Chapter 7: Parenting 101
Moses continued to drive the car down the road, laughing at the stegosauruses along the way. Lola, still tied up, asked in an angered tone, "What are you going to do know?"
Moses ignored Lola until she asked again, this time, yelling in his ear. Moses stopped laughing and said, "Well, road leads us directly to the control building. When we get there, I'll leave you here to get picked off by some other dinosaur before your friends get here. I'll kill the raptor on the fifth floor, and while I'm on a roll, I'll kill Brian, too. I'll take the cylinder to the roof and call Dodgson on my satellite phone that I conveniently decided not to tell anyone about to pick me up."
Lola stopped listening, but Moses seemed to enjoy listening to himself talk and continued. "Of course, that wasn't the original plan. Originally, I was going to tamper with the cylinder to make sure it downloaded all the files, which I did. The problem came when the velociraptor killed the pilot, who was also working for Biosyn. If he hadn't died, I would have killed you all and taken the cylinder back to Dodgson yesterday."
"Why?" Lola mumbled, no longer looking at Moses. Moses began to chuckle again before replying, "You probably think I did this for the money, but you're wrong. Although I will be paid handsomely for my service, the money isn't as exhilarating as the health plan that came with it. You see, I owe Dodgson money, and since I can't pay him, I'll live, provided I give him what he wants." Moses screeched the car to a halt upon seeing a log in the middle of the road. "It's still half a mile to the Control Room," Moses mumbled to himself. Moses hopped out of the car and said to Lola, "Even though I could kill you right know, I think it would be more fun to let you get picked off by some dinosaur." Moses then saw off the corner of his eye two compies exiting from the trees. Moses chuckled as he picked up the compies and through them on Lola's lap. "They'll keep you company until their family comes and rips you apart piece by piece." Moses's maniacal laughter could be heard until he disappeared down the road and sure enough, a family of compies joined in and waited no time in attacking Lola.
Brian, meanwhile, was still trying to find Moses on the cameras and find somewhere safe to hide the cylinder before he arrived. Brian was getting paranoid because of the maniacal behavior exhibited from the raptor in the hallway. He knew animals could sense impending danger, and he knew something bad was going to happen and failed to hear Sebastian's voice over the headset that he left on the computer desk. Sebastian gave up on calling Brian and knew that he and David would have to find Lola by themselves. Sebastian and David continued to run down the road, hoping that something would jump out at them in the open. All was quiet until Sebastian asked, "Why didn't you shoot?" David remained silent as Sebastian asked again, "Why didn't you shoot?"
David continued to ignore Sebastian until he asked again. David was getting annoyed and yelled, "Relax! Next time, I promise, I won't falter. He'd better hope we find Lola alive, because if we don't, he'd better hope some dinosaur kills him fast because I'll make his death slow and painful." Sebastian was shocked, but glad that David was willing to stop Moses at all cost.
Meanwhile, Moses was calmly walking down the road with his AK-47 clenched tightly in his hand. The Control Building was in sight and knew he wasn't far. Walking slowly, Moses slowly lowered his gun until a juvenile T-rex burst through the trees. The baby T-rex stared at the man, who was now aiming directly at him. Moses hesitated, but pulled the trigger. A loud scream came from the baby T-rex. Moses was scared and began to run. Moses was so close t the building, but was cut off by the mother T-rex, who wasted no time in scooping Moses up into her mouth.
"That scream," said David. "It came from that way." Sebastian nodded and followed where the scream came from. The duo continued to run until they saw the abandoned car. David and Sebastian arrived to see a motionless Lola still tied up and covered with compies. David and Sebastian began to throw the compies off of her and step on them as they tried to come back. Sebastian caught his breath and asked, "Is she alive?"
David checked her pulse and nodded," She's alive, but barely." David paused before taking out his gun and saying, "You stay here with Lola. I'm going after Moses." Sebastian knew that it was obvious that the screams came from Moses, but David had already run through the trees before he could tell him. David snuck behind trees to make sure he wasn't spotted. David jogged closer through the trees, but found no sign of Moses. David turned the corner to see the father T-rex was picking up its baby with its mouth. The mother T-rex came from around the corner with Moses's AK-47 dangling from its teeth. David continued to look on, as the parents seemed to communicate with each other.
"What are you saying," David whispered as the T-rexes continued to speak with each other. "You look aggravated. You've already killed Moses. Who are you searching for?" David continued to talk to himself, asking himself rhetorical questions that he knew he couldn't answer until the father T-rex carried the baby backing the direction of the nest as the mother T-rex roared a deafening and blood-curdling roar.
Sebastian stood back at the car waiting for either David to return or for Lola to awaken. Brian finally came back to the radio asking in complete shock and fear, "What that a T-rex?" Sebastian hesitated before replying, "Yeah, it was. I'm pretty sure it killed Moses."
"Odd," Brian said. "T-rexes don't kill little morsels like human without a good reason.
"I heard a gun shot and a sound that sounded like a baby's scream."
"That's not good." Brian said in fear. "If Moses shot a T-rex baby, the mother will become a merciless killer to whoever she think is involved. If the T-rex remembers seeing you with Moses back at the nest, she's going to assume that you injured her baby as well. You have to get out of there now!"
Sebastian tossed the radio into the backseat and hopped into the driver's seat saw that Moses had taken the keys. Sebastian frantically yanked out the wires and tried to hot wire the car. As he continued to hot wire the car, two compies hopped out and bit him into the arm. Sebastian continued to hot wire the car and finally got the car up and running.
David was still hiding safely behind the tree as the T-rex continued to roar. Upon finishing her plethora f roars, the T-rex began to sniff around. David knew he would be found sooner or later until the sound of the car was heard from behind the trees, the T-rex shifted her head to the direction of the sound, but exact location of the sound soon became difficult to pinpoint. The T-rex roared again, causing David to trip backwards. The T-rex saw David and began walk to him. David managed to crawl into a log before she could eat him. The T-rex roared once more before picking up the log with her mouth. The log tilted sideways as David could clearly see the inside of her throat. David held on for his life as the T-rex continued to shake the log.
The car finally came into view as the T-rex leveled the log in her mouth. David began to crawl managed to get to the other side, but another wild swing from the T-rex left David dangled off the edge of the log. The T-rex managed to turn the log around as David held on as he hit her left cheek. The T-rex swung the log again as David hit the right cheek. David managed to climb on top of the log right before the T-rex tossed it in the air. David let go and managed to land on top of the T-rex's head. The T-rex began to shake her head profusely as David held on for his life.
Sebastian meanwhile, was still watching David escape death as he continued to circle the area. He knew that if he didn't do anything, David would die. Sebastian stopped the car and turned into the area David and the T-rex were in. The T-rex stared at Sebastian and the unconscious Lola in the car before attempting to attack. David was now riding on her neck and slowly sliding down the back. David had reached the tail. Back was swung right off the tail and into a tree.
Sebastian stopped the car and dragged the injured David into the backseat. Sebastian restarted the car as the T-rex roared once again. Sebastian began to drive off into the trees with the T-rex ensuing the chase.