Space. Time. Reality.

It's not a linear equation, but a prism of infinite realities. Where a single choice can branch out and create whole worlds, different than the ones you know.

I am the Watcher. I am your guide to these strange new worlds. Follow me and ponder. . .

What if?

What If the Indoraptor was a member of the Raptor Squad in Jurassic World?

Owen Grady, his father. His Alpha.

Blue, Delta, Charlie, Echo, his sisters. Blue was his Beta.

That other man with dark skin. He doesn't know his name yet but he considers the man a member of his pack. There's a title for that according to humans. Uncle. The brother of the sire or bearer.

How are they a pack when he looks different compared to his sisters? He is bigger, darker and looks to be a different species altogether. Well Owen and Uncle are humans and they are part of the pack. Owen is Alpha.

So if anyone were to ask Ripper how they were a pack, he would answer. A pack is family.

Family is more than blood.

Just as the Indominus Rex was created, Dr. Henry Wu created another hybrid without the base genome being the DNA of the Tyrannosaurus Rex, instead replacing that genome with Velociraptor DNA. He called it the Indoraptor.

Like the Indominus, there was another Indoraptor in case the first born did not survive infancy. However, according to Dr. Wu, the other Indoraptor had a weak heart and died after birth.

Owen Grady imprinted on the Indoraptor just as he did with four Velociraptors. While they were infants he got them and Ripper, the Indoraptor, to form familial bonds. It was easier to do since communication between the Raptors and the hybrid was possible.

However though, Ripper has proven to be more of an escape artist compared to the others.

Thankfully, no one has been killed when he escapes.

"I think this is it," Darius Bowman says to Kenji Kon and Brooklynn as the three of them crouch behind a Jurassic World jeep. "The truck definitely went in this direction."

I'm sure you are asking yourselves why three teens, a rich kid, an internet superstar and a dinosaur nerd, are sneaking through the jungle of Isla Nublar in the dark of night? Well, the answer is two simple words.

Camp Cretaceous.

In an effort to boost attendance, Masarani Corp formed a summer camp program in Jurassic World. The program is starting small with six kids from across America. Darius Bowman, a young African American who won the ticket to Camp Cretaceous via winning Jurassic World's VR game. Sammy Guiterrez, a young girl from a Texas farm that supplies the park with fresh meat for the more carnivorous dinosaur species. Brooklynn Colin, a world famous YouTube vlogger, famous enough for Masarani Corp to invite her. Yazmina Faduloa, a famous young athlete that was sponsored by Jurassic World. Benjamin Pincus, a young blond boy whose mother Emelia Pincus is a member of Masarani Corp and Kenji Kon, the son of one of Jurassic World's sponsors and a long time customer of the dinosaur theme park. The camp is near the northeastern corner of the island and about 19 miles away from the main park with two counselors working at the moment. And built as a network of treehouses. It was planned to house 500 kids and 150 staff.

Don't know how that's going to work out, but I'm just the narrator.

What the two staff members did not account for was the dream to see living dinosaurs for Dino nerds like Darius Bowman was going to be strong motivation to be willing to break curfew and sneak out of camp, convince two other teens to follow him. Seeing a whole herd of herbivorous dinosaurs on a zipline wasn't enough to sate his eagerness. Hence why Kenji Kon and Brooklynn Colin are with Darius right now.

"Of course this is the place," Kenji said in response to Darius. A little too loud. "Why else would they-?"

Brooklynn covers his mouth and tells him quietly to shush. And just in time too, two staff members get into the jeep behind them. The three teens then make their way to the staircase of the paddock Darius believes is for the dinosaurs named Compsognathus or better called Compies.

The three teens make their way to the catwalk and lean against the hand railing, Darius being the most excited to see a Compy. The species may be small, but it still counted as seeing a living dinosaur.

"Hey, Brooklynn, you can totally take a picture," Kenji said to the pink haired girl, wanting to impress the girl. When the girl moved to stand next to him, Kenji 'offered' to take a picture for her. "Allow me," he said, grabbing her phone and moving to take it from her hands.

Not trusting the stranger with her phone and not appreciating the rich kid trying to take it without asking first, Brooklynn tried to subtly deny his request. "Uh, no thanks," she said with a forced smile.

Being a rich kid, Kenji was not told no often by people who were not working for his father, add on that he is chronologically older, the Asian-American teen did not listen to Brooklynn and tried to pull her phone out of her grip.

Darius glanced at their direction and saw them pulling on the phone back and forth. He assumed that the two were just playing a game of tug of war. Weird time to start a game like that, but oh well, the African-American thinks to himself, glancing down to the pen. I'll help Brooklynn win in a second.

A reaction like that tends to occur when you are a Dino-Nerd who plays video games and has a small number of friends. Plus being a year younger. You often read social interactions like the one going on next to him the wrong way.

Just as Darius looked away, Kenji did two things. One on purpose and the other on accident. He pulled Brooklynn's phone out of her grip. And then he dropped it into the pen.

I'm sure you can tell which was done on purpose and by accident.

Kenji stared down at the fog filled pen and Brooklynn said to him sarcastically with a deadpan expression, "Thanks, Kenji. Real smooth."

"Uh, Relax. I'll get it." Kenji said arrogantly.

When Darius looks back over, he sees Kenji climbing over the railing and clearly intending to climb into the pen. "Wait, what are you doing-?" he whisper-shouted.

"Relax, Junior," Kenji told the younger boy. "I got this."

One of the residents of the pen woke up from his slumber. Ripper lifted his head and glanced over to Kenji's direction and saw the blue shirt dude climbing down the metal bar fence. The Indoraptor snorts and lowers his head.

Blue opened an eye next to him and sleepily asked, "What is it this time?"

"Ah nothing," Ripper crooned as he closed his eyes. "Just some random blue shirt dude climbing into our paddock."

Blue closed her eyes and grumbled in response. The two Raptors laid still before their eyes snapped open as they realized what Ripper had said.

"Random blue shirt dude!" Ripper and Blue shrieked as they lifted their heads up.

Kenji picked up Brooklynn's phone off the dirt. "Found it! Good as new!" he called up to Brooklynn.

"Great, now get up here and gently hand it to me!" Brooklynn said, worried for what else would happen the longer Kenji had her phone.

"Sure, right after I get a sweet pic for your followers," Kenji replied in an arrogant tone. "No need to thank me. Here, Compy-Compy."

"Ain't no way that fool called me a Compy."

I will never understand rich kids, Darius thought to himself. He looked back at the pen, then he noticed a handful of bones among the ferns. He understood that Compies had to be fed, but those bones looked like they were left behind by food meant for bigger predators.

This is solidified when he sees something large and black moving through the brush to the shadows and something smaller moves through the ferns and bushes under the moonlight.

A Compsognathus was a foot tall. Whatever is in the paddock is well over a foot tall, maybe over nine feet.

"Guys, this isn't the Compy pen," Darius whispered, turning to Brooklynn.

"Hey, quiet Junior," Kenji snapped. "The grown ups are talking!" He sticks his arm out with Brooklynn's phone.

"This isn't the Compy Pen!" Darius shouts. Brooklynn looks at him before glancing down in concern.

"Uh, what's he babbling about?" Kenji asked, looking up in exasperation before he sees Blue staring at him with a cold hearted expression.

"You got about five seconds to get that arm out of my paddock or it's coming off, sonny," Blue snarled in a warning tone.

"What the. . . ?" Kenji whispered in fear, arm shaking like a leaf in the wind. His thumb clicks on the camera button and the camera flash, well flashes in Blue's face.

"You've been warned, Bub." Blue snarled.

Then that's when the attack comes, not from the front but from the side, from Ripper who Kenji didn't even know was there. The Indoraptor ran by Kenji and bit down on his arm. The Asian American teen was pulled off his feet and he would have been pulled into the paddock if the gap between the metal bars were any bigger. By the time Kenji began to scream, his arm was ripped off at the elbow as Ripper ran away.

"Kenji! Kenji!" Both Brooklynn and Darius shouted in worry. The vlogger's phone was suddenly thrown at her face and falls into her hands.

Oof. That happened.

"I don't eat junk," Ripper called from the paddock.

Kenji stumbled back, his left hand reaching to his stump. "M-M-My hand. . ." he says, going into shock. "My hand. . ."

Brooklynn and Darius run on the catwalk before stopping at a control panel. "One of these has to open the doors, right?" Brooklynn asked frantically.

"Yeah, but we should find the manual or something." Darius replied looking at the ground but found nothing. "None of these buttons have a label."

"We have to try!" Brooklynn said frantically. She presses one button and they looked to see if that opened the main doors.

Instead, to their growing dread, it opened the metal gate that was separating Kenji from the Raptors.

Kenji cried out in fear, jumping back in fear while holding his bleeding stump. Blue and Ripper approached the open gates.

"You're still here?" Blue asked.

Gasping, Darius ran over to the other side of the paddock and climbed over the handrail. "Darius!" Brooklynn called out in protest.

The Raptor and Hybrid Raptor took one step through the gate before a pipe burst above them courtesy of Darius who busted it open with his feet. The steam that shot out of it caused the two dinosaurs to recoil from the heat.

"Ow! That hurt!" they hissed in pain.

"Come on, let's go!" Darius ran to Kenji and helped him stand to his feet. He took off his belt and used it as a makeshift tourniquet on Kenji's arm. "The steam should keep them back. I'll help you climb out."

Just as he said that and looked up, he saw that the pipe stopped shooting out steam. Either there wasn't much or it was an emergency shut off in case the pipe broke open.

Either way, it still meant that they wouldn't have a smokescreen to hide their escape. "Oh crud," Darius muttered in fear. Kenji goes limp, now passing out from the blood loss.

As the steam began to fade away, Kenji's right hand poked inside of the gate and waved at Darius. His eyes widened as he saw the Indoraptor poking his head through the gate.

"Hey, need a hand?" Ripper asked with his lips curled up in a smile and he gave the Raptor version of a dark chuckle.

A part of Darius wanted to marvel at the sight before him as he and Kenji stumbled back before tripping over the unconscious Asian American teen's feet. Was this a Utahraptor? It sure looked big enough. And was it actually smiling? How was that possible? Another part of him was terrified for Kenji and his safety and holy crap, seeing a Raptor like that smiling and laughing was demonic to look at.

"Seriously though, here's your arm back," Ripper said seriously and tossed the severed limb back to them.

"Mom, is that you?" Kenji opened his eyes deliriously before his arm landed on his lap. He passes out again.

Darius looked at Kenji before looking at the Indoraptor as Blue and three other Raptors appeared at his side.

"What's going on here?"

"A couple of intruders, that's what!"

"At this ungodly hour? Seriously?"

"Get out of here! Go on, get! Scram before we turn you two into a couple of midnight snacks!"

Ripper sniffs the air deeply and exhales. "I just LOVE the smell of fear!" his red eyes glow brightly as he drags his claws on the ground. Just then the lights turn on from above the paddock.

"Hey! Come and get it!" Roxie shouts as she and a few other staff members tossed massive pieces of steak on the ground forty feet behind the Raptor Squad.

"Huh? It's steak!" exclaimed Charlie as she turned her head.

"Steak?" repeated Echo as she turned her head.

"STEAK!" Delta screeches and she and her sisters charge to the meat.

All but Ripper and Blue. The Indoraptor turns his head. "Hey! Save a couple for me and Blue!" he turns to face Darius as Blue snarls.

". . . So, are you Uncle Barry's son?" Ripper asked. "You almost look like him."

"He's not," Blue answered. "He doesn't have Barry's scent. He's an intruder!"

Just then the main doors opened up behind Darius and Kenji and the two young Campers are pulled out by the Camp Counselor Dave.

"And stay out!"

Kenji was then flown to the mainland's hospital for emergency treatment. He'll live, but he won't be returning to Jurassic World or Isla Nublar for that matter any time soon.

Later on, Darius and Brooklynn would try to go to sleep in their bunk beds at camp. It wasn't long before the other boy, Ben Pincus felt some breathing on him. He turns around and comes face to face with the grinning Ripper.

"Hello there." Ripper chirped.

Ben jumps back, screaming in terror. Ripper leans back and screeches back.

This wakes up Sammy and Yaz. They scream at the sight of the Indoraptor who screeches in response.

Brooklynn and Darius scream. Ripper screeches back at them.

Hearing the screams, Dave and Roxie race in before screaming as well.

"Why are we screaming?!" Ripper asked. Then the railing he holds onto breaks and he falls back down to the ground and lands on his back. He hisses, "Ow. . . "

Ripper rises to his feet, shaking his head before looking up to the treehouse. "Well, that was fun. Now what do you want to do? Tag? Hide and seek?" he calls out.

Darius hesitantly looks over the edge and makes eye contact with the Indoraptor who smiles up at him and wags his tail like a playful dog.

Just then three cars drove into the driveway of the camp and surrounded the Indoraptor. Ripper looked around as multiple people dressed in black, the Asset Containment Unit of Jurassic World got out with Owen Grady and Barry.

"Damn it, Ripper." Owen sighed with a shake of his head.

"That was thirty minutes," Ripper chortled. "You guys are getting better. I might need to up my game next time."

The Indoraptor looks up to Darius. "See you kids around."

Then he walked up to the truck that had a large cage attached to it as if it was the most normal thing. Once it opened up, Ripper jumped into the cage. He smiles at Owen and Barry, his tail wagging.

Owen and Barry look at each other with expressions of exasperation.

So. . . how was that?

Now admittedly, I thought Kenji losing a arm was a bit much but it felt like like a change that could happen.

Like how taking T'Challa to explore the galaxy made it all better, even made Thanos change his mind on genocide. Sort of.

And Ripper's track record of escaping was inspired by a honey badger that escapes his enclosure multiple times and lets himself get caught so he can escape again a different way.

This What If will be a full blown story.

Next: What If the Scorpios Rex caused the Fall of Jurassic World?