Mo picked up Junior and set him in his highchair as she checked for food for her and her friends before giving her brother his food. Junior patted the table of his highchair and smiled actively, he seemed to love his story so far.
"Looks like someone is really loving this story." Atticus said.
"Too bad he won't remember it much..." Cherry said as she then took out a dinosaur doll and waved it to Junior to keep him busy until they would have their lunch.
And where Junior began to play with it, acting like a dinosaur and even started to make dinosaur sounds.
Mo chuckled to that as she decided to make chicken sandwiches for her and her friends, then found Junior's food and prepared it in between the other food. "Silly boy."
"Well, he is who he is." Atticus shrugged.
"Could one of you feed him?" Mo asked. "I'm a little stuck back here."
"Guh..." Cherry cringed as she took the bowl of baby food and gave it to Atticus and put her hands behind her back. "Not it."
"Oh, fine, I'll feed him." Atticus said.
Cherry grinned cheekily. Atticus stuck his tongue out at her, then decided to feed Junior. Mo wiped her forehead as she cooked up lunch for them. Atticus then placed the bowl in front of Junior.
Junior kept playing until he saw the food, then put the doll down. He kept roaring though and even held up one of his hands like a claw.
"Okay, Dinosaur, time for lunch." Atticus told him.
Junior began to eat the food from the bowl as Atticus began to help him eat it.
"Almost done, guys!" Mo called as she was almost done with making their lunch.
"Take your time." Atticus told her.
Junior accepted the food, even if he roared during it.
After a little while, Mo, Atticus, and Cherry ate their lunch and Mo had replaced Junior's now empty lunch bowl with his bottle. Junior began to drink from the bottle, really wanting to know what happened next.
"This is great, Mo," Cherry said. "You got it just the way I liked it."
"No problem." Mo agreed, then saw the look in her baby brother's eyes. "When you guys are done eating, think we can continue?"
"Yes." Atticus nodded.
"Good." Mo nodded as Junior drank from his bottle.
"I'll start," Cherry decided. "Even though Alan and I promised to, we fell asleep, but luckily, we weren't eaten by morning. We did have a dinosaur visitor though."
Alan woke up with Cherry to see one of the long-necked dinosaurs coming over to them to get breakfast. This made them smile halfway.
Lex woke up, once she saw the dinosaur, she gasped and sat straight up. "GO AWAY!" she shrieked as the dinosaur was hungry.
"It's okay," Alan relaxed her. "It's a brachiosaurus."
"It's a 'veggie-saurus', Lex," Tim reminded his sister. "'Veggie-saurus'."
"Yeah, it's like you." Cherry said once she remembered Lex said she was a vegetarian.
"Veggie..." Lex told herself to try and stay calm.
"Come on ,girl," Tim cooed to the brontosaurus. "Come on."
Cherry broke a branch with several leaves off and held them out to the dinosaur. "Come on, baby..."
The brontosaurus glanced, it let out a roar at first, but it started to gnaw at the plant from hunger.
"All right... "Cherry said, but then struggled. "I'm not letting go!"
Tim, Alan, and Cherry began to pet the Brontosaurus.
"It looks like it has a cold." Tim frowned.
"Yeah, maybe." Alan suggested.
"Can I touch it?" Lex reached out.
"Sure." Alan said.
"Just think of it as kind of a big cow." Cherry advised.
Tim chuckled to that as he touched the dinosaur first. "I like cows."
Lex began to try to pet the long-necked dinosaur. The brontosaurus backed up before she could though.
"Come on, girl," Lex cooed, trying to show the dinosaur she was friendly. "Come on up here, girl..."
"Uh, oh, um, Lex, I think she's about to-" Cherry tried to warn the girl.
The brontosaurs then snorted and spewed all over the blonde girl.
"Erm... Never mind..." Cherry chuckled sheepishly.
"God bless you!" Tim smiled at the dinosaur.
Lex was now disgusted over what happened. "Yuck..."
"I guess it's safe to go around now," Cherry said. "I don't hear anything."
"I agree." Alan said.
With that, they all climbed out of the tree and decided to explore. It seemed safe so far and seemed quiet this morning.
Once it was safe, they all got off the tree and started to walk.
"Great," Tim whined about his sister. "Now she'll never try anything new. She'll sit in her room, never come out, play a computer..."
"I'm a hacker." Lex replied.
"That's what I said," Tim said. "You're a nerd."
"I am not a computer nerd, I prefer to be called a hacker." Lex retorted.
"No fighting." Cherry scolded.
"You can't tell us what to do!" Tim glared.
"Excuse me!" Cherry glared back.
Alan was sitting at one spot and looking down at what looked like hatched egg shells. This made the kids come back over to where he was.
"You know what this is?" Alan asked them one he picked up one white piece. "It's a dinosaur egg... The dinosaurs are breeding."
"But my grandpa said that all of the dinosaurs here were girls." Tim said.
Alan had an idea of how it was possibly possible. "Amphibian DNA."
"What's that?" Lex asked.
"Something about frogs?" Cherry shrugged.
"Actually, in a way, yes, on the tour, the film said they used frog DNA to fill in the gene-sequence gaps," Alan explained as he picked up another egg. "They mutated the dinosaur genetic code and blended it with that of frogs... Some West African frogs have been known to change sex from male to female in a single sex environment..." he then smiled with a light laugh. "Malcom was right."
"Hey, look." Cherry said as she saw tiny dinosaur footprints.
Tim and Lex looked to them as they were going away from the egg shells.
"Life found a way." Alan smiled.
While they continued their way, back at the center...
John was being informed of a task as Ian was inside, trying to catch up on some rest, but was a lot better than he was the night before.
"Isn't there a way to get the power back on?" Atticus asked.
"We'll never find the command Nedry used," John sighed. "He's covered his tracks far too well. I think it's obvious now that he's not coming back."
"Well, why not just shut down everything and then turn them back on?" Atticus asked.
"Shutting down the system is the only option we have," John sounded grave. "Now as I understand it, all the systems until then will come back on their original start-up mode, correct?"
"Theoretically, yes," the man at his computer replied. "We've never shut down the entire system before. It may not come back on." he then warned.
"Well, it's either that or we don't get the power back on at all." Atticus said.
"Would we get the phones back?" John then asked.
"Yes, again, in theory." the man replied with a small shrug.
"So, then, why can't we shut down the entire park?" Atticus asked.
"What about the lysine contingency?" Robert suggested. "We could put that into effect."
"What's that?" John did not like the sound of that. "That's absolutely out of the question."
"The lysine contingency prevents the spread of animals," the man at his computer replied. "If they ever get off the island. Dr. Wu inserted a gene that creates a faulty enzyme in protein metabolism. The animals can't manufacture the amino acid lysine unless they're supplied with lysine by us, they slip into a coma and die."
"People have died!" Atticus glared.
The man just glanced at him, not even intimidated.
"Will you please shut down the system?" John pleaded.
The man sighed out of defeat, finding that John and Atticus were right. He then began to shut down the systems. The computers were being clicked off as he went to work. The main power then went off as Robert reached for his flashlight, leaving them alone in the dark.
"Hold on to your butts." The man said.
The main switch was then clicked back on.
No lights came back on, but one of the computers had text on it now. 'System Ready'.
The man walked over and took a look. "It's okay," he said in excitement. "Look, see that? It worked!"
"W-W-What do you mean it worked?" Ian asked. "Everything's still off!"
"Maybe it takes time for the entire park's power to turn back on." Atticus said.
"I think maybe the shutdown tripped the circuit breakers," the man added in. "We'll just turn them back on and reboot telephones, security doors, half a dozen others, but it worked. System's ready."
"Where are the breakers?" Robert asked.
"Maintenance shed at the end of the compound," the man replied. "Three minutes, I'll have the power back on in time at the park."
"Great." Atticus said.
John commanded for everybody to be in the emergency bunker until the man known as Mr. Arnold would return.
While the man went to do that, Alan, Cherry, Lex, and Tim were still walking.
"I'm tired." Tim sighed.
"I'm thirsty." Lex added.
"I'm hot." Cherry sounded the most agitated.
"Looking at the map, I'd say the visitor's center is just a mile over the rise there..." Alan said as they climbed up a small grassy hill. "Just keep-" he then noticed scattering dinosaurs that walked around like bipeds. "What is that?"
"What is what?" Cherry asked.
"Those..." Alan looked at the dinosaurs. "Do any of you know what those are?"
"Oh, those are gallimimus," Cherry said once she got a good look. "They're like velociraptors."
"Are those meat-eating?" Lex gulped in worry. "'Meat-sasaurses'?"
"Based on my knowledge, they're omnivores, they eat meat and plants, but the only meat I know they eat are insects." Cherry said.
"Whew." Lex said.
"Look at the wheeling," Alan observed with a smile as he stepped forward to take a closer look. "Uniform direction changes. It's just like a flock of birds evading a predator."
Tim smiled, but quickly frowned as he stepped backward with his sister. "They're... Uh... Flocking this way."
"Then I suggest that we RUN FOR OUR LIVES!" Cherry exclaimed.
The dinosaurs screeched as they began to stampede, allowing Cherry, Lex, Tim, and Alan to run off. The four humans jumped over the turned over tree trunk and hid among it as the dinosaurs fled right by and zipped among the grass to flock apart.
"Good thing none of them hurt us." Tim said.
They all then crawled under and popped up from the other side as the dinosaurs swarmed in the other way. The tyrannosaurus rex emerged from the trees, roaring and starting to snap at the smaller and weaker dinosaurs.
"Can we please keep going?" Lex whispered.
"You think that's a good idea?" Cherry glared.
"I wanna get out now." Lex whimpered.
"Just look how it eats..." Alan whispered as the rex was able to nab one of the other dinosaurs. "I bet you'll never look at birds the same way again, kids."
"Please, can we just get out of here while we're still alive?" Lex whispered.
"Okay..." Alan looked to her. "Keep low and follow me."
Cherry, Alan, and Lex ducked down and started to walk off.
"Look how much blood..." Tim whispered as he watched the bloodbath and carnage displayed right in front of him.
Alan wrapped his arms around Tim and made him follow. While they continued on to where the center was, inside the emergency bunker with Ellie and Atticus, coming down the stairs, concerned.