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Jurassic Park 3 The Novel Special Edition Chapter 38
By Vito Hardy
THE GHOST SHIP
Several cars made their way across the bridge to the Biosyn Water Front Complex. People were shown standing at a large dock waiting for a man wearing a brown suit to stand at the podium. That man was Jeff Rossiter.
"Fifteen years ago a man named John Hammond had a dream," Rossiter said. "Like John himself, the dream was grand. It was outsized. It was bold. It was impractical. It was... not to be. Well, half an hour from now, John Hammond's dream, reimagined, will come true. For one one-hundredth the cost of building a destination resort thousands of miles away--"
Alan Grant and Ellie Reiman jumped out of the Ford Taurus at the main entry gates as Rossiter continued to talk. They walked up to a guard at the gate.
"Hiya," Grant said in a happy voice. "Is this the Rossiter affair?"
"This is private property," The guard said.
"No, we're on the list," Grant said.
"You have to turn around, get back in your car," the guard yelled.
"This is Dr. Reiman," Grant said introducing Ellie. "I'm Dr. Grant."
"That's nice," The guard said.
"We have Rossiter's test results," Ellie said.
"There's good news and bad news," Grant said playing along.
Rossiter looked out at the crowd and smiled. "Tonight we'll christen Jurassic Park San Diego... With a mega-attraction that will drive turnstile numbers to rival any theme park in the world." Rossiter paused looking out passed the crowd to the gate where he saw Alan Grant and Ellie Reiman.Well this is interesting, he thought to himself. Now we'll have two Jurassic Park survivors witness this occassion. He smiled. "I want to thank you for being intrepid enugh to trun up in the wee hours of the morning."
Right then a man walked up to Rossiter and began to wisper in his ear.
"It's early," Rossiter asked the man who just said that the boat was arriving.
"You better come look at this," the man said.
"It's so exciting," Rossiter said to the audiance before walking away from the podium to follow the man into the ship building to look at whatever he wanted him to see.
Rossiter stopped before entering and told someone to go let Grant and Ellie see the show up close.
The radar man went up to the machine with Rossiter right behind him.
"Look," the man said. "That's their transponder signal: Venture 5888." he pointed at the dot on the screen. "They're heading into port, but I can't raise them."
"Try again," Rossiter said.
"Skipper, s.s. venture, this is Biosyn Harbor Master. Do you copy? over."
He paused and tried again. "Skipper, s.s. venture, you are approaching the break water at flank speed. Reduce at once. Over."
Alan Grant and Ellie Reiman walked across the harbor area to join the remaining people. All of the people in the area could hear distant rumbling coming right toward them. Everyone stood looking out at the ocean in shock and anticipation.
Jeff Rossiter stepped out of the main harbor office to look out at the ocean as well.
"What's everybody looking at," Ellie asked.
Grant walked a little farther up and his eyes got large as he realized what'd happened. "We should've stayed in the damn car."
The boat's lights then came into view as everyone started running away from the approaching boat that then rammed into the dock destoying everything in it's path before it finally came to a complete stop.
Rossiter started to go back toward the boat as a black man walked up to him. "You okay, Mr. Rossiter?"
"I don't know," Rossiter said iritated. "How do I look?"
Both men started running to the boat. They reached it and climbed onboard to look around.
Grant and Ellie ran as well trying to get onboard the boat themselves.
Rossiter and the black man went up the stairs to the captain's room. "Oh my god," the man said.
"Where's the crew," Rossiter asked.
"All over the place," the man said.
In fact they were all mualed as if several smaller monsters had killed them. Rossiter knew emediately that it had to be the work of velociraptors, but the question was were they still on the ship?
On the exterior of the boat Grant and Ellie looked around trying to find survivors while the humming of the large cargo door kept constantly going up a little and back down again.
From the upper deck Rossiter looked down at everyone. "Check the cargo hold! There may be crew down there!"
"Everybody off the boat," Grant yelled.
An officer ran over to a hand holding a trigger remote of some kind and took it out of the dead man's hand. Grant ran over to him to stop the man but it was too late as the large cargo door opened with the help of the Adult Tyrannosaur who bursted through and roared a deafining roar at everyone before jumping off the boat to walk away from the harbor crashing into a "Welcome to San Diego" sign.
Rossiter looked in horror as all of this happened. Grant walked up to him and wispered in his ear, "Now you're John Hammond."
The Tyrannosaur came out into the city itself. The animal looked around and roared a roar of pure power.
Grant and Ellie walked around with Ed James through the reckage of the harbor while the spy tried to explain the situation.
"Why the hell wasn't it tranquilized," Ellie asked.
"It was," James said. "Roland hit it with two darts of concentrated carfentanil. Over ten milligrams."
"Ten milligrams should've put it into a coma," Ellie yelled.
"It stopped breathing, so we gave it naltrexon to conteract the effects, but we didn't know how much to give it," James said.
"You administered an antagonist without knowing the proper dosage," Ellie yelled. "The thing's a locomotive now."
"We're prepared for this," James said.
"Are there any more dinosaurs still on the boat," Grant asked.
"No, we brought the infant back on the plane. Look," James said getting irritated. "We had this to tranquilize it." James picks up a huge gun, but Ellie and Grant had already left him.
"Hey," Ellie yelled. "She goes over to Rossiter who was sitting, staring at the sky. "Do you have the infant?"
"It's safe," Rossiter said feeling terrible about what happened.
"Alan, the animal's dehydrated. The first thing it's gonna do is go to a water source. Then it's gonna look for the next thing it's body needs. All the containment equipment is here. We've got to get the animal back here. The boat might still be seaworthy."
"If you're thinking like I think you're thinking-"
"Alan, this animal is a father," Ellie said. "If we find the infant we'll be able to lure the animal back here with it."
"Yep," Grant said.
Rossiter still stared up at the sky sighing. Grant and Ellie came up to Rossiter.
"Where is the infant," Ellie asked.
"It's in a secured facility, why," Rossiter replied confused to why the infant would be so important.
"Where's the facility," Grant asked with a look of anger on his face.
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