Chapter 2
The group had made their way to the raptor enclosures. A steer was being lowered into the enclosure.
Amethyst: What are they doing?
Hammond: Feeding them.
A few seconds later rapid screeches and slashes were heard from the enclosure.
Steven: Can we get closer?
Garnet: Steven. These creatures aren't like regular animals.
Hammond: We're still perfecting a viewing system. The raptors seem to be a bit resistant to integration into a park setting.
Voice: They should all be destroyed.
They look behind to see a game warden named Robert Muldoon.
Hammond: Robert Muldoon, my game warden from Kenya. Bit of an alarmist, I'm afraid, but he's dealt with the raptors more than anyone.
Garnet: How many raptors are in there? 3?
Muldoon: Four. All different colors. We got the alpha, Blue. And the beta, Charlie. The others are Echo and Delta.
Pearl: Fast?
Muldoon: Fifty, sixty miles per hour if they ever got out in the open. And they're astonishing jumpers.
The crane was brought back up, torn to pieces with no steer in it.
Hammond: Who's hungry?
Some time after the group had lunch, they returned to the visitor center.
Hammond: You four are going to have a little company out in the park. Spend a little time with our target audience. I think you'll be good friends with them, Steven.
Grant: What does he mean by "target audience"?
Hammond: Kids!
Two kids, Tim and Lex Murphy ran up the stairs to Hammond.
Tim and Lex: Grandpa!
Lex: We missed you.
Tim: Thanks for the presents!
Hammond: Did you like the helicopter?
Tim: It was great!
Outside, two vehicles with no drivers drove up.
Gennaro: Where are the brakes?
Hammond: No brakes. They're electric, guided by this track in the roadway. Non-polluting, top of the line.
Pearl: Their isn't enough room for all of us.
Hammond: Ah, well. There really isn't. Um, Steven is welcome to join them on the tour. You three can monitor the cars from our control room. You'll see into the cars, and where the cars are.
Steven: I'll be fine. Can't I go? Please please please?
Garnet: Alright. You can go.
Steven: Yes! Thank you!
Pearl: Are we sure it's safe.
Garnet: It'll be fine.
Grant, Ellie, and Malcolm got into a car in the back, while Steven, Gennaro, Tim and Lex rode in the front car.
At the control room, an african american man named John Arnold was looking over the camera screens with Hammond, Muldoon, and the Gems.
Muldoon: We're tracking a tropical storm about seventy-five miles west of us.
Hammond: (sighs) Why didn't I build in Orlando?
Garnet: Will it change course?
Muldoon: Maybe. It could swing south like our last one.
Hammond: Start the tour.
Arnold: Hold onto your butts.
Arnold started the tour.
The cars started moving along the track. They came up to a rise, with an opening in the forest.
Car speaker: To the right, you will see a herd of the first dinosaurs on our tour, Dilophosaurus.
Steven: What's Dilophosaurus?
Car speaker: One of the earliest carnivores, we now know Dilophosaurus is actually poisonous, spitting its venom at its prey, causing blindness and eventually paralysis, allowing the carnivore to eat at its leisure. This makes Dilophosaurus a beautiful, but deadly addition to Jurassic Park.
Tim: There's nothing over there!
Steven: Don't worry. We'll probably see something soon. I'm Steven.
Tim: I'm Tim.
Lex: I'm Lex. Where are you from?
Steven: Beach city. I live with the Crystal Gems. We have a pet lion.
Tim: That's so cool!
In the control room, Arnold was watching the computer screen.
Arnold: Vehicle headlights are on and don't respond. Those shouldn't be running off the car batteries. Item one fifty-one on today's glitch list. We've got all the problems of a major theme park and a major zoo, and the computer's not even on its feet.
Garnet: Hammond. Who's the heavy man in that chair?
Hammond: That is our technician, Dennis Nedry.
Hammond went to talk to an obese man working on the other computer.
Hammond: Dennis, our lives are in your hands and you have butterfingers?
Nedry: I am totally unappreciated in my time. We can run the whole park from this room, with minimal staff, for up to three days. You think that kind of automation is easy? Or cheap? You know anybody who can network eight Connection Machines and de-bug two million lines of code for what I bid this job? Because I'd sure as hell like to see them try.
Hammond: I'm sorry about your financial problems. I really am. But they are your problems.
Nedry: You're right, John. You're absolutely right. Everything's my problem.
Hammond: I will not get drawn into another financial conversation with you, Dennis. I really will not.
Nedry: I don't think there's been any debate. There's no debate...my mistakes...
Hammond: I don't blame people for their mistakes, but I do ask that they pay for them.
Arnold: Dennis-the headlights.
Nedry: I'll de-bug the tour program when they get back. Okay? It'll eat a lot of computer cycles; part of the system may go down for a while-Don't blame me. If I am playing...losing memory...
Muldoon: Quiet. All of you. They're approaching the Tyrannosaur paddock.
Pearl: WHAT?!
Pearl scrambled to the camera, seeing the tour cars approach the paddock.
Amethyst: Why didn't you say anything about a T-rex?!
Hammond: Why would something with dinosaurs not have a T-rex?
Arnold: Look. That paddock has gates that'll shock anything that touches it with a 10,000 volt charge. It's perfectly safe.
Out by the paddock, the two cars were looking at the paddock. No T-rex showed.
Arnold: Hang on. I'll try and tempt the rex.
A goat was raised into the paddock.
Lex: Is it gonna kill the goat?
Tim: Excellent!
Steven: Does it bother you?
Lex: I happen to be a vegetarian.
After many hours, nothing happened.
Steven: Two no shows. If this is really a dinosaur theme park where are the dinosaurs?
In the rear car, Malcolm talked into the camera.
Malcolm: Now, eventually you do plan to have dinosaurs on your dinosaur tour, right?
Hammond shook his head at Malcolm.
Hammond: I really hate that man.
Amethyst: I think he's kinda funny.
As the car moved, they noticed something moving in the grass. Grant forced the door open and jumped out the moving vehicle.
Malcolm: No one could have predicted Dr. Grant would suddenly jump out of a moving vehicle!
Malcolm and Ellie followed.
Tim: Hey! I want to go with them!
Tim, Lex, Steven, and Gennaro jumped out behind them.
In the control room.
Arnold: Uh, Hammond?
Hammond: Stop the program! Stop the program!
Pearl: Why would Steven jump out a moving vehicle?
Muldoon: How many times did I tell you we needed locking mechanisms on the vehicle doors?!
Garnet: I agree. Why wasn't that a priority in the beginning?!
The group on the tour entered the grass, and found what was moving in the grass. It was a sick triceratops. A man with a mustache named Gerry Harding was watching over it.
Harding: Hi everybody. Don't be scared.
Steven: Woah. A triceratops, right?
Grant: Yeah. It's beautiful right, Steven?
Steven: Can we touch it?
Harding: Sure.
They began stroking the Triceratops' head.
Steven: It's eyes are red. Is it sick?
Harding: We think it may have eaten poisonous plants or caught some dinosaur-based disease.
Steven: I can fix it.
Ellie: You can?
Steven licked his hand and placed it on the triceratops. The creature blinked once, and its red eyes turned white. It's heavy breathing steadied, as it stood up.
Steven: See?
Grant: Uh...uh...how how did you do that?
Steven: I'm magic. Well, half magic, on my mom's side. I have healing spit.
Lex: That's kinda gross.
Tim: And awesome!
The triceratops brushed its head on Steven in a loving manner.
Harding: I guess it likes you.
In the control room.
Arnold: The storm center hasn't dissipated or changed course. We're going to have to cut the tour short, I'm afraid. Pick it up tomorrow. It's not worth taking the chance.
Hammond: Tell them when they get back to the cars.
Arnold: Ladies and gentlemen, last shuttle to the dock leaves in approximately in five minutes. Drop what you are doing and leave now.
Hammond: Damn!
A thunder strike occurred.
Gennaro: Doctors, if you please. I have to insist we get moving.
Ellie: If its alright I'd like to stay with Dr. Harding and make sure the Trike is fully ok.
Harding: Sure. I've got a gas powered jeep. I can drop you at the visitor's center before I make the boat with the others.
Ellie: Alan, I'll catch up with you. You can go with the others.
Grant: Are you sure?
Ellie: I'll just check it. I want to finish.
The rest of the group, minus Ellie, got into their cars to ride back to the visitor's center.