Survivors

37

It was night time, which made it easier to sneak around.

We creeped through the jungle and towards the compound. Darius dropped a rope down from the compound roof and we were climbing up it. The thing is, we had to do it without waking up the sleeping raptors.

My arrow quietly rattled in my quiver as I climbed the rope. I moved as slowly as possible to avoid the noise. I eventually reached the roof to the others and we waited for Brooklynn, who was still climbing up the rope, to join us.

She turn her head to check on the sleeping raptors and doing so caused her hand to miss the rope. She slid down while screaming, which caused the raptors to wake up.

We had Darius's BRAD walk back so we could help Brooklynn up. She finally reached the roof and Darius told to his BRAD to stop walking.

"Good thing you were able to get me voice command for BRAD here," Darius told Brooklynn.

"Yeah, real good thing," Brooklynn agreed.

"Had to keep it interesting, huh Superstar?" Kenji asked as he offered Brooklynn his hand but Darius used it to help himself back up. I facepalmed at his cluelessness.

"Okay guys, come on. Who knows when Kash is going to wake up," Darius said. We nodded as we followed him into the compound and towards an elevator. "This'll take you to the Med Bay. There's a nursery next to it. He's testing the control chips on the baby dinos first thing in the morning." Everyone but Darius got in the elevator.

"What about cameras?" Brooklynn asked.

"Mr. Genius has been too busy to get the island's camera system up and running. Message me on the BRAD as soon as you get the babies out," Darius explained. "Good luck."

I have Darius a two finger salute before the elevator doors closed. We then went down towards three Med Bay. Once we reached it, it was just a giant room that lead us to other rooms. We began searching.

"Hey, guys? I think I found it," Ben called out.

We walked over to see him staring at a screen on the wall. It shows six pens but only four had a yellow dot in them.

"Looks like there's only four baby dinos in the nursery," Ben pointed out.

"No shit Sherlock," I replied. Ben gave me a look and I stuck my tongue out at him.

Ben rolled his eyes at him and slid his finger across the screen so it shows what baby dinos we were dealing with.

"Baby Brachiosaurus. Two months old. DNA extracted from Isla Sorna. It won't take me long," Ben explained. "Where are we meeting?"

"Med Bay," Brooklynn answered. "We'll load them up on a platform, and figure out which biome to take them too later."

We all nodded and broke off. I ran down one hallway to check on the fourth pen.

When I got there, I tapped the screen to see what baby dino it was. "Baryonnyx. Four weeks old. Female. DNA from Isla Nublar. Okay Chris, let's get this over with."

When the door slid open and I saw the Bary, my heart melted. Just a big red puddle on the floor. "Oh my god," I awed, covering my moth with my hands.

This Baryonyx was the cutest thing I have ever seen. She was about the size of a house cat, maybe a little bigger. She had a dusky yellow underbelly and swampy green back scales.

When she saw me, she turned and growled. Except it was probably saying, "I am furce hooman! Fear me!" Wasn't really working though.

I entered the Bary's pen and grabbed a fish from her food tray. I crouched down and cautiously held the fish out towards her. "It's okay, I'm not here to hurt you."