Tales from Jurassic World

16- Mastermind

"Emily, it's down."
She came out from her hiding spot and looked at the thing.
"Is it dead?"
"Nope, I found this thing," I held up the Tranquilizer gun.
"Where'd you find that?"
"In the room where he kicked me through the glass of."
"I've got to ask, how do you so easily dodge the attacks of the animals like that?"
"Firstly practice, but secondly I am very dexterous."
"Yeah, but isn't there some kind of secret."
"I guess, just lock eyes with them and after enough practice you know the signals."
Suddenly the PA system came on.
*clap* *clap* *clap*
Someone was slowly clapping on the other end.
"Well done you two, well done. Shouldn't have expect anymore from the manager of Jurassic World himself."
It was Hoskins' voice.
"Now you see, I DID know all about your little deal with these guys. I was going to ignore it, but my employer insisted that I interfere. I still didn't want to, so he did it himself. Using a man on the inside he unleashed the Smilodon and then opened up all the animal cages from the master control room."
"What do you want Hoskins."
"Like I said, I'm not the man who wants to do this. If you want to talk to my employer then here he is."
There was a pause before a deep voiced older man spoke, "Hello there."
I heard a noise come from Emily and her pupils shrunk at the sound of the voice.
"Father?"
"I honestly didn't expect you to be here Emily, thought you'd have too much paperwork to do. Guess I was wrong, now I have the chance to take you both down and send that Park into absolute chaos."
"What kind of monster would sacrifice his own daughter?!" I shout angrily.
"That disobedient rat deserves what she gets, she abandoned her family and heritage."
"Of what? Being amoral greedy monsters like you? I'll pass."
"Then you shall die, simple. I thought I'd raised you better than this. Serves me right."
"You're an absolute psychotic you know that?" I say.
"Don't you go on insulting me now Mr... never actually got your name."
"Nobody has."
"Since you're going to die why not just tell me?"
"Sure, my full name is Go Fuck Yourself."
"If that's how you want to play it I'll just refer to you as moron from here on out, alright."
"No..."
"Moron it is then."
"One day I'll dig out your eyeballs with a spoon you deranged bastard."
"Clam down there sweety, no need to be so aggressive."
"FUCK YOU!!!!!!"
"Moron and Emily, shut your mouths. I'm sick of this little verbal game. All around this place and through the forest are the Ice Age creatures once housed in the building. Due to their shock collars they cannot go too far, but they've all been trained to follow a beeping signal which I have just activated in this very room. The minute those doors open, every manner of bear, cat, and everything else will tear you to shreds. Have fun."
The PA system turned off.
"What are we going to do?"
I quickly spin around looking for a way out, I spot a ventilation grate in the top corner of the room.
"There!"
"There? It's like 20 feet off the ground, how will we reach that?"
"A little creativity."
I motioned for her to follow and we jump into the room with the shattered glass.
"Pull all this stuff of the shelf and we'll use this!"
"That's not going to be enough..."
"JUST DO IT AND STOP ARGUING!!!"
A little taken back by my anger she complies and helps me push everything off the shelf. Then we both pick it up and push it through the open window. We do this for 4 more shelves and then, with a little ingenuity, stack them up.
"It's still too high!"
"Wait, get on my shoulders."
"You're right!!!"
She climbs on my shoulders and she can reach the grate. With a coin from her pocket she unscrews it and throws it to the floor.
"Hoskins!!! They're getting away!!! Open those doors now!!!... I don't care!!!"
Emily pulls herself into the duct and leans back down for me. The doors open letting in numerous carnivorous prehistoric mammals that all notice me and charge. With all her strength Emily pulls me up. I do my best to use my feet to kick the shelf onto an Andrewsarchus that was climbing up.
With on last big pull she gets me into the vent and we back away quickly from the opening as the Andrewsarchus sticks his head into the opening trying to bite us.
"GODDAMMIT!!! LOCK DOWN THE FACILITY, THEY'RE NOT LEAVING THAT BUILDING ALIVE!!!"