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

𝟼. 𝙼𝚒𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝙲𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚕

Ben joins his friends in the grass beside Mae. Sammy explains her current condition.

"She's asleep," Sammy places a hand on Mae's warm forehead, "The leaves we put over her wounds stopped the bleeding, but I don't know how long that's gonna last."

"We gotta do something." She looks around, hoping somebody will have an idea.

"Ben says Kash has a phone," Yaz points out, "Let's get it, call for help, and get out of here."

"But what about the dinosaurs?" Darius asks, Y/N has to keep himself from rolling his eyes.

"Now that Mae's injured, if we all leave, who's gonna protect them?"

"Darius, look at her. She needs help." Yaz tries to reason, motioning over to Mae.

"Our only choice is that phone."

Mae yelps in pain.

"Those leaves aren't exactly sterile." Ben cringes, a bit of his old personality peeking through.

"We're running out of time. Let's split up and find Kash."

"Uh, small problem." Kenji buds in, "We don't know where he went."

A blinding green glow and a low trill begins approaching from the trees and the campers know exactly what this means. They all duck behind rocks as the BRADs move around. Whether the bots were searching for them or something else was still unknown.

Just as the droids reach the mouth of the cave, they stop.

"New orders received."

The kids let out sighs of relief as the machines stomp back into the trees.

"One of those BRADs could be going to meet Kash." Y/N observes.

"You guys go," Ben instructs everyone else, "I think there was a first aid kit in the snow gliders."

"I'll get Mae patched up."

"Are you sure?" Y/N glances at Mae whose clearly in pain, "I could stay and--"

"Why don't you come with me?" Ben smiles and motions for him to come along.

With that, they all creep out of the cave.

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Ben and Y/N make it out into the artic biome where the glider is waiting for them. They run over to it, wanting to be in the cold for as little as possible.

The two of them hop inside and take a second to warm up.

"What kind of dinosaur would they even wanna put in here." Ben runs his hands up and down his arms.

"Beats me, but I found the kit." Y/N reaches into the back and picks up the supplies.

"We should probably take some of this too." Ben scoops up some water bottles and extra bandages.

"Good thinking." Y/N nods, grabbing the last few.

The boys get out of the glider with their hands full, ready to head back to the cave. But as they're about to walk away, Y/N spots at BRAD scanning the other side of the vehicle. 

He pushes Ben back against the door, "BRAD..." He whispers, hoping it'll overlook them.

They stand in complete silence, listening as the robot begins walking away. Just as they think they're in the clear, one of the water bottles slips from Ben's grasp and crunches into the snow.

The kids scramble under the vehicle and hide, watching as the BRAD turns back and scans the bottle before deciding that there was no threat.

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