⍟ Strings {A Camp Cretaceous x Male Reader Story - Ben}

𝟻. 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙻𝚘𝚗𝚐 𝙶𝚊𝚖𝚎

Brooklyn and Kenji get up to start walking back and Y/N takes that as his cue. He gets up from the grass and follows after them. 

Sammy and Yaz get up seconds later.

By the time the five of them make it to the airlock door, Mae and the others are already running out to meet them.

"The plane left without you?" Mae's face is already contorted in concern, the campers just look up at her sadly, their expressions speaking volumes.

"I'm so sorry," Mae sighs, "I don't understand what's going on here, but you have my word that I'll get you off this island somehow."

"No," Darius steps forward, "We're not leaving."

"Obviously this isn't what we wanted. Like, at all. But we can't quit now, Mantah Corp doesn't care if they're hurting their dinosaurs."

"And Mae, you can't protect them on your own," He paces around, "We have to stay until we fix this, however long it takes."

"Darius, we can't keep doing this." Y/N sighs, "We've been looking out for dinosaurs for six months, we need to look after ourselves, this isn't our responsibility."

Darius looks dazed by the disagreement but Yasmina places a hand on Y/N's shoulder, "It's fine. Let's do it."

She doesn't sound too convinced but nobody else speaks up.

"Let's get to work then." Mae decides reluctantly, "We've gotta get Pierce back to the desert biome."

"And if the planes gone, that means the new dinosaur food has already been unloaded."

"We'll go check the T. Rex area to make sure the BRADs haven't tainted their food." Brooklyn offers.

"Y'all," Sammy loops her arm around Yaz, "Yaz and I are pretty wrecked, I think we'll stay back and rest." She smiles hopefully.

"Of course." Brooklyn shrugs.

"Yeah, don't worry about it." Ben shoots them a thumbs up.

"After you're all done, we'll meet at Mae's and figure out the game plan to protect those dinos." Yasmina nods.

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"You boys stay back," Mae instructs Darius, Ben, and Y/N as she tries to calm Pierce down, "He's clearly agitated, and I don't want him to--"

Pierce charges and the four of them jump out of the way. He turns back and Y/N pulls Ben to his feet before he can get hit by Pierce's tail.

"Pierce, stop!" Mae shouts, tapping on her tablet.

"Calm, calm." She repeats, hitting the button over and over.

Pierce roars back and the same noise echoes off the tablet.

"Scared, yes. But you don't have to be scared," Mae carefully approaches him, "Cuz we're gonna take you," She hits another button, "Home."

"That's right, darling. Home." Mae scratches the dinos chin.

"She... she just talked to a dinosaur!" Darius mumbles excitedly.

"Well, yeah. Isn't that Ben's thing too?" Y/N shrugs.

"It's not that impressive, anyway." Ben rolls his eyes, "She did it with fancy science buttons. Bumpy and I found a way to talk through here." He taps his chest, over where his heart is, "The biggest button of all."

"Never mind, I'm on Darius' side..." Y/N and Darius both give Ben a weird look.

"Well, yeah, that was-- still super cool... heh." Ben swallows hard.