Chapter Three: Jurassic Park
"Is everyone okay?" Diana asked as she, Gray, and Zach came out of the water on the other side of the river and stopped to either get the water out of their lungs or to take a breather. "Give me a few minutes..." Gray said as he raised his hand slightly before grasping his stomach as he vomited up the last of the water he accidentally inhaled. "That was strange," Zach said as he laid on the ground and caught his breath before sitting up slightly. "Why was there a white Tyrannosaurus Rex chasing after us?" "That wasn't a Tyrannosaur." Gray stated as he sat up and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand.
"That was..." Diana started but stopped and stood up to face the cliff where they jumped from. "Was what?" Zach asked curiously as he and Gray stared at her. "My Indominus Rex, Storming Gale. When she and her brother hatched, I was the first thing they saw so they imprinted on me and from then on called me their mother which is because ever since I was born, I have the ability to understand animals except for raptors who I communicate with through the raptor whistle-" She touched the whistle around her neck. "-whenever I was done training their raptor cousins, I went to visit them as long as I could but I guess Storming Gale wanted to make a friend and everyone gives her a negative reaction, which causes her to act out like with the Ankylosaurus."
"So all she wanted was a friend besides her brother?" Gray asked curiously as she looked to the ground with a forlorn look on her face. "She's either trying to find me or her cousins... Oh god! We have to get back to Main Street so I can find her and calm her down! She's probably panicking right now since she saw me jump!" Zach stared at her before registering what she just said.
"Can we get moving now?" Gray asked curiously as he stared at the two older kids, wondering if they were going to do something. "Yeah, we have to keep moving," Diana said as she turned away from the river and started in the opposite direction. "She's determined to find her Rex." Was all Zach could say before he and Gray ran up to Diana before slowing down and matched her pace.
With the destroyed Gyrosphere, Claire and Owen arrived at the site with the rotting Ankylosaurus corpse nearby but they had their attention on the Gyrosphere. Owen looked around it and pulled out a tooth that was imbedded in the glass as Claire saw something on the ground that made her gasp. "No. No. No." She gasped out as she picked up a dirty device off of the ground.
Zach's cell phone.
"Claire," Owen called out before pointing at tracks moving away from the ruined Gyrosphere. "They made it out." "Where are they now?" She asks before they follow the three sets of footprints until they reached the waterfall cliff. "Where are they?" She asks in fear, but his silence confirms her fear. "Zach! Gray!" She shouts before he quickly pulls her hands away from her mouth.
"I am not one of your damned animals!" She shouted as she pulled her hands away from his. "But there is one loose," He sternly reminded her. "And neither of us would last if you kept yelling," Then he looked at the tracks more carefully. "One of them is a size eight Adidas 'Ultra Boost' running shoe, Diana was with them."
"Diana?" She asked curiously as he took a few steps away from the cliff. "My niece," He said before remembering something and turned to face her. "You wouldn't last two minutes in there." That was the only thing he remembered?!
She glared at him before taking her belt off, ripping her shirt open, thank goodness she was wearing an undershirt, ties the ends around her waist, and rolls up her sleeves before placing her hands on her hips. He just raised an eyebrow at her attire, which she then groaned at his expression. "It means I'm ready to go." She explained, which he finally took another look at her attire again. "Well, let's just get one thing straight: I'm in charge out here. You do everything I say as I say it."
"Excuse me?!" She shouted before reluctantly following him. "Relax. It's like taking a walk in the woods... 65 million years ago." The last part was said quietly as they continued retracing their steps, even as they walked past a large footprint.
"Does anyone know where we are?" Gray asked either teens as they continued walking until a gruesome sight caught his attention. He picked up a Jurassic Park helmet, but the top was cracked and caked in blood. He yelled out and the teens came back to see what he was looking at before noticing the stripped jeep and the dried blood covering it. "I remember now," Diana said as she took a step forward towards the leftovers of a jeep. "This island was also home to the original Jurassic Park that John Hammond started."
"How do you know that?" Zach asked as he held Gray close to him. "His grandchildren are two of the survivors that made it through the park alive while every raptor or Rexy were hunting them," She said as she turned to them with a smile. "Besides, his grandson Tim is the dinosaur expert and helped funded Jurassic World in place of Jurassic Park."
A few seconds later, they arrived at a huge pair of doors and it took all three of them to push it open and saw what used to be a museum and skeletons of medium-sized bipedal dinosaurs on the ground and a torn streamer that said ...that ever roamed the... "It's the old entertainment center of Jurassic Park!" She shouted as she looked around and picked up a corner of the streamer. "Either of you have any matches? And pick up that raptor rib." Gray opened his pack to pull out a, surprisingly dry, pack of matches as Zach picked up a rib closest to him and handed it to her.
She put an end of the match in her mouth and tore a strip of the streamer before tying it to the wide end of the rib and then used the match to light it. They walked around it a bit until they found a garage with two Jurassic Park jeeps just waiting to be driven. "Remember when we fixed up Grandpa's old Malibu right?" Zach asked Gray before both of them smiled and Zach pushed his sleeves up. "I know a thing or two about repairing vehicles," Diana said as she set the rib down and pulled a pair of gray gloves from the back pocket of her knee-length blue jeans. "I help the mechanics fix the jeeps they use to deliver cargo or dinosaurs."
Even with making modifications to the jeep, it still wouldn't work!
"Maybe the engine is shot..." She said before she yanked up the hood of the jeep and immediately saw the problem. "The alternator's shot," She said before looking around and noticed something out of place. "Is that new?" She asked as she pointed at the alternator sitting on a counter. Gray walked over to it and picked it up while looking it over. "This is new, was someone here earlier?"
As he walked over to them, she pulled the shot alternator and handed it to Zach before pulling the new alternator out of Gray's hands and gently slid it in place. "Let me rewire it." Zach offered as he put the alternator he was holding onto the counter and found a flashlight that barely worked but he used it to see the wires he hooked up to the engine just in time before the batteries died.
As they strapped in, Gray just had one question on his mind. "I thought you failed your diver's test?" "WHAT?!" She shouted as she stared at Zach in fear and concern. "Relax," Zach said as the jeep started and he drove out of the doors. "I only failed the driving part." "WHAT?!"
Just a few meters away, Owen and Claire hear an engine and a very high-pitched "WHAT?!" They ran in the direction and see the entertainment center and the opened garage. "They must've jumpstarted one of the jeeps," He said as he walked towards the remaining jeep and noticed the same three sets of footprints going around the garage. "Let's see if we can jumpstart one of these too."
THUD!
She shrieks slightly and runs behind him. Another thump has them crouching behind the Jeep as they hear Storming Gale get closer and closer till she's just outside. He peeks around the corner until a snow white dino foot lands just outside the garage door. He snaps back behind the car and he can hear Claire's shaky breath beside him. "Shh," he whispers to her to calm her down, doesn't work. Storming Gale growls throughout the garage. Claire feels the vibrations coming from Storming Gale and she shakes as tears start to fall from her eyes. They see the tip of Storming Gale's nose peeking around the car and hold perfectly still as she nudges against the car. Claire holds back a sob as the car drops back on the ground.
But nothing else happens. Storming Gale backs out of the garage and they think that's it. They stay quiet as they listen, but hear nothing.
Suddenly Storming Gale busts through the ceiling with a loud roar. I know you're there, great-uncle Owen! They both get up quickly and start to run away. He runs past the car and gets by as it gets pushed against the wall. Him and Claire run through the hallway and into the lobby and Storming comes bursting through the wall behind them. They just nearly escape when Storming gets distracted with a helicopter flying above the glass ceiling.
They dart through the woods and Claire breaks out her phone when they can't hear Storming. "Lowery," she answers head of controls, "We found her," she says still running "South of the Gyro sphere valley. Between the old park and the aviary." "Wait are you following the dinosaur?" Lowery asks shocked from his spot in the control room. "Yes. Get ACU out here. Real guns this time," she orders. "ACu is airborne. They took the helicopter," he tells her sheepishly and she suddenly stops. "Who's flying it?" "Masrani is."
"Well who authorized that!" she exclaims. "He did. He can kind of do anything he wants."
"Ugh!" sh groans and hangs up the phone before chasing after Owen.
They run through the woods and come out where they can see the aviary. The helicopter is right over top of Storming. Everything happens so fast. They start firing but not one of the shots hits the dinosaur, it only seems to make her more angry. Then she suddenly burst through the side of the aviary cage and roars at the Pterodactyls and Dimorphodons that try to attack her. GO AWAY! Pterodactyls and Dimorphodons are flying out and attacking. The helicopter crashes through the ceiling and that's it. Storming walks away from the explosion, Masrani is dead, and they have about a hundred predators flying straight towards the park.
"Woo!" Zach shouts as the jeep runs through an old gate that had probably seen better days. "We're safe." But that moment doesn't last for long. SQUAWK! "GO GO GO!" Gray shouts as he pounds on the dashboard, which makes Zach immediately start the jeep again. Diana risks a look behind and see the flying dinosaur. Go away! Go away! Go away! She hears them chant and immediately knows what set them off.
They repeat whatever they just heard, and by the words they're chanting: Storming got into the Aviary.
"There's the gate!" She shouts as a gate with two guards on top notice the jeep and the flying dinosaurs. "Open the gate!" She and Gray shout repeatedly before the guards immediately opened the gate for them, but never got out of the flying dinosaurs' way. Zach immediately stops the jeep and all three of them jump out of it before running towards Main Street where the Pterodactyls and Dimorphodons were swooping down and either grabbing or attacking people.
"Where's Storming Gale?" Diana shouts and irritatedly listens to the dinosaurs repeat what she just said. "Diana!" Gray shouts as he runs into her and wraps his arms around her as he tries not to cry while Zach stands a couple feet away. "Don't worry," She says as she pries Gray's arms off of her before holding his hands in his. "We'll find my uncle and I'm guessing your aunt is with him okay?" "ZACH AND GRAY MITCHELL!" The British babysitter shouts as she stomps towards the three in fury. "Oh, she is not happy." Diana mumbles as she pulls Gray closer to her.
Ladies and gentlemen, due to a containment anomaly all guests must find shelter immediately.
Emergency sirens go off even as people scrabble to escape the dinosaurs and find shelter. Diana looks around in fear before seeing a familiar man shooting a gun through the commotion with a hardened look on his face. "Uncle Owen!" She shouts as she runs towards him with Gray and Zach following her before they see a Dimorphodon pin him to the ground.
"UNCLE OWEN!" She shouts louder before seeing tranquilizer darts appear in the dinosaur's hide and then see Claire holding the gun he had earlier. And as he stands up and stares at her, he pulls her by the waist for a kiss.
Which Diana's and the boys' eyes widened immediately.
As they break the kiss, he looks around and saw all three of them staring at him and Claire but he only focuses on his niece. "Thank god," He says as she runs towards him to hug him tightly. "I was so worried about you." "I'm so sorry," She mumbles in his shirt as tears fall from her eyes. "I should've told you about Storming Gale and Frosted Gale right from the start. I should've told you about my nights with my babies in their paddock." She keeps saying of how she's sorry and adds on reasons of her disappearance some days.
"Diana," He says as he gently pulls her away to speak to her clearly. "You're entitled as a teenager to have some freedom around the island," She just smiles slightly. "As long as your Indominus daughter isn't involved." "You know she and her brother calls you 'great-uncle Owen' right?" She says in response and nearly laughs at his shocked face.
"Zach! Gray!" Claire shouts as she runs towards her nephews to envelope them in a tight hug. "What happened to you two?" She asked franticly as she noticed a scar on Gray's chin and a bump of Zach's head. "Who's that?" Zach asked as he stared at Owen and Diana, but mostly at Owen. "We work together," Claire said vaguely before remembering something else. "And he's Diana's uncle."
"We have to go." Diana said before pulling both boys by their hands towards the jeep as Owen and Claire followed them. "Lowery, I'm heading back to you." Claire said as she was on the phone by the time they all got in the jeep. "What do you mean 'use the raptors'?!" "SON OF A BITCH!" Both Gradys shouted furiously, which made Gray cringe a little. "You two shouldn't say bitch." Gray muttered before getting a glare from Diana.
SKKRRREEEEKKKK!
Everyone looked behind them to see the giant gate open and people flew out of it while trying to escape the flying dinosaurs. "GO GO GO!" Gray yells for the second time, but this time it was Owen who was driving. "Just drive!" Zach shouted above the people screaming. "Step on it!" Diana shouted as she covered her ears with a pained look on her face. Her gift was also treated as a curse with the Pterodactyls and Dimorphodons repeating whatever they heard. "You okay?" Gray asked as the jeep went in the direction of the raptor paddock. "M-My gift..." She whispered to him, and he tried to distract her but to no avail.
"Can we stay with you?" He asks in fear and worry. "I am never leaving you two as long as I live!" Claire shouted at him and Zach, even though the latter didn't ask. "No, no, them." Both boys say as one points at Owen and the other points at a now calm Diana. "Yeah, definitely them." Gray mutters as they pull in front of the paddock and Owen jumps out with Diana right behind him.
"The mother hen finally arrived." Hoskins said before getting kick square in the face by Diana then punched in the jaw by Owen.
"Get the the hell out of here. And stay away from my animals," Owen growls. "Hoskins you wanted this to happen you son of a bitch." Claire spits at him. "Awww jeez," he brushes them off. "How many more people have to die before this mission starts to make sense to you?" he asks Owen sarcastically. "It's not a mission," Barry interrupts, "it's a field test." He's right there's a bigger chance that things could go wrong in this little experiment of his. And if or when it does, Hoskins will make sure he's not the one who goes down for it. Which isn't good news for Owen.
"This is an InGen situation now," he says completely ignoring their threats and insults. "Okay? There are going to be cruise ships here at the first light. Everybody is going to get off this island. You're going to watch a news story tomorrow about how you all saved lives. No, no, no, better yet. How your animals saved lives." Diana shakes her head in retaliation and from the corner of her eye can see then putting cameras on Charlie and Cobaltite.
"Hey!" she yells at them. "Leave them alone!" She gets past the guards but just before she could touch one of them, two more guards appear and picked her off the ground by her arms. "Let her go!" Owen demands as he chases after her and they immediately obey. Diana rips herself away from their grasp and walks over to Cobaltite as they finish strapping the camera to his head. "Back off," she yells at them and the slowly back away. She slowly approaches Cobaltite and the raptor jerks away from her as if he's scared. She can see it in the mates' eyes. The loss of trust, because she wasn't there to protect them or stop this cruel treatment. Tears of guilt and anger at the situation begin to pool in Diana's eyes.
She turns away from Cobaltite and goes to Delta and Diaspora, who are the more gentle raptor mates. She's sure they can smell Storming Gale on her and are checking her over to make sure she's okay. She reaches out a hand strokes the male reptile gently and looks over the expensive equipment. She looks for a way to get it off but only sees that it was wound around his head tightly. She sighs heavily in frustration. "What's they do to you?" she asks the dinosaur feeling great empathy.
"State of the art, high tech, camera equipment," Hoskins answers her as he walks over. She clenches her jaw shut and blinks away her fear at the sound of his voice. "I want to catch every moment of this on film. Pretty cool right?" He reaches his hand out to the equipment but Delta growls.
Diana roughly shoves his arm away from Delta and stands at full high between them. "Don't touch her," She growls. Hoskins laughs at her threatening stance. "She is no some weapon for you to mass produce in some war. This is part of my family and I care very much what happens to them and my Indomius daughter." Her words wiped the smile straight off his face as he realizes that it was her the Indominus Rexes imprinted on. "These are living, breathing, thinking, creatures. They will bite the hand that feeds them but in your case I hope they take the whole damn thing." She starts yelling at him.
She continues on her rant. She's pushing him too far and knows it. "Diana enough," Owen tries to get her to stop but she keeps going in a white hot rage.
"Hoskins you bastard." He's turned away from her in attempt to block her out. "Hey! I'm talking to you." She grabs his arm to turn him but he whips around and backhands her across the face sending her into the dirt. The raptors go crazy and Diana thinks Diaspora might actually escape from his cage. Barry kneels down to help her up. Owen immediately grabs Hoskins and pins him against the cages hard. A few solider draw their guns and aim them at Owen.
"Wrong move pal," he growls in Hoskins ear. "Hey! Owen. Lets take it down," Barry warns him and tries to pull him off. Owen loosens his grip and shoves Hoskins one more time into the wall. He walks over to Diana and takes her face in his hand checking her over. "Are you okay?" She feels like the side of her face barely felt the puch and she suddenly wants to know why it doesn't hurt as much as it's suppose to. "Im fine." She nods. Owen can tell she's wondering about something but he doesn't push.
"All of you can continue with your threats and insults, but it's not going to stop," Hoskins' now has a group of soldiers standing nearby, as if scared someone else is going to throw a punch tonight. "But this is happening with or without you," he tells Owen in his own threatening voice. Owen and him are standing eye to eye. Diana looks up at him expectantly. "If we do this…" Owen says hanging everyone in suspense "...we do this my way," he finishes. Diana looks to Hoskins and and a big sly grin start to spread across his face.
"Alright."
Owen gathered everyone in the tent to go over strategy. He put the map onto the table where everyone could see it. He points to where the Storming was last seen. "We know she's in sector 5. This is a game we like to call hide and seek, we've done it about a thousand times with these animals," he directs the group. "When they get on target, and they will get on target, wait to engage. Velociraptors are pack huntesr. They like to heard the animal into a kill zone. That's when we take our shot with tranquillizers. Get a clear shot, wait for my command, and give her everything you got. We've got one good target gentlemen." "Do not shoot my daughter with bullets!" Diana barks seriously then adds, "Please."
"Owen," Gray calls to her uncle. Zach quickly drops Gray's hand before anyone noticed. Owen leaves Blue and Black and walks over to the fence. "Are they safe?" Gray asks and they all three are leaning through the bars. Owen shakes his head. "No they're not," he says honestly. "What are their names?" Zach asks. "Well, you've already met Dia there." He points to Diana and the boys smile at her. "Then you've got Charlie and her mate Cobaltite," he points down the line to each dinosaur, "that's Echo and her mate Everfall, here's Delta and her mate Diaspora, and this one's Blue and her mate Black. They're the Betas," He introduces them all.
"Who's the alphas?" Gray asks.
"You're looking at them, kid," He says proudly as Diana walks to stand next to him. "Dia," he gets her attention, even though she's right next to him. "You ready to go?" She nods and he walks away.