My Jurassic Pony: Jurassic Starfleet
Act 1: Island Trip
Load Full StoryNext ChapterLocated off the Cost of Coasta Rica was Isla Nublar. A large island completed with large forest, rivers and lakes. It was also homed to Jurassic World, a large tourist attraction that drew crowds of thousands. This is where we find Mr. Grandruler, his wife Principal Celestia, their sister, Vice Principal Luna and their surrogate niece of her husband, Dean Cadence and Shining Armor and their student body. The students of Canterlot College and Crystal Prep Academy gasped in awe as they entered in Inovation Center where in the center showed holographic images of the many dinosaurs the island held; Brachiosaurus, Triceratops, Parasaurlophus and many more.
"This is gonna be awesome!" Rainbow Dash squealed in joy.
"Oh I can't wait to see the baby dinosaurs." Fluttershy cooed. Her boyfriend, Rhymey smiled at his girlfriend and placed an arm around her shoulder.
"This was a great idea, honey." Principal Celestia said to her husband.
"Well I thought the students could use a nice, relaxing vacation." Celesto smiled.
"And hopefully no incidents with Equestria Magic." Sunset hoped.
"Oh please, how can magic possibly get way out here?" Twilight Sparkle dismissed. Her talking dog, Spike, barked in agreement.
"Alright students, stay with one of your supervisors and explore around." Vice Principal Luna announced and the students all went their seperate ways but Sunset, the Starfleet Gang and the Mane 6 stayed with the Grandruler family. "What can we do daddy?" Celeso and Celestias' three year old son, Castor asked.
"Hey, what?" his twin sister, Leliani asked.
"Well.. how about we go and see the baby dinosaurs, first?" Luna suggested.
"Yeah...!" the children cried with joy. The family and friends chuckled and they went off to the enclosure where Castor and Leilani could ride some of the baby dinosaurs.
Meanwhile, at the Hammond Creation Lab, Claire, the labs supervisor was leading a small group of inventors; Hal Osterly, Jim Drucker and Erica Brand, through the lab while explaining, "Jurassic World. While year-over-year revenue continues to climb, operating costs are higher than ever. Our shareholders have been patient, but let's be honest, no one's impressed by a dinosaur anymore. Twenty years ago, de-extinction was right up there with magic. These days, kids look at a Stegosaurus like an elephant from the city zoo. That doesn't mean asset development has fallen behind. Our DNA excavators discover new species every year. They enter a part of the lab closed to visitors. DNA double helixes are displayed on computer screens. But consumers want them bigger. Louder. More teeth."
The investors listen intently, exchanging looks.
"The good news? Our advances in gene splicing have opened up a whole new frontier. We've learned more from genetics in the past decade than a century of digging up bones." Claire leads the over to the computer screen, "So, when you say you want to sponsor an attraction, what do you have in mind?"
"We wanna be thrilled." Osterly stated.
"Don't we all?" Claire smirked and she slides her finger across the screen and a DNA double helix reacts. Claire steps forward proudly.
"The Indominus Rex. Our first genetically modified hybrid."
Drucker looks dubious. "How did you get two different kinds of dinosaurs to..." He struggles with how to put it, and makes awkward "doing it" motions with his hands. "Y'know..."
He trails off uncertainly. Dr. Henry Wu walked over to the group, smiling. "Oh, Indominus wasn't bred. She was designed. She will be fifty feet long when fully grown. BIGGER than the T. rex."
Then Claire spoke to the investors, "Every time we've unveiled a new asset, attendance has spiked. Global news coverage. Celebrity visitors. Eyes of the world." Osterly was convinced and then Erica saw something else on the computer screen. It had the shape of a raptor but off to the side there were small images of other dinosaurs; Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Ankylosaurus and other dinosaurs, even a small human image. "And.. what's this asset?" she asked Claire and Dr. Wu.
"Ahh... Experiment 101.... the parks first human and dinosaur hybrid... mixed with the DNA of every single dinosaur that has lived on the earth and all the dinosaurs we've created at this very park... even Indomious." Dr Wu said with pride.
"So.. when will they be ready?" Osterly questioned.
"... They already are..." Wu stated.
At the Raptor Paddock
Transits to a quiet jungle area. Suddenly, a pig runs past, squealing with fright. Suddenly, it gets through a gate, and it closes. Then four Velociraptors come into view. One had a blue stripe running down its back. One is dark green, the thrid had white stripes on its back and the other has a scar on its nose.
OWEN GRADY
HOLD! The velociraptors obediently comply. They abruptly pull to a halt. Owen Grady holds his hand up and pressed a clicker, "Hey! Okay! Eyes on me! Blue?" Blue was focused on the pig, "Blue!" Owen called and clicked the button, catching Blue's attention. "Watch it. Charlie. Hey! Don't give me that! Delta! Lock it up! Good! And we're moving." He moves to where a basket hangs from a railing and the raptors followed, "That's good. That is good." Owen said as he pressed the clicker again. He reached into a bowl and threw the raptors a dead rat. "Very good! See, Charlie, that's what you get!" he threw the bait to Charile, who promptly snatches it from the air. "Echo, there you go! Delta! Blue?" Blue looks up at Owen as he holds the bait. "This one's for you." he tossed the bait at Blue who promptly ate it.
"HOLD!" The raptors clicked and obeyed, "Eyes up!" the raptors held their heads up, "Go." and with that final command, the Raptors scatter. On the platform above, hands are shaken and cheers heard. Barry, Owen co-worker approaches Owen. "You finally did it, man."
The Hoskins came up to them, "Owen. I was starting to think I hired the wrong guys, but, damn, you got them eating out of your palm."
"You came on a good day. It's not usually a happy ending." Owen said.
"Is that why you're not sending in your reports?"
"We've been busy."
"Not too busy to cash your paychecks."
"What do you need, buddy?"
"A field test. Hey. I've just seen they can respond to commands. We need to take the research and get it on its feet."
"These are wild animals, Hoskins. Trust me, you DON'T want them in the field."
"I just saw a bond. A real bond. Between man and beast." Owen tried to walk away but Hoskins blocked him, "You're in my way." Hoskins moved out of the way as they made their way down the steps, "Come on. We're the same. We're dogs of war. We know that the military needs to reduce casualties. Some people think that robots are the future. Look, nature gave us the most effective killing machines 75 million years ago. And now we know they can take orders."
"We finally make progress and that's the first thing he says? Make a weapon?" Barry grumbled.
"Come on, gents. It's grown-up time. Drones can't search tunnels and caves. And they're hackable. The minute a real war breaks out, all that fancy tech is gonna go dark." Hoskins exasperated.
"But that tech's not gonna eat them if they forget to feed it." Owen defended.
"Look at these creatures." Hoskins started as he pointed at the raptors, "They've got millions of years of instinct in their cells, instinct that we can program. Their loyalty can NOT be bought. These guys are gonna run straight into the enemy's teeth and eat them, belt buckle and all."
"What if they decide THEY wanna be in control?" Owen stated.
"Well, then we remind them who is. We terminate the rogues. Promote only loyal bloodlines. (notices Owen laughing)What? What's so funny?"
"I don't know. You come here and you DON'T learn anything about these animals except what you want to know. You made them, and now you think you own them."
"We DO own them. Extinct animals have no rights."
"They're not extinct anymore, Hoskins."
"Exactly. We're sitting on a GOLDMINE and Masrani is using it to stock a petting zoo. He just wants to teach people some humility. He doesn't make weapons. You think that the eighth richest man in the world is only into oil, telecom, and family fun parks? He's so diversified, he doesn't even KNOW what he owns. How long has InGen been practicing this pitch? Since the day we hired you out of the Navy. You knew the end game. These animals can replace thousands of boots on the ground. How many lives would that save? War is part of nature. Look around, Owen. Every living thing in this jungle is trying to murder the other. Mother Nature's way of testing her creations. Refining the pecking order. War is a struggle. Struggle breeds greatness. Without that, we end up with places like this, charge seven bucks a soda."
"Do you hear yourself when you talk?"
Hoskins was apathetic. "This is gonna happen. With or without you boys. Progress always wins, man."
:Maybe progress should lose for once."
LEON
Suddenly, a Jurassic World worker, Leon called, "Pig loose! Pig loose!" The pig was squealing as it ran around the paddock and just as Leon got it in a noose, Blue snatched it, causing him to fall into the raptors' paddock, attracting the attention of Blue, Charlie, and Delta. Owen's eyes widened in horror. He quickly pressed the button and opens the gate and rushes inside to save him. "Owen, no!" Barry cried. Two rangers aim their weapons at the raptors. Owen called to them, "Oh no, no, hold your fire!" Owen approaches the three raptors. The raptors screeched, "Hold your fire, do not fire!" Barry stopped the gate from rising. "Put 12 amps in these animals, they're never gonna to trust me again." Barry pulls Leon out of the paddock.
"Blue, stand down. Stand down." Owen stated. Blue snaps at Owen. "Hey, hey! What did I just say? Delta, I see you. Back up." Delta snarls. "Okay, good. Good.Charlie? Stay right there. Good." The Owen called to Barry, "Close the gate."
"Are you crazy?" Barry exclaimed.
"Just trust me. Close the gate!" Owen stated. He backs up to the gate. At the last possible second, he drops down and rolls underneath as the gate slams shut. The raptors try to follow and ram their heads into the metal. "I'm okay. Yeah. You're the new guy, right?" Owen said. "Yeah." Leon stated.
"You ever wonder why there was a job opening? Hey. Don't ever turn your back to the cage." Owen advised and Leon turned and saw Blue snarling at him through the bars.
Meanwhile, at the Gentle Giants Petting Zoo...
Castor and Leilani laughed in joy as the two baby Triceratops walked around the enclosure. The family and the friends watched them happily as the two babies brought them over to their parents. "Hehe, thanks little guys."
Castor and Leilani climbed down from the two babies who gave soft cries before walking the other way. "That was funny mommy." Leilani said.
"Yes honey, now come on, let's go and see something else.." Celesto cooed. His children giggled and the family walked off as the gang went, "Aww.... they're so cute.." Sunset cooed.
"Stop it!" they whined, making the group laugh as they walked after them.
The construction crews are on break as Claire and Owen get out of the car. Owen stares up at the towering walls, looking unconvinced and more than a little uneasy. "We've been pre-booking tickets for months. The park needs a new attraction every few years in order to reinvigorate the public's interest. Kind of like the space program." She walks over to the flight up steps leading up to the observation tower. Owen follows. "Corporate felt genetic modification would up the "wow" factor."
Owen was not amused, "They're dinosaurs. "Wow" enough."
Claire smirked, "Not according to our focus groups. The Indominus rex makes us relevant again." Owen can't believe his ears. He grinned. "The Indominus rex!"
We needed something scary and easy to pronounce. You should hear a four year old try to say "Archaeornithomimus." Claire smirked.
Owen frowned, :You should hear you try to say it..." They enter the observation room. Supervisor Nick is sitting at his desk on his lunch break, munching a sandwich. Besides them he's the only one present. They walk over to one of the windows. As before, we don't see the I. rex, just the dense jungle of the paddock interior beyond the glass.
"What's this thing made of...?"
"The base genome is a T. rex, the rest is... classified."
"You made a new dinosaur but you don't even know what it is?" Owen asked, dubious. She's already annoyed by his line of questioning. "The lab delivers us new assets and we show them to public." Then she adressed Nick, "Can we drop a steer, please?" An annoyed Nick presses a button.
"How long has the animal been in here?"
"All its life."
"Never seen anything outside of these walls?"
"We can't exactly walk it."
"And I heard you made one with human DNA, whose idea was that?" Owen questioned.
"Dr Wu said that a dinosaur with human like abilities would be another great asset.." Claire said.
"And has she in this paddock?"
"Nope... she's in a completely different paddock." There's a rumbling noise outside and a huge crane lowers a hunk of beef down from above.
"And you feed it with that?"Owen inquired. Claire isn't getting it, seeming bemused and still mildly annoyed. "Is there a problem?"
"Animals raised in isolation aren't always the most functional."
"Your raptors are born in captivity..."
"With siblings. They learn social skills. And I imprint on them when they're born. There's trust. The only positive relationship this animal has is with that crane. At least she knows that means food. And with this human one, its required she has interaction something every human needs." He seems increasingly concerned, but Claire isn't sharing his opinion. She adopts a very patronizing, sarcastic tone. "So she needs a friend? We should schedule play dates? That sort of thing?"
"Probably not a good idea." Owen stated, darkly. Noticing the dinosaur hasn't emerged from the jungle to eat the meat, Claire leans over and taps on the glass.
"Where is it...?"
"What, is it in the basement? Is there a downstairs? Maybe it's in the rec room." Owen said sarcastically. Ignoring him, Claire shakes her head. "It was just here. We were just here."
She goes to one of the thermal imaging consoles and activates it. It performs a scan of the jungle. After a moment it emits an annoyed buzzing sound and flashes the readout "NO THERMAL SIGNATURES DETECTED." The other computer screens arranged around the room begin beeping in alarm and they all show the same words. They're not detecting any body heat inside the paddock. The Indominus rex isn't showing up.
"Oh, Shoot." Owen walks over to a window at the far end of the room.
"That doesn't make any sense. These doors haven't been opened in weeks." Nick said. Across the room, Owen points out the window, "Were those claw marks always there?"
Claire turns and comes to look at what he's pointing at. "You think it...?" Realization hits her and she begins trembling. "Oh, God!" Turning, she runs out. "She has an implant in her back! I can track it from the control room!" Owen watches her go, then turns and looks back out the window. By the rear door of the paddock, we can see numerous deep scratch marks in the concrete going up very high.
Claire is in her Mercedes racing back to the main area of the park, talking on her cell phone. "We have an asset out of containment! Put ACU on alert! This is not a drill!"
Control Roon
Lowery and Vivian are chatting. "Even though I didn't meet him until I was thirteen, I definitely considered Carl to be, like, more of a dad than my real dad." Lowery said. They hear a beep. On the park map, a blinking red dot indicates trouble in the Restricted Area. The phone rings. Lowery answers it, "Yeah, hello?"
"Lowery......get me coordinates on the Indominus. Lowery and Vivian exchange confused glances. "Okay, yeah, uh..." Masrani enters and looks up at the map. "...let me do... uh, I'm doin' it right now.
Owen and Nick enter the main area of the enclosure through a side door. Warily, they walk through the jungle to the back wall, where a worker, Ellis, is inspecting the claw marks. Owen is alert and Nick looks nervous, but they make it over to where Ellis is without incident. Owen feels the deep grooves with his bare hand and the three men stare up at the massive wall looming over them.
"That wall's forty feet high. You really think she could've climbed out?" Nick said, skeptical.
"Depends."
"On what?"
"What kinda dinosaur they cooked up in that lab..."
The tracking device indicates on the map that the dinosaur is still in Paddock 11. "Wait, what the hell? It's in the cage..." Lowery said.
Claire was dubious, "Well, that's impossible. I was just there."
"Claire, I'm telling you, she's in the cage...!" Masrani looks up and sees a video feed of the Paddock 11 interior showing Owen, Nick and Ellis still inspecting the claw marks. After a moment the others do, too.
"What? Wait a second, there are people in there..."
Claire gasped, "Get them out of there now! Now!"
Vivian contacted them, "Paddock 11, this is Control! You need to evacuate the containment..."
Paddock 11
Vivian's voice comes through Nick's radio all garbled."...area... ...Paddock 11... ...dock 11, do you copy..." Nick answers. He doesn't seem concerned, although Owen is already glancing around, suddenly uneasy.
"Yeah, what's the problem?"
"It's in the cage! It's in there with you!" Vivian cried frantically. Nick looks confused. Owen springs into action. "Go!"
Owen pushes past Nick and then the three men begin running for the door they entered through. Nick is slow and lags behind. Suddenly he stops, glimpsing the outline ofIndominus rex through the trees. Turning, he runs back the other way. Owen and Ellis skid to a halt as the I. rex emerges from the jungle and blocks their escape. It bellows forth a mighty roar. The two turn and run back the way they came, but Ellis isn't fast enough. Indominus snatches him up in her clawed hands. He screams.
In the Control Room, Masrani, Lowery and Vivian listen to Ellis' screams over the radio. We hear crunching sounds. A horrified Claire can also hear the sounds of Ellis dying.
Reaching the back door, Nick uses a handprint ID and a security code to override the door lock. The huge door begins to open. Running to it, he hesitates, looking back at Owen who is running towards him with Indominus rex right behind him. He sees Indominus with Ellis in her mouth. She rips off one of his legs. Nick screams and runs through the door.
A video feed shows the paddock door opening with an alarm blaring "SECURITY BREACH."
MASRANI
"Close the door." Masrani said.
"We can't lock him in there with that thing!" Lowery said.
"Come on, close it now!" He leans over and presses the button himself.
"Somebody talk to me! What is happening?" Claire yells over the phone. The door begins to slowly close as Owen runs towards it, with the huge predator gaining on him from behind.
He runs through. Workers rush around in a wild panic, trying to escape, as Indominus gets halfway through before the door closes on her. Her head and one arm stick free and she snaps her jaws at Owen. He runs and slides underneath the crane, where he lies hiding on his stomach. Indominus pushes the door off of its track with the servos whining in protest and then steps out from inside the paddock, freed.
Owen watches, wide-eyed, as Indominus stomps over to where Nick is sitting in front of a pickup truck. She walks around the left side as Nick, mustering his courage, peers around the right front bumper. He whimpers and sobs as he sees the huge tail disappearing around the rear of the truck, then turns back around, trying to hide. He clutches and kisses a crucifix.
Suddenly the truck is violently knocked aside, flying through the air and crashing noisily to the ground upside-down, leaving the supervisor sitting out in the open completely exposed. He and Owen look at one another for a long moment. Suddenly, the jaws snap down, grabbing Nick and lifting him up out of view.
Acting quickly, Owen draws a survival knife and rolls over onto his back. Reaching up, he grabs the crane's fuel line and hacks desperately at it with his blade until he finally slices through it, rupturing it and spewing gasoline down onto himself. Hurriedly, he smears it all over himself in an effort to mask his scent. Having finished eating Nick, Indominus now approaches the crane and crouches down on all fours, sniffing. Owen lies back, perfectly still, as the dinosaur's bloodied, gore-encrusted jaws inch closer and closer... until finally she withdraws, rising up out of view, and walks away.
Slowly, Owen lifts his head, watching her go, her thudding footsteps retreating into the distance. Shivering, he lies back down and exhales in relief.
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