Jurassic World: Apocalypse – Chapter 19: Rexy's Attack
A/N: We've got a lot of goodies in this chapter. Rexy is going to make her appearance, and we'll learn a little "hidden talent" about Jessica Harding. Please enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything related to Jurassic Park except the very characters I've made up.
"This isn't supposed to happen," Kelly whimpered as Rexy stepped out of the trees. Somehow, this impressive beast had escaped captivity and was now roaming the island, searching for her next meal. "What can we do?"
"You know," Gennaro stated, "I was reading something on the internet a little while ago. It was written by a scientist named George Baselton. He studied the braincase of a Tyrannosaurus and concluded–"
"Wait, uh, you did some research on dinosaurs?" Malcolm asked in surprise.
"Hey, I have spare time. Anyway, Dr. Baselton said that that even though T. rex had excellent eyesight, it could only see moving objects like a frog. So theoretically, if you stay absolutely still, T. rex can't see you."
Malcolm winced. He wasn't fully convinced that one of the greatest predators that ever lived could be evaded by merely standing still. But he wasn't prepared to put forward an argument at a time like this. Malcolm watched as the Tyrannosaurus looked from its right to its left. Then it laid its eyes upon the gyrosphere Malcolm, Kelly and Gennaro were in! Purring, the T. rex approached the vehicle.
"Oh gosh..." Gennaro whispered.
The three humans remained very still as the beast lowered her head to be leveled with the gyrosphere's occupants. She growled, her eyes swiveling in her sockets. It was now that the humans could see just how large this animal's teeth were – the larger ones were at least six inches long, and that wasn't even including the root, which made them twice as long. Each tooth was about the size of a banana, but sharper and finely serrated. The nostrils at the front of the snout flared, causing part of the gyrosphere's glass to fog up. Did Rexy know that she was looking at potential prey? Malcolm hoped that she didn't. Maybe she only saw it as an inanimate object that peaked her curiosity. After a few tense seconds under the beast's haughty glare, the dinosaur lifted her head away from the gyrosphere.
"See?" Gennaro asked. "What did I tell you?"
Malcolm shook his head, not fooled by Gennaro's attempt to not seem terrified. Gennaro was visibly shaking and breaking a sweat. His breathing was greatly staggered.
Suddenly with a mighty roar the T. rex knocked her head into the gyrosphere, sending it rolling wildly. The humans inside screamed in fear as the ball spun around and around. Since the gyrosphere was offline, the gravitational feature was inoperable, allowing the entire ball to roll in any which direction. The ball hit a nearby tree with a loud thud and caused its occupants to remain dangling upside down in their seats. Rexy reached the gyrosphere again in a matter of moments and this time she opened her jaws and crunched down on the gyrosphere. Kelly looked up and screamed – she could see right down the dinosaur's throat! As the tyrannosaur's bite force increased, cracks began to appear in the plexiglass. Thankfully, the ball's spherical shape temporarily stopped the T. rex from biting right through.
"She's gonna break the glass!" Kelly exclaimed.
"Just try to remain calm!" Malcolm yelled above the noise of the rain, thunder and tyrannosaur vocalizations.
"How can we remain calm?!" Gennaro snapped. "We're as good as dead!"
Using her strong neck muscles, the Tyrannosaurus lifted the gyrosphere clean off the ground before dropping it down again, shattering the glass at the top of the now-upside down gyrosphere. This dinosaur was determined to free her prey from containment.
"Get out of your seat belts," Malcolm ordered. As the T. rex continued to bash the ball against the ground, the three of them struggled to get loose of their seat belts. Eventually, Malcolm, Kelly and Gennaro fell to the ground beneath the gyrosphere. They covered their heads as the gyrosphere came over them again. When Rexy lifted it upward, they wasted no time in making their escape. Malcolm grabbed Kelly's hand and the three of them ran from underneath the dinosaur. When the T. rex saw that her prey was now escaping. She dropped the gyrosphere for the last time, causing more glass to shatter upon impact. With a mighty roar, she charged after them.
Kelly had never been so terrified in her life! This was never supposed to happen. She was supposed to go to Jurassic World for a fun and exciting vacation with her family. Now, she wasn't sure she'd even get to live through this experience to tell about it. She risked a look back – the T. rex was much faster than them and increasingly closing the gap between herself and her prey. Her jaws were held agape as she drew closer and closer.
Just then, Gennaro spotted a large hollow log lying to the left just outside a grove of trees. We can hide under there! he thought. He yelled to Malcolm and Kelly, "Hey guys! Follow me!"
"No, no! Don't go over there!" Malcolm replied. But his warning came to late and Gennaro darted toward the log. Rexy growled – instinct told her to go for prey that left the safety of the group, so without thinking, Gennaro was her new target. She turned and moved swiftly toward the lawyer. Malcolm and Kelly stopped running, worried about what would happen to Gennaro.
"Dad! Look out!" Kelly exclaimed. Watching Gennaro, Malcolm failed to spot the T. rex's heavy tail that was swinging in his direction as she turned to the left. Kelly dodged but Malcolm was too slow. The tail slapped him clear off the ground and he crashed into some foliage at the edge of the forest. "Dad!" Kelly cried.
Gennaro knew the T. rex was not far behind him. All I've got to do is reach that log, he thought. Upon reaching safety, he ducked down and crawled into it. The log was a little soggy, but at least he was out of the rain and, best of all, safe from the T. rex. He still heard the monster's footsteps outside. Rexy's growl sent shivers down his spine. He sat up straight, pulling his legs against his chest and prepared to wait out the dinosaur.
"At least I'm safe in here," he told himself. "I hope Ian and Kelly are going to be alright. I'd hate for anything to happen to–"
Suddenly three large claws appeared in the top of the log, just a few inches above his head. Gennaro's face turned pale as the T. rex kicked the log completely off of him. He looked up to see Rexy staring right down at him. She stood nearly still; her only movements were the gentle rise and fall of her body with each breath. She cocked her head to the left. Could she not see him?
It's OK, Gennaro comforted himself. It's OK...just stay still.
Then Rexy lunged! She grabbed the bloodsucking lawyer in her jaws. He gave a piercing scream which came to an abrupt stop as Rexy violently shook Gennaro's body from side to side like a rag doll.
Gerry Harding took one last look at the injured Apatosaurus. Sometime before the rain started, he and the park's other vets had coaxed it underneath some sheltering trees so it could recover. Here, some other Apatosaurus that had been with the main herd during the Indominus rex attack were also staying out of the rain.
"Are you sure she's gonna be OK?" Jess asked.
"She should be," her father answered. "Dinosaurs, like other reptiles, are extremely resilient. I've seen them recover from tremendous injuries that would kill a mammal. So long as she's with the main herd, she should be OK."
"We'd better get back to the main part of the park," Sarah reminded Harding. "This storm's getting pretty feirce."
"You're right. Get in the jeep you two."
Once the three of them were in his jeep, they began driving back. Sarah tried to call Ian to tell him they were on the way back, but her calls went to voicemail.
"So, Jess," Harding began, "everything OK at home? How's school going?"
"I dunno, boring," Jess responded. "I've got a big Spanish test coming up."
Harding smiled. "Can't help you there, but your mom knows a little Spanish."
"Yeah," Sarah agreed. "You should ask her if you need help."
Jess shrugged. "I guess."
A flash of lightning lit up the sky above them as they drove ever closer toward the rest of the park. The rain continued to only come down harder than before. It was a little hard to see the road, but Gerry was used to driving in this weather. The jeep was now riding between two groves of tropical trees, meaning they weren't far from their destination.
"Is it usually this stormy around here?" Sarah asked.
"Not usually. Actually, most of the tropical storms we get aren't even this bad. Most of the time they're–"
"Dad!" Jess exclaimed.
Ahead the headlights of the jeep revealed a gyrosphere lying in the middle of the path! Gerry pounded the brakes and the jeep skidded to a stop. The gyrosphere was upside down and the glass on top was completely shattered.
"Oh my gosh!" Jess said. "What happened to it?"
"I don't know," Gerry answered.
Quickly, the three of them left the jeep to investigate. After quickly looking it over, Harding found several bite marks and teeth embedded in the gyrosphere. He pulled out one of the teeth and frowned.
Sarah said, "There's only one dinosaur with teeth like that: T. rex."
"But...the T. rex aren't even in this part of the park," Harding argued. "They're all the way over in T. rex Kingdom."
"I'm telling you, Dad, it's a T. rex tooth."
"I know. I see that...but I'm wondering how...it must have gotten out." Jess tapped on her father's shoulder and pointed to the several tyrannosaur footprints littering the muddy ground. "I've got to call Arnold at the Control Room. An escaped Triceratops wouldn't be too much of a problem, but this is unacceptable. I hope whoever was in here got out alright." He tried raising the Control Room on his walkie-talkie, but all he got is static. "Strange, the storm must be messing with the signal."
Sarah bit her lip. "So what are you going to do?"
"All we can do now is get to the Innovation Center and tell them in person. I hope the T. rex haven't eaten any–"
"Hey! Hey! Over here!" someone called from nearby.
Harding, Sarah and Jess glanced around the area until they saw an African American girl waving her arms further down the path. Beside her was a man, wearing all black, lying on the ground. It was Kelly and Ian! They rushed over to the pair as fast as they could.
"Oh my gosh! Kelly!" Sarah hugged Kelly tightly. The girl looked on the edge of tears. "What happened?"
Kelly explained how they were riding back to the Gyrosphere Station when the T. rex attacked them and injured Ian. She concluded her story with, "...and I think that lawyer guy was eaten."
Harding shifted on his feet. "I know I shouldn't be happy about the death of a lawyer, but..."
"Is Ian OK?" Jess asked with concern.
Sarah knelt down next to her husband. Applying her hands to the sides of his face, she asked, "Ian? Ian? Say something."
"Remind me to thank John and Simon for a lovely weekend," Ian said.
Despite the seriousness of the situation, Sarah couldn't resist flashing a small grin. "He's fine," she said.
"I think I broke something below my hip."
"I think he'll be OK," Harding said, "but I'd like to get him medical attention as soon as possible. I've got some stuff in the jeep we can use in the meantime. Jess, help me get it."
With haste, Jess and Harding hurried to the jeep to get the first aid materials. After they each grabbed them and began walking towards Sarah, Ian and Kelly, Sarah shouted, "Dad! Jess! Get out of here!"
"What do you mean?" Harding asked.
"Get out of here! Go now!"
Then what Sarah was saying all became clear as a large theropod head appeared from between the trees – it was Rexy!
"Oh no!" Harding exclaimed. He and Jess rushed back into the jeep; unfortunately, Jess was closest to the driver's side, so she hopped in and turned the ignition. Her father hopped into the passenger's seat and said, "Scoot over, Honey so I can drive."
Jess glanced back at the T. rex as she burst out from between the trees and began the pursuit. "No time, Dad!"
She pressed the gas pedal and the jeep lurched forward. Harding screamed as Jess awkwardly picked up speed. The jeep swerved to the left and to the right.
"When did you learn to drive?!" Harding asked in surprise.
"I'll explain later, Dad."
Despite weighing nine tons, the great animal was able to move with surprising speed. Within a few moments she'd reached 20 mph and was still capable of going faster.
"Jess!"
"Not now, Dad–"
"No, ahead! Lookout!" He pointed to a log lying right in the direction they were going. Jess tried to avoid it but only succeeded in riding right over it, causing the jeep to slow down and give the rex time to catch up! Rexy ran right alongside the vehicle and roared loudly. She bumped her head into the jeep's side, causing it to swerve again.
"Hold on!" Jess said. She pressed the gas and sped into an open area where a herd of Triceratops were feeding. "Oh no." She jinxed to the right to avoid the first Triceratops. This rapid movement caused the animal to go into a panic. It bellowed and alerted the rest of the herd. Then the T. rex ran forward. The Triceratops had never seen a tyrannosaur before, but they instinctively knew this creature was a predator. The three-horned herbivores turned to face their new threat as the young Triceratops hurried to get behind the safety of the adults. Rexy slowly approached the trikes and roared; this would not be an easy fight for her to win.
Jess drove the jeep out of the Triceratops herd and looked back. Rexy had no way of reaching them and they were finally safe. "That was so awesome!" Jess exclaimed as she pulled to a stop.
"Remind me to write out my will before I let you drive again," Harding said. "Phew!"
Though they'd successfully escaped the T. rex, Harding was still not at rest – his daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter were not safe from the tyrannosaur.
"So, what are we going to do now?" Jess asked. "Aren't we going back to rescue Ian, Sarah and Kelly."
"No, it's too risky," Harding concluded.
"But we can't just leave them there!"
"We're not." He pointed to the jungle ahead of them. "There's a place beyond the northern perimeter fence we can go. We should be able to contact the appropriate people from there."
"If you say so."
"Just let me drive this time."
"So how realistic is this world domination thing?" Dodgson asked. Himself, Red Crest, Dr. Corts, a few Biosyn board members, scientists and even several of the Homosaurians were gathered around a long table in the secret laboratories of the Biosyn headquarters. The Homosaurians sat on one side of the table, while the humans were on the other, separated by metal bars, just in case.
"Well, we have over 5 million Homosaurians in our facility," Dr. Corts explained, "and we also have–"
"Over five million?!" one of the board members asked. "How is that even possible? You've been working this project with usable DNA for under a year. How were you able to create over five million of your hybrid dinosaurs in such a short period of time?"
"Simple. They've been created with the capability to reach adult size in six weeks of hatching. Females are capable of producing eggs at this point too. Gestation for these reptiles is short as well: only 19-21 days. Young homosaurs are born superprecocial, meaning they can stand, walk, run, learn to communicate and many other things within their first hour of life. So they have a very rapid maturation unmatched by any animal their size. We've engineered them that way."
"It's a very fascinating process," one of the homosaurs hissed.
"Of course, my fellow geneticists and I don't do all the cloning ourselves. We've employed high-tec machinery to get the job done quickly. Our technology is similar to what is seen in a manufacturing company, except we're manufacturing living creatures instead of products. In order to produce five million homosaurs in about a year, I've calculated that our technology needs to clone about 416,667 dinosaurs a month, and that's roughly 13,889 a day. While InGen's used its technology to create an oversized petting zoo, we've used it to really progress genetic-engineering forward into the future. This is the kind of stuff John Hammond only dreams about." Dr. Corts cleared his throat before continuing. "I said all that to say that we have more than enough of these dinosaurs to hold our own in the fight for world domination."
"What about weaponry?" another Biosyn board member asked.
"Oh we've got weaponry! We have created at least 50 forms of war vehicles, all of them resistant to bullets. The 72-foot tall brachio-pod we invented is even immune to some nuclear explosions. This will come in handy on the battlefield. Our EMD offensive weapons are also state-of-the-art, certainly more so than the typical weapons used in the military. And as if that weren't enough, we're even planning to use the research into time portals to create powerful weapon systems."
"What about trained soldiers?"
"Why do you think we've cloned so many homosaurs? They are the soldiers. These dinosaurs are far more capable of fighting in a war than any human being. They're quick learners too. From their first day out of the egg, they've been training to fight in such a battle."
"So you've been planning on this world domination plot for a while," Dodgson concluded in surprise.
Dr. Corts nodded. "We have the resources and trained fighters to succeed in this plot. If we follow my plan, we're no more than a hop, skip and a jump from ruling the world!" Finishing his speech, Dr. Corts took a seat. All eyes were now on Dodgson. He stood up.
"I'm certainly impressed with Dr. Cort's work here in the secret Biosyn laboratories," he said. "All those in favor of going ahead with this, please raise your hand." All hands were raised, except for one. "What's the objection Jeremy?"
Jeremy stood up. "Well, I still think this world domination is unrealistic and ridiculous. Come on, people! This isn't some science-fiction movie, or some wacko-writers fanfiction! This is real life!" Then he took his seat.
Dodgson said, "Your objections have been heard, but perhaps you'd like to take them up with the Homosaurians. I'm sure they'd be anxious to talk with you...over lunch perhaps."
Jeremy glanced at the homosaurs and gulped. The dinosaurs bared their teeth and snarled from between the bars. "You wouldn't..."
"Well, it's not exactly up to me, is it?"
Jeremy seemed to instantly change his mind as Red Crest pointed to the human before making a slashing motion across his neck. "You know what," Jeremy said, "world domination's a great idea! Let's do it!"
"Excellent. We're all in agreement. Now all we have to do is plan our method of attack!"
A/N: Dodgson's turning out to be a very deranged individual if he thinks he can pull this off! Do you guys think he'll succeed? You'll have to wait and find out! Also, how did you guys like Rexy's scene in this chapter? Since she's been eating goats her whole life, I'd imagine she's hungry for something extra, which could make her very dangerous later on in the story. But hey, at least the raptor's haven't escaped! In the meantime, please be sure to favorite, follow and review this story and I'll publish a new chapter in two weeks! Spare no expense!