Elsewhere in the United States further east, the sun shines over a wheat field as insects were heard chittering.

WEST TEXAS

At a farm, 2 kids, brother and sister Alicia and Ramon Perez were heading over to a chicken coop as chickens were heard clucking. Ramon opens a hatch and starts collecting some eggs, while Alicia tossed some feed to the chickens.

"Here you go." She said.

The chickens gathered as they start pecking the ground as they feed.

Ramon meanwhile closed the hatch as he then heard a strange chittering sound, he looked over and saw something crawling on the fence. It flickered it's wings as it looked a locust, but was about a foot long.

Big insects aren't entirely uncommon, as some and other Arthropods are relatively big. The Australian Giant Earwig grows to 2 inches long, making it the largest living member of it's kind. Some beetles and Wetas are as big as a human hand. The extinct Rocky Mountain Locust grew to be an inch long, making it the biggest locust known.

But they were small compared to other giants before them.

300 million years ago, in an era called the Carboniferous, a time long before even the dinosaurs, there were once monster-sized insects and other giant creepy crawlies that ruled the world. Dragonflies as big as some falcons and hawks with an appetite to much, Meganeura and the Griffinfly were 6 times bigger than modern dragons with 3-foot wingspans. Huge scorpions likely 3 feet long, and possibly spiders with a 2-foot leg-span, twice the size of the Goliath Birdeating Spider, and big enough to tackle animals as big as house cats for dinner. And Arthropleura, a relative to modern millipedes and centipedes, but the size of a car at 10 feet long. And like a cobra, it's thought they can rear up tall enough to look a person in the eye. And although vegetarian, it's jaw mandibles can give a nasty bite. Arthropleura went down in history as the biggest land Invertebrate ever.

The reason for this kind of size of the Arthropods, is that the air in Carboniferous times was alien. Over a third of it was Oxygen, much higher than any other time in history. Oxygen levels were twice as high as compared to modern times, at 35% rather than 21%. Scientists were able to prove that theory after having cockroaches in containers and spend an increase in Oxygen, overtime they got bigger.

The Carboniferous gave rise to the largest and most dangerous creepy crawlies in history.

But eventually, the Era of the Giant Bugs came to an end when the climate dried, and the atmosphere was losing Oxygen. The monster insects and spiders can't survive the change.

Ramon stared at the giant insect as it chittered more, and Alicia heard it as the chittering continues and went over to her brother as the locust flies off as it's wings fluttered.

But then another locust appeared hidden from the field, and then another and several more followed. The chittering grows as then dozens appeared as they start to swarm up.

Ramon and Alicia grew nervous as their numbers continue increasing as they then turn-tail and ran dropping their buckets as they both screamed as the locust swarm grew more massive likely in the hundreds as their droning was heard across the entire field like a monstrous cloud.

Ramon and Alicia screamed as they quickly got to a barnhouse and closed the doors and locked them as they breathed rapidly. Then thudding was heard against the walls from outside as the locusts hit the wall. The 2 kids moved away as Alicia grabs a shovel and they both screamed completely terrified.

Then one locust broke through the wall and shot through into the barn near Ramon as the 2 kids screamed. The locust was stuck on it's back as it tries to right itself up again. It soon got up again as then Ramon rushed over to a bucket and grabs it and slams it over the insect trapping it against the floor as Ramon held the bucket.

And Alicia fearfully gasped and screamed.

Later that day, after the locust storm, a blue Chevrolet Blazer drove up to the farm as standing close by waiting was Ramon and Alicia's mother.

And climbing out of the Blazer's driver seat, a Caucasian woman in her mid 50's, blonde hair, pink shirt tied at the bottom, blue top, and jeans, steps out and waves out to her. As she was a famed paleobotanist very well known.

"Thanks for coming." Farmer Peréz said. "Wasn't sure who to call. Fish and Wildlife didn't even want to see it if it wasn't a dinosaur."

"Yeah, well, they get all the attention." The paleobotanist said as opens her pack as 2 students came out. "You guys want to vary sampling plots a hundred yards each?" She turned to them.

"These your students?" Peréz asked.

Yeah." The paleobotanist said. "We've been looking into the impact of industrial farming on the environment." She joins next to her. "So, this is right up our alley."

"They hit 60 fields in the county." Peréz continued. "You seen anything like this before?"

"No. Not like this." The paleobotanist shook her head. "They've been leaving degraded fields all across the Midwest. First these big companies try to kill off all the insects, now this."

She then climbed up a tractor to get a better look at the ruined field, and then removes her sunglasses revealing to be Dr. Ellie Sattler, one of the few survivors of the 1993 incident of Jurassic Park. And she looks out at the entire field as a large section has been completely wiped out by the locusts' wrath.

"Is that your land?" Ellie asked pointing out ahead to a greener section nearby that wasn't touched.

"That's the Bennetts' corn." Peréz said. "The locusts didn't eat them."

"You plant the same seed as the Bennetts?" Ellie asked.

"No." Peréz shook her head. "We're independent. They use Biosyn seed."

"Yeah, I bet they do." Ellie said having a suspicion. "You say you caught a live one?"

In their family house, the locust that Ramon and Alicia caught is now in a rabbit cage and completely calm now from earlier. And Ramon gives it a piece of food.

"Kids, this is Dr. Ellie Sattler." Peréz said introducing them to Ellie. "She's a scientist from the university."

"A bug scientist?" Alicia frowned.

"Uh, sort of." Ellie said and placed her bag on a chair. "I study plants from a long time ago, and that helps me figure out how to protect plants and soil now."

The locust then chittered.

"Wow. Look at that." Ellie said astonished by the insect with a sequencer in her hands.

She then turns it on with a beep.

"Pretty cool, huh?" Ellie said as Alicia was fascinated. "This is called a field sequencer, and it helps me read DNA everywhere I am. "She readies a swab. "I'm gonna put this swab in his mouth."

She nears the swab by the locust's mouth allowing him to fiddle it in his mouth, and also giving Ellie a saliva sample.

"Good job." Ellie said and placed the swab in the slot for scanning. "And now, I need to take your little buddy on a road trip."

"Where are you taking it?" Peréz asked.

Ellie then stood up. "I need a second opinion."

A bird call from a Red-tailed Hawk soaring overhead fills the sky of the badlands further west as a car drives along a trail.

UTAH

In a cavern with a large opening from above, a team of paleontologist were busy unearthing the fossil remains of a dinosaur skeleton as a man in his 60's with a short beard enters the cavern as indistinct chatter fills the cave.

"Hey, Madeline?" A student said.

"Yeah?" Madeline said.

"We gotta clean out this little cylinder." The student said.

"Okay. Let her down slowly." Another student instructed.

"Got it?" A third student asked.

"Yeah." The second student said.

"Easy." The third student said.

The man with a hat walks by a student with a notebook hands it to him.

"Let's start padding that other side." The second student said.

The man then turns and reveals to be famed paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant, another of the Jurassic Park survivors, as well as among the Sorna group from the 2001 incident.

"Just about there." A man said. "I'm on it."

The other team members were busy digging up the skeleton remains, and base on it's size, appears to be a large Sauropod. A common species of dinosaur to be found in Utah, like Apatosaurus, Camarasaurus, Diplodocus and Brachiosaurus.

"Why do we dig?" Alan inquired. "'Cause paleontology is science, and science is about the truth. And there is truth in these rocks."

But then a moment was ruined, when a teenage girl on her phone suddenly snickered and she and another girl next to her lightly laughed.

"Stop." She said.

Alan turns to them.

"It says here that the T. Rex had a tiny brain." The girl named Madison said.

"Well, it turns out that-that T. Rex was way smarter than we thought." Alan explained. "Capable of memory, of-of loyalty."

Recent discoveries showed that the T. Rex, despite having a brain half the size as a human's is lot more intelligent than previously thought. Studies showed that T. Rex was as smart as a Chimpanzee, compared to older studies with them being no smarter than a house cat. This kind of brain power usually involves problem-solving intelligence and likely a more sociable and adaptable animal.

And a pair would be more coordinated when attacking dangerous prey, like it's immortal rival, Triceratops. One could attack from behind, away from the deadly horns and the other makes the final blow.

"That's a T. Rex." Madison said showing an image of Wrecksy's recent sighting at a drive-in theater. "They've been around since, like, the 90's. I don't get why we're here digging up bones. It just seems kinda random."

"Right." Alan said keeping his annoyance level down knowing she doesn't have the same experience with dinosaurs as he did.

"Grant!" A student called out.

Alan looks up seeing him above the cavern.

"You're gonna want to see this." He said.

Alan heads outside following a wooden walkway as other members and students were busy as indistinct chatter fills the dig site. And the distant screeching of a Red-tailed Hawk was heard overhead.

"Guys, can you help me?" A student asked.

"I'll pack it out." Another student said. "I'll make sure nobody else crosses it."

Alan soon got to his tent and saw Ellie as she turns to him.

"Ellie Sattler." Alan said surprised to see his long-time friend.

"Alan Grant." Ellie smiled. "You look the same."

"Oh." Alan looked at himself.

Ellie chuckled as she looked around his tent. "And this place, it's so... So, uh... you."

"I'm sorry." Alan said stepping in his tent. "If I'd known you were coming, I would've..." He grabs a few items from his desk causing a clanking as he cleaned up a little as Ellie worked around. "Uh..." He moves over to a drawer and grabs a photo of them together at a dig site back in '93 not long before meeting John Hammond. "Can I get you something? A beer or..." He offered.

"Um, well, maybe not at 10:00 A.M., but iced tea or..." Ellie laughed lightly.

"Tea. Yeah." Alan said. "Tea. I can do that."

Moments later, Ellie was cleaning a fossil as Alan pours a glass of ice tea.

"Saw a lot of tourists on the way in." Ellie said.

"Well, the funding's dried up, so somebody's gotta pay for all this." Alan said and hands her the glass.

"Right. Thank you." Ellie said grabbing the glass.

"I read your articles about soil science and regenerative farming." Alan said. "That's great."

"Thanks." Ellie said and took a sip of her tea.

"Gave me grounds for some hope for a change." Alan said. "And the one about growing algae."

"Mmm! Alan, it's amazing." Ellie said. "It's a totally viable carbon-neutral fuel. It's incredible. Our answers are in our oceans and in our soils. I mean, sure, it's gonna take some work, but we're on the verge of extinction. My God. What are we gonna do? Just sit around? Not on my watch?"

Alan remained silent.

"What?" She asked.

"No, nothing." Alan said. "I just... Just like listening to you is all."

Ellie smiled. "So, you're here on your own?"

"Yeah, yeah." Alan said. "On my own. How are your kids?" He asked since he last saw Charlie and his young brother 20 years ago.

"Mmm." Ellie lowered her glass. "Amazing. Grown. It's shocking. They're both in college. Can you believe it?" To her it felt almost yesterday they were just kids.

"And Mark?" Alan asked.

Ellie was momentarily silent. "It's over."

"Oh." Alan said realizing what she meant. "Oh, I'm sorry to hear that." He knew that they were doing great together last time he saw them.

"It's okay." Ellie assured. "I'm back to me. And my work. You know, it's..."

"That's great." Alan said.

"It's good." Ellie said. "It is. I'm alone at last."

"Exciting times." Alan said.

"Yeah, I'm living the Alan Grant life." Ellie said. "It's just..."

"Can be lonely." Alan noted.

"So freeing." Ellie said turning back to him.

"Ellie." Alan said and sighed. "You didn't come out all this way just to catch up, now, did you?"

Before long, Alan was looking at the locust as it chittered in it's cage.

"Well, it's a locust." Alan observed. "Mandibles, wings, thorax, but... God, the size of it is massive." He noted as he seen fossilized insects from Carboniferous times.

He touches the leg of the locust as it jolted and hits the cage wall with a clink, and it's wings fluttered.

"It has genes that have been extinct since the Cretaceous." Ellie said. "And swarms of them are decimating crops from Iowa to Texas. Terrifying, right? Started as a few hundred. There could be millions by the end of the summer. If they keep going, there'll be no grain to feed chickens, cattle. The entire food chain would collapse."

"Well, it's clearly designed, but why would anyone do that?" Alan inquired.

"None of the crops they're eating are Biosyn seed." Ellie said.

"Biosyn." Alan said. "You're saying Biosyn made this?"

"I mean, it would not shock me that they wanna control the world's food supply." Ellie said.

"Not before a few million starve." Alan mentioned.

"Yeah, what is that saying?" Ellie inquired. "Uh, we're 3 meals away from anarchy? If we don't stop them, you can pick your last 3 meals."

Alan turns to her removing his glasses.

"So, why are you bringing it to me?" Alan asked.

"I need concrete evidence Biosyn's responsible for all this." Ellie said. "I need to go to their sanctuary and get DNA from another locust there. But I need a witness."

Alan then knew the witness in question.

"Alan." Ellie said. "You command respect. People believe you."

Alan lightly chuckled. "Ellie. You know why I'm here. It's quiet. I'm done with all that." He said having enough encounters with dinosaurs, especially with Raptors for a lifetime.

"Are you? Okay." Ellie gave out and scoffed. "Well, I'm sorry, Alan. Nobody gets that luxury anymore. Not even you. And you know what? You're the one I trust."

The locust lightly chittered in it's cage and Alan got up lightly chuckling seeming to reconsider but unconvinced.

"This Biosyn sanctuary is, what, a hundred miles from anywhere?" Alan said. "How do you even get in there?"

"I got an invite from their in-house philosopher." Ellie said reaching in her bag and brought out a book.

She placed the book on the desk showing an image of an old friend of theirs' from Jurassic Park, Ian Malcolm as the book was titled, "How the World Will End".

"Seems there's a lot of money in being a chaotician these days." Ellie said.

"And he just happened to invite you out of the blue?" Alan questioned grabbing the book getting suspicious.

"He said there were things I'd wanna see." Ellie said.

"Uh-huh." Alan replied skeptically; especially how he remembered Ian was from the '93 incident during the tour.

Ellie then grabs her bag and begins to head off and turns back to him.

"You coming or what?" Ellie asked.

Alan turns to her appearing to have mind up his mind.

At an airfield in Pennsylvania, a Volvo N 10 unloads a large cage into a Ilyushin Il-76TD-90VD getting ready for flight baring the Biosyn logo on it's tail.

U.S. WILDLIFE RELOCATION FACILITY

Pennsylvania

The truck drives off as the cage begins to be loaded inside the cargo bay as indistinct shouting fills the air.

"It's clear!" A guard called out.

In the cargo bay, the cage slides in as inside was Tyrannosaurus Wrecksy sedated for the long flight from her ancestral homeland of North America, to Biosyn sanctuary. And indistinct chatter fills the room.

"Keep it going." A second guard called out. "That's good."

Elsewhere in the facility, other members were busy as one drove a small bulldozer with leaves, and a Stegosaurus was in a holding pen, as well as a Parasaurolophus pair. And Alan and Ellie were with a DFW trainee named Shira as she shows them around.

"Every animal captured on the mainland comes through here before shipping out to Biosyn's sanctuary in the Dolomites." Shira said.

Close by, 2 members were doing a health exam on a Stegosaurus as one was giving it a teeth cleaning.

"We give them medical attention and make sure they leave healthy." Shira said.

"So much security." Ellie said.

"Those are just the ones you see." Shira explained. "A lot of shady types out there want these guys."

They near a holding pen with Nasutoceratops juveniles, including the one that Claire, Zia, Franklin and the Wild Kratts saved, and has made a full recovery from it's illness. Ellie turns to the baby and gasped and went up to it.

"Hey." Ellie greeted the baby.

"Your plane's just fueling up." Shira said. "Biosyn's a tough invite. You guys must know someone."

"Do you mind if I..." Ellie asked.

"Of course." Shira nodded.

Ellie placed her faces on the side of the infant's face.

"Hello." She greeted. "You seem me? Follow me." She held out her finger and moves it side-to-side as the baby followed her finger.

"We rescued these guys from an illegal breeding farm in Nevada a few weeks ago." Shira said. "Shut the whole place down. Anonymous tip. Especially by some good friends."

"Good girl." Ellie chuckled and ruffled the baby's beak. "Yes. Yes."

Alan smiled as he watched as Ellie laughed.

"Alan. You never get used to it." Ellie smiled.

Before long, their plane was ready to go as they headed off to an Avro RJ with Biosyn's logo on it's tail.

"Okay. We're good." A crew member announced. "Close it up!"

"Take care." Shira said.

"Thank you. Bye." Ellie said.

"Okay." Alan said.

Soon, the Whisperjet speeds across the runway and soon takes off beginning the long flight to Biosyn.

Author's Note:

I am truly sorry for the long wait, quite busy with life off the keyboard and stuff.

Back in February, me and my dad saw Avatar: The Way of Water, and it was truly incredible. The underwater scenes truly brought Pandora's marine world to life. And I happen to have 2 Lego sets from the film: The Ilu and Skimwing. And who knows, The Way of Water may have inspire me for a few upcoming stories later on.

And last month, I also saw 65, it was okay for a dinosaur film in my point of view. But one creature was questionable to me, there was large Tyrannosaur-like reptile chasing Mills. But not a Tyrannosaurid, but is it based on some species of reptile?

And lastly, last weekend, me and my parents saw the James Cameron exhibit at the museum we visit and it was amazing. And saw how the ocean inspired Cameron in making The Abyss, Titanic, and Avatar: The Way of Water. At the end of our visit, we visited the gift store and I got a Safari Ltd Right Whale figure. I hope on the next visit it'll be the 2017 Diplodocus.

And when I first saw Jurassic World: Dominion, seeing Alan and Ellie reunited after so long, I feel it gave me some feeling of what it would have been like to see the original Jurassic Park back in '93.

In the next chapter, is where their next adventure will begin. And 2 references from 2 DreamWorks films.