A/N: In the interests of saving space and not making this single story too long, I'm going to split it into two parts. This part will end with the deconstruction of Jurassic Park. The second part will be its own 'story' and follow the after effects on Isla Sorna. I hadn't really intended to the demolition of the park to take on a life of its own, but it was always a story thread I was interested in writing.
Nublar: A Tyrannosaurus Rex's roar was heard across the plains of Gallimimus Valley as a Jurassic Park Jeep and a military Humvee went racing over the crest of a hill with the roaring dinosaur coming after them.
"What the hell is going on?" demanded the second in command of the outfit as he leaned out of the open window of the Humvee as he watched the dinosaur pursuing them. The T-Rex was still hounding them despite the fact that it was being continually shot with darts containing enough poison to kill any living creature on Earth by the workers in the rear of the vehicle.
"Its body must be in a state of hyper locomotion," Henry said over the radio as the jeep rocked up and down from the terrain it was on. "Whatever intelligence that thing had in the past, it's a creature driven by pure instinct now."
"But what's causing it?" asked the second in command as he too was being jostled by the terrain. "We weren't told anything about this in our original briefings on these creatures' habits."
"Just like we weren't told about Directive 17," Jake grumbled under his breath from the driver's seat of his jeep as he tried to keep the vehicle steady. Henry declined to repeat that comment over the radio as he tried to work up explanations for why the Rex was acting the way it was.
And then it hit him and he groaned as if hit with a migraine. He looked over at Jake who could only afford to glance at him out of the corner of his eye as he keep looking at the path ahead and the rearview mirror showing the Rex.
"I can't believe I forgot about that whole mess with the lysine contingency back on Sorna," he said shamefully with a shake of his head. "And here it is playing out before our very eyes."
"It's been a wild few days," Jake explained nonchalantly.
"Yeah and it is only going to get wilder," his friend figured as he reached under his seat and pulled out a box with a pair of binoculars in them. He twisted around in his chair and peered at the Rex as best he could with the vehicle shaking as much as it was.
"Yeah, those eyes are bloodshot alright," Henry observed. "It is acting just like the caged animals were on Sorna."
"And just think how it'll be on Sorna once we run out of lysine and those fences fail," Jake concluded. Henry couldn't even bring himself to think about that as more and more darts slammed into the beast which showed no signs of slowing down.
"How long before we hit 32 miles an hour?" asked Henry settling back into his seat. 32 miles per hour was the fastest they'd clocked the Rex at and it couldn't maintain that speed for very long.
"Henry we've been pushing forty for the past few minutes," Jake revealed with a slight feeling of dread. Henry looked at his friend in disbelief until he looked at the speedometer and saw he was right. And then he looked back at the Rex and saw that it was gaining on them.
"Oh this just keeps getting better," the scientist remarked dismayed. And then the Rex caught up to the Humvee and slammed its head hard against it causing the vehicle to flip off its wheels and smash into the Jeep resulting in Jake losing control of the wheel and it too flipped over end over end down the crest of the hill.
Control Room, Nublar: The monitors showed the raptors advancing into the Clinic on Sorna as Samantha and the others feverously poured over blueprints of the clinic on the building to think of options for those trapped in the surgical bay.
"Anything?" asked the Board Member anxious as she paced back and forth as the images on the main screen were of the raptors searching the clinic.
"Nothing short of them leaving the surgical bay and opening fire," Tim muttered, frustrated.
"ETA for the backup team?" asked Samantha of Sam on Sorna.
"Eight minutes," he told her. "But first they'll have to deal with the raptor outside."
"And they'll be at the surgical bay long before then," said Bobbie on the radio as she continued to clutch the rifle close to her chest. Tim nodded his head and then turned his attention to Cassie who had remained silent for the past few moments. As he looked over at her, he saw she was intently focused on her computer screen. She typed in a few commands and then looked confused at her screen before typing in even more commands and looking at the results even more confused.
"Something wrong?" asked Tim resigned to the idea that they couldn't do anything about the Clinic.
"I'm not sure," Cassie began before pushing away from her console and looking over at him. "What are the E.L.E. Protocols?"
Samantha and Tim immediately stopped what they were doing and just stared at her.
"How did you come across those?" the lead programmer of Sorna demanded. Cassie looked at him surprised by his offense and then gave him a defensive look.
"You said look through the blueprints of the building and I am," she told him. "But there seems to be some hidden layer of schematics and when I try and access them, it gives me that E.L.E. warning."
Tim exchanged a glance with Samantha who turned to face the programmer.
"E.L.E. won't help us now anyway. If you run across it anymore, just ignore it and move on to things you can access," the Board Member informed her. Cassie couldn't help raising her eyebrows in surprise at that statement.
"Okay," she said unsure but nevertheless went back to her work. Tim looked at Samantha again who was rubbing her chin deep in thought before turning to him.
"Even if we could do anything with it, we couldn't begin the process without Jake and Henry," said Samantha quietly and then something dawned on her as she looked around the room. "And where are those two? They should've been here long before now!"
Tim shrugged but otherwise kept his attention glued to his monitor. He had enough to deal with at the moment without worrying about two missing scientists.
"I'm sure they'll turn up," he figured, but was secretly looking at the plans for the building and what the ELE Protocols were covering up.
"You guys know you're still on an open mike right?" asked Daniela cutting into their thoughts from Indigo. Samantha instinctively covered up her mouth before speaking with Roberta.
"Uh, Dr. Carter," she began tentatively. "How are…"
"Sorry, what's going on?" asked Roberta sounding distracted. "I was speaking with my team about what our options are since apparently limited, that we're just going to have go out there and deal with this ourselves."
"What?" shouted Samantha into the radio. "You can't do that…we'll…we'll…"
Her inability to come up with an answer told the entire story.
"She's right," said Sam solemnly on his end. "Do what you have to, we'll make this right somehow."
"I'll hold you to that," said Bobbie grimly before turning to her team. "Get the door ready; I'll be there in one moment."
As the workers she had selected grimly moved towards the door, the others in the room wished them luck. Bobbie watched the scene sadly and then took out her trusty notepad and wrote down two words: "E.L.E. Protocols" and then put the notebook back in her jacket pocket. She then looked once more over her rifle and then joined the others.
"No matter what you do, do not open any doors until Director Stone gives you the all clear over the radio," Bobbie warned the group. "I know many of you are new here, but if one of those raptors gets in here it will be a bloodbath. We haven't had any recent problems here from raptor attacks; but when this island was still in the early days of the Dinosaur Revivification Project, they got out all the time and people were either maimed or killed. I spoke with the survivors from Jurassic Park and what they went through when those things got loose and it was the same story. It's either us or them, do not forget that."
The others nodded their agreement with terrified shakes of their heads as Bobbie turned to the worker at the door and nodded her head. The double doors were unlocked and opened and the group headed out. Before the soundproof doors were shut, Bobbie distantly heard Samantha demanded that Jake and Henry be found immediately.
"Wherever those two are, I hope they're not in as much trouble as me," said Bobbie wistfully under her breath, knowing fully well it probably wasn't true.
Galimimus Valley: Two trashed vehicles lay resting upside down against one of the slopes of the valley as their wheels slowly spun in silence while wisps of engine exhaust emerged from their tailpipes and wafted up into the clear sky above. This scene continued for several moments before the side windows of the Jurassic Park jeep were heard shattering as a pair of feet emerged from each side of the vehicle. And then Jake Whitacre and Henry Wu crawled outside and then stood up dazed, bruised, and bloodied from the incident that had just occurred.
"Oh, damn it," said Jake stumbling back and forth on his feet, desperately hoping he didn't have a concussion. "Henry are..are you o-okay?"
"Been better," said his friend as he leaned against the back of the jeep and pinched his nose shut to keep it from bleeding. "What happened? All I remember is a flash of black and then the whole world starts spinning."
"I think the Rex flipped the Humvee and then…," began Jake as he began collecting his thoughts and then the part about the dinosaur hit him hard. The two immediately looked up to see the Tyrannosaurus Rex with its head hidden behind the Humvee apparently gorging on something which Jake and Henry were glad not to be able to see. But then its eye turned and noticed them and it returned to its regal height and looked down at them from above with its bloody jaws. The dinosaur and the humans stared at each other for several minutes before the Tyrannosaurus Rex let loose with a mighty roar.
"How much longer does she have?" asked Henry breathing heavily as he was hunched over trying to stay up.
"She's dead already and she knows it," said Jake with a touch of sadness in his voice. "And so do we."
The Rex's roar got weaker and weaker until its eyes rolled back in its head and it collapsed onto the ground next to them. Jake and Henry hobbled over to the thing and each placed their hands against the dinosaur's hide and felt its final heartbeats.
"SHIT!" shouted Jake frustrated as he stepped away from the beast. He tried to utter more swears but it came out as incoherent babble from his anger at the whole situation they were now in.
"I know, Jake, I know," said Henry in total agreement as he looked out with sadness at the carnage around them. "All we can do now is pick up the pieces and move on."
Jake shook his head bitterly. "Someone is responsible for this and I'll see them burn for this."
Henry sighed and rubbed the bridge of his nose before nodding his head. "I'm sure we will," he said wistfully before patting down his pockets. "You don't have a cigarette do you?"
Jake shook his head with a mild smirk. "Who has the time anymore? C'mon, let's see if anybody's still alive."
The two stumbled over to overturned Humvee which was further up the hill, each scientist in extreme pain from each step and each breath they took as the adrenaline from earlier began to slow down.
"I don't think I can make it," said Henry holding his ribs in pain. He then stumbled a few more steps and then collapsed to the ground. Jake made it a few more steps before the pain caught up with him too and he also collapsed. And then the wind ripped across the valley as a Sikorsky Helicopter ripped by overhead and then circled the area for landing nearby.
"Jake, Henry!" shouted Jennifer as she hopped out of the helicopter and ran towards them before pausing briefly at sight of the T-Rex before continuing on when seeing it wasn't moving.
"C'mon you two, you can't die on me!" shouted Jennifer as she tried to get them to acknowledge her presence. "You know I'm the one who is going to end up killing you both for talking badly about my flying!"
The two scientists didn't make any responses to her statements and that worried the female pilot more than ever and she went over to Jake and hoisted him up by the collar.
"I know you have something sarcastic to say," she declared darkly. Jake's closed eyelids seemed to shift as though the eyes they covered were coming to life.
"I was in more pain being bucked around inside your helicopter earlier," Jake wheezed out as nearby Henry laughed while wincing each time from the pain that caused. Jennifer made a move to slap the scientist when a smile broke out on her face and she hugged him tightly.
"I still hate you; but it's good you two are still alive," she confessed as she headed over to check on Henry. Engine roars could be heard as various vehicles went racing over the hills towards them.
"Jennifer," Henry rasped as he looked up at the female pilot. "I need you to do us a favor before they get here."
"What?" asked the female pilot bewildered about what they could possibly want.
"In the back of our jeep is a metal case, go get it," said Henry, each word he spoke being more painful than the last so he had to pass on niceties. Jennifer ran over to the back of the jeep and unzipped the canvas covering and pulled out a metal case that had a few dents and scratches on it.
"Open it," Henry asked next. Jennifer popped it open and saw the vials of blood.
"I'm surprised they're still intact after that crash," she admitted. "So what do you need me to do?"
"There's an empty syringe do you see it?" asked Henry forcing out each word.
"Yes," she said picking it up. "Do you need me to take a blood sample from you? I do have basic medical training."
"No," said Henry shaking his head. "I need you to draw a sample from the Rex."
"ARE YOU NUTS?" shouted Jennifer at them. Henry shook his head as much as he could.
"She's already dead but we need that sample," he insisted. "She's the first dinosaur we ever made and we have to have a blood sample for comparison."
"Comparison for what?" said Jennifer doubtful and confused.
"Just…take…it," Jake pleaded and then he and Henry both slumped back into unconsciousness not knowing if she'd taken the sample or not as the sounds of vehicles slamming on their brakes was heard nearby.
InGen Headquarters, San Diego California: Peter Ludlow sat with the other board members sans Samantha Brown as they listened to the radio chatter coming from the islands while viewing a distorted video feed of the events.
"Yes, I've got that," confirmed Daniel Ross of InGen's Legal Counsel before hanging up the phone. "They've found Whitacre and Wu. Apparently they and an InGen team encountered the Tyrannosaurus Rex. The animal is now dead but some of the InGen team was killed in the process. Whitacre and Wu are in stable condition but they'll be out for a little bit."
Ludlow nodded his head digesting this new information. Jake Whitacre and Henry Wu were hardly his favorite people in the world but he had no desire to see anything bad happen to them. InGen's future in some ways depended on them…for now.
"Do we have anything yet on that programmer who is with them, that…Cassandra?" asked one of the other board members looking at their notes.
"She's unimportant," responded Ludlow dismissively. "We have bigger issues to worry about both what's going on here right now at that clinic and about what the Costa Rican Cabinet Minister had to say about his meeting with John Brown."
"Do you think he intends to expose our operations by revealing the A-1 incidents?" asked another board member fearful. Ludlow shook his head at that suggestion.
"He wants control of this company there can be no doubt about that," the COO conceded. "But exposure of our assets on Sorna and Nublar would bring increased scrutiny from the US government and the public at large and that wouldn't advance his goals."
"And what of Biosyn?" asked the same board member. "I have a hard time believing they're just sitting around while all of this is going on."
"And they're not," said Ludlow knowingly. "But their CEO unofficially let me know that they've disavowed Lewis Dodgson's actions. That means Dodgson's likely more determined than ever to get those samples to save face but he won't have Biosyn's resources to do it."
The board members nodded their heads at that as they once more listened in to what was going on in the clinic.
Field Clinic, Isla Sorna: Bobbie and her workers cautiously moved down hallway after hallway looking for the two raptors.
"Where are they? We should've seen them by now," said one worker nervously.
"They're drawing us further away from the safety of the surgical bay," Bobbie remarked. "These bastards are smart, don't forget that."
The group continued further on.
"You sure splitting up is a bad idea? We might catch them sooner," said another worker.
"Not all of us are going to make it back alive as it is. If we split up, we're not going to make it that much sooner," said another worker as if that should be obvious.
"Hush!" Bobbie hissed as the group immediately fell silent.
CLACK CLACK CLACK
The sound of something repeatedly hitting the tile floor caused the team to immediately tense up. Bobbie was the only one with basic DRT knowledge about the various known tactics of the predatory dinosaurs and she had told this group that the raptors hit the long claw on their feet as some form of radar to seek out prey.
Bobbie made some motions to the group to stick close to the walls as Bobbie tried to remember what was ahead of them.
"The hallway around the corner has doors on either side to examination rooms," Bobbie began. "But otherwise those damn things have got nowhere to go or hide unless they run away."
The others nodded and slowly advanced on the corner as Bobbie pulled out her compact mirror and edged up to the corner where the wall met. The resident MD was secretly grateful that in order to save power, most of the lights in the place weren't turned on during the day which could possibly reflect off her mirror and tip off the raptors that they were onto them.
"Okay, I've got it," Bobbie told her team as she looked at the mirror which showed a raptor down the hallway. "Looks to be by itself so we'll take it now and then find the other one. Remember that we can't just fire wildly; we have to aim at the thing. We'll go on three."
The team nodded their heads as they readied their tranquilizers and tasers.
"One, two, THREE!" shouted Roberta as the team raced around the corner and the team fired on the dinosaur. The raptor barely had time to register what happened before numerous darts smacked right into it and it immediately collapsed to the ground.
"We got you, you son of a bitch," said Bobbie softly as the team breathed a giant sigh of relief as they slowly advanced on the downed raptor that was now foaming at the mouth. The team was softly congratulating themselves on the kill when a doorknob was heard twisting behind them and then opening. The team immediately spun around as a second Velociraptor emerged from one of the examination rooms with its claw on the inner door handle.
It paused for a moment and then it roared angrily and charged at them…