Sacrifice

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Darius was the one that led the four of them back to the dock. It's silent, surprisingly. Nothing to debrief about....But their silence swirled together to create one consistent message; They're all worried about the chance that Kenji, Brooklynn and Yaz are Rexy chow. Louise wondered what was the need for all of those choppers? There was three or four of them-

And one of them obviously crashed, so now there's two or three still out there. "No sign of old Rexy," Sammy said, leaning against a tree. "Yeah, but no signs of our friends either." Ben added.

There's a pang through her heart as she looked through the clearing, "Maybe they're back on the boat."

"Or maybe, they ran back to camp." Darius added on. "They can't be," Sammy said. "Cause they're here!" She exclaimed, turning Darius to face them.

Kenji and Yasmina panted heavily before facing towards Sammy's familiar voice. He gasped and ran up to Louise, consuming her in his large arms tightly. "Oh, Kenji, Kenji, Kenji...." She gripped his shoulders, whispering in his ear. He buried his head into her neck, whispering, "Lou...." as he gave her a few kisses on the neck before pulling back.

"We thought you guys left on the chopper!" Kenji exclaimed. "Hold up, where's Brooklynn?" Darius asked, and it fell silent. "Kenji," Louise said.

"Where's Brooklynn?"

"Things got...complicated." Kenji replied, vaguely. Yasmina rolled her eyes quickly, "Brooklynn was kidnapped by Wu and his mercenaries! That's why we were swarmed, Wu is here on the island and he needs the Indominus samples." Yasmina explained.

"Wu? And you- you two left her with them?" Darius asked, slowly processing the information. He left her. "It was what she wanted." Kenji replied. "But why?!" Darius asked. "Dingus over here dropped the laptop." Yasmina hit the back of Kenji's head.

"The laptop that does.....What exactly?" Sammy questioned with confusion. "It has the remaining Indominus samples on it." Yasmina replied.

"And you guys don't know where it is?" Darius asked, his tone suggesting that this question was meant for Kenji.

"I dropped it along the way!" Kenji defended. "Okay, okay." Louise spoke up, "Me and Kenji can go look for the laptop and if we happen to take too long, have Ben come look for us. In the meantime....Stay hidden."

"Wait a minute, who's going to do the swap?" Darius asked, his gaze bouncing between them. Yasmina interrupted, "We're not seriously giving Wu the laptop back."

"He could use it to make another freakazoid like the Scorpius!" Kenji said, now it was Louise who hit the back of his head. "And we don't want that, so let's focus on finding it first and regroup."

"Louise, we could be wasting time looking for the laptop-" This was the first time that Darius ever....disagreed with her. Or at least, she thought.

"Time that we could use looking for Brooklynn! Yasmina, where are these mercenaries going?"

"Darius, we're not leaving the laptop around for those mercenaries to actually find." Kenji answered before she could. "Just let them go look for the laptop, it'll be harder to spot the two of them then rather if all of us went." Ben intervened.

"Besides," Yasmina sighed, "It's Brooklynn for the laptop. Not just one or the other. We'll have to look for it either way."

"No, I won't allow this. We haven't thought this through," Darius said, and the others all shared an awkward glance. "Darius, we're wasting way more time discussing this. Let me and Kenji look for the laptop, that's the start to the plan, alright?" Louise gripped Kenji's forearm.