While spending some time with my children was nice, I knew it would not satisfy me forever - not that I didn't truly love them, but, well, I guess it was a commander thing. I had seen so much of the multiverse already that I just could not bring myself to stay in one place for too long. Even family couldn't completely satisfy that wanderlust.

Of course, it wasn't like I was just going to leave them behind. Besides, my newest destination was one that offered plenty to bring back to them.

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As I stepped into the office building, Vivian at my side, I couldn't help but wonder just how this was going to go. I was essentially engaging in a job interview and...you're wondering why I was getting all nervous over a job interview when I had slain all kinds of alien horrors and killer robots, aren't you?

Well, to put it bluntly, I was not bargaining from a position of power here. I was depending upon my own presentability and the falsified backstory that Vivian was offering to me, and public speaking was not my forte. Not at all. Additionally, the person who I would be interviewed by was Mr. Masrani himself, who I genuinely liked, so intimidating him into giving me the position was out of the question.

Fortunately, though, I was able to avoid making myself look like an absolute fool, and Vivian's own falsified identity allowed her to vouch for me enough that Masrani ended up hiring me on the spot.

After that came setting up the park.

Funny how being a Brutally Efficient Self Replicating Engine of War makes running a dinosaur-themed amusement park easier than getting hired to do so.

Look, getting the Five Deaths set up took time, and my first visit was just taken up trying to set up one island. Managing Jurassic World was more of a side project/leisure activity for me, since I couldn't force people to come. Still, managing the first island wasn't too bad, and it wasn't long before I had the park up and running.

Fun fact: working with such a high-maintenance operation was guaranteed to result in a few lost documents and other issues that would usually be swept under the rug. One way to get around this was making a lot of copies of important documents, something I'd made a point of doing before getting sent on this multiversal ride. Thus, nobody thought to question why I made tons of extra copies of important park documents, especially since most copies ended up in paper shredders. The remainder, however, I made a point of taking with me back to the hub every time I returned home. Vivian had pulled a few strings and convinced Celm to allow me to enter and exit the the Jurassic Park universe at will, so I could have as much fun there as I wanted and not have to worry about people wondering where I was all the time.

Oh, and Celm has also offered me the opportunity to visit the universe of Prehistoric Kingdom, so I could see more dinosaurs and build a park that was infinitely more scientifically accurate than Jurassic World and didn't have to worry about my staff trying to create evil hybrid dinosaurs. Granted, I'd managed to prepare for that inevitability thanks to Masrani himself having more foresight than in the films. Apparently, he'd had someone known as Irene Corts manufacture a device for imitating dinosaur vocalizations so that they could be controlled, mostly for dinosaur shows if the park ever made them. You know, like all the shows the did at Seaworld (mostly the sea lion ones - the Orca shows were not something I liked to think about. Too many mixed feelings).

Also, wow, this Jurassic World universe really had a lot of connections to the films and the games.

Speaking of evil dinosaur hybrids, I'd secretly started working on making breedable hybrids myself - doing stupid things with technology was something I enjoyed being able to do as a commander. Though I did want to eventually find a usage for those hybrids. But what could I do with them?

...Maybe the next universe I could visit with my portal nexus would offer a solution.

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WHY ARE THERE DINOSAURS CRAWLING OUT OF THE GROUND?!

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WHO CROSSED A TYRANNOSAURUS WITH A TRICERATOPS?!

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HOW DID YOU GET SO MANY TYPES OF LARGE CARNIVORES TO LIVE IN THE SAME EXHIBIT?!

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...Okay, so I'd arrived in a universe where mankind was under attack by dinosaurs that had survived underground, and to beat them, the natives were using dinosaurs of their own, and were starting to create dinosaur hybrids to bolster their numbers.

...Okay, I now had a use for dinosaur hybrids.

I think I should probably tell Dr. Wu about this - give him a place to let his mad scientist tendencies vent themselves before an Indominus Incident happened.

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Celempheros watched in amusement as his most recent 'hire' amused himself breeding hybrid dinosaurs to battle 'evil' dinosaurs...okay, maybe 'evil' wasn't the best descriptor here. After all, these creatures wanted to more or less wipe out mankind so that dinosaurs could reclaim the Earth, even though in this instance, the dinosaurs extinction really was just a bad hand in the cosmic card game.

Oh, and the dinosaur fights were really cool looking.

Now, though, Celm did have another assignment to deal with - one that, coincidentally, involved dinosaurs.

..Celm wondered how the commander was going to enjoy this.

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Exiting the portal, I looked around, wondering just what kind of world I had arrived in. Evidently, it was one with dinosaurs and people willing to kill one another...was that a Dodorex?

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AN: In order, the universes visited were Jurassic World: Evolution, Prehistoric Kingdom, Xtractaurs (a toyline that is now out of production), and Ark: Survival Evolved.

The next arc will consist of a series of smaller, self contained chapters focusing on one universe or so per chapter. This is mostly so I can get a backlog of chapters and finish the games I am going to use for the next two arcs, get my other stories in line, and set up concepts that can be explored in Tales from the Hub and other spin offs.

As for why I went with these three universes first, in rough order: dinosaurs are awesome, I love Jurassic Park, I want to be able to populate the hub with scientifically accurate dinosaurs, fossil resurrection is a concept I love, I wanted to actually find a use for the hybrids you can create in the Jurassic Park games, and I really like ARK: Survival Evolved.

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