Inevitable // Zach Mitchell // [2]

Chapter Eight

Owen leads the way as we creep down various quiet hallways. The walls are covered in various pipes and plumbing.

As we're moving I notice that we're getting closer and closer to a large concentration of sounds, like someone speaking, people muttering and shouting, and the occasional dinosaur roar.

We turn a corner and move across the hall to a large vent that we can peek through. I look down and see a bunch of people sitting in chairs on either side of some sort of conveyor belt. One man is standing at a podium with a microphone in front of him and a monitor behind him. He's quite short and looks like he's wearing a toupee.

"Look who it is." Zach whispers in my ear while pointing at Mills sitting at a desk with a laptop in front of him.

I clench my jaw. This can't be good.

I then notice that most of the people sitting in the rows of seats are holding paddles with numbers on them.

"This is a freaking auction!" I whisper loud enough so the rest of our party can hear me.

Claire and Zach look shocked while Owen looks at me with worried eyes.

The short man at the podium starts to speak, "Ladies and gentlemen, now we will preview a new asset we've been developing. A creature of the future made from pieces of the past! Please be warned, this is the perfect blend of the two most dangerous creatures that have ever walked the earth. We call it, the Indoraptor."

Suddenly the two metal doors to his left open slowly and a large cage starts to emerge and move forward on the conveyor belt. Zach grabs my hand and my breath hitches in my throat.

This creature is the most terrifying thing I've ever seen. It has two long yellow stripes going down either side of its dark body, huge exposed teeth and red eyes. It looks like the definition of a monster.

"What is that thing?" Claire whispers with pure fear in her eyes.

The Indoraptor starts to roar and screech at the crowd while two men taser it from outside of its cage.

"They made it, Mr Mills and the other man." Maisie says while staring at the beast.

Zach furrows his brow, "What man?"

"Him." Maisie whispers as she points at a man sitting in the front row.

My eyes widen. I recognize him instantly as Henry Wu.

Traitor.

The auctioneer explains that the Indoraptor has a heightened sense of smell and that it is trained to respond to a pulse coded laser targeting system, enabling it to isolate and track prey in complex environments.

Owen's eyes noticeablely widen and his shoulders tense up. He probably feels guilty that some of his research helped them to create this monstrosity.

The auctioneer then nods at a man in front of him holding a machine gun, the gun man raises his weapon and aims it a man sitting in the front row across from him, the red dot of the laser mounted to the gun is clearly visible on his tie.

"Now first the laser sets the target, once locked on the acoustic signal triggers the attack!" The auctioneer grins.

The gun man then presses a little button on the side of his weapon that causes a sound to emit from it. The Indoraptor freaks out and does everything in its power to attack the man in the front row. It claws and snaps through the bars. This thing is vicious.

Suddenly a man in the audience starts to yell, "Twenty millions!"

I move my hand up to cover my mouth, they can't actually sell this thing! The repercussions would be catastrophic.