"Whoa, that must have scared you to death." Mo said.
"You have no idea, it has to be one of the scariest things I've ever been through..." Atticus shivered slightly.
"Wait... Wait... How did the other car get out of the tree?" Mo asked. "And how did Tim survive the fall?"
"Uh, is it my turn now?" Cherry asked.
"Yes, yes, it is." Atticus nodded.
"Okay..." Cherry said then. "I heard something drive by when we came out, I think it might've been you guys actually... But we came out and saw this huge tree, it was just ginormous!"
"Wow," Mo said. "It must have taken that car a long time to fall from it."
"I guess so..." Cherry said with slight wide eyes.
Junior looked up, curiously.
Back in the story, Alan, Cherry, and the Murphy siblings were looking up at a tree.
"What do we do now?" Cherry asked weakly.
"We'll have to stay up in the tree for the night." Alan said.
"I can't climb very well." Cherry said.
"It's okay," Alan told her. "We're gonna get through it together."
"Oh, man," Tim sighed. "I hate trees."
"Me too." Cherry added.
"We'll climb it together." Alan said.
"They don't bother me." Lex smiled smugly as she climbed ahead.
"Yeah?" Tim scoffed. "Well, you weren't the last one!"
The four climbed up together carefully and luckily, not slipping, since it had stopped raining.
"Hopefully neither of us slip and fall." Tim said.
"This is the biggest tree I've ever seen." Cherry said as she got up okay with Alan's help.
"Really?" Tim asked. "Wow, you don't travel a lot, do you?"
"I'm more of an indoors person." Cherry said.
They all then climbed up ahead and looked out.
"Hey!" Tim pointed ahead. "Look at the brontosauruses... I mean brachiosaurus..."
They all looked ahead to see long-necked dinosaurs who were not disturbing them and just grazing among each other.
"Luckily those aren't meat-eaters." Cherry said.
The four smiled at the peaceful sight that they could be around dinosaurs without running for their lives now. Alan went to a higher branch away from the kids to get a better view. He then began to make a few grunts to make it sound like he was one of the long-necked dinosaurs. This seemed to attract the dinosaurs and they looked over.
Lex shushed Alan. "Don't let the monsters come here!" she then warned.
"They're not monsters, those are just animals," Alan told her. "Those are herbivores."
"The vegetarians of the dinosaur kingdom." Cherry added to explain.
"But for you, I think they'll make an exception." Tim smirked at his sister.
Lex glanced at him, then continued to watch the dinosaurs. "I hate the other kind."
"They just do what they do." Alan said as he came back down to join them again.
Cherry yawned and rubbed her eyes. "I guess we better turn in for the day."
"Agreed, we'll need all of our strength for tomorrow." Alan said. He sat with them, then suddenly winced as he felt something stab him below his back. He then reached out and took out a black claw.
"What are you and Ellie going to do now if you don't dig up bones anymore?" Lex asked.
"I don't know," Alan sighed. "I guess we'll just have to evolve too."
Tim decided to lighten the mood with a few dinosaur themed jokes. "What do you call a blind dinosaur?"
"Hmm..." Alan went deep into thought, but couldn't solve the joke.
"'Do-You-Think-He-Saurus'." Tim replied.
This caused Alan to chuckle, that joke really was funny.
Tim tried another. "What do you call a blind dinosaur's dog?"
Alan shrugged. "You got me..."
"A 'Do-You-Think-He-Saurus rex'." Tim said.
Alan chuckled, another good one.
"Cherry?" Lex spoke up. "What if the dinosaurs come back while we're all asleep?"
"I'll stay awake..." Cherry said but she then yawned.
"I'll stay awake as well." Alan said.
"All night?" Lex asked them.
"All night." Alan and Cherry nodded.
Alan looked at the claw as the kids started to fall asleep, then tossed it down on the low ground.
"So, what happened when you and the others got back to the center, Atticus?" Mo asked.
"We ended up in the gift shop..." Atticus said. "Poor Mr. Hammond was so heartbroken..."
Atticus and Ellie walked through the gift shop and into the next room which looked almost like a restaurant. There were dolls, T-Shirts, lunchboxes, furnaces, almost anything possible with the Jurassic Park logo on it. John was eating some food for himself at a lonely table as Ellie and Atticus wandered around.
"Are you okay, sir?" Atticus asked as he noticed the old man was eating tubs of ice cream all by himself.
"They were all melting." John replied as he took another spoonful.
"Want some company?" Atticus asked.
"Sure..." John said softly.
Ellie and Atticus sat with him at the table as he continued to eat more and more ice cream.
"Malcom's okay for now," Ellie told the old man. "I gave him a shot of morphine."
"He's lucky that he didn't get more than one injury." Atticus said.
"They'll be fine..." John mumbled, but it was clear what he said. "Who better to get the children through Jurassic Park than a dinosaur expert?"
"You do realize that your grandchildren and my best friend and Alan are in the jungle with living, breathing, most meat-eating dinosaurs!" Atticus glared.
John glanced at him, feeling hurt enough already since two of the victims were his own grandchildren.
"But they'll probably stay in a tree for the night." Atticus said.
John sighed, then looked back as he sulked with his frozen dairy treat. "You know... The first attraction I ever built when I came down from Scotland, was a flea circus... Petticoat Lane."
Atticus and Ellie listened attentively then.
"I had a wee trapeze and a..." John said, spinning his circle around. "One of those merry go round things... What do you call them...?"
"Carasoel?" Atticus asked.
"Yes, one of those," John nodded then. "And a seesaw... They all moved motorized of course... People said they saw the fleas, 'I can see the fleas'..."
"But, let me guess, they couldn't feel them." Atticus said.
"Indeed..." John sighed once he pulled himself from his flea circus flashbacks. "I wanted to show them something that wasn't an illusion. Something that was real, something that they could see and touch... An aim not devoid of merit."
"But, all of this, it's still just that an illusion." Atticus said.
"You can't think through this one, John," Ellie added. "You have to feel it."
John nodded to them. "You're absolutely right." he said with a smile before frowning. "Hiring Nedry was a mistake, that's obvious... We're all over-dependent on automation, I can see that now. Next time, everything's correctable. Creation is an act of sheer will, next time, it'll be flawless."
"No, you don't understand, you can't simply control these creatures and how they'll behave, the tyrannosaur was waiting for the moment to strike and whoever this Nedry person is, gave it that opportunity." Atticus said.
"When we have control-" John was about to continue.
"Don't you get it, you idiot, you can't control animals or nature, now thanks to you the most deadliest animal is out there now will kill anything in it's path!" Atticus glared, not caring if he got in trouble with the man.
Ellie was surprised of how mature and direct Atticus was for his age.
"Even if this was dream and if it were to come true, you still need to know that animals can't be controlled, they have feelings too." Atticus said.
John frowned, not sure what to do or say now.
"I didn't have enough respect for that power and it's out now..." Ellie said then. "Alan and Lex and Tim and Cherry... John, they're out there, where people are dying..."
"All we can do now is hope and pray that they'll be alive when we find them." Atticus said.
Ellie leaned forward and took some ice cream as she became emotionally worried for the others. "It's good..."
"Spared no expense." John said as he then decided to share his ice cream with her and Atticus.
"Wow, I don't think we've ever heard you sound that serious before, Atticus, besides when you defended me and Angel." Mo said.
"It's the way I am..." Atticus said before feeling his stomach. "Ooh, I'm hungry..."
"Yeah... Me too..." Cherry said. "This talk about you eating ice cream..."
Mo looked to Junior as he looked a little hungry too. "Let's take a quick lunch break."
"Agreed." Atticus and Cherry said.