Chapter 4: New Allies and Old Rivals

Moses was resting on a tree as the thrill of being on Isla Nublar was starting to wade from Sebastian's mind. Fifteen minutes had passed and Sebastian hadn't seen a single dinosaur. Moses found Sebastian's lack of patience funny and was chuckling the entire time. Sebastian lost his patience and tossed his camera against a tree. Moses wasn't able to contain his laughter, but stopped upon hearing a motor. "Moses," Sebastian whispered, "We got to go."

"Why?"

"That sounds like a car, and noise attracts large dinosaurs, dinosaurs like the T-rex." Moses shook his head as he grabbed Sebastian by the collar and pulled him out unto the road. Oh no," Sebastian complained as the car pulled over upon seeing them, it's worse than I thought. That's not a person in the back seat. That's Lola Brinker."

Lola hopped out of the back seat saying, "Nice to see you too, Sebastian."

Moses ignored the argument that Lola and Sebastian began as he walked over to the car and asked, "So who are you two?"

"Tourists," Jackie replied. "Just two tourist who don't believe in the dinosaurs." Moses didn't seem to believe them, but didn't mention his suspicion. Sebastian was deep in his argument to not even see the two other people, but they took the liberty of introducing themselves as they hopped out of the car. Sebastian seemed to ignore David and Jackie as he continued his argument. David turned to Moses and asked, "How do we get out of here?"

"Helicopter," Moses said. "In about fifteen minutes, we'll head back and leave before it gets too dark." Jackie pulled David away and said, "We've got fifteen minutes to get evidence on Lola or we're fired."

Back in the incubation room, Jason was still waiting for the file to open, but hadn't gotten any information from Brian for three minutes and was getting impatient. "Brian," he said over the speakerphone, "has the page opened up yet?"

"No," he replied. Another minute passed until Brian finally said, "Okay, I've got it open. This is it?"

"What's it?" Jason asked in confusion. Brian hesitated before replying, "It's just a map if Isla Nublar. It's kind of shaped like a teardrop. The control building is on the south east and the volcano pretty much covers up the northern part of the island, although there are some paved roads on it."

"Brian," Jason interrupted. "Just find the part about the treasure." Brian stopped his ranting and continued to search the files for anything that looked treasure related. "Hrm," he replied, "Maybe it's under the file called treasure location." Jason rolled his eyes, despite the fact that Brain couldn't see him as Brian opened the file. "Oh yeah," he replied. This is definitely it. According to this, Robert Muldoon has been planning to find the treasure, but the test group preempted his search."

"Is the volcano active."

"No," Brian said, "but why would it matter? It's not like we're going to go find it." There was a long silence from the incubation room before Brian said, "Oh no. We're going to find it."

"Well we won't be doing anything if the others return and get killed by a raptor, so I'm going to have to go out there and tell them." There was another long silence before Jason continued; "I'll take the handheld radio to keeping contact with you."

Brian interrupted, "Jason, I don't know if you know this, but there's a killer raptor out there that's already killed our pilot-"

"Which is why I need your help. I'm going to need you to pretend to open your door to lure the raptor away from my door. At that point I'll make a run for the stairs and close the doors behind me." Brian was scared stiff, but gave a hesitant response that he would help. Brian sighed before stepped over to the door and pushing it open slowly, so it was only slightly ajar. Jason took the opportunity and opened the door halfway, but shut it as the raptor almost jumped inside.

Jason went back to the speakerphone and said, "No good. You're going to have to leave the room long enough to make my move."

"It's not worth it," Brian complained. "Moses has a gun. When he gets back, he'll take him out."

"Think logically," replied Jason. That thing saw a door slightly open and didn't even move, preparing for me to open mine. He's smart and as the sun has pretty much already set, he'll use the darkness to his advantage. Brian sighed and agreed to do it. Brian opened the door slowly, but didn't hear the raptor move. Brian opened the door a little bit more, and heard a footstep. Brian slowly began to close the door, but stopped. Brian mustered all of his courage and pushed the door open and stood in the middle of the hallway. The raptor began to dash towards him as Jason made a break for the stairs. The raptor didn't even look back, making Jason's escape simple. The raptor pounced, but Brian managed to duck as the raptor jumped over him. Brian managed to scramble back into the room and locked the metal door behind him just in time.

Jason ran down the stairs and stopped to catch his breathe on the bottom floor. Jason stepped outside, but didn't see Moses or Sebastian. Jason was filled with thoughts of what had happened to them until the sounds of arguing came through the trees. Jason ran over to see Moses resting by a tree and Sebastian and Lola arguing in the middle of the road, not to mention the two people who were sitting in the car that he had never seen before. Sebastian managed to stop arguing long enough to turn to Jason and ask, "We done here already?"

Jason didn't respond as he was staring at the two people in the car. "Oh," Sebastian said, "That's Jackie Hart and David Hunter, tourists. So, are we done here or not?"

"Not exactly," Jason replied. "Allow Brian to explain." The group was confuse, and were even more confused to see Jason take out a handheld radio out of his pocket and to hear Brian's voice saying, "Great news! I found a headset so I can talk to you hands-free!"

"Okay," Lola interrupted. "This is getting weird. Let's just go."

"You can't," interrupted Brian's voice over the radio. "A raptor killed the pilot. The raptor is currently trapped in the fifth floor hallway in the control building, and so am I. The only thing keeping me from certain death is a metal door."

David jumped out of the car saying, "We've got to get him out of there."

"Not yet," Jason replied. "Brian found something very interesting on the files. It's a treasure map."

"High-tech pirates?" asked Lola.

"Not exactly," Brian intervened. "The file doesn't say who put the treasure there, or what the treasure is, all it say is that some guy named Robert Muldoon was planning to find it after the test group left, but we all know that he really didn't have the chance."

Jason nodded in agreement as he said, "I suggest he go and get it. We might as well seeing that we don't have a way to get of the island."

Sebastian, Lola, and David all had clear looks of opposition on their faces, as Jackie and Moses appeared to be neutral to Jason's suggestion. A short silence followed until Jackie said, "Shouldn't we be working on a way to get out of here?"

"I am," replied Brian's voice, "but I only have one working computer and one working phone that can only communicate with that radio… wait a minute, who said that?"

Jackie and David were introduced to Brian as Sebastian began to walk back and forth in utter confusion. Moses was getting annoyed watching him, so he turned to Jason and said, "It's already too dark to keep traveling. We'd better find some where to stay safe for the night." Jason nodded in agreement and began to walk with Jackie, David and Lola in toe. Sebastian was hesitant in following, but knew that it was safer to be with people on Isla Nublar.

Back in the control room, Brian knew that he wasn't going anywhere soon, but also knew that he wasn't going to be able to sleep with the raptor on the other side of the door. Brian minimized the file on the treasure and began to search for the InGen payroll in order to find out who was R. Muldoon. Minutes into his search, Brian accidentally opened one of the files that was being downloaded into Jason's cylinder. Brian was about to close it, but decided to check it out. Brian was dumbfounded. "This is some kind of formula," he whispered to himself. Brian scrolled down and saw in big bold letters

Dinosaur Formula

Dr. Henry Wu

"No way," he whispered. "Jason's stealing the dinosaur formula."