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The Clones Return (Chapter 4)
By Vader
JohnArnold, River and their captive Flooder commando raced across the slippery roof, being pounded on by an endless shower of rain. Dark thunderclouds moved slowly over them, increasing the intensity of the storm. "Hurry up!" JohnArnold demanded of the commando, who was lagging being, unmotivated, unlike River and John. The man stopped taking his sweet time to catch his breathe. Irritably, River pounced backward, grabbing the mans arm and pulling him in a sprint to reach the prison tower up ahead.
"Quit lagging or else I'll go ahead and stab you a thousand times and dump you into the ocean!" River powerfully threatened. JohnArnold was rather surprised by River's stunning ferociousness and severity. His violent words could eventually escalate to actions someday. And such hasty rage easy produces mistakes or misjudgments - horrible ones. It was not the path an Admin should take, that was for sure. Now was not the time to discuss such things, however.
"We're almost there!" JohnArnold notified the other two that followed him. He could see the tall, sleek, round, ice-blue tower looming up ahead of them. River and the commando were nearly caught up with John when all of a sudden, the Flooder slipped in a puddle, grabbing River and pulling him down with him. As John whirled around to see what happened, River and the captive went tumbling across the roof to the brink of the flat area and then disappeared over the ridge.
"Oh no," John bellowed under his breathe as he darted over to see what had happened to them. Right on the ledge below, hanging on an outcropping from the flat wall, there they were. River sword had flown out of his hand and was tottering on the corner of the outcropping ready to drop into the ocean below. River struggled to keep his grip on the wet ledge as he and the commando continued to be drenched.
"Hang on!" John told them. With a gulp and mustering up his courage, JohnArnold began to lean over to reach them, being as careful as possible not to slip, fall, and slam right into them. As soon as he did so, bullets erupted from behind. Jumped backwards, his s ed and ready for action. Three carnotaurs stood in front of him, laced with red and black, growling. Atop them were the highly recognizable silver, purple, and blue armored hunters that the Admins had extensively had to deal with when they first met AcroIguana. The hunters open fired on John, who rolled across the roof sideways in a cartwheel, firing at the hunters as he did so. He nabbed the head of one of the carnotaurs, as the hunter atop it jumped off in the nick of time, landed, bent forward and fired the rocket launcher from his back. The smoking and smouldering rocket went soaring towards JohnArnold as the Admin ducked, the rocket skimming past him by just millimeters, singing the tips of the hairs on his head. The rocket zipped over the dangling River and the commando.
JohnArnold thought the rocket would simply explode above the ocean, but instead it looped back around to face him - it was actually a tracker rocket. John got on his knees, firing forward at the rocket to detonate it. The hunter from behind ran forward, firing at John. The Admins leapt away, unable to shoot any longer at the rocket as another of the carnotaurs came charging forward to nab him.
The rocket curved in its path to hit John again. But it was too late - the rocket slammed into the hunter, exploding his body to shreds and slammed into the charging carnotaur, causing the hunter that rode it to fly through the air and land on the metal roof, breaking his neck. The remaining carnotaur came charging forward. JohnArnold thought quick, lunging to grab the body of the nearby hunter propping his up and firing his rocket. The completely unsuspecting and surprised carnotaur instinctively turned to get out the way but it had only the smallest fraction of a second left. The rocket hit the animal in face, slashing it sideways. The body of the animal rolled over the ledge, falling to slam right into River and the commando, still hanging. "Left!" River yelled, working with the captive to move to the side of the ledge, missing the carcass.
Just before the beast plunged into the ocean, a huge sea creature thrust its massive head of the water and caught the carnotaur in its jaws, nearly taking River and the commando along with it, soaking them both with a tremendous splash as it ducked back into the ocean. "Hurry, up there, John!" River called to his comrade.
JohnArnold looked over the ledge, having gotten rid of te previous distractions. He reached out desperately to reach River and the commando, but couldn't do it. His eyes darted to the sword. "Hold out the sword to me, River!" he told him. River grasped the weapon quickly, holding it up for John. JohnArnold realized the only way he could pull them up it by grabbing the sharp end of the sword, a idea that made him cringe. Without further thought, he grasped the sharp end, pulling River up in one thrust. River landed on the roof above, beside him. John ripped off a piece of his shirt wrapping it around his hands to cover up the slashes he'd just received.
"I'm sorry, John. Are you okay?" River asked. John just nodded, finishing up the wrapping. "Let's go then," River said, patting John on the shoulder and picked up his sword.
"We need to get the commando too!" John reminded River. "He's the only way to lead us through the tower!"
River sighed, reluctantly remembering that detail. He motioned for John to grasp his legs and lower him to grab the commando below. He reached out to grab the frightened man's hand. "Help me before that thing pops up again!" the commando yelled, looking back to the ocean.
"Great! This is the last thing I would expect to do as an Admin - stick my neck out for a Flooder commando!" River sarcastically remarked. He tugged the man up and onto the roof. There wasn't a moment's rest, as the Admins went darting across the remainder of the roof, reaching the prisoner tower in seconds flat.
River immediately jabbed his sword into the entrance door, beginning to cut a whole in it. He brought it around to form a circle. "Almost done!" he said. Just then, the door slammed open. With surprise, he turned to see the commando standing by the activation panel right next to the door, both he and John having a look of amusement on their faces.
"Admins sure don't think, do the-" the commando began to remark as River whipped him into the prison chambers, JohnArnold directly behind him, s ready. The commando rushed to lead them up one floor. The stairs led to endless hallways of prison cells, some filled with captives, others not. River and John could tell it would have taken them forever just to check all the cells on the different floors.
The commando led them down a single hallways and stopped in front of one of the larger cells. He pressed a code into the panel on the right side of the door. The black shield opened in a hurry, revealing three men behind it, sitting on grey colored benches. They craned their heads back to see who it was, expecting Flooders to bring them news of execution or another form of bad news. Instead, they saw their old friend, JohnArnold, with a Flooder, and another person they'd never seen before. "Guys!" John smiled, rushing in to hug them. "It's great to see you again!"
The men were too startled to talk at all. One of them stepped forward with shocked smile. "I can't believe you've come back! I thought we'd never see you again!" he said.
"Looks like you're an Admin now, and rightly so after all those plans you'd had in mind!" another exclaimed.
"I for one, aren't all that happy about this. We weren't good enough for John when he left before. Why is it we're important enough for him to save us now, all of a sudden?" he blurted.
"Give him a break, Rexo," the first one said to the third.
"River!" JohnArnold turned to his accomplice, too happy to be seeing his old friends again to take serious offence at the comment made by the third. "This is Jon, Majestic-1, and Rexoraptor. We were old buddies when we were young, before I came to Dan's Page!"
"Pleased to meet you," River smiled. "Not to be unfriendly, but I suggest we high tail it out of here as fast as possible," he next suggested. John shook his head, as if shaking himself back to the real world.
"You're right, we can't just stand here," John nodded. "Come on, ol' pals," he said to Jon, Majestic, and Rexo spinning around to leave. When they turned, they saw a squad of hunters standing before them. The Flooder commando had been given a .
"Nobody move," the commando smiled, aiming his . In the blink of an eye, River lopped the nose of the commando's straight off and dove into the hunters, performing his usual best, providing leeway for John and his friends to run to the other side of the hallway to get to the stairs. River jumped out of the hunters and dropped to the strairs as two more squads arrived.
"Come on" Jon said, running up with his friends to escape the squads as River deflected bullets. Just when they were about to run up, five more squads came running from the top of the stairs, cornering the Admins against a window. The group coming from below and the group coming from above, both large, rapid fired, making it difficult for River to defend the others with his sword. Some of the hunter bent to fire their rockets, destroying the window behind the escaping bunch as they ducked.
Unable to deflect all the rapid fire bullets that surrounded them, the tiring River had his sword knocked out of his hand by a bullet. There wasn't any defense now. it seemed they would be ed at the hands of the hunters.
Behind them, River's falling sword was caught by a hand a blur swooped down by the window. "Come on!" the voice of Para yelled. Everyone whipped around to see Para atop one of the local, large pteranadons that had been tied to the landing pad where the Admin's stolen craft had crashed. She held the reigns of five more of the birds, which came next to the large, broken window, ready to be ridden. Without further thinking, River, JohnArnold, Jon, Maj, and Rexo a jumped onto the waiting pteranadons fast as lighting in order to escape their s. The trained birds immediately soared off, carrying the Admins and JohnArnold's old friends atop them, who sat in the saddles and held the reigns. Behind, angry Flooders fired upon them, but were unable to make any .
The six people soared away on the ancient birds, into the nights sky and across the stars. They had accomplished the rescue mission. "Ready to go back to jurassicpark.com?" Para smiled, looking at River with love. Her husband sat, thinking of something else entirely.
"I have another idea. There's one more person we should save from the Flooders. I've known him for a long time. And this time, we won't need to break into a prison," he replied. Nobody was sure of what exactly River was talking about. "You'll see what I mean," River smiled, as if reading their internal questions. "Head for Gondolend . . ."
2/8/02 10:04:07 PM
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