Jurassic Pony: Nublar Reborn

It was 2 hours before Dusk and Walther made it to the end of the Allosaur fence line, to the gate. The rain had stopped, but it was almost 3 in the morning, and nobody had been seen. What was worse though, was neither were the Allosaur pack. 2 hours and they heard roars, and other dinosaur's roars in response, but not even a shadow of them. This worried Walther, as it was completely possible they had broken the un-powered fences, allowing them access to the herbivore area, or Celestia forbid- the Visitors Center. Everyone was in danger, but Allosaurs were just the beginning. Raptors, Herrerasaurus, possibly even the Rex... all out and free tonight. Dusk looks over at Walther. "Stop."

"What Dusk, we don't have all night." Walther looked to his apprentice with a little annoyance. He has been getting on my nerves with the endless arguments about standard protocol, whats he pulling now.

"All of the dinosaurs were released, right? As far as we know at least? That means nature is going to find a balance between them. Equilibrium is going to happen, just like last time. The big predators are going to eat all the little ones that get in the way, the herd will survive while lone herbivores without defense will end up dead. That book the one of the survivors wrote, he said "Life will find a way."

"I'm missing the part where this is relevant Dusk." Walther stared him down as Dusk opened his mouth and stopped, looking in terror behind the Pegasus. Walther stopped as well and heard a shallow breathing behind him, a little faint, but close. Walther slowly turned, but a second too late as a Herrarasaurus charged them, snarling. Walther dived out of the way, the raptor speeding by as it jumped and tackled Dusk with all its weight. Dusk and the dinosaur rolled into the ground, Dusk hitting the earth snout first with a thud, moved for a moment, and collapsed. The raptor fell a few feet from Dusk, unable to get a good grip on him, but leaving a long claw mark on his back. Dusk shook his head, trying to regain his sight as the Herrarasaurus triumphantly walked over to him and lowered his jaws around Dusk's neck.

Warden sprung out of the bushes, stampeding with strength and speed towards the pair as the raptor picked up Dusk by its jaws and looked to Walther. It roared at him, about to start shaking the wounded Dusk. Walther took a chance, slashing at the black and red dinosaur with his knife. He jumped to the side of it, managing to slice the upper jaw, up into the eye. The beast flung itself onto the ground with pain, as it let go of Dusk and starting making echoing calls and shrieks of pain. Walther grabbed his apprentice, as he started backing up from the injured animal.

After the initial wave of pain ended in the raptor, it bolted up and started slowly walking towards the two. Its movements were careful, staying far enough away to keep himself from the blade in the Pegasus' mouth. It bared its teeth at them almost in a sadistic smile. Walther heard calls in reply to the injured animal. Knowing he was about to be surrounded, he made another calculated risk. Grabbing a couple flares from his saddlebag, he lit one as fast as he could, making a sudden and intense bright light in the dark forest, he tossed the flare at the dinosaurs face and ran , pulling Dusk onto his back as he ran along the fence, looking for the gate they were at. Before finding it though he saw a huge tear in the wires, and jumped through it. He galloped nearly a mile and a half before coming across an abandoned Maintenance Jeep. Tossing Dusk in the back and closing the door, he walked to the other side and got in the drivers seat. Before he could do anything else, a wave of exhaustion hit hard, and sleep found him.

"What is this place?" Starguide looked around the tower, rifling through brochures and folders and memos on desks. Storm said nothing, staring outside the small window at the top of the door, scanning the area outside. "Storm, where are we?" Starguide looked over, tapping her hoof in impatience. "Storm!"

"Shhh. I see something outside. There has been rustling around for ten minutes." Storm shuts the lights off in the room, leaving only the clouded moonlight illuminating the quiet jungle around them. Storm and Star looked out the door for nearly 10 minutes, before Storms fears were confirmed. In the ferns, 10 meters or so from the door, was a flicking tail moving ever so slowly. After a few moments Storm looked a little ways off to the side and saw a pair of eyes, staring at the door. He racked his brain trying to figure out what they could be. Predatory most likely, pack hunter obviously, carnivore or omnivore. Nocturnal, either that or we are in their territory... wait perhaps this fenced off area was where they were kept! Maybe there is information in those papers Star was looking through. Storm looked to Star. "Watch the dinosaurs, I'm going to slowly go over to the desk. No sudden movements, maybe they haven't seen us yet." Or maybe they have decided to wait for us to make the first move, see what were going to do. Storm crept over to the desk and looked through the memos. He saw park records, budget reports, and employee payroll information, but nothing in the means of info that's useful to the situation.

"There aren't moving, its so odd." Star looked to the pair, and noticed another one between them, looking at the door through some fallen branches.

"I'm going up the stairs. Watch the door and if they come near, come upstairs. Don't do anything dumb." Storm trotted up the stairs slowly, trying his best not to make any noise as his hooves clanged softly against the metal staircase. He opened a door into what seemed like a bedroom. A cot, a dresser, a desk, and more papers strewn about the room was all he saw, until he came across a large metal briefcase. He tried to open it, but it had a combination lock on the side. He messed with it for a couple moments before levitating his bolt cutters and dug it in between the halves and cracked it open. A pistol, seemingly 9mm, with a strap and a harness system for firing from a limb. He quickly picks it up and puts it on. Lets see... I just aim my hoof. He pointed his hoof at a wall and the pistol aimed down and pointed towards the area. With a twitch of his limb he could fire. Unfortunately it wasn't a big enough caliber to take down most animals he had seen so far, since 9 millimeter was hardly used in most any professional circumstances for good reason. Most likely somepony was stupid and paranoid.

He walked halfway down the stairs and spoke in a low tone. "Star, get up here, were going to camp here. Move that desk in the way of the doors. Those things probably cannot get in here. We will just wait it out until morning, and try to find a smart way out of here." Star pulled the desk to the door and walked up the stairs. Storm looks at the door. "The downstairs door has a deadbolt, but this one seems to have an electronic door lock. Pull anything you can in front of this door and then we can sleep." Star nodded, and the two pushed the desk and the dresser to the door. Storm looks to the cot, and at Star.

"Go ahead and sleep, Ill take first watch. Give me your gun." Star motioned towards the pistol, as Storm glares at her.

"No way Star. You sleep. Plus I got this thing rigged on me already."

"I'm not sleeping with those outside. I guess were both staying up." Star looks around the room. Storm sighed, and sat down next to Star, as they both stared out the window at the dinosaurs outside, seemingly locked in endless stalemate of staring and silence with the mysterious beasts.