Chapter 4

Arnold, Muldoon, Ellie, Hammond, Malcolm, and the Gems were sitting in the control room.

Arnold: No! Absolutely not!

Hammond: Nedry's covered his tracks far too well. We have to shut down the entire system. It's the only way to wipe out everything he did.

Garnet: The system should come online after restart r-r-r-r-right?

Arnold: You feeling alright, Garnet?

Garnet: I'm fine. No we're not! Our ability to fuse is failing! Calm down! Stress will accelerate defusing.

Garnet suddenly spilt into two forms, named Ruby and Sapphire.

Ruby: Oh, man! What happened?

Sapphire: Our powers have failed completely. All we can do is maintain physical form.

Malcolm: These are uh, interesting characters.

Ruby: We'll figure out fusion later, but rights on now, let's focus on fixing this park.

Sapphire: Right. So, if the park shuts down, it will come back on, right?

Arnold: In theory, but we've never shut down everything before, it may not even come back online at all.

Muldoon: What about the Lysine Contingency? We could put that into effect.

Hammond: Absolutely not!

Pearl: What's the Lysine Contingency?

Arnold: The lysine contingency - it's intended to prevent the spread of the animals is case they ever got off the island, but we could use it now. Dr. Wu inserted a gene that makes a single faulty enzyme in protein metabolism. Animals can't manufacture the amino acid lysine. Unless they're continually supplied with lysine by us, they'll go into a coma and die.

Hammond: People are dying! Will you please shut down the system?

Arnold eventually agreed. He walked to the main power breaker, and prepared to pull the switch.

Arnold: Hold on to your butts.

He pulled the switch and all power went offline. When he pulled it back up, nothing happened.

Ruby: Is something supposed to happen?

Arnold: Hey look at this.

It said on the computer "System Start".

Arnold: It's working. Shutdown must've tripped the circuit breakers. Within 3 minutes, I can head to the other control shed, and get the park online.

Arnold grabbed a light, and left the control center.

Hammond: Until Mr. Arnold returns, just to be safe, I want everyone to move to the emergency bunker.

On another part of the jungle, Grant and the kids were walking towards the visitor center, when Grant noticed something on the ground. The kids stopped and saw what Grant saw. A nest of eggs.

Steven: Eggs? But, I thought they were all girls.

Grant: Amphibian DNA. On the tour - - the film said they used frog DNA to fill in the gene sequence gaps. They mutated the dinosaur's genetic code and blended it with that of frogs. Now, some West African frogs have been known to spontaneously change sex from male to female, in a single sex environment. Malcolm was right! Look, life found a way!

At the bunker, the group was still awaiting Arnold's arrival, but he was overdue.

Ruby: Grr. This is taking too long! I'd like to get off this island!

Sapphire: Patience, Ruby. We will get off this island.

Ruby: How do you know? Your future vision isn't working.

Sapphire: I don't need future vision to know that things will work themselves out.

Ellie: I'm gonna head down to the shed to see what happened.

Muldoon: You can't just stroll down the road.

Muldoon grabbed his SPAS-12 shotgun and loaded it. Hammond grabbed the blueprint of the shed.

Hammond: I can follow this schematic and talk you through it.

The two exited the bunker, making their way across the road. They passed by the raptor cages, and saw the fences torn open.

Muldoon: Should've been obvious. No power, the raptors were free to break loose.

Ellie: You said there were 4. Blue, Delta, Echo, and Charlie.

Muldoon: That's right.

As they made their way through the brush, they saw the maintenance shed some distance away.

Ellie: We can make it if we run, right?

Muldoon: No. We can't. Because we're being hunted. Run. I've got her. Go, now!

Ellie ran to the maintenance shed, shutting the door behind her.

Ellie: Mr. Arnold? Mr. Arnold? Hammond, I'm in.

Hammond: Good. Good. There should be a long pipe. Follow it.

Ellie followed the pipe along the ceiling. When she reached the control box, she contacted Hammond.

Hammond: Ok. Before you activate the circuit, you must charge the capacitor.

Ellie took the lever and pressed it multiple times.

Ellie: Ok. Charged.

Hammond: Now there should be a button that says push to close. Push it.

On the fences, Grant and the kids were trying to climb over one of the fences. Tim was still climbing down. When Ellie hit the Push to Close button, an alarm began going off.

Grant: Come down! Timmy! You're gonna have to jump.

Tim: Are you crazy? I'm not gonna jump.

Steven: Don't worry!

Steven summoned his shield and flipped it upside down.

Steven: I can catch you.

Tim: Ok. 1...2...

The fence sparked to life, and Tim was shocked off the fence. Steven caught him in his hands, falling to the ground.

Lex: Timmy? Timmy?!

The lights came on in the shed.

Ellie: Mr. Hammond, I think we're back in business!

Raptor Echo leapt out of the pipelines behind her, screeching. Ellie ran away as fast as she could from the vicious raptor. She felt an arm fall on her.

Ellie: Oh, mr. Arnold.

She pulled the arm, and found it was only his arm. Echo attacked from behind the chainlink fence door. She escaped the shed.

Muldoon was hunting Delta, prepping his shotgun to fire. Blue slowly emerged from the bush on the side. Muldoon saw Blue, muttering a pair of well remembered words.

Muldoon: Clever girl.

Blue burst from the bush, tackling Muldoon, biting and clawing at him, ripping the flesh off his body.

Steven licked his hand and placed it on Tim's chest, restarting his heart.

Tim: 3.

As they moved on, Grant ended up seeing Ellie.

Grant: Ellie? Ellie!

Ellie saw Grant.

Ellie: Run.

Ellie ran up and embraced Grant.

Ellie and Grant left the three kids in the restaurant at the visitor's center. The three were eating when the jello in Lex's spoon started shaking. She was trembling when she noticed something. Steven and Tim turned to look where she was looking. A raptor shadow was seen in one of the walls.

Grant and Ellie arrived back at the emergency shed. Grant loaded one of the spare shotguns.

Grant: Just the three raptors, right? One is secure?

Ellie: Right. Unless they figured out how to open doors.

The three ran to the kitchen hiding behind the counter. Tim looked up at the window in the door. Blue fogged up the glass with a single breath. The door knob slowly jiggled, and turned before slowly being pushed open by Blue. She called out to a pack mate, bringing in Charlie.

Lex: Timmy, what is it?

Tim: It's a velociraptor.

Steven: It's inside.

That wraps up this chapter. Also, to the guest reviewers who rush me on these stories, just know I don't have a lot of time to write. So please don't constantly hassle me with a lot of reviews asking me to hurry up with the next chapter, please. Thank you!