Malcolm examines Jim's scratch wound from the night before.
"This certainly looks like the same bite mark."
...
Liam was with his mother in the clinic re-bandaging his wound from the night before. His mother cleaned it right after but he was gonna get it checked today.
You walk in and Elisabeth sees you.
"Good morning, Yn." She greets and Liam turns in his seat to you.
You turn to the voice and see Elisabeth with Liam on a patient bed.
"Good morning. Are you okay?" You then ask Liam and he nods.
"Just a little scratch, nothing serious." He shrugs.
"Do you mind taking over for me? So I can go to Malcom?" Elisabeth asks you, gesturing to Liam.
"Of course." You say and put your bag away to go to him.
Elisabeth winks to Liam who rolls his eyes at her. She leaves and you go up to Liam on the bed.
"What happened?" You ask him, taking on a pair of gloves.
"My stupid brother threw a rock at those birds last night." Liam says and holds out his arm for you.
You gently take it and remove the bandage from last night, looking at his wound.
"It's not as bad as it looks." He tells you and you shake your head with a chuckle.
...
You were out helping anyone that had been injured after the bird attack and see Skye in the distance with Josh, Liam, Taylor and Jim.
"They were just like the ones from last night, dad. But there were hundreds of them. And they just kept swooping down at us. Even after the guards turned the sonics on them." Josh tells them.
You walk over and check on Skye scratches.
"I don't know what finally drove them off." Skye says trying to swat your hands away, but stops when you glare at her. "They just kind of flew off all at ones." She tells them.
Wash comes up to Taylor.
"We got 36 wounded, three seriously. But I'm told they'll survive and no fatalities." She tells him.
Jim then sees Josh is hurt to and grabs his arm to look at it.
"Well, we got lucky this time. Tell the towers to keep an eye on the sky." Taylor tells Wash. "Tell them to goose the frequency on the sonics as well."
"Yn!" Someone calls out just when you were about to look at Josh's wounds. You look to Jim, he nods and turn to his son.
"Go have your mom take a look at those wounds." He tells him.
"She's right there." You call out pointing to Elisabeth in the distance as you run toward the person that called for you just before.
"Dad." Liam then says getting his attention and gestures to Malcolm walking with one of those birds in hand.
They walk up to him just when he puts it into a box.
"Where are those interactions protocols when you need them, huh?" Jim says.
"I think I may have an idea of what's going on here." Malcolm says. "It's no accident we haven't seen this species in the region before. Because they're not from this region. They're migrating."
"Great." Jim says. "Let's hope they keep on migrating and get the hell out of here."
"You're not following. Migrations, particularly if they're not annual migrations, and we know this one isn't. Because we haven't seen them before, tend to be population wide, sometimes even species wide."
"Meaning what?" Taylor asks, having come up too.
"Meaning, that what we've seen today is just the first wave. There are a lot more coming." Malcolm says and leaves with the bird.
You walk by with an injured on a stretcher. Turning you share a glance with Liam.
...
"Go to aerial-cam three, north perimeter." Taylor tells Wash controlling the screen. "We have research balloon's taking atmospheric readings." He tells Jim and Liam. "I can't see a damn thing. That canopy is too thick. Go thermal."
"There, under the canopy. Probably resting in the branches."
"There's millions of them." Jim says.
"At least." Liam mumbles as he looks at the screens.
"Either that or something is wrong with the infrared. It could just be ghostings." Wash says.
"Well, let's see." Taylor says. "Fire a sonic blaster into the trees."
She does and the birds fly off showing how many they are.
"Well, that's not good." Taylor says.
"Okay, let's say you're right and they're migrating. Why?" Jim asks Malcolm.
"Well, species migrate for a variety of reasons. Change in climate. An influx of predators. To mate."
Taylor then looks like he remembered something.
"What is it?" Liam asks him.
"A few years back, we were digging for the geo-thermal well. You remember that?" He asks Wash.
"Yeah." She nods.
"We went about 10 feet down. We found fragments, thousands and thousands of them." Taylor says and Liam cross his arms and rub his jaw realising what's happening.
"Thousands of what?" Jim asks, not getting it yet.
"Eggs." Liam says and Taylor nods.
"Egg shells." He confirms.
"Well we didn't think much of it at the time. I mean, it was deep enough that we figured that whatever had laid them had long since moved on."
"Actually, one of the reasons we built here is because, well, they made the soil so fertile."
"Alright, so, if what you're saying is these things were born here, that means they're coming back to spawn." Jim then says.
"That's why they're attacking." Liam says.
"We built Terra Nova on their breeding ground." Malcolm then says.
They all look at each other.
...
Outside people are hurrying to clear out the market.
"Wash, as soon as the marketplace is clear, I want everyone indoors. No panic. Make sure every building is secure. The houses, the school, even the damn bar." Taylor tells her.
"Alright. Let's move out." She tells the soldiers and leave.
Malcolm and Elisabeth walks up to Taylor.
"Anything?" Taylor asks.
"DNA was a match." Malcolm says. "We typed in the specimen I recovered against the shell fragments we dug up. Same species.
Jim and Liam walks up to them.
"Well, there must be a something we can do to keep those things away." Jim says.
"Well, maybe there is, but to really understand their physiology, and to find a way to repel them we need a live specimen." Malcolm says.
"Two preferably. Male and female if possible." Elisabeth adds.
"So if we come up with a couple of specimens, you can figure out a way we can fight these things?" Taylor asks.
"Yeah. But the faster the better. At their current rate of migration, the pterosaurs will be here by nightfall tomorrow."
"You wanna do some hunting tonight Shannon's?" Taylor asks Jim and Liam.
"Point the way." Jim says.
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FanfictionI do NOT own anything from Terra Nova. This is only a fanfiction. All credit goes to the creators! Oc's name is Liam Shannon, the oldest son of Jim and Elisabeth Shannon. He worked as a narcotics cop alongside his father, until Jim was arrested, bu...
