Tales from Jurassic World

12- Getting To Buisness

I head into the Cafe and sit down. I spin my head around looking for Claire. I sit patiently while tapping my hands on my legs. After a good long while I see her approaching with some strange woman. She looks around and once she spots me she and the person come over to greet me.
"This is Chanya Diogo, she's the person who can help you out with the genetic materials."
"Nice to meet you..." the woman says while shaking my hand.
There was an awkward silence after I shook her hand.
"...and what's your name?"
"I don't give me name out."
"What?"
"I don't give my name out to people. You can just call me Park Manager."
"Umm... okay? Well I heard you're having a supply issue."
"Yes, I need a lot more supplies for my genetics lab."
"Well I operate as a member of a large scale trading organization. We make secret transfers between people and companies, all exchanges have the documentation locked away in a vault of unknown location. We have 5 big genetic companies in the loop with us."
"Perfect, now what do I have to do?"
"We've already informed them that you're interested, they make requests and you can barter with them. We just need your permission to dock and setup shop. Also you'd need to tell us where we can setup."
I pull out my mobile device and pull up my map of the island. She takes out a paper map.
"Right in here," I say while outlining a small beachfront on the west side of the island.
"Alright then, just follow me. I'll radio this in."
She takes me on a long walk to the location.
"You know we could've just taken a vehicle of some kind."
"I prefer walking, it's nice and serine. This island is beautiful."
"When you've almost been eaten by a dinosaur in these jungles it stops being so beautiful."
She ignores my comment and continues to stroll down to the beach. After a long while we finally clear the trees and come onto the sea front. A large boat is busy unloading jeeps, tents, and crates of different shapes, sizes, and materials.
As I approach she turns around and opens her arms wide, "Welcome to my home."
"You..."
"Live on that boat, I rarely get to sleep in these tents much less on land itself."
"So how do we do this?"
She pulls out a laptop and opens an application. It's a phone like program and she dials up a CEO of some corporation.
"You get to talk to them directly and work out the deals."
"Oh great," I say sarcastically.
"What?"
"Nothing."
The laptop connects and an old man in a suit is on the screen.
"I'm assuming this is the man I will be bartering with."
"Yes sir, he's looking for genetic materials."
"What's the count on the supplies and what do you want?"
"100000 pounds of the genetic material you seek."
"And what do you want for it?"
"100 all expenses paid VIP tour cards."
I thought about it, those VIP cards covered every cost when someone comes to Jurassic World. It pays for food, tours, rides, the ferry here and back, just... everything. I knew though that if I didn't agree there might not be a park left.
"Seems like that will work."
"Excellent. As soon as you provide Ms. Diogo here with the passes she will let you have the supplies."
I sigh with relief.
"See that wasn't so hard was it?"
"Sure was a lot easier than I thought it would be. That's not too bad of a deal."
"You know you can barter with them right? Maybe you could've persuaded him to go for 50 VIP passes."
"I'd rather just accept his offer to keep this place safe."
"Gonna breed a dinosaur security force? Hahaha."
"Sort of."
She stopped laughing and then just went into deep thought.
"You think cloning more dinosaurs will protect you from... dinosaurs?"
"In my case, yes."
"You know... I'm not even going to question that. Just make sure you evacuate this place once it goes to shit."
"When will more of these deals come through and will I be notified when they arrive?"
"Yeah, Claire should inform you."
"Alright."
I have someone create a password for the trading procedure and once I'm done with the exchange I text Owen to pick me up and take me to the lab.
We drive up and step inside. We do the usual procedure of getting to Wu's laboratory.
"Just got the samples, I still don't think it'll be enough."
"I know, I'll get more. Also I need to talk to you in private."
"Alright."
We head off into the private conversation room and shut the door. Wu pours himself some tea.
"I need you to set aside DNA materials, I want to start upgrading Rexy."
He stops right as he's about to take a sip, "I'm surprised you still take care of that thing, she's way too aggressive."
"That's what I need out there. Something aggressive, something that won't backdown or fall as Hoskins' army pulls up at the front door. She's a perfect candidate."
"So what's your plan? Throw and untamed and undomesticated Tyrannosaurus onto the beach and hope Hoskins doesn't just lead it into the main park? Once she's loose how are we going to contain her? Every attempt we made to capture a T.Rex of her physic ended in countless deaths. She'd take down choppers, flip over jeeps, and crush anyone on motorcycle. They're experts in combat."
"My plan is to accustom myself to her. If I can prove myself to her then she could show some respect and consider not murdering me. If I do enough then she could see me as a pack member, then she'd protect and follow me."
"I'm sure that's not dangerous at all, she's about as friendly and accepting as an enraged cat."
"I know, it'll take a while before that will work out. If Hoskins attacks before then I have a plan B."
There was a long pause before Wu sighed.
"So what kind of upgrades?"
"I'd like to get her as far as possible while still setting up my Quetzalcoatlus army. Dedicate 20% of all incoming resources to her."
"I'm guessing you'll be bringing her in tonight?"
"No, you should have her DNA on record.
I'm only bringing her in when you have perfected her next upgrade on a model. We can't just leave her in here or...."
"She'd escape and kill everyone."
"Exactly. Please get to work ASAP. Have the interns and stand in scientists to create the birds, I want you on Rexy's upgrades."
"Understood."
I walk back out to meet Owen as his bike.
"What now?"
"I don't know, I guess I'll get to work with Rexy."
"You sure you're ready for this?"
"Nope."