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

𝟻. 𝚂𝚑𝚊𝚔𝚢 𝙶𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍

The kids grip onto the trees and each other as the ground continues to rumble, throwing them around along with the dinos. Some Pteranodons swoop down and narrowly miss Sammy and Y'N's heads. The chaos grows as the T. Rex's roar loudly, clearly frightened by the shaking.

Once the ground stops shaking, the camper's calm down but the dinos don't. They bash their heads against the drone forcefields, trying to escape.

"The earthquakes over, why are the dinosaurs still freaking out?" Sammy whines in distress.

"I don't know, but they're gonna hurt themselves!" Ben looks to Darius for a clue.

"Come on, we have to shut down the drones!" Brooklyn insists.

"No, if we do, won't this place be like Nublar all over again, where we're never not almost dying!?" Yaz argues.

"Right, plus aren't they already hurt?" Y/N folds his arms.

"But if we leave them, that makes us a little too much like Kash or the Kons." Ben counters.

"Mr. Kon." Brooklyn scowls at Ben.

"Well, either way," Sammy steps between the two, "I'm in for dropping those drones."

"You go ahead," Darius waves them off, "I'll stay here."

"What?" Yasmina raises an eyebrow.

"It'll take a while to shut the drones down, I'll grab Mae's tablet and try to calm them while you do." Darius explains casually, never taking his eyes off the dinos.

"Okay, but maybe someone should stay with you." Brooklyn suggests.

"No, it's okay." Darius looks back at her, "I'd rather do it alone."

While Y/N would usually never let that happen, Darius looked serious and confident, he clearly had it under control.

"Send us a message when you get the tablet." Y/N nods.

"Be safe."

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The five campers enter Kash's office, locked into their mission.

"We're gonna go look for phones, let us know when you get into Kash's computer." Yaz explains, pulling Y/N and Ben along with her.

"You won't find any," Brooklyn shakes her head, "Mr. Kon is as smart as he is evil, that's how he has Kenji fooled."

Y/N sighs and gives Sammy a look, hoping she'll try and talk some sense into the other girl. Sammy gets the message and lets out a deep sigh of her own.

"I don't know, Brooklyn. Mr. Kon is a bad guy, but it's not like he forced Kenji to say all that stuff." Sammy shrinks in on herself, "About... how we're not family."

"No, but..." Brooklyn trails off when a page opens on the holographic screen, "Got it!"

The other kids gather around to watch her work on the drones.

"Knew you could do it." Sammy beams.

After just a couple seconds, all the drones disable on the screen, their squares turning gray.

"Sweet." Y/N smirks, "Now let's check in with Darius." He slides Kash's tablet over to Sammy.

"He says the Eaties are still acting weird." Sammy frowns, "He's trailing them."

"Great," Yaz drawls sarcastically, "Add that to the list of things we don't know, like, 'What do we do now?', and 'Are we already too late to stop the Kons?'."

Brooklyn rolls her eyes and goes back to the keyboard, "What!?" She pulls up a tab, "Remember the distress beacon we sent out from Isla Nublar?"

"Mantah Corp received it, and Kon didn't do anything about it."