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Jurassic Park IV: Extinction (Prologue-Part4)
By Crisco
JPIV: Extinction (prologue)
By Crisco
Jurassic Park IV: Extinction
The two fishermen were on their knees, kissing the white sand. They had been shipwrecked on a nearby reef and were extremely fortunate to find the island, it was getting dark and they desperately needed shelter. One of the men was young, tan and muscular. The other man was older and weaker, his hair was gray and body tired from years of labor. They both had ripped clothes from the swimming through the dangerous reef and bruises and scars from cutting themselves on coral and bumping against hard, protruding rocks.
The men walked into the jungle, hoping to find shelter. They walked for about a mile and heard hooting in the distance. Both men did not recognize the sounds and kept moving. They soon found an abandoned shack and began to look through it, there was an old-worn out computer and a desk, and a large logo was painted on the wall. They decided to rest in the room for the night and settled down on the floor. Late at night they heard the hooting calls again, they were closer and high-pitched. The men both looked at each other puzzled. The older man stood up, and looked out the window. He saw nothing and laid back down on the ground. Suddenly, a reptilian head popped up against the glass window, it’s breath fogged up the glass. The reptile was a dinosaur, a velociraptor. The men had heard stories about these islands, islands where terrifying creatures lived, islands where people had ventured and never returned.
The men stood up and ran from the shed, they were ambushed by more raptors and chased through a field. The moon glared at the long, yellow grass making it look almost gold. The raptors were gaining on them and their snarling and hissing was frightening the men. The grassland was ending and starting to become jungle again, the raptor in the lead made a jump at the young man, and fell just a foot behind him. It could now easily kill the two men but it screeched into the foliage and retreated. The raptors behind him ran away quickly hissing and hooting.
The both men were relieved and started breathing deeply but knew not to let their guard down, because there was probably a reason that the raptors retreated. They entered the jungle once again. The jungle was absolutely silent except for the crunching of leaves under the bare-footed men. They heard grunting and stopped. They stood in the lush foliage back to back their eyes wide and alert. The leaves to the side started moving a fraction of the forest looked different from the rest and those leaves reached out at the younger man and decapitated him. Red blood streaked across the older mans chest and hands. He looked at his son’s blood, and ran. He ran like he was in his prime, jumping over logs and dodging tree limbs. He cried out in to the sky, “El bosque esta vive!” “Yo hijo esta muerte!”
As he ran he cried, and stopped as he came to a 40-ft. wall. The wall was steel and at the top was barbed wire, and bunkers. A man in a jumpsuit, carrying a machine gun stood patrolling the wall. The old man cried out, “El bosque esta vive!” This did not get any response from the guard. The old man yelled for help in Spanish at the guard. The armed guard looked at him, cocked his gun, and sent 40 bullets in the man’s chest. Soon after a dozen small green lizards started tearing away flesh at the corpse.
Casey Morales paced along the dock with a stern look across her face. Casey was 23. She was a tall, dark, latino with a huge attitude problem. Her brother and father were simple fishermen but she hasnt seen them for 2 weeks, she could only think of the worst. Casey looked up and saw a boat in the distance, she stared at it until it came close enough so that she could see her Uncle Manuel's face, her didnt even look at her, he stared at the floor as the boat came into port,
Casey then ran over to a board and punched a hole through it, "DAMN IT!"
Kelly Malcolm sat barely awake in her history class, they were studying dinosaurs, The teacher talking about carnivores and all that Kelly could hear was blablabalbalaba. SHe closed her eyes. There was a totally fake dinosaur video and kelly was disgusted on how stupid they were portrayed, noone in the class could really understand how they were,
"Kelly!, Please stand up!" the teacher yelled.
"Kelly looked at her, rolled her eyes, and took her time standing up.
"What?" kelly asked.
the teacher got a wry smile on her face and said, " Are Tyrannosaurus Rexes herbivores or carnivores?" the teacher thought she had given kelly a tough question.
Kelly looked around the room and the class were all laughing, they knew about Kelly's experience.
"Kelly then put a stupid expression on her face and said, "Herbivores i guess"
the class laughed and the teacher shook her head
"i guess you fooled me ms. knox" Kelly said. Then the bell rang and she headed to the parking lot.
Ian Malcolm sat in his BMW in the school kiss&ride waiting for his daughter. His gray hairs were popping out here and there, but he was still in pretty good shape, and he still had all black on. He was on the phone when Kelly sat next to him. He then put his cell-phone down.
"School sucks" Kelly said to her Dad.
"Yea i know, just 2 more years and youll be in college"
"Seems like 4"
the BMW drove on through palm trees and such, they rode in silence for a while.
"Why havent you called Sarah?" kelly asked as she looked at her dad.
"It's hard to keep a relationship up when one of you works on a different continent" malcolm asnwered. He knew his daughter was staring at him from the side and he deliberately looked forward. His cell phone rang again and he picked it up.
Kelly still stared at him, then rolled her eyes and looked out the window.
" Hello Ian, this is Alan."
"Alan, i never thought you would call"
" Beleive me, I didnt want to, but Hammond is dying and he's asked me to do something for him, but its not working out, come have coffee with me tomorrow at 9"
"Beleive me, I dont want to" Ian smiled as he talked.
"Tommorrow then, Bye" Alan said.
Ian closed his cell-phone and turned into his driveway.
Alan Grant sat alone in a Coffee house fuddling with a package, he was wearing his usual flannel shirt and jeans with the cowboy hat next to him. He smiled as Ian approached the table with dark glasses and a leather jacket.
"It's not working Ian" Alan said.
"I know,Im not as good as I used to be at hiding my years "
Alan chuckled and said "Yea. it's hard. I brought you here because of Hammond. He's very ill and he keeps talking about his will"
" Yes....."
"And you can guess where he left it..."
" Son of a bitch, why doesnt he just write a new one?"
"He doesnt want to, he doesnt want to miss anyone he had kept in his first will, he also is losing his memory, he cant fully control his hands either, and he's talking through a respirator, he's very ill"
"So what do you want me to do?"
" I am coordinating a team to retreive his will on Isla Nublar, a quick pick up and go deal."
Malcolm rolls his eyes.
" I would go myself but i am still recovering from my own trip to Sorna. InGen is backing you up on this so there shouldnt be any problem. They've hired the best people they could find. Along with ROland Tembo, I know you've met him."
" I can't, i have too many things going for me and im too old, 45 yearold people arent suppose to be running from dinosaurs.."
"Really Ian, what exactly DO you have going for you?"
" This better be quick " Ian said. Then Malcolm stood up and walked out of the shop.
The red Jeep bounded across the savanahh. Sarah Harding, a 36 year-old red head stood out through the sun-roof. She motioned to her assistant to slow down. The car slowly maneuvered through the grass. It stopped 100 ft. away from a rock formation.
"There she is Akil.." Sarah said.
Akil looked up to see a cheetah sunning itself on a rock. Hearing the two talking it stood up and starred at them. Sarah walked slowly towards the cat with a trank gun. The cat started pacing back and forth on the rock. Sarah kneeled and cocked her gun. The cheetah heard this and started running. Sarah yelled, "Shit!" and ran to the car. She pulled a motorcycle off the back and revved the engine. You could see her muscles moving as she pushed the bike off the ground and began to chase the fastest land animal. The motorcycle caught up to the mammal and Sarah tried to aim her gun while driving. She put her arms off the handle bars and aimed. She lost control of the bike and it fell on top of her, but in the last second Sarah lifted the front half of her body and shot the cheetah directly in the neck.
Akil drove up to Sarah and clapped as she pushed the heavy motorcycle off her and carried it to the rack on the car. The car then drove up to the cheetah and Sarah picked it up and wrapped it over her shoulders. She laid it in the back of her car. Sarah then flipped out a buck knife and cut a rusty transmitter that was embedded in the cheetah's thigh. She then replaced it with a new one and put cream around the open edges of skin. The cheetah lay unconcious with it's tongue lying out and eyes rolled back. Sarah patted the cat on the butt and placed it on the ground under a tree. As Sarah and Akil drove away the cheetah started twitching.
Sarah Harding heard the phone ring while she was in the shower. She wrapped herself in a towel and answered the phone... (you hear Alan say hello & Sarah smiles.) You hear Alan mumble in the phone and Sarah is intrigued. She holds the phone closer to her ear and says, "Really?" and gives a smirk.
Ian Malcolm paced along the cement runway in San Diego California, he was wearing his usual black.
Damon Black,ahealthy man, he sat on the runway cleaning his camera, he was a professionsal photographer. Dr. Kyle Soloman was a 45 year old paleontologist. He was known world-wide and had been begging Hammond for years for the chance to see the dinosaurs. The trio was waiting for Tembo. Roland had stopped hunting for sport since his trip to Isla Sorna. He was still skilled though and had been pretty much bored the past few years. He had lost his best friend on Sorna and was more than willing to slaughter some raptors on Nublar. He walked up to the group with confidence. Malcolm smile as he saw him but the others were slightly afraid. Just like Roland, he introduced himself to Damon, & Dr. Soloman. He walked up to Malcolm and sighed, "Here we go again" he smiled and started chatting with Malcolm.
"So where in the world is Sarah?" said Tembo
"That's exactly the question" Ian said.
"I thought you two were...close?" Roland asked.
"Things Change" Malcolm said.
Casey Moreles and her friend Julio pulled up to the reef in ski-doos. They saw Casey's father's boat caught in the reef and Casey's brother and father were no where to be seen. Julio spotted footprints leading into the jungle and signaled Casey. The couple walked to the forest's edge and looked at eachother. Casey nodded and they began their trek through the jungle...
Julio and Casey walked thru the dense jungle, although it was day, the couple could barely see through the thick foliage. There was light up ahead and the two walked into a large clearing. Anklyosaurs were grazing right in front of them.
"Where the HELL are we?" Casey said, still staring at the dinosaurs. They started to walk across the clearing when they walked to close to a baby ankly, the adults in the group started baying and charged Julio, he quickly ducked away and Casey and himself started to run. One aggresive ankly ran infront of Julio and tried to bash it's tail at him, but he dodged it and ran into the forest.
Lewis Dodgson sat in his office, with a smile across his face. He was speaking into a mini-tape player.
" wednesday, august 11th, 3 months and 14 days on the island. everythings working out to plan, the handlers are preparing their equipment, and there have been only 13 deaths. In a year I'll be in Guadalajara sipping margaritas with a beutiful super model wife, once the park is built on the mainland and the dinosaurs shipped.", he smiled to himself, with an evil grin, and he rubbed his fingers together.
A worker came into the room, "Sir, the allosaurs are loose again, we've already lost a vet and a janitor."
"Damn it! I keep out hundreds of dinosaurs and the two i create myself kill my men!"
A oriental worker is running as fast as he can. Perspiration is beaming down his face and he is panting. Two juvenile male allosaurs are catching up behind him. They are running down a main road in the middle of the compound. The snipers on the buildings surrounding the roads are trying to aim but, the creatures persuing the man are moving targets. The oriental man kept running for his life, but nomatter how fast he was he was still no match for the allosaurs. The allosaurs where brownish,greenish, with a hint of orange, they looked like a smaller version of rex but with a bit smaller heads, like raptors they didnt hunt alone. The allosaurs ran up to the man, one on each side. then simultaneously they grabbed the man and tore him in half. Once they started to eat the man, the snipers had a clean shot with the tranquilizers.
Dodgson was still in his office. he was watching the situation through a security camera. "Another Fu**ing Lawsuit!"
Roland Tembo sat on the plane staring out the window and polishing his huge ass rifle. "And what do you plan to kill with that thing?" Dr. Soloman asked.
"Spinosaurus Aegypticus"
"what's that?" damon asked.
" The spinosaur is a huge carnivore with a crocodile like snout and a large sail. From what Dr. Grant's said it's pretty dangerous and it managed to take down a rex on sorna."
"Well i guess we'll just see who's the best predator after all." Roland said with no emotion.
Malcolm was sitting by himself reading. The cover of his book showed Grant, the Kirby's, and Billy. The title was, "Escape from Jurassic Park." Malcolm shook his head while he was reading it.
"So how are we landing anyway?" Damon asked the military pilot."
"Weee are not but youuuuuuu are"
"What?" roland malcolm damon and dr.soloman asked."
"You four will be parachuting out. We're not taking any chances." the pilot said.
"Do you know about pteranodons? They'll kill us before we open our parachutes!" Dr. Soloman said.
"yes, we are fully aware. I'm going to send a warning flare that they'll hopefully follow and you'll have the chance to make it down safefully."
"What the hell? What makes you think this is going to work?" Roland asked.
"There's really not an option Mr. Tembo."
Malcolm just sat in his chair and laughed.
Roland looked at him like he was a lunatic, "Is there somthing funny that im not aware of?"
"no, this is just something i wouldve expected."
They could now see Isla Nublar in the distance. It was a bright day, very good weather and the sun shone brightly over the trees. The plane flew through the mountains and the Damon noticed Steel walls in a circle a few miles away, with building inside the walls. "What's that Dr. Malcolm?" Damon asked.
" I dont know, I dont recognize it at all, but when i was here last, i had only visited 3/5 of the island, there were places i havent seen before."
Damon nodded and kept looking out the window.
"Whoa, that doesnt look good." The pilot said as the group flew over a mountain puffing out smoke.
"Hammond did mention that the islands were volcanic, but i doubt we'll have a problem."
" It doesnt look that way" the pilot answered.
Chris Connors pushed his left thumb through the blue gel, the 4o ft. high gate opened slowly and he drove his Hummer out into the jungle road. He had two guards with him who were talking to themselves in spanish and listening to the radio.Another chinese man, Jon Tao (pronounced z-ow)sat alone looking at some building blueprints. Chris Connors was a tall man of 34. He was dirty blonde and wore khakis and a button-down shirt. He carried a handgun with him at all times. He had been at the BioSyn facility from the beginning. He was approached by a man named Lewis Dodgson 6 months ago and was offered a generous salary to guard Dodgson's "zoo". Originally director of Safety at The San Diego Wild Animal Park, Connors spent time driving around the animal grounds, he often walked around with the carnivores and studied their behavior, the other workers at the zoo used to think he was a wack-job for voluntarily risking his life all the time with the predators, but the truth was, he wasnt at all scared of them.
The Hummer drove down the road at short speed. If it were up to Connors they wouldnt even be out there, with them, the dinosaurs, but it wasnt up to him, and the man in charge was truly a "wack-job." He and his men had to escort scientists through the old InGen labs. BioSyn was just beginning to understand to true and rigorous process of what InGen tried to live out. Chris, who was driving was silent the whole trip, this was his 3rd time to the building and the last two had been good. The 1st time they saw some raptors but they locked the doors and waited till they lost interest.
The visitor's center was over-grown, it was green with moss and some of the shiny metal had turned to rusty copper.
The 4 parked the car in front and Chris turned off the radio. "This shouldn't take long guys, a quick in and out, and remember to stay quiet, we dont wan't to attract any animals."
Connors led the way up the steps and into the building. Two raptor skeletons lay on the floor, with some bones missing, the foyer was silent. The steps were jagged and bones lie all over the ground, a huge banner lie on the floor and the murals of the wall were torn apart. The crew kept walking, Chris led the way and had his gun in his hands at all times, he didnt want to be surprised. The group stopped room to room, Dr.Tao kept an eye on his blueprints and shook his head when he went into each room. They were looking for the "show" lab, although it didnt serve much of a purpose to InGen, it was a part of the tour and it gave a glimpse of what happened in the real labs on Isla Sorna. There were valuable disks on the DNA that had not been recognized by Ingen. There were some species that have shown up that the biologists didnt recognize and has led to too many deaths among the crew.
The group walked into a room with seats like a movie theatre and a curtain covering one end of the room, the chairs were all facing that end too. The men walked around the room looking for controls and one of the spanish gaurds lifted some carpet and found a panel with green buttons, he pressed one and all of the seats popped up. "What the Hell! I thought there wasnt power to this damn place!"Connors said.
"Well this room must have it's own generator, InGen relied on machine instead of man, when they left out it is quite possible things turn off and on by themselves." Tao said.
"Try some more ok?" Connors said.
The guard nodded and pressed another button and the screen lifted. There was a wall of glass and the lab was right in front of them. In the lab was a big nest with baby dilophosaurs and 3 adults.
"Nobody move" Chris said.
The 4 stood still starring at the dinos. The 3 adults were about 6 ft high and had two crests on their heads. One of the adults held its mouth open while the feathery little babies ate regurgitated food fromt eh adults mouth. One of the adults noticed the curtain and walked to the glass.
"It cant see us if we dont move" Tao said.
The dilo put it's snout against the glass and blew on it. The glass was tinted so they werent sure if it could see their figures. The all stood silent. They were sweating with anxiety by the time the dilo turned around. One of the guards hands were so sweaty he dropped his gun. A few meters away, the same dilo lifted it's head and immediately turned around and ran towards the glass. It ran straight for the glass, head first. The was a huge sound when it hit the glass and a huge crack grew across the glass.
The dilo fell back on the ground and shook it's head. The other adults began to hiss and walk towards the wall.
"Let's get the fuck out of here!" one of the gaurds said.
" NO, I need that disk! You all know Dodgson would kill us if we dont have them when we come back" Tao said.
"If we come back" Connors said.
The group waited while the dilo walked towards the back of the room and faced the glass. Everyone in the room know exactly waht it was about to do...
The Dilo ran at top speed towards the glass. 6 ft. away it jumped up with it's mouth open and teetch exposed. All of it's limbs were in front of it and it's claws were ready. It crashed through the glass and rolled into the room, It's face had glass shards embedded in it. It leaped for the guard at the panel and slashed his stomach open. Then it's frill opened and he started spitting.
Connors, Tao and the guard. Ran through the now, broken glass and into the room, the other two adults stood over the nest protecting their babies. Tao ran towards the computer desk and looked through the files. He picked up two disks. One unmarked and the other labeled:, "Unknown DNA."
"Got it?" Connors asked.
Tao nodded and the trio made for the door. Chris tried to open it but it was locked.
"The only way out is where we came in"
Connors said.
The three walked towards the room. They could not see the man being eaten in the corner but the chairs moved up and down, because his body lay on the panel. They quietly walked along the chairs. The dilo was busy with the body, it's frill lay half-open and it had blood dripping from it's cuts across it's face.
The group made it out the door when it slammed behind them and the dilo looked up. They began to run through the building. They ran into a cafe where tables and chairs were sprawled across the ground. The stumbled over them when the dilo skidded across the entryway and was stopped by the wall. It regained balance and chase the men through the cafe. Tao was the last running and the dilo jumped on his back. It bit his' throat and chased after the guard. Chris and the guard were running down a hallway with pillars along the side. Chris was in the lead and he quickly stepped to the side and stood against a pillar and watched as the guard was chased further down the hall by the dilo.
Chris walked back into the cafe and saw Tao lying across a fallen table. He held the disks in his hand and his eyes were rolled back. Chris had not known Tao at all but he sympathized with him. A lot of the scientists had to work for Dodgson for a living. Just like him they were confined to the island and had to swear to secrecy that they wouldn tell a sole about their wear abouts. Dodgson worked them late-hours and they couldnt communicate with their families back home. He held Jon Tao's hand as he was losing his breath. Jon's eyes rolled back into position and he looked at Connors. He lifted his hands that were clutching the disks into Connors' lap. Chris nodded and kept holding on to Tao's other hand. Tao then started moving his lips and breathing heavily, Connors kept silent, trying to listen to what Tao had to say, He finally go it out:,
"Tell my daughter that I love her."
Chris was confused. BUt he didnt want to look it. He nodded and Tao's eyes rolled to the back of his head and his breath came slower and shorter, then Tao stopped breathing.
Chris shook his head and heard the Dilo hissing outside the door. Chris jumped behind the bar and waited for it to stop. He looked up and the dilo was wasting Jon Tao's lifeless body.
Connors looked at the door, it was open and he made for it. He was almost out when another dilo showed up. Chris looked towards the door and slammed it, bashing the dilos head between the door and the wall. That dilo fell to the floor in convulsions & the other, with the glass in his face looked up toward Connors.
Chris ran through the foyer and out of the center, there was no car in sight and there were tread marks heading into the jungle..
"Son of a Bitch!" Connors screamed.
A dirty looking gaurd limped into up to the finger-pad at the gate, he was allowed in.
The guard walked into Dodgson's office.
"Get this thing out of my office!" Dodgson said.
"Sir, he is the only survivor from this' morning's group." another gaurd said.
"What the Hell happened?" Dodgson asked.
"They all were killed, by the frilled devils."
"Yea, whatever, did u get the disk?"
"No Sir."
"Kill him."
The guard then cocked his rifle and shot the man in the head.
I HOPE I HAVE INTRIGUED YOU! SORRY FOR ALL THE SPELLING AND GRAMMER ERRORS, BEAR WITH ME! PLEASE CONTINUE TO READ! (PART5) COMING SOON!
12/9/2002 6:48:25 PM
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