Chapter 6: Confrontation
Peyton, Tim and his men were outraged as they heard the name of Renaldo Morty. They tracked him for a period comprized between twelve months for the youngest of them and twelve years for Tim and didn't find convincing evidence of this man's unethical behavior. Now, Jason was one of these, in addition to being an eyewitness of Renaldo Morty's behavior.
"Who is this man?" Claire asked.
"Renaldo Morty is a motherfucker, known for providing money and high-end weaponry to terrorists. These same terrorists protected his labs in return. The US Armed Forces killed a lot of them, but has 4,500 men killed in action doing so. Our allies have a body count of 500,000 soldiers. All of them were good guys. Two years ago, in Afghanistan, my men and I raided one of his labs, but the Afghan Police was leading. When we arrived, all of the Afghan police officers were dead and we had to finish the job ourselves." Tim explained
"504,500 men killed around the world per year?" Gray asked, having heard the conversation.
"No, Gray. 504,500 good men killed over from 1999 to 2013. All around the world in the line of duty. Not counting the 900,000 cops killed in the line of duty around the world in the same period time." Tim corrected.
"That's why this motherfucker must pay for what he has done." a US Marine agreed.
"You're right, Briggs. But we have to get reinforcements, plus more intel." Tim said as Peyton, he and his men headed towards the Humvees with Owen, Claire, her nephews and Lex putting on some clothes before mounting their jeep
The convoy then rolled to the lab, where they met Henry Wu and, much to their surprise Jason, Hoskins and Hamada. The quartet was actually discussing about Renaldo Morty when Peyton called them out.
"Renaldo Morty's a big conversation topic as I can see."
"You're right. And Jason has recovered some memories." Wu informed her.
"What can you tell us?" Tim asked politely.
"Well, apart from what I told you earlier, I also heard Morty talking to a man named Marco and threatening to have his daughter killed with lethal injection." Jason revealed.
"What was that about?" Peyton jumped in
"It was about stealing some data from the most important scientist in Jurassic World and kidnapping a little girl named Valentina. I also know he gets his money from selling weapons to drug traficking groups and far-right extremist organizations. But for the rest, I need more time." Jason replied.
"Well, have some rest. Thanks for the information anyway." Lex gently told him.
"Wait. Morty wants Dr. Wu's data. And he also wants to kidnap my cousin." Peyton said turning towards her father, who was holding a now-scared Valentina in his arms.
"Why her?" Hoskins asked
"Morty wants to turn the kid in a child soldier, like the LRA does in Kivu. I've been deployed last year in Kivu to support the MONUSCO mission. My platoon helped UN peacekeepers and FARDC to raid one of Morty's labs, as they suspected him of holding abducted tourists and locals hostage there. But the Congolese guys got wiped out by the LRA guards and we had to do the rest ourselves. When we discovered the lab, we found the hostages had been executed after having been experimented upon. As we examined the bodies, I saw they were in bad shape and I understood the experiment went south before the abductees were executed." Tim explained.
"Tim, I understand your anger. But don't be obsessed with this." Lex tried to reassure her brother
"Nope. I still have photos of those who died because of that dick, and made an oath. I swore to their families and myself to make sure these civies, service members and police officers didn't die in vain. I made the promise to track him down, find him and put him in trial for his crimes." Tim explained to everyone.
Everyone, including Peyton's friends who have just arrived at the lab, understood they were now with a determined man willing to make many sacrifices, going as far as giving provisional custody of his daughter to his deceased wife's sister, to do his job. Tim's phone then rang and he answered it.
"Hello? Hi, Meg."
"Hi Tim, I'm in my bistro watching the news with Cassie and all the customers in Pine Hills. You know, the little town where everbody knows each other. The military officials say in a press conference they resumed the hunt for that Renaldo Morty." Meg informed her brother-in-law
"I know. Jason Archer is the sole eyewitness we have. Can I talk to Cassie?" Tim replied
"Yes. Cassie come and talk with Daddy." Meg gently told her niece handing her the phone on the other end of the line.
"Hi, Cassie. How are you?" Tim said to his daughter
"Hi Daddy. Are you going to catch the bad guy?" Cassie told her father on the phone
"Yes, I will do it, or die trying." Tim answered, knowing every day could be his last
"I'm proud of you, Daddy. Do what you have to do." Cassie answered him
"Me too." Tim said before his daughter gave the phone back to Aunt Meg
"I'm proud of you, too. I got wrong when I said Pam not to marry you. I was fucking wrong. Now I understand why she married a US Marine. She married a man who never gives up. And that's what you do. Do you forgive me?" Meg told him
"I do." Tim informed his sister-in-law, who ended the call.
Turning to the rest of the group and his men, Tim let out a grin, meaning he had good news to announce. Which he did.
"The hunt is on. President Obama and the world leaders now chase Morty across the globe. What do we do now?"
"I got a fucking evil plan. Given I always wear military surplus clothes." Peyton announced taking her night vision goggles out of her bag.
Later that night, Henry Wu came back to his home and turned his computer on when he heard a noise. Investigating the origin of the noise, he saw a man wearing a black mask emblazoned with a skull. Before the man could strike, he felt someone tapping his shoulder. Turning around, he was met with a fist belonging to none other than Peyton, who removed her night vision goggles right after knocking out the burglar.
"Narrow. But we got him." Peyton said holding her Beretta 92FS pistol on the masked man while Wu taped the individual's hands behind his back.
"I agree." Wu said.
After tying the unconscious man, Wu forced him into a chair while Peyton drenched the man to wake him up. The man was stunned because he thought he was drowning. Peyton then removed the man's hood as Tim and his men came in Wu's house.
"Please, don't waterboard me!" the man said panicking.
But Tim and his men just forced him up, brought him to their Humvees and drove to the interrogation room with Peyton and Wu in tail. Once there, two of Tim's men put the handcuffed individual in the cell, where Kelli, Hoskins, Barry and Lindy stood there. Then Peyton came into the cell, too as Wu went into the observation room where the others were.
"So, let's see what we know about you. Marco." Lindy said overtly showing the Beretta Px4 Storm hanging from her shoulder.
"What do you want?" Marco asked.
"Your full name. Tell it to us." Kelli ordered displaying the SIG-Sauer P226R on her waist.
"Fine. Name's Marco Kingbird. DOB 06-15-1980 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin." Marco answered.
"Tell us what we need to know. Or I'll blow the lightbulb off." Peyton said intimidatingly, aiming her Beretta 92FS at the lightbulb.
"Right. I'll speak. Renaldo Morty has a lab at coordinates 20°26'50"N 104°9'3"W. I also know he sent me here to kidnap Valentina Grady, that he has created two more hybrids by combining the DNA of the T-Rex, the Utahraptor, the Carnotaurus and the Spinosaurus." Marco told Peyton.
"What else do you know?" Kelli asked him while her friend put her pistol back in its holster.
"I also know that the has hired his own army to do it should I fail. I also know..." Marco said before Lindy interrupted with a motion of her hand.
Lindy let out her Gerber Mark II dagger and began slicing a scar she saw on Marco's collarbone. The teenager then extracted a tracking implant and displayed it to Hoskins, who gave her a thumbs up. Lindy gave the device to Hoskins who showed it on the camera.
"How did you?" Marco asked as Lindy patched the scar she opened.
"She knows. Whatever. You were saying?" Kelli answered.
"I was saying that I also know that he took everything away from my control. My daughter Quinn, my money, my life. I'm screwed." Marco replied weeping as Hoskins gave him a box of tissues.
"That means you're gonna work for us, right?" Peyton asked him.
"Yes, I am." Marco said as he saw Hoskins putting the tracker on the table.
Right after Hoskins put the implant on the table, Kelli let out her SIG-Sauer pistol, turned it to hold the handgun with the barrel and smashed the spying device with the grip of her pistol. Then, the teen twirled her handgun and put it back to her waist. As Hoskins freed Marco and took him to the control room with the others following behind, Kelli tapped Peyton's shoulder.
"Did you think of shooting the lightbulb?" she asked.
"Nope." Peyton said switching the light off.
The three teenage girls walked to the control room chuckling.
At the control room, Lowery and Vivian saw Claire and the others coming in. Seeing their faces, Lowery then asked, "Did he spit out?"
"Better. He now turned against his blackmailer." Claire announced.
Tim motioned to his radio operator and took the phone to call the headquarters. Headquarters which commanded and coordinated all of the nations involved in the manhunt for Renaldo Morty from San Diego.
"Red Crown, this is Lawyer. Tell the Air Force to send a Minutemen III missile at coordinates 20°26'50"N 104°9'3"W. Over."
"Will do. But we prefer to lure him into a trap, over." command responded.
"Understood, over." Tim replied command
"We're sending an Australian Military Police group to help out, over." command told Tim
"Got. Over." Tim informed command
"Understood. Out." command told before ending the call.
Tim then hung his radio up as he saw Hoskins calling out his own tactical teams as a backup. Tim knew Masrani must have given the order and they needed any help they could get their hands on.
"Mr. Morty. The kid will be delivered tomorrow night." Marco lied on his phone.
"Good. Be there to get your pay." Morty said on a sinister voice before ending the call.
Marco gave a thumbs up to Owen, knowing the bad guy would go straight for the bait. What they had to do now was to wait twenty-four hours.
Meanwhile, on a ship was Renaldo Morty. He had embarked upon knowing that his spy has found Valentina Grady. With him were all of his remaining mercenaries, all armed with automatic weapons, and two hybrids looking like Arya and Ygrid, but with a sail on their back and red feather. Little did they know they were heading straight for a trap. Morty looked backwards when a conventional warhead destroyed his laboratory. But the evil genius didn't care, he had tons of money, he will replace it, as he replaced so many of them.
The next morning, the nine Australian MPs, led by Captain Sam Blake, have arrived on Isla Nublar, as did Hoskins' InGen operators. Sam and his men unloaded their EF88 rifles and F88C carbines before going to meet Tim and his men, who had M4A1 carbines. Peyton had a Beretta 92FS pistol at her waist and the last M4A1 carbine of her armory in her hands. It was fitted with an EoTech XPS-3 holographic sight, a vertical foregrip, a Pentagon M3d light, a Crane stock, an AN/PEQ-2 laser module and a backup sight.
"Hey Tim. Appears we're back to hunt Renaldo Morty again." Sam told his friend.
"Fuck yeah. And you come in the nick of time. As do the InGen operators." Tim replied
"Hell, yeah. Let's end this threat once and for all." the lead operator, a man nammed Torres confirmed.
With that said, the InGen operatives, ACU members, Australian and USMC MPs gathered around a map of Isla Nublar with Peyton, Kelli, Rick, Dean, Lindy, Liz, Liv, Mary, Owen, Hoskins, Barry, Hamada and Lex around the same map. Sherri and Claire have taken Valentina in Camp Cretaceous along with Zach, Gray, Larry and the other campers and councelor. The tourists have been instructed to stay indoor and away from the windows because of probable fighting.
"Okay, folks. We don't know exactly where those fuckers will land. But we do know they will split to search the island for an area where they will retrieve their package. Sam, you and your men will take Liv, Mary and Liz at the northern area of the island and lie in ambush there. Dad, Hoskins, Barry, it will be painful but you are to take the eastern area of the island with some InGen guys. Tim, you and your guys will have some ACU guys for help at the west part of the island. Hamada, you and your remaining guys will go south. Me, Lex, Kelli, Dean, Rick and Lindy will take the center. RV point is in the Gyrosphere Valley. Any questions?" Peyton briefed.
Raising his hand, an Australian MP asked, "Will we have some help?"
"Yeah. My cousin managed to convince some friends to give us a hand. Among them are two giant hybrids, the T-Rex, the Carnotaurus, the Baryonix, a Dilophosaurus and four Utahraptors." Peyton answered.
The Australian soldier was a bit reassured they had dinosaurs on their side. It would be a very violent battle if they were alone. After the briefing, everyone went to their vehicle and drove to their target area with Peyton and her friends heading to the middle of the island.
At night, Marco came out of nowhere and was met by Morty and his henchmen. Marco then pretended to have narrowly escaped the guards.
"So, where is the little girl going to be?" Morty asked with a sinister grin.
"I don't know. Only her uncle and cousin do." Marco answered.
"Good. I will take some guys with me to take care of the center. Brad and you, go north. Grant, go west. Tony take the south while Vlady will take the eastern side. If you wonder where my pets are, I sent them ahead of us to look for the child." Morty ordered his henchmen who began walking to the parts of the island they were to search.
At the north of the island, Brad and his fellow henchmen saw Marco faint, not knowing he was giving the signal to Blue and her sisters to attack. Blue caught Brad and dragged him to his death while a Spanish henchman was caught by Charlie, who mauled him to death. A Korean gunman tried to fire his P90 submachine gun but Delta caught him from behind and ate him alive. Right before he could fire his M16A2, a French gunman got jumped upon by Echo, who proceeded to maul him to death. A Filipino gunman did attempt to fire his K2 rifle, but Mary shot him in the back of the head, killing him while Liz and Liv shot the two remaining bad guys dead. Sam then saw nine other henchmen coming and fired his EF88, killing one of them. Sam's men fired their rifles and killed the others with a single shot in the throat.
"North clear." Sam reported on his radio as one of his men helped Marco to stand up
"Got it." Vivian answered
With that done, Sam, his men, Marco, Liv, Liz and Mary left the area undetected while Blue and her sisters ran in the undergrowth.
At the west part of the island, the Dilophosaurus, dubbed Danni, and the Baryonix, dubbed Bayley, were watching Morty's henchmen walk in the grassy plain in front of her. Tim and his men were on the gunmen's right while the ACU members under his command were next to Danni and Bayley. When the henchmen laxed their focus, Danni and Bayley jumped on them and caught one henchman each. Before the others could fire, Tim and his men swiftly shot dead all of them but two who got killed by Austin and other ACU troopers.
"West is okay." Tim reported as the humans and dinosaurs then ran to the rendez-vous point.
"Okay. Thanks." Lowery replied.
At the southern part of the island, the T-Rex and the Carnotaurus, dubbed Carrie, were in ambush alongside Hamada and other ACU troopers. As the henchmen walked in the plain blow them, Hamada and his troopers aimed their rifles at them, waiting for the signal. The signal came when the Rexy and Carrie lunged at the henchmen and ate two of them alive. The other gunmen were swiftly eliminated by Hamada and his men.
"South okay." Hamada told as he and the others rushed to the rendez-vous point.
"Understood." Vivian told on the radio
On the eastern side of the island, Barry, his friend and Hoskins laid an ambush with the InGen operatives when they saw the two hybrids created by Morty coming out of the undergrowth. These two met Arya and Ygrid and the four of the dinosaurs began communicating. Unexpectedly, the two red hybrids turned against the henchmen and killed them, as did Ygrid and Arya.
"Well, looks like we have one less threat." Hoskins said.
"Yeah, and I understand why. They want to mate." Barry explained.
"Wu and I foresaw the event more hybrids would be created." Owen said with a grin as the four hybrids, Barry, Hoskins and InGen operatives followed him to the rendez-vous point.
At the center of the island, Peyton was crouching in ambush with her SAKO TRG-42 sniper rifle in hands and her M4A1 carbine on her chest. Kelli, Dean, Rick and Lindy each had a G36K, which was fitted with a 15.4inch barrel, an EoTech 553 holosight, a vertical foregrip, a Pentagon M3D torchlight and an AN/PEQ-2 laser module, provided by Peyton from her armory while Lex had Peyton's second customized M4A1 carbine. They saw Morty and his remaining henchmen coming towards them. Peyton then shot a henchman dead with her TRG-42 rifle before cycling another round in, giving the signal for the ambush. Lex fired her M4A1 carbine at two henchmen, taking them out in six shots. Kelli saw six henchmen and emptied a whole magazine to kill them before reloading. Six other henchmen were taken out by Dean, who reloaded his rifle after emptying it. Lindy and Rick shot six other henchmen each before being forced to reload their G36Ks. Lex fired her M4A1 at Morty and his three remaining henchmen, forcing them to take cover. Lindy, Rick, Dean and Kelli also fired their reloaded rifles at the henchmen as Peyton set another sniping spot and fired her TRG-42 rifle at another henchman, killing him before cycling her rifle. Not giving his fellow gunmen time to react, Peyton shot them dead with two cyclic shots of her TRG-42 rifle. Peyton then slung her sniper rifle on her back, let out her M4A1 carbine and rushed towards Morty, causing Lex, Lindy, Dean, Rick and Kelli to stop firing.
Before the mad man could do anything, Peyton kicked him in the stomach. As Renaldo Morty stood up with pain, the teenager smacked him in the face with the business end of her M4A1 carbine. The mad man tried to draw his Walther PPK pistol, but Peyton kicked it out of his reach before smacking his stomach with the stock of her M4A1. She then kicked him in the kneecaps, making sure he will go to jail.
Tim, Sam, their men and the others heard the gunshots and rushed to the Gyrosphere Valley, where they saw Peyton beating Renaldo Morty every time he tried to fight her off. One of Sam's men and one of Tim's went towards Morty and handcuffed him.
"Renaldo Morty, you are under arrest for abduction, mistreatments, blackmailing, death threats, weapons traficking, drug traficking, support for terrorism and criminal use of genetics." Sam told a devastated and crestfallen Renaldo Morty.
"You have the right to remain silent. If you give up that right, anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney and to have an attorney present during questioning. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided to you at no cost. During any questioning, you may decide at any time to exercise these rights, not answer any questions, or make any statements." Tim concluded as Lex gave her gear and weapon back to Peyton, who was the real owner.
With that done, Tim, Sam and their men led Morty away to a holding cell while the ACU operators and other employees led the dinosaurs back to their paddock. Peyton and her friends headed back to their home, where they would put their gear and guns back in Peyton's armory, while Lex drove to Camp Cretaceous to spred the message confirming Renaldo Morty's fate was now in the hands of people in The Hague.