We don’t conceive of sudden radical, irrational change as woven into the very fabric of existence. Yet I can assure you, it most assuredly is. And it’s happening right now.
—Dr. Ian Malcolm
Owen opened a door behind them. “Come on!”
The Indoraptor came roaring around the corner. Owen slammed the door, but the Indoraptor crashed against it, snapping its jaws. Pushing together, Owen and Claire managed to close the door and turn the lock.
“This way,” Maisie said.
In the sub-basement lab, Dr. Wu oversaw the packing of embryos and the Indominus bone, telling a technician to be careful. He grabbed another employee. “You—I need blood samples from the Raptor.”
The other employee was actually Franklin!
“Don’t stand there like an idiot,” Wu snapped. He pointed to a cabinet. “Get me a blood kit.” As Franklin rummaged in the cabinet, Wu went to Blue’s cage. Zia was nearby with her wrist handcuffed to a pipe.
“I need that animal’s blood,” Wu said to her.
Blue hissed at him with her claws out.
“Sure,” Zia said. “Go ahead.”
Wu reached toward Blue, but she snapped, nearly taking his hand off.
“Oh, by the way,” Zia added, “her blood is contaminated now.”
Putting on rubber gloves, Wu said, “I designed this animal myself. It’s pure.” He barked over his shoulder, “Kit, please!”
“Yeah,” Zia said, nodding, “but I gave her a blood transfusion from a T. rex. Not so pure anymore.”
Wu’s eyes opened wide with anger…then surprise as a needle plunged into his neck. Tranquilizers meant for dinosaurs coursed through his system. He groaned as he collapsed, falling through a tray of blood samples.
Standing over him was Franklin, who now looked different—brave, almost heroic.
Zia stared. “Who are you?”
“Same guy, different day!” Franklin said, grabbing Wu’s keys and unlocking Zia’s cuffs.
“Hey!” shouted a big guard. “Step away from the animal!”
As the guard moved toward them holding his gun, Zia reached behind her back and unbolted Blue’s cage door. Franklin saw what she was doing.
“I said get away from the cage! Now!”
Zia swung the door open. She and Franklin hid behind it for protection. Blue burst from the cage, killing the guard before he could get a shot off. More guards ran in and raised their guns, and Blue quickly dispatched them, but not before one of the guards fired a shot.
The guard’s stray bullet hit a nitrogen tank. BOOM! Gas filled the lab as Blue, Zia, and Franklin ran out. An alarm sounded. Lit displays warned: SYSTEM FAILURE.
Owen, Claire, and Maisie entered the darkened library, knowing Wheatley’s men and the Indoraptor were still in the mansion. Maisie pointed to a door at the other end of the large chamber.
They were halfway across when Owen held up his hand. They stopped. He’d seen a dying guard on the floor next to the Triceratops skeleton. His laser rifle was next to him. Suddenly, the guard was dragged behind the base of the statue.
The Indoraptor emerged. Done eating the guard, he now stalked Owen, Claire, and Maisie. They crawled around the base of the skeleton. Owen reached for the gun, but the dead guard’s radio crackled, catching the Indoraptor’s attention.
They looked up. The Indoraptor had climbed onto the Triceratops skeleton, claws gripping its horns.
He saw them again.
They ran. The Indoraptor launched after them! They climbed the spiral staircase that led to the mezzanine. The Indoraptor slammed into the bars encircling the staircase, trying to get at them. They scrambled up to the mezzanine. “This way!” Maisie cried.
She led them to a paneled wall in the corner, just as the Indoraptor climbed over the rail from below. Maisie pulled at the paneling, revealing a hidden door. Owen pushed Maisie and Claire through first before slipping in himself. Claire and Maisie hurried down a ladder into the dinosaur dioramas back on the first level.
Owen opened the door a tiny crack to see if the Indoraptor had followed them. Silence. Then…WHAM! The predator slammed himself against the door. Owen quickly climbed down the ladder with his heart racing.
Inside the row of dioramas, Owen found a set of switches and shut off the lights. It was dark and silent. They had no idea where the Indoraptor was.
“There’s a door at the other end,” Maisie whispered.
They made their way through the displays of dinosaurs. In the basement control room, the system rebooted itself, enabling backup power. Lights flickered on.
When Owen, Claire, and Maisie reached the door at the far end of the museum space, it was jammed. As Owen worked on opening it, the lights in the museum space turned on, one by one, until the space was fully illuminated.
Maisie peered at the glass, but because it was bright inside the diorama and dark outside, she could only see her own reflection. Then lightning flashed outside, and the Indoraptor’s face was lit up. He was right on the other side of the glass!
Maisie screamed as the Indoraptor smashed into the diorama!