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Dino-Life Chapter 5: Apprehension
By Mr.Camel
The Adventures of Mr. Camel: Dino-Life
Chapter 5: Apprehension
Rick Arnold awoke. There was debris scattered across the devastated Anomalous Testing Laboratory. The lights were very dim. Rick jumped his way across the room to the door. He hesitated before opening the door.
Something bad might be on the other side, Rick thought. Rick quickly opened the door and jumped back. He walked out of the test lab. In the next room, a testing observation room, the lights were flickering. Desks and chairs were strewn throughout the room. A scientist was performing CPR on another scientist. Rick watched for five minutes.
The living scientist gave up. He looked up at Rick. “Rick! You lived! By God, this experiment has gone terribly wrong. The power is out at the dinosaur facility and Silver Mesa is a mess! My colleagues have informed me that aliens appeared here, shortly after the failure of the experiment. Some have died, I’m afraid. If you want to help you can go to the Llama Dome. I, however, shall wait here for my colleagues,” the scientist informed him. Rick nodded and walked on.
Before long he found a toolbox. He sifted through the various tools, inspecting them to see if they would help him. At last, he found what he was looking for. A crowbar. He wanted it just in case there really were any aliens.
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The tyrannosaur stopped down the once electrical fence.
“Oh God,” Yvonne muttered.
“One-hundred and thirty-two!” Host grinned. Yvonne banged her head against the dashboard, accidentally hitting the lights button. The car lit up. The tyrannosaur began to follow the two cars.
“Damn it, turn the light off!” Martin Randle yelled. Unfortunately, one light was shining in Yvonne’s face, blinding her. “Damn it turn it off, NOW!!!”
“I can’t see!” Yvonne shrieked as she felt around the dashboard, trying to find the button.
Yvonne’s fingers slipped over the dashboard. Then she felt the buttons. She began rapidly pushing them. Suddenly, the blinding light flicked off, and she saw her finger pushing down on the lights button.
“Raaaaaaaaaaaarrrrr!!!”
It was too late. The tyrannosaur slammed its large head against the side of the second van. It rolled away, towards a cliff, before plunging over the side, into a fifty-foot drop.
“Shit,” Host said. Host opened the rear seat door he was sitting near. Host ran out into the pitch black night. Yvonne and Randle wouldn’t see Host again for a long time. The tyrannosaur ran after Host, who was trying to unlock a bathroom which was oddly placed along the side of the road. The tyrannosaur charged closer, Host gave up. He ran further down the road. The tyrannosaur kicked the bathroom into the air, the wood shattering. The bathroom landed in front of Host. Host didn’t know what to do so he leapt into the air, hoping he would not land on the shattered debris of the outhouse, and get a splinter. The tyrannosaur charged forward so fast that Host’s food got stuck up the tyrannosaur’s left nostril.
The tyrannosaur shook its head in confusion, trying to rid itself of the foot in its nose. Host flew out, with a disgusting yellowish green substance on his foot and leg.
Host flew into the remains of the outhouse.
The tyrannosaur spun and let out a deafening roar.
It ran back to the now motionless tour van.
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“Arr! There be ye source!” Captain Darial Longsword said, pointing toward a large building which stood just eighty meters to the left.
Mr. Camel inspected the building. “Looks too easy to get in. Way to easy. Guilty and I shall climb the vertical rock wall you see there,” Camel said, pointing to a wall of sandstone which stood on the right side of the building. “You two, on the other hand shall enter via the back entrance prior to splitting up,” Camel motioned to AlanGrant5 and Dr. Junkee.
“But I am the smart guy. We can’t risk losing me. I’m the only one who knows what to say to Dan,” AlanGrant5 said.
“Aye, he’s right, mate. I haven’t a bloody clue what to say,” Longsword said.
“Hmm…fine. You stay. But Junkee—You will go, correct?” Camel asked.
“I’d rather not—“ Junkee started.
“Jolly good! We’re set then,” Camel exclaimed.
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Rick Arnold walked back the way he came in. He walked out onto the catwalk. He suddenly saw the tram fly off of the track and smash into a cavern wall. The scientists inside screamed joyfully.
“Yes! G-Force! It is much like being on a roller coaster ride!” Rick heard one of the scientists say. Suddenly the tram burst into flames.
“OW! The burst of flame just ejaculated by the force of the impact!” another one screamed. Within seconds they were all dead.
Rick turned around to see NowAndAgain.
“So, you survived, Rick?” NowAndAgain asked.
“Oh yes. As alive as I’ll ever be,” Rick answered. NowAndAgain then attempted to hug his old friend. “EWWW! Get off of me!”
“Sorry! Just happy to see you’re alive and well, Rick,” NowAndAgain apologized.
“OK. We have to get to the Llama Dome. What is it?”
“The Llama Dome? A high-tech anti-camel bunker laboratory,” NowAndAgain answered.
“You have a gun?”
NowAndAgain pulled a 9MM Glock pistol out of his pocket. “Standard security weapon, here.”
“Is that all they have here? That’s ridiculous!” Rick stared at the pistol, uncomprehending that they would only have pistols in such a large and secret facility.
“Hell no! It’s just all I have, Rick.”
“Where are the other weapons?”
“Probably in the bunkers and pillboxes above ground.”
“Why the hell does a science facility have bunkers and pillboxes?”
“In case something goes wrong, like it just did.”
“Oh.”
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The tyrannosaur continued to charge the van. Yvonne and Randle struggled to open the doors, but couldn’t find the buttons to open them.
“Ah, well this sucks, dudes. We’re, like, trapped in a, like, damn Ford Explorer!”
“I thought we had no power or generator,” Yvonne said.
“We don’t,” Martin answered.
“Then did you here that Kyle guy, too? Or am I just getting old, and hearing things now?”
“Probably both. I heard him. But you are getting old, too.”
“Oh, I don’t, like, need electricity, dudes! I’m stuffed!”
“Stuffed?”
“Stuffed in the ceiling. Pretty good view from this little window they gave me here.”
Martin hit the ceiling.
“Ow! That totally hurt!”
BOOM!!!!!!!!!
The tyrannosaur collided with the Explorer, sending the tour vehicle flying off the over the cliff.
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“So, Guilty Spark, how are you enjoying the climb?” Camel asked, as Guilty Spark and Camel were now climbing the sandstone wall.
“It’s boring,” Guilty Spark announced.
“Yes, it is,” Camel agreed.
“Want to hear about how my friend was mauled by a killer burrito?”
“Sure, it should liven things up a bit!”
“Did you just call me a bitch?”
“No, I said ‘Sure, it should live things up a bit’.”
“Oh. Well, anyway, one day my friend visited Mexico, see?”
“Yes, but why was he visiting Mexico?”
“I haven’t a clue. But, like I said, he went. He rented a shack on the Baja Peninsula. One day he was just sitting there on a sofa watching TV in his shack. Suddenly—“
They reached the top of the wall, and were now looking out into the blue sky. White fluffy clouds drifted through the air. They were able to see a good bit of the building. It went on for miles. The wall they had climbed formed the right side of a canyon. The building was built along the canyon.
“Poofy!” Camel said, looking into the sky.
“Poofy? What the hell?” Guilty Spark questioned.
“The clouds look so… Poofy!” Camel explained.
“Poofy. Poofy!” Guilty Spark laughed. “Poofy! Poofy! Oh God! What a word!”
“Are you making fun of my word?”
“No, it just sounds funny.”
“Ah, hell. It does sound pretty funny,” Camel began to laugh.
“Yeah, what are we supposed to do now?”
“Oh, yes! Back to the mission! Let’s walk along the top here. Over to that shed over there. Camel pointed to a small metal structure with a red door, about twenty meters away. Mr. Camel and Guilty Spark walked towards it.
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“I think we have a problem, Mr. Edgar!” Ben yelled as he hit his fist against the door to Edgar’s room.
“Go away! I’m busy!”
“The hell! Now! The power is out and the damn tour van is stuck over by the tyrannosaur!”
“Oh fine, let me get my pants on!”
“Um… OK, then.”
Edgar came out, buttoning and zippering his pants.
“Uh… What were you doing in there?”
“I believe that it is none of your business. Now, what do want from me?”
“I want to know what to do!”
“Take the jeep to the tyrannosaur cage and rescue the people. Those damn vans only go five miles an hour. Leave Kyle there though.”
“OK, sir!” Ben said as he ran down to the garage.
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“So, NowAndAgain, how are you these days?” Rick Arnold asked as they walked along the wrecked hallways of Silver Mesa.
“Oh, well, I’m bi, now!”
“Bye now?”
“Bisexual. It means I like people from both genders! Isn’t that great!”
Rick Arnold started Walking faster, to put more space between him and NowAndAgain.
“Uh, sure, as long as you’re happy, dude.”
“Dude, Rick, I’m just kidding!”
Rick sighed with relief. At least I know he won’t rape me, now! Rick thought.
“Glad to hear that!” Rick said, slowing down.
The lights suddenly flicked off. Rick continued to walk forward. “Just follow me!” Rick said.
NowAndAgain turned left, and walked into the long corridor that leads to Dinosaur Island.
“Right behind you, Rick!”
“That’s good!”
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The wreckage of the second Explorer lay on the ground, next to a pile of leaves. The tour vehicle was squashed flat. Martin Randle lay in the pile of leaves next to it, resting. He had just jumped out of the first Explorer, which was in the tree above him. Totally Kyle was unconscious as he lay on the hood of the first Explorer. He suddenly woke up and puked. The vomit flew down from the sky, towards the pile of leaves. It struck Randle on the face. Randle awoke from his resting, wiping the vomit from his face. He saw a drainpipe a few meters away and washed his face.
“Sorry, dude!”
Yvonne awoke. She was lying across the front seats of the Explorer. The car began to sway in a gentle breeze.
“Oh my God.”
“One-hundred and thirty-three!” Martin grinned.
Yvonne ignored him and carefully opened the driver side door. She cautiously stepped out, onto a branch, and began climbing down the tree.
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Dr. Junkee climbed through a ventilation shaft. A cool blast of air swept through. A few minutes later he found an exit. He kicked the bars out and jumped down. He was in a control room, filled with computers. Boxes of jelly doughnuts were strewn around the room.
“Jelly doughnut paradise,” Junkee said softly as he walked through the control room. He found an unopened box. He grabbed a knife out of his pocket and cut the box open. He wolfishly gobbled down three jelly doughnuts before closing the box. Suddenly a small white and red creature crawled into the room. It seemed to be looking at him, although it had no eyes. The small creature leapt six feet into the air, towards Junkee’s face.
Junkee ducked and pulled the knife out of his pocket. The small alien flew over Junkee’s head and landed on the ground. It began to turn around and prepare for another attack, but Junkee jabbed the knife into the creature. It died.
Only then did Junkee notice a series of posters on the walls. Some of them featured dinosaurs but there were some that showed aliens forms, too. He quickly found one describing the small alien he had just encountered.
Apparently, it was called a head crab, because it leapt into the air and attached itself to people’s heads, morphing them into alien zombies.
Junkee looked at the other alien posters, too. After he was done he walked out, into a strange jungle that was oddly placed in the desert.
The end of chapter 5! Please comment!
To see the aliens go to these places:
Original Half-Life Eniemies
Half-Life:Opposing Force Eniemies
8/29/2003 12:20:47 PM
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