They came across the decaying corpse of a Parasaurolophus. The area reeked with decay, and flies were buzzing everywhere.
As the two came across some rocks, in a little clearing were a few piles of decaying dinosaurs and several scattered bones. In the middle was an infant Tyrannosaurus feeding.
"It's the rex nest." Roland whispered. "Infant's probably only a couple of weeks old, never left the nest."
Roland and Ajay looked behind them.
"Offspring that young, parents won't leave him alone for too long." Roland said.
"Make your blind here, wait for the buck to return." Ajay suggested.
"No. No." Roland whispered. "The nest is upwind, and so are we. When he comes back, he's gonna know we're here without us even having a chance. The trick is, to get him to come where we want him."
While Roland and Ajay, along with the assistance of two wranglers, captured the infant Tyrannosaur, the infant had fractured its leg. The group fled the nest quickly. Roland and Ajay then tied the infant down to the ground, while they waited in a tree for the buck to be attracted to the infant's cries of pain.
Later that night, in a nearby clearing, Ludlow's hunters had set up base camp, comprised of the vehicles, several tents, a mess tent, and another tent where Peter Ludlow would be giving a presentation. Nearby the encampment, several dinosaurs were in cages.
Malcolm's team, meanwhile, snuck up onto a hill to observe the men.
"This is why Hammond was in such a hurry to get you here. He knew they were coming." Malcolm muttered.
"My God, they are well organized." Eddie commented. "Those are some major league toys."
"Eddie, maybe I should ask to use their mobile radio telephone." Malcolm said.
"So they actually want to build another park here, after what you said happened on the other island?" Kelly asked.
"They're not building anything. They are taking these animals outta here, back to the mainland." Malcolm responded.
"Oh, I think I should tell you guys. Hammond told me these people might show up." Nick said. "I thought we'd be finished by the time they got started. But in case we weren't, he did send a backup plan." Nick pulled out a pair of bolt cutters.
"What backup plan?" Sarah asked.
"Me." Nick replied.
Peter Ludlow had a telescreen set up in the presentation tent that showed various InGen board members. A man had a video camera that was set up to a machine that displayed on the InGen board's telescreen.
Inside the tent was a small diorama of a building that was shaped like a mountain with a coliseum in the center. There were also two caged Compsognathuses on a table.
"Simply put," Ludlow said, "InGen is seeking limited partners to defray some of our expansion costs. The prospectus you've been given by the board explicitly details our projected hardware and construction expenses. And as you can see by my two friends here with me tonight," Ludlow gestured to the Compys as they chittered at him, "the artificial revivification process is already fully developed. One might say, it'd be up and running. In a moment, I'll take you on a stroll through the camp, and you'll see some of the larger and more impressive specimens.
Nick whispered, "Wow." as he and Sarah snuck into the camp to were the captured dinosaurs were being held. They saw an adult Stegosaurus, thought they weren't sure if it was one of the ones they saw earlier in the day. Nick went and removed a steel rod from the door lock. The door cracked open a bit.
"But you don't bring people halfway around the world to visit a zoo." Ludlow continued "You bring the zoo to them. San Diego is the perfect set. People already associate her beautiful city with famous attractions: San Diego Zoo, San Diego Padres, the San Diego Natural History Museum."
Sarah and Nick quickly unlocked cages containing an infant Triceratops, another containing a juvenile Pachycephalosaurus, a cage containing a juvenile Stegosaurus, and a fourth cage containing an adult Triceratops.
"Mr. Hammond knew this." Ludlow said, continuing his presentation. "Before he ever dreamt of an island, he began construction on an amphitheater very near to where you are sitting at the InGen waterfront complex. But he abandoned it, in favor of something far...grander...and ultimately, impossible. And so, the facility sits unused, unfinished, when it could be completed and ready to receive visitors in less than a month.
Suddenly, an angry Triceratops charged through the tent, knocking the table into Ludlow who fell to the ground. The hunters scattered to get out of the way of the animal. Bellowing the Triceratops smashed into the telescreen and the equipment powering it, before the enraged animal flipped over a SPA TL37, starting a fire. The Compys, freed, fled the area as the Triceratops took off. Two men took off as a Parasaurolophus charged them, and another man tried to get out of the way of a spooked Struthiomimus. Two Pachycelphalosauruses also charged other hunters attempted to restrain them.
The fire spread to various cans of gasoline which exploded, setting off a chain reaction to a nearby vehicle which exploded and was thrust into the air. Roland and Ajay, hearing the explosions, turned to see the flaming vehicle begin falling towards them.
"Ajay, look out!" Roland yelled. "Jump!"
Roland and Ajay leapt from the tree they were sitting in just as the vehicle slammed into the tree and fell to the ground.
With Roland and Ajay gone, Nick rushed to the injured infant Tyrannosaurus and freed it from its chains.
Two hunters lifted up Dieter Stark who had been knocked to the ground. Roland glared at him and said, "That's the last time I leave you in charge." The rest of the camp were scrambling to put out fires, salvage any equipment, and assist those who were injured.