Prehistoric World: Redeem

Docks

Now arriving at their unknown destination, Natalie and Everett had established a plan with their newfound ally in the Maltese woman, Katerina. The ship docked in the port and the cargo was being loaded into the warehouse nearby, the workers didn't seem to have any sort of alliance as there were no symbols present in their uniforms now. The Hadrosaurus family was forced out of the boat with tasers and the chips implanted into their system to make them follow, while the few Polacanthus were wheeled out in carts. Other species that weren't seen before were also being loaded out such as Homolocephale, Anuroganthus in a parrot cage, a flock of sickened Coelophysis, and a single juvenile Styracosaurus.

Katerina looked both ways as the species were finally taken away, she turned around and violated their cage by using pliers to cut the doors. She pulled the chains and the padlock away, "Come now let's move."

As soon as one last mercenary came to check on the prisoners, they were gone. "My boss will not like this." He said to himself, running off as if nothing had ever happened.

Katerina ducked down as she discovered another exit from the watercraft. The three climb down to the docks and sneak behind oversize crates. "The only way we get out of this unnoticed is to get rid of whatever they're carrying in that safe crate, assuming you two have experience with this."

"Trust me we do." Natalie responded rolling her eyes back, "More than you will ever know."

"I wouldn't say that if I were you." She responded with double the sass and pulled out her pocket knife just in case someone or something attempted to stop them, "So just you two know we are currently in Croatia."

"And where exactly in Croatia are we?" Everett wondered and longed for exemplification.

Katerina motioned her head to a sign on the exit, it was simply written Dubrovnik.

"Isn't this like a popular spot for illegal prehistoric activity?" Natalie now took her opportunity to ask.

The woman nodded her head sighing as she reminded herself of the reason she was there, "Yes, but trust me I do not mean to harm these animals, I am in fact a smuggler but my intentions have changed, as I became quite wanted for some of these games."

Everett looked at Natalie jokingly, "Sounds familiar?"

"So you're a faker?" Natalie asked genuinely hoping for an actual response.

"Yes, I use my talent for a good cause." Katerina responded with sarcasm after shattering one of the layers of her extremely confidential soft side, as she heard voices she then jumped up and dragged a mercenary that wandered close by their hiding spot knocking him out unconscious, "I am also trained in some martial arts."

"Listen all we wanted to do was get the hell out of that boat." Natalie reckoned, "We have something very important to deal with."

"Not yet." Katerina protested before she could have any chance to explain herself, "I did what you asked me to do, now it's time for you to do what I ask you to do." She looked at both of them back and forth, "That was our plan from the beginning."

"It can't be as bad." Everett shrugged it off, "At least we're not being held captive I'm glad we get to act on things out on the field now."

Katerina shook her head as she laughed, "Even after what happened you still manage to be so stupid, we are dealing with a hybrid here."

"Woah, woah, woah." Natalie took her chance to give the woman a taste of her own medicine with the tone, "You did not mention it was a hybrid."

"I told you it was something you had never dealt with before." Katerina stated with all the honesty she had left in her body, "I am telling you the truth."

"We'll do it." Evertt spoke for both of them, "All we want is for our.. thing.. to be alright."

Natalie held his hand hoping the best for the girls as they knew they were probably going through something complicated just like they were. Katerina looted the man she knocked unconscious and handed a few of his tools to the two unequipped displaced people.

"They're headed to the city they're going to hand it back to its rightful owners." Katerina clocked her gun as she observe the troopers carrying the juvenile Styracosaurus into a van, it screamed for its mother as they were continents away by now.

One of the troops rushed off of the ship and announced, "The prisoners are gone."

"So is Vella." The seller from earlier gripped his fist, "Find them, these people are highly valued they are worth millions in the market."

The three fugitives just now realized the target on their heads is way more than any of the predicted. With a bounty so high that only meant they had to keep a low profile and continue to act in the shadows as things could only get infinitely worse if they freed an animal so valuable as the supposed hybrid. Following Katerina now heading to the city of Dubrovnik, Natalie and Everett began to wonder if they were really safe in the middle of the woods, now possibly indicating that the girls are billing much higher, it didn't come to their head that any others involved might've been in danger too as they lost contact with them immediately after the incident happened two years from now, its all clear to them, this might just be the most dangerous journey yet.