Playing God
The jeeps and armored buses pulled out of the jungle and drove up to the staircase leading up to a grand magnificent building. Cone-shaped with blue windows and roof covers made out of wood on each side of the structure. It is supported by a gray semicircular building with two smaller cone grooves on each side of the larger main one. The sign said, Samsung Innovation Center.
Everyone got off the vehicles and unloaded their small baggages off of them. Hammond led the way up the stairs as he pushed the double doors open. Inside was a large lobby that contained the complete skeleton of a T. rex on top of a small mechanical balcony with floodlights. Surrounding it were all these incomplete electronic panels for interactive exhibits that were being worked on with some of the wiring still in the process being put in place by the technicians and engineers. The only ones that worked was a large-sized holographic device behind the skeletal T. rex that was covering it into a holographic still of the Tyrannosaurus's flesh and blood body complete with scales and small crocodile-like scutes and dorsal spikes on its neck and tail, which then slowly transitioned to show the animal being partially covered in emu-like, furry feathers, particularly at the small arms, head, and neck, resembling a lion's mane. Behind it was a winding staircase that led to a second-floor balcony where there was an IMAX Theatre and above it, a transparent window to a heavily forested mountain flanked by other window panels that let some light in. From the ceiling hung a banner that said, "When Dinosaurs Ruled Remnant."
"Good day," Hammond said to a worker as he led the group into the lobby. Then everyone heard startled shouting coming from their right where they saw a disheveled man in his mid-forties with sharper facial features, duller brown mustache and dark coffee hair with some graying appearing. He was wearing his silver glasses and his outfit was dark silver buttoned up coat with a blue buttoned shirt underneath. He had dark, brown-striped long pants with a black belt and handsome black shoes. On his jacket was the Jurassic Kingdom tag with it saying his full name:
Edward G. Regis; Chief Operations Officer
He was followed by a more rugged individual with younger facial features and darker hair with a somewhat receded forehead. He was clearly wearing cobalt-blue security uniform that looked like a cross between an army and police outfit complete with a blue cap. He, too, has a Jurassic Kingdom-styled name tag which read,
Hoffman "Tough Boots" Hickory
Both of them were having trouble with two, not people, but rather...birds! And rather unusual ones at that because the first one looked like an ordinary-looking junglefowl about the size of a pony! What was more unusual was that this rooster had a long, green lizard-like tail that poked through where the ornate tail feathers, but that was compensated that the tail itself had long beautiful golden, brown-striated feathers. The bird had small, but sharp reptilian teeth in its beak indicating an artificial genetic reversal in play and the presence of iguana-like spines on its neck. The dino-rooster hybrid crowed out, running and flapping its wings revealing their long scaly fingers. Flying above it was its relatively smaller, yet good-sized avian companion; an ancient dino-bird recognizable to anyone in the scientific community as an Archaeopteryx, distinguishable by its clawed wings, bony feathery tail, and small yellow beaked jaws lined with sharp teeth. Its size was definitely notable, about the size of a large hawk. It had plumage that was reminiscent of a scarlet macaw with red, yellow, and blue feathers. The amethyst tail feathers were long and resplendent like those of the quetzal. It had a wild looking hoatzin-like headcrest with long quill-like feathers sticking outward.
"PRAPRA! RAWK! RAWK!" squawked out the Archaeopteryx in an imitation of the word 'Papa' when it saw its master, John Hammond.
"Goddamnit, Hick! Help me with Dino!" Ed Regis hollered.
"Watch the tail!" Hoffman shouted, but was too late when the dino-rooster's feathery tail smacked into Ed Regis' face, making him lose his grip on the rooster's chest as the hybrid dino-bird made a beeline towards Hammond.
"Dino! Archie!" John Hammond knelt down to embrace the dino-rooster hybrid and the rooster purred and chirped softly, behaving less like an actual rooster, but more akin to a dog as it not only was content with the elderly CEO petting its feathery neck and scratching the spot on its head behind its fleshy head crest, but also carefully grooming the man's white sideburns with its beak. "Are you a good rooster, Dino? A good rooster, Dino? Yes, you are!" John chuckled delightfully with the rooster purring even more so, much to the surprise of everyone not working in Jurassic Park, especially Ruby, Yang, Taiyang, and Weiss.
They were even more befuddled when Archie, the Archaeopteryx spoke as intelligently as a parrot when it landed on John's shoulder, "Prapra come home! RAWK EHOO!"
"Yes, I'm back, little Archie! How's my little Archie?"
"Both of them have been fine, Mr. Hammond, though out of them, Archie was the most heartsick. She clearly missed you, sir." Ed Regis said with a tired smile in contrast to his frustrated face from earlier, brushing some of the feathers off of his coat. Hoffman has also calmed down a bit.
"Oh, I'm sure she has missed me. Haven't you, Archie?" John asked the ancient, yet clearly bright bird while he petted Dino, softly stroking against his soft neck spines.
"Rawk! Archie! Archie!" The Archaeopteryx bobbed its head up and down as if nodding yes to the old man's question.
"OMG! That thing could talk!" Ruby squealed, almost screaming. Yang was no better as she found the scene to be cute to behold.
"But the rooster, it's huge! About the size of a large dog!" Jaune was shocked at the size of the dino-fowl.
"And it has teeth and a tail some more!" Nora pointed at the reptilian features that she knew was not found in any chicken she had encountered.
"Yes, correct me if I am wrong, John, but are these things-?" Ozpin was interrupted as John Hammond went straight to introducing his unusual pets.
"Meet my avian friends. The few of the very important animals that have helped made this park possible." He then gestured to the pony-sized dino-rooster, "Meet Dino. He's a third generation of genetically modified chickens, naturally hatched from an egg laid by a mother dino-rooster with his father being a dino-rooster himself. A second generation one being hatched from an egg laid by his mother, who was among the first dino-rooster, or Chickenosaurus."
"You mean, that Dino...he- he-h-he-he...That bird hatched naturally without any, you know, defects? Any behavior issues?" Ironwood stammered in shock of what he was seeing in front of him right now. He had heard of a select few of chickens having their ancient reptilian traits that were usually deactivated or dormant once they, as chicks, developed properly inside the eggs, reactivated. From the reports he had seen of tapping open specific genes during the developmental stage like teeth and tail, it was a meticulous operation and not many chicks survive being tampered first thing in the egg. Only a few make it out to hatch. Even fewer make it past into adulthood as those individuals often having physiological and breathing problems.
"No, to that first question, James. The Chickenosaur chicks developed just fine. As for your second one, there were some, but not beyond the ordinary what you'd see in a typical rooster chick growing up. It's mostly hormones and Dino trying to cope through them, which makes him not more any aggressive or excitable than a rooster or a dog on a really crappy day or when you give them food." Hammond answered with a shrug of his shoulders, "Besides, on most days, he's friendly, and curious when it comes to new people, but do be warned, he's quite the showoff."
The general could only nod slowly, doing his best to absorb the little information he had been given. Dino clucked as he checked out the strange visitors with inquisitiveness in his eyes, turning his head around, side to side in rapid motion, while puffing up his feathers and fanning his tail feathers to make himself look imposing and impressive at the same time as he strutted around.
The hybrid bird did a short dance, hopping abound on his feet, shaking his body and wings about, showing off his flashy colors probably to show that's he's the top bird of the place besides InGen's CEO. He finished off his dance of dominance with his signature crowing,
ROCK-A-DOODLE-DOO!
Much to the crowd's amusement, even the workers who stopped briefly to clap at Dino's performance before going back to their work. Except for Zwei who was feeling a twinge of jealousy that this weird lizard-bird was stealing the show. Especially when Ruby was fawning over Dino instead of him. So he put on an indifferent reaction to Dino.
"Wow! That was good!" Ruby praised Dino.
"He really knows how to put on a show," Blake remarked with a subtly smug smirk tugging at the corner of her mouth, a bit of satisfaction in seeing her longtime rival, Zwei, starting reel in jealousy.
"He's quite the strut, isn't he?" Yang said her pun, which everyone ignored.
"Better than some of my friends in Atlas," Weiss muttered quietly enough only for her team to hear her.
In the balcony above, two boys, one younger and the other clearly taller and older than his younger brother watched the scene from below.
Then John Hammond went on to introduce his second pet.
"And this is Archie. She's our first Archaeopteryx to be cloned, one of the first prehistoric birds to be de-extinct when the park was just getting started." Hammond said.
"Incredible! The first ever prehistoric bird to be discovered in the shales of Hatokosh in Atlas and the one of the first missing links between reptiles and birds!" Oobleck said in amazement.
Archie hopped and fluttered over to Velvet, who wasn't expecting the smaller dino-bird to perch onto her shoulder.
"Whoa...easy there. Easy there," Velvet was startled when Archie squeaked, chirping melodiously as she probed her face. The Faunus didn't feel at all in any danger from the bird. In fact, she saw an intelligent being possessing childlike curiosity in its lavender blue eyes. The dino-bird inspected next her pair of rabbit ears, but no one, except a chuckling Hammond, was prepared when the bird squawked so loudly into her sensitive Faunus ear,
"NOT THE PRAPRA!"
"EEEYAAHHH!" Velvet jumped out of her skin with her brain so shocked that she nearly fell halfway over. She scrambled over behind Yatsu, trembling out of shock, scared out of her nerves.
"What the hell was that for?!" Yang was so shocked that the bird shouted something rude.
"Hahahaha...Don't be terrified of her. That's how Archie is when it comes to strangers." Hammond reassured her. "It takes a while for her to get warmed up to someone other than me."
"Quite choosy, isn't she?" Port remarked, "She almost reminds me of how cranky and picky my grandma was."
He watched as the mischievous Archie flew to every person squawking, "NOT THE PRAPRA!" at every person. She even boldly landed on top of their heads, using her toe claws and her hyperextensible toe claw to ruffle up their hair.
"Hey!" Ellie laughed as she shoved the bird away from her blonde hair.
Alan quickly put his hat onto his head shut, discouraging Archie from doing the same to him.
"No way I am letting her do that," May muttered as she pulled down onto her skull cap so as to not let Archie yank it off.
Malcolm laughed at how the Huntsmen and Huntresses-in-training, who were trained to destroy Grimm, were being heckled by a prehistoric bird, despite being heckled himself.
Archie flew past Gennaro, much to his relief.
"Hey, buzz off!" Neptune shooed the Archaeopteryx away before the mischievous and playful Archie decided to pick her perfect victim for her "nest". That was Yang Xiao Long.
"Oh hell no!" Yang tried to swat the cheeky bird away, but faster than the blonde buxom could ever swipe, Archie strafed around and swooped onto her golden mane. The brawler screamed in fright when Archie successfully managed to not only claw out different strands of her hair, but also try to roost on her head!
"Uh oh..." Ruby paled while her father looked ready to pluck the Archaeopteryx's feathers apart. Zwei was barking heatedly at this point.
"Get off of me, you stupid bird! Get off!" Yang hopped about and tried to rip Archie out of her hair literally, but with no success. The bird kept hovering out of her reach and squawking happily at her expense as she kept landing onto her golden mane of hair while some of her feathers got onto it in the process.
"Archie like golden nest! RAWK-ERHOO!" Archie crowed gleefully. Everyone else, except for the few individuals like Yang's family, Blake, Ren, and Pyrrha, were guffawing at the comical sight. Ruby, however, was fearful that at the rate this was going, either Yang or their dad was going to cook the goose out of Archie immediately in more ways than one. True to her point, Yang's eyes were turning crimson the more she failed to get Archie out of her hair with her peers taking pictures and videos of this embarrassing moment.
Then a loud whistle sounded out and it was coming from the second-floor balcony. Archie recognized who it was that had blown the whistle before squawking,
"Ah...shucks."
Then she flew off with Ruby letting out a sigh of relief she didn't know she was holding for so long. The Archaeopteryx flew up to a gloved hand belonging to a boy who was about three years younger than Ruby, curly brown hair, red and blue checkered T-shirt and dark blue shorts. He had a look that says dinosaur/scientist nerd. He's Gray Mitchell.
Archie let out the perfect imitation of the Woody the Woodpecker's distinctive laugh. That made Gray and his older brother, Zach Mitchell, who was darker haired, closer in height and age to Jaune, gray hoodie sweater with red T-shirt underneath, and black jeans, chuckle with the bird. Gray petted Archie's head and her feathery headcrest.
"That was funny, wasn't it, eh, Archie?" Gray asked.
"Archie likes golden nest!" the dino-bird chirped back.
"You like her?" Zach was the next to speak up.
"Hey! My hair's not a nest, you dumb birdbrained twit!" Yang's angry voice sounded off from below, referring to Archie.
"Uh oh...someone's not clearly sharing Archie's enthusiasm and she looks like literally a volcano right now." Gray noticed Yang with her eyes burning red and her hair glowing ablaze.
"Man, she's hot and good looking," Zach was blown away both how angry she was and how beautiful she was at the same time she's pissed off.
"Hammond! Who are these kids and why are they here?" Gennaro was shocked to find kids, and he's not talking about the Hunters-in-training. Zach and Gray were legitimately ordinary kids.
"Oh...yes, first of all, Claire Dearing, our Senior Assets Manager for the park, whom you'll be seeing shortly, these two boys are her nephews, Zach and Gray Mitchell. Their parents work here. Zach is an intern chosen by InGen to work here while his brother is another visitor," Hammond spoke.
"Zach?! Gray?!" Ruby gasped and her silver eyes widened when she recognized two of the few friends she had made during her earlier days in Signal Academy. It wasn't before long that Yang, with her Semblance deactivated, finally recognized the brothers as well.
"Zach? Is that you?!" Yang said.
"Wait a minute, Yang?" Zach finally remembered as her familiar voice registered in his brain.
"Ruby!" Gray ran down the stairs with Archie flying off back to Dino and Hammond. Zach followed his brother down the stairs as they rushed up to the sisters.
"HEEEYYYY GUUUYYYSSSSS!" Ruby yelled.
As soon as they collided, both the Rose-Xiao Long sisters and the Mitchell brothers enveloped each other in heartfelt hugs.
"We haven't seen you guys in ages! How are you two doing?!" Yang inquired, giving Zach a mighty bear-hug.
"We're doing awesome here. I'd never thought we would see you girls here." Zach answered.
"We were wondering about where you guys went when it was the middle of the second semester!" Ruby said. "You didn't say anything when you left."
"Yeah, we really couldn't because this was so top secret until now!" Gray patted the girl on the back. Penny and Ciel walked up to the reunion with the former being introduced to Zach and Gray by her best friend and her older sister while the latter hung back coolly.
Meanwhile, Zwei's attention was elsewhere with the confrontation between him and Hammond's two pet birds happening in the background as everyone was too busy starry-eyed at the animatronic T. Rex. Zwei barked lowly with a hint of displeasure to him as he was giving the two a piece of his mind. He was not going to let them hog his mistresses' attention while being left out. The Corgi was going to put his paw down. However, the reaction was the opposite of what Zwei had hoped for as Dino and Archie's eyes were of blank curiosity and puzzlement. Whatever condition and threat Zwei was barking out to them didn't register in their brains. In fact, they didn't even knew how to react as they had never seen a dog before. Zwei's barks and his canine mannerisms were alien to them and it showed in their continued body language of bewilderment, which only served to irritate the dog further, making him angrier than a pissed bulldog on a really bad day as he thought they were dissing him.
As the reunited school friends catch up on their experiences, John Hammond chuckled at the aftermath before he brought everyone else's attention to him.
"Yes, forgive this old man for getting caught up in the fun, but I have yet to introduce to you all to these wonderful gentlemen," he gestured to the Chief Operator Officer, "This is Edward "Gordon" Regis, Jurassic Kingdom's COO. He's in charge of the overall running of the park's operations."
Ed Regis walked up to Alan Grant and the other grown-ups of the group.
"Nice to meet you, Mr. Regis. I am Donald Gennaro, I represent your company's investors. I am the one who will be conducting the inspection of this wonderful park Mr. Hammond has created." Gennaro held out his hand to greet. Regis returned the gesture.
"Nice to meet you, Mr. Gennaro. I hope what we have here will convince you that this park is all well." Regis said politely. He then turned to face Ozpin, to whom he smiled politely, "It's finally a pleasure to meet someone with quite the reputation of being in charge of the most recognized Huntsman Academy in all of Remnant, Mr. Ozpin."
Ozpin accepted the handshake from the COO.
"I am flattered by your praise. Likewise, it's not everyday a man is charged with supervising the operations in a dinosaur-themed park." Ozpin remarked.
"Thank you, Headmaster. It comes with the territory and I intend to make sure in my power that Jurassic Kingdom operates at its best now and when it's officially opened to the public." Ed Regis said, happy by Ozpin's compliment of a rather thankless job. He then looked to the side and saw the young Hunters and the older professionals. "I see you've brought your students and some of your staff with you, including ones I recognize are from Shade Academy and Haven Academy. Am I correct to assume that they're here for more than just a vacation from their studies?"
"Partially true on the vacation part. But they are also here to see if the island is safe while fun for visitors like themselves or anyone else to come." Ozpin answered.
"Fair enough," Ed Regis beamed at that, "I can assure you that there's a lot of things in the park that will blow their imaginations away and I'm confident that your students will be safe from harm."
"That remains to be seen, and I hope your word is true," Ozpin said cryptically.
Yeah...until something trips up in the system and all hell breaks loose, Malcolm mentally said to himself.
"And General James Ironwood, himself," Ed Regis went over to Atlas' Headmaster, "Quite the honor to meet someone in charge of the best Huntsman Academy, sir."
"The pleasure's all mine, Mr. Regis." James smiled, shaking the COO's hand.
"Thank you." He then asked the Schnee Specialist, "And who do I have the pleasure of meeting, Miss?"
"I am Specialist Winter Schnee. I serve under General Ironwood. It's nice to meet you, Mr. Regis." She answered, to whom Edward bowed slightly in respect.
"I heard about your accomplishments in the army, pretty impressive I must say." Regis carefully did not mention about her family name as it had been a touchy subject among social circles for a while.
"Thank you," Winter bluntly said. Regis nodded when he saw Weiss come to her older sister's side.
"I am Weiss Schnee, a member of Team RWBY, Winter's younger sister, and heiress to my father's company." Weiss introduced herself.
"I have heard quite amazing things about you and your team in Beacon. Welcome to the park, Ms. Weiss."
"Thank you for your compliment, Mr. Regis." Weiss returned the courtesy.
"You're welcome, young lady," Regis cordially remarked to her before he faced back to Ironwood. "General, since you've brought your soldiers here. We have just the right person standing right over there that can give you a tour of our security facilities, if you're interested."
"I'd be honored to have a tour of the park's security from a former student of mine," James nodded with a warm smile for once in a while since Jen's death.
"Certainly, General Ironwood. For those who don't know, this is Chief Security Officer... Hoffman T.B. Hickory. The very person in charge of making sure the park is safe and secure," John Hammond gestured to the officer, who simply nodded to the crowd. When it came to his former teacher, he saluted with the decorum going back to his time spent in Atlas Academy.
"Former Sergeant Hoffman T.B. Hickory. It is an honor to cross paths with you once again, sir," Hoffman said professionally out of respect.
Headmaster Ironwood waved his hand with a calm demeanor as he said,
"At ease, Hick. It is good to see that you are doing well."
"Same with you," Hoffman said as he and Ironwood went to embrace each other as friends. The men pulled themselves apart, chuckling with each other.
"No wonder why I no longer heard much from you! I was starting to think that you've been KIA somewhere outside of Atlas or in Mistralian wilderness, not a job from InGen in their dinosaur recreation zoo." Ironwood said.
"It'd take more than a Grimm or a Bandit to do away this "Tough Boots". And what is top secret remains top secret, especially of great confidentiality like Jurassic Kingdom, sir." Hoffman said with a bit of a Cockney accent to him, which made him sound tougher than what he really was.
"I have taught you well," Ironwood said with some pride in his voice. "You came a long way."
"Never underestimate a Hickory because a Hickory always make a comeback."
Winter grinned upon seeing another friend of hers doing well and alive; a fresh source of fresh air she needed after the loss of Jen "Copper" Ironwood.
Ellie leaned over to Grant's ear and whispered with astonishment,
"I am no expert in military, but I cannot believe Ironwood would be capable of being this amicable outside being a...stone wall when it comes to war."
"That's what being in the war will do to a man who has experienced what it is like on the battlefield for so long," Alan quietly commented, "Soldiers are not jaded by choice, but rather by the burden of having to make tough decisions that matter between life or death for themselves and the people they care about."
"Hehe...Now that's out of the way, shall we continue on with the tour?" Hammond asked the crowd and the responses indicated that they were more than eager to get it started again with some of the Hunters, particularly Teams BRNZ and Team ARBN.
"That means we shouldn't dilly dally any longer," a new voice sounded in and coming from the second floor balcony. A woman in her twenties with orange-auburn hair styled in a bobcut, soft cheekbones, red lips, and sharp, keen hazel blue eyes that seem to rival the sharpness of Glynda's own eyes. She wears an all-white business buttoned jacket, corset, and skirt. She looked upon the crowd with a smile that was only betrayed by the somewhat scrutinizing glare present in her eyes with an aura around her that spoke in volumes of no-nonsense.
Zach and Gray knew who she was.
"Hi, Auntie Claire!" Gray called out to her.
"Hello, boys." Claire momentarily broke from her cool smile to a warmer one as she waved to her nephews. "Heard there was a lot of commotion going on here."
"That was Dino and Archie being all excited to meet all these new Hunters and scientists," Gray explained with an amused smile.
"I can clearly see that," Claire stated before she went back to all business.
"There you are, Claire. Just on time. Ladies and gents, this is Claire Dearing, the Senior Assets Manager. She is the one in charge of overlooking the overall value of Jurassic Kingdom once it starts off. She and Ed Regis, apart from me, will direct you to the major facilities and attractions that are essential in keeping this park running smoothly. Claire, would you care to start us off?" Hammond requested.
"Absolutely." Claire beamed at the opportunity to show off the assets to the Hunters, very esteemed scientists, and investors' representative. "This is the Samsung Visitor Center, the main building of Jurassic Kingdom. This building houses portions of the park's digital, state-of-the-art technology with the rest of it being implemented throughout the park's exhibits as we speak. All around you, you can see the technicians are working on those interactive exhibits that will enable future potential visitors to come experience the world of dinosaurs so much as you're like going back through time. The one that we have completed is the very T. Rex skeleton in front of you. It is actually an animatronic robot combined with the advanced Holoscape with the bones made out of synthetic material to replicate the fossilized bones of a T. Rex. That's the first thing you see walking into this building through those entrance doors behind you with the T. Rex being our star attraction in more ways than one." Claire nodded to Zach, who rubbed his hands eagerly, wanting to show that this T. Rex animatronic is no mere animatronic on its own.
"With this interactive exhibit, it is better to see it to believe it," Zach pressed on the start green button that was on a panel next to the Tyrannosaurus name tag. Then whirring was heard as the Holoscape restarted with the T. Rex animatrobot starting out as the synthesized skeleton. Much to everyone's surprise, including a certain secret android among the Huntsmen, the animatrobot started to move. And not only did the head moved as it made sniffing sound, but also the arms, next the tail as it made a gentle swaying motion, and then the feet. It was moving animatedly close to the real animal as it walked about the steel platform with the small fence railing standing in between it and the guests.
"Whoa! It is moving about!" Nora exclaimed.
Ironwood, Winter, Ciel, Ozpin, Taiyang, Grant, and Ellie paid close attention to the robot as this was clearly no ordinary dinosaur animatronic like the others they have seen in museums.
The robot made nearly organic sounding grumbles and growls that seem too real for it to be a robot. The animatrobot turned its head to face the audience. Then Holoscape started up with the whirring becoming a roaring sound like river torrents as the calcium white digitized into being with dramatic music composed by John Williams now starting to play. Then came the fleshy red muscles covering the robo beast as it turned its body around with eyeballs appearing. The beast opened its mouth in a near realistic guttural snarl.
"This is so surreal, I must be dreaming still," Sun muttered. Qrow happened to be standing beside him.
"Welcome to the club, kiddo." Qrow said.
"Yep, I happen to be in it," Bolin joined in with Dew being of the same state.
"Me too." Dew remarked.
"Ditto for me," Jaune said out loud.
Then the animatrobot approached with its footstomps sounding. Scales, small scutes, and dorsal spikes came into existence as the robo-animal's head, body, and tail became colored in emerald scales, dark forest stripes and yellow-brownish spots with a beige green underside. The beast let off an intimidating, hissing growl as it approached closer towards Ruby, Penny, and Yang.
"Sensational...this dinosaur android is unlike anything I've seen of what Atlas is capable of," Penny was struck with wonder at how utterly different this dinosaur animatronic or android was compared to all of the others that have been humanoid so far.
The T. Rex android then grew moderate amounts of emu-like feathers, patches of them at the small arms, head, neck and shoulders.
"Damn...virtual reality up by eleven much," Yang commented when she saw the dino android's appearance changed drastically.
The T. Rex android sniffed its life-looking nostrils with the skin moving so real that the teenagers almost forgot that this was a digitized copy of it. It helped for the android that the grunting wet sounds it made were nearly close to the real T. Rex. The gust of air from the nostrils of the snout blew away their hair back. It even opened its massive mouth partially showing off its teeth.
"O-oh-o-oh...wow, by Monty...this is getting a little too real for me," Jaune gulped hard when it looked like the dino animatrobot was about to eat them. Pyrrha and Ren nodded a bit nervously as they too were unnerved of how surreal the scene was.
The T. Rex android then let out a growling roar that reverberated throughout the lobby forum that spook the nerves out of the Hunters and paleontologists.
"Damn!" Even the cool Fox couldn't help but swear at how real and frightening it sounded.
The animatrobot then paced around the fenced platform with the speakers on the balcony sounding off with a booming male voice in the likeness of Hammond, whose voice was probably recorded.
"Ladies and gentlemen...Welcome to Jurassic Kingdom. The most advanced zoological amusement park of the century!"
Then the T. Rex animatrobot reared up into the classic semi-vertical upright stance, proclaiming out loud with a room-shaking, mechanical bellowing roar, which got the people clapping and screaming in applause.
"Truly sensational!" Penny hollered out in astonishment.
"This is so astoundingly badass! Man, I am fired up to see the real T. Rex!" Brawnz said excitedly with his teammates sharing his sentiment with Roy shouting,
"T. Freaking Rex, baby!"
"That is totally awesome!" Ruby got into a group hug with the rest of Team RWBY, Penny, Zach, and Gray.
"Knew you guys get a kick out of it!" Gray said.
"Sure we did! The T. Rex robot totally W-Rex-ed it right out of the park!" Yang jubilantly remarked with two puns that got some groans out of Weiss, Blake, Zach, and Gray. Including a "Goddamnit, Barbara!" randomly from sounding out of nowhere amidst the applause.
"Quite the show you got, guys. How about we learn how these dinosaurs and whatever else in this park got revived back from eons of being dead and long forgotten in stone?" Qrow asked, bringing the tour back on track.
"Well, then follow us to the IMAX Theatre, Mr. Branwen. The video will help answer some of you guys' questions about how we got these creatures back up and walking about on this planet once again." Ed Regis said as he, Hammond, Claire, and Hoffman walk up the winding stairs to the second floor. Malcolm, Grant, Ellie, Gennaro, Ozpin, Qrow, Ironwood, and Winter were the first to follow them with Malcolm walking closely behind Hammond.
"Now as my voice said earlier, Jurassic Kingdom has incorporated all the latest technologies. And I'm not just talking about rides, you know. Everybody has rides." Hammond said to the scientists, Headmasters, and Huntsman professionals. "No, we've made living biological attractions so astounding that they'll capture the imagination of the entire planet."
"I hope you wouldn't mind me asking if there are other species besides the park's main attraction being dinosaurs?" Ozpin asked.
"The current updated number of prehistoric living attractions we have is now up to 170; dinosaurs make up about majority of the ones on land numbering about 44 species; 18 pterosaur species, 9 species of insects and arthropods from the Paleozoic & Mesozoic Eras, 22 species of marine reptiles, 16 prehistoric fish species, 2 crocodilian species, and 20 Cenozoic mammal species. The 40 other species we have on the island are divided into miscellaneous categories: birds, amphibians, archosaurs, and other reptiles. 12 of them are prehistoric birds, 5 are amphibian species, 9 species of miscellaneous reptiles, 1 lizard species, 1 snake species, 4 turtle species and 8 ancient archosaur species." Claire answered Ozpin's question.
Ironwood looked on with further disbelief on his face with his jaw threatening to fall off after hearing the statistics mouthed off from Claire, "By Oum!"
Qrow whistled at the sheer size of the park, "That's a lot of animals to resurrect."
"How is that even possible?" Winter was astounded. No zoo would be able to handle housing so many animals like what Hammond was ambitiously trying to achieve with Jurassic Kingdom.
"I guess we are about to find out soon," Ellie said to Winter.
"I have a feeling that paleontology would start to become obsolete if this park is opened to the public," Grant remarked. At this point, if dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures could be cloned, Grant's field of study was going to change instantly. The paleontological study of dinosaurs was going to die out. The whole enterprise-the museum halls with their giant skeletons and flocks of echoing schoolchildren, groups of young curious Huntsmen, and crowds of adults, the university laboratories with their bone trays, the research papers, the journals-all of it was going to end with this park.
"Don't you mean 'extinct'?" Ian joked with a tongue-in-cheek grin.
Everyone packed into a vast IMAX theater that could hold about 100 people. Alan, Ellie, Ian, Ozpin, and Ironwood sat in the front row, while Hammond directed Gennaro to sit several rows behind them. The young Hunstmen and Huntresses, and soldiers, with the exception of Zach Mitchell, who went to the projector/film room to make sure the movie was working properly, sat in the rows in between the two groups.
Zwei had his own seat next to Ruby on his right, but had the unfortunate luck of having Hammond's pet birds, Dino and Archie, occupy a couple of seats to his left as they were at the end of the row. The two dino-birds clucked and chirped, "gossiping" with one another. Those two birds rubbed him off the wrong way in reasons he couldn't understand why yet. He could clearly see that they were talking smack about him given their body language that spoke volumes of their...disrespect towards him like he's not even here next to them, which only made him dislike the birds even more than he already did.
Hoffman was the only one to remain outside of the theatre, standing guard.
"This is the IMAX Theatre, equipped with the latest 3D virtual reality video camera to ensure that you will have an enjoyable immersive experience. So make sure you all have brought 3D glasses with you at the very front entrance of the theatre. Can everybody raise their hands if they had done so?" Edward asked the audience while he raised up his own hand holding a pair of 3D glasses. Everyone did the same, even Zwei, Dino, Archie, and Hammond.
For Gray, he resumed his conversation with Team RWBY and Jaune as he spoke,
"Anyways, that how it is with Archie. Once she locks onto you, you become her target of her pranks and playfulness for a while. And for my advice, Yang, don't fight her or she will think it is all a game she can win against you."
"Are you kidding me, Gray? And let her mess with my hair? Not on my life!" Yang crossed her arms, puffing up her hefty bosom for emphasis.
"Have you forgotten that your attempt to shoo her off only emboldened her?" Gray reminded her.
"What was I supposed to do? Let her have her way with my hair after I worked so hard to maintain my mane?!" Yang refused to heed his wisdom.
"That'd be preferable than making a fool of yourself and embarrassing your sister, your dad, and us in front of the crowd," Weiss agreed with the boy.
"Whose side are you on? I thought you didn't like Archie messing your makeup."
"Of course I hated it, but there were better ways to handle it than to act all riled up and potentially wreck the tour."
Yang pinched her nosebridge as the Schnee heiress had a point, but she dared not to admit it out loud.
"Trust me, girls. Not worth the hassle. I tried like you did and that only just made it more fun for Archie; worse for us. She's a lot smarter than anyone will give her credit for since she belongs to some of the smartest family of dinosaurs on the planet. And Zach had it rough with her, too. One time, she crapped onto his head when he was chatting with his friends on SnapChat," Gray started to crack up, recalling the hilarious incident that one time. Team RWB had to cover their blushing faces and Jaune felt his face turn a shade of green, imagining the disgusting scene in his head with the exception of Yang, who was doing her best to hold her laughter in, resulting in chortles from her. Pyrrha nearly did a spit take when she drank her water while Nora popped her head with a question mark on top of her.
"Wait? What happened to Zachie?" Nora asked with her weird sense of curiosity piqued.
"Oh my gods, I shouldn't have said that." Gray palmed himself.
"Ewww! TMI!" Weiss hissed, definitely not wanting to imagine some white pile of goop on somebody's hair.
"Oh no! And was it on live stream?!" Ruby said muffled words through her hands. She could only imagine how embarrassing it would be for her if something like that happened to her.
"Hehehe...oh my goodness!" Gray laughed barely keeping himself contained as to not stir unwanted attention. "Y-y-yes! hahahaha!"
"Wow...that must have been awful! I'd be screaming my head off," Ruby remarked.
"Oh you should have seen him when he screamed so loud like a girl! Some poor guard thought he heard a girl screaming." Gray wheezed clutching onto his stomach with his mouth grinning from ear to ear.
"I can certainly relate to that." Jaune managed to rein in his stomach contents and continued, "Not hard to imagine that he was so embarrassed and pissed off that day."
"Oh yeah...when Zach was done screaming bloody murder, he looked like he went through a chicken coop and then dropped into a mental asylum while going on a marathon after Mr. Hammond managed to recall Archie back. That was certainly unforgettable and I'll just end it in saying that my brother ended up using half a week's worth of shampoo to get the turd off." Gray finished narrating.
Looks like I wasn't the only one who had hair problems with Archie, but... Yang paled the more she thought about what that cheeky Archaeopteryx could have done worse to her golden mane, wow...looks like I dodged that bullet. All bets would've been off with me.
"Ugh, it would have been a nightmare I can only dare to imagine just to wash the smell off." Weiss shuddered at the thought of having something smelly and unhealthy on her hair if she was in Zach's place on the short end of Archie's tomfoolery.
"The moral of the story is not to fight with her when she chooses you to be her quote unquote nest. Zach and I had to learn that lesson the hard way after she's gotten used to us and we to her for a while," Gray groaned.
"Hey, at least, Dino was better behaving, right, Gray?" Ruby asked him.
"Dino? Heh, he was crazy in his own way. Me and Zach almost didn't make it through that one weekend with him when he was off of his rockers."
"Maybe you should save that for another time," Jaune said sympathetically, realizing that whatever happened with Dino was just as insane as with Archie. Frankly, how could anyone guessed that Archaeopteryx like Archie could have as much distinct quirks and idiosyncrasies to their individual personality like a parrot would. As for Dino, that's another story for another time as the movie was finally starting.
Meanwhile...
"Now then he should be appearing any moment now," Ed Regis looked at his watch. Then the image of Hammond in a dark business suit walked on screen.
"Ah, here I come," the off-screen John Hammond walked up to his onscreen self.
"Hello, hehehe, hello." the onscreen John Hammond said.
"Say hello, say hello, everyone." The offscreen Hammond encouraged. The doctors and Professors waved while some students said hello back enthusiastically.
"Hello, John," the onscreen John Hammond said.
"Oh, yes. That's right, I have lines," Offscreen Hammond remembered. He reached into his chest pocket and pulled out a small stack of notecards.
"Oh, well fine. Fine, I guess. But, how did I get here?" Onscreen Hammond said.
"Well, let me show you," Offscreen Hammond said as he found his place, "But first, I'm going to need a drop of blood. Your blood."
Nora was close to vomiting upon hearing blood, but Ren was quick to help her prevent that from happening, reassuring her it wasn't going to be scary.
"Oh, right," Onscreen Hammond said nervously as he held a finger out. Offscreen Hammond made a jabbing motion at his counterpart's finger. The onscreen version immediately pulled his finger back following a cartoonish noise, "John, that hurt."
"Relax, John. It's all part of the miracle of cloning."
Suddenly, a second John Hammond stepped out from behind the first one on screen. They greeted each other as another one stepped out. As this continued, the real John Hammond took a seat next to Gennaro with Dino and Archie finally sitting next to his left. Malcolm, Grant, Sattler, Qrow, and Ozpin began talking amongst themselves.
"Cloned from what?" Alan Grant asked, "Loy extractions never recreated an intact DNA strand."
"Not without massive sequence gaps." Ian added.
Grant was aware of serious speculation in laboratories across most of Remnant that it might be eventually possible to clone an extinct animal such as a dinosaur or a mammoth. That was if you could get dinosaur DNA or mammoth DNA to begin with. The problem was most known dinosaurs fossils did not have a lot of intact soft tissue as much of that has been replaced with inorganic material during the fossilization process. There have been, however, mummified dinosaurs found and a mammoth frozen in an icy glacier up north in Atlas. There was even presence of bone marrow found in the leg bone of Sue, the most complete Tyrannosaurus so far, not too long ago when a scientist noted how similar it was to the medullary tissue characteristic of pregnant birds like emus. The biggest obstacle to that was the viability of the gene sequence. For the dinosaurs, the fractured pieces of the tissue have degraded over more than 65 million years, making the endeavor highly unlikely. With mammoth, it has less of that problem, but more to do with the ethical concerns and viability issues of the DNA surviving the process of-say, transplanting it into an elephant cell in vitro.
"Then there's the need to replace those gaps, but that could drastically change the clone in many deviations away from its original predecessor," Ozpin said.
"Or that clone will live only a very short amount of time even if the process is successful." Qrow remarked. Now, he might not be a scientist or the eggheads in lab coats he would say, but he had seen enough crazy things like cloned doubles of living animals to acknowledge that cloning was a real possibility, but more often than not, it was short-lived. Clones died three days or a week at most the moment they were created.
"Paleo-DNA from what source?" Ellie mused, "Where do you get 100-million-year-old dinosaur blood?" John Hammond hushed them as the movie continued.
"This should be interesting to see if I suspect what I think this movie is about to tell us is true," Port stroked his mustache thoughtfully.
"Shush, Port." Oobleck quieted his friend, "It's about to start."
"This part is what I like about this movie," Gray said with a shit-eating grin to his friends, both new and old, as he like everybody else quickly put on their 3D glasses. "And don't worry, guys, I will help explain if you're having trouble comprehending about DNA. Just let me know, but the movie should make this relatively simple."
Nora rolled up her eyes with a dismissive sigh, "Ugh...nerd." She got flicked in the head by Pyrrha for that.
"Here it goes," Blake pointed to the movie.
The onscreen Hammond- the original one - stared at his pricked finger as a cartoonish spiral moved up out of his finger and behind his head. A vaguely anthropomorphic cartoon DNA strand tapped him on his right shoulder before zooming back to his left.
"What? What?" Onscreen Hammond spotted the cartoon and said, "Oh, Mr. DNA, where did you come from?"
"From your blood," the DNA strand responded, his voice heavily accented, "Just one drop of your blood contains billions of strands of DNA, the building blocks of life," the screen switched to that of a blueprint as he brought out a picture of the sugar-phosphate structure. "A DNA strand, like me, is made up of smaller units called nucleotides that are strung together in a row. Each nucleotide has three parts: a sugar molecule, a phosphate molecule, and a structure called a nitrogenous base. The nitrogenous base is the part of the nucleotide that carries genetic information, and there are four varieties of the base expressed as A, C, G, and T." The letters appear outward as he now appeared in a stereotypical teacher outfit complete with a stick and glasses as he uses the former to point to each letter as they formed a technical term, "They are: Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine, and Thymine." An image showcasing the chemical structures of Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine, and Thymine pop out to Mr. DNA's left. "Now new DNA molecules are made by using old DNA molecules." Mr. DNA is put into a copier machine. When he appears out of the machine, another Mr. DNA also slides out from the copier machine as both speak simultaneously, "To make new ones." Then the original Mr. DNA asked, "How does that happen?"
The Mr. DNA copy then slides in an image of a double helix DNA strand, "By unzipping the helix," he zipped it down breaking it apart into half. "This allows lonely chumps like these free floating nucleotides to become paired up with a partnering base that will compliment them quiet nicely." The floating letters did what the cartoon said they would do, hooking up with complimentary nucleotides along each strand. "This process of zipping will gradually happen until..." the cartoon unzipped himself into two halves as there were now two of the DNA strands as the other said, "One DNA molecule becomes two identical DNA molecules. These are what makes up the blueprint for building a living thing." All three of the DNA strand cartoon characters' forms shifted into a white dashed outline of a Brachiosaurus, "And sometimes, animals that went extinct millions of years ago, like dinosaurs, left their blueprints behind for us to find. We just had to know where to look."
A cartoon mosquito was shown on a grey, scaly background as Mr. DNA continued, "A hundred million years ago, there were mosquitoes, just like today." The bug sucked blood and it then flew away from the backside of a Brontosaurus, landing on the bark of a tree. "And, just like today, they fed on the blood of animals, even dinosaurs," a real life image of a mosquito being trapped in sap was shown, which got Nora cooing, remembering the mission a while ago in Forever Fall where she tasted the delicious red sap when she wasn't supposed to. "Sometimes, after biting a dinosaur, the mosquito would land on the branch of a tree and get stuck in the sap." Another cartoon of a pair of men digging to recover a chunk of amber appeared, "After a long time, the tree sap would get hard, and become fossilized, just like a dinosaur bone, preserving the mosquito inside," an image of a man carefully drilling into a chunk of amber appeared, "This fossilized tree sap, which we call amber, waited for millions of years with the mosquito inside until Jurassic Kingdom scientists came along." With the hole drilled into the amber, the scientist delicately probed a needle through it, "Using sophisticated techniques, they extract the preserved blood from the mosquito and...bingo: dino DNA!"
"Good brothers, my suspicions were right! InGen was excavating amber for the cloning process of the dinosaurs," Port whispered loudly to his colleague. Alan leaned against a hand rail in front of him, drinking the information in. Ian Malcolm leaned forward as well now with interest piqued as the explanation continued, "A full DNA strand contains three billion genetic codes," Mr. DNA appeared on an orange background with complicated black text zooming across the screen, making several individuals in the audience to develop swirly eyes as they became dizzy from the chaotic background, "If we looked at screens like these," he indicated the text behind him, "Once a second, for eight hours a day, it'd take two years to look at the entire DNA strand. It's that long. Since it's so old-," He was hit by a zooming block of text and taken with it. He quickly reformed and continued, completely unfazed, "It's full of holes. Now that's where our geneticists take over."
The screen showed a brightened, clean laboratory full of computers, automation, androids, and workers, "Thinking machine super computers and gene sequencers break down the strands in minutes, and holographic displays show our geneticists the gap in the DNA sequence regardless whether it is close to being whole or far from it. We use a hodge podge of DNA sequences coming from complete DNA of several animals, frogs, snakes, lizards, and the dinosaurs' living relatives, birds and crocodilians; as for prehistoric mammals like mammoths and sabertooths, we use the complete genome of their modern-day relatives like cats, tigers, lions, cows, giraffes, rhinos, and elephants; to fill the holes and complete the code. And now, we can create a baby dinosaur." The screen showed a cartoon egg hatch, revealing Mr. DNA morphing into a fully-grown sauropod.
"The score is only temporary," Hammond commented on the music score that seemed out of place, "It all has very dramatic music, of course. A whole march or something. It hasn't been written yet. Then of course, the tour moves on." The movie ended with the audience now getting up from their seats with Claire again taking the lead.
"Those who are interested in a smaller tour of our security facilities, please follow Chief Officer Hoffman as he directs the tour! The rest of you will be shown the Creation Laboratory where we meet Jurassic Kingdom's real miracle workers." Claire declared with the Security Chief Officer yelling out,
"Yeah, those who wanna look at how we do things with our security of Jurassic Kingdom, march up to here and line up on me!"
Ironwood, Winter, Penny, Ciel, and the Atlesian soldiers naturally leaned towards Hoffman's tour.
Later...
Alan Grant, Ellie Sattler, Ian Malcolm, Ozpin, Gray and Zach Mitchell, and Teams RWBY and Team JNPR were ones allowed into the busy Creation Laboratory for now with John Hammond and Gennaro in tow while the rest saw the laboratory from the viewing glass. The walls were pure white, as were the clothing of all the scientists. As they walked in, a female voice came over the PA system.
"A reminder; the boat for the mainland will be leaving at 1900 hours. All personnel be at the dock no later than 1845. No exceptions."
Hammond took the lead and walked over to the chief geneticist with matted, short black hair, Mistralian complexion, and a white jumpsuit. He was intently recording on his Scroll when John walked up behind him and patted his shoulder.
"Good day, Henry." He said as he handed his cane and hat to the geneticist and started to put on a pair of nitrile gloves.
"Oh, good day, sir," Dr. Wu said as he returned to his work.
Alan looked about the lab until his eye was caught by an artificial nest full of eggs. They looked like ostrich's eggs, except that they were bigger, about the size of a toy football.
"Cool! Dinosaur eggs!" Ruby squealed at the sight of the many eggs put carefully in these sockets with some light over, making the artificial nest warm and cozy for them.
"This is my favorite place to go to whenever some new species is being created, or whenever I am having a bad day," Gray commented to Ruby about the times he visited this place as it appealed to his fondness for the lifecycle of dinosaurs.
Ian pointed to one of the eggs standing upright that was shaking. It was hatching.
"*Gasp*! Guys! Look, one of the eggs is about to hatch!" Ruby cried out, gathering everyone and even the people separated outside by the viewing glass as May Zedong was also the one who pointed to the shaking egg to her peers.
"I can see whatever this little guy, it's ready to come out of the oven," Yang said.
They gathered around the artificial nest. Dr. Wu noticed as well. "Ah, perfect timing," he said, "I'd hoped they would hatch before I had to go to the boat."
"Henry, Henry, Henry, why didn't you tell me?" Hammond said excitedly, "I insist on being here when they're born."
"Millions of years and we're seeing a dinosaur hatch out of the egg for the first time. This is truly unprecedented." Weiss said getting a good look of the shaking egg.
"Unprecedented might be a dino-sized understatement for this one," Blake joked, which was something she rarely did.
"No kidding," Ruby agreed.
"Shhh…" Jaune shushed them as the egg began to hatch.
Hammond occasionally talked, giving it encouragement, "Come on. Come on. Come on, little one," he gave a grandfatherly chuckle, "Come on then. Come on then. Very good. Push, push. Very good," he smiled as a little creature with a yellow fluffy coat with some mottled brown and white spots, and a beige tan lizard-like snout finally broke through the eggshell.
"Dear Monty Oum," said an amazed Ozpin. "What a miracle."
"There you are," Hammond said as he started to pull the bits of egg shell stuck to its head and face. The newborn dinosaur started to make little squeaks and squeals like a baby eagle as he did so. "They imprint on the first creature they come in contact with. Helps them to trust me. I've been present for the birth of every little creature on this island."
"Awwww~," the Huntresses and some of the Huntsmen couldn't help, but melt at the sight of the fluffy dinosaur chick. Nora almost screeched from the cuteness overload as did Velvet, and Team NDGO.
"That is soooo cute!" Yang and Nora hollered, going puppy-eyed with stars in them.
"No way...are you telling me that this little..." The dinosaur chick looked at her with big cat-like eyes one would expect from a kitten, not a dinosaur. "...lizard..." Weiss struggled to keep herself composed the longer the chick stared into her eyes with its cute chirps, "...bird...has the fluffiest coat I have ever seen in my entire life! Oh yes he is! Yes he is!" Weiss broke into a side of her rarely seen, except her teammates, since having been first introduced to Zwei. She began to dote over the cute dinosaur, much to John Hammond's amusement, including the others watching the thing unfold.
"I can see why you two would be into this kind of stuff," Blake chuckled, talking to Zach and Gray.
"Gray is more into this kind of stuff than I am. I work more with some of the park's electronics with my dad, but sometimes in a while, I enjoy watching the animals whenever I am on break with Gray."
"This is such an astonishing moment that'll be forever burned into my eyes. A dinosaur hatching out of its egg for the first time to the eyes of the world 65 million years after the K-T Extinction." Oobleck remarked with newfound wonder at how life came to being on this planet, hatching out from an egg.
"Yeah, I never imagined the day that I would see a dinosaur hatch into our modern world for the first in a long time, much less so with my daughters here to experience it for themselves." Taiyang was happy to see Ruby and Yang joyously doting and admiring the hatched dinosaur after reading about the lifecycle of a dinosaur sometimes in dinosaur books when they were kids.
Already the younger Hunters were scrambling out their Scrolls snapping pictures of this milestone moment for them and posting it on their Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram pages to their friends.
"Surely not the ones that have bred in the wild?" Ian Malcolm asked Hammond.
"Actually, they can't breed in the wild," Henry Wu said, joining them around the artificial nest, "Population control is one of our security precautions. There's no unauthorized breeding in Jurassic Kingdom."
"How do you know they can't breed?" Ian asked Wu as Hammond, Grant, Sattler, Team RWBY, Team JNPR, Gray and even Zach doted over the infant dinosaur.
"Well, because all the dinosaurs, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and insects in Jurassic Kingdom are female. As for the prehistoric species of mammals and birds we have in the park, the males of each species have their reproductive hormones arrested. We've engineered all of them that way."
As Ian uncomfortably paced around the table, Alan asked,
"Blood temperature seems like, about high 80's."
"Henry?" Hammond asked for clarification on the matter.
"91," he answered.
"Homeothermic?" Ellie asked, "It holds that temperature? That's incredible." Ren took the remainder of the eggshell and began to examine it.
"But, again, how do you know all of the animals are not reproductive?" Ian questioned Henry Wu, "Does somebody go out and pull up the animal's pants and skirts and see if they shoot out same blanks or what?"
When everyone heard that, even through the intercom that picks up the conversation from within the lab to the outside for people to hear for the purpose of the tour, the teenage girls covered their blushing faces, laughing out of embarrassment. The young men, some of them burst out laughing hysterically, hurting their guts from guffawing so much, while others had their jaws unhinged. Even the teachers were not much better with Port falling onto the floor, nearly dying from the absurdity of the question, and Oobleck palming himself in the face. Qrow drowned himself in more whiskey than he had before. Thankfully, Zach covered Gray's ears, but that exposed the former to the embarrassing question, which had him screaming internally.
"We control the dinosaurs' chromosomes," Wu explained defensively, "It's not really that difficult. All vertebrate embryos are inherently female anyway. They just require an extra hormone given at the right developmental stage to make them male, and we simply deny them that for many non-mammalian species. There's not much we can do to change the sex of birds and mammals as people like to see the males, which tend to be the most impressive and the ones that draw in more crowds than the females alone. What we do is that we suppress the genes that dictate how much hormones should be pumped into their system. Enough for the avian and mammalian males to develop their distinctive characteristics like muscle tone, larger size, and traits necessary for their social structures. But it is suppressed or completely arrested at a certain point so that the males don't get any weird ideas come their respective mating seasons."
"Whoa whoa whoa...denying them that...uhhhh…?" Yang was unsure and skeptical of that method of control, which just sounded wrong to her, "How do you determine that, Doc?"
Ian took a seat, "John, the kind of control you're attempting here, it's not possible. If there's one thing the history of Remnantian evolution has taught us, it's that life will not be contained. Life breaks free. It expands to new territories and it crashes through barriers, painfully, maybe even dangerously. Well, more so, if the theory of these animals possessing any Semblances are proven true, but...yeah, there it is."
Hammond looked unconvinced.
"You're implying that a group composed entirely of reproductively incapable animals will breed?" Wu asked, unsure of where Malcolm was heading.
"No," Ian defended, "I'm simply saying that life finds a way."
Alan held the infant dinosaur carefully in his hands, marveling at what he was seriously doing. He was holding an honest-to-God baby dinosaur in his own hands. He then noticed something on the baby's petite feet, which got him wondering...
"Hey, um, Gray Mitchell, am I right?" Alan reluctantly asked the younger Mitchell brother as he wasn't exactly fond of the younger kids, except for teenagers or young adults.
"Yes, Mr. Grant." Gray responded.
"How much do you know about dinosaurs?" Grant asked him another question.
"From Argentinosaurus to the smallest pterosaur, Nemicolopterus. I even read some of your books. Why do you ask?" Gray was wondering what was acting on Grant.
"Yeah...see those particular toe claw on each foot? Do you know what species is this?"
"Hmmm..." Gray examined the claw of the infant carefully and thought for a few seconds before the prodigy blurted out with a stark realization on his face, "oh my brothers...it's a Dakotaraptor."
"Wait? What?" Jaune realized when he saw the toe hyperextensible toe claws on the infant's feet.
That struck Alan like a freight train as not too long ago he and Ellie had dug up the complete skeleton of the same species days ago. He looked to Wu with a hardened look on his face, pointing to the infant dinosaur, "Doctor, is it true? A Dakotaraptor?"
"Yes," Wu replied looking from his Scroll that has the stats of the Dakotaraptor.
"You bred raptors?" The paleontologist asked in a dark voice. Wu nodded,
"We bred 25 of them."
Ozpin feebly backed off with his fears about the park starting to surface in the pit of his gut.
"No..." Weiss was struck with horror like she had seen a ghost. She had read about the dinosaurian raptors before and the image of them ganging up on another dinosaur larger than them combined and ripping the intestines out was an image stuck in her mind. Now she was beginning to regret doting on the now-revealed infant Dakotaraptor.
"Shit." Memories of the horrific night when he failed to save Geoffrey were now haunting Qrow in full force when he too saw the very same toe claws on the infant, the same ones on the monster in the cage he encountered many nights ago.
Alan looked back down at the infant Dakotaraptor as it nuzzled softly into his palm with its fluffy body and squealed softly.
Edward "Gordon" Regis (Portrayed by Gary Oldman; in tribute to his role as James Gordon the Commissioner in Batman the Dark Knight)
Hoffman "T.B." Hickory (Portrayed by Mark Wahlberg)
Jurassic Park Trivia: For those unfamiliar with Jurassic Park novel lore, Ed Regis was the Public Relations Manager in the original novel. He was eaten by a juvenile Tyrannosaur when he tried to hike back to the visitor facilities. Although he doesn't appear in Jurassic Park the movie version, some of his actions were transferred to the Donald Gennaro we know from film canon today. When Michael Crichton wrote the original script, Ed Regis was in it, and Donald Gennaro was taken out completely. Similar to the novel, he was supposed to be eaten by Rexy, but he was cut out of the film by the time casting started and Gennaro was re-instated to assume his role.
RWBY Trivia: Ruby's name alludes to Little Red Riding Hood from the fairy tale of the same name. She also alludes to a type of red gemstone while her last name alludes to a type of flower often found in red as well.
Other Trivia: The name of the hybrid dino-rooster is a reference to a pet dinosaur of the same name from the old Hanna-Barbera cartoon, The Flintstones. Some of Dino's weird doglike behaviors are attributed to the cartoon dinosaur as well. Dino's species is based on the real world attempt to reverse engineer a chicken to be born with some dinosaurian traits once dormant to bring back a dinosaur. Also his role as Hammond's pet in the fanfic is actually a reference to the novel version of Hammond having a cloned dwarf elephant to convince his investors back then to fund his park.
Archie's design is based heavily from the real life Archaeopteryx with some deviations as to be expected of creatures cloned in Jurassic Park, but some inspirations for the design come from the Forest Pteryx in Monster Hunter World. Her manner of speech towards strangers other than Hammond is based off of Baby Sinclair's distinctive verbal idiosyncrasy whenever it is Earl Sinclair in Dinosaurs (1991-1994).