Jurassic World: Apocalypse – Chapter 22: Indominus Chaos
A/N: Indominus means "untameable", so in essence, this chapter is entitled "untameable chaos". And that title fits this chapter perfectly! We've got dinosaur encounters coming from the right and left and these dinosaurs aren't friendly in any way shape or form! Who do you think will survive or die? Please express your opinion via reviewing. Please enjoy this chapter!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything related to Jurassic Park except the very characters I've made up.
Thunderclapped as a crested head rose out of the foliage, staring right in Nedry and Chadwick's direction. It hooted again, cocking its head to the left.
"Oh...my...gosh..." Chadwick breathed. "What is that?"
"Some dinosaur," Nedry said quietly, slowly backing up. Nedry was no expert on dinosaurs, but he knew this animal was a carnivore, as evidenced by the sharp teeth jutting from its jaws. Even though it only stood three feet tall, he knew it could be deadly.
"You don't know what it is and you work here?!"
"Just stay calm, Chadwick. I think we can handle this guy."
"You'd better be right!"
"You work here! What do we do?" Chadwick whimpered in a high-pitched panicky voice. A trilling sound coming from the mouth of the dinosaur scent chills down Chadwick's spine. He cowered behind Nedry. "Mommy!"
"Hey, you're not so bad," Nedry said to the dinosaur. "You're not so bad. What do you want?"
The Dilophosaurus seemed more curious than hungry, as it made no movements toward the men.
"You want food? Look at us! We're standing out in the rain soaking wet! I don't have any food. I have nothing on me." The Dilophosaurus cooed in response, cocking its head again. "Hey! Play fetch?" Nedry slowly bent down and picked a long stick up off the ground, holding in front of him. "You guys wanna play fetch? Look at the stick! See the stick?"
The dinosaur directly in front of Nedry took a couple of sniffs, but it didn't seem particularly interested.
"Fetch!" Nedry threw the stick into the jungle. The dinosaurs briefly turned to see where the stick fell before returning their attention to the humans. "No wonder you guys are extinct."
"Well that sure worked!" Chadwick cried. "That was your plan? I could come up with something better than that!"
"You got a better idea? I don't see you doing anything but being a coward!"
"Coward, huh? Well, watch this!" Enraged and terrified, Chadwick picked up a rock and slung it at the dilo. The creature recoiled and began to hiss. A colorful frill unfurled from around its neck, giving off a rattling sound.
All of a sudden the jungle came alive with whooping cries and reptilian hisses as the heads of more Dilophosaurus poked out of the foliage, showing off their frills.
"You've done it now!" Nedry snapped.
The first Dilophosaurus fired a glob of blackish goop that landed on Chadwick's face and glasses. The other spitters saw this and swiftly approached.
"Ah!" Chadwick cried as he removed his glasses so he could see. "This stuff stings!"
"It's venom!" Nedry told him. "I remember now. These guys can spit venom."
"Thanks for the tip!" came the sarcastic reply.
The rest of the spitters – six in all – raced out of the jungle some 15 feet away and continued whooping excitedly.
Chadwick was in full panic mode. "You need a plan? I've got one!"
Without warning he shoved Nedry down face-first and started rapidly moving away. "Hey guys! You hungry! Eat the fat guy!"
But the Dilophosaurus weren't finished with him yet. Another Dilophosaurus opened its jaws and a glob of acidic venom splattered in Chadwick's face. Chadwick screamed as he ran in the opposite direction, trying to desperately wipe the venom from his eyes. The venom in his eyes caused extreme pain – he felt like someone was jabbing the back of his eyes with needles. The pain was so intense that he lost all sense of direction and became disorientated; he stumbled onto the ground. The Dilophosaurus shrieked as they leaped upon him to finish what they started.
Suffering a mild headache from his fall, Nedry rubbed his head and opened his eyes and watched in horror as three Dilophosaurus tore into their prey as Chadwick screamed into the stormy air. His arms and legs flailed about as he tried to defend himself, but it was of no use. The dinosaurs were already tearing into him. Serves that traitor right!
Nedry then saw a small aluminum object lying on the ground – the canister! Even though Chadwick was a goner, he knew that if he could get the embryos back to Dodgson, he'd still get paid. Perhaps he'd even be paid double since Chadwick wouldn't be getting his payment.
But as Nedry was about to get himself off the ground, he noticed something peculiar about the Dilophosaurus. Weren't there six spitters? He turned to his right to see three Dilophosaurus watching the attack from a distance, and about 20 or so feet from him. They seemed intent on what was occurring. One of the Dilophosaurus, Nedry noticed, was slightly larger than the other two next to it. One of these smaller spitters was the first one Nedry and Chadwick ran into. This was really strange, as InGen hadn't hatched any new Dilophosaurus in a while, yet the smaller ones were most certainly not adults, but subadults – juveniles or "teenagers" to be more precise.
Nedry decided not to mull it over and attempt an escape. He knew the boat crewmen were still working on the docks not too far away, but in the torrential rain, it was unlikely they would hear his call for help. And even if they did, the three Dilophosaurus would definitely get to him first. As Nedry considered his options, one of the juveniles glanced in his direction and chirped.
Oh great, Nedry thought. Don't make a sound, spitter!
But the Dilophosaurus juvenile did exactly what Nedry hoped it didn't – it whooped, alerting the other juvenile and the adult that were with it. The adult female turned toward Nedry and snarled, opening her frill in aggression. She started coming for him, followed by the juveniles. Nedry didn't stick around, he got to his feet, snatched the canister and ran back toward his jeep.
Within seconds, the dinosaurs were on his heels. The adult spat venom at Nedry that landed on the back of his neck.
"Ah!" Nedry yelped as the acidic venom burned his nape.
He reached the jeep and flung open the door and got inside. The Dilophosaurus snarled from outside, knowing they were unable to get in. Nedry turned the jeep on and pressed the gas.
"Come on, Dennis!" he told himself. "You can do it!"
But just as he pressed the gas, the adult female spitter leaped up and landed on the hood as it the jeep sped forward! She opened her frill and growled before spitting globs of venom onto the window!
"Ah!" Dennis Nedry screamed as he turned the steering wheel from right to left. He couldn't see where he was going! "Get out of the way!" He wiped off the venom with his windshield wipers until he felt the jeep slam hard into something. Nedry, not wearing his seat belt, was thrown forward; his face smudged against the windshield. The impact also caused the dinosaur to flop off of the car and fall onto the ground.
Nedry's head hurt even more, he rubbed his jaw. His vision was blurry, so he pushed up his glasses so that he may see better...wait, his glasses were not present on his face! "My glasses!" Nedry exclaimed. Then, with a shrug, he added, "Well, I can afford new glasses. It's no big deal."
Then, a bird-like chirp was sounded outside. Nedry looked out the window to his left and saw the two juvenile Dilophosaurus standing right next to his door. One of them expanded its neck frill and growled. Nedry tried to turn the ignition on...to no effect. That crash must have damaged the jeep, he thought. Then one of the juvenile spitters leaped up at Nedry's window and bumped into it. The adult female picked herself up off the ground and hopped back onto the hood and began repeatedly pounding on the windshield. The other juvenile ran to the window on the opposite side of the jeep and tried doing the same. They were trying to break in!
"No! No! No!" Nedry exclaimed. "This wasn't supposed to happen!"
Frantically, Nedry looked around the car for something he could use to defend himself. He found a flare hidden underneath one of the seats. He was about to remove the cap when the glass shattered as the female Dilophosaurus smashed through the windshield. Chips of glass scattered everywhere and Nedry covered his head and neck to avoid getting cut by the sharp objects. When he looked up, the dinosaur spat venom in his unprotected eyes.
"AH!" Nedry yelled as he tried removed the pain from his eyeballs. He'd never felt such excruciating pain in all of his life. The pain, which felt like spikes were being jabbed into the back of his skull, was so immense that he wanted to dig his eyeballs out with spoons. Pain developed on his fingers as well, as the acidic venom he was trying to remove ate at his hands.
Callously, the adult female Dilophosaurus gave one more snarl as the juveniles joined her on the hood. Then she lunged at Nedry with opens jaws and claws extended forward...a cry of torment rose through the jungle that afternoon as the Dilophosaurus trio tore into their prey.
Ludlow, Hammond, Masrani, Henry, Dianthus, Arnold and Anthony were still in the Control Room, trying to figure out just what Nedry had been up to.
"Anything yet?" Hammond asked.
"Afraid not, John," Arnold answered. "There's a lot of lines of code to go through here." He groaned. Then he added, "Why would Nedry go through all this trouble to begin with?"
"He must be up to something," Henry speculated.
Trying to cheer everyone up, Hammond said, "It's not all bad I suppose. Hoskins and the ACU are out there now. They'll return all the T. rex to T. rex Kingdom, all the Dilophosaurus to their enclosure, we'll track down that troublesome I. rex and the ACU will find Malcolm and bring him back before he's able to add anything else to his list of complaints about this park."
"I hope he was knocked out sometime when they're gyrosphere was attacked," Ludlow suggested. "Then at least he won't remember too much."
Suddenly, a young woman wearing a lab coat rushed into the Control Room. "Dr. Wu!"
Henry turned in surprise. "Oh, Vivian. Hi."
"You've got to come to the Creation Lab, quickly. We've got a problem."
"OK, I'm right behind you."
"Allow me to come too," Hammond said. "I need a change of pace."
As Vivian and Henry led the way to the Creation Lab, Hammond and Dianthus followed closely behind. They walked past the crowds of oblivious tourists – some of whom recognizing Hammond – and entered the Creation Lab itself.
When they walked past the room containing their scientific experiments involving growing baby dinosaurs in embryonic tanks, Hammond asked, "How are those experiments coming along?"
"Good," Henry told him. "But if this park keeps going downhill like this, we may never know the results of our research."
Vivian led them right into the Cold Storage Room. She opened the storage tanks that held the embryos of all extinct species cloned at the park (except Indominus rex, obviously).
"What's wrong?" Hammond asked.
But Henry already saw the problem – several sockets that once held embryos were missing! "Oh my..." Henry expressed. "What happened?"
"I don't know," Vivian answered.
Hammond still didn't seem to notice. "What's going on? Everything seems fine to me."
"John," Henry said, "some of our embryos are missing."
"How?"
"That's what I want to know. Vivian, do you know when they went missing? Was everyone here or absent?"
Vivian looked thoughtful. "Let's see, everyone else left for lunch around 1:00 p.m. I wanted to finish installing the genetic code for Ceratosaurus into the computer database, so I ended up leaving around 1:30. I got back around 2:00, and that's when Kim and I were going to implant another Apatosaurus embryo into an egg, but two of the Apatosaurus embryos were gone. While we wondered if we'd somehow miscounted how many Apatosaurus embryos we put in her, I realized we were missing two of all the species we have!"
"That's happened before though," Henry told her. For the past several months, the number of embryos in the storage tanks had been fewer than they calculated. However, since it was always two of every species, everyone thought someone had just miscounted how many embryos they made.
"But this time," Vivian said, "the storage tank wasn't completely closed, neither was the decontamination airlock. Not to mention, we normally find that we have fewer embryos than we thought the next morning, not in the middle of the day."
"So someone was in here between 1:30 and 2:00! I don't think we've been miscounting, I think some knucklehead stole them. But who?"
Hammond gasped. "You know, Nedry left the Control Room in a hurry at 1:30."
Henry widened his eyes. "Do you think...?"
"I wouldn't put it past him."
According to her watch, Alaina learned that it was already 2:20 p.m. The raptors were still circling the water tower, just as they had been for the past 25 minutes. Next to her, Tom groaned and hit his head up against the water tower's tank. Alaina, Tom, Brianna, Dr. Sorkin, Gerry Harding, Jess, Gray, Zach, Oscar, Billy Yoder and D-Caf were squished onto the catwalk around the water tank on the tower, with the raptors below, occasionally leaped up and snapping their jaws, trying to scare the humans down.
"This wasn't what I anticipated for this trip," Alaina moaned.
"Hey, it's OK," Tom said. "It's not your fault. Nobody could have predicted this."
Jess glanced at Dr. Sorkin. Despite her horrifying experience – watching her assistant and close friend get torn apart by vicious raptors – she seemed to be taking it somewhat well. She'd been looking into the distance for the past 10-15 minutes, hardly glancing at the raptors below.
Jess elbowed Brianna. "She seems pretty beat up."
"Yeah," Brianna agreed. "You think she'll feel better if we console her?"
"Maybe. We could try." They made their way over to Dr. Sorkin. "Dr. Sorkin?"
"Oh, hi girls," Dr. Sorkin responded, dryly. She didn't look in their direction.
Brianna spoke up. "We're...we're sorry about what happened to your assistant."
Dr. Sorkin said, "Let's not talk about that right now."
"Did you work with him long?" Jess asked.
"It doesn't matter."
Jess slumped her shoulders and frowned. "Oh."
Dr. Sorkin sighed. "Listen, David Banks was a wonderful young man and a good, faithful friend, and I am sad for his death, I really am. But...if I let that stop me, my work, my goals...than all these animals I've been fighting for since we started cloning them will die too...trapped behind the walls that we built. You understand?"
Jess eased up a little and she and Brianna nodded.
"Look, I know you're having an emotional moment right now," Billy said, "but we should really be thinking of a way to get out of here."
Below, Big One snarled, still trying to figure a way up. She then ran forward and bumped her head into one of the water tower's four legs, causing the entire structure to vibrate slightly.
"Yoder's right," Harding said. "Those raptors will figure out a way up here eventually. We need to find a way to drive them off."
"But how?" Dr. Sorkin asked, snapping back to reality. "We don't have a lot of resources up here."
"Maybe we won't have to," Zach said. He pointed down at the raptors.
Big One was sniffing the air and snarling nervously. The other raptors also seemed to have lost their carry on with the attack. They scanned the area. Then, Big One made her chirp-bark "help call" several times.
"They're...nervous," Dr. Sorkin observed. "I've never seen a Velociraptor scared before."
A loud snapping noise came from the jungle. The raptors froze and listened. A moment later, the ominous cracking of several tree branches was definitely from an animal far larger than the raptors. The humans began to get concerned.
"Is that the T. rex?" Jess asked. "Did it follow us here after all?"
The cracking of tree branches continued as the sound of slow, heavy footfalls were added to the mix. Finally, a tree near the forest's edge came crashing down, but no perpetrator could be seen.
"No..." Tom said in disbelief.
Then, seconds passed as the form of a very large theropod dinosaur gradually appeared as it slinked out of the forest – it was almost as if the foliage itself was transforming into this aggressive beast. With red, glaring eyes and a low cackling growl, Indominus rex stepped out into the open.
"What on earth!" Dr. Sorkin whispered. As the dinosaur had been hiding in the foliage of hr enclosure when Dr. Sorkin saw her last, this was the scientist's first time seeing the full body of the Indominus in the open.
The Indominus rex produced a bloodcurdling roar and the raptors shrieked in fright. They quickly leaped over the fence of the parasaur enclosure and scampered off into the forest. The larger predator watched them intently as they ran, observing their speed and agility. But this moment was short-lived, as she quickly focused her attention on the humans.
"She sees us!" Brianna exclaimed.
Roaring again, the Indominus walked swiftly forward, toward the entrance of the parasaur paddock.
"We've need to get out of here now!" Oscar exclaimed.
"But we can't fly the chopper in the rain," Billy argued. "Besides, it's too far away."
"The maintenance tunnels!" Dr. Sorkin said. "They're over in that direction." She pointed toward the base of the closest mountain to her Field Lab.
"Get us out of here!" Gray yelled in fear.
"She's coming in fast!" Harding shouted.
The Indominus marched through the entrance, smashing the concrete arch above her with her skull. The dinosaur roared and before anyone could try to escape out of the water tower, she lowered her head and rammed it into the front legs of the tower, causing it to shake and groan. Mostly everyone panicked when she hit the legs, again, and again, and again. On the last headbutt, the tower groaned even louder and began to lean toward the fence.
"We're going down!" Oscar bellowed.
The tower began to fall before the tank crashed abruptly into the fence (the tower was only slightly higher than the fence), throwing everyone onto the floor. Dr. Sorkin noticed that the catwalk around the exhibit was now only a few feet below them. If we can hop over the fence and onto that, we can walk down the staircase from that catwalk and then run to the maintenance tunnels! she thought. I. rex will have to exit out of the entrance, so she won't be able to get us in time!
"Everyone!" Dr. Sorkin said, getting to her feet. "Jump over the fence and onto the parasaur enclosure catwalk. Then we can run to the maintenance tunnels from there!"
"Good idea!" Harding said.
Quickly, as the predator continued to bash her head against the legs, hoping to bring the tower down further, Billy, Oscar, D-Caf and Dr. Harding helped everyone down to the catwalk. Most of the teens quickly ran down the staircase and toward the tunnels, the only two left were Gray and Zach.
"Come on, Gray," Oscar encouraged. "You're–"
Suddenly, the tower shook again as it began to lean toward the parasaur enclosure. The men, Zach and Gray glanced over to see Indominus rex – her clawed, opposable fingers grasped onto the tower's legs. She was trying to make the tower – and its occupants – fall in her direction!
"Clever girl!" Dr. Sorkin whispered in surprise.
As the tower shook, Oscar, D-Caf, Yoder and Harding tumbled off onto the catwalk, but Zach and Gray continued to hold on to the falling structure. The men quickly got to their feet.
"Boys!" Oscar demanded. "You're gonna have to jump!"
"You crazy?" Gray asked. "We're too high!"
"It's our only chance, bro!" Zach told him. "Count to three!"
The I. rex released the tower as it began to lean in her direction by itself.
"...1...2..."
Zach yanked his brother's hand as they leaped off the falling structure and into open space. The Indominus growled as she rounded the falling tower and rose to her full height, opening her jaws in the hope of catching the boys. It seemed as if time had slowed down for those few precious seconds. Zach landed in Oscar's grasp, while Gray landed in Billy's. The dinosaur's jaws closed on nothing but air as they broke through the once-electrified wires of the fence and landed on the catwalk. The humans stepped back to avoid those teeth when the dinosaur opened her mouth and tried to reach them.
Meanwhile, the water tower crashed to the ground, flooding the parasaur paddock with lysine-rich water.
"We made it!" Harding cried.
"Not yet," Billy said. He pointed to the I. rex as she retraced her steps. Without further ado, she lowered her head and charged forward – she was going to ram into the concrete wall itself! "Leaving now!"
Billy, Harding, Dr. Sorkin, Zach, Gray, Billy and D-Caf sprinted down the staircase, and just in time. A few moments later, the Indominus' body burst through the wall, sending pieces of concrete and metallic catwalk in all directions.
"Pretty wimpy fence you had there, Doc," Billy said.
"It was meant to hold a few harmless 3-ton hadrosaurs," Dr. Sorkin snapped. "Not the 10-ton monster we've got behind us now!"
With a mighty roar, the Indominus propelled herself forward, shaking the muddy ground as if an earthquake were approaching. The humans ran as fast as they could; the tunnels were close, but so was the theropod.
"Come on!" Tom shouted. "Hurry!"
"You can make it!" Alaina added.
"Hurry, Dad!" Jess yelled.
The others ran into the tunnels as the Indominus closed in. With haste, Oscar, Harding and Billy grabbed the handles to the door above them. Then, as if closing a garage door, they pulled the door down. The metal door hit the ground with a loud slam that echoed in the dark maintenance tunnels.
A/N: Talk about action! Nedry, Chadwick and Dr. Sorkin's assistant are goners, Dr. Sorkin's parasaurs have run off into the Isla Nublar jungles and the paddock she kept them in is temporarily flooded, the Indominus rex, Big One's raptor pack AND the Utahraptor, Dilophosaurus and seven Tyranosaurus rex have escaped. In just a few hours, the park has turned from orderly into complete pandemonium! But hold on...there's a lot more chaos coming up real soon. In the meantime, be sure to favorite, follow and review on this story. What do you guys think is going to happen next? Be sure to express yourselves! Until next time, spare no expense!