The Best Of Both: Camp Cretaceous OC

Excess Baggage

The day at Delaney University had gone on longer than Professor Desai had expected. The sun had fully set by the time he stepped out the front doors of the main building. He should have guessed it would be a late night for him. All that business about one of their students disappearing without warning, leaving behind only a note asking for a period of absence, plus all the messages he had been getting ever since he spoke up against Biosyn and their clear play for more power.

But he was done now, and he could finally head home.

As he approached a flight of stairs, he was on his phone, speaking to his wife and telling her about all the trials and tribulations of the day. "You should have seen the look on the senator's face when I told him that Lewis Dodgson and Biosyn may have fooled everyone else, but they haven't fooled me". 

Something rustled in the bushes nearby, he looked in that direction, but saw nothing out of the ordinary. Probably just a bird. "Sorry, I thought I heard something". As he took another step, he heard running footsteps behind him. He turned, but once again, he seemed to be alone.

As he made to descend the stairs, he froze. Someone was at the bottom, seemingly appearing out of thin air. It was a woman, with short black hair and plain grey clothing. They stared at him with wide, blank eyes. "Dear, I'll call you back," Desai said as he hung up the phone.

As soon as he ended the call, the woman moved, heading up the stairs toward him. Feeling an impending sense of danger, Desai turned to bolt for the building doors behind him, but yelped when he saw what was blocking his path.

A Dinosaur stood in his path, but he didn't know the first thing about how to discern which was which. All he knew, was that it had sharp teeth and sharp claws, including a particularly big one on one toe on each foot.

The Dinosaur stepped closer, shrieking at him. Desai heard footsteps behind him. He spun around, seeing the woman marching up to him. Desair backed up from her, only to yelp as he nearly bumped into the animal behind him, which bit at him with a snarl. "What do you want?" He cried.

The woman walked closer, until she was almost nose to nose with him. Her blank, wide eyes stared into his terrified ones for a few seconds, before she stepped forward and whispered in his ear.

He was frozen to the spot, with no choice but to listen to her words. When she was done, Desai's eyes widened in terror.

0O0

The plane Brooklynn had boarded with the Broker was now just a speck against the vast sky, yet the Nublar Seven continued to watch it get further and further away. Each of them was completely lost, staring distantly at the sky as the wind blew through their hair. Until finally, Darius broke the silence.

"I can't believe it. She really is alive," he said.

"But how?" Yasmina said.

"I don't know. I don't understand," Darius replied.

Kenji held Bumpy's egg tightly in his hands as he shook his head. "Or maybe, she was in on it all along. I mean, she did just leave with the Broker".

"You can't really think that," Darius exclaimed, putting his hands on his hips.

"What else are we supposed to think?"

"She's our friend!" Yasmina argued.

"She's never do something like that to us," Darius added.

"We have to find a way to contact her," Ben piped up.

Max watched their heated conversation, nothing to add of his own. His own mind was jumping back and forth between reasoning for why Brooklynn didn't back down, and instead got on the plane. There had to be a deeper reason that just what he was seeing on the surface,  but even then, he couldn't decide on that until he figured where Brooklynn's actual loyalties lay.