Survivors

47

Brooklynn, Darius, and I walked over to the watering hole to be greeted by Ben.

"Oh, hey guys! Uh, fancy seeing you here!"

"At the meet-up spot? Yeah, who saw that coming," Darius sarcastically said.

"Hey guys!" Sammy said, walking over. "Any luck?"

"Yup, I managed to set up a drone to patrol the perimeter of the island. Now, we'll get an alert as soon as the Kons return," Brooklynn explained.

"Nice, and we made sure all the dinos had something to eat, so they won't go after each other," Sammy explained as she wrapped an arm around Yaz's shoulder. "We did that. I don't mean to brag. Except I do, because it's beautiful and we should be proud."

"You're right," Darius said. "Not that there's anyone around to appreciate it."

"Time to change that," Brooklynn said, hitting a button on the tablet and asking it at us. "Whoever's watching this, get ready to be amazed by these guys. Some of the most incredible people I have ever met."

"Are you recording us?" Sammy asked, putting her hands on her hips.

"Yeah, because someone needs to know that we survived Nublar. And that we're here now. And that we protected dinosaurs from big game hunters and—"

"A horrible hybrid," Yaz added.

"Two horrible hybrids," Darius corrected.

"Technically, three horrible hybrids," I said, putting an arm around Darius's shoulder.

"An island full of regular dinosaurs," Brooklynn said.

"A lunatic that wanted to force dinosaurs to fight," Ben said.

"Which one?" Darius questioned making all of us laugh.

"And we even got carnivores to play nice with herbivores," Brooklynn finished. "So, wave to the camera people. You're kind of a big deal."

"Don't you wanna get in the shot?" Sammy asked.

"Nah, that doesn't feel like 'me' anymore," Brooklynn said, shrugging.

"I guess we've all changed since we first got to camp," Ben said.

"Yeah, if I told old you what all happened to you and how you became the next Tarzan..." I said, wrapping an arm around Ben's shoulders.

"Oh, yeah, no, I'd have a heart attack," Ben said.

"Yeah, and I didn't want to talk to anyone. Like, at all," Yaz said.

"Except for me," Sammy corrected. "Well, really, I kept talking to you and, eventually, you had to respond." We all laughed.

"Meanwhile, Kenji never stopped... talking," Brooklynn said as a saddened expression came to her face. She then stopped recording.

"So, uh, I've been thinking," Darius started.

"Wow, you've been thinking!?" I gasped sarcastically.

Darius placed his hand on my face and lightly pushed me back. I laughed.

"We've done everything we can to prepare to for when they come back, but why are we waiting for them to act first?" Darius questioned.

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"We're the ones with the upper hand," Darius said as we walked to an airlock. "Even if he knows we got out, Mr. Kon has no idea Brooklynn shut the drones and the BRADs down, except the one Sammy ran into. Or that we moved most of the dinos to the forest biome."