Antartica

In the snowy skies in Antartica, a tiltrotor aircraft carrying a group of soldiers was seen flying in the skies to a location where they will commence their operation. And the aircraft belonged to non other than the group of soldiers who infiltrated the outpost in South Korea. Then, the pilot of the air raft began to contact with the Equinarch military men in the outpost of the continent.

"Outpost thirty-four, this is Alpha four, on approach with reinforcements and supplies. Requesting permission to land." The pilot informed in a way to trick them. "Yasushi has all sites on high alert, so transmitting emergency codes now." He finished, then, a reply came back.

"Copy that Alpha four. Codes are good. Nice to have you back."

In the aircraft Jessica and Lily were seen seated on the middle left side of the place, and Lily had an anxious expression on her she to her witnessing the soldiers loading their rifles in a way to express that they were ready for combat. The teenage girl then looked up to her mother and saw that she was not agitated whatsoever which made her perplexed.

"Why isn't mom scared right now?"

Antartica
Equinarch outpost 34
9:30pm

In the Equinarch outpost in Antartica, the tiltrotor was seen making a landing in front of the outpost. Once it was on the ground, Alexander ordered his men to exit the plane which they did once they stood up. After that, the soldiers walked out of the plane with some lifting two crates. Then, the former colonel walked out after them. Once they were out, they were immediately greeted by two Equinarch soldiers walking up to them.

"Nice to see you guys." One of them said with a smile "Need a hand with offload?" He asked.

"No, we're good." Alexander told him "We're gonna put it over at bay five." He finished.

However, one of the soldiers grew suspicious of these people which Alexander immediately noticed. Then, the Equinarch soldier walked up to the group. When Alexander noticed this, he turned his head to his left and nodded at one of his men. After that, Alexander's men aimed their rifles at the soldiers and fired at them.

Back in the tiltrotor, Jessica and Lily could hear the loud gunshots firing outside as well as her grunting of other people outside. This has prompted Jessica to embrace her daughter in a hug, in attempt to sooth her fear.

"I'm terrified mom."

"Me too Lily."

A brief second later, all of the gunshots have stopped. Then, Jessica heard some footsteps entering the aircraft. She released from her hug and looked up to see Alexander walking back into the plane.

"Let's go."

After that, Jessica and Lily both stood up from their seats and walked out of the tiltrotor with Jessica carrying the transmitter. Then, Alexander began to guide them to the entrance of the outpost with two soldiers behind the two of them. While walking, Lily witnessed the bodies of the Equinarch soldiers that these people had killed, and the sight has scandalized her.

"Eyes straight ahead Lily." Jessica told her "Deep breaths, just like we talked about." She reminded her.

Once they were in the outpost, Alexander and his men began to guide the two through the hallway of the outpost, and to an elevator where they will hitch a ride to one of the basement levels. Once they got into the elevator, the former military colonel pressed a button which shut the elevator doors closed. Now, it began to go down to the basement level that they are going to go into.

During the ride, Lily was looking at Alexander with some much hatred towards him for abducting her and her mother like that for no reason. But, when he turned his head to look at her, Lily immediately looked back forward.

Fifteen seconds later, the group have arrived at the destination, and the doors of the elevator slid open which made Lily hold her mother's hand. After that, the group exited the elevator where there were more of Alexander's soldiers working, and they immediately saw something in front of them.

"Wow, she had nothing to do with this." Alexander said with an astonished expression.

In front of them all was a giant dragon frozen solid in ice. Lily scrutinized the giant frozen dragon for a second and realized what it was.

"Equestrian three." She gasped.

The group then walked into a circular hallway that was covered with canopy so that they could reach monster three. After walking in the hallway for six seconds, the group made a right turn where they were now standing in front of the large frozen dragon. Jessica placed her right hand on the ice and felt the dragon's heart beat beating.

"Any survivors?" Alexander asked.

"No." One of his men replied with a shake of his head "They tried to launch an emergency beacon, but we cut them off in time." He told him which made Alexander smile in satisfaction. But, he wasn't going to disregard this.

"They'll figure it out and arrive here anyways." He warned them "Fire up the drills." He ordered.

Then, some soldiers walked back and began to head to a panel where they will activate the drills. During that, Alexander looked at Jessica.

"Do you have everything you need?"

"Yes." She replied with a nod.

"Good." He said with a smile "Let's get started." He said.

Then, everyone began to do their roles. Four soldiers activated four drills and began to drill some holes into the ice while being careful in not to make contact with the huge dragon. During that, Jessica turned on the transmitter and pressed a button, after that, the screen displayed words saying 'Transmitter analyzing specimen bioacoustics 0% complete'.

While the technology was processing, Jessica looked back in front of her and saw her daughter placing her right hand against the large solid ice. During that, she can feel the heartbeat of Equestrian three which made her gasp. A brief second later, lights attached to parts of the ice began to glow which immediately transferred data to the transmitter as it began to analyze monster three's bioacoustics.

In Castle Delta, Elliot was seen sitting in a chair in an office while looking at a video of him and his family having fun together years ago before the incident that occured in San Francisco on a computer. In the video, Jessica was seen making her way to the living room.

"We have some Jurassic situation in the living room."

Once Jessica made it to the living room, Elliot's son Lucas was seen putting a dinosaur cap on his father's head while he and young Lily were laughing suddenly, Elliot spotted something which made him tell his kids to stop. Young Lily and Lucas looked behind them and saw their mother.

"A prey! Get her!" Elliot exclaimed.

After that, Lily and Elliot began to chase Jessica out of the house while laughing.

"Dinosaur kisses!"

Elliot couldn't help but let out a smile from that wonderful time. But suddenly, some rumbling noises stopped him which made him perplexed. Then, a brief second later, the rumbling noises got stronger which affected electronics in the oil rig. After that, a person speaker through the speakers.

"All personnel, report to battle stations. This is not a drill, this is a code red."

When Elliot heard this, he stood up from his seat and exited the office as titanium doors shielded a window near him. After that, he started to follow the personnels to the battle station.

After running for ten seconds, Elliot has arrived at the battle station. He then walked up to Xiang.

"What's happening?" He asked.

"Something's wrong." She replied "He's never been this close before." She told him as she began to move to another area.

"Who's he?" Elliot asked with a perplexed expression.

"Who do you think?"

Elliot was baffled by this but then, he realized who 'he' was. It was Thorax.

"He's taking out our observation drones." Satomi told her husband with a worried expression.

"Trajectory?" Toshihiro asked looking back at him.

"Straight at us, 13,00 meters and closing in." Connor replied.

"T-team. Baxter, Russell, Terry, I want you on those CROWS now." Nova ordered.

"You heard the colonel, let's move!" Exclaimed Baxter as he and both his colleagues ran to the seats of the CROWS. Once they got to them, they say on the seats and prepared the weapons by grabbing onto the control sticks of the weapons. After that, they put on some headphones and cannons appeared out of Castle Delta. Then, shields shielded the large window of the battle station.

"Doctor Connor." Toshihiro called him "Do you have his bioacoustics?" He asked walking forward slightly.

"Acoustics coming up." Connor told him looking at a screen on his left which displayed a sonar scanner. And on the scanner, it detected a large creature outside. There's no doubt that it was Thorax. "Okay, he's closing. We're at 700 meters." He warned.

"His movements are erratic." Satomi told them "Heart beat, and breathing are skyrocketing to the roof." She warned which made some of the personnels anxious.

"Yeah, he's definitely not thrilled about something." Connor told them.

"How are they getting all of this?" Elliot asked Xiang.

"Jessica isolated Thorax's bioacoustics." She replied as Elliot began to stare at a screen that shows Thorax's bioacoustics "It allows us to track him. Even to get his vitals." She added.

Suddenly, the whole room started to shake violently like an Earthquake occuring which nearly made the people in the room loose their balances as well as startling some of them. Connor looked down on the sonar again and saw Thorax circling around them.

"He's now circling around us, closing in 200 meters." He warned.

"Colonel." Toshihiro called. Then, she began to order all of her men once again.

"All teams in position, weapons hot." She ordered.

After that, Baxter, Russell, and Terry armed the cannons by flipping up the small red covers of them.

"Come on, come on." Russell said while breathing.

"Hold your fire." Toshihiro ordered raising his right hand "We don't know if he'll attack us or not." He said.

"Oh he will if you keep those weapons on him." Elliot warned him "Now I want him dead more than anybody, but unless this is a fight gHt you know that you can win, for our safety just stand down." He told him.

Suddenly, the whole room started to shake violently again and this time, it was stronger which affected some electronics as well as nearly making things fall to the floor. A brief second later, everything was back to normal. And Toshihiro acknowledged Elliot's logical words.

"Stand down." He ordered.

"You can't be serious." Nova said with an incredulous expression.

"I am." He told her with a stern expression. "Stand down." He repeated.

When the colonel heard this, she let out a sigh due to her knowing that she would loose the fight so, she began to order her men to stand down.

"Stand down."

When Baxter, Russell, and Terry heard the order, they immediately released their hands from the control sticks. After that, Thorax's heart beat and breathing started to diminish slight in a way to express that he is calming down.

"Listen." Xiang said as everyone silenced. Then, they could hear the slow beating of Thorax's heart "His heart rate is slowing down." She told them.

Elliot then let out a sigh as he is about to tell them to do a thing that he would regret doing. But, it was necessary.

"Open the shields." Elliot told them which made everyone's eyes widen.

"Oh yeah, let's bring him in for a beer." Connor commented on Elliot's order sarcastically "Are you out of your damn mind?!" He exclaimed.

"We have to let him know that we are not a threat."

When Toshihiro heard this logical statement, he turned his head around and looked at Connor.

"Do it."

Connor then let out a defeated sigh first before pressing a button which opened the shields of the windows. While the shields were slowly sliding open, the crew were immediately met with a bright green flash of light which made some workers shield their eyes. The crew looked forward and saw the Equestrian Thorax swimming towards their base with his green magic glowing in his eyes, horn, deer horns, and shelled wings which changed their colours too.

"What's with the light show?" Russell asked.

"It's an intimidation display." Satomi replied.

"That's good to know because, I'm very intimidated." Nigel said breathing slightly.

"I don't think it's for us." Said Xiang.

Elliot then walked forward towards the window at the front of the battle station, and his exertion has made Toshihiro worried.

"What are you doing dude?" Connor asked.

But Elliot disregarded him, he continued to walk towards the large window so that Thorax could see him. Once he got to it, he and Thorax were now staring face to face with each other, and the changeling had a slightly angry expression on his face but, Elliot continued to remain equanimous so that he knows that he and his friends are not here to menace him. A brief second later, the glowing stopped, and everyone let out a relived sigh.

"Hehe, what could've possibly gone worse than that?" Connor asked.

Then on cue, Thorax made a 360 degrees turn letting out a roar in the process, and his 540 feet long tail swung by them which startled them all in the process as well as making some workers fall on the ground in the process. A brief second later, Thorax has successfully turned away from castle Delta and was now swimming away.

"Can we, have the shields back on please." Connor begged.

"Show me his territorial routes." Elliot said running for them.

"What? Why?" Connor asked in a perplexed tone.

"Because I want to start a boat tour so just show me."

"Alright, coming right up."

Then, the screen that Elliot was staring at displayed an image of the global map.

"Care to tell us what you're looking for Me. Richard?" Nova asked.

"From an animal lease it's hunting ground, it's usually because it's threatened by something." Elliot replied to them which made Satomi's eyes widen.

"Run a course projection." Satomi ordered. Then, Elliot looked back at Toshihiro.

"We gotta go after him." He told him with a desperate expression "He's looking for something out there, it could be the transmitter." He finished.

When Toshihiro heard this, he turned around and looked at Connor to know Thorax's route that he is currently taking.

"Connor, what's your projection?"

"All pads have him landing in the same place." Connor replied, then, he looked at them "He's heading towards Antarctica." He told them, and that made Elliot smile.

"Good then." He said turning around "I mean let's go, let's go find him let's-"

Elliot stopped in his sentence when he noticed all of the concerned expressions on his colleagues face. That has made him even more bewildered.

"Wait, what's in Antarctica?" He asked.

Author's Note

Another chapter finished! I hope you all enjoyed it!