Things Fall Apart
Today's the big day, the paddock is going to be inspected, Masranis helicopter had already flown by, most likely heading towards Paddock 11. Hamada has reassured me that everything is fine and the animal is content. I shake my head, stop worrying about it, if Hamada says it's fine then nothing to worry about. I see Darius burst through the doors with excitement."What's up, Camp Cretaceous. Whoo-hoo!" I chuckle, I serious like and worry for this kid at times. Kenji ruins the mood. "Not in a 'whoo-hoo' this morning, Darius. Not ater what happen yesterday." I says while narrowing his eyes at Skits. Skits slurps his juice box. "We only had to walk because you crashed our gyrosphere." He says pointing a crayon at Kenji who actually growls at Skits, scaring him to hide behind Darius.
"But today is a new day, Kayak Day. Who doesn't want to kayak next to dinosaurs...real dinosaurs...wait, where are Dave and Roxie? He questions. Before Kenji can answer, I cut in. "They left early to go somewhere, Dave left a note." I say as I walk past Kenji snatching the note out of his hand. I pass it to Darius. "BRB. Gotta go. Boss-talk. BB. Later. Smiley face...is that a dinosaur emoji with a thumbs up?" He confusedly questions. "It's Dave speak." Kenji puts in. "Roxie translated on the back." I tell Darius as he flips the note. "We have to go talk to our boss. Stay inside until we return we return. Draw, bond, whatever. The radio is set to channel six for emergencies. While we are gone, Ryan is in charge, make sure Kenji doesn't do anything stupid. Sorry about the kids menu, its all Dave had." He finishes looking back to the table with arts and crafts.
"Do they understand how old we are, like when was the last time you saw a crayon?" Kenji complains loudly, no one is happy about it mate but seriously, get over it. Skits shows a wonky drawing of him and Bumpy playing chess, he seems very proud of his work. "Hmm, I have notes." Yasmina critics, damn give the poor guy a break. Sammy jokingly reprimands Yasmina, glad that those two have hit it off.
BANG!
We all turn to see Brooklynn standing in the doorway with a seething expression on her face. "Next time, remember, open gently." I jokingly say with my fingers pressing together like I'm a therapist. " Hey Superstar, what's new on the internet." Yasmina sarcastically asks. "Hmm, I don't know. I went to check my phone from the charger, it wasn't there. Someone took my phone!" She yells angrily. While attached to it as she is, it reasonable why she's angry, if someone stole my property I'll be pissed too.
"Brooklynn, who hasn't have your phone." I ask.
"I needed to check the weather last night."
"Dr Sattler, posted a new article on microfossils."
"Couldn't miss the selfie op. It's not everyday that you look this good."
Skits, Darius and Kenji all say at the same time. Brooklynn looks bewildered. "Maybe, when you find it, you should put a pin lock on it." I say. Brooklynn then glares hard at Sammy. "I...I haven't seen it either." "Really." Brooklynn doesn't believe her, why. "Hey, everybody just take a break, since we're not kayaking today, we have plenty of time to look for the phone." Darius interjects being the voice of reason.
"Ohhhh, I know exactly where it is. I also think that who ever took the phone is trying to hide some of the things that are on it. What do you think, Sammy?" She aggressively questions and looms over Sammy. I've had enough of this. I pull Brooklynn back. "That is enough. Don't start accusing people who you think might have it. We will look around first and if we can't find it than sorry to say, than we look through our bags to see who taken it, ok." "Whoa, why should we look through people's bag?" Yasmina interjects in front of me. "I said that we will only look through the bags if we can't find it lying around. I don't know if you know this but stealing someones things regardless of what it is a criminal offence and I don't want to jump to that conclusion, ok." I say, putting a end to the argument. Yasmina huffs. "Fine, we'll do it your way." She says as she shoulder checks me. Wow.
We all look around for the damn phone. All of a sudden we hear a dinosaur roar in the distance. The kind I've never heard before. "What was that?" Skits asks fearfully. "A T-Rex, I think." Kenji puts in. "Rexy doesn't roar like that, hers is a bellow not a screech. Almost sounded like a Majungasurus...but louder." I voice to the group. Yasmina runs to the balcony. We follow her. "I can't see anything through the trees." I see Darius has a realisation. "Huh, I bet we can see it from the watchtower." " Wow that is a great idea Darius. That would be awesome." Sammy says. Everyone runs to the elevator. "Hey, we are not done searching." Brooklynn says, still on about that bloody phone. "But guys, it's indoor arts and crafts day, we should stay and wait for Dave and Roxie right Kenji, Ryan? Skits asks reasonably. "Sorry buddy but I'm going to see a T-Rex or a cat-fight either way, I win." Kenji arrogantly says. I look down at Skits who looks up at me. "Sorry buddy, while Dave and Roxie left me in charge I can't stop everyone so I'm going to keep them from being eaten. If you want you can stay here." I walk into the elevator with a smile of my face. "Why are you smiling like that." Sammy asks. "Ohh, just that Skits will be coming." "How do you know." Brooklyn asks. "Because that guy can't last 1 minute by himself with that Tyrannosaur skeleton in the room."
Camp Cretaceous Watchtower:
We arrive to find the gate locked. Kenji, Yasmina and Sammy trying to pull it open, guys, if its locked than its locked. "Well its locked, guess we should head back." Skits tries to reason and miserably fails. Kenji looks around in confusion. "Wait, where is everybody, there usually someone around." "True." I check my watch. "It's about lunchtime so I guess their on their break." Brooklynn takes a bobby pin out of her hair. "If we're doing this then let's do this. Ta-da!" She dramatically says, unlocking the gate with the pin, why does these people continue to impress me. Everyone looks bewildered. "What? Didn't you guys watch my 'Unboxing Kathmandu' video, 'how to pick a lock when you accidentally lock yourself out of your hotel room'." I might have to check that out later. "Last one to the top is a rotten egg." Sammy laughingly says. "Later, rotten egg." Yasmina interjects. I have to get in of this. "See y'all at the top." As I run after Yasmina.
As we arrive to the top only myself and Yasmina are not out of breath. So glad I didn't wear my tactical gear, would have killed me running up these stairs. "Please, no more...stairs." Kenji says, exhausted, collapsing of the last step, huh, rotten egg.
RUMBLE!
We feel rumbling, something is in the trees. We all look to see what it could be. Turns out it's only a Brachiosaur. "Huh, mystery solved, suppose we should head back to camp. Skits reasons again. "Brachiosauruses don't roar like the one we heard before." I say, trying to figure out what's going on. "Yeah, they make a sort of." Darius tries mimic what a Brachiosaurus sound like while not far off, its unrefined. We hear work personnel down below yelling at us but we are too high up we can't hear them. "You're going to have to speak up!" Kenji yells.
ROOOAAARRR!!
We all hear the same roar from before and see the Brachiosaur cry out in pain and collapse below the canopy. We jump back in fright. What the fuck could bring down a Brachiosaur. The workers still try to speak with us. I notice a big shape in the trees behind the workers. "What the hell is that?" Everyone looks down to see...a white demon emerge from the treeline screeching as the workers run in terror. The monster grabs one of the workers in its jaws. We scream in terror...it can't be. The monster grabs the still kicking workers legs with its long dexterous forearms and rips him in half, the crunch of bone and tearing of flesh, reveals the guts of the worker dropping to the beasts feet, blood soaking the dirt. The monster rears its head and give a blood-curdling roar.
ROOOOOOAAAAAARRRRRR!!!!!
The...demon looks like a twisted mess of dinosaur put together, size of a Tyrannosaur, long arms of a Raptor, the horns reminiscent of an Allosaurus and the body shape of an Gigantosaurus. " What...is...that? Yasmina asks as I back in terror...it's not possible, those walls were 40 feet high with 2 metres of reinforced steel with 1 metre of overlayed concrete on each side...how the fuck did it get out. "We need to go." I tell the group. I hear a grasp. "Dr Wus' lab, he had files on a dinosaur, he called it-". "The Indom-." "inus Rex." Me and Sammy say at the same time. How the fuck do you know that name. "How do you two know that?" Brooklynn questions. "But there's no dinosaur named that." Darius says. "Doesn't matter, we need to go now." I say in absolute terror. "Up here we are safe. It's not like it can see us." Kenji tries to reassure everyone.
GRRRR!!!
The Indominus looks up at us with malicious intent, it's pupils narrow in hate. I've only seen such hate with only one other dinosaur. We scream in terror. "It sees us!!" Skits screams. The dinosaur charges the fence and grabs ahold the foundations of the tower trying to pull us down. "We can't stay here, that thing will pull us down and tear us apart, we need to go" I urgently tell the others. Darius points to the zipline seats as the Indominus pulls a bar off the tower make the tower more unstable.
We all lock ourselves in seats with Kenji helping Skits, shoving him down the zipline. I send Sammy, Kenji, Brooklynn then Darius down the line. The Indominus continues to tear the tower down. I hear the seats come to a complete stop. "The emergency brake." I knew that the brake can be overridden but there is no time. "I hope you are strong as you said you were." I tell Yasmina as she looks back to the group then me. "Ryan what are you doing." " Just catch me." "Catch you?" I run towards her. "CATCH ME." I jump on Yasmina as she grabs hold of me, with our combined weight we're going really fast. "You better not try and have a feel." I look at her offended. "Who do you think I am and that is not on my mind right." We crash into the others forcing the emergency brake off, we are in the clear. I turn back to see the Indominus pull a bar down and the tower begins to collapse under its weight, the zipline losing tension. "BRACE FOR IMPACT." I yell as we begin to fall for the line into canopy. I yelp as I hit branches, trying to grab a large fern when that doesn't work, I brace myself for the ground.
THUD!
Allison came back, her flaming head still alight. I move to pull Kenji further back into the cave. She still tries and pushes her head further. Her shrieks are echoing almost deafening. "Hey, over here." I hear my dads voice along with Commander Hamadas. Allison pulls back and roars at ACU. I move to get a closer look. My dad, Stephen Grady is one of the skilled veterans of ACU, left the special forces for family and later applied to Jurassic World to help with his PTSD and he has never been better working here. Allison is swinging her massive tail and head around to smash or grab would-be prey. My dad kept shooting electric darts trying to bring Allison down until a ranger can tranq her. He didn't see her tail coming. "DAD, WATCH OUT!!" I scream. He turns and is hit full force into a strong thick tree. "NOOOO." I run towards him and grab him, rolling him onto his back, I notice that ACU has finally backed Allison away. "R-r-ryan.". He tries to say. "It's going be ok, your going to be ok." I sob uncontrollably. "I'm so proud of you." He says while fading. "No, you hold on, help is coming." He holds his hand over my heart. "I'll always be with you." He says quietly, silent tears falling from his eyes. "Tell your mother that I love...her." He's hand falls out of mine. I check his pulse and hold my ear to his heart. He's dead. "No, no, no , no, dad wake up, come up, wake up. I cry and don't stop crying. Kenji, Hamada and all ACU looks on somberly.
Ugh. I begin to wake up. Ahh, my heads bleeding, feels like a scratch down my right eye, a branch must have scrapped me, lucky my eye didn't get ripped out. I notice others coming too. Brooklynn has a nasty bruise forming on her left cheek. Sammy has minor scraps, she must've broke her fall. Yasmina, helping Sammy, has a nasty cut on her upper arm. Darius looks fine from what could tell. Kenji actually landed in a tree, grasping a branch, good for him, and Skits landed in some brushes, scratches all over him. "Everyone alright." I ask. Before any answers, we hear the roar of the Indominus. "Where the hell is that thing?" Kenji asks. Skits is scared shitless. "It's coming." Yasmina helps Darius up. "Shush, it could be anywhere." Brooklynn tries to figure where to go. "We need to get back to camp, now." I see Darius panicking looking for his dino necklace. We hear the roar again.
We are running as fast as we can. Getting back to camp is number 1 priority at the moment. We need to get word out to Dave and Roxie or ACU letting them know of the Indominus. We break through the bushes and are shocked at what we find. The camp has been destroyed, the common room has been turned to rubble the elevator shaft is bent and twisted. Even my room has collapsed to the ground with all my equipment and gear. We begin to inspect the ruin. Darius steps into a massive footprint. The Indominus did this. "Dave, Roxie and the workers...they got away right." Sammy asks. I walk over to a flipped Jeep with Skits and see blood all over the seats, I notice something in the grass, I pick it up...and it's a severed arm. Skits screams and falls, everyone turns towards me, I hold up the arm. "Not all of them." Chucking the arm aside, pulling Skits away form the Jeep. Yasmina finds the radio Dave and Roxie left for us. She tries to turn it on. "Hello? Hello! Can any anyone." She grunts in anger, furiously trying to turn the radio on. She gives up and drops it. "We're on our own."
Everyone looks resigned, tired and stressed. Brooklynn rips into Sammy. "Give me my phone!" Seriously that's what you are worried about. "I don't care about you breaking into Wus' lab nor do I care about you taking skin samples from the Sinoceratops." The what now. "I don't even care that you stole it, I just want to call out for help so give me back my phone." Sammy is scared out of her mind. "I-." "I don't know what your talking about, breaking in, skin samples...you made that up in your own dang head." Yasmina, coming to Sammy's defence and Brooklynn begin to argue while Kenji and Skits vent their frustrations, Darius is off looking for his necklace.
WHIIIIISSSTTTLLLEEE!!
Everyone turns, ceasing hostilities. "THATS ENOUGH! Arguing amongst ourselves is not going to solve anything." Skits gets angry. "Can't you see Ryan, no one is coming to get us...we saw people get eaten... we're alone, we're defenseless. We're dead." He sits down to his fate. Everyone is quiet for awhile. "We're not giving up." Everyone turns towards Darius. "Look, it scary. I know. This isn't how it was supposed to happen. Sometimes life is messy and things...fall apart. But that's okay because when that happens, we can pick up the pieces and move forward. And we never give up." Brooklynn asks him about his necklace. "It's not important...I have the memories in here." He holds his hand over his heart. Yasmina asks looking between Darius and myself. "What do we do now." "We move south, get closer to civilisation, hopefully there we can find a phone or radio and contact someone." I answer calmly. I've trained for this, have to be prepared. "And we will do it together. We're a team or nothing at all." Darius puts in. Kenji agrees with the plan. Darius seems surprised. "I don't survive a dinosaur attack-." "MOVE." I yell as a piece of rubble nearly lands on Kenji, I pull him away. "Just to get taken out by a plank. Kenji ain't going out like that." He says continuing from what he was saying. Darius and Kenji take off south with Brooklynn, Yasmina and Sammy trailing behind. "Come on Skits, got to get outta here." I tell him as I follow the group. "It's just one dinosaur. It's just one dinosaur." I hear him trying to reassure himself. Let's hope so buddy.
