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The Geeky Zoologist Hatchling
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| Subject: Jurassic World - An alternative Vision Fri Nov 25, 2016 3:40 pm | |
| April 2020 update:
The story is finally complete and here's some links for the English version of this fic: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12945239/1/Jurassic-World (fanfiction.net version)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-LifMS1J7iPakWCPQQVOG7av4hhb3ibq/view?usp=sharing (PDF version, include maps and appendices)
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Since slightly more than a year, I began to write my own version of Jurassic World. Compared to the actual film, the story is longer, the tone is darker and more mature (This implies some gore elements, strong language and explicit references), there are new characters and scenes and the bestiary is different (While there are new species, other are replaced and the appearance of some of the animals is more accurate. Also the Indominus has a different design)
I have the overall story in mind but it's only since recently that I began to publish the chapters on fanfiction.net and it will take at least a few months before the story will be completed. Until now, 5 chapters over 22 are available. However they are only in French but if you're interested, I can write here a summary in English of each chapter.
Here's the list of the chapters (with an English Translation in bold)
Prologue - La Fin d'un Règne (Prologue - The End of a Reign) I/ Un Voyage Très Attendu (A Long-expected Journey) II/ Bienvenue à Jurassic World (Welcome to Jurassic World) III/ La Huitième Merveille du Monde (The Eighth Wonder of the World) IV/ Du Pain et des Jeux (Bread and Circuses) V/ Coucher de Soleil sur Isla Nublar (Sunset O'er Isla Nublar) VI/ L'Iguanodon Éméché (The Merry Iguanodon) VII/ La Grande Evasion (The Great Escape) VIII/ Le Calme avant la tempête (The Deep Breath before the Plunge) IX/ Un Tsunami de Chair (A Tsunami of Flesh) X/ Un Festin pour les Urubus (A Feast for Vultures) XI/ L'Ombre du Passé (The Shadow of the Past) XII/ Bataille dans les Nuages (Battle in the Clouds) XIII/ Une Pluie de Becs (A Storm of Beaks) XIV/ Le Conseil (The Council) XV/ L'Endroit où se trouvent les Os (The Place where the Bones are) XVI/ De Charybde en Scylla (Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire) XVII/ Se Prendre pour Dieu (Playing God) XVIII/ Le Noël Pourpre (The Red Christmas) XIX/ Un Choc de Reines (A Clash of Queens) XX/ Au-delà de l'Océan (Across the Ocean) XXI/ Envers et Contre Tout (Against all Odds)
If you want, you can guess what happens in each chapter.
You can read the story here : https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12210007/1/Jurassic-World-Une-Vision-Alternative
Don't hesitate to tell me what you think about it.
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| | | The Geeky Zoologist Hatchling
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| Subject: Re: Jurassic World - An alternative Vision Tue Nov 29, 2016 3:09 pm | |
| Here's a recap of the Prologue : - Spoiler:
The story begins in a nest located in a jungle. As the eggs in the nest begin to hatch, a boa constrictor is coiled around a branch. Some unknown predator attack the boa from above, kills it and takes its body away, to the top of one of the highest tree of the jungle. The predator is revealed to be an harpy eagle and after it looked the mist-covered jungle around, it begin to eat the reptile’s flesh. The harpy hear a jolting noise approaching and a flock of white birds flies past the bird of prey. An helicopter pierces the cloud of mist and forces the harpy to fly away. Inside the chopper, a man watch carefully the jungle below. When he see trees moving nearby, he first tells the pilot to head in that direction and then inform people on the radio that the target is close. On the ground, a small group of vehicles (the same models used by the hunters in TLW) drives quickly. From a cage which top one of the vehicles, Hoskins lead the operation. He orders his men to stop in a small meadow and to wait for the target which is coming in their direction. As their target, a very large animal, emerges from the jungle, he orders the activation of a ultrasound-producing box. As the animal is bothered by the ultrasound and flees, Hoskins get a glimpse of it while its tails brush past the top of the cage, their target is non other than an adult T.rex. Hoskins order his men to follow the dinosaur and to force him to head in a certain direction. A jeep gets too close to the jaws of the T.rex and angered, the animal rams the vehicle with his head and the jeep barely escape the attack but doing so, it rolls on a big root and crashes. Inside the helicopter, the hunter put darts in his rifle and aims at the T.rex as it is heading towards a field. He misses his shot the first time but as the dinosaur is now in the open, he has a clearer view and this time he succesfully manage to tranquilise the animal which roars. The vehicles exit the jungle and circles the dinosaur, preventing it to go back into the jungle and the hunters wait for the tranquilizer to act.
A transport cage is build around the body of the dinosaur and a flying crane carries it to the trailer of a large truck (the same kind which was going to be used to transport Buck to JP : San Diego). The vehicles used in the hunt are parked next to the truck and the hunters are relaxing while a woman is filming them and the tranquilised T.rex. Hoskins congratulates his men for the successful capture. They leave the area, escorting the transport truck, while passing next to decaying electrical fences and driving on one of Jurassic Park’s roads, now partially covered by grass. The Convoy enter in a large U-shaped Valley (where the Gallimimus Stampede was witnessed by Grant and the kids), heading towards a tunnel dug in the mountains. They enter and the vehicle emerges in a forested area but as one part of the road was taken away by a landslide, the convoy leave the road and exit the forest. As they are crossing a hilly zone, the documentalist takes her camera to photograph the skeleton of a brachiosaur as the convoy drive past it. Another skeleton is half-sunked in a waterhole and the convoy head towards the south-east, driving past cliffs overlooking a river. A few minutes later, they arrives at a bridge and crosses a portal guarded by armed men. As they are heading towards their destination, they see workers building a segment of a monorail in the middle of the jungle. The convoy leave the cover of the forest and arrives in a construction site extending over dozens of hectares where workers and cranes are being busy around the skeleton of large buildings or digging a giant mine-looking hole in the middle of the site. The convoy drive past a garbage dump where a Jeep Wrangler bearing number 12 is crushed and thrown in a container. The vehicles split up and the transport truck heads towards a complex delimited by giants walls. The vehicle is warmly welcomed by a group of keepers and a crane lift the cage up and drop it in a small enclosed area serving as a quarantine paddock as the midday sun is chasing the clouds away. Just before he joins his men for the night, Hoskins go visit Rexy at the quarantine paddock. Through an observation cleft, Hoskins look inside the paddock as it is illuminated by the light of the moon but he don’t see the T.rex here. Suddenly, a yellow eye with a black round pupil appears in the cleft and Hoskins, surprised, make a few steps back while Rexy launches a powerful roar.
I hope you enjoyed it. What are your thoughts about it ? | |
| | | TheRexMan22 Veteran
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| Subject: Re: Jurassic World - An alternative Vision Tue Nov 29, 2016 5:19 pm | |
| I think you're off to a good start. I like how you decided to make Rexy's capture the focus of the first chapter. You obviously put a great deal of thought into this project. Great work! | |
| | | The Geeky Zoologist Hatchling
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| Subject: Re: Jurassic World - An alternative Vision Fri Dec 02, 2016 3:58 pm | |
| Thank you TheRexMan22 for your feedback Here's the recap of Chapter 2 : A Long-expected Journey- Spoiler:
During the 2017’s Christmas season, Zach and Gray land in Juan Santamaria Airport near San José, Costa Rica. After having picked up their luggage, the brothers exit the airport and take a bus. They leave the central valley of Costa Rica and head west, to the Pacific Coast. During the trip, Gray take some pictures of the various costa-rican landscapes and animals they pass by. They arrives at a seaside locality called Caldera when the Sun sets and the bus bring them towards a ferry terminal. The Mitchells enters the building, wait patiently for the counters to open to buy their ferry tickets. After doing so, they board on a 200+ meters long cruise ship called the Avalon, settles in their cabin and exhausted by their countless flight hours, go to sleep. Shortly before midnight Gray is awaken. Through the porthole, he notes that the Avalon is leaving Caldera and he go back to sleep while the ship cruises under the starry sky.
The two brothers are awaken near 5 am by the voice of the captain in the loudspeaker as he informs the passengers that they will arrive at 6:30 am. When he checks his phone, Zach notices that Claire sended him a message during the night. They leave their cabin, buy some snacks for breakfast and sit on a bench at the ship’s promenade while the Avalon heads toward a huge mass of mist who cover a part of the ocean. There Zach informs Gray that Claire wouldn’t be able to meet them when they will arrive on the island because she has to be present at a press conference and sign an agreement with a future sponsor. The news disappoint Gray a bit who after finished eating, tells his brother that he will have a walk along the promenade. During his walk, he encounter a seagull eating a crab on the guardrail but when Gray gets close to the bird, it flies away and vanishes in the mist. At the bow, a group of tourists is poiting somekind of huge rock emerging from the water nearby their position but this is nothing compared to the landmass which is slowly revealing itself behind the veil of mist. Isla Nublar is in sight.
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| | | The Geeky Zoologist Hatchling
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| Subject: Re: Jurassic World - An alternative Vision Sat Jan 07, 2017 10:27 am | |
| Hi folks,
Since I had exams recently, I didn't have much time and energy to continue my fanfic and write recaps for this forum but from now on, I have once again time to do this. To not let you down, here's some infos :
First of all, here's the list of species appearing in the story : - Achillobator giganticus - Apatosaurus louisae - Avimimus portentosus - Baryonyx walkeri - Compsognathus longipes - Corythosaurus casuarius - Dimorphodon macronyx (very different from their movie's counterparts though, espacially behaviour wise) - Dryosaurus altus - Gallimimus bullatus - Harpactognathus gentryii - Indominus rex - Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum - Metriacanthosaurus parkeri - Mosasaurus hoffmanni - Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis - Pachyrhinosaurus canadensis - Parasaurolophus walkeri - Quetzalcoatlus northropi - Shantungosaurus giganteus - Stegosaurus stenops - Triceratops horridus - Tyrannosaurus rex Actually this list is a non-exhaustive one because there will be a few surprises on the way.
Second, here's the character's list (the new characters are in bold) :
Main
- Claire Dearing - Owen Grady - Gray Mitchell - Zach Mitchell - Victor Hoskins - Simon Masrani - Henry Wu - Lowery Cruthers - Vivian Krill - Zara Young - Miranda Liu, a recruit in the Rangers - Julio Velasquez, a recruit in the Rangers - Cpt. Katashi Hamada - Lt. Gilbert Brunet, a former french soldier who became an instructor in the Rangers and Hamada's second in command. - Erin Laurence, a helicopter pilot in the Rangers
Secondary
Jurassic World employees - Barry Gauthier - Niall Forrester, Ranger. - Selma Forrester, Ranger. - Cpt Valeria Escher, head of the J-SEC (Jurassic World Security) - Lambert Ross, owner of the Merry Iguanodon
InGen's employees - Alistair Iger, member of the council. - Susan Lynton, member of the council. - David Fallberg, member of the council. - Claudia Grey, member of the council. - Col. Edward Torres, Hoskins right-hand man and head of the black squadrons (InGen's private army). - Gregor Sherman, field team leader of the black squadrons. - Paco Cortès, a Tun-Si and a black squadrons member. - Damian Custer, black squadrons member.
Others - Karen Dearing - Rachel Hill, journalist at the San Diego Herald. - Hal Osterly - Jim Drucker - Erica Brand
And finally, here's a translated extract from Chapter IV : Bread and Circuses :
"It seems that we are finally having results", said the man to Owen with his french accent. "And yet you know them Barry. They can be just as stubborn as mules" "I believed to think we didn’t hired the right guys but damn, they are almost eating in your palm", said a booming voice. They saw a paunchy man in his fifties having short brown hair and sporting a goatee advancing towards them from the opposite end of the walkway. "We were lucky today Vic. Usually, it does not goes so well", clarified Owen. Owen and Barry greeted Hoskins and he asked : "Is this why you send your reports late ?" "We have been very busy", answered Barry. "Obviously not so much when you receive your paychecks !" Joked Hoskins. "We barely see you on the island. What do you want ?" Asked Owen. "Given the progress that you have made recently, the council and I wish that you make a field test soon." "What do you mean by that ?" The three men were talking while contemplating the landscape south-east of their position, where the river entered in the gorges which were the home of the biggest aviary in the park. "Until now we only used these animals for a recreative purpose. We are sitting on a gold mine and Masrani is just making them fed, housed and cleaned zoo's stars spending their days louging while we could use them in other fields such as medicine and agri-food. The council has already thought about a whole bunch of applications but according to my sources, our competitors as well." "If they manage to create their own dinosaurs", said Barry. "It’s not a matter of if but a matter of when. I reminds you that we lost our monopoly on deextinction since that russo-korean consortium managed to clone the wooly mammoth and other species from the Ice Age. My spies told me that a dozen of biotechnology companies are accelerating the timelines to catch up and some of them are waiting for the slightest misstep from our side to steal our secrets. Wu can jealously protect his works but it only needs one simple hacking and we definitely loose our leadership position and this is why we need to go ahead. When my daughter was a child, I often read her Alice in Wonderland. I particularly remember the passage where the red queen orders Alice to run while the landscape stayed the same. You see where I’m coming ?" "The Red Queen Hypothesis. One of the core concepts of evolutionary biology", answered Barry. "Adapt or disappear, so is the imperative that rules every living being on Earth as well as ourselves and our civilisation. With these creatures, Nature is giving us a gift that we must take from both hands to ends the evils that plagues our society such as famine or diseases", said Hoskins. "I don’t mind the idea of using animals in biomedical research as long as their living conditions are decent, which sadly is not always the case. I don’t see the interest of replacing rabbits, monkeys, dogs and cats by prehistoric animals if the experimental conditions remains as objectional." "Unlike the animals you quoted, the dinosaurs we created are patented, we own them and as a result, we can do whatever we want with them without anyone having the power to oppose us. Moreover, doing experiments on compys is less shocking for the public opinion than to do this on cats." "To come back to the Achillobators, don’t tell me that your aim is to turn them into war dogs." "The war dog term is a bit excessive, I prefer biological drones." Owen began to walk along the walkway, heading to a stair. "Do not use that kind of newspeak with me and don’t count on us for this. Barry and I don’t want you and the council to screw the results of nearly than three years of hard work. I refuse to send my animals to their death in Syria or God knows where", said Owen, upset. "And yet if the security division, my division, is financing this research program, it’s not by goodness and you knew it from the start. If this can reassure you, I’m not talking about deploying them in the middle of a battlefield. We both know that modern weaponry will turn them into KFC in less than ten seconds without taking into account the fact they will panic and became unpredictable. I’m rather thinking to an use in skirmishes or tracking operations in remote areas. In their cells, there is an ancient hunting instinct, an instinct that we could program. Look at them !" Said Hoskins pointing to the raptors. "Less than ninety millions years ago, Nature created these formidable predators. Fast, powerful, cunning and merciless. They will eat guys from helmet to boots in a blink of an eye." In the paddock, Charlie was rolling in the chips while Echo was cleaning her feathers and Blue and Delta were lying side by side at the eaves of the undergrowth. "Deep down, your animals are just giant birds of prey and falconry is a multimillenial tradition. I know that you can do it, you dit it with dolphins and birds of prey in the past. Why not raptors ?" "Except that it took several generations to tame animals like birds of prey, elephants, horses or dogs and dinosaurs were brought back to life only more than thirty years ago. Furthermore, training raptors is like training birds of prey larger than any big cats and having the intelligence of a great ape. This makes them very dangerous animals to work with", explained Barry. "Mr. Gauthier, I have ecountered feral raptors and yours are way more docile in comparison." "Don’t be mistaken, Vic. If you would find yourself alone with them in the jungle, you would withdraw what you have just said, believe me", said Owen. The three went down the stairs and Owen took the direction of a metal railings built in the walls of the paddock. "And if you talk about this project to the UN or the NATO, I fear for you that that they are not gonna be thrilled." "You know, many general staff are interested by zoology works. Between the study of fishes morphology to improve drone’s aerodynamism, african ants venom to create paralysing ammo or communication with great apes through sign language to prepare us to an eventual alien ecounter, the examples are legion and prehistoric life forms makes no exception. We try to reduce the number of casualties and some think that robotics is the future but I wouldn’t be that sure. After all a drone can be hacked by the enemy where a tamed animal will stay loyal to his master", argued Hoskins. "Except that a drone is not gonna eat you if you forget to feed him. Even if government bodies are interested by a using of dinosaurs in defense, I doubt that Masrani will agree. You are well placed to know that he has a a word to say about all of InGen’s activities and he uses this place to teach people humility", said Owen as he closed the gate, leaving Hoskins outside. "Humility ? Do you honestly think that the real goal of the eight richest man in the world, a man who owns many residences, a yacht, a helicopter for himself and who is so diversified since he is in telecoms, oil, entertainment and many other fields to the point where he mustn’t know exactly what we owns is to teach us humility ?" Asked Vic while shaking his head. "He is just doing the same thing that politicians and all of these hollywoodian stars who sponsors humanitarian NGO. It’s just a marketing operation to be well seen by the common folk. People like Simon Masrani can be compared to emperors, offering bread and circuses under the form of fast-foods and entertainment to the people in this new Rome that our modern civilisation as well as this park became. You think you’re isolated on this island lost in the middle of the Pacific with your little shack and your garden but no part of this earth is spared by progress and progress always win lad." "Maybe progress should lose for once. It will heavily cost us on the long term", said Owen. | |
| | | The Geeky Zoologist Hatchling
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| Subject: Re: Jurassic World - An alternative Vision Thu Mar 23, 2017 1:02 pm | |
| As I said in the "How would you have made Jurassic World ?" thread, my version contains a scene where Masrani and Wu debates about the animals accuracy and today, I'm sharing this scene with you. Here it is :
« How the group’s visit went on your side ? », asked Masrani to Wu. « Very well. » Answered the geneticist. « Although genetic hybridation is a new field, they understood it functioning in the broad strokes. The details could have been difficult to explain but years of doing scientific vulgarisation and teaching at Stanford helped me a lot. And on yours ? » The two men were walking along a path crossing a palm grove and which bypassed Simon Masrani's manor. The manor, a building with white walls and a roof made of ocher tiles, exhibited colonial architecture with Victorian and Hispanic influences and had the particularity of being built on top of a hill in the very heart of the island. « There was just a journalist that wanted to take some pictures on the sly but everything went fine even if the construction delays and I.rex behaviour problems worried me in the first place but Claire will resolve these issues and I stay confident. The first reactions from the test showing are very promising and as for the Indominus, I will only describe it with one word : splendid ! I really think that you deserves some congratulations, you outdo yourself in making this creature. » « Thank you. I’m glad that she pleases you. », thanked Wu. They reached the garden located behind the mansion and from where they had a view on the fields where several herds of herbivorous dinosaurs were grazing. Some of the animals had stopped at the edge of a waterhole to drink, but from the garden they seemed tiny despite their large size. Beyond the waterhole, the Sun was setting and by doing so, it bathed all Isla Nublar in the dusk’s golden light. « I had the impression of having a monster from the ancient times in front of me and the sensations I experienced in the Colloseum are beyond any description. It was like watching a horror movie except that the monster is real and is aware of the existence of the audience. I have chills just by rethinking of it. You should have seen Claire’s face, she was petrified. », said Masrani. « Not surprising from her… », commented Wu with disdain. « As for the delegation members, they were won over and so we have our sponsor. » They passed by a swimming pool which had a few deckchairs near its edge and the two climbed a staircase with large stone steps and entered in an open veranda overlooking the pool and where there was a long exotic wooden table. Masrani invited the geneticist to sit on one of the rattan chairs arranged around the table before taking a seat opposite to him. Wu removed his sun glasses from the collar of his T-shirt and put them on the table. A housemaid emerged from the interior of the manor, carrying a silver tray. She put the tray on the table, revealing to Wu a tea service in porcelain and a plate containing scones, then poured tea in two cups that she served to each of them and Masrani thanked her with a nod. « I take care of the rest. », he said smiling as he removed the plate of scones from the tray. « As you wish, sir. » Answered the housemaid respectfully before turning her heels and returning back inside the manor. Masrani took his cup and carried it to his mouth, blowing on the ambered liquid in order to cool it before swallowing a sip. « Please, treat yourself ! », he said, pointing at the scones. Wu took a scone and placed it next to his cup, which he seized before leaning over and smelling its content. « Jasmine ? I love jasmine tea. » « Yes. It was elaborated with leaves from seedlings grown on this island. » Told him Masrani. They remained silent a few seconds before Wu spoke again. « I would like to take advantage of this opportunity to talk about you about the new versions. » At the pronounciation of the word version, Masrani frowned and began to stroke his beard. « You want to replace the animals ? » Asked the billionaire. « Not all of them, only the first species that we cloned. » Clarified Wu. « Why, what’s wrong with them ? » « Nothing, aside from the fact that they don’t look like real prehistoric animals. » Wu’s answer left Masrani doubtful, he didn’t know the geneticist meaned by that. « What do you mean ? These animals are the same that you created for the Jurassic Park project and If I recall correctly, Hammond asked you to create him real prehistoric critters and that’s what you gave him. » « I know but I based myself on what we knew about dinosaurs at this time to make our own. They were consistent with the image we had of them in the end of the eighties and the beginning of the nineties, an image which is not accurate anymore. » « But the guests love them as they are. » « I don’t deny it. Let’s take the example of peplums, a kind of movie that I grew up with and that I enjoyed watching, being fascinated by myths at the time. A lot of people like these movies which unfortunately, show to the audiences a fantasy, even incorrect version of the Ancient World and we are doing the same thing here with Prehistory. As we speak, the entire world as seen our animals wether in flesh or through a screen and the majority of the guests really think that they are exactly the same as their fellow creatures from the past despite the explainations given. » « Remember that the first feathered dinosaurs you created were unconvicing in the eyes of the test audience, the investors and myself. In fact, you preferred yourself to stick to the old versions. » « But since we were able to put to get almost pure genomes and the clones obtained are way more convicing on an esthetic standpoint. » « Regardless, I am not against populating this park with new and more scientifically accurate versions but only if they are more attracting for the guests than the previous ones. You know very well that the purpose of this park is to entertain people and that entertainement is the antithesis of reality. » « Indeed but by relying on this postulate, aren’t we drifting from John’s vision ? In his vision of Jurassic Park, Hammond wanted to combine entertainement and pedagogy. To him, these concepts weren’t necessarily incompatible. If I recall, you adhered to this vision when I met you for the first time twenty years ago. » « The realities of this world have pushed us to set aside a part of John’s original vision. Since, we had to consider the investor’s demands and the guest’s wishes. By ignoring the two, we wouldn’t have been that far and this place wouldn’t be what it is today. In the file you sent me, you propose to replace the T.rex by a younger individual from a newer version ? » « Indeed. Rexy turned twenty-seven this year. It’s a venerable age for a tyrannosaur and even if she is still healthy, we need to think about providing her a successor and the most quickly possible if we want it to be an adult when she will pass away. » « The problem is that I fear backlash from the public. I doubt that they will like to see the T.rex being reduced to somekind of big coloured fluffy bird, very far from the reptilian apex predator image deeply rooted in our collective imagination. A new one will replace her but it’s gonna be an individual belonging to the same version as her. You really seem to want to the animals to be like their kin from the past but who tells you that the modern representations of dinosaurs will not become obsolete in their turn because of new discoveries ? We may come closer to reality but it is just a distant mirage that we will never reach. » « I’m conscious that we didn’t recreated the past. It is definitely gone and it’s impossible to do so but the best we can do is to try to reconstruct it or at least a certain vision of it, even if our creations aren’t actual prehistoric animals technically speaking since the gaps in their DNA have been filled with the genomes of other species, making them almost entirely new species. » Conceded the geneticist. « Ah, Henry… All of this doesn’t matter this much and I think you’re underestimating your achievements my dear. Since more than twelve years, millions of people have came from the entire world to admire your creations and to get away in this paradise the time of a few days to forget their bland everyday life and the misfortunes of this world. The dream of John Hammond has been accomplished and he would have been really proud of what we built in his honour. » « I think so too » Agreed Wu though his voice lacked some conviction.
A big coloured fluffy bird ? So, it is how Masrani envisions a feathered tyrannosaur ? What a cliché vision ! thought Wu. Obviously the billionaire didn’t want to hear anything about it and was blinded by nostalgia and the fear of innovation. Because of his narrow-mindedness on this matter, Simon didn’t seem to understand that feathers have nothing to do with the fact of being a coloured critter or not. Moreover, a study has shown that the Microraptor, a small species of Dromaeosauridae from the early cretaceous of China, had beared black feathers and one only need to have a look on modern predatory birds to see that most of them are far from being coloured animals. A bird of prey isn’t particulary scary for an adult human because it isn’t a threat but for a vole, it must be a terryfing monster. Masrani was just one of the many people to be reluctant on the idea of feathered dinosaurs and his opinion was even shared by several geneticists of the company, even though laziness was a factor to take into consideration for Wu, because it was easier to fill the gaps of the Paleo DNA, even if it meaned producing a barely resembling clone of the original animal, than to try to obtain a Paleo DNA having a minimum of gaps. Henry Wu wasn’t fond of resting on its laurels and it was already the case in high school where he breaked his back to obtain the best grades possibles, in the hope to integrate a prestigious University. His hard work was rewarded since he entered at Stanford University where he studied and prepared his doctorate under the leadership of doctor Norman Atherton, an eminent researcher at the department of genetics of Stanford which had given his name to the genetics laboratories of the Discovery Center. A the time, the whole staff of the laboratory knew that Atherton was working with a man named John Hammond, apparently the CEO of a recently established genetic engineering corporation, but no one knew the true purpose of this collaboration. Atherton’s death in 1984 created a strong feeling of uncertainty among the department and some feared for their career’s future. Two weeks after his funerals, Hammond approached Wu to make him a an offer which was going to change his life forever. The scottish businessman went to the young PhD student, the one that Atherton considered as the best element of Stanford’s genetic department, to propose him to became the lead geneticist of the Jurassic Park project. Shortly after, Wu left California for a place codenamed « Site B », located on a remote island called Isla Sorna, an island that the costarican government has rented to InGen two years earlier. During the two following years, Wu and his team worked tirelessly with Paleo DNA contained in the stomach of mosquitoes trapped in amber in the aim to clone a dinosaur. They managed to hatch one at the beginning of the year 1986 but the hatchling died a few hours later and the whole team was saddened, especially Hammond who had made the trip from Palo Alto just to witness the first birth of a non-avian dinosaur since the end of the Cretaceous period. Wu expected this because it was the first time they brought an extinct species back to life and until then, the majority of the embryos didn’t even reach the end of their development and after a while, he ceased to count the clones thrown into the incinerator. A lot of trials were conducted in Site B to « refine » the cloning process and get healthy individuals and the first dinosaur that survived more than six months hatched in December 1986. During the late eighties and the early nineties, Site B was at full capacity and InGen’s geneticists succeed in cloning more than thirty animal species from the Mesozoic era. Shortly before Hurricane Clarissa hit Isla Sorna, there was several hundred dinosaurs, adult and juveniles, living in the Site B’s facilities. When the construction work at Jurassic Park was sufficiently advanced, Wu was transferred to Isla Nublar where he worked until june 1993 in the Visitor Center’s lab whose purpose would have been to act as a showcase for the tourists but also as an annex for Site B since some dinosaurs hatched directly on Nublar instead of being shipped from Sorna. The incident at Jurassic Park and the ravages of Hurricane Clarissa on Isla Sorna dragged InGen in a deep financial crisis but where « Spare no expense » was a credo dear to Hammond, it wasn’t the case for Peter Ludlow, his nephew, and InGen’s board of directors. Making the old John a scapegoat for all of the misfortunes of the company, they sought to oust him and as time passed, Hammond gradually lost the control of his own company and the most important decisions were made by Ludlow. To help Ingen getting out of its crisis, Ludlow ordered the setting up of an expedition which was sent in the ruins of Jurassic Park in november 1994. Although the official aim was to clean the facilities and retrieve any kind of expensive equipment and more particulary the one from the laboratory, the true purpose of this expedition was to determine the causes of the lysine solution and the dinosaurs « illicit » reproduction and this is why Ludlow put Wu at the healm of this expedition. But the endeavour turned into a disaster and the survivors were forced to leave the island. Following this, the scientist went through a dry period, filled with the frustration of not being able to publish his work concerning the cloning of extinct species since InGen wanted to keep the secret about what Isla Nublar and Isla Sorna contained at all costs. However luck turned for the better when he presented the Karacosis Wutanensis, or Wu’s flower, during a congress in may 1997. It was the first species of plant entirely made by man from the genome of other organisms and this achievement brought the attention of medias from the all across the globe on Henry Wu and InGen. It helped to reinvigorate Simon Masrani’s interest in his father’s friend company and the young captain of industry he was offered to Peter Ludlow to buy InGen to put a term to its crisis but Hammond’s nephew refused. Then the San Diego incident happened just more than a week after the congress and InGen’s economic situation worsened. The secrecy surrounding InGen's actions off the coast of Costa Rica being no longer, Wu was finally allowed to publish his work and soon he became a celebrity and a miracle worker in the eyes of ordinary people. Representatives of genetic engineering companies rivals of InGen began to court him, trying to persuade him to leave a company condemned to bankruptcy, but in the meantime the InGen’s board of directions had reconsidered Masrani's offer. Masrani met Wu at John Hammond’s funeral and he showed him the will that John had written just before his death in December 1997, in which he charged Simon Masrani to revive the Jurassic Park project. Like many, Henry believed that Hammond had abandoned his dinosaur park dream since the 1993 incident and the fact that he wanted someone else to fulfill his dream when he had fiercely opposed to any form of dinosaur’s exploitation during the rest of his life surprised the geneticist. Even though the circumstances of this meeting and the nature of the offer had a troubling feeling of déjà vu, Wu let himself be charmed by Masrani's dedication and passion for the project and a friendship began to form between the two Men, united by the loss of a common paternal figure. Henry Wu could have satisfied himself by doing the same thing as before but for him, innovation was much more than a vague objective that it was not necessary to achieve to live well, not for Wu it was a real quest. He didn’t cared about the money, of being invited by the world’s most prestigious universities or appearing in the cover of Scientific American, he just wanted to push the boundaries of genetics even if it meaned to come dangerously close to the boundaries delineated by ethics. But since he was a young PhD student working for an old eccentric Scotchman in a laboratory on an island lost in the middle of the ocean, he let his achievements get to his head and as he gained more and more fame until he became one of the most famous scientists on the planet next to Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins, Jane Goodall or Neil De GrasseTyson and it was from that moment that he began to feed another kind of ambition. In a way, Wu considered himself as being the true heir of John Hammond and therefore, he thought that the chair of InGen’s CEO was rightfully his and when Arnold Mountbatten, Jurassic World’s former director of operations, approached the age of retirement, he began to covet his post because it would have served him as a springboard to reach the top of InGen’s hierarchy and given his friendship with Simon Masrani, he was convinced that the task would be quite easy. But the appointment of a young executive from out of nowhere named Claire Dearing as deputy director put a stop to his ambitions and when he learned that it was Masrani himself that more or less boasted her, he lived at the moment as a treason. He had the impression that Simon had pierced him and therefore preferred to place someone more influential and malleable at the head of Jurassic World than a more experienced employee who had worked all his professional life for InGen and who, above all, would have been less inclined to satisfy the slightest whim of the Indian billionaire. However, Wu knew that a deterioration of relations with Masrani was against his interests and he decided to preserve their friendship, at least in appearance. « Look at this beautiful sunset and these herds grazing peacefully ! » Gushed Masrani as he looked the landscape. « It reminds me of the holidays I spent in Kenya with my father more than forty years ago. It was during these holidays that we met John. », he said, nostalgically. « At the very beginning of the millenium, no one could have imagined than Isla Nublar would became again a safe place to visit with family. » At the mention of that time, Henry began to recall some dark memories that he quickly chased from his mind by looking away at the waterhole where the dinosaurs seemed to had a peaceful life. « Life is good, Henry so just relax and let’s drink to John’s memory, the prosperity of this park and the future success of the Indominus ! » Thereupon, they toasted and drank the contents of the cups while the jungle began to be lulled by the songs of the sauropods, as melodious and pleasing to the human ear as those of the whales.
Don't hesitate to give me your thoughts and opinions about this.
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| | | The Geeky Zoologist Hatchling
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| Subject: Re: Jurassic World - An alternative Vision Mon Apr 30, 2018 7:42 am | |
| Hi,
I recently have finished the second act of the first version of the story and I would like to share with you the story so far (a bit more than 300 pages).
Here's a link : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wWvJNFnpnLoG6U_NMBrqIchdRp_qi8DG/view
Even tough it is in French and that the use of an online translator can be sometimes iffy, I still hope you will enjoy it and if you have any question, I will gladly answer to them.
Have a nice reading. | |
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| Subject: Re: Jurassic World - An alternative Vision Sun May 06, 2018 3:56 am | |
| Here's a map of Isla Nublar (made with Paint) : KeyLand Occupation :Dark Blue : Salt Water Light Blue : Main Watercourses Dark Green : Forests Light Green : Grasslands and Shrublands Dark Grey : Lava Fields Yellow : Beaches Brown : Rocky Areas (Mountains and Cliffs) Infrastructures :Black Square : Important Hub (contains a Monorail Station) Black Circle : Monorail Station Grey Lines : Monorail Track Orange Lines : Gondola Black Lines : Preserve Fence Red Numbers : Restricted Locations 1 : Geothermal Power Plant 2 : Quarantine Paddocks 3 : Achillobator Paddock 4 : Employee Village (to not confuse with the two Employee Districts of Burroughs) 5 : Grey Watch Barracks 6 : East Docks 7 : Waterfall Helipad Black Numbers : Tourist Facilities 1 : Terminal d'arrivée des ferrys et Marina 2 : Great Gate and Hammond Plaza 3 : Spur Monorail Station (under the Administration) 4 : Jungle Cruise Docks 5 : River Aviary 6 : Windy Pass Station. Gyro Tower and The Bone Wars Rollercoaster 7 : Bivouac Station 8 : I.rex Colloseum 9 : Quetzalcoatlus Aviary and Belvedere 10 : Hot Springs Resort Some locales translated names : Créneau sur le Lointain : Crenel on the Far Poing du Géant : Giant's Fist Colère de la Mère : Mother's Wrath Etreinte : Embrace Lac Epouvantable : Dreadful Lake Larmes : Tears Montagne Hantée : Haunted Mountain Monts Brumeux : Misty Monts Ilots solitaires : Solitary Islets Haut Marécage : High Marsh | |
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| Subject: Re: Jurassic World - An alternative Vision Mon May 14, 2018 1:37 pm | |
| It's amazing how much detail you're putting into this. Wish I could be as passionate about something as this lol _______________ Have nothing to do with the deeds of darkness [color=#33ccff] | |
| | | The Geeky Zoologist Hatchling
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| Subject: Re: Jurassic World - An alternative Vision Tue May 15, 2018 2:37 pm | |
| Greetings everyone, Even though it isn't exhaustive and still being work in progress, I have the pleasure to reveal a map of the main hub of the park, a city named Burroughs, and its surroundings. Here it is : KeySoil OccupationLight Green : Meadows, pastures, lawns and gardens with low vegetation. Green : Densely vegetated green spaces, including dense gardens. Dark Green : Jungle Light Turquoise Blue : Shallow artificial water bodies Turquoise Blue : Freshwater Indigo-Blue : Salt water Yellow : Beaches Brown : Stony (Mountains, cliffs or large rocks) Purple : Barrier reef Orange : Roads Light Grey : Pedestrian lanes Thick black lines : Fences and walls Dark Grey lines : Monorail Lavanda M : Monorail station Red M : Metro station Red numbers :1 : Ferrys Terminal 2 : Great Gate, Hammond Plaza and Lookout Point. 3 : Boardwalk 4 : Richard Owen Avenue 5 : Obelisk Plaza 6 : Discovery Center (contains the OMINIMAX theater in its southeastern wing) 7 : Administration Building (contains also the Panoramic Restaurant) Orange numbers : Hotels 1 : Waterfalls Hotel 2 : Bungalows on stilts 3 : Lost Valley Palace 4 : The Reef (Underwater) 5 : Grand Nublarian (The Chicxulub Night Club, the Harryhausen Multiplex Cinema and the Casino are located just under this hotel and the gardens along the northwestern facade) NB : Presence of smaller hotel establishments, inns and apartments for rent on the Boarwalk, Richard Owen Avenue and the two residential districts. Black numbers :1 : Bleachers of the Night Show 2 : Tyrannosaur Kingdom3 : Mosasaur Lagoon 4 : Hell’s Aquarium Lagoon (Inhabitants : Small mosasaurs and sharks) 5 : Western Interior Seaway Lagoon (Main Inhabitants : Elasmosaurs, Archelons, various large fishes) 6 : Mount Thetis (contains the submarines station) 7 : Dolichorhynchops Cove8 : Oxford Sea Lagoon (Inhabitants : Mainly Ophthalmosaurus and Cryptoclidus) 9 : Additional Jurassic Lagoon (can be divided into several parts) 10 : Triassic Lagoon (Inhabitants : Primitive Ichthyosaurs, Tanystropheus, other marine reptiles from that time period) Hope you enjoy it. | |
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| Subject: Re: Jurassic World - An alternative Vision Sat May 26, 2018 3:24 pm | |
| I managed these last days to wrote a translated version of the prologue (roughly a dozen of pages) and I leave it here, along with the opening scroll. Enjoy the read ! Opening Scroll In May 1997, when worldwide medias showed footage of an adult tyrannosaur rampaging through San Diego, humanity realized that dinosaurs walked once again the Earth. It soon learned that there was an entire ecosystem thriving on an island off the coast of Costa Rica, Isla Sorna, and that this miracle was due to advances in genetics by the InGen corporation, founded by John Hammond. Despite a speech in which he encouraged to not disturb this lost world, Hammond couldn’t prevent the public opinion from taking an interest at the island while InGen, weakened as ever, was on the verge of bankruptcy. Faced with the insufficient means provided by the United Nations to monitor the island and fearing for the future of his legacy, Hammond summoned one of his closest friends, the Indian billionaire Simon Masrani. Just before he died, he left him InGen and asked him to find a way to protect the prehistoric fauna of Sorna from outside interferences. At the dawn of the 21st century, Masrani turned his attention to another Costa Rican island owned by InGen, Isla Nublar. Abandoned following the escape of Jurassic Park dinosaurs, no one has returned there for years but Masrani had big plans for the island ... Prologue : The End of a Reign
On that morning of September 2002, the loose soil covered with dead leaves and the trees attacked by climbing plants were bathed in the humidity of the jungle while the canopy rustled with the wind. Its rings wrapped around a branch of a kapok tree more than fifteen meters above the ground, a boa constrictor was inert. Waiting for the arrival of the sun's rays on its cold body, the reptile was digesting a tree frog, which it had caught during its hunting night. The boa had not reached its adult size yet : it was only one meter and twenty centimeters long where the largest members of its species could reach more than four meters. It could have reached that size if Death had not hit it so soon. The snake felt the claws of a huge bird dug into his flesh and before it had time to retaliate, a powerful beak pierced its skull. The serpentine body was raised before being laid at the top of the crown of a larger tree that dominated the others by its size. The animal that killed the boa was a gray-headed bird of prey with a black plumage on its back and white on the underside : A harpy eagle, one of the largest predators of the New World’s rainforests. Before beginning its meal, the bird of prey looked around it while below, many calls and songs resounded under the shade of the trees. The day had risen three hours ago and the diurnal animals living in the undergrowth had already started their daily activities, including hunting. But the harpy was the undisputed master of this jungle’s skies and nothing would have dared to steal its meal without taking the risk of suffering the raptor's fury and become in turn a potential prey. Carefree, the harpy began to feast on the flesh of the snake but during its meal, the jungle became silent. A flock of white birds flew away from a nearby tree, screaming, and passed by the one where the bird of prey was perched without paying attention to it while a dull and repeated sound was getting closer. Alerted, the harpy raised its head and closed its grip around the body of the reptile. It looked in the direction of the noise but saw nothing beyond the mist that was so thick that even the sharp eyes of the raptor could barely distinguish anything beyond a dozen of meters. The noise was getting closer and louder, almost deafening for the harpy. Suddenly, a gigantic tapered, khaki creature pierced the mist, flying just a few feet above the canopy, shaking the branches beneath it. Its eyes were huge, the tail was long and the skin had a hard, smooth appearance while the wings were turning so fast that the bird of prey couldn’t see its precise outlines. Frightened by this unknown monster which had just burst onto its territory, scaring all the animals of the canopy in its wake, the harpy flew with the body of the boa between its claws and fled. When the khaki AgustaWestland AW101 helicopter emerged from the cloud of mist covering a large part of the jungle, one of the lateral door was slid and a man pulled his head from inside the aircraft. Wearing fatigues and a headset on his head, he scanned the jungle around while chewing his gum. When he saw trees moving two hundred meters from their position, he turned to inform the pilot of it : « There’s movement at eleven o'clock ! » The pilot answered him with a nod and the helicopter took the direction of the moving trees while the other spoked in his microphone : « Ground team, I spotted the target. It is at the foot of the foothills and tries to get back the mountain. » He was speaking of a mountain with a bare top and jagged edges behind him in the east. « Okay, we're heading to its position. », someone answered in the headset. On the ground, the low-lying plants on the forest floor were crushed on the passage of a small group of speeding all-terrain vehicles, all khaki-colored and sporting the gray logo of InGen on their doors. There were several Hummer H1 and Jeep Wrangler as well as a Mercedes-Benz U1300 with a cage in which two men were standing, dressed in fatigues just like all those participating in the operation that was going on. In addition to a shooter equipped with a Lindstradt rifle, there was also one who led the operation by giving orders through his microphone and making large gestures distinct with his hands. Victor Hoskins, or Vic as he was nicknamed, was a stout man in his forties and had a military haircut with short brown hair. As his cut and ease of command suggested, Hoskins was a former member of the US Army Special Forces. By enlisting himself at the age of seventeen, he wanted to follow the example of his G.I. father, killed in an ambush in Vietnam. Vic had been involved in several conflicts, including the Panama’s invasion in 1989, the Gulf War, and the two United Nations peacekeeping operations in Somalia, lasting from 1992 to 1993. It was in Panama that he met his ex-wife, also part of the army and they had a daughter, born in 1991. However, he left the army after being badly injured during the Battle of Mogadishu and going from bad to worse, Hoskins went through a period of unemployment in the middle of which he divorced from his wife, one year after Mogadishu. What was a dark period for him came to an end in early 1995 when he was hired by InGen to fill the position of an executive of the company's security division who died a few months earlier on an expedition that the company had sent on an island one hundred and ninety-three kilometers off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, Isla Nublar, the same where Hoskins and his men had been busy for more than seven months. When he was told what InGen had left behind on this island and on Isla Sorna, Hoskins did not believe his ears. The company he was working for had cloned dinosaurs which escaped during a hurricane and proliferated against all odds, but several years passed before Hoskins would have a prehistoric animal in flesh before his very eyes. He should have also participated to Operation Harvest on Isla Sorna in May 1997 but a car accident prevented him to do so, which given the grim fate that fell on many of those who went there, saved his life indirectly. In August 2001, he had been summoned by the Board of Directors which charged him with a delicate mission. Following an incursion by imprudent tourists on Sorna, pteranodons had been released from their aviary and soldiers on board of the US Navy helicopters sent rescuing the survivors had seen them fly to new horizons. No one knew where they were going but they represented a risk if they came to settle near an inhabited area and the pterosaurs had to either be captured or killed if necessary. Hoskins assembled a small team and together they tracked the pteranodons across the Pacific coast of the North American continent for three months using testimonies collected in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, California, Oregon and the Washington State, up to the Canadian border. The pteranodons were only stopped in November at Horseshoe Bay, a locality north of Vancouver, more than five thousand six hundred kilometers from their birthplace, through the concerted effort of Hoskins team, the Canadian police and a local wildlife control office. To save a young boy captured by the pteranodons and taken to their nests, Hoskins had no choice but to shoot the animals and he was immediately surprised by the fact that the locals considered him a hero whereas he had only done what the board described as a "cleaning operation". Like the San Diego incident, the Horseshoe Bay incident hit the headlines, although the damage and casualties, two deaths and three seriously injured, were much smaller and the impact was more political than material or human, questioning the effectiveness of Isla Sorna’s confinement by the United Nations. Sometime later, Simon Masrani contacted Hoskins to offer him to be the chief of security of the huge project that Masrani Global and its subsidiaries would undertake on Isla Nublar for InGen. If Hoskins successfully carried out his mission, the Indian would ensure that he would be appointed head of InGen's security division and the ex-serviceman could then enjoy an enviable lifestyle. Thus, less than a year after the pteranodon attack in Canada, Hoskins was directing a capture operation of the utmost importance. While watching the jungle in front of him through the bars of the cage, he ordered : « He's soon on us. Get in formation ! » The vehicles organized themselves to form an arc with the U1300 in the center and the jeeps and hummers on the wings, then stopped. A few dozen meters in front of the vehicles, something big was making its way through the jungle, cracking branches under its feet. « Wait !», Hoskins said. A tree fell and one began to hear the raspy breath of a large animal. The men began to get nervous and the shooter in the cage held his rifle firmly against him. « Don’t forget that the big boss ordered us to capture him alive.», Hoskins reminded him. The animal they had to capture was coming closer and there was a deathly hush among the men. « You wait !», Hoskins repeated. The animal was twenty meters away, then fifteen, then ten, and its pungent smell reached Hoskins' nostrils. As their target was about to pierce the wall of vegetation separating it from the vehicles, Hoskins bellowed into his microphone : « Now ! » On board of one of the vehicles, a gray box-like device was activated, producing a sort of high-pitched whistling. Those who did not wear earmuffs covered their ears and the massive animal turned around with a short, plaintive roar, bothered by the ultrasound produced. Its long, scaly, brown tail passed over the cage, raising a swearing from the shooter, and Hoskins, speechless following his brief face to face with the animal, watched it flee. He gave new orders: « Enveloping maneuver! Everyone stick close to him ! Repel him out of the jungle ! » The vehicles started quickly and chased the animal to force it to go in the desired direction, to the west, where the jungle was less dense. While adrenaline rushed through their bodies, the men in the vehicles couldn’t help but to look at the animal. Biped, thirteen meters long and five meters high, huge jaws counterbalanced by a thick and rigid tail, clawed three-legged feet ending powerful legs, it was a creature that the average person considered extinct since millions of years a few years earlier. It was a dinosaur and not just one from any species : A Tyrannosaurus rex, the king of dinosaurs. The individual that Hoskins and his men were chasing was actually a female although he and his subordinates spoke of her by saying "he". Others nicknamed her "The Queen in the North" in reference to the fact that the dinosaur roamed mainly in the northern half of the island. They had learned through the hard way that the tyrannosaur hated intruders and many times the dinosaur had fiercely defended its territory against human incursions and as long as she was free, the construction sites that had started to be undertaken on the margins of its territory were frozen. Annoyed by the human's harassment, the Tyrannosaurus kept growling ferociously at them and even tried to bite the hood of one of the Jeeps, which was then too close to Hoskins' taste. « Keep your distance, dammit ! », he muttered into the microphone. But the dinosaur gave a violent headbutt to the vehicle that swerved, threatening to go straight into a tree. The Jeep then made a sharp turn to avoid it but rolling on a big root, it turned on its side and stopped. « Continue the chase, we're almost there !», Hoskins said after looking at the jeep behind him. The man who spotted the T.rex from inside the helicopter grabbed his airgun and opened a box containing several hypodermic darts. He took one and loaded the rifle with it before sitting on the edge. A hundred yards ahead, the jungle gave way to meadows and when he saw a brown shape moving under the trees, the shooter took aim and once it was in his line of sight, he pulled the trigger. The shooter felt the rifle’s recoil against his shoulder and saw the pink tassel of the dart disappear almost instantly in the middle of the foliage. He waited a few seconds but the animal showed no sign of slackening. As they continued the chase, Hoskins saw the tassel stuck into a trunk. He informed the shooter : « You missed the target. » The shooter reloaded his rifle and following the dinosaur through the gun sights, saw him exiting the jungle by spreading the palm trees on its path. Being thus exposed, the tyrannosaur became an easy target and the shooter did not miss it. The dart went to get stuck itself in the neck of the dinosaur, which roared plaintively in reaction. Passing above the T.rex standing in the fog, the shooter saw the vehicles bursting out of the jungle and describing large circles around the tyrannosaur while spotlights were pointed on it. From the safety of the cage, Hoskins saw the animal shake his head and heard him snort. A few minutes later, while he was still surrounded, the tyrannosaur began to stagger and wobble. Knowing that the tranquilizer was starting to take effect, Hoskins motioned his men to move away. Split between fear and fascination, they watched the tyrannosaur slowly surrendering to sleep. When another group of vehicles, including a grey livestock truck, arrived on the scene, the tranquilized animal was already lying on its side and breathing slightly while two armed men watched it closely. In addition to the truck, there were two hummers, a tipper containing transport equipment, a 712 M Pinzgauer and a white Mercedes Unimog with a red caduceus logo reading " Isla Nublar Veterinary Services". A veterinarian and her two assistants came out and immediately came examine the tyrannosaur whereas a dozen of men and women in light colored field clothes were getting off the Pinzgauer to unload the material in the tipper. Having made sure that the Tyrannosaurus was in good health, the vet gestured to the truck to come forward and touched the T.rex’s snout, feeling the rough skin under her plastic glove. A transport net was passed under the tyrannosaur, which had been pushed so that it layed on its stomach. The net was hooked to the slings of an hovering flying crane and slowly, the body of the dinosaur rose in the air towards the livestock truck that had been designed to be able to contain and transport an adult Tyrannosaurus. The removable roof of the truck opened and the flying crane gently placed the tyrannosaur inside the truck where the slings were seized to unhook them from the net. As the noise of the flying crane moved away, those inside the truck fixed the huge inert body to a platfrom on the bottom with solid straps. When it was done, everyone went out and closed the heavy doors, letting the light of the day reach the Tyrannosaurus only through the thin openings left within the metal walls. Her film camera in hand, Eduarda Mena was wandering among the vehicles parked in the grass, filming everything that was of interest to her. Close to Hoskins' age, short curly brown hair, dressed in a white tank top and beige trousers, Mena was the documentalist in charge of filming the operations on Nublar and there was only one thing she couldn’t wait to do : Looking at the footage she had filmed aboard one of hummers during the chase and the capture of the tyrannosaur. Thinking again about it, she had chills but having been a war reporter, she was used to thrills and had even taken taste of them over time. When she passed her camera in front of a small group of hunters joking, they looked at her and one of them said : « Hey guys, say hello to Leni Riefenstahl's camera » They waved hands at the lens. « What did I tell you ? Avoid doing this comparison please. », she retorted in a friendly tone. Mena walked towards the truck. The closer she came, the more the dinosaur's breathing, like the noise produced by the bellows of a forge, became louder. She looked inside the container and put the lens of her camera in front of one of the openings. « I cannot wait to see your footage, Edu. », Hoskins said behind her back. « It must be fantastic. » « I hope so, Vic. » She turned to him. « It's not like I was entitled a second take. », added the documentalist jokingly. « You think that if you filmed like someone with Parkinson's, I wouldn’t have talked to Masrani about you. » Hoskins and Mena were longtime friends. They had met during the Gulf War and kept in touch ever since. When Hoskins had learned that Masrani was looking for a documentalist to film the progress of his project on Nublar, it was naturally that he told him about Mena. « Speaking of him, I will have to call and inform him that his star is within our walls. », he said. Hoskins turned to face all the people scattered around the vehicles: « Ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention please ? » All interrupted their discussions and came closer. « You did a good job today… at least most of you at least, isn’t it Lambert ? », he said in a teasing tone at the driver of the crashed jeep, a black man of about fifty years, sitting on one of the hoods, looking sore. « But I'm proud of you. Tonight, rounds are on me ! » The assembly applauded and uttered exclamations of contentment. « Let’s go !» Hoskins said as a conclusion to his speech. He made his way to one of the hummers, sat behind the weel and put the key on the ignition while Mena got in the back and the vehicles were prepared for leaving. When they were all ready, Hoskins Hummer took the lead of the convoy and drove northward first before encountering an old asphalt road, black band partly hidden under the grass, and then turning west, towards a three kilometers deep valley bounded by two mountain arcs forming a cirque around a patchwork of groves and verdurous meadows that stretched under the cloudy sky. On their left, they quickly encountered the remains of an old three and a half meters high electrical fence that followed the road and whose wires were rusted and some pylons lying. As they drove through the valley, Hoskins looked briefly into the central mirror and saw one of his men reading a paperback copy of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers while Mena checked her gear. At the end of the valley, they turned left and took a tunnel to pass under the southern mountain arc and they came out of it a few moments later before crossing the jungle in a straight line. However, they had to leave the road a little more than half a kilometer later because a landslide had taken a chunk of the road and the convoy forked right across a small clearing just before the jungle leaved room for hilly meadows. When they arrived at the top of a ridge, Hoskins saw Mena lower the window to take a picture of the bones of what was once a gigantic animal with a very long neck, long forelimbs and a skull characterized by a bony and tall arch anterior to the eyes. It was the skeleton of one of the animals that InGen had long considered as brachiosaurs (*). Hoskins had already seen pictures of live specimens, taken when Site B on Isla Sorna was active and Jurassic Park under construction. Mena asked her backseat neighbor to open the window and she held out her arm in front of him to take the picture of another brachiosaur’s remains, half-sunken in a waterhole bordered by the jungle in the west down of the ridge. It was far from being the first time they passed there, but each time, some had a twinge in their hearts, imagining the brachiosaurs in their lifetime, imposing and magnificent. The convoy continued southward to the edge of a cliff overhanging for a few kilometers a valley at the bottom of which flowed a river with murky waters, clasped on both sides by the jungle : The Cartago. They returned to the road there and drove along the cliffs for a while before turning south-west, towards the large plateau which occupied an entire part of the south of Isla Nublar. The convoy soon reached the edge of a gorge at the bottom of which ran another river about twenty meters wide. A sturdy steel bridge, recently restored after being abandoned to the elements for years, spanned the gorge at its narrowest point about forty meters above the river. At its end on the southern bank, the bridge was barred by a tall portal crowned with barbed wire and flanked by watchtowers connected to each other by a footbridge. Armed sentries were watching for the arrival of the convoy and when it began to cross the bridge, one of the guards ordered the others to open the gate and it slid to the side. Even with the windows closed, the passengers heard a low growl, that of cascades upstream, and downstream, while looking east, some saw the blue of the ocean a few miles away. One by one, the vehicles crossed the bridge and crossed the gate, taking a track leading them south. They passed between the plateau’s escarpments and a rocky promontory where cranes were busy around the foundations of a building which, once its construction completed, would overhang the surrounding area like a citadel but for the moment the bushy vegetation prevented one to see what the valley to which the convoy was heading looked like. The convoy descended a gentle slope and once down, entered a village of khaki tents and portacabins lying at the foot of the promontory and the wooded slopes, on the fringes of the gigantic construction site in the valley whose sounds filled the air. Monumental would have been the first adjective crossing the mind of anyone seeing it for the first time. A hundred hectares, almost the entire bottom of the valley and some of its slopes, had been largely deforested and cleared. Machines and men in sheer numbers were busy in what looked like a city under construction on the edge of a huge twenty-five-hectare pit that occupied the heart of the construction site and from which came dump trucks loaded with earth. Between and in spranging up buildings or the excavations, hundreds of workers were working relentlessly, building, cutting, digging, welding, hammering or erecting scaffolding. In one spot, yard waste but also dilapidated fences, obsolete signs and rusted vehicles, all of them being abandoned elements of Jurassic Park, were piling up. The old was giving way to the new. At a junction, the convoy divided itself and only the truck carrying the Tyrannosaurus, the veterinary ambulance and the Pinzgauer continued their journey through the construction site while the others went to park at the heart of the camp in front of a set of several portacabins contiguous to each other and surmounted by a sattelite dish. Inside, a satellite phone was given to Hoskins. The capture of the Tyrannosaurus was just one of the first steps along the path of the Indian tycoon’s audacious undertaking but also one of the most crucial since this particular dinosaur was going to be one of the main attractions of the future tourist complex being built. While conversing with a cheerful Masrani on the other end of the line, Hoskins walked across the site towards a blockhouse-like structure beside which the containment truck had stopped. The blockhouse was attached to an area enclosed by high concrete walls, the quarantine paddock where the tyrannosaur would live until the completion of the construction of its main enclosure, located a little further and with which it communicated through a corridor. As a crane lowered the T.rex’s body behind the concrete walls, Hoskins thought of the other dinosaurs still roaming free and reminded of the pre-1993 incident list of Jurassic Park’s animals. There were fifteen species on that list and he reviewed it again to determine which fauna’s members could still being an issue for the safety of the construction sites or the camp. He first re-examined the herbivores case : Of the five species living in the park at the moment of the incident, brachiosaurs, triceratops and stegosaurs could have been potentially dangerous, but during an expedition in November 1994, mainly skeletons and carcasses were found. Isolated individuals had been encountered but they were so weak that there was no chance that the species would have survived for long and the scouts sent by Hoskins shortly after their landing in January 2002 reported that these three species of large herbivores had become extinct. The other two herbivore species, Gallimimus and Parasaurolophus, had relatively thrived because of their greater adaptability and the lack of competition from larger herbivores. It often happened that teams of workers or hunters ecountered them, grazing peacefully in the valleys or the meadows. Hoskins went on to the carnivores that made up the rest of the park's collection and thought again about their respective cases. He automatically removed four species: The Tyrannosaurus, which they had just captured; the velociraptors, which name’s mere mention made InGen's employees shudder because of their reputation of fast, fearsome, cruel and terribly intelligent hunters but thankfully, all of them were killed during the incident; the metiacanthosaurs, driven to extinction by the tyrannosaurus, which considered them as undesirable rivals; and the pteranodons which, not having been able to leave their aviary, killed eachother or starved to death. Among the carnivores, there were two small species : Segisaurus and Compsognathus. Where they were both insectivores and scavengers, the first were no more dangerous to humans than foxes or badgers, but the latter were particularly reckless and sneaky and it was better not to meet a troop while strolling alone in the middle of the jungle. By applying strict precautionary measures, the threat posed by Compys, as they were nicknamed with some affection, should be considerably limited. There was also an old Baryonyx bigger than the average, twelve meters long instead of the usual nine. The latter haunted a portion of the river near the Pteranodon aviary, but the animal was timid by nature, hunting rather at night and avoiding men even though Hoskins suspected it must be very territorial and thus, refused to send men run up the river without an armed escort and ordered them to bypass his territory by the road. His case would be settled in time, once they will have a temporary pen being ready. All that remained were the Herrerasaurus, the Proceratosaurus, and the Dilophosaurus. It was those three species which could have troubled Hoskins on that day. They were at once small and agile enough to easily hide themselves in the jungle or to sow possible pursuers, and big enough to consider a healthy adult man as prey. But in the presence of vehicles and other noisy and odorous machines or too many humans, they were fearful and preferred to stay in the shadows and that was without counting their more nocturnal or crepuscular behaviours, in the opposite of those of men who returned to the safety of their camp at night. Thus it was rare for Hoskins and his hunters to see them in the daylight, and when they did, there was only one individual or a handful at most and frightened by the sounds of the engine and the loud discussions, they immediately retreated to the woods. With an adequate number of men, rifles and vehicles, he would be able to organize hunts throughout the jungle and secure their former hunting grounds by doing so. The task musn’t have to be taken lightly and strategies will have to be established but they were only animals, not guerrillas or some Resistance fighters... The reconquest of Isla Nublar by InGen was no longer a fantasy, it was a reality and nothing seemed to stand in its way. As the sun went down, the work stopped and the workers returned to the camp with a nonchalant air while conversing with each other in high and playful spanish voices : They were eager to join the big tent serving as a refectory and an improvised tavern for dinner and tantalizing scent came to them when they arrived nearby. When the dinner began at around seven, the nocturnal animals concert had already started and the moon had appeared behind the clouds, lighting the building with its pale glow. At the top of a ridge line in the east, beyond the river, the tapetum lucidum of a pair of eyes glowed in the midst of darkness. The eyes were looking towards the construction site and more particularly the camp, lit by many floodlights. The creature they belonged to was a wolf-sized biped dinosaur with a slender physique and arms ending in three clawed fingers. Its black-spotted body was of a dark brown color while the head and the neck were pinkinsh but the more proeminent feature of this species was the crest topping the snout, different in size and shape by gender and in the individual spying on the territory that humans had taken over, it was only a small tip at the end of the snout : the animal was a female Proceratosaurus, a young adult that haved reached sexual maturity earlier in the year. She stood there for a few moments, glancing around the building site with a certain apprehension towards the large machines that the men had brought from beyond the ocean aboard the steel leviathan that the cargo ship was in her eyes. Then she turned away and started scampering north through the jungle, treading on the dead leaves, jumping over branches and running over slowly rotting lying trunks. Lurking in a thicket, she had watched the men taking away the terrible Tyrannosaurus, ending its absolute reign on the island. During all these years after the departure of the men, it was it which had starved them and forced to live in the shadows and feed on lizards and small mammals, preventing them from satisfy their hunger. Many times the proceratosaurs had tried to steal pieces of food from the Tyrannosaurus, but at almost every attempt, they left behind one of them, usually those which were too greedy or not quick enough to escape the T.rex’s wrath. They didn’t know, but the men had just put an end to this and had freed the proceratosaurs from the kings of dinosaurs yoke. Now, they could venture under the sun and hunt all prey they want without fear of becoming the meal of some bigger predator. There were some herrerasaurs and dilophosaurs that also lived in the island, but these potential rivals had their own territories, making inter-species conflicts rare and ephemeral. The former had settled in the desolate lands of the north, at the foot of the volcano, while the latter roamed the swampy plateau of the south and the jungle east of the Cartago river, the very same that the Proceratosaurus was crossing at speed, all senses in alert, her hearing looking out for the slightest suspicious hooting. Curiosity had led her to discreetly follow the men's convoy up to the bridge she had not dared to cross, and in doing so she had moved far away from her clan's lair, somewhere hidden in the north. She had rested a few hours in an disused pipe before going hunting to the river mouth, in the middle of the mangroves, searching for frogs or waterfowl, but there, the view of the sinister fin of a bulldog shark sailing between the mangrove trees frightened her and the belly empty, she moved away from water as the sun was setting. However, during her ascent to the heights, she ran into a freshly landed rat and burst onto him before swallowing it voraciously. When the proceratosaur heard the disturbing hoots of dilophosaurs north and east, she stopped and tilted her head to one side, listening carefully before heading west, towards the Cartago. She quickly arrived there and swam across the river, undulating her body and frantically swinging her hind legs to cross the twenty or so meters separating the two banks as swiftly as possible, fearing that the long-snouted monster with the big claws that haunted it would swoop on her if it was nearby. When she reached the west bank, the proceratosaur straightened quickly and jumped to the thickets where she turned. Upstream, near the aviary whose arches overhanged the surrounding jungle, she heard the surface of the water boiling and then two bright red dots appeared there before disappearing as suddenly as they appeared and without further delay, the proceratosaur rushed toward the line of cliffs in front of her. She found an old corniche road and began to follow it, climbing the cliffs in the direction of the aviary. Reaching the top of the cliffs, the Proceratosaurus turned west and leaved the jungle, sprinting under the stars in the windswept Central Fields. She passed near the brachiosaurs skeletons and continued west, towards a line of bushy trees and after having traveled a few hundred meters under the trees, she forked to the north. After spending an hour and a half running through woods and meadows from her viewpoint on the construction site, the proceratosaur reached a dried artificial body of water at the bottom of which trees had grown. On the other side of it, was the hideout of her clan, located among the ruins of a large concrete building topped with three thatched roofs with the largest being in the center, sheltering a large entrance hall : Jurassic Park’s Visitor Center. Since its abandonment, nature reclaimed her rights over this place as showed by the climbing plants that had stormed the walls and roof, obstructing the large tinted windows that lined the entrance facade or concealing much of the fake fossils engraved around the door or the relief that adorned the top, representing a Tyrannosaurus skeleton. The fountains on each side of the staircases leading to the door were buried under a layer of dead leaves, just like the steps themselves, which the proceratosaur climbed in small leaps. One of the panels of the door being ajar, she slipped into the space between it and the other panel and entered the silent hall. Due to the fact that most of the windows and openings were obstructed, the rare light provided by the moon or the stars was unable to penetrate the hall and the darkness was such that a human being would have been unable to distinguish anything but a pair of bright eyes in the dark observing him from above, those of a sentry guarding the entrance to the lair and which, in a call, could summon its kin to repel any intruder ... or surround and tear into pieces anything that might look like a prey. The proceratosaur quietly walked around the skeleton debris and headed for the stairs leading up to the balcony and mezzanine overhanging the hall. The sentinel, a male with a scarlet head and whose crest stopped just before the eyes, straightened up and watched her climbing up the steps. When she was upstairs, he greeted her with a small grunt and the female proceeded, passing through the open door of the projection room where, lying on the dusty carpet between rows of torn seats, other Proceratosaurus were sleeping. She did not pay attention to them and went to an opening at the rear of the room, next to a screen embedded in a wall of artificial rock, and beside which was lying a door leaf. Leaving the projection room, she faced a broken glass window overhanging the laboratory and its array of abandoned equipment, including a few computers and Mitsubishi Movemaster RV-M2 robotic arms, deployed over several incubators with mold-covered edges and of the eggs they once contained, all that remained was scattered pieces on the floor. However the laboratory was far from being devoid of life because it was there that the clan had made its nests. More than twenty pairs of eyes shone in the dark, indicating the presence of a dozen couples, each having built its own nest with ferns or moss harvested outside or stuffing and sheets of paper found in the building. Passing through the breach, the proceratosaur entered the room and climbed down a metal staircase, heading towards the rear of the room, and those next to whom she passed made somekind of cooing to greet her. She was walking toward a male waiting alone beside one of the nests, his eyes half-closed. When he saw her coming, he got up and came to sniff the female before rubbing his snout affectionately against hers and she returned the favor. A creak was heard from the nest and both parents leaned over it. It was their first brood and there were about twenty eggs in the nest, organized concentrically. The surface of one of the eggs had begun to crack and the being contained inside was struggling to split its shell. After making a small opening, the newborn proceratosaur took out one of his little clawed hands out of the egg’s inside and used it to remove other pieces of shell. When it managed to clear his head, he began to make a series of chirps to call its parents. As they watched him open its eyes, they noticed that they were as red as embers and not brown as theirs. Other crackings informed them that the rest of the brood was about to hatch. (*) In the mid-2000s, it was discovered that InGen had in fact cloned specimens of Giraffatitan, a closely-related genus living at the same time period but native from Tanzania and not from the American West, unlike Brachiosaurus. | |
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| Greetings, I know it's been a while that I've been here but that doesn't mean I didn't work on my fanfiction, far from it. Before telling you about the amount of progress accomplished since, I must put here the new structure of the story : PROLOGUE : THE END OF A REIGNBOOK I : JOHN HAMMOND's LEGACYChapter I : A Long Expected Journey Chapter II : The Eight Wonder of the World Chapter III : Panem Et Circenses Chapter IV : Sunset O'er Isla Nublar Chapter V : The Merry Iguanodon Chapter VI : A Dragon's awakening Chapter VII : The Calm before the Storm Chapter VIII : From bad to worse Chapter IX : On the tracks Chapter X : A Feast for Vultures Chapter XI : The Ride of the Pegasus Book II : THE FALLEN KINGDOMChapter XII : Storm over Burroughs Chapter XIII : The Board Chapter XIV : The Haunted Mountain Chapter XV : Costa Rican Standoff Chapter XVI : Night and Ashes Chapter XVII : The Time of Wolves Chapter XVIII : The Twilight of the Gods Chapter XIX : A Clash of Queens Chapter XX : Nothing will be forgottenEPILOGUEIn red are the chapters yet unwritten and I will be finished with chapter XV by the end of next week. A PDF containing chapters 1 to 15 will be then uploaded. I must precise that this concern only the french version I must precise since I prefer finish the writing in my native language, rest and wait for reviews by french-speaking readers before starting the translation in english. However, like I promised before, I began the writing of chapter's summaries in english and today, I'm able to put the ones concerning the chapters of the first Act. The next ones should come later this month or in March. But before reading the chapters summaries, I think it's better to have a look on this updated OC character list to know who is who because some of them are mentioned there. InGenJurassic World employeesRegina Powers, public relations director. Jonas, head zookeeper and curator of the large theropods. Lambert Ross, manager of the Merry Iguanodon. Neil Harrimann, control room technician. Ivan Preston, Wu’s most trusted genetician. InGen Security (the slayers) Gregor Sherman, leader of the slayers. Damian Parker, the youngest of the slayers. Olivia Decker, Sherman's right hand woman. Paco Cortès, a Tun-Si. Nolan Olsen Reynald Faraci Kevin Leng Board of directorsSusan Lynton, vice president. Alistair Iger, public relations director and spokesman of InGen. Dominick Silverman, chief financial officer. Grey GuardNublar's garrisonGilbert Brunet, a french ex-mercenary who became a lieutenant in the Grey Guard. Nataliya Darbinian, the russian warrant officer of Brunet’s platoon. Leif Drekanson, a norwegian sergeant in Brunet’s platoon. Erin Laurence, an australian lieutenant. Duncan Glenmore, a scottish lieutenant. Patience Bellamy, an american sergeant in Brunet’s platoon. Julio Velasquez, a costarican recruit. Tamara Durant, an american recruit. Mei Tian, a chinese recruit. Gareth Turner, an english recruit. Ben Rahim, an egyptian recruit. Vincent Chapuy, a french corporal. Percy Baker, a jamaican corporal. Five Death's garrisonsNiall Forrester, a canadian private. Selma Forrester, a canadian private. Zhuge Yu, a chinese lieutenant. OthersCassandra Landis, journalist. Here's are the chapters summaries. I hope you will enjoy reading them. ACT I : JOHN HAMMOND'S LEGACY Chapter I : A Long Expected Journey - Spoiler:
The Chapter starts with Zach and Gray arrival in Costa Rica on the 23rd December 2017. They board into a bus at Juan Santamarià Airport in San José, travel to the Pacific Coast and stops at Caldera, a port near Puntarenas, where they enter into a ferry terminal owned by Ogen Cruiselines, one of Masrani’s Global subsidiaries. There, the two brothers board into the largest ship of the company’s fleet, a 200 m+ ferry named The Avalon. When it leaves the harbour, it’s around midnight and the journey to Nublar taking between six and seven hours, the boys spend the night in their cabin.
They awoke the following morning before dawn. As Gray is walking the Avalon’s promenade deck, the ship enters into a thick veil of mist and passes near huge tower-like rock formations. As passengers are gathering on the bow, Isla Nublar slowly appears. The Avalon follow the southern coast of the island northward, heading to the Ferry Terminals, between the coast and a mountain. The passengers disembarks and inside said building, they take a metro that drives them through the mountain overlooking the terminal. They exit the cave and stumble into a narrow pass between the mountain’s spurs. At the end of the pass, their way is blocked by a massive wall that looks straight out of King Kong in their eyes, with a huge gate at its center, flanked by two massive tyrannosaur heads sculpts. A recorded voice, provided in-universe by one certain famous sci-fi actress, greets the newly arrived guests as an orchestral music with choirs plays. The gate finally opens, letting the visitors enter into the park. Behind the gate is Hammond’s Plaza, whose name is drawn from the statue of John Hammond that stands at its center. While Zach meets Zara, Gray goes to the panoramic viewpoint at the end of the plaza, overlooking Burroughs and the 25 hectares lagoon around which the city was built but also giving a view on a large part of the island, including the Cartago Valley, the Misty Monts and, at the northern end of the island, Mont Sibo.
Chapter II : The Eighth Wonder of the World - Spoiler:
After they drop their luggage at their aunt’s house, the boys are bringed by to the Eastern Boardwalk. Since they have to met Claire in the volcano-shaped Discovery Center, they must take said boardwalk and Richard Owen Avenue, both featuring quite a number of shops and restaurants. As they walk in the busy avenue, the crowd in front of them make way to somekind of old-fashioned tramway but instead of being drawn by horses like in Disneyland, they are by mantellisaurs. Stepping out of the mantellisaurs and carriage’s way, they proceed and reach the Obelisk Plaza, cross it and reach the stairs leading to the bronze gates of the Discovery Center, guarded by two life-size giraffatitans stone statues. Entering the building, they head to the spacious rotunda, which main feature is a huge squatch field sized model of Isla Nublar. Claire arrives, chatting with two of her colleagues about the press conference scheduled for the same morning and complaining about a certain Henry. Once the conversation is done, she greets her nephews and talks briefly with them, telling them that since she will be busy all day, she is the park director after all, Zara will watch over them.
Following Claire’s advices, the brothers begins their tour by the zoo. They visit the Children’s Zoo, encountering and feeding with a special kind of granule avimimi, kunbarassaurs, hypsilophodonts and the juveniles of the largers herbivores that populate other attractions, including young ceratopsians which children can ride like shetland ponies ; have a glimpse of a presentation show where a zookeeper feeds a dimorphodon with mice ; passes next to the pachyrhinosaurs enclosure and walks after straight ahead to the Tyrannosaur’s Kingdom. As Gray watch the T.rex feeding, he notices that Zach is texting and Zara is on her phone, seeming to not pay attention the superpredator that is in front of their eyes, underlining the idea that watching live prehistoric creatures have became an experience not too dissimlar from watching a movie in 3D or riding a rollercoaster. This serves as a good transition to the beginning of the next chapter.
Chapter III : Panem et Circenses - Spoiler:
We come back to Claire as she is in the middle of the press conference that was mentioned earlier, It’s purpose is to discuss about the future of Jurassic World, including the development of its franchise (two others parks are planned to be built in Mediterranea and Southern China) and the direction that the Isla Nublar park will take. She mentions the Cloned prehistoric animals normalization in modern society phenomena, explaining that millions of people have seen them live at least once in their lifetime since the opening of Jurassic World, they are all over the internet, and InGen is selling animals to zoos and aquarias worldwide. That brings her to pretend that they need something very unique for their next new attraction, a man-made dinosaur species : The Indominus rex. In a short video, the attraction name is revealed : The I.rex Colosseum, scheduled to open in July 2018. Claire turns to Wu and he answers some of the journalists questions before playing an explanatory video featuring Mr DNA and himself in which they delivers a vulgarization of the process that aims to create entirely new species from scratch. The conference proceeds and ends around 11 a.m.
Leaving the Discovery Center like all the attendants to the conference, Claire brings along with her the envoys of a potential sponsor and they drive out of Burroughs, passing near the Administration building, sitting on the top of a rocky spur like a fortress or a monastery, before entering into a canyon that leads to an helipad at the base of a tall waterfall, the same one that was used in the time of Jurassic Park. Claire and the envoys waits there for the helicopter that will take them to the Colosseum and it lands shortly after. They notice that Simon Masrani is flying the aircraft, he greets them and Claire, surprised by his unexpected visit. They take off and the helicopter then heads north-east first, flying over apatosaurs and corythosaurs drinking in the Rio Iris gorges as one of the Jungle Cruise boats floating down the river and later, in the middle of the Cartago river, a group of baryonyx feasting on the arapaimas that zookeepers on the upper deck of one of the boats are feeding to them. They then bypass the Cartago Aviary, the largest in the whole world, encompassing over twenty hectares and being 200 meters tall at the top of its geodesic dome, and housing several pterosaurs species like geosternbergia, rhamphorhynchus and tupandactylus in a spectacular lush gorge and waterfalls environment. After a passage near the northern summit of the Misty Monts, the helicopter turns west, fly over a group of therizinosaurs, and enters the Embrace (a.k.a Kaaawa Valley for those familiar with the saga’s filming locations) where they see some safari trucks and herds of several dinosaurs, including dryosaurs, gallimimi, triceratops, parasaurolophuses and two mamenchisaurs near which the envoys sees a small group of riders wearing dark green-grey uniforms and watching over the dinosaurs and groups of tourists in the trucks. Masrani turns north and flies over one of the mountainous range encompassing the valley, heading first towards Mount Sibo. As they behold the desolate landscape at the volcano’s foot, one of the envoy ask Claire if they fear the effects of an eruption. She reassure them by saying they have taken every precaution recommended by the consulted volcanologists (i.e digging trenches to prevent fluid lava flows from reaching key installations), that a minor eruption in 2006 have actually attracted people on the island, and telling them that the volcano provides over sixty pourcent of their energy through the geothermal power plant. She points the Colosseum and Masrani lands shortly after on the margins of the construction site.
They joins at its entrance Claire’s colleagues, Wu and the journalists. As they all heads towards the enclosure itself, not located in the colloseum which is only the show area but located further away, encompassing a cirque, Claire and Masrani talks about the conflicts Park Management have with the Grey Guard, saying that if they have delays it’s because of them. The group then meets with Jonas, head zookeeper and large theropods curator, and while he talks to it about the enclosure and its denizen, Claire goes to see what captain Katashi Hamada, the commanding officer of the Grey Guard’s garrison on Nublar and who was waiting for them alongside Jonas, wants from her. Once again, he ask the park director about the large security bunkers needed according to him and his colleagues in case of large-scale disaster. She tells him that they will see that after the press tour and she comes back to the group who has spotted howler monkeys in the enclosure. They are scattered away by a roar from the I.rex. The chimera dinosaur stay hidden behind the thick vegetation of the enclosure. Masrani asks about the second specimen cloned and Claire answers that she was devoured by her sister. The I.rex being the subject of some not-so pleasing surprises, Masrani worries a bit and asks her about Owen Grady’s opinion on the matter. The press tour of the colosseum concludes with a test showing. Masrani, Claire, the envoys and Wu take place in the vip lodge as the groups sit on regular bleachers. Amovible walls and roof began to move, obscurating the sunlight and plunging the arena in total darkness. A portcullis is lift up, letting the I.rex enters the arena. Spotlights project the I.rex shape on the audience.
We cut to the achillobators training scene. It plays very much like in the movie and just like in it, it’s followed by a debate between on one side Owen and Barry, and on the other Hoskins but here, informations on competition existing between InGen and other biotech companies are given (Among other things, a safari park housing animals from the ice age and situated near Toula in Russia is mentioned). During the conversation, Owen receives a text message from Claire, asking where and when she can meet him later in the evening. Again like in the movie, Leon falls from the walkway into the enclosure, albeit in a different manner, but in this version, Owen orders him to stay behind him and they slowly back away from the raptors, following behaviours and gestures that are adopted by nature guides in Africa when confronted to lions and other dangerous game. Owen and Leon manage to leave the enclosure unharmed but the former reprimand the latter, telling him to show himself more cautious the next time before asking him to pay his and Barry’s beers in the evening as a retribution. Hoskins muses about the way Grady managed to have, in his eyes, control over the achillobators.
Chapter IV : Sunset O'er Isla Nublar - Spoiler:
Claire, Masrani and co returns to Burroughs where an contract with the envoys is signed. Before going back to her office, claire pass by the control room for a daily checking. She have a debate with Lowery about the I.rex and the sponsoring around her.
Zach and Gray attends the mosasaur feeding show and once it’s over, as the bleachers brought them down below the lagoon surface, they meet up with Zara and visit the oceanarium, made of not only the mosasaur lagoon but also other lagoons that together forms the big lagoon, separated from one another by barrier reefs that converges towards an underwater mountain located at the very center of the lagoon called Mount Thetis, which houses aswell the submarine tour base. After walking through subaquatic tunnels and viewing galleries, the trio goes back to the surface and passes in front of the nothosaurs enclosure. While Gray is petting henodus in a touching pool (similar in design to the ones that exists in many aquarias and marine animals parks over the world), Zach gets a phone call from their mother, Karen.
After being told by Zach that Claire is not with them, Karen phones then to her half-sister, then working in her office, and they argue about this and other family matters. They coldly ends the conversation and Claire decides to go out on the attenant balcony to relax herself, overlooking Burroughs as she drinks sips of some alcohol glass.
Near 5 p.m, Wu arrives at the hilltop Masrani’s hacienda and him and the indian billionaire talks about the day, with Masrani’s preasing the indominus and Wu’s efforts. They then sits in the terrace and drinks tea as the sun sets and dinosaurs come to drink at a nearby lake. The two soon have a conversation about Wu’s proposal to update some of the oldest species cloned by InGen and begin to slowly replace the old versions individuals by others from new and more scientifically-accurate versions (a scene which is very inspired by the version 4.4 chapter from Crichton’s novel where Wu and Hammond discusses on the same subject). Both debate, with Masrani showing himself reluctant and saying that reaching scientific accuracy is nothing but delusion since new discoveries will make current representions obsolete, making the pursuit of this ideal a never-ending race. Once their conversation on that subject is over, they drink to the park’s prosperity and the future success of the I.rex as an attraction.
In the I.rex enclosure, an old howler monkey is left behind by his troop. As he tries to flee, the I.rex catches and eat it.
Chapter V : The Merry Iguanodon - Spoiler:
Night has fallen over Isla Nublar but while the animals areas had been closed for most of them, the park is not yet devoid of activity, far from it as both guests and employees goes to dine and entertain themselves in Burroughs restaurants, bars and other leisure places for the evening. Claire is dining with her nephews in the Winston’s steakhouse. While Gray is in the toilets, Claire tells Zach about her conversation with their mother. When they exit the restaurant, Claire ask Gray if he wants to go to the cinema but he declines, saying that he is tired, but the oldest of the brothers that he will stay a bit longer in the area and ask her aunt if there is some nice bar there. She recommends the Merry Iguanodon, where she have to meet Owen a bit later. As Claire bring Gray back to her house, Zach wanders around the Obelisk Plaza, the large pond east of the Discovery Center, the facilities located under the Grand Nublarian Hotel overlooking said pond (among them there is a casino and a cinema multiplex), the Eastern Boardwalk. Following Claire’s indications, he founds the Merry Iguanodon tavern and enters it. Zara bump into him there and she apologizes for the distant behaviour she had with the brothers. Lowery and Vivian, who are friends with Zara, arrives and Zara asks Zach if he wants to join them. He accept and while heading towards them, they pass next to Leon, who is telling his fellow interns his near-death experience with the achillobators. Barry appears in his back and reminds him that he must pay two beers. Leon complies, brings the beers at Owen and Barry’s table and takes his leave from them. The two zookeepers then talks about the potential reasons behind Claire’s need to talk to Owen. Claire arrives in time and she and Owen go outside, while her assistant, the two control room technicians and Zach discretly watches them. After losing a game, Zara have tell to Zach the story of Claire and Owen’s secretive but intense relationship.
While talking about Masrani’s request, Claire and Owen goes to the lower terrace and stops there, as a sound and light show takes place on the previously mentioned pond. They end up arguing a bit about the flingy relationship they had a couple of years earlier but they soon focuses back to the inspection requested by Masrani and agrees on a rendezvous time at the colosseum for the following morning, when the I.rex will be subject to an operation whose purpose is to implant into her a new tracking implant. They wish a good evening to eachother and Claire leaves.
We come back to Zach, Zara, Lowery and Vivian as they still talk about the latter three’s boss affair with the raptor’s whisperer.
Hamada and two other guards, the Forrester couple, arrives after and go upstrair in a separated room where a non-negligeable part of Nublar’s garrison are off-duty and relaxing. While Hamada sits with the other officers and join them in their game of cards, the two Forresters go to meet the five recruits that incorporated the guard this year. One of them being the niece of a lieutenant stationed in the Five Deaths, they pass her uncle’s greetings to her. Hamada tells his colleagues that Claire informed him that it will be a no for the bunkers he recommanded. The other officers are disappointed and displeaded by the news. After a game of darts, the Forresters and the recruits sits and the couple tells them more about the Five Deaths and the reasons that push soldiers and forces of order members from all over the world to serve in the Grey Guard. The manager of the Merry Iguanodon, Lambert Ross, enters the room and asks what Hamada and the Forresters want to drink. They order but when a waiter arrives with the drinks, a tremor. Being of small to medium magnitude, it’s not strong enough to do any signficant damage and Central America being quite a geologically active region, most of the people on the island aren’t that worried despite being surprised. However, when Roberta unleashes a powerful but plaintive roar, echoeing in all of Burroughs and its valley, Hamada worries since the T.rex didn’t do the same thing before the 2006 small eruption. Sharing with the others the signs they witnessed (odd behaviour from the wildlife and the park’s denizens, worrisome readings coming from the Geothermal Power Plant…), many guards fears than a larger eruption is set to happen soon. Durant, one of the recruits, think it will be the end of the island but Glenmore reassures her by saying that the Sibo isn’t the Santorini’s volcano, Mt St Helens or the Krakatoa while another guard, an amerindian costarican who knows a lot about Nublar’s history, mentions that despite having entering into eruption several times across history, Nublar didn’t exploded or sank into the ocean, and that the only victims of the Sibo were spanish settlers who built their colony, San Fernandez, a bit too close from the volcano. Said colony was destroyed at the end of the 16th century and it being located not too far from where the I.rex Colloseum is being built, the officers fear that the trench whose purpose is to protect the attraction from any lava flows will not be completed in time, making the evacuation of the I.rex a possibility. The I.rex having a bad reputation among the guards, some states that they will let her die if that happen and rants about the Park Management desire to display the largest and viciousest beasts that they can make because they are the one who attracts people on the island. Lambert tells them that Masrani and Park Management have became too confident over time and that most park executives ignores what exactly had to be made to make Isla Nublar safe again. He reveals to the recruits that he worked before as an henchman for InGen Security. He narrates the aftermath of Roberta’s capture, stating that this event wroke havoc among the already fragile ecosystem of Nublar by allowing the smaller carnivores, whose populations were kept in check by the T.rex, to multiply and eat all the herbivores that weren’t captured before turning themselves to the most abundant kind of meat on the island, manflesh. Lambert tells that one night, a horde of proceratosaurs raided InGen’s camp, killing many people and snatching others, This attack marked the beginning of a series of conflicts opposing InGen to the feral predatory dinosaurs : The Saurian War. During that « war », Lambert was badly wounded (he limps and have one eye hidden behind an eyepatch) and spended the rest of the it in an hospital bed. His wounds were inflicted by one of the infamous three gorgons, a trio of dilophosaurs, whose venom half-blinded him. Aside from the three gorgons who were shot after weeks of tracking and some of the herrerasaurs who were captured and integrated into Jurassic World collection, Lambert ignores what happend precisely to the proceratosaurs. Some of them were indeed captured aswell to be put for the rest of their lives in the quarantaine paddocks and still lives but they were only a fraction of their population. How InGen Security dealt with the others is still a mystery and all related informations are classified. After telling his story, Lambert leaves and the guards goes back to what they were doing before the tremor.
Chapter VI : A Dragon's awakening - Spoiler:
Near half past seven on the morning of Christmas Eve, Lowery goes to work on his bicycle while humming the main theme of Terry Gilliam’s Brazil. He is the first of the control room’s day team to arrive and when Vivian and the rest of his colleagues arrives, he talks with her and some of them about their plans for the evening. Meanwhile, the I.rex is being tranquilised.
We then follows Owen as he drives north on his motorbike, towards the Colosseum. He arrives there and meets up with Claire. They enter the construction site and while theye enter the Colosseum and climbs the bleachers, they talk about the I.rex genetic composition and Owen can’t help but to make fun of many things concerning the chimera dinosaur before warning Claire about the ethical drifts that the I.rex creation can create and the fact that they don’t exactly know how her physiology works (they talk mainly about the choosen amount of tranq administrated to the I.rex with Owen stating the same thing that Muldoon says in the novel concerning the amount of tranquiliser to choose with large animals). They arrive near the entrance of the surveillance room, guarded by Darbinian, where he must join Jonas and some of the guards (Brunet, Tian and Velasquez in addition to Darbinian) to start the inspection, wish to eachother merry christmas and he heads to the room. Darbinian lets him pass and he finds Jonas and Brunet finishing their breakfast and the two forementioned recruits drinking coffee. He greets them and as he is pouring himself some coffee, Darbinian teases him about the rumors concerning his relationship with Claire. Owen then asks Jonas and Brunet how the I.rex is and they answers by listing some negative adjectives. Once they are ready, Brunet orders Darbinian to stay in the room and Tian and Velasquez to come with them. They goes down to the I.rex lair where Owen sees gnawed-on bones. Jonas explains him that when the I.rex is fed carcasses, she took them to the lair where she rapidly eat them before gnawing the bones during hours. He leaves Owen and the guards to the inspection and goes to the holding area, where the I.rex is being operated in her indoor enclosure.
The veterinarian administrate the I.rex, whose body is covered with a surgical drape, an anesthetic at the base of the neck, where the tracking device is to be implanted. But as he is ready to cut the skin and the flesh there, he notices that they left the needed hand circular saw in their ambulance. One of his two assistants proposes himself to go to the ambulance and bring it back.
Owen and the guards arrive to the enclosure wall and sees the claws marks on the wall. They tell him that the I.rex often does this, sometimes in front of the guards standing in the miradors, like if she wanted to provock them that way. They head to the wooded area of the enclosure.
As she is looking over the I.rex health record, the assistant that remained with the vet shares with him her concerns, stating that the weight she gaine and her current appetite is abnormally higher from what they expected. The vet ask her if she thinks the I.rex is pregnant before saying it’s ridiculous. They mention the eggs found in the ruins of Jurassic Park during the 1994 expedition and the consequencs of the inclusion of west african frog DNA inside the dinosaurs genomes. The assistant brings the idea that the potential offspring of the I.rex might be the result of a parthenogenetic process and adds that since Wu didn’t reveal the integrality of the I.rex genomic composition, they don’t know if he made another mistake by including the DNA of some species able to reproduce itself through parthenogenesis. The vet reassures her assistant by promising her they will do the necessary tests the next month if that can take away her concerns.
In the wooded part of the enclosure, Owen finds a howler’s monkey paw and deduces that it was devoured by the I.rex. Tian wonder why the I.rex had done that since monkeys are way too small to be considered as suitable preys for a dinosaur of her size. Owen answers by stating that she doesn’t do that to feed herself, but in a distraction purpose. He then recapitulates everything they have seen until now and admits to the guards that he is against displaying the I.rex to the public. Brunet proposes him that they go the indoor enclosure to see how things are going there and he agrees.
His other assistant had return on the meanwhile with the hand circular saw on the meanwhile, the vet begin to cut the I.rex skin with but suddenly, a malfunction in the ventilation creates a strong draft that sends sheets flying all over the place. The same assistant that brought back the saw is charged by the other to pick them all. He does this but the other assistant tells him that one of the sheet had slid under the drape, next to their patient head. The assistant goes under the drap and notices that the sheet went under the jaws. He tries to lift them up and not without efforts, he manages to pull the sheet out but after he launched a scream of satisfaction, he hears the I.rex opening one of her eyes. Paralysed by fear, he tries to move or scream to warn his colleagues but can’t do it properly and the I.rex raise her upper lip, revealing her rows of teeth. He finally screams and the vet makes out for the door but a tail swing push him to the ground. One of the zookeepers that was watching the operation at the other side of the enclosure heavy railings, rushes to a panel on the wall to push an alarm button, warning everyone in the vicinity and the control room at the other end of the island. The other assistant rushes to pull out her colleague far as possible from the I.rex head but when she grabs him, the chimera closes her jaws around the lower half of his body, letting the upper half to his victim’s colleague who screams in terror and panicks. While the drap is still covering her, the I.rex stands up. The vet put himself quickly on his feet but seeing that the I.rex stands between him and the man-sized gate in the railing, he exits the enclosure right into the tunnel that connects the arena to the enclosures and taken before by the assistant when he went outside, rushing to the door at is other end. When the zookeepers came back with electroshocking ammo rifles, he is too far away to be within earshot. Grady and the guards arrive aswell and the first go inside the enclosure to get the remaining assistant out of there as Jonas and another zookeeper, standing between the gate and the I.rex, shot on the exposed body parts of the predator. She repels the two zookeepers out the enclosure with a tail blow and swiftly turns, making the medical devices attached to her flies over Owen and the assistant who are forced to crouches down to avoid getting hit, before closing the gate and ramming it with her head to break it and trap Owen and the assistant with her. The two runs to the tunnel, heading towards the same normal-sized gate to which the vet headed. The latter had arrived before it but as he is looking for the keys that open it, he reminds that he gave to the assistant who still had them when the I.rex ripped him in half. The beast roaring at the two humans that are running away from her, the vet fears for his life and through a panel, opens a larger gate in which the small one is integrated and big enough to let trucks pass through. But as he flees outside, he forgets to engage the closing process. Seeing this, Brunet contacts the control room and orders the technicians to close it but Lowery, fearing that he will trap Owen and the assistant by doing so, heavily hesitate. However, the closing process is still engaged. A CCTV footage that Darbinian has done this from the surveillance room in the Colloseum. Owen and the assistant are still running but suddenly the latter collapses on the ground, with a lot of blood pouring out of a wound on her throat. Wondering how the I.rex was able to inflict said wound from a distance, Owen accelerates and rushes out of the tunnel as the door is almost closed. Outside of the facility, a large veil of mist covers the parking and Owen goes to hide under a tipper truck as the door is about to break under the I.rex assaults. Knowing that the I.rex could easily find him because of his scent, Owen cut a pipe and pours fuel all over him. The gate finally fall and the Indominus walk on the parking but the mist is so thick that Owen sees only her feet when she passes near him. The indominus pick the vet scent, who is hiding behind the Veterinary Services ambulance, and as she silently gets closer to him, Owen has only a glimpse of her general shape. When she is close enough of the vet, she brutally throw the ambulance on its side and stand over her screaming prey before shutting up her prey by closing her monstrous jaws on him. Owen stays still under the truck, praying not to be found, but suddenly gunshots are fired, scaring away the I.rew which flees and disappear into the jungle. Once he thinks it’s safe enough to get out, Owen screams to let his presence be known and crawl away from the truck. The guards, zookeppers and J-SEC agents arrives and Brunet asks Owen in which direction the I.rex went before telling the garrison that they have work to do.
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| Subject: Re: Jurassic World - An alternative Vision Wed Feb 20, 2019 3:35 am | |
| Grettings !
Here's a link to the PDF that I mentioned in my previous post, the one that include chapter 1 to 15.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yW09FGuDhhkIxfW_5Lk7qchYsHoxeskM/view
Happy reading ! _______________ Check out my reimagining of Jurassic World here:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12945239/1/Jurassic-World
https://archiveofourown.org/works/20436878
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| Subject: Re: Jurassic World - An alternative Vision Tue Jul 09, 2019 11:27 am | |
| Greetings,
After nearly 4 years of work, I have the pleasure to upload a first complete version (in french) of my Jurassic World rewrite.
https://www.fichier-pdf.fr/2019/07/06/jurassic-world---jlaarz---version-10-complete/download/
As for an english version of it, I barely started it but it's something that I might continue later.
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| Greetings, I resume today the chapter's summaries. He're the one from Chapter 7 : The Calm Before The Storm. Next one will be in two days. Don't hesitate to tell me what you think about it or ask the questions that you have. Chapter VII : The Calm Before The Storm Code 19- Spoiler:
Sector VII is evacuated and Lowery informs Claire about the I.rex escape. BGCM- Spoiler:
In their barracks, the guards are gearing up for the mission. Two platoons head northwards, one that will be led by Brunet and accompanied by Hamada who go track the I.rex and the other, led by Glenmore who go patrol the fence between Sector VII and IV, the preserve. Laurence flies the Pegasus, the garrison’s helicopter, to scout the area and provide aerial support. Control- Spoiler:
Claire returns to the Administration and arrives in the Control Room. Vivian wants to also warn Masrani about the escape but Claire prevents her to do so, claiming she can handle the situation without having him around. She argues with Lowery on this matter. They are informed that two workers, who were near the Coliseum during the escape, are missing. Safari Village- Spoiler:
Zach and Gray travels to the Safari Village. Claire was supposed to join them at the Monorail station back in Burroughs but she didn’t of course. While they leave the station and cross the village, the two brothers argue about this and Zara. They arrive at Expedition : Lost World, the park’s safari attraction, and notices that they have 40 minutes of queue. Ruins And Desolation- Spoiler:
Brunet and Darbinian founds the remains of one of the missing workers and discovers that the other managed to escape. On the road, Hamada make a small speech to his men and Durant, in another vehicule, begins to get nervous. The vehicles arrives on site, were Brunet and Darbinian have already arrived, and before entering the jungle, the guards deploys a few drones and send a small team of scouts, led by Darbinian, ahead. The scouts arrives shortly after at the edge of the ruins of San Fernandez, a Spanish colony destroyed at the end of the 16th century by an eruption from Mt Sibo. The I.rex’s microchip implant signal comes from a church but when one drone is send hovering over the building, the guards sees that the I.rex is not there. Carefully, the whole platoon enters the ruined town. Hamada, Brunet, Darbinian, Durant and a few others enters the church and founds the implant among the rubble. Drekanson, who’ve been sent searching the town, arrives and tell them that they are tracks nearby, both from the worker and the I.rex. While they follow the tracks, they ask Laurence if she has seen anything leaving the jungle but because of a huge amount of mist in the area, she didn’t. The platoon arrives at the edge of the desolate lands at the foot of Mont Sibo, named The Mother’s Wrath by the Tun-Si and nicknamed Little Gorgoroth by JW employees and guards alike. They enter the area, hoping to rescue the worker in time. Forsaken- Spoiler:
The worker, Elias Escarcéga, is running for his life, tired and scared. He hides behind a rock at the bottom of a small crater. He hear the I.rex stopping at the edge of the crater. He pisses himself and hearing the I.rex sniffing, he think she is going to find him on the spot. She leaves the crater however and once he thinks she is far enough, Elias climbs out of it, only to sees drops of blood fall on his arm. A hand tackle him against the ground and he sees the I.rex neck and the lower jaw over him. Something long and viscous, like a tentacle, coil itself around his leg and he is lifted in the I.rex’s maw, losing his cross during the process. The Beginning Of The Safari- Spoiler:
Zach and Gray arrives at the end of the attraction’s queue and boards one of the safari truck, driven by a guide named Walter. The truck leaves the station and enters in the Preserve. They first encounter a herd of dryosaurs and Walter informs his passengers that dryosaurs being so easy to bred, InGen wants to introduce dryosaur’s meat on the exotic meat market. They enters into the jungle. A Captain’s Mistake- Spoiler:
Owen arrives at the control room and Claire let him in. Both argue, the first saying that the veterinarian must have underestimated the necessary amount of tranquilizer to which Claire responds that they couldn’t took the risk of the I.rex having a heart attack ("An Amy Winehouse situation" to quote her words). Suddenly, someone ask Claire why a Grey Guard’s convoy headed north. They turn and sees Masrani. While Owen is surprised that he wasn’t warned, Claire is uncomfortable. Seeing on the screens that the lethal weapons carried by the guards won’t help them in the case of an attack. He plead Masrani and Claire to abort the mission and order the I.rex to be killed but both refuses. Furious, the zookeeper leaves the room and Masrani ask Claire to follow him. They go on the roof of the Administration and there, he expresses his disappointment of her. He warns her that he has enough power to dismiss her from her position if she is unable to solve the situation. Masrani leaves, leaving Claire alone. Wu arrives shortly after, she dryly greets him, thinking her difficulties are a source of pleasure to him. She even says to him that she is tempted to authorize the guards to shot the I.rex but Wu reminds her that the future of her career depends on the I.rex. Annoyed, she leaves him and returns to the control room. The End of the Trail- Spoiler:
A northern wind pushes the mist around Mont Sibo southward, clearing Little Gorgoroth. The guards found the crater in which Elias hided and Durant pick up his cross. By investigating around, they discover that the I.rex didn’t killed him there but retreated with him to the jungle in the south. While they head in that direction, planning to corner the Indominus between them and the Limes, the huge electrified fence between this sector and the Preserve, they feel a small and short tremor. The Western Valley- Spoiler:
The safari truck driven by Walter continues its journey across the Preserve. While they are still under the cover of the jungle, they encounter some yinlong, an ornitholestes and an apatosaur. Following the later, they leave the jungle and enters a long plain divided in two by a shallow river in a large valley. Inside it, they sees apatosaurs, gallimimus, corythosaurs, parasaurolophus, shantungosaurs, unenlagias, one ankylosaur and its young, styracosaurs and two mamenchisaurs. The truck passes between the two gigantic sauropods and continues towards the northern fringes of the Preserve. Limes- Spoiler:
Niall Forrester, affected to Glenmore’s platoon, is patrolling on horseback, riding along the Limes, more to prevent safari trucks for coming too close than anything, the fence being sturdy enough to hold against a breaching tentative from the I.rex. Along the Limes, there is a few disused miradors since the original purpose of the fence was to keep the feral predators in the northern part of the island during the construction of the park. However, two of the miradors, one of each side of a gate, are being used, by Gareth Turner, Mei Tian and Julio Velasquez. Niall greets the three recruits and ask them if they can keep an eye on his horse, a mare named Rossinante, while he do his business further away. They agrees and while he is away, they continues to watch the jungle on the other side of the Limes, beyond a wide cleared strip. They began to hear noises but the mist is so thick that they have trouble to see what is coming. When they uses the spotlights of their jeep, they sees at the big surprise that a worker is standing at the edge of the jungle, none other than Elias Escarcéga. Elias, badly injured, fall on the ground and Velasquez wants to save him but Turner thinks it’s a trap. However, Tian go with Velasquez and both open the gate, leaving Turner informing the other guards. Tian and Velasquez reach Elias but while they bring him back to the gate, the winds slightly changes its direction, bringing the smells of the jungle to Rossinante’s nostrils. The mare, attached to the mirador, suddenly panics and Turner, who came down to ready the jeep for Elias’s transportation, tries to calm her down but fails. She nearly kills him and escapes to the jungle. Turner purses her in vain and Niall, who is coming back, ask him where his horse is. When he sees the two other recruits bringing the worker on this side of the Limes, he rushes to help them put Elias in the jeep. The gate is closed behind them and both he and Velasquez climb in the vehicle and head south, planning to bring the wounded to the veterinary hospital until the arrival of an helicopter from the mainland.
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| Chapter VIII : From Bad to Worse Metriacanthosaurs- Spoiler:
Walter’s truck arrives at Metriacanthosaurs Hill, a paddock housing a pack of seven of these medium-sized theropods : three adults (Boomer, Sheala and Priscilla) and four subadults (Kenny, Terrence, Philippe and Philippa). The guests sees the predators and they continues the safari, stopping a bit further on the road to let a mamenchisaur cross in front of them. The sauropod is accompanied by some dryosaurs and a family of howler monkeys, perched on its back. It is The Jungle- Spoiler:
While they are driving him to Sector 1, Velasquez ask Elias what happened to him. The worker tells him that they never should have saved him and that many are doomed because of this action. Before he dies, he says « It is the jungle ». Niall Forrester informs Hamada about Elias’s death. Panic- Spoiler:
The mamenchisaur that crossed in front of Walter’s truck arrive in a small clearing with a pond. While he drinks at it, the dryosaurs scatter to eat and watch the jungle. One of them detects the foul scent of a predator but coming from the north-east instead of the west, where the metriacanthosaurs are. He finally sees the red eye of the Indominus and make an alarm call. The dryosaurs seeks refuge between the legs of the mamenchisaur but at the sight of the predator, the sauropod panics and bellows. One of the dryosaur fall on the pond and get stuck in the mud. He is crushed under one of the mamenchisaur leg. The I.rex investigate its corpse but is not interested in it.
A the portal guarded by Tian and Turner, Hamada and Brunet’s platoon, Laurence and a part of Glenmore’s platoon have gathered. They all hear the mamenchisaur’s bellow and Hamada knows the animal is panicked. He orders Laurence to take Darbinian with her and found the sauropod. The two women climbs into the Pegasus and soon, Darbinian spot the sauropod and notices it is fleeing. She sees further ahead the metriacanthosaur’s paddock. She tells her colleagues about it. Brunet orders her to take aim at the mamenchisaur.
Brunet then ask the control room the authorization to kill the animal before it reaches the paddock. Claire hesitate to give the authorization, fearing Masrani’s disapproval. She finally does and Masrani reminds her he promised to Hammond to not kill any of Jurassic World’s animals whenever it could be avoided. Claire, stressed and feeling the responsibility of the park’s safety on her shoulders, responds to him but she calls Hammond « a doddering old man in his deathbed ». Before she realizes the impudence and the cruelty of her words. Feeling insulted, Masrani gets angry and shut her. He also threatens her that they’re won’t be a third breach.
Darbinian aims the Mamenchisaur and shot a first time but the sauropod continues. As she prepares to shot a second time, a panicked ornitholestes in the canopy below scares some birds that passes just in front of the helicopter, forcing Laurence to move abruptly. Darbinian lose balance and without her harness, she would have fell. She climbs back into the helicopter and aims again the sauropod’s skull. She shot and the mamenchisaur bellow in pain. The bullet reached him but didn’t touched his brain. Powerless, Darbinian watches the mamenchisaur destroy the fence of the metriacanthosaur paddock and curse herself. The predators go around the sauropod now in the middle of their paddock and briefly stop at the breach. While Darbinian begin to shot in their direction, they run into the jungle. Attack on the Road- Spoiler:
Walter and his passengers have stopped in the middle of a meadow, watching a herd of parasaurolophus, triceratopses as well as a few gallimimi and dryosaurs. The guide gets a radio call telling him to leave the area because of a code 15. Knowing that dangerous animals have escaped nearby, he tells the visitors that they are going south and won’t pass near the old visitor centre like it was planned. While they wait for the mounted guards that will escort them away from the area, two girls at the back of the truck take a duckface selfie with some parasaurolophus. Three mounted guards arrives and as they escort the truck along the road, the two girls notice something strange on their picture, like a white spot. They zoom and seeing it is some strange dinosaur, they pass the phone to one of their two male companions, a dinosaur enthusiast. Recognizing a large carnivorous theropod and hearing vegetation being trampled near the road, he rises his head and screams. Suddenly, the Indominus breach the vegetation, closes her jaws on the leading rider and throw his half-eaten horse on the truck’s windshield. The vehicle stop and the visitors screams in fear. One of the guard take his horn (similar in shape and size to those from the Medieval times) and blows it.
At the Limes, Hamada and co hear the blast, then another, worrying them (two blasts is for an issue), but when a third blast comes, they froze as it equals for an attack. Glenmore and his platoon rides to the rescue.
The Indominus finishes to kill the escort and rushes to the fleeing vehicle. The truck get stuck on a fig tree root and is immobilised. Like a shark around its prey, the I.rex moves around the vehicle (aboard, the visitors only sees its legs, arms, belly, tail and the end of the snout). She goes to the cabin and swallow Walter, who have the radio’s vehicle in hand. She can’t reach for now the passengers as the truck have bars whose purpose is to prevent the animals from introducing themselves into the vehicle or the passengers to fall off it. The I.rex begins to remove these bars, on the back and one of the vehicle sides, and try to expels the passengers out of the truck, proceeding rank after rank. Several, including children, are killed but some manages to run away. One of the fleeing is stopped however, the I.rex’s tongue, similar in shape and function to a woodpecker’s one, running through him like a spear. To expels more passengers out, she topple the truck to her side and put her arm inside the truck. Grabbing his brother with one arm, Zach prevent both of them sliding out of the truck by grabbing one of the bars with his free hand. A horn blast is heard and intrigued, the I.rex put the truck back on all its wheels and turns. Glenmore and his riders, including Selma Forrester, arrives and fires on the beast. None of the bullets wound her, her skin being too thick, but instead of attacking the riders, she retreats, with Glenmore riding after her before stopping near the truck.
The Stampede- Spoiler:
A troop of compsognathus and other small animals burst out of the bushes, fleeing. A growing rumble is heard, vegetation is being trampled and trees are uprooted, like if a tsunami was coming towards the mounted guards and the truck. Those who managed to flee the vehicle during the Indominus attack returns at this moment, running towards the truck and yelling the guards to get out of there. They are followed by some gallimimi and dryosaurs that exceed them. A mother, carrying her child in her arms, is lagging behind. One of the mounted guards decides to go pick them up before it’s too late. A stampeding herd of triceratopses, parasaurolophuses, gallimimi and dryosaurs, the same one that was in the meadow, burst out the vegetation, charging towards the riders and the truck. Before they can be saved, the mother and her child are engulfed in the herd and the guard and his mount are trampled shortly after. His colleagues moves away but their group is divided in two when a giant tree, uprooted by a mamenchisaur, fall in their direction, killing one of the guard and the mount of another. Lieutenant Glenmore, Selma Forrester and four other riders are separated from the rest and the truck. Because of the stampede, these guards flees and the passengers think they are abandoned. However, one triceratops hit the truck and manages to lift it from the root on which it was stuck. One of the passengers rushes to the driver seat and turn the vehicle so they can flee. They soon see why the herd is stampeding. Harassing a parasaurolophus, the metriacanthosaurs pack appears and the predators spot the truck. Instead of continuing to hunt a three-ton parasaurolophus that could kill one of them with a kick, they decide to attack the panicked and defenceless visitors inside the truck. The guard that was dismounted a few moments’ earlier gets up and climbs on the truck’s bars before it leaves. He shoot towards the metriacanthosaurs, forcing them to hunt smartly if they don’t want to be shot.
Seeing the metriacanthosaurs running after the truck, Selma Forrester wants to pursue them but Glenmore tells her it would be suicide to take the road they took because it runs along some cliffs. Planning to catch the truck further south on the plateau, they decides to make a detour. They catch up with the two mamenchisaurs that were with the herd but took another direction. Two of the guards rides too quickly and when they all hear the Indominus’s growl behind them, said guards are between the sauropods. The gigantic herbivores panics and bump into each other. One of the two guards between their legs is trampled but the other manages to escape. He and his colleagues bypass the mamenchisaurs and reaches the edge of the jungle, reaching the plateau previously mentioned. Glenmore looks behind them. The Indominus have stopped at the edge, not daring yet to wander under broad daylight and being scared by the balloon hovering over the plateau.
The metriacanthosaurs on their heels, the passengers catch up with the stampeding herd and the fleeing riders among it. They join them among a cloud of dust. But the metriacanthosaurs are fast and reaches the truck anyway. As the herbivores panics, they reach the cliffs and being pushed towards them, one parasaurolophus and some of the passengers fall to their deaths. All the riders are killed and the guard that managed to climb on the truck, after having a small confrontation with one of the subadults metriacanthosaurs on the vehicle’s roof, is trampled after he fall on the road, dying just after his opponent. The road bifurcates and they finally moves away from the cliffs, reaching the grasslands at the top of the plateau. Surprised, some corythosaurs stampedes as well but annoyed by the coming truck, a large stegosaur attack the vehicle and kills one of the passengers with its thagomizer. The metriacanthosaurs, who are four now (one died on the road and two other are being busy somewhere in the jungle eating the passengers they grabbed), are excited at the sight and the smell of blood. Like a pack of ravenous hounds, they runs after the truck but a horn is blown.
Glenmore and the riders with him rides to the rescue of the passengers and they shoot in the air to scare the herbivores. They disperse and gets the predators’s attention while the passengers flees southward. As the metriacanthosaurs runs towards them, Glenmore and his men rides to attack them. However, a long column of scared dryosaurs and gallimimi separates Selma Forrester and one of her colleagues from Glenmore and their two remaining companions. Helplessly because they know this event ruined their strategy, they watch them charge the predators while the cloud of dust engulf them. The two riders accompanying Glenmore are quickly killed by the predators but Glenmore himself manages to slain one of the adult females. But before he can flee, Boomer rams into his horse and he is trapped under it. As the dust cloud dissipates, Glenmore is beheaded by Boomer’s son Philippe. Selma Forrester and her colleague are now at fire range but they are two against three metriacanthosaurs. However, the arrival of the Pegasus scares the predators away and they disappear into the jungle. Evacuation- Spoiler:
Following the stampede, the death of Glenmore and half of his platoon, and realizing thanks to a drone that the I.rex is inside the Preserve, Claire orders its evacuation. She turns back and sees that Masrani left the room.
In Gertie’s Safari Bar and Restaurant, Zara is waiting for the boys. She and the other customers are told to leave the restaurant and evacuate the village. By phoning to her, Claire discovers that the boys were at the half of their safari. She asks Zara to bring them back to Burroughs when they will return. Zara heads towards Expedition : Lost World’s station. A J-SEC officer, Hilary, stops her and she argues briefly with him. When she threatens to tell Claire about his and the possibility that he will be sent doing some night shifts at the quarantine paddocks, he admit defeat and allows her to say with him at the station. Loudwater- Spoiler:
Driving southward, the safari truck reaches the edge of the cliffs over the deep and narrow valley of the Loudwater. Once again, it gets stuck, in a small clearing at the cliff’s edge and without any means of communication, the vehicle’s radio being in the belly of the Indominus and the phones being unable to receive any data, its passengers can only count on themselves and before one of them take the lead, they debate and argue. They know however where they are since they drove along the same cliffs earlier during the safari. They only have to push the vehicle so it can no longer be stuck. Two of the passengers, one of them armed with the pistol that the guard lost when he was on the roof, climbs out and pulls out the winch to wind up its cable around the bark of a large tree ahead. Once it’s done, they tell the driver to turn on the engine while the rest of the passengers pushes the back of the truck. When the two by the winch sees something at the edge of the clearing, they tell the others to stop what they are doing. All froze. Bucephalus, a male shantungosaur known for its aggressiveness and quite a star on the internet, is looking at them. They stay motionless until the huge duckbill loses interest and leaves the area. The passengers manage to push the truck’s wheels over the root on which they are stucked but their victory is short-lived. One of the two passengers that went to wind up the winch’s cable is ambushed by a subadult metriacanthosaur and killed while the other manages to return to the truck. Another subadult and Priscilla, the last adult female alive, appears and using the gaps left by the missing doors, try to reach the passengers and manage to grab one. During the passengers’s panic, someone inadvertently presses the horn. Two of the metriacanthosaurs widens one of the gap by ripping off the closest door together. Another passenger is grabbed and killed while a big animal is heading towards the clearing. Bucephalus, who heard the horn, reappears and the passengers recall that Walter told them that male shantungosaurs takes horn’s sounds as a provocation and therefore that pressing the horn in their presence is very dangerous. While the adult metriacanthosaur act very cautiously towards the duckbill, the two subadults quite hot-headed and attack the herbivore as it is becoming more and more aggressive, using the inflatable pouch on top of its nose to amplify its bellows. The adult attack as well but the duckbill manages to repels the predators and brutally kills the adult metriacanthosaur in front of the passengers eyes who realize that no, herbivores are not always nice. While the two subadults are getting up, the hadrosaur rams into the vehicle, pushing it slowly towards the edge of the cliff. Some passengers go out the vehicle and flees toward the woods, only to be chased by one of the remaining metriacanthosaurs and when they go one way and being trampled by the shantungosaur when they go on the other. While one of the metriacanthosaur is on the hadrosaur’s back, Zach manages to have some signal for his phone and phones to Claire. Bucephalus throw its opponent on the truck’s roof and as the other metriacanthosaur is too scared, nothing prevents him to push the truck over the edge while the metriacanthosaur he throwed, Kenny, has clamped his jaws on the back of the vehicle. The truck being still attached to the tree thanks to the winch and its cable, it is suspended vertically. His opponents defeated, Bucephalus unleashes a loud bellow and leaves the clearing. Abord the truck, the passengers throw objects at Kenny as he is a dangerous weight that pulls the vehicle down. The metriacanthosaur fall on the top of the tree just below and then in the Loudwater. As the river carry his unconscious body, the winch’s cable break and the truck lands in its turn on the tree and then into the river. It is taken by the water downstream and is stopped at the very last moment by two huge rocks before it fall off a waterfall. Knowing that the truck won’t be hold for long however, the passengers decides to leave the truck. One by one, they climbs on the vehicle’s roof and crawl to the rock by the northern bank of the river but they are attacked by Kenny before they can all climb on the roof and Zach and Gray are among those still inside. The predator fall into the truck and with him on side and the broken top of the tree on which they fell coming at them at huge speed like a battering ram and threatening to push the truck off the waterfall, the trapped passengers think they are doomed.
Claire, who’ve isolated herself in the toilets to take her nephew’s call, listens helplessly the cries of the panicked, the roaring waters and the metriacanthosaur’s growl. The transmission cut off when the phone is submerged. Believing Zach and Gray are now dying and afflicted by all the events that happened in the morning, she burst into tears.
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| Subject: Re: Jurassic World - An alternative Vision Sat Aug 03, 2019 10:59 am | |
| Here is a second version of the map of Isla Nublar : Here is a translation of the names featuring on the map itself : Colère de la Mère : Mother’s Wrath (also known as Little Gorgoroth) Vallée occidentale : Western ValleyPoing du Géant : Giant’s FistCréneau sur le Lointain : Crenel on AfarBruyante : LoudwaterVieux Centre des Visiteurs : Old Visitors CentreLac Epouvantable : Dreadful LakeEtreinte : EmbraceMonts Brumeux : Misty MontsChamps Centraux : Central FieldsLong Lac : Long LakeCordillère occidentale : Western CordilleraPlateau Méridional : Southern PlateauHaut-Marécage : High MarshIlots Solitaires : Solitary Islets... and an english version of the key : A : Administration C : Grey Guard Barracks D : East Docks E : Achillobators paddock (I.B.R.I.S program) F : Ferry Terminal G : Geothermal Power Plant H : Waterfall helipad Q : Quarantine Paddocks V : Employee Village Sector IV4.1 : Jungle Cruise 4.2 : Safari Village 4.3 : Safari Lodges 4.4 : Expedition : Lost World 4.5 : Giants Grove Sector V5.1 : Trading Post 5.2 : Gondola lift 5.3 : Lost Trails 5.4 : Gorges Aviary Sector VII7.1 : Hot Springs Resort 7.2 : Quetzalcoatlus Aviary 7.3 : I.rex Coliseum Additional notes : Burroughs is the name of the Jurassic World’s main hub, where the lagoon, the largest hotels, the Discovery Centre and the Administration building are located. | |
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| Subject: Re: Jurassic World - An alternative Vision Sun Aug 04, 2019 3:44 am | |
| Chapter IX : On The Tracks Going To the Field- Spoiler:
Vivian enters into the toilets and ask Claire if she is ok. Hidden from her sight, Claire assures her that she will come back soon. She dry her tears and returns to the control room. There, one of the technician announces the upcoming arrival of a helicopter from InGen’s San José offices. Claire then declare she is going on the field. Lowery protests but she leaves anyway. San José’s helicopter lands on the building’s helipad and Hoskins gets off of it. Wu arrives in the control room, asking where Claire is, and shortly after, he is followed by Hoskins, who ask the same question. They’re surprised to learn that Claire is going on the field. When Hoskins mentions he was warned of the situation thanks to "eyes and ears" within the Administration, the control room staff feel paranoid. Owen’s Help- Spoiler:
Claire leaves Burroughs and goes to the Employee Village, by the shores of the Long Lake. She stops by Owen’s bungalow and knocks at his door. Nobody answers but the door is open however. She enters into the bungalow and wonders where he is, before he opens the bathroom door. He was taking a shower, trying to remove the scent of gasoline. He ask her why she came and while he gets dressed, she tells him about everything that happened between the mamenchisaur’s panic and the fall of the safari truck in the Loudwater. She adds that she needs him because the guards won’t let her go inside the Preserve without someone they trust accompanying her. Owen agrees but tell her that while he is aware that she doesn’t have the time to go back to her place and put more fitted clothes, the shoes she is currently wearing won’t be practical in the jungle, not to say dangerous, even for a short time, and he gives her a pair of hiking boots. She puts them and they leave the bungalow. Owen take his backpack, his rifle and a machete, and they climb in his jeep. They head to the Preserve. Safari Village- Spoiler:
After speaking to the controller, Hilary learns to Zara that all of the trucks except one came back to the station. She receives a text from Claire and tell him that the truck fell in the Loudwater. Both think the boys were killed in the crash or drowned. Zara decides to return to Burroughs and her and the officer wishes each other good luck. As she heads to the monorail station, a group of mounted guards pass next to her and dismounts in the village’s entrance plaza. Selma Forrester, who is among these riders, is told by one of her colleagues that Niall awaits her at the monorail’s platform. When she arrives there, he is very glad to see her alive and asks her about the number of fallen guards and Glenmore’s fate. The monorail arrives and takes a part of the waiting visitors. The Wreckage- Spoiler:
Claire and Owen arrives at the clearing at the edge of the cliff. The guards are already here, some being in the clearing, others on the bank of the Loudwater down the cliff and most of them in the basin below the waterfall. Drekanson tells Owen about the whereabouts of the Indominus and the metriacanthosaurs, and Claire ask him where the truck is. He answers and while Owen is kneeled next to Priscilla’s body, Claire heads towards the basin. She sees the truck, half-sunken on top of some rocks in the middle of the basin. Those who were inside, including Kenny the metriacanthosaur, when it fell either died when the vehicle crashed on the rocks, either drowned as they were trapped inside. Claire hears however that some passengers walked along the bank. She and Owen goes down in the basin and joins Hamada and most of Brunet’s platoon there. When she ask them if they saw her nephews’ bodies, they say no. One of the guards returns from the foot of the cliffs near the waterfall, a camera in the hand. Claire recognize it, as it belonged to Gray. She realizes that he must have left the vehicle before it fell and hopes that was Zach’s case as well. Owen and Hamada think Gray joined the passengers that reached the bank and headed upstream. Hamada then informs Claire that they have deployed men in each of the passes between the Loudwater valley and the rest of the Preserve, so that they won’t miss the passengers. He tells her to go back to the Administration, as she will probably useful there. She refuses but Hamada and Brunet insists. The guards leaves, returning to their vehicles to go track the metriacanthosaurs. Claire and Owen leaves the basin shortly after but as they climb the slope towards the clearing, they stumble across Zach’s phone, trampled by a metriacanthosaur. By investigating the tracks, they reconstruct the scene and discovers that after they escaped the truck just before it fell, the boys walked on a ledge in the cliff and climbed up near where their aunt and the park keeper are standing. Zach and Gray were however spotted by one of the remaining subadults metriacanthosaurs. They ran away from it but when the other subadult and the last adult joined the hunt, they had no choice but to run to the edge of a cliff and jumps from it into the Loudwater, downstream of the basin. The river’s current being fast and strong at this level, they realize that Zach and Gray, whether they are dead or alive, must have been carried further downstream. Before going to search them, Claire and Owen returns to their jeep to take the latter’s bag and machete. To keep most dinosaurs away, they put on their face, neck and clothes a black and white slimy matter that Owen reveal to be tyrannosaur’s droppings. Once they are ready, they head back to the Loudwater and Owen mentions the threats other than the metriacanthosaurs they might encounter. He and Claire can’t help to compare themselves to protagonists from adventure novels or films like Allan Quatermain, Romancing the Stone or Indiana Jones. Spectre- Spoiler:
Following the metriacanthosaurs implants signal, Hamada and Brunet’s platoon drives along the road a bit before going off of their vehicles and tracking them on foot. Drekanson tells Durant about Hamada’s past. He reveals to her that Ammut (JP3’s spinosaur) attacked his team when he was on Isla Sorna and killed his companions. Hamada disappeared into the wild and when he came back, it was with one of Ammut’s tooth, the very same that constitues the hilt of his dagger. A few days after he was rescued, Ammut’s dead body was discovered and the spinosaur’s skull now adorn Caer Draig’s Great Hall. Drekanson says to her that the Indominus brought these dark memories back to Hamada. A little further, the company sees a leucistic female dryosaur, Spectre, ostracised from her herd long ago. She doesn’t move away as they approach and look at them with her dark eyes. To proceed, the guards must pass next to the rock at the top of which the white dryosaur is standing. After Hamada met her gaze, he lowers his eyes and walk, a dreary look in his face, taking this encounter as a bad omen in this dark day (in Japan, white is a colour linked to death). She look every member of the company as they pass in front of her. Control- Spoiler:
Claire having not return to the Control Room, Hoskins attempts to phone her but since she is in a place where she can’t get a signal, he believes that she is not responding in purpose and sends J-SEC officers at her home and to the ferry terminal, thinking she might be trying to leave the island. Scavengers Claire and Owen reaches the Crenel on Afar, a very narrow gap between the mountains where the Loudwater forms a tall waterfall. Zach and Gray being neither in the small pool at the top of the waterfall or at it’s bottom, they wonder where they are until they found that they dragged themselves on the pool’s edge, rested for a bit there and then headed to the entrance of a cave in which they entered. Claire and Owen enters in the cave. Using only Zach’s lighter, the boys are advancing in the cave. They stumble across two humans skeletons : one is from a 16th century conquistador and the other from an InGen soldier who died fifteen years earlier. Their light shrinking, they make torches with some of the skeleton’s bones and clothes. Then they search the soldier’s backpack and takes it along with several items : a topographic map dating from 1993, a machete and a flask. Ten minutes later, they are back under the daylight, in a narrow vale that leads to the Western Valley. They uses the topographic map to trace a route back to the Safari Village. As they are preparing to undertake this journey, a tremor shook the ground and is felt in all of the island. They avoid the falling rocks and heads first towards the Western Valley. The Giant’s Fist- Spoiler:
Claire and Owen arrives at the two skeletons and sees the traces of Zach and Gray passage. They exit the cave in the same place where the brothers were before but since their tracks stop there, Claire and Owen doesn’t know where they went precisely after entering the Western Valley. Suddenly, Claire has an idea but must give a phone call. However, there is no signal in the bottom of the vale but as she searches an elevated place where she could have some signal and sees the Giant’s Fist, a tall and vertical dike in which steps leading to the top have been carved centuries ago. Owen follows Claire to the top of the Giant’s Fist and she phones to Lowery from there, telling him about her whereabouts before asking if they could use the network of motion sensors and photographic recognition to found Zach and Gray. He tells her that it is possible but tedious since all of the pictures from the camera traps containing non-prehistoric animals of the Preserve which are bigger than a racoon are classified into a certain category, meaning that anyone who analyses this category will have hundreds of pictures to look at. Lowery mentions it’s too bad that the Loudwater Valley isn’t covered by the motion sensors as it will have helped them to quickly find the lost visitors. Even if Zach and Gray will be ahead of them, Claire decide to try this solution and will track the boys on foot with Owen while some of the control room staff will look at the pictures. Zara will help the latter in their task. Before ending the communication, Lowery warns them that a big storm is coming from the west and will be over the island during most of the afternoon. Claire and Owen look at the view from the top of the Giant’s Fist. From there, they can see not only the Western Valley but also Mount Sibo, The Mother’s Wrath, the mountains on each side of the Embrace and the Misty Monts in the east. They go down in the vale and heads to the valley. Across The Valley- Spoiler:
At the same time, Zach and Gray have almost reached the river in the middle of the valley. A small herd of pachycephalosaurs being nearby, Zach is wary and avoids these animals. When they cross the river, they notice that the water level has significantly dropped since they first saw it during the safari. They head southeast, towards the jungle between the Loudwater Valley and the plateau. As they move through the jungle, Zach looks around for tracks and dungs, in the purpose to avoid any dangerous encounter with the Preserve’s denizens. Reporting on Owen’s map the coordinates at which her nephews were spotted, Claire is now being able to follow them. When she and Owen arrives at the river, they sees that all of the water is gone, leaving gaping fish on the dried bed being preyed by herons and unenlagias. Claire wonder about the sudden disappearance of the water but Owen just says something blocked the source while looking at the volcano. Over their heads, the storm clouds are advancing eastward. Control- Spoiler:
While looking at the distribution maps of the Preserve’s animals, one of the control room technicians discovers that by 2 PM, the majority of them have gathered in the Central Fields or near the Safari Village : They are migrating south. In addition to this, the technicians get a satellite image of the Western Valley and notices its river is now gone and they are getting worrying data from the Geothermal Power Plant. They and Hoskins realize that Mont Sibo will soon awaken, a matter of a few days if not hours. This news pushes Hoskins to solve the Indominus problem as quickly as possible by using any means in their possession. Masrani returns to the Control Room at this moment and Hoskins suggests him to use the achillobators to found the I.rex. He then ask him what he intends to do of the I.rex, if he wants to order her death or not. Masrani doesn’t know yet and still thinks they can regain control of the situation. Hoskins tells him about the Sibo and questions about the park’s sectors which are still running. In reaction, Masrani orders to create a quarantine zone in a radius of half a dozen of kilometers around Mount Sibo and informs Hoskins that he will look at his suggestion.
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| Subject: Re: Jurassic World - An alternative Vision Tue Aug 06, 2019 2:52 am | |
| Chapter X : A Feast for Vultures The Hunt- Spoiler:
As they are still tracking the metriacanthosaurs and the sky darkens because of the coming storm, Hamada contacts the men they deployed in the passes. While two of the three teams responds, the other doesn’t and since Harrimann is not getting their life signs anymore, Hamada and Brunet begins to worry. A troop of compies cross their path and the guards decide to follow them as they are heading towards the same direction as the tracking implants signal. A bit further, some members of the company notices that they are being followed and watched. Darbinian suddenly sees a black drone, of a model not used by the guards or Jurassic World employees. Thinking it was sent to spy them, the company launch the only drone they have to pursue it. There is a high-speed chase between the two drones but when the guards’s ones have almost catch up with the other, an harpy eagle flies at it and attack. The guards’s drone crash in the jungle. The company is frustrated by the loss of their drone and continues. They catch up with the compies at the entrance of the pass that one of the team was supposed to watch, the same one that didn’t respond. When they see blood on one of the rocks, they realize that they were attacked and that the lost passengers are now beyond the pass. Hamada orders to the other two teams to leave their respectives passes and join the Devil’s Chair, near the shores of the Dreadful Lake. The storm bursts and rain begins to fall. The company crosses the pass and once at the other side, they see blood flowing down a stream. The signal from the tracking implants is strong : The metriacanthosaurs are near. The company separates into two groups, one led by Hamada and Drekanson and the other by Brunet, Darbinian and Bellamy, each planning to ambush the metriacanthosaurs from one side. They move under the cover of the jungle and among the second group, Darbinian and Turner spots the theropods. From the top of an embankment, they only see Terrence and Philippe, the last subadults alive, eating a man, one of the guards from the missing team. The compsognathus arrives and covet the corpse. The metriacanthosaurs chases them and even eat one of the compies. Since they are leeward, the guards aren’t spotted by the predators and Brunet orders Turner to stay on top of the embankment and orders the rest of his group to deploy. He communicates with Hamada’s team with somekind of a bird call and when the signal of the attack comes, Turner headshot Terrence. Philippe looks at his brother’s body, trying to awaken him, and the company ambushes him. The metriacanthosaur is cornered but as he is on the verge of being shot down, his father Boomer arrives and suprises the guards, nearly killing one. The two predators fight the guards, thinking they are rival predators that came to steal the corpse, but Philippe takes two arrows from Darbinian and flee the fight. Brunet go after him and Hamada orders some of his men to follow him but seeing the captain being distracted, Boomer charges him. At the last time, Hamada avoids its charge and wounds the dinosaur at the snout with his sabre. Boomer flees.
Brunet founds Philippe and the metriacanthosaur growl at him from the top of an embankment, ready to attack but suddenly, the dinosaur feels sick and pukes. The tips of Darbinian’s arrows were actually coated with a neurotoxic derived from Blue-ringed octopus venom. Philippe loses the control of his motor functions and crumble over Brunet, flattening him on the ground. Nearly avoiding being clawed or bitten during the predator’s agony, Brunet dive his sabre into the metriacanthosaur’s heart. Other guards arrive and after helping Brunet getting up, they return to the others. The metriacanthosaurs having been defeated, the company resumes its trekking, looking for the passengers tracks. They found some and follow them, with Brunet sending Velasquez and Durant ahead. When they hear her scream, they rushes to the two recruits, only to find them standing at the foot of a tree. They look up and sees the rest of the missing team, impaled on the branches while vultures are eating their mauled corpses. Leaving this excruciating vision behind them, the guards reach a maar, the Dreadful Lake. The Dreadful Lake- Spoiler:
The vision of the impaled corpses have struck a blow to the guards morale and while they are walking along the lake’s shores, Hamada is forced to put one of his men, corporal Percy Baker, back in his place when he insults and threatens Masrani. When they arrive at the beginning of a small channel that leads to a creek nearby, Hamada asks the two teams that were further south earlier and who arrived by the Devil’s Chair if they saw the passengers on the road. They didn’t and Hamada tell them to meet them by a the creek. As they reach it, the guards make an horrible discovery : The Indominus found the passengers before them and slaughtered them all. The guards disperse the scavengers feasting upon the corpses (Compies, vultures and one ornitholestes) and Hamada sends Rahim and two others guards to follow the I.rex tracks. Bellamy and some others members of the company found one surviror however, a young boy whose face was eaten by the compies. All but Bellamy stay at a respectable distance and she assures the boy that he will be soon brought to the hospital. She takes him into her arms and sings him a lullaby to soothe him but while doing so, she slowly draws her knife, aiming the blade toward the boy heart. Durant is horrified and rushes to prevent her for killing the boy, only to be stopped by Hamada. He and Brunet explains to her that the boy is beyond healing and that after the traumatic experience of seeing his parents being brutally killed in front of his eyes and being eaten alive, death will be a deliverance for him. Hamada tells the recruits that he expects them to do the same to any of their colleagues if ever they end up having a similar fate. Bellamy stabs the boy in the heart and gently lay his body on the ground. Masrani, who have seen images of the mass grave through the footage retransmission of the guards frontal camera, finally authorize Hamada and his men to kill the Indominus and wishes them good luck. Hoskins add that he is willing to call the Slayers for that they can help the guards in their mission but Hamada declines the offer, saying that it’s between she and them. Tian notices that he and Bellamy were far from being enthusiastic to collaborate with these Slayers. They end the communication with the control room. Suddenly, a tubular and steel object on the mud and releases a red gas (it was dropped by the same black drone than earlier). The guards first fear that it’s poisoned but when Tian inhale some of it, she realize that it doesn’t burn her throat or her lungs but it has a smell similar to rotting meat or carrion. Brunet kicks the receptacle and the wind carry some of the gas in the direction of the lake.
Rahim and his two companions have reached the shore. They see the mysterious black drone hovering over the lake. One of the guards want to shot down the drone and advances in the water, much at the annoyance of his companion as she fears the I.rex might be nearby. He answers that the tracks were leading out of the lake and that he won’t take long. But his foot gets stuck in the mud and they are forced to help him. They manage to pull him and he gives the drone a hateful gaze before turning and heading back to the shore. Suddenly, he feels the Indominus tongue encoiling around his leg and his colleagues rushes to his aid but he is taken underwater and killed. Rahim and the other guard runs to the shore. The Indominus burst out of the water and kills her. Rahim, who managed to reach the shore, turns and sees the dinosaur covered with mud rising, illuminated by a thunderbolt. When he met her different coloured eyes (one is blood red, the other is emerald green), it’s like he is bewitched and with one claw swipe, the Indominus decapitates Rahim. She leaves the lake and disappears into the dense vegetation. Ambush- Spoiler:
When they found the remains of Rahim and his companion on the lake shore, the guards realize that the Indominus is close and Hamada orders a retreat (since they have no heavy weapon, he knows that fighting the I.rex will be suicidal and they must go back to the barracks to fetch them). While a part of the company wil go the jeeps with which the teams from the southern passes came, the rest will head to the Pegasus which has landed in a meadow a bit further north. As they head back to the creek, a thunderbolt struck a tree near them and its light illuminates the undergrowth. During the time of the blink of an eye, Brunet has a surreal but nightmarish vision : The I.rex is standing still just a few meters from them with her skin colour being no longer white but mimicking the undergrowth behind her. He screams to warn the others and she reveal herself, diving into the middle of the company. Its rear being separated from the front, the guards from the latter must fight the I.rex to let those from the first have the time to retreat. The fight moves to the edge of the creek and as the guards from the rear cross the creek itself (with Darbinian almost drowning when the body of one of her comrade is brutally thrown on her), several are already dead and Hamada falls in his turn. Bellamy tries to save him but she is sent flying by one of the monster’s arms and her back hit a branch before she lands on the ground. Their colleagues presume they are dead and rushes to the road where two of their jeeps are. Four guards manage to leave aboard one of them but as Tian, Turner, Baker and a fourth are climbing into the other vehicle, the others (Brunet, Darbinian, Drekanson, Durant, Velasquez and another) have no choice but to run to the Pegasus. But the I.rex fell a tree just in front of the second jeep, preventing it to leave, and its passengers quickly get out of it, heading now to the helicopter. On the other side of the road, the terrain forms a slope heading towards a thicket of bamboos that Brunet’s group bypassed but the I.rex being on their heels, Turner, Tian, Baker and their companion must reach it so that the predator will be delayed in her chase. The Indominus rams into their jeep, sending it rolling down the slope. Realizing that they are too far away from the bamboos and have no time to run to the side, Turner grabs Tian by the waist and tackle her the ground just before the jeep reaches them. Baker, who is ahead, manages to avoid it as well but the fourth member of their group don’t and is killed. The three reach the bamboos and a few seconds later, the Indominus crash into the bamboos but have some difficulty to reach her preys. During the chase, Baker loses Tian and Turner and therefore, he is the only of their group that manages to join Brunet’s one downhill. The I.rex catching up with them, the sixth member of Brunet’s group decide to sacrifice himself to win some time for his colleagues and stops. Brunet, Drekanson, Darbinian, Durant, Velasquez and Baker reach a meadow of tall grass, the one where the Pegasus is and they makes a desperate run to the helicopter while the storm is at full swing. As they climb inside, the hear gunshots and roars behind them. Almost immediately after, the I.rex burst out the jungle, covering the distance between her and the helicopter at a frightening speed. The helicopter lift off and turns but the I.rex catch up and rams on its side, destabilizing the passengers. The helicopter door being still open, Baker rushes to close it but as he do that, he suddenly freeze : The I.rex’s tongue pierced his belly. He fall out of the helicopter as the aircraft is gaining altitude and seeing it escape, the Indominus launch a roar of defiance so powerful that it is heard kilometres away, up to the Cartago River and the Long Lake. She disappear in the misty jungle.
Aboard the Pegasus, Laurence ask about Hamada’s fate and Drekanson answers that he fell. While they are heading back to the barracks, Harrimann tells them that sixteen guards, including the team whose corpses were found in the tree, died but that Bellamy, Tian and Turner are still alive. Velasquez want to go back to save them but Drekanson dissuades him. The Pegasus lands on the barracks helipad but as soon as the survivors leaves the helicopter that they succumb to grief. While some are standing and silent, the others are weeping on the ground. Brunet, still haunted by the vision of the camouflaged Indominus, decides to pay a visit to Henry Wu. Laurence, deeply affected by her colleagues death and especially Hamada’s, ask him where he is going. He answers that he is getting some answers. He goes down to the armoury, looking for the keys of one of the vehicles. Darbinian join him, saying she is coming with him, but she wants to leave her pistol and her knife on a table, Brunet tell her to keep them. From the bay window of the mess, Laurence and Drekanson watch their jeep leaving the barracks with a concerned look on their faces. Wu- Spoiler:
Wu has returned to his house and is packing his bags, planning to take the next boat to the mainland and leave the island while he can. Someone knock at his door, insistently, and carefully he opens it, only to see Brunet and Darbinian, their angry faces still covered with blood, mud and sweat. Realizing that they saw his last creation slaughtering their colleagues, Wu fears for his safety and tries to close the door but the guards push it and enters. He threatens to call the J-SEC but before he can do it, Darbinian grab his phone and his keys. The two guards lock the door and orders Wu to sit at his table. They tell him that he will regret it if he don’t cooperate. They interrogate him about the species whose DNA were used in the making of the I.rex. He answers that the Indominus has genes from Boa Constrictor, Eyelash Viper, Giant Girdled Lizard, Texas Horned Lizard, Blue-eyed Anglehead Lizard, Rockhopper Penguin and Red-bellied Woodpecker. He explains to them that these species were chosen for their respective remarkable physical attributes. The guards then tell him about the number of people she killed (around forty at this point) and he turns pale as none of his creations have been so deadly at an individual scale. When they mention her ability to camouflage, he says it’s impossible as none of the species he mentioned have said ability. They know he is lying and Brunet says he will make him speak. Frightened, Wu tries to run away but Brunet catch up and slam him against a wall, one hand around his throat and telling him that he broke men tougher than him in the past. Wu says that there are other species but that he is not allowed to reveal them as it is an industrial secret of InGen, a US company, and that if he did to foreigners like Brunet and Darbinian, he is likely to pass for a traitor, both in the eyes of InGen and those of his country. Wondering how a zoo attraction that have gone wrong concern the interests of the United States, Darbinian want to ask him more about that but suddenly, two J-SEC officers opens the door and points their tasers at them. Masrani arrives at the same moment, asking what this mess is all about. He pleads the guards to leave Wu alone and threatens to call Marshal Störmer if they don’t for them to be arrested. Brunet and Darbinian reluctantly agrees but just before they leaves, Brunet whisper to Wu : “Beware the dragons, there are some on this island. And their fury is smoldering. Fear it”.
The J-SEC officers follows the two, leaving only Masrani with Wu. Worrying about his friend, the billionaire ask him if they wounded him. As Wu is preparing two cups of tea, Masrani sees his suitcase and ask the geneticist about his departure. He tries to persuade him to stay so that they can help them stop the I.rex. Wu know that Masrani suspect him for hiding key informations about the Indominus and he tell him about his fears that the genomic map of the I.rex fall within the wrong hands. But Masrani insists and Wu show him a list, which includes the species that he mentioned earlier to Brunet and Darbinian. Masrani brings also the fact she can camouflage but Wu retort that not all of the prehistoric species featured on the list were bred by InGen and that therefore, there is the possibility that some of them may have the ability to camouflage. Masrani realize that Wu is insinuating that he is to blame and is taking him for a fool. Wu adds that the time delays imposed by Masrani and Claire were so short that he and his team cut some corners and neglected certain safety protocols. He then denounces Masrani’s delusion of grandeurs for Jurassic World, a delusion that Claire embraced. Wu blames her for what is happening and even points out that Masrani is acting like a child that doesn’t want anymore the gift for which he harassed his parents. Masrani is very disappointed by Wu’s behaviour and wonders what Hammond would think of him. Wu retorts to him that he corrupted Hammond’s dream and admits that he has doubts on the value of Hammond’s will and testament that Masrani showed him two decades ago, pointing out that InGen founder’s mind wasn’t on its best when he wrote it. Masrani is angered by this offense and he informs Wu that he will propose his layoff to InGen’s board of directors. Wu pretends he has the support of the board but Masrani says that InGen is a vassal among many others among his empire and has the power to complicate things for InGen if the board don’t follow Masrani Global’s directives. He explains that if he cares about Jurassic World, it’s only out of respect for Hammond’s dream and to not doom the efforts made by many, himself included. He forbids Wu to leave the island while the Indominus situation is not dealt with and exits the house. In an outburst of anger, Wu send the cups of tea flying. Hamada- Spoiler:
Hamada is awaken by compies chirping. Around him, scavengers came back to feast on the bodies, tourists and guards alike. Being badly injured, unable to move and his smartwatch, along with his whole arm, having been destroyed when the I.rex stepped on it, he knows he won’t survive if someone doesn’t arrive soon. At the other side of the creek, he see Spectre. He close his eyes and when he reopens them, Spectre is gone but soon, he sees the mysterious black drone hovering over the bodies, its camera filming them. The drone gives him an idea. He waves his remaining in front of his helmet’s frontal camera, informing anyone watching the transmitted footage that he is still alive. Suddenly, the compies stop chirping and all of scavengers back off, moving away from the I.rex that has returned to the creek, standing behind Hamada’s head. She lowers her head and pick him up in her maw. Killings- Spoiler:
Once the Indominus is far away, Tian and Turner leaves their hiding place and began to head back to the creek, to see if there is any other survivor and to wait a rescue team. On their way, they notice that the body of their colleague who was killed by the rolling jeep has gone, third-toed tracks near where he was lying. As they reach the road, they hear noise coming from the creek, voices, human voices. Knowing that the individuals in the creek, whoever they are, can’t be a rescue team since too little time has passed since the ambush, they decide to reach the ridge above the creek discreetly. From their position, they sees armed and masked individuals standing among the bodies. One of those mercenaries has the gas receptacle in his hand and another pulls out a memory card out of the black drone to put it on a tablet. He and another watches the footage from the ambush, and the two guards hear him say that the trial was successful and mention a bonus he and his fellow mercenaries will get once the footage will be received by those who’ve sent them. Tian and Turner realize that the gas lured the I.rex to them and the drone was there to record this sinister experiment. One of the mercenary discovers that Bellamy is still alive and he and another brings her to their leader. Fearing what they might do to her, Tian and Turner think about a plan to save her. Once they have it, they begins to move back but they are surprised by some mercenaries that appeared behind them. The two are captured, their weapons taken and their cameras destroyed whereas their smartwatch are left intact. While they are brought down to the creek, Zach and Gray appear at a turn of the road a little further.
Hearing human voices, Gray becomes hopeful but Zach feels like something isn’t right in that part of the jungle. He keep his brother quiet and takes him to the nearest tree where they crouch behind a buttress root. From this hiding place, they watch Turner and Tian being brought to the rest of the mercenaries. As they fear they will be heard if they decides to leave now, they have no choice to wait that the mercenaries leave.
When the two guards have arrived at the creek’s edge, one of the mercenary, armed with a club, looks at them and noticing that Tian is Chinese, makes a sinophobic remark. One of his companions, who is of Chinese ancestry, doesn’t appreciate that and warns him. The two squabble but when the first says the name of the second in front of their prisoners, their leader isn’t pleased and threatens to take the bonus of the next one that will do the same thing. Bellamy awakens at the same time and her eyes met the ones of the mercenary with the club. She recognizes him and so does he. Knowing who the mercenaries are, Bellamy ask them what they are doing there but when Tian says that they’re behind the I.rex ambush, the mercenary leader tell them that no one must know they were there and orders his men to kneel Tian and Turner. Bellamy begs him to spare them, as they have no idea of who they can be, but he answers that some of their colleagues does and add she sealed their fate by recognizing them. With Bellamy’s sabre in hand, he come to the two recruits, ask them to forgive him and then slits their throats, leaving them bleed to death. Bellamy escapes the hands holding her, take a dagger and rushes to the mercenary leader. She tries to stab him but only manages to wound its arm. He makes her tripped and the mercenary with the club comes to smash the hand holding the dagger. The leader tells him that he’s free to dispose of her as he wish but urges him to be quick and leave her body in a way that one think she was killed by some animal. While most of the mercenaries begins to leave, he says to her An Eye for an eye and then strikes her with his weapon, numerous times, until most of her bones are broken.
Horrified by the killings they just witnessed, Zach and Gray turn their gaze away. Zach immediately muffle his brother’s sobs because the mercenary are advancing just at the base of the slope on which the boys are. One of the mercenary turns his head towards their hiding place, having heard something, and as he moves in their direction, Zach takes a piece of wood and throw it away. Like he hoped, the mercenary is distracted by the sound of the piece of wood falling among the leaves and the two boys manage to move away without being detected. They’re so frightened however that they cross the road and goes northward without realizing it, in the opposite direction of which they must go to join the village.
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| | | The Geeky Zoologist Hatchling
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| Subject: Re: Jurassic World - An alternative Vision Fri Aug 09, 2019 3:23 am | |
| Greetings, Today, I put here the summary of the eleventh chapter. It is the last I wrote so the others will come later. Said chapter also marks the end of the first half of the story and I would really like to know what you think of the story so far. Chapter XI : The Ride of the Pegasus Barracks- Spoiler:
When Brunet and Darbinian returns to the barracks, Drekanson inform them that Hamada is alive but that he was taken by the Indominus and since his smartwatch was destroyed, they don’t have any idea of where he can be. The scene being chronologically set at the same time than the killings, they are still getting Bellamy, Tian and Turner life signs and are horrified to see them flatten. On the meanwhile, the Pegasus have returned north to drop off some men near the marauders they left so that they can retrieve the bodies of the fallen before they are too much desecrated by the scavengers. Half an hour later, the marauders returns to the barracks and one of those who went retrieve the bodies tell Brunet that there’s something strange on Turner and Tian. He shows him the blade cut on their throats and they realize that were murdered. Harrimann tells them that the Indominus also picked up the body of another guard who still have a functioning smartwatch and by using its signal, they can track the Indominus. Brunet orders Darbinian and Drekanson to gather every available men and go fetch Laurence.
Laurence is in the locker room, having a video call with her family, telling them about the fact she just lost several colleagues and that the situation on the island is worsening hour after hour. Her father encourages her to be strong and when she finishes the call, she is determined and says to Brunet that she is willing to make the Indominus pay. They expose their plan to the other guards, telling them that the I.rex will probably flee southward because of the imminent eruption and reach the Central Fields, where she will be in the open and easily surrounded. The guards go equip two of the marauders and the Pegasus with heavy weapons : Long steel bolts (think the mix between a harpoon and a ballista missile except that they’re fired with a cannon) for the first, and a minigun and a harpoon cannon for the helicopter. The harpoons and the arrows tips are coated with venom. Anzu- Spoiler:
As it is still raining over the jungle, Claire and Owen are still following the boy’s last coordinates on foot. The two encounters a pair of anzus. It’s the first time that Claire sees anzus in the flesh and she enthralled by the oviraptorids colourful feathers and the interactions between the male and the female. The male intimidate them and Owen tell Claire to stay behind him, keep her calm and slowly back down, warning her that anzus can be as dangerous as a cassowary. When they are far enough, the male follows his mate in the thickets where they disappear. On the top of a slope, Claire and Owen have a break under a large tree and by taking a look at their map, they see that the boys reached the road a few hundred meters upstream from where they left the jeep. They point out the fact that the control room didn’t contact them since they exit the Western Valley. Twenty minutes later, they reach the clearing and their jeep. When Owen contacts the control room through their radio, Vivian tell him about everything that happened on the guard’s side, including the discovery of the mass grave and the Indominus ambush. He is affected by the news and Claire genuinely expresses her condolences to him. Vivian also informs them that Zach and Gray suddenly went north when they reached the mass grave site. As they drive north, they stumble across the corpse of an apatosaur in a meadow, long claws marks on its sides and its head twisted : another victim of the Indominus. The Old Visitors Centre- Spoiler:
Lost, tired and starving, Zach and Gray wanders in the jungle. They stumble on an old path and follows it through a subdivision of ruined bungalows up to the top of some stairs from where they sees the ruins of a large buiding : Jurassic Park’s Visitors Centre. It was destroyed by a fire years ago however, during the Saurian Wars. By looking at the location of the building on the map they picked up earlier, Zach realize that they went too far north and plans to join the road passing in front of the building to head back south. They reach the Visitors Center and enters in it by the Cafetaria. Another tremor occurs at this moment, pushing them to hurry. From the rotunda, they hear the neigh of a horse, coming from outside of the building. Zach and Gray exits through the main entrance, climbs down the stairs and cross the road, only to found a saddled mare stuck under a small tree that fell on her. The mare is Rossinante, the horse that fled when the Indominus entered into the Preserve unbeknownst to all. The boys decides to help the mare in distress by lifting the tree. She gets up and Zach have the idea of riding her back to the Safari Village. He helps his brother gets on Rossinante and they ride southward along the road.
A Dragon's sleep- Spoiler:
Following Zach and Gray’s last coordinates, Claire and Owen arrive near the Visitor Centre and leave their jeep. Once inside the ruins, they separate to look for any clues of the boys’s passage. While Claire is looking inside, Owen put down his backpack on one of the bases where skeletons once stood. He go outside and find fresh shoe tracks on the road, along with hooves tracks. Discovering that the two boys are riding south with one of the horses that the guards lost, he head back toward the building. However, the birds silence, fleeing monkeys and a guttural growl tell him that the I.rex is here. He presses Claire, who is standing by the balcony on the first floor, to hide and he hide himself behind one the bases, the one next to the stairs leading to the floor. From his hiding place, he watch the Indominus enters inside the building (through the same gap in the wall that Roberta used during the 1993 incident) and have a first clear look a the creature (most of her body was concealed by mist when he was hiding the truck on the coliseum’s parking). He is surprised by the fact she have opposable thumbs. She drops the bodies she is carrying inside her maw on the balcony but as she step backwards, she picks up a scent and Grady smell his hand : The T.rex droppings scent is still on it. To try to distract the I.rex from the scent, he throw a small piece of rubble in the opposite direction. The I.rex look at where the rubble land but she is no interested now in hunting and decides to lie down in the middle of the rotunda. She falls asleep but Owen realize that his backpack, inside of which are the radio and Claire’s phone, is now resting just beside her head.
Claire leaves the corridor in which she was hiding to go investigate the three bodies that the Indominus dropped. Among them, she sees Hamada and is shocked to sees he is still alive. She drags him to the corridor and he awakes, looking at her resentfully. He wants to remove his armour but is too weak to do and Claire helps him to do so. With his remaining hand, he draws his dagger and hand it to her but she is surprised when he prevents her to putting it aside. Hamada actually begs Claire to put an end to his sufferings but she refuses. He then grabs her hand and forces her to drive the dagger into his heart. He dies and horrified by the fact she just killed a man, even if unwillingly, Claire stay sit on the ground, crying.
When he thinks the I.rex is sleepy enough, Owen begins to move towards his backpack. Walking without making any noise and stepping on the Indominus tail or the bones on the ground, he reach the base and grab the bag. He returns to his hiding place and takes Claire’s phone out of the bag. From where he is, he has no signal however and the only place where he has some is in the middle of the rotunda. He successfully send a message to Lowery as he is standing just next to the Indominus thigh. Relieved, he begins to step back towards the stairs, planning to join Claire and leave the building. Another tremor occurs at this moment but it doesn’t awake the I.rex. On the framework, a curious squirrel is coming closer to look at the Indominus and Owen but when it walk on a weakened beam, a part of the beam break and fall on the I.rex head. She wakes up and notices that the bag is gone. She turns and sees Owen. He runs in the stairs but the tip of her extensible tongue skims his side, wounding him. He founds Claire in a state of shock and Hamada’s dead body near her. He picks up the dagger and grab her hand to urge her to flee. They jump from a balcony but while they flee in the middle of the jungle as the I.rex is bypassing the visitor centre, the ground crumbles below them and they fall. The Ride- Spoiler:
Zach and Gray arrives at the Safari Village but discovers that it was deserted while they were in the Preserve. As they can’t enter in it without letting Rossinante inside the Preserve, an idea which they hate, they go to the nearest security cameras and appears in front of them. Zach hold the map in front of them and point their new destination on it, a bridge that crosses the Rio Iris and connects the Preserve to Sector 1, so that those who watch the footage can know where they are heading. The boys rides east and sees the Pegasus, equipped with heavy weapons, flying to the north. When they reach the edge of the Central Fields, they stop, as a multi-species horde of dinosaurs (apatosaurs, triceratopses, parasaurolophuses, gallimimus, corythosaurs, pachycephalosaurs, therizinosaurs, sheer numbers of dryosaurs, avimimus and yinlong along with two mamenchisaurs can be seen) pass in front of them, stretching over hundreds of meters and heading south. On the other side of the horde, two marauders from the Grey Guard are driving in the opposite direction. The boys are aware that the two vehicles and the helicopter they saw is a hunting party (the guards knows about the Indominus location thanks to the message that Owen sent to Lowery). As an ankylosaur block their way further south, Zach and Gray rides in the middle of the herd and quickly gets on the other side of it. They reach a ridge not far from the Gorges Aviary and sees Burroughs from this vantage point. They are getting hopeful and resumes their ride to the city. Trapped- Spoiler:
Claire and Owen awakens in a small flooded cave. Over them, they see the hole from which they fell. Owen looks around. Aside from a niche, he doesn’t see any grip. Claire is sitting in the water, still under shock because of what happened with Hamada. Owen tries to comfort her. Suddenly, darkness falls within the cave as the Indominus put her head in front of the hole. She looks at them and her long pointed and spiny tongue (the result of Woodpecker’s and Rockhopper penguin’s DNA), half a dozen of meters in length, goes down in the cave but can’t reach Claire and Owen. The Indominus proceeds to widen the hole by ripping of blocks of rocks from the cave’s top with her hands. Once it’s done, she put her head inside the cave and her tongue can now reach her preys. Owen attacks it with his machete but is knocked down and the tongue grabs Claire’s calf by encoiling itself around it, wounding her with the spikes. With her tongue, the Indominus pulls Claire towards her maw but Claire grab Owen’s machete and hit the tongue twice with it, cutting it. Claire falls back in the water and pulls Owen’s inconscious body toward the wall. When he pull himself together, he sees Claire with the bloody machete in hand and is impressed by her courage while the Indominus furiously roars at them. The dinosaur hear the Pegasus flying in their direction and flees. When they realize that the guards have no idea of where they can be, Claire and Owen take their wet phone and radio and are anguished to see that they doesn’t work anymore.
While the Pegasus search the Indominus in the vicinity of the ruins, the marauders are driving towards this location. Leaves began to fall abundantly from the trees whose barks are vibrating. Knowing what is happening, Brunet orders the marauders to stops somewhere far enough from any tree. There is a growing rumble. The Moment when the Earth shook- Spoiler:
A 7.2 magnitude earthquake strike Isla Nublar. While the ruins of the old Visitor Centre and San Fernandez, along with the I.rex Coliseum, suffer heavy damage in the north, the rest of the park fall into chaos as several walls, roofs and even buildings collapses in Burroughs while breaches are created in the fences of some of the paddocks, freeing their inhabitants. People and animals alike panic.
In the Control Room, the general evacuation of the island is launched and every trip to isla Nublar is immediately cancelled back in Caldera. One of the guide, which is in the northern part of the Cartago Valley at this time, contacts the technicians to ask for an extraction as they too far from the nearest hub. The Pegasus being hunting the Indominus, Masrani send three tour helicopters to the guide’s position. Since they are getting multiples reports of containment anomalies, the technicians doesn’t immediately notice that one of them is coming from the Limes. Harriman finally investigate it and on the CCTV footage, see the I.rex ramming one of the gates, the very same one by which she entered into the Preserve. Confrontation at the Aviary- Spoiler:
He informs Lieutenant Laurence about the I.rex current position and she flies the Pegasus northward. At the same moment, the dome of solidified lava at the top of Mount Sibo explodes : The eruption begins. Volcanic bombs rain from the sky and crashes all around the volcano, starting fires near the Hot Springs Resort and the I.rex Coliseum, while a huge column of ash rises from the top of the volcano which have one of the largest and most spectacular eruption in its entire history.
One of the guards aboard the Pegasus spot the I.rex, running under the jungle. They go after her and shoot with the minigun. They arrive by the Quetzalcoatlus Aviary but while they fail to hit her with the minigun, they manage to corner the Indominus against the aviary. Laurence halt the minigun fire however, fearing that they might damage the aviary and allows its denizens to escape. While Brunet and the marauders reach their position, the Indominus and the guards aboard the Pegasus look at each other. On the meanwhile, the volcanic plume above them blocks the sun’s rays and the air being saturated with moisture because of the storm earlier, a volcanic storm occurs as well. Brunet arrives and bowmen climbs out of the marauders. They fires on the Indominus but she flattens on the ground and turn her head, preventing the arrows to reach her weak points. They get stuck on her hide, not deep enough to let the venom on their tips penetrate into the I.rex’s organism. The arrows being ineffective, Brunet orders the Pegasus to fire on the I.rex with the harpoon cannon. The Indominus get one harpoon in the shoulder. Cornered and wounded, the I.rex is getting scared and panicked. Before the Pegasus fires at her again, she charges the marauders. But as the guards thinks she is coming at them, she suddenly turns back and heads toward the aviary’s gateway. She rams it and penetrate into the aviary, disappearing into the fog. Aghast, the guards hears the pterosaurs screaming at the dinosaur and shortly after, twelve quetzalcoatlus, nicknamed Hell Storks by JW employees, leave the aviary, galloping in the gateway before taking off. The giant pterosaurs are followed by a swarm of more than fifty individuals of a smaller species : Harpactognathus. The pterosaurs, more scared than anything, ignore the Pegasus, as they want to flee southward because of the eruption.
Back in the control room, the technicians warns the employees and the rest of the guard’s garrison of the pterosaurs escape. Hoskins, who had witnessed the damage that three pteranodons did in British Columbia back in 2001, tell Lieutenant Laurence that they must kill the pterosaurs before they leave the island or reach Burroughs, where thousands of people are gathered.
Laurence agrees with Hoskins. The Pegasus opens fire on the pterosaurs and several of them are killed. Laurence is aware that the pterosaurs will overwhelm the aircraft but they have no choice if they want to prevent another Horseshoe Bay Incident. While the Harpactognathus go take cover under the canopy, the quetzalcoatlus turns back and attack the Pegasus. They battle against the raging volcanic sky but the guards aboard the Pegasus are killed one by one and Laurence herself is stabbed in the abdomen by one of the quetzalcoatlus. However, the same quetzalcoatlus is beheaded by the helicopter’s blades who gets damaged in the attack. Losing a lot of the blood and the Pegasus losing altitude, Laurence is unable to regain control of the aircraft and it crashes in the Embrace Valley before exploding. With the destruction of the Pegasus and Laurence’s death in addition to the apocalypse that have come to the island, Brunet and the other guards aboard the marauders are left distraught. They rushes to Burroughs, hoping to reach the city in time. Goodbye Blue Sky- Spoiler:
Masrani and a few others are standing on the roof of the Administration building, watching the eruption in fear while the valley of Burroughs is in chaos : the animals are panicked, fires broke out because of leaks in the gas lines, the J-SEC rushes to extinguish them and rescue those trapped under the rubble...
Leaving the Embrace behind them, the Quetzalcoatlus begins to flies over the Central Fields. They are heading south, towards Burroughs. At the same moment, the helicopters sent to pick up Alana and her group are coming back to the Aviary above the Cartago River. Shadow fall over Isla Nublar.
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| | | The Geeky Zoologist Hatchling
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| Subject: Re: Jurassic World - An alternative Vision Wed Aug 21, 2019 7:44 am | |
| I recently began to translate this fic in English and as for now the content of chapters 1 to 3 are on fanfiction.net :
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12945239/1/Jurassic-World
I wish you a good read. | |
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| Subject: Re: Jurassic World - An alternative Vision Wed Aug 28, 2019 12:10 pm | |
| The scenes of chapters 4 and 5 have been put on fanfiction.net . _______________ Check out my reimagining of Jurassic World here:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12945239/1/Jurassic-World
https://archiveofourown.org/works/20436878
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| Subject: Re: Jurassic World - An alternative Vision Fri Aug 30, 2019 4:19 pm | |
| The content of chapter 6 along with the Code 19 scene are now on fanfiction.net _______________ Check out my reimagining of Jurassic World here:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12945239/1/Jurassic-World
https://archiveofourown.org/works/20436878
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| Subject: Re: Jurassic World - An alternative Vision Wed Oct 09, 2019 2:34 am | |
| The scenes of chapter 7 along with the first three of chapter 8 are now on fanfiction.net _______________ Check out my reimagining of Jurassic World here:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12945239/1/Jurassic-World
https://archiveofourown.org/works/20436878
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| | | The Geeky Zoologist Hatchling
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| Subject: Re: Jurassic World - An alternative Vision Thu Oct 24, 2019 10:25 am | |
| All the scenes of chapter 8 are now on fanfiction.net . _______________ Check out my reimagining of Jurassic World here:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12945239/1/Jurassic-World
https://archiveofourown.org/works/20436878
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| | | The Geeky Zoologist Hatchling
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| Subject: Re: Jurassic World - An alternative Vision Thu Nov 07, 2019 3:57 am | |
| All the scenes of chapter 9 are now on fanfiction.net _______________ Check out my reimagining of Jurassic World here:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12945239/1/Jurassic-World
https://archiveofourown.org/works/20436878
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| Subject: Re: Jurassic World - An alternative Vision Tue Nov 26, 2019 4:47 am | |
| All the scenes of chapter 10 are now on fanfiction.net _______________ Check out my reimagining of Jurassic World here:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12945239/1/Jurassic-World
https://archiveofourown.org/works/20436878
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| Subject: Re: Jurassic World - An alternative Vision Thu Dec 05, 2019 5:33 am | |
| All scenes of chapter 11 are now on fanfiction.net
I shared a link to the PDF version of the story so far on reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/JurassicPark/comments/e639re/proud_to_share_the_first_half_of_my_jurassic/ _______________ Check out my reimagining of Jurassic World here:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12945239/1/Jurassic-World
https://archiveofourown.org/works/20436878
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| Subject: Re: Jurassic World - An alternative Vision Sun Feb 16, 2020 8:50 am | |
| All scenes of chapter 12 are now on fanfiction.net _______________ Check out my reimagining of Jurassic World here:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12945239/1/Jurassic-World
https://archiveofourown.org/works/20436878
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| Subject: Re: Jurassic World - An alternative Vision Fri Feb 21, 2020 2:50 am | |
| All scenes of chapter 13 are now on fanfiction.net _______________ Check out my reimagining of Jurassic World here:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12945239/1/Jurassic-World
https://archiveofourown.org/works/20436878
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