Chapter 5: Meeting new persons
Six months after arriving on Isla Nublar, Valentina was still causing trouble, as she had deliberately ventured in the Dilophosaurus Paddock, came in the Baryonix Pond while everyone was looking away, dived into the Tylosaurus Lagoon when no one was there watching, entered the Petting Zoo to litterally let the dinosaurs lick her and the 3 and a half year old even swam in the Cretaceous Cruise river. All of these incidents led to Owen Grady and his daughter to ground Valentina for ten weeks, after which the little girl changed. Or rather so she claimed, as the toddler was very stubborn and didn't want to lose her privileges, to the point of forcing Peyton and her father to hire a tutor while Owen was at work and Peyton at Nublarian High School.
Meanwhile, Claire's nephews Zach and Gray were picked up at the docks by Zara, Claire's assistant, after arriving in Costa Rica by plane and then by ferry. The trio was walking around the island while Gray asked many questions.
"How big is the island?" Gray asked.
"Big." Zach answered boringly.
"Yeah, but how many pounds?" Gray asked again.
"Does it matter?" Zach asked back, not caring about what his little brother asked.
""Come on!" the overexcited Gray told his older brother, pulling him by the arm.
"Slow down, Mom doesn't pay me to babysit." Zach told him./
The two of them then entered the Innovation Center, where they saw holograms, projectors. Gray tried out the Mr DNA projector excitedly. "Cytosine, Guanine, Adenina and Thymine. The four components of life."
As Mr DNA was explaining scientific facts, Claire was coming down the stairs, then she saw her two nephews. "Zach? Gray?" she called them out.
The two of them also saw her coming, and Gray rushed towards his aunt.
"Aunt Claire!" he yelled excitedly before hugging his aunt. As he lets go, Claire looked at her nephews.
"Wow. Look at the two of you. How many year has it been? Five... Six years?" Claire told them.
"Seven... seven years actually." Zach corrected his aunt.
"Right. If you two are a little bored, then you can meet a little girl, whose name is Valentina Grady. She is very special, but we don't know much about her. You also can meet someone named Peyton Grady. She always wears surplus military clothes. But anyway, I can see you have your VIP passes. I'll be meeting you at 8:00 pm." Claire informed them before turning to Zara, "Bring them at Camp Cretaceous, where they are registered." Claire went back to her work before the trio went into the park.
As they walked in the park, Zach saw a teenager leading a group of men he didn't know. Coming closer, he asked the teenage girl to introduce him to everyone.
"Excuse me, are you Peyton Grady?"
"Yeah. And that's 1st Lieutenant Tim Murphy, US Marine Corps. These guys there, packing M4s, are his men." Peyton answered strapping the M4A1 carbine she had the day she welcomed her cousin.
"I'm..." Zach began talking as he had to grip his little brother.
"I know. You're Zach Mitchell and the little overexcited poodle here is your little bro Gray." Peyton interrupted Zach.
"Are you Tim Murphy, like Hammond's grandson? And isn't Peyton an imposter?" Gray excitedly asked the Marine officer, having noticed Peyton wore the same uniform as the US Marines.
"Yes, I am. But now call me 1st Lieutenant Murphy. And no, Peyton wears a Marine uniform belonging to her father." Tim explained him.
With that said, he and his men left alongside Peyton before driving in their Humvees towards the new hybrid paddock, where they would meet Dr. Wu, Owen, Hoskins, Barry, Claire, Lex, Hamada and Mr. Masrani himself alongside Valentina, Peyton's cousin. Once they reached their destination, Peyton came in first and called out Claire.
"Hey, Claire. Where are your nephews gonna stay?"
"At Camp Cretaceous. Alongside other teens their age." Claire said./
"Why are we always thinking of some romance when we hear this?" one of Tim's men asked/
"Shut the fuck up, Lipschitz." Tim told him.
The US Marine MP ceased talking and regained focus on the task at hand while his commanding officer went to the glass and asked Claire something./
"Who are the new employees?"
"This is Nick Letting, Nicholas Kilgore and former bear handler Lydia, who now works here. She started with Dilophosauruses, before going on with our Carnotaurus. Now she's there." Claire introduced him to a portly man, an Hispanic worker, and to Lydia, who was chatting with Lex and Hamada.
Tim nodded to everyone before motioning his men to set a wedge defence towards the door. With that done, he went close to the observation glass and knocked the glass with his left fingers. Arya and Ygrid showed up and began watching the people inside the observation room before letting out growl. Letting then explained what it meant before everyone else went back to their own work place.
"I take the little kid to her private room, where she studies with a tutor. Tutor who just happens to be one of Peyton's classmates."
Peyton then made a fake smile, knowing said student was her rival Sherri. Sherri wasn't exactly the mean and sadistic girl of the school, but they didn't bear each other, as Peyton was the smartass girl while Sherri was the popular fashionista. They were also very different, because Peyton was a tomboy with a wide knowledge of nature, firearms and explosives whereas Sherri was a girly girl more interrested in parties and boys. Needless to say, the principal had a huge preference for Peyton, who never missed a class, never messed up with hazardous device, never messed up with her grades and always volunteered to get her hands dirty. Especially when it came to scraping gums.
At Camp Cretaceous, Zara left Zach and Gray under the care of a councelor named Tiffany. At the camp were also children of other employees or teenagers who came without their parents. At the Camp, Zach and Gray met some other kids their age, including a 16-year-old nerd name Annie, a 12-year-old boat lover named Lilly, a 13-year-old dinosaur lover name Darius, a 14-year-old social media adept name Jenna, a 16-year-old musician named Larry and a 14-year old bookworm named Harry. After a moment of getting acquainted to each other, the Mitchell brothers and other children then began to listen to the program of their long summer vacation.
Meanwhile, Peyton, Tim and his men headed towards the beach, where a park ranger stood guard on a watchtower with six other ones near the beach. Coming near a security guard, Peyton asked him to tell him more about suspiscious activities around the island.
"Anything new?"
"Nope. But control reported us that an unidentified ship has been spotted on the radar 25 miles northwest of Nublar. The US Navy is currently spying on it." the guard replied.
"Got it. Tell them not to go." Peyton said as she turned her head.
As she turned her head, Peyton saw two of Tim's men aiming their M4A1 carbine at two approaching Jurassic World Mercedes-Benz 6x6 trucks with people on board. Tim then motioned these two Marine MPs to stand down, resulting in them poiting their carbine to the ground. Tim and Peyton then came towards the truck and greeted everyone aboard before Zach and Gray began a long and boring speech about Tim.
"The USMC officer then interrupted Gray as the 12-year-old boy was about to talk about dinosaurs with him.
""Hey, hey, hey. I joined the Marines at age 17 with my mother's authorization to do something with my life. Not to brag about my ascent, understood?"
"Yes, Tim. I got it. And did you know..." Gray said right before Tim slammed the truck door and went towards his men, who mounted the Humvees alongside Peyton.
The group then drove towards the park, where they saw Valentina and her uncle on the roller coaster, dubbed the comet blast. Tim then looked at his wristwatch and saw it was time for the ride to stop. After the ride stopped, Owen went to his old friend, carrying his niece.
"Hey dude, what was that for?" Tim asked.
"My spoiled cousin's birthday." Peyton vouched for her father.
"Stop cawwing me a spoiwed bwat." Valentina told her cousin, who just shook her head.
Tim and his men then saw the same kids as previously. Then, Tiffany the councelor came out of the leading truck first, followed by a colleague and the children, among whom Zach and Gray, before walking to the beach resort.
Meanwhile, at sea floated a giant ship, filled with men armed with illegally-bought weapons. There were also several scientists who were studying a dangerous experiment, a human-dionsaur hybrid. That ship belonged to none other than a mad man named Renaldo Morty, the owner of an island where he performed illegal experiments on human guinea pigs. Resulting in that man to be wanted in 175 countries in the world, which sent police and soldiers to search for him.
Morty has struck deals with numerous terrorist groups, including the LRA in DR Congo, the talibans in Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda in Sahel and Asia Minor, the Abu-Sayyaf in Southeast Asia, teh Lord's Aryan Army at the Serbian-Hungarian border, Lord's Unity Front in the north of Ivory Coast and God's Liberation Front in Central African Republic. Renaldo Morty would give these terrorist groups weapons and money, in exchange for these terrorist groups to protect his laboratories. Renaldo Morty was such a serious threat that the US Military has made several raids alongside other military forces and the UN troops to dismantle his labs and catch him, but to no avail. Every time US spec-ops forces and their allies killed the terrorists guarding Morty's labs, he had fled away. But the power-hungry scientist also understood he had to have his own island and army, so he hired ex-police officers as mercenaries and enforcers to conquer his own island in an unknown location, thus forcing the military troops to give up looking for him.
But today, he would be proven wrong on his thought of keeping everything under control. The hybrid was more clever than it looked.
When an explosion rocked the ship, armed mercenaries ran to the lower deck, where they pointed their guns at the doorway. The mercenaries saw dents, like the hybrid was trying to punch its way out, before stopping. They then made a lethal mistake, lowering their weapons. Suddenly, the door flew in their direction, knocking them out of their feet. The figure attacked them with no mercy, which was followed by them screaming in pain./
More mercenaries ran to help their comrades but arrived too late as the mercenaries were already dead with the mysterious hybrid, looking like a teenage boy but with Utahraptor features, standing in the middle above the corpses. The mercenaries opened fired, but the hybrid charged at them and killed them all before stealing a dead mercenary's FN SCAR-L rifle and M26 grenades. He then made his way to the uppermost deck, killing any mercenary he saw. Upon reaching the top floor, he spotted mercenaries manning a DShKm heavy machine gun, forcing him to take cover before unclipping a M26 grenade. He tossed his grenade at them, which injured them as it exploded. He then unpinned the other grenades and tossed them near some crates full of Semtex explosives and gazoline barrels before jumping into the sea as the ship blew apart, leaving no survivor.
The hybrid then began swimming towards the nearest island, which happened to be Isla Nublar, as a US Navy boarding team headed towards the scene and looked for survivors to clues that could lead them to Renaldo Morty.
Back at Jurassic World, Zach, Gray and their new friends were having fun at the beach, like the other tourists who were at the beach resort. Lex Murphy was taking a well-deserved nap after sending a complete assessment of the park while Claire, who had finished her shift, was sunbathing with Owen, who was also enjoying a well-deserved rest, while Valentina was building sand castles with her tutor Sherri. Suddenly, a US Marine yelled to his teammates and Tim, who rushed to his side as did Peyton.
"CONTACT! 12 O'CLOCK!"
"Stand by! Target!" Tim yelled as he and Peyton opened fire first, followed by the other US Marines.
Bullets flew above everyone's head, as the civilians and staffers remained on the ground, hitting the mysterious target without even scratching it. Tim ceased fire, as did his men and Peyton. The hybrid lunged at one of Tim's men, but Peyton electrocuted it with a X26 Taser pistol, incapacitating it as the US Marine stood up and handcuffed the hybrid before forcing him to stand up.
"What's your name?" Tim asked him.
"Jason Archer. Missing since 2005." the hybrid said.
"Alright, release him" Peyton said as the US Marine MPs removed Jason's handcuffs.
As the US Marines freed Jason, Tim turned towards the dazed tourists and yelled them not to take care of what was happening and resume their activities. Everyone resumed their leisures as Tim and Peyton sat alongside with Jason while Tim's men provided security for the trio
"What can you tell us about your arrival?" Tim asked gently.
"Well it began a long time ago." Jason began. "I do remember escaping a ship belonging to a mad man named Renaldo Morty. I also heard him talk about something he wanted and a little girl."/
"Can you tell us a little more?" Peyton asked in a Leroy-Jethro-Gibbs manner.
"Well, I do know that I memorized the layout of the ship before my escape. Bad news is I didn't leave survivors you could interrogate. I also heard a woman named Alma was an ex-colleague of his and stopped working with him. I also heard him speaking about a spy he would send on the island to retrieve some inportant information. And that's almost all." Jason answered politely
"Thanks, we'll bring you to an empty housing, where you can have a few rest." Tim said as he motioned the security guards to brind Jason Archer to his new home.
After some time driving, Jason finally set in his new home, where he finally felt at ease and safe for the first time in so many years. Jason also knew he now had some friends he could trust.
"What happened?" Owen asked his daughter, who was with Tim and his men.
"A hybrid name Jason Archer came ashore. We did fire at him but to no avail, forcing me to stun him with my Taser. He told what little he knew about some mad guy named Renaldo Morty. Think you heard about him." Peyton replied loudly enough for Claire and everyone else to hear.
Owen, Lex, Claire, her nephews, Owen's niece and all of the other people there were equally shocked by what they heard. They knew Renaldo Morty was wanted across the world, but managed to escape anyways. What he would be up to now was a question to be answered.