Chapter Three

"Prefer my bike," Owen muttered. He ran his hand over the smooth surface of an ATV the men from the shore brought. Barry chuckled a bit, sitting atop his own ATV, and shook his head. The other man hopped onto his vehicle and started it up, waiting for the signal to head out. Some of the men in the control room, the others from InGen, were going to work on herding the dinosaurs out of the resort and getting it closed off again. He, Barry, and a group of ten others were to go on the hunt for Blue, and then search out the T-Rex.

He already briefed the men on the dangers of hunting Blue. She was alone, without the rest of his pack, and she wasn't going to take well to strangers. There was also the chance their bond wouldn't be there anymore. He hoped otherwise, but they really had no examples to go off of in this situation. It was all a guessing game, and he hated guessing games.

"Time to head out!" One of the men in a truck behind him called out. He revved the ATV before heading off, Barry moving along next to him. They headed out of the resort, neither Barry nor Owen taking into account that they could move between the legs of the dinosaurs better than the truck behind them, and neither really cared. Their one purpose, for the time being, was to find Tara and get off the island alive. These other men could fend for themselves.

Owen headed down a dirt road outside of the resort; the one he knew would lead straight to the cliff overlooking the aviary. His muscles tensed a bit, the feeling of being hunted coming back into his mind at the memories of the Indominus incident. Though that creature was gone, there were many others in these forests that could kill them just as easily, and it was still hard to shake the images of that monstrous lab experiment when he hadn't been back since that time.

He took a quick moment to glance behind him. His friend was just behind him and the truck a few feet off. He looked forward again, slowing his ATV just a bit in hope of reducing noise as they passed into the trees. The line of sight, save for along the road, was dampened by the cluster of plants on either side. Any dinosaur could creep up on them, and if they caught the attention of Blue, she would probably jump before they had the chance to notice.

Lowery looked away from the screens, glancing over his shoulder to Charles and the other man, the man that took over Masrani Global. He watched the two, who spoke rather hushed in the back, making it unable to decipher their whispers, before he looked to Claire nearby. The red head watched the screens. The cameras on the front of the ATVs caught only the road ahead and the trees around them.

She felt someone watching her and glanced to Lowery, their eyes meeting. "Do you really think they'll find Tara out there?" he asked, trying to keep his own tone hushed. Unlike the two in charge of this operation, they didn't have the luxury of being in a place with no one directly nearby. They were surrounded by other members of InGen. Claire forced a small smile to Lowery and then looked to the screen again.

"If anyone can find her, it's Owen," she responded. She put her faith in the man when her nephews went missing with the Indominus on the loose. She also chose to believe Tara when the other woman put her faith in the man. Before she knew it, Claire let out a small sigh. The man next to her looked back to the screens in front of them. His fingers clenched and unclenched his lap. He could hear both Tara and Owen in his mind, objecting to the plans that were being put into place, arguing that this whole thing was a bad idea. Something told him they were making the same mistakes they made when they were trying to stop the Indominus.

"Why are they stopping?" Charles asked. He took a few steps forward, his and the other man's eyes now on the screen as the ATVs rolled to a stop. The ground seemed to bounce, or perhaps it was the cameras and the ATVs. They could hear some of the men in the truck asking what "that" was, a few people asking if it was an earthquake. Claire slowly rose to her feet, her attention on the screen. She remembered the way the ground shook when she ran from the T-Rex, the way it shook when the Indominus was nearby.

"Turn around!" the voice of Owen roared through the speakers of the control room. The men in the truck had already opened the doors, weapons at the ready as a few of them hopped outside to see what was coming their way. From the side of the screen, the large set of jaws belonging to the T-Rex came into view. One of the men screamed as the large beast took the man in her mouth. The screams came to a bone-crunching end.

"Shit," Owen muttered as he turned, noticing the men scrambling from the truck. Many of them were lucky enough to slide by the large dinosaur as she finished off her second morsel. He knew the sound of them travelling would attract the attention of anything roaming the area, especially since the island had been free of human contact. Animals were either curious about new noises or afraid, and several of the animals on this island were curious, especially the Tyrannosaurus.

Then again, she was probably pretty accustomed to the noise of humans. Rumor had it; she was from the original park and managed to survive this long.

The men lined up near the truck, their weapons quickly going off on the T-Rex, a mix of tranquilizers and electric shots. A few of the men were equipped with live ammunition, but they were advised to only use it in extreme measures. They were readying for a shot. The line broke, the Rex making a meal of another man.

Owen looked to Barry, the other man looking to him. He was about to say something when a flash of movement caught his attention. He looked forward, toward the other men.

A humanoid figure slammed its body against one of the men, shoving them hard into the front of the vehicle. The person grabbed the fallen weapon, one of the high intensity tasers, and turned it on another man. The man let out a loud shriek of pain and fell to the ground, his body twitching from the amperage that ran through his body and shocked his nerves.

"Tara!" Owen called out. The woman turned. Her amber eyes fell on him, narrowing slightly. He stood up some from the ATV, ready to say something when the woman turned again, moving out of the way of a man who to retaliate against her. The Tyrannosaurs grabbed him, leaving him screaming before being devoured.

"We have to get out of here," Barry stated. He revved his ATV some, trying to attract the attention of his friend. The surviving members of the ACU were scattering into the trees. Owen hesitated, watching Tara as she moved around to the back of the truck. "Now!" Barry shouted, his nerves bringing his impatience to the forefront. The man turned his ATV, heading to make a run through the narrow spaces between the trees. Owen watched him before moving his vehicle as well, letting the T-Rex get a bit too close for comfort. He knew at some point, they would have to abandon the vehicles for the noise, but he wanted to get out of the way of the large beast before he did so.