake as the ground came hurtling right at him through the windshield.
Village: "That ungrateful son of a-!" began Henry as he grabbed the gland off of the medical scanner and flung it away in disgust where it slapped against a wall leaving a trail of blood behind. Henry quickly sat down and then arched his bloodied gloves in front of his face as he pondered their current situation.
"He circumvented it huh?" asked Gerry reading the resulting printout sheet.
"Yes," said Henry annoyed as he propped his legs up on the desk he was sitting in front of before removing his gloves and clasping his hands behind his head.
"How do you think he did it?" asked Gerry as he sat on the edge of the desk.
"I don't know," said Henry helpless. "But it must've been after we created the code but before the strands were used for ostrich egg implantation and fertilization."
"You don't think combining the dino/frog DNA with the ostrich egg might have caused this?" asked Logan trying to understand the data but failing miserably.
"And conveniently creating a lysine producing gland?" asked Henry incredulously. "What're the odds of that happening? No, this was deliberate and somehow Hammond expected Jake and me to never notice. I guess Jake was right about Hammond all along, profit before everything else."
"Yikes," said Gerry tossing the stack of paper onto the table. "So are you going to tell Jake?"
"Might as well, though nobody else ever will," said Henry before he took out a lighter and lit the stack on fire before tossing it into a wastebasket before picking up the gland and tossing that in as well.
"Why? You could use this to accuse Hammond of incompetence," said Logan confused.
"Yeah but in the meantime the whole world dissolves into chaos over the fact that mankind is no longer the dominate species on this Earth," said Henry rubbing his temples.
"So what do we do when they start leaving this island and actually make it to the mainland?" asked Logan.
"A-1 'em," said Henry with Gerry nodding.
"What's that?" asked Logan confused.
"Don't worry about it," said Henry getting up. "Right now we need to evacuate."
Gerry nodded consulting his watch.
"Fifteen minutes," he said. "Clarissa should be making landfall any moment now and then it'll take her a little bit in order to actual reach this far inland."
"Wait if she's Category 5 then how come the effects we're feeling aren't worse than this?" asked Logan confused.
"It's because of our location. Since we're in a basin most of the truly damaging winds are flying right above our heads, but once the actual hurricane hits this place it is history," said Gerry. "And if Jake is not back, we're going to have to leave without him."
"Let's try and hold as long as we can then," said Henry. "The last thing we need is a casualty on ours hands just moments before complete evacuation."
"I'll get Jake on the radio," said Gerry leaving with Henry and Logan in pursuit as the door closed automatically behind them. They trio advanced outside as lightning cracked overhead and the rain began coming down in all directions. The wind was battering all the trees everywhere and many began falling on the electrified fences causing sparks to go flying. Henry took Gerry's radio from him and flipped it on but a massive thunderclap drowned out the first part of his statement into the radio.
"That is correct we are evacuating Isla Sorna!" shouted Wu over the radio as he ran across the street in the Workers Village. A pair of helicopters roared by overhead shining some light on the area as they roared off taking Ingen Personnel with them as still more rushed through the Village grabbing whatever they could before running to the Main Building and boarding the helicopters that were constantly flying in and taking off.
"Jake? Where the hell are you?" Henry demanded over the radio.
Roadway: The hummer raced down the road with the army of dinosaurs right on his tail as he passed checkpoint after abandoned checkpoint.
"I'm just taking care of some loose ends," he said cryptically into the radio before looking in the rearview mirror and shuddering.
"There's no time, Hurricane Clarissa is going to smash into this island any moment now!" Henry shouted over his end.
"Yeah will this is important," Jake lied. "Okay I'm done."
"Get your ass down here! We're leaving in five minutes!" shouted Henry before a massive dinosaur erupted over the radio and the line went dead.
"I'm coming Henry, I'm coming," said Jake as he gritted his teeth together while slamming down on the accelerator. The vehicle leapt forward but this time the dinos would not be denied as they continued their hot pursuit. In the distance Jake could just make out the bright lights of the Workers Village and one lone helicopter on the roof of the Operations Building preparing to take off. A lightning bolt struck behind him vaporizing a pair of dinosaurs as Jake surged into the Workers Village.
"Ha! Ha!" he shouted triumphantly when another bolt smashed into the ground next to his vehicle flinging it into the air and onto its roof. Jake quickly unbuckled himself and kicked out the driver door before running down the street as large shadows appeared over the perimeter fence of the village. Jake looked behind him in shock.
"Oh my God," he said. All the dinosaurs on the island were surrounding the fence as though the inside was the last sanctuary on the island, but their expressions were one of blood rage. Carnivores, herbivores, and omnivores all crashed through the fences together and began steadily advancing on the final helicopter. Jake barely made into the building before a team of raptors crashed through the doors with a pair of dilophosaurs. Jake swung up the rifle he'd had strapped to his back and began firing at the creatures and managed to kill a pair of them before one slammed into him causing the suitcase to go sliding away. Jake scowled at the loss of the thing, but ultimately ran towards the stairs leading up the helipad. One of the raptors leapt at him, but Jake managed to slam the door shut and it locked as the raptor crashed into it causing glass to fly everywhere. Jake brushed it off him as well as some blood on his lips as he ran up to the helicopter as one of the raptors kicked the door in and the team rushed up the steps only to be confronted by the blinding wind of the helicopter as it took off into the sky. The raptors angrily leapt up after it but to no avail as they couldn't reach the rapidly escaping vehicle. The dinosaurs down below, Spinosaur, Brachiosaur, Tyrannosaurs Rex, all roared at the departing helicopter in pain and anger. Then they all parted ways as the light disappeared and the hurricane slammed into the island causing severe damage to the entire place. The helicopter meanwhile was briefly battered by the hurricane force winds before escaping into lighter gusts while behind them they saw the destruction of everything they had accomplished. Some felt saddened, others sick, others grateful, and at least one angry.
"Damn Dinosaurs," Jake thought bitterly. "You've taken away from me the one thing I swore you'd never get. But I will be back and I will reclaim this island and I'll be damned if you say different."
Henry sat down next to him. "Everything will be fine huh?"
"We'll see Henry, we'll see," said Jake exhausted. He laid his back on the cold metal of the helicopter and fell asleep as the vehicles departed Sorna as Hurricane Clarissa tore it to pieces and transforming Site B into a Lost World.