"Enjoy cleaning this up boys. We're going to the Genetics lab." Roxy says, throwing Darius and Kenji some shovels while they stand in front of an enormous pile of dung. The two boys managed to convince the two counselors that they are equally to blame for the incident the previous night so that none of them had to be send home.
Roxy then gets back on the Jeep with the rest of the group, while Brooklynn, Ben and Sammy all hold their noses closed from the smell.
"When are we going to see more cool stuff?" Brooklynn reads a comment annoyed, since her message board went wild after 10k's rescue scene from last night and they are demanding more action-packed updates.
"So, what's your next video? Maybe there are baby dino eggs in the lab. Afterall everyone loves a baby video." Sammy asks Brooklynn excited, while they are driving to the lab.
"Whatever it is, it has to be cool." Brooklynn says, glancing at 10k, who is staring off into the clear sky before she turns her attention back to her phone.
Ben hums happily, while basically lubing himself up with sanitizer.
"It's sanitizer, who knows what creepy dino goop is at that lab?" Ben tells Yasmina , who was staring at him with wonder.
Upon that exclamation she also squeezes some into her hands, sterilizing them.
"You really don't have to be worried about that. I'd rather worry about the slimy mess that is Dr. Wu's ego." 10k tells the other teens, causing Dave to break out into a full laughter inside the jeep.
"Why do you say that?" Yasmina asks.
"You'll know when you meet the guy." 10k simply says, looking back at her, before turning back to the skies with an exhausted sigh.
"This is a rare window into the park's inner workings. Not just anyone can come here you know." Roxy tells the group when they step into the lab.
In the meantime Dave makes a fool of himself, announcing their presence to the leader of the lab.
"Dr. Wu, we're here for the tour. Mrs. Deering should have mentioned us." Roxy tells the Dr.
"I'm sorry, I don't have time to be babysitting. My timetable was moved up yet again. And results are expected of me." Wu tells her dismissively.
"Young lady, there is no recording in the lab." Wu tells Brooklynn, who was filming a scientist at work.
"But that's kind of my whole deal." She says.
"And I care, because?" Wu asks dismissively.
"Stroke his ego." 10k whispers, to Brooklynn, walking past her.
"I'm sorry doctor, I just wanted my followers to meet the Genius who brought dinosaurs back to life. But if you want to stay in the background and let your work speak for yourself, I can respect that." Brooklynn says saddened.
"How many people watch this web show?" Wu asks at this, agreeing to being interviewed and showing the group around.
"Guys, look. This egg's about to hatch." Dave tells the group, when an egg starts to shake and its shell cracks.
"That's not possible." Wu says shocked.
"That ankylosaurus has only been incubated for 10 weeks." Wu says, checking the data on the specific egg.
The dinosaur baby then hatches and almost falls off the hatchery, when Ben catches it and sets it down, removing the eggshell, that got stuck to its head.
"Sweet and look. One of its headbumps is bigger than the other." Brooklynn says, filming the baby.
"Asmyetry? In my lab?" Wu asks upset.
"Aww, it's so tiny." Yasmina says, looking at Ben holding the dinosaur, while it licks his face.
"But it won't stay tiny for long, right?" Roxy asks.
"That's the idea. All eggs are incubated for 13 weeks with an accelerated growth cycle, but it seems this one slipped through." Wu says, inspecting the dino, held up by Ben.
A couple of minutes later the group gets thrown out when Dr. Wu came upon Brooklynn, who was snooping around in his room.
The group then drives back to their Camp, with most of them disappointed and annoyed at Brooklynn, only 10k being glad to be out of Wu's lab.
"Hey guys." Darius greets the others when they pull up in the Jeep, while he and Kenji are standing in front of the dung pile, heaving from having gone on their own secret adventure where Kenji lead Darius through some underground tunnels, right into a carnosaurs cage and they barely escaped with Kenji saving Darius's life by prying open a service gate which closed by itself.
"Why are the two of you so out of breath?" Roxy asks suspiciously.
"Just doing the job we're told. How was the fieldtrip?" Darius replies.
"Oh, well you know. Ben fell in love with a dinosaur and superstar got us booted from the lab." Yasmina says accusingly.
"Well, we had a valuable experience and learned a lot about ourselves." Darius says, cutting off Kenji who wanted to blab that he saved Darius's life.
"Well then, hit the showers." Roxy tells them before driving past them and parking the jeep in front of their camp.
|that night|
10k wakes up in the middle of the night, roused by a noise coming from outside and peers through his window, which gives him perfect overview over the camps area. Seeing a figure stumble around, righting up some barrels he gets suspicious and sneaks out of his room and hides himself behind a bush standing next to the elevator of the building, which is the only access currently operational.
'I wonder who that could be.' 10k thinks, waiting paitienly behind the bush and not even 5 minutes later the elevator doors open with a quiet 'ding'. Looking towards the elevator he sees Sammy step out of it, looking around scared before she hurries down the hallway and retreats into her room.
"What could that have been about?" 10k asks himself while heading back to his room.
The following day is spend relatively normal, the group observe the feeding time of some Dinos and are lead through a sort of museum displaying the various species they hatched in Jurassic World.
That evening the group votes for staying out on the balcony, sitting around a campfire and telling scary stories. Well all of the teens, except 10k and Yasmina. The young athlete is standing at the railing, drawing something in a pad when she gets woken out of her zone with a slight yank, when 10k sits down on the railing she was leaning on and drawing only a couple of feet away.
"Here. I thought it might be of use to you." 10k says, setting down a digital camera within her arms reach.
"I thought Mrs. popular was the only one with gadgets?" Yasmina says surprised.
"I don't count." 10k replies with a amused wink, unsettling the girl who takes the camera and turns her upper body away from him, looking at some of the photographs, showing various dinosaurs and other things around the park.
"Is this what you've been doing the past two weeks?" She asks, only turning her head to face 10k.
"Amongst other things, yeah." He nods with a shrug of his shoulders.
He then takes out a knife from a sheath on his lower back, scaring Yasmina, who stiffens at the sight of the weapon.
"Oh relax. I'm only going to whittle over here." 10k laughs quietly, seeing her freeze up.
"Do you really think if I was a psychopathic murderer, I'd attack the prettiest girl on the Isle instead of the loud-mouthed rich boy?" 10k asks jokingly, causing her to blush and take a step away form him, uncomfortable now that he complemented her looks, something she's not unfamiliar with, but she never heard it sounding so genuine and without ulterior motives.
"Sorry, that was probably a bit unprofessional on my part. Here, you're going to need it in a minute." 10k apologizes in a calming tone, setting down his jacket on the railing next to her before wordlessly heading into the house.
"What was that about?" Yasmina asks herself quietly, looking at the jacket for a second, before turning her attention back to the camera and the many things she can draw with the pictures in it.
"I guess he might not be as bad as he comes across." Yasmina says, when she sees a picture where a hand is patting a feeding dinosaur and a few pictures of their group having fun on their outings, like a whole bunch of her, Ben and Brooklynn standing at the incubator, petting Bumpy.
"Shouldn't we call Yasmina over?" Sammy asks, looking back at the ponytailed girl, who's looking through the photos, resting the camera on her pad.
"I bet she'd love this story." Sammy adds, looking at Darius, who was trying to tell a scary story only to get interrupted numerous times.
"Maybe she just wants to be by herself." Brooklynn says.
"I don't understand." Sammy says.
"You know, how some people just want to be left alone." Kenji says.
"Kenji you're hilarious. I think she's just shy and doesn't know how to make camp friends." Sammy says amused.
A loud thundering is then heard in the skies and it starts to pour, disrupting their circle which dismisses immediately, retreating into the dry area of the house.
Yasmina is the last one to enter, having covered her drawings with 10k's jacket.
"Thanks." She says, handing him his jacket and the camera, standing in front of the whittling teen lying on the main room's couch.
"Don't mention it. And you can keep the camera in the evenings, if you want." 10k says, offering it back to the girl.
Yasmina ponders a moment, before accepting the camera again, saying a quick "thanks" before leaving and sitting down on an empty couch.
"You need a friend!" Sammy says overly ecstatic, sitting down next to Yasmina.
"What?" Yasmina asks startled.
"You're alone. And when I feel alone having a friend around sure feels nice. And I could use a friend and you could probably too. So I was thinking, Yasmina just needs someone to make the first friendship move and here I am." Sammy tells her hyped up.
"Uhm, I lost you at feeling alone." Yasmina says overwhelmed, clutching her pad and the camera to her chest.
"Is that a scrap book? I love scrapbooking, we could make one together. Let's pull you outta your shell." Sammy says.
"I'm pretty happy in my shell." Yasmina tells her.
"No one likes a shell, it keeps people from getting to know you." Sammy says.
"Bingo." Yasmina says, walking away.
|the next morning|
"Saddle up dudes and dudettes. We're going on a cattle drive. But with Dinosaurs, it's a Dino-drive." Dave says way to enthusiastically.
"Uhm, just to be clear. All these Dinosaurs are herbivores, right?" Ben asks concerned.
"Well they only chewed on the last kid a little, so we're 99% sure." Roxy says jokingly.
"The park personell is moving the Dinosaurs to fresh grazing lands across the Island and we get to ride along behind the herd." Roxy tells the group.
"Are you kidding? Dinosaur migration patterns are my jam." Darius says happily.
"You may want to consider getting a new jam." Kenji remarks, before going over to the two counselors.
"So, you sure these things are waterproof? Hair this awesome does not come easy." He asks them.
"Your hair is going to be fine Kenji, the storm has already moved up the coast." Dave tells him.
"Great, let's show these fools what a gyrosphere master can do." Kenji says triumphantly, heading to one of the four gyrospheres.
"No way, you're driving with Ben. As a passenger." Roxy says.
"Groups are as followed, Ben and Kenji, Darius and Brooklynn, Yasmina and 10k and last but not least Sammy gets to have a sphere to herself." Roxy reads from her clipboard.
"Seriously?" Kenji asks annoyed.
"Take it up with 10k. He designed the groups." Roxy says, making everyone look at the teen with surprise.
"What?" He asks them, uncaring that many of the group are upset with their partner, or lack thereof.
"Everyone seatbelts, at all times." Dave tells them while everyone gets seated in their sphere.
"Hmm." 10k hums thoughtfully, holding his back pack while looking in the interior of the sphere, where Yasmina is already strapped in.
"What?" She asks, looking at him confused.
"Oh, don't mind me. I'm just gonna. Secure this real quick." He says, leaning to the foot rests and straps in his back pack around his.
"Yep, that works." He says hopping into the sphere while closing the door and fixes his seatbelt.
"Why so cautious with the bag? Can't you just hold it?" Yasmina asks, her curiosity getting the better of her.
"I had some bad experiences doing that." 10k says chuckling.
"If you say so." She says and starts to drive towards the herd, after Darius, while Sammy follows them and Ben is driving practically miles behind everyone else.
"So, if you don't mind me striking up a conversation for once… Is there a reason for the teams being like this?" She asks, avoiding looking at him.
"I guess, yeah." 10k replies.
"Darius and Brooklynn, so that they get the chance to iron out their differences. Kenji and Ben, because they need to get used to their polar opposites. And well I thought you could use a little break from Sammy after her ambush last night." 10k explains.
"I see. And why are you riding with me and not with her? I like solitude." Yasmina asks, glancing at him for a moment.
"Well for one I'm not a fan of constant rambling either and she needs to accept that there won't always be someone around." 10k says.
"That's actually pretty neatly planned. I admit." Yasmina praises him.
"Thanks. I try, sometimes." 10k says with a smirk.
"Hey, we've caught up." 10k tells her, nodding at the dinosaur's running in front of them.
Soon after lightning crackles above them with dark clouds lining the sky.
"That doesn't look good." 10k says, when suddenly the herd gets scared by the flashes of lightning.
"Everyone drive to the right side." 10k orders over the headset and the spheres all line up at the sidelines.
"Wait in your spheres while I talk to Roxy." He says, stepping out of the sphere and jogs over to the approaching counselors.
"So, what's the move?" He asks.
"We'll turn around and head back to camp." Dave says.
"No, we won't. We'll continue following the herd and stop at the midway station. The comms are out and its safer." Roxy says.
"Just drive behind the herd and everyone will be fine." Roxy says.
"I doubt that, but fine." 10k says, looking up to the sky.
"What now?" Darius asks, stepping out of his sphere.
"We're going to follow behind the herd and stay at the midway point." 10k says, activating the comms, before asking "Did everyone get that?" and he gets thumbs up in response from everyone else.
10k then heads back over to Yasmina and their sphere, before entering with a defeated sigh.
"What?" She asks surprised at his mood, since he previously seemed to be enjoying himself, talking to her. At least she was enjoying their chat.
"Nothing, just follow the others." 10k says, strapping himself in while observing everything stoically.
"Is something wrong?" Yasmina asks, unsettled by his tense body language.
"It's going to be." He says dreadfully, peering into the sky and moments later lightning strikes near the herd, causing the saurs to panic and flee in all directions, while the teens in their spheres all drive towards a nearby jungle, having no other way to go due to the masses of dinosaurs threatening to crush them otherwise.
"Sometimes I hate being right." 10k says while Yasmina is driving them through the jungle, until a tree comes down in front of them and shortly afterwards behind them as well, trapping them , as well as Sammy and her sphere, since she followed the sphere 10k is in, trusting that he'll know what to do.
"What now?" Yasmina asks, while the three get out of the spheres.
"Wait a second, I'll try to reach the others." 10k tells them, activating the coms.
"Where is everyone?" He asks.
"No clue, but our sphere broke down, we're now on foot." Kenji tells them.
"Help us! We're stuck and our sphere is sinking!" everyone then hears a cry for help over the comms.
"Not good." 10k sighs yet again.
"OK, I have a general idea where they went, first we need to find a way through this." 10k says, looking around.
"Sammy, 10k. help me stack these woods." Yasmina says, rushing to collect some branches and throw them in front of the tree blocking their way further into the jungle.
"Good idea." 10k says, while they build a ramp with it.
"Sammy, you go with Yasmina, she's an excellent driver and we can't afford to lose another sphere right now." 10k tells the other girl.
"Follow behind me." 10k tells them over the coms, driving over the ramp and advancing into the jungle, stopping when Kenji and Ben are suddenly standing in the middle of the path.
"Get in, quickly!" 10k tells them and the two boys hurry inside his capsure, sharing the free seat.
10k then drives them in the general direction of where he assumes Darius and Brooklynn to be.
"They must be around here, somewhere, but the coms only get static." 10k says.
"I hear them. That way." Kenji tells him, pointing to their right and shortly after the group of five pull up in front of a large mud puddle, in which Darius and Brooklynn are sinking ever so slowly with a hole in their front window, having been punctured by the horn of the dinosaur, which is standing around nearby.
"This is bad." 10k says, running over to his original sphere and fetches the rope he has in his bag, passing one end to the teens inside the capsule.
"Here, wrap this around the seats." 10k tells them, throwing the other end of the rope to Kenji, who climbed a tree, having caught on to what he's doing and slings the rope over one of the tree's branches.
"Good job." 10k says, catching the remainder of the rope and looks around, cursing "And of course there are only two trees in reach.
"Come on Kenji. We need to buy them some time. Girls, Ben, if one of you has any bright ideas, please share." 10k says, running around two trees with the rope before it comes to an end. He then wraps the rope around his midsection once and braces himself against the last tree, with Kenji helping and they gradually manage to raise the sphere back up a bit, using the tree's as a pulley system.
"I have an idea." Sammy says, picking up a branch with leaves and goes over to the scared dinosaur, talking it down, "It's hard to trust strangers. It's a scary world out there. But I'll trust me, if you trust me?" She says, holding out her hand to the dino and reaches out for its nose, calming it down. It then accepts the branch with leaves, eating it.
"Quickly, the rope, we need to tie it around her." Sammy tells the group, while all but 10k were watching with amazement.
"OK. One more push Kenji, then we hurry over to the Dino, got it?" 10k says, sweating profoundly from the constant strain the sinking sphere provides.
The two boys put all their strength into pulling the sphere up a bit further and then hurry over to Yasmina and Sammy, where the four wrap the rope around the dino's stomach and Sammy makes it follow her by holding out a branch of leaves in front of it, until Darius's Sphere is free from the mud and Yasmina quickly breaks open the vehicle, using a branch as a leaver.
"What happened here?" Roxy asks, when she and Dave pull up to the scene.
"Shut up!" 10k only groans loudly, making everyone of the other teens laugh and cheer in victory.
That evening Sammy is standing under a roofed portion of a balcony, looking out into the rain thoughtfully when Yasmina walk up to her with her pad.
"I'm not so great at trusting new people. So… my favorite color is black and my favorite food is pizza. And this is what I was doing before." Jasmina says awkwardly, giving Sammy her pad with her drawings.
"I started drawing to kill time at track meets. I'm not very good. So you probably won't like them." Yasmina says self-consciously.
"You're right. I love them! I knew we were going to be friends." Sammy says cheerfully, hugging Yasmina.
"I'm not really a hugger." Yasmina says embarrassed.
"You're now!" Sammy says, continuing her hug.
"Ahem. Uhm, could you give us a moment Sammy?" 10k asks, arriving on the balcony.
"Sure." The girl says happily, walking into the house while waving to Yasmina.
"Good job with the dino out there by the way." 10k tells the girl as she passes by him.
"Thanks." She says before joining the others in the main area.
"What's up with wanting to talk alone?" Yasmina asks slightly fearful and surprised.
"I wanted to apologize. For my mood when the storm hit." 10k tells her, joining her on the railing, looking into the rain with only a foot or two between them.
"I thought it was strange, but I figured you were just focused on protecting everyone." Yasmina says.
"Well there was that but I also was annoyed that I couldn't follow my gut feeling and we had to trail behind the herd, when I knew exactly what happened would happen." 10k says.
"I get that." Yasmina says.
"Still, I shouldn't have been so… dismissive of you in the sphere. And after we had such a comfortable chat too." 10k says, rubbing his head embarrassedly.
"It's fine. Really." Yasmina says, her cheeks flushing just a bit.
"Not really, well I can't change how I behaved now… But here, to show you that I'm sorry." 10k says, sliding a wooden rose over to the girl, over the railing.
"Thanks. You really are quite handy." Yasmina says impressed, tracing her fingers over the wooden object, before slipping it into a pocket, while looking towards the others.
"It comes with practice, anyways sorry again." 10k tells her and starts to leave.
"Wait. I should apologize too. Well, it should be of no surprise to you that I'm rather unskilled at opening up to others. And I treated you like a danger, because I was scared." She tells him.
"You wouldn't be the first." He tells her with a soft chuckle.
"No, not like that. I meant, I got scared because… when you said I was the prettiest girl on the Isle, I didn't know how to react to that or what to think of it." Yasmina tells him, looking at 10k with reddening cheeks.
"I just said my mind. Sorry if it made you uncomfortable." 10k says, also embarrassed.
"Thanks. Uhm, I guess I should probably get over to the others…" Yasmina says blushing, only daring to glance at 10k.
"Yeah, uh and I should probably make sure Dave knows how to read a weather report." 10k says, watching her while she goes over to the others, before he turns around and takes a few calming breaths, not wanting the others to see his embarrassed state, when he goes past them to the counselor's rooms.
Later that night, after Brooklynn made up with Darius she is in her room editing her next video, when she sees Sammy take a dna sample of the Dinosaur she 'tamed'.
"What the?" She says to herself, replaying the scene. Unnoticed by her, Sammy was standing in the door, panic written across her face at the possibility of her secret being discovered.