~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Chapter 2 - Landing ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The rain pours down in thick sheets of liquid that saturates both the ground and fog covered grounded soil. There is nearly no way to see your hand in front of your face. As this occurs, Lewis Dodgson begins to turn up the dial on a device as he records a new log of today's incident.*
Dodgson: "I have logged the experience I had as one unlike any other encountered thus far. The Spinosaurus egypticus, also known as Septio Spinosaurus which I witnessed on the Island is truly one of the most astonishing things I've ever witnessed…as it gripped the food in its jaws.."
Dodgson suddenly takes a deep gulp. He realizes his friend Miles has not returned, who was here just a moment ago.*
Dodgson: "I told you, tranquilize the beast….I cannot have any mistakes this time Oscar!"
Oscar: "I'm telling you this was the wrong move, Dodgson…."
Miles: "DODGSON! Get our helicopter airborne, get moving NOW! AAAAGGG"
The forest canopy is instantly filled with a rancid smell of blood and muscle tissue. You can see the terror on Miles face as a huge head appears from out of nowhere in the underbrush. The ripples rip outward in a wave like pattern, showing large spiked claws thrusting through the ground and tearing part of Oscar's arm clear off its base. It is the Spinosaurus again, which apparently now has the ability to dig underground and inside water caverns like some type of giant monstrous worm. Worse still, aside from its capacity to dig and swim it appears to be capable of nearly gliding across the water just like a giant cruise ship. This makes it far more terrifying and unpredictable to say the least, as now Dodgson can clearly see it moving directly over the top of the water as though it was running across the ocean wave itself...hunting them from a distance away; as its snout protrudes in and out of the actual ground.*
Septio Spinosaurus: "ROOOOOOOOOOAR! RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWRRRRR! GRRAAAAAAAWWWWWWRRRRR!"
The Spinosaurus bone-chilling scream shatters the cold, damp air. In moments, both Miles and Oscar are running for their lives down the beach path…..seemingly running from absolutely nothing. Even worse than this, the septio Spinosaurus contains a defined mixture of Sea Anemone DNA along with Tyrannosaur, Velociraptor and Troodon….making it a true horror of the high seas. This allows each one of its teeth to resonate with a high frequency in the upper chamber, creating an ear shattering sound that nearly turns Oscar deaf…rendering his forearm and leg paralyzed and useless.*
Three giant rockets are shot at the Spinosaurus, two of which miss. The third lands a direct hit forcing the beast to stumble backward while gliding on top of the water…where large parts of its fin and sail break apart in the aftermath. Nima then fires another electro magnetic projectile towards the Spinosaurus and approaches the group from the southern outcropping.*
Suddenly Oscar screams in terror as he sees the stump of part of his arm still lifted up in the massive Dinosaur's jaws.*
Spinosaurus: "RRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWRR!" *the Spinosaur's huge head rears back, yelling out in a rage as it realizes part of its neck has been blown apart by the bola snare. In the midst of the ensuing chaos, the Spinosaurus backs away into a large pair of trees.*
Billy Yoder: "Oscar, this is just like old times...I told you...Like in Estonia, when we did that reverse recon mission...Heh, paid better than Lockwood."
Billy Yoder: "Yah...you remember that Jenkins?"
Jenkins: "How could I forget, Billy...We ran all day into the village nearby. I think the biggest memory for me, is how bad their cappucinos tasted..."
Billy Yoder: "Ha ha, you always know how to act smart when serious business is afoot mate.."
Oscar: "I remember it.. (holds his arm) As I recall, it was Nima's sister Sandra who got you nits out of that mess."
Nima: "I sure did, esse...I repaid the favor. My cousin Diego, met an older hunter on Nublar after the incident when the power went out..."
Nima: "He was a great man...I thanked Gerry Harding for everything he did for us, Oscar. I don't know if he ever knew.."
Oscar: "That's a great point..."
Nima: "And for that year, all I was doing was reverse position Army training sessions...see I wasn't a cadet. I used to joke that this was Billy's thing, since I've always been a veteran when it comes to shooting...That's why I joined regenesis."
Johan: "Nima, Dodgson pays us to hunt...not to socialize. Billy you did a great thing back there for Oscar. Thank you for your help...especially in the fields."
Billy Yoder: "Yeah, don't mention it...as for Project Regenesis...I dunno... (Billy stares at the clearing.) I need to go speak to my brother Jorge right now...something I got to get off my chest.."
Nima: "The thing is Oscar, I told my daughter I wouldn't come back...I promised her. I mean the pay though is good...we never would have made it out of there if it wasn't for Steingarten's training. (Inhales.) I always knew Islands could be trouble, but this one Oscar?"
Nima: "What I saw in that cave Oscar, it made me think this Island is way different..."
Johan: "It is Nima...It is indeed. Don't wait up for a ride out."
***/Billy enters the clearing North of their position where Jorge is spot-watching the Parasaurolophus Dinosaurs that are surrounding the nearby thicket. He was surprised as they sort of snuck up on them, while Oscar faced out towards the pasture. The air was warm and wet with humid rain./**
Billy Yoder: "I guess I never thought they traveled in herds where they ran like that...Heh, what are you thinking Jorge?"
Jorge Yoder: "Yeah hermano...What I was thinking, is that makes them just like our families. Except they never miss thanksgiving dinners..."
Billy Yoder: "Hah ha ha...Well, when you put it that way..."
Oscar: "That's a good point, there..."
Jorge: "Hey Billy, listen I've been meaning to ask you...ever since our aunt and uncle died, why did you rejoin the Regenesis project? Biosyn promises lots of things, but out here...there's really no guarantee of coming home.."
Billy Yoder: "I did it because I was concerned for my brother...that's the real reason why...You know? There's going to be some crazy episode, that's gonna happen one day and I won't be able to bail him out..."
Jorge: "C'mon Billy, tell me the truth. Besides you got ate by a Tyrannosaurs, and Biosyn still bailed you out...This is all about destiny, not what favorite food we have! I know you and I will never be apart, but I don't wish for you to worry about me so much...this is a big island."
Billy Yoder: "You know, I look at Dinosaur hunting very different than most trappers...I don't take it the way you take it my hermano."
Billy Yoder: "This is serious business out here...I tracked 7 different reptiles the last time we hit the mountain, and still...someone like Gerry Harding decided to save my life. (Inhales.) I dunno...I look at trapping now, the same way I look at tree houses...Remember when you told me, a couple decades ago if I could fix the tree house the right way, we'd always look out over the stars? Since we're brothers...we'd aways go upward?"
Jorge: "Yeah, tree houses are just as important to me today as they were back then! Fortify a strong foundation, then keep building until you can't see the horizon. That's how you do tree houses, brother. But that's the same when it comes to capturing Dinosaurs. It's how we know we can depend on each other. Because...Uncle Jeffrey wasn't there...I told you I'd take care of you, and you'd take care of me..."
Billy Yoder: "Well, that's the thing...although I think it's fun...this is the only reason I do trapping now, brother...to cure you of your illness.."
Oscar: "Billy, are you serious?"
Billy Yoder: "Because I remember what you told me Jorge...One of these days, if me or you falls out of a tree...there's only one of us that's going to be able to break their fall. I want to make sure I'm there for you...if the tree falls over...it's just...I worry about Regenesis..."
Jorge: "What do you mean, Billy? Dodgson pays us well. I know you don't like him so much but it will let us do whatever we want, soon enough.."
Billy Yoder: "What I mean is, the only reason I'm here hunting the Spinosaur is because of you Jorge...Something doesn't feel right, and after the promise I made to gerry I can't keep working here...this is just not me anymore..."
Oscar: "What do you mean then, Billy? (He stares at the Parasaurolophus herd nearby.) You were made to be a dino tracker...like dad.."
Billy Yoder: "I mean...I don't trust Regenesis. Fooling with life too much has taught me, the only important time we have is with our family. I'm just here to help my brother...I am going to quit Biosyn, very likely..."
Jorge: "You can't Billy...We are why Site C is such a paradise. Without us, what is there?"
Billy Yoder: "Then we should go off and make sure that paradise stays that way, for us...and Oscar. We don't need Steingarten..or Dodgson. I don't..."
Johan: "Hey Billy, look alive mate. Got a major Biosyn meeting coming up with Soyona. We got a big site up ahead near the Mayan ruins off the river front." (He tosses a two-tone scarf and a canteen in Yoder's direction.) The thing is, Jenkins knows what you are all worked up over.."
Billy Yoder: "Look alive, brother. Just like when I tagged you and you were it, while climbing the tree house. Dealing with the dinos is the same way. I don't think we belong here...I want to get us both home, Nima was right...Regenesis has something about it that's just really off..."
Oscar: "Even if it does have something off, I'm shocked at you Billy...Remember what Marissa said? Take your eye off the ball, you and I could wind up dead out here."
Billy Yoder: "We're the greatest hunters...What's going to hunt us?"
/***Right then out of nowhere, a large luminous dark shape approaches the 4 hunters. It tears into the Diplodocus, and instantly slashes Jorge to pieces. Ten shots ring out from Jorge's gun, until the large zeno Carnotaurus had lifted his carcass up within his massive...terrifying jaws. Right before Billy's eyes and with Johan as a witness, he had watched his brother breathe his last breath. Now his brother was dead...and Billy couldn't hold back his tears. More than a hundred shots rang out, from Billy and Oscar's gun and Napalm rounds that came in from Nima. Finally, the Carnotaurus died as it crashed into the Incan ruins destroying the entire plateau...16 meters to the East of their campground...and Billy took its blood sample, locking it inside his lockbox and sending a text to Henry Wu...but it was already too late. This was the last climb for the pair of brothers. Jorge had died, and Oscar's arm was ripped to pieces in seconds. It was as if nothing had happened, they were peacefully watching the Dinosaurs near the summit...then seconds later it was all over. Billy was holding his brother's limp body in front of him, cold to the touch. Right then, he remembered the Regenesis project and Maizie Lockwood as well as other clones. He didn't want to see it anymore, he couldn't face what had happened...not a second time. And he just wouldn't do it again./***
Billy Yoder: "JORGE! Nnoooooo! Not my brother... (sobs.) I can't do this anymore...Dodgson, take your money...I can't do this again."
Oscar: I'm so sorry Billy... ARRRGGG (he holds his tattered arm.) But what about me!? My arm's a bloody stump...aren't you going to help me."
Nima: "The true terrors of nature, Billy...often come quick and unannounced..in the cold. It's not over yet. (Inhales.) I promise esse, I will be there..."
Nima: "The same way you were there for me, Billy..."
Billy Yoder: (screams.) Thank you Nima...but I've seen enough...I came here for the memories, not this horrible sht anymore...that's why I saved Harding. When they first did regenesis, I thought it was to protect our families...if we can't even do that...what good is it. I don't believe in the mission...I can't. "
Just then, the Jungle canopy is highly disturbed and bursts apart as another hunter comes rushing out at top speed. Terrified beyond recognition, Miles runs as fast as he can and seizes the syringe of DNA he retrieves from the portion of the Spinosaurus that was blown into 3 abject pieces. He places the DNA canister into his suitcase, then hands it quietly over to Dodgson before running at a brisk pace of speed back to the Helipad.*
Miles: "Here it is, Dodgson! Here's that monster's DNA…..Now get us out of here, get us out now and off this god forsaken island! Remind me never to ask for overtime…"
Oscar: "My arm! Aaaaaaaugh….Take me out of here! Billy, help and get me to the chopper….I did not sign up for this job! That da*n monster swallowed my whole arm!"
Nima: "(inhales.) When I was little, my mother used to tell me as we grow up we feel invincible...but as we grow wiser, we feel weaker and frail."
Nima: "Guess that means we're out of here...Just like back at ROTC camp. Johan, get us out of here! For Steingarten's sake..."
Johan Tramare: "It's about that time...thank you for giving that speech."
Oscar winces in pain and abject terror as he runs extremely fast down the beach.*
Billy Yoder: "I'm done with taking another shot. There, you see Dodgson!? We did not sign up for this…Get us the hell out of this hellish place.."
A loud cascade of crackling thunder sounds is suddenly heard in the air, as the silence is shattered. Three bola snares shoot off in two diagonal directions towards the enormous dinosaur with the White sail on its back. It is the septio Spinosaurus, which Dodgson has come to collect for his nominal fee. This place looks like the south side of Hades and the last stop on a cruise that went terribly wrong. "NOW!" Dodgson screams. He motions for Oscar and Billy Yoder to shoot their rocket propelled launchers at the creature, each laced with over 2000 lbs of semi-lethal tranquilizer compounds and razor tip darts.*
Oscar and Billy shoot the launcher, filling the Spinosaurus with more than a ship full of extreme tranquilizer darts. Billy then runs as fast as he can with a mechanical Grip Arm device, and opens it to grasp the DNA capsule that was extracted from the massive dinosaur.*
Billy Yoder: "I'm g-g-uessing that won't ever be in our recorded entry books Oscar….I'm sorry for ever bringing you to this place…..This place is no kind of resort, unless you mean a trip to the Isles of the Dead…..I can't even believe this place exists…"
Billy strains his eyes to see his friend Amos, what's left of him is now a long blood trail. Just like Jorge...which causes him to spasm in pain.*
Dodgson: "Alright, load it up! We need to get these DNA samples back to the Biosyn lab….I have another meeting soon, and I am sure we do not want to see Regis get to these embryos first."
Dodgson: "As you know Oscar, I'm sorry for your loss…..This wasn't what I had in mind…..But that Spinosaurus must be put under our control, there's no way I am allowing a prize like that to fall back into Ingen's hands again."
Dodgson pauses and looks at the foliage. Suddenly Oscar, Dodgson and Miles notices something is very wrong. The actual white Spinosaurus has disappeared again….vanished without a trace. And worse than that still, the water is not calm. It is highly disturbed and moving a lot…..especially knowing that it is capable of turning invisible. It was biding its time elsewhere on the Island now. It clearly isn't dead.*
Billy Yoder: "Sure whatever you say, Dodgson….Oscar, look alive my comrade...in honor of my brother. (sobs.) *Billy slowly escorts Oscar back to the chopper, with only one third of his arm left.* Come on Miles, let's get the hell out of here. This place is purgatory far as I'm concern…."
Miles: "Gladly….I guess next they turn this into a theme park? Do you think they'll have that on your Dinosaur tour?" *Each of them stare at each other, as the helicopter begins to lift off…..and leave Isla Muerte, heading to California once again.*
Cut to quiet outdoor jungle canopy at night, as the tide rushes in and a large cracking flash of thunder is seen near the starlit skies. Nima, Johan, Jaylaya, Nima's sister Sandra and their grandfather Martin are making their way slowly up the coast of this strange Island. For many years, Nima has worked for Biosyn….having gone on scouting missions with other hunters such as Billy Yoder, while doing jobs for Dodgson. She had arrived just in the nick of time, it seemed like to explore this unknown mystery Island. At the time, Nima could scarcely believe her ears with the many rumors and comments….a hidden shrine to Ancient Gods? A trick trap-door that leads to unknown fortunes and forbidden dangers? Perhaps, she said….her sister was making all of this up. After all, it had been a few days since their ship had been marooned at the shallow Island channel nearby. Something nasty, and massive had caught Sandra's grandfather by surprise. Worse still, Nima hadn't gotten her hair done in weeks. She remembered right then something important, a message or something came in from Oscar's group related to the scout mission for the Dinosaur embryos. One of those resin statues she found, contained samples. Nima hadn't forgotten the terrifying encounter with the Tyrannosaur on Nublar, she could still feel the horror of its breath beating down on her neck….and the stories of the Hupia that made the talk of the town. Why had Nedry failed so spectacularly, was it to make her life into hell? She looked upon the dusty jungle trail with hidden animosity and shock, if the Amber casings were in here….Nima thought….they weren't going to be easy to locate.
Jaylaya: "Nima, what's keeping you? Johan says we need to stick to the trail. This whole mystery Island…..it has a lot of secrets they don't want people to talk about."
Nima: "With due respect amigo, this whole Island gives me off creepy vibes….there's something to those stories of the Hupia. I know it's not made up….I know what I saw, when Rodrigo says the scouts never came back. (Exhales.) There's something alive out there…..and whatever it is, I dunno if any price tag is worth what I'll go through!"
Johan: "My dear, you've hunted the Australian wilder beast before and jackals. What makes you think any marsupial, let alone animal is going to cause a globe-trotting ruckus now!?
Johan: "You know that orders are orders….Dodgson said the hidden cave should be seven clicks west of here. That's where the traps lie….This whole Island as we call it, it belongs to Biosyn."
Nima: "I know but I don't feel like Biosyn is doing right here….if they control this Island, why oh why did I see what I saw with Rodrigo?"
Nima: "You know, they don't pay us enough to go in the interior without sedatives….It would be easy for any predator to pick us right off."
Sandra: "Start speaking like that, Nima….and I bet little Marita won't want to visit the Artemis Aquarium with you anymore in Costa Rica. She craves adventure, Nima…you've got to live a little and get out….Explore while you can!"
Jaylaya: "And what makes you think Nima doesn't know how to explore?...There's just something about this Island, the way it doubles over like a tomb….almost like it's a place we've long forgotten or something…"
Nima: "Hey, hey! Sister! Don't you understand Sandra, how dangerous this place can be? I told my comrade, after Billy is done here with the Spino deal….I want to make this my last job for Dodgson. It's too dangerous…too much….I need to find that cave."
Johan: "My secret office is still on this Island, my friend. There's nothing that even comes out of the main junction chute that we don't already know about from start to finish….Sure, I agree Sandra the creatures here can be a little….grosso hermano….But like Billy Yoder says, it's nothing to be that concerned over…"
Nima: "Johan, I went through 3 ROTC training camps. It took every last pint out of me, just to make it to the finals! (She points to a picture of her with her stepdaughter.) I just don't know…..after what happened with Gerry Harding and Hammond, I just don't know."
Nima: "I don't know….if we should go into those ruins Esse."
Johan: "Bill Steingarten was right about you….You're a scaredy cat! And you know what, this bedevils us but the troop is going in there no matter what. We've got to….for those samples."
Sandra: "No, she not scared of nothing….but something is out there in the jungle…..the green jungle, that makes it so she want to take her stepdaughter far away from this place. My grandfather says there's something evil buried in the cave…"
Jaylaya: "What? That's just a rumor, amigo….Nima and I have been through these caves a hundred times. C'mon Nima, let's go into the Eastern Ruins…We'll show your sister here there's nothing to be afraid of!"
Nima: "I don't want to talk about it….Sandra and I took my daughter here one time. (Exhales.) I promised her we were going to Disney world, then it came outta the water….There's something fiendish here, something so awful….it petrified me. I don't think getting the DNA is so easy."
Johan: "What about your grandfather?"
/Just then, the troop of hunters look around through the tall ferns. They see Martin 40 feet away, his jaw is hanging wide open. He's lost all manner to speak….as he can't move.*
Martin: "HUPIA…..Mega demon….Demon of the jungle…NO, STAY BACK! STAY BACK PERO!"
/Suddenly Nima is shocked and horrified, as a huge Dinosaur emerges from the shadow. The Quetzalcoatlus massive wingspan overtakes the canopy, and begins to shout a strange Mayan chant….as though it knew Nima's troop would be here at this time.*
Nima: "Oh my gawd, Johan…..Run! Run, grab my grandfather Martin….RUN!"
Voya Quetzalcoatlus: "RAAAAAAAAWRR! SNAARRLL! GRAAAAAAAWWRR!" ((The massive aerial Dinosaur suddenly locks its beak around Jaylaya, tearing his leg off his body. It then begins to shriek a very high pitched sound, which the whole hunting troop begins to dart off in 5 directions to get as far away as possible. The Dinosaur's talons rip through the air, slicing Martin apart as though a surgical laser had just been shot off. It spins out in 4 directions, cutting through everything….trees, underbrush and the quiet lake bed as the Jungle canopy descends.))
Nima: "Ahhhh, Sandra….this isn't like when I took her to seaworld….Run! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!" ((Nima shoots off more than 30 rapid fire concussion rounds into the massive Quetzalcoatlus, forcing it to tear the entire upper-part of the jungle apart. As it roars and slashes into the dense Jungle, they witness in horror as Martin's body is torn to smithereens….leaving nothing but a gaping pile of flesh where he once stood.))
Sandra: "Ahhhh, sister! Help me! ((Sandra runs straight into the jungle, and bolts it down an eerie looking Eastern Ruins style corridor. It belongs to the Ancient Incan tribes who were here first, according to John Hammond's memoirs. The frigid air rolls with a menacing purple glow….which fades into other colors along the tunnel. Sandra shoots a cattle prod at it, but the massive Dinosaur tears her arm clean off…..dropping it among the jungle foliage. Their grandfather was dead, and Nima was about to lose 2 more family members….due to the horrific accident which has spun out of control.))
Nima: "Sandra! Wait, I'm coming…..it's just like when you and I used to go to the watering hole with Marita….Only there's nothing to break our fall this time! ((She shoots off 30 flame rounds into the Quetzalcoatlus…managing to retrieve one 2oz container of DNA. This is enough.) Sandra please, no….don't leave and don't go down the tunnel.."
Jaylaya: "I lost my leg….this whole expedition, it isn't worth it….Dodgson has sent us into a death trap…..Come on, we need to regroup with Steingarten."
Nima: "There's no time….I got to find the Amber cave now, I got to save my sister and got to get you out of here."
*Nima fires off 40 electric bolts at the massive Quetzalcoatlus, which lights up the corridor and suddenly a Carnotaurus crashes the cavern wall. Sandra's body is ripped open, and her leg is chopped off at the hip….The Quetzalcoatlus slashes at her, destroying her open chest the same way it destroyed the ship near the ravine. Suddenly, the tunnel turns an eerie color of blue as Sandra disappears….Nima is alone in the Eastern Ruins. She quietly ponders how Johan taught her to hunt in these same jungles, 5 years ago…..Before taking her daughter kayaking. Now, those moments are all flashing….a blur of a distant memory, as she hears something awful moving slowly….approaching through the ancient corridor. This is the tunnel, she thinks.*
Sandra: "Nima…..don't keep going…you want the cure, stay away…the HUPIA…I believe Rodrigo now…Nima, it's down here….not the swimming hole we used to swim at….It lives over here!"
Nima: "No Sandra….no, please don't go! DON'T GO WHERE GRANDFATHER WENT! ((Her distant cries remain unanswered. As she rises, she stands alone in a darkened Incan corridor covered with heavy scents of decay…and blood. She glances downward at the walkway….and sees a shining treasure in the cave 100 meters out. As she approaches it, all a sudden the entire hall is encased in this Eerie Green Glow. ))
*It begins to glow green around the entire chamber, and she Nima sees the carving of the Quetzalcoatlus. This is the cave that terrified her, the one she ran from when Sandra disappeared…she wanted to save her sister no matter what. Yet if it's true she went into the deepest jungle, she ponders, then her time may end soon…she wanted to save her. *
Nima: "I can't let this continue Sandra…..not after you promised me, we'd go back to the Hotel and hang out in front. Just like old times, we'd take my daughter to Seaworld….you promised. Now Martin is dead…..Now our family….aside from my stepdaughter, is good as dead.."
*Nima's jaw drops wide open, as she looks upon the chamber. Inside the glowing, green chamber is hundreds of stones of Amber….Green Amber which contain the DNA of one of the specimens Biosyn wished to find. That project of course was the Plesiosaurus…so she opened the haunting terminal with a quiver of fear. The DNA screen played…and an eerie melody began to ring out. "Welcome, to the secret you can't pass. The lesson that time forgot. Welcome my visitors, to the amazing Isla Muerta….Welcome to Site C…..Island of the Dead." No amount of reward money is worth this…she thought. Dodgson would not do anything less than cause an apocalypse, and Nima ran….she ran as fast as she could through the green glowing hall. And in her hands, she snatched more than 14 stones of Amber….anything to appease the Incan deities who surely control this evil, terrible land. She then disappeared into the jungle….Knowing at a certain point she'll have to tell Steingarten, she was no deserter…Her family was murdered.*
Nima: "This is it….this is the Isle of the Dead for sure….I counted 4 death traps in here. (Exhales.) One above, one below (pointing to the Plesiosaurus) one in between…..and one right in front of my face. (She stares at the coffin sepulcher 7 feet in front of her and slowly lifts the lid…These were the DNA fragments….Oh my god, and that is the Plesiosaurus monster.)
Out of nowhere, a giant shape underwater takes off the entire inner thigh of Nima in its jaws….And swallows it whole, as she bolts it as fast as her legs can carry her. Straight out into the massive Jungle tundra Nima runs, and as she jets off at top speed….All she can think of is one thing. This isn't where her stepdaughter and her should be swimming….This is an Island of Death, and it has brought a curse of death….upon any who dare enter. She couldn't keep going anymore. If the rumors were true, this was probably the most dangerous Island yet…and Nima had been tossed straight into the middle of it. Perhaps, there's a way out…..somehow.*
In the distance of this massive Island's cliff, a roar is heard….Where a lumbering Megalodon lurks nearby. It had destroyed an entire ship off coast….and also Nima's family especially Martin were now dead. The Quetzalcoatlus massive beak looms as a shadow overhead.*
((((((((INTERMISSION: DR. IAN MALCOLM IN MODERN DAY is remembering a key encounter he had with Ray Arnold, more than 2 years ago on the Island of Isla Muerte. Though at that time Malcolm wasn't aware the Island was called Muerta, as he went there to investigate after being phoned by John Hammond to consider accompanying them on their visit to Jurassic Park. All Malcom did indeed know, was that large lizards were being genetically altered and whatever was taking place there was taking place at this strange place outside Costa Rica as well.))))))
Malcolm had met with Levine's assistant, who mentioned Sara Harding was very concerned about a distress call her family received. It related to her uncle directly, Gerry Harding, who is the man that protected Jessie during the breakout sequence. After the park went down, Gerry Harding traveled out and got Jessie and Nima evacuated yet he went back to the third Island for a different reason that no one in the family had ever heard an answer for. He had to travel to an unknown third Island, he said, because Muldoon had mentioned there was food there that could preserve the animals on Nublar from dying out due to lysine deficiency. Of course Harding's real concern was to cure his brother of stomach cancer, and to do this he would travel to this Island….nick-named many times by local Costa Ricans as Compound C. Here, Harding felt the cure could be found….but the problem was he told no one in his family where he was going. Malcolm then decided to go to the mystery Island, known as Isla Muerta, after learning about the disaster that took place at the hospital near there. He went there deliberately and brought Kelly and Arby with him, begrudgingly…to see if the rumors were true. And most importantly, to find out once and for all where Gerry Harding went after the disaster.
Meanwhile, a few years ago more than 400 Miles Away from Isla Muerte's communications tower…on the south side of the beach, facing towards a large eclipse of hail and snow. In this icy graveyard lies a horrifying secret and a man by the name of Ray Arnold. Arnold had discovered this terrible truth, and stumbled onto the Island of Site C by total mistake while doing a large cargo run. Arnold was told by Dr. Wu's assistant to bring in extra feed for the Pteranadons, Pterosaurs and a new species of Dinosaur called Spikliosaurus which he believed was an Anklyosaur. At first, The job seemed simple enough. Bring all the cargo and ingredients from one Inlet near the Island to another, and inform the hospitals and infirmaries of the deliveries. It was pitch black outside and worse still, it was forty degrees below farenheit on this wretched island.
But Arnold still thought he was somewhere on the outskirts of Isla Sorna this whole time. He never dreamed that he had actually been negligent and gotten abandoned on Site C. He was in a very different Island, and unknown region. The Isle of the Dead…..Isla Muerte.*
Ray Arnold: "Who or what is that?!"
Ian Malcolm: "What is what? I came here because I heard of a major attack on a grocery store, by some bi-pedal lizards is what they called them. I'm not sure who I believe now. Chaos theory always brings strange bedfellows. Who are you?"
A small bi-pedal creature who is partly deaf and blind appears. It has a long snout and razor sharp talons on both feet, making a very loud whirring sound. Worse still, it appears that this monster has the capability of hanging from the ceiling and can climb directly up the sides of walls, corners and four dimensional objects.*
Gexenic Troodon: "RAAAAAWR!"
Ray Arnold: "Pleased to meet you then. I am Dr. Ray Arnold."
Ian Malcolm: "Hello, Dr. Arnold. And what in the blazes is that lizard?"
Ray Arnold: "That is, s-s-s-upposed to be….a basilisk lizard of a different type. It attacked seven people here around Costa Rica, that's what I know."
Ian Malcolm: "Ah, well I shoved a large stick towards it…."
Gexenic Troodon: "RRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWR! GRAAWWRRRRR!"
Suddenly the Troodon stands straight up on its hind legs like a human and clings to the ceiling with its hoof clawed feet. It manages to move super fast, darting in and out of the room as though it was a strange type of ostrich.*
The Troodon rips open the soft tissue of a young costa rican victim that had fallen off the deck of a boat. It is bringing the remains up to the top of this small, strange room trying to look a lot like an unusual bird or bird of prey. Malcolm shocks it with his cattle prod, and grabs the carcass. The second Troodon bites Arnold's finger and succeeds in tearing away part of his finger straight off his hand. Afterward, the Troodon is killed.*
Ray Arnold: "Aaaagh….Thank you Ian, for getting rid of that lizard for me." *Arnold says as he places a large circle of gauze all over his right hand.*
Ian Malcolm: *Malcolm extends the Cattle prod and tries to shoot the other one, which climbs up the tree on the right and disappears.* "Sure Arnold….but I've looked at the victim. This is what that Doctor was warning about."
Ray Arnold: "…..Ugg. *winces in pain.* The Basilisk Lizards that escaped, you mean?"
Ian Malcolm "They can climb trees, that's what I mean…They can climb trees and disappear without a trace. The place we're in….Don't you get it Arnold? This is some type of Island of Death. Somehow I do not think any of the stories I heard about this place are false now. I bet they truly did attack the two restaurants, and the daycare center."
Back in Present Day, Ian Malcolm strains his eyes and looks through the fog covered thick sheets of ice. This third island, the Island that never should have existed…Does exist, and now he remembers why. Arnold and him back then believed these things were lizards. It wasn't until Arnold's death did it finally don on Ian Malcolm fully for the first time, that these things were Dinosaur monsters. Real Dinosaur monsters, and the Island he was on…is Monster Island.*
Ian Malcolm strained his eyes to stare at the calm inlet lake. There was something horrible, stirring right beneath the surface, as he could see it. The shadow loomed large almost like an Allosaurus that could swim, though he couldn't get a good look this time.*
These things out here were horrors from another time. They had killed Ray Arnold over on Isla Nublar, and this island he was visiting now wasn't Isla Nublar. It was much worse….it was some kind of graveyard that he and Arnold had first stumbled onto by mistake. Malcolm realized for the first time that the rumors about a Site C must all be true, because he was there. Dinosaurs that can dig through the ground, glide across the water and even float through the air. Velociraptors even, that can possibly swim under water and turn invisible. The Indo-raptor story, of a bi-pedal terrifying monster that can literally slice its victims in two and find them again using a loud, sharp siren's call. It wasn't a myth, or Biosyn would not have made those videos. Malcolm had recognized this just now. It was real. The restricted zone was real. He was actually there, he realized. He was on the Isla Muerte….Or otherwise known as the Isle of the Dead.*
Meanwhile, 40 miles away from the lake near the Western Mountain front on Isla Muerte. A young, 14 year old kid and his rather brash 17 year old sister examine a computer hologram beneath the Mountain Summit station. A slow beep begins to click into place audibly in the background, as the young man raises his head from the screen.*
Arby: "Kelly, what are you doing? That's the key glyph for the program lobby on this Island. Ian said we shouldn't touch it…..remember? Remember what happened on Sorna…It could lock up or even execute a code the gophers here don't know about!"
Kelly: "Arby, don't you get it!? If we do not do something about that key code, it could lock up. This is a unique program….I'm not even sure what island we're on right now."
Kelly: "What if we don't see dad….I mean Malcolm again for several days? What if we don't see him for forty-eight hours or longer? The shed outside didn't say any coordinates that I recognize, it's like, we just wound up trapped on this Island…."
Kelly fidgets with her palm-reader device, and pulls up a GPS location signal tracker. Somehow, it says they are on Island 5 in the single Island cluster for the Los Cinco Muertes which roughly translates to "The Five Deaths." She had no idea at the time that this meant they were actually on Site C, the forbidden island, rather than on the outskirts of Isla Nublar. There was a clear hologram on the table, which foretold of a quantum computer system called the CRAY computer network. She resolved to believe this is what the Hunters were after, though she couldn't truly calculate or understand at the time the reason they wanted it so badly.*
Kelly began to fidget and strike a number of keys on a keypad. A large hologram pulled up coordinates all a sudden, to a set of Incan Ruins in the huge desert. It was no more than 40 kilometers away if she could just find reasons in the computer log for it being there…What was this place? Was it a hatchery of some type…? One thing is clear now, they weren't on Isla Sorna at all...they were at some kind of gigantic containment facility in the middle of Costa Rica.*
Kelly: "Arby, hold on, I think I've found something. What…..Who is that?"
Arby: "That…that looks like an old recording. Play the video back, put it on live…"
Arby: "Hold on, I think I can open the channel for the conduits by removing the feedback loop here. Give me a few moments."
Arby began plugging away intently on the keyboard, adding more than 4 different keystrokes to the algorithm as suddenly the Video sequence transformed. It began playing back the full recording, as the program lit up and all a sudden both their jaws fell open.*
Kelly: "There it goes….The video is playing….What, who is that?!"
*Video Recording: Bill Steingarten's Voice: "It worked, I got to the main lab. Everything in here was trashed, but I managed to capture the samples…..Actual samples for the higher ups back home that belong to the pteranadons and viro pterosaur. One of them, the pterosaur is able to literally paralyze victims with its venom sting. It slowly secretes a long, goopy substance that can better be classified as a venomous toxin. Yep, reading the label here…
'The viro Pterosaur is able to secrete a lethal dose of nerve agent venom which can paralyze unsuspecting victims. Before it appears in the air like a typical pterosaur, it can physically burrow through the tunnels under the water itself…..Underwater, just like a giant Eel or sea snake. Except unlike an electric Eel, the viro pterosaur has sharp spikes up and down every part of its body that inject their unsuspecting prey with a paralyzing dose of vermin toxin…it can hide in the crevasses underwater, and as it does so…it will electrify the molecules around its body which causes a shock wave to emanate outward in a large burst like rush. As it does this, victims feel an intense electrical shock which quietly drains their stamina…making the host go limp. Afterward, its powerful venom toxin can paralyze and at times incapacitate its victims. This was the key reason Dr. Henry Wu designed this Hybrid Pterosaur the way he has, for the enhanced properties of its secretion venom as a weapon for either military or civilian fold operations."
This must be what Regis was talking about which they wanted before I bring back the zeno Carnotaurus sample. It floors me that the bigwigs kept all this a secret…..A group of pterosaurs that can physically fly in the air, AND dive underwater….while delivering electrical blasts off its antenna array!? What are these…Dinosaurs…Or literal monsters! And look at that, camera- zero in on that page there. It says the Zeno Carnotaurus, part of the Spinosaurus sauropod family of Hybrid creatures…..is capable of digging through solid ground like a locust…and then shooting up out of the dirt underneath its unsuspecting targets. My god….Just like the movie tremors….These can't be on any list I've ever seen anyplace before…..These Dinosaurs Regis has sent me to capture DNA from, are absolutely terrifying….I found one…"
Arby: "Kelly, what are you doing? There's something inscribed on this map. Let me read and play back the whole recording.."
Kelly: "Arby, we should just get out of here. I would rather be grounded by dad at this point. Look, whatever is going on out there is far too dangerous…we should stay indoors."
Arby: "Just wait a moment…Look at this. Isn't that the Hunter looking for those ancient ruins?"
Video continues to play: Bill Steingarten: "I've found one of these dmn Zeno Carnotaurus creatures in their natural habitat, which appears to be an aviary type place in an underwater cave. A group of those….those things, those viro pterosaurs were nearby.
They've seen me…. *video feed crackles out as an electric wave is shot off* Oh Gawd no…..It grabbed my leg. *video feed continues to crackle. The pitch black darkness is shattered by the appearance of these hybrid dinosaurs, the viro pterosaurs, tearing into Steingarten's leg as he is electrocuted and part of his upper half is paralyzed. Video feed cuts off just as Steingarten is seen leaping into the water, swimming away from the Zeno Carnotaurus creature which can physically be seen as an ominous dark shape. The Carnotaurus roars loudly, swimming under the water and thrashing its head wildly as it rips Steingarten's right ankle clean off of his body. The pterosaur group physically trap him in an enclosed space, which looks like an underwater cave. His partner David Cruz is seen being ripped apart underwater by what appears to be a dozen piranhas…but which are in actuality pterosaurs which appear to be cornering him. Steingarten is suddenly trapped in an underwater cave and can be seen swimming out of the area as fast as his legs will carry him.* I can't hold them off…Got to get to the surface, Cruz and Garner are dead. I managed to capture one vial of the creature's blood for Biosyn….That's not enough. Regis and Dodgson will not accept my failure, I have to go back. Have to find a way to track the zeno to its main lair… *video feed crackles again. Steingarten is seen swimming to the surface in pitch darkness, while the zeno Carnotaurus is quietly swimming behind him with its jaws open wide ready to feast. He barely makes it to the surface, and enters a decompression chamber. He looks back in horror, out of breath….staring at the water. Steingarten will never see water the same way again. He is now horrified of what lurks beneath the deep blue sea, realizing these hybrid dinosaurs are the real Monsters the tourists all warned about. Creatures who can both swim and fly, while still being bi-pedal dinosaurs on land are some of the most terrifying things he has ever contended with. What would InGen think of next!? Just think what would happen if it was discovered the T-Rex could swim as well, after all the experiments done. No he couldn't think of that now. He had to put it out of his mind tonight, only survival mattered now. He had to get out of this underwater prison quickly…..especially before the Carnotaurus or the Spinosaurus returned, either one. * I can't take this anymore… -steingarten stammers- Someone…..get me out of this hell hole of an island…..This is definitely not worth what I signed up for so far, it's time to regroup. Maybe… 'those Incan ruins' -Steingarten points to something off screen- …maybe those have an answer here. Maybe…"
Arby: "Oh my god….Kelly, that hunter! His whole team was killed by those things…..Kelly I want to get out of here now!"
Kelly: "Arby I don't know….I don't think we should play back any other videos. This place we are in, was supposed to be a recreation center, my dad he said this is where Gerry Harding came from sometimes with food for the ones on Isla Sorna. I had no idea, no clue that this place was like a giant habitat for dinosaurs also…..for me this is like something out of Gulliver's travels, too horrifying to be real…"
Arby: "Kelly, this is the only way. We need to go to those Incan ruins…They are around seven clicks south of here it says. We could get there by boat if we move with stealth. This is the only way to know the truth, to see if there's anything left. If Steingarten is alive or not….the answers to our questions are there."
Arby: "Remember Kelly, Ian told us life finds a way? Well that's what this computer is….I think it found a way to this island for sure. Look at this."
Arby pulls up a small recording of what looks like two hunters entering those Incan ruins, at least four clicks north of there. They slowly open the doors, only to be greeted by that creaking sound of Jurassic Park's front gates opening. Inside is many voice holograms by Henry Wu and other scientists. It reveals the nature of this Island as a giant experiment….an experiment gone awry, as nearly all the major parts of the main land were covered in Fuel depots. Each installation appears to contain other panels that reveal more about the experiments, the illegal experiments conducted all across this Island. Each panel strikes more and more terror into Arby's eyes, as he realizes the truth.*
Kelly: "Arby, what is it?"
Arby: "Kelly….We are far, far from civilization anymore. I think this is the Island where all things forgotten come to rest…The one that everyone tried to forget."
Intermission
(((At least 40 miles from there, Ian Malcolm stands on the hillside.))) Ian Malcolm: "Wherever I am….There is one thing that is certain. The kids are okay right now...Right, I just got shanghaied on a horrible Island with hybrid genetic Dinosaurs…and no Dr. Grant…they need to be strong."
Meanwhile, in the distance. Four clicks north of there, Steingarten brings both hands to rest on his rocket launcher propelled turbine gun. He needs to make a break for it.*
Steingarten: "Oh g-d dam, no, not now….This cannot happen right now."
Steingarten aims both of his guns at the Zeno Carnotaurus which suddenly bursts through the wall of the waterfall, shattering half of the entire containment unit. He shoots both barrels as fast as he can, with wave after wave of bullets hitting the bi-pedal hybrid beast.*
Zeno Carnotaurus: "RRRRRAAAWWRR!"
As expected, the Zeno Carnotaurus plows into the water after him….Swimming fast underwater and above water, at incredible speeds of at least 25 knots….Steingarten knew he had made a tactical mistake bringing a team of four to take the dinosaur down, as they would soon come to find out….mistakes this big quietly end in destruction..*
Zeno Carnotaurus: (((SNAP….GRAAWRRR…))) -it makes eerie sounds where Steingarten's right foot is nearly cut off, and his supply pack is swallowed whole in the Dinosaur's jaws-
The Zeno Carnotaurus finishes eating Eddie, Jaylaya and Nima's sister Sandra. It then stares across the way at Steingarten…rearing up on its hind legs, and letting out a sharp, earth-shattering high pitched shriek. This sound makes it so Steingarten falls backwards, with his eyes darting at the water again. He lost track of the Dinosaur….that's the last thing you want to happen when you are dealing with a creature this dangerous.*
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ End of Chapter 2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~