The Best Of Both: Camp Cretaceous OC

Boiling Over

A/N: The moment is here...

The door to Gia and Nonna's house burst open and Darius sprinted inside. "Grab your stuff," he called behind him.

"Maybe we can still follow the Handler," Yasmina said to Max as the two of them stepped in.

Ben and Sammy walked in after them. "We've got to get to Brooklynn before she does". Ben turned to Gia who had just walked in. "Can I use your phone?" She handed her phone to him. "Grazie. I'll see if there's any chatter on Dark Jurassic than can help us piece together where the handler is headed. Wherever that is must be where Brooklynn is".

Gia helped Nonna into a chair, who was cradling a sleeping Smoothie in her arms.

"Biosyn has facilities all over the world," Darius said, returning to the living room with a backpack in hand.

"I can help narrow our search to a couple," Max spoke up.

"We also have to figure out how we're getting wherever we're getting," Yasmina pointed out.

Ben paced back and, reading every post he could on Dark Jurassic "'Escaped Dimorphodon in Munich', 'Possible Carnotaurus sale in Malta'". Gia's eyes widened and she rushed away. "A lot's happened since we left".

"Maybe we can rent a car?" Darius offered.

"Well, even if we were old enough...," Yasmina trailed off.

"But we are, aren't we?" Max asked.

"Do you have ID on you?" Darius asked. Max closed his mouth and shook his head.

"Brooklynn is in Malta!" Gia exclaimed from the door, her laptop in hand. "I knew I recognised the background of her video message". She turned her laptop around, showing Brooklynn's video of her face and the dark tunnel behind her and an image of the Malta catacombs. Sure enough, it was a perfect match. "I've been there before. She's in the catacombs under Malta, I am sure of it".

"Then I guess we're off to Malta to find her," Darius announced. Ben, Max and Yasmina nodded, determined in their path forward. Darius turned around, looking at Sammy and Kenji, who sat together on the couch, a solemn look on their face. "...Right?" Darius asked.

Kenji and Sammy exchanged a glance. "You guys go. We're going to... We're going to head home".

Darius' backpack fell from his shoulder to the ground as he stood in stunned silence. "What do you mean?" Darius cried.

"What about Brooklynn?"

"Even if the Handler is headed to where Brooklynn is, that was her choice," Sammy said.

"Come on, Sammy, we've been through this," Yasmina explained.

"You're right, we have," Sammy said, standing up and facing her. "So I need you to really listen this time. Brooklynn got on that plan. She chose to be where she is and with who she's with, and that ain't here. That ain't us".

"Seriously?" Max sighed. "You're still on this? Has it ever crossed your mind that maybe Brooklynn is doing this so she can undermine the Broker? You know, take them down from within?"

"Yeah, what if she's onto something we just don't know about?" Ben agreed.

"We gave her an out," Kenji spoke up, standing up as well. "Doesn't seem like she needed it, or wanted it".

"Because all the progress she's made would have gone down the drain!" Max exclaimed. "She wants the same thing we do!"

Sammy narrowed her eyes and walked up to him. "And what is it that we want, Max?" Sammy jabbed. "I think you've been a bit confused ever since all this began". Sammy leaned toward him, glaring into his eyes. "You, Max, are the only one here who wants to go to war with Biosyn, and you're trying to drag Brooklynn and the rest of us into your stupid revenge quest".