Attack on Prime Future Anthology: Jurassic Park
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Summary: The Survey Corps and Autobots watch Jurassic Park.
“What’s all this?” Armin couldn’t help but ask as they all stared at the sight before them. Bumblebee and Bulkhead were setting up some giant balloon wall with a white sheet in the middle of it while Jack, Miko, Arcee, and Smokescreen were setting up chairs.
“Movie Night,” Rafael answered as he typed away on his laptop, “We’re going to watch a movie together.”
Gabi groaned. “Is the movie going to be full of commercials? Sometimes when we watch T.V. and there’s a movie on, it always cuts to a commercial when it’s getting good.”
“No ads.” Rafael waved around a DVD in his fingers, “Got the DVD on me, so we get to watch the full movie with no ads.”
“Yes,” Gabi quietly cheered.
“Oh, are the Autobots going to join us?!” Hanji asked with excitement.
“Yep! We made sure to get seats for everyone!” Miko exclaimed.
“Well, except for Optimus and Ultra Magnus,” Arcee added.
“Huh, why not?” Falco asked in surprise.
“Ultra Magnus has a meeting he needs to attend with the council,” Smokescreen explained, “There’s been a huge fallback with the whole Cyclonus situation and there’s been a bunch of damage control and PR relations he’s had to deal with.”
Hanji grinned. “I bet that ‘Con is seething right now.”
“He’s going to be put on trial soon since he fully recovered from his wound,” Smokescreen informed, causing Mikasa to dart her eyes away in embarrassment.
“But how come Optimus won’t come?” Gabi asked.
“Primes don’t party,” Arcee answered.
“Have you ever asked him?” Mikasa asked.
“Multiple times in the past. He always said no. Why do you think Wheeljack and I didn’t invite Optimus for our movie nights?” Arcee reminded.
“Aw! You guys did movie nights!” Miko teased.
“That can’t be the reason!” Colt was in disbelief, “We had a snowball fight with him months ago! I’m sure he’d be interested in a movie!”
“We tried to show him a funny gif that Ratchet laughed at and he just bluntly stated no,” Jack recalled, “Sure, Optimus is kind and compassionate, but maybe he’s not interested in the things we’re interested in.”
“Well, maybe because Optimus was burden with an inordinate amount of responsibility. And now he doesn’t really have them,” Hanji challenged, “I’m sure he’d want to relax now.”
“Optimus is a little busy right now with the world leaders,” Arcee informed, “It’ll probably take up the rest of the day.”
Hanji narrowed their eyes before taking out their comm. link. “Bet.”
“Hanji, what are you doing?!” Jack yelled at them.
“Did you just say ‘Bet’?” Levi asked in annoyance.
==
Optimus was infuriatingly annoyed with this meeting, but no one in the room could tell. He just kept a neutral face as some of the world leaders kept making ridiculous demands that weren’t going to help anyone. He tuned most of it out. Only one that he was really listening to was Mother Teresea, but even he was having his suspicions about her considering the people she’s aligned with.
Optimus blinked in confusion when he heard his comm. link activate. The other Autobots should know he was in this meeting.
“Heyyyy Optimus,” The Prime almost sighed in defeat at the sound of Hanji’s voice.
“Commander, you know that I am busy,” Optimus whispered.
“With your meeting that you don’t like participating in?” Hanji teased.
“…What is it?” Optimus asked.
“Wanna watch a movie?” Hanji bluntly asked.
“A moment.” He addressed the world leaders before stepping out of the room, “This is what you called me for?”
“It’d be fun~.” He noticed that suggestive tone in their voice, “Besides, I doubt that meeting is any fun.”
Optimus wanted to sigh at that. Hanji did bring up a good point. Even now, he could hear their racist and xenophobic remarks now that he wasn’t in the room. “What time will the movie start?”
“Uh what time does the movie start?” Optimus heard surprised background chatter on the other end of Hanji’s line. No doubt the Autobots, “Think you can be here in thirty minutes.”
“…forty-five minutes,” Optimus informed.
“Alright! See you then!” Hanji hung up and Optimus rubbed his optic. Forty-five minutes. Should be enough time to wrap things up.
==
“He said yes?!” Miko gawked.
“He can’t say no to lil’ old me!” Hanji batted their eyelashes, “Oh can Megatron come?!”
“NO!” The Autobots shouted.
“C’mon! He won’t bite!” Hanji insisted.
“I’m still pissed at him! And when the opportunity arises I’m going to disable his damn T-Cog for a whole week!” Rafael shouted.
“Are you sure that Megatron isn’t using you? Manipulating you?” Smokescreen asked.
“If anything, Hanji’s been the one that’s manipulating him,” Arcee proclaimed.
“Right, I forgot about the memories,” Smokescreen mumbled.
==
Later
“Okay, I brought the rust sticks and the high grade!” Wheeljack held up both containers containing each other as everyone began sitting down.
“Oh! What’s a rust stick?!” Hanji asked in surprise.
“Think of it like beef jerky,” Bumblebee informed as he sat down on the ground.
“Erwin…what the hell are you doing?” Levi demanded, seeing Erwin sitting down in a bean bag chair.
Erwin merely shrugged in reply. “Seemed fun.”
“We got the popcorn and drinks.” Jack pointed to the table full of food.
“OH! That all looks so good!” Sasha exclaimed.
“Don’t take too much,” Jean warned her.
“So what movie are we going to be watching today?” Armin asked Rafael.
“A classic. Jurassic Park,” Rafael explained as he put the DVD into his laptop.
“Oh, the movie with the dinosaurs in it?” Colt asked.
“You know what a dinosaur is?!” Rafael asked in surprise.
“What’s a dinosaur?!” Rafael yelped when Hanji appeared right behind his laptop.
“It’s a giant lizard like animal with claws and sharp teeth,” Colt explained.
“OH! That sounds so cool!” Hanji exclaimed.
“Despite the existence of titans, archeologists did find bones that clearly never belonged to them and predated the Titan era,” Pieck explained, “I’ve only heard about them through the Marleyan chatter, but I never got to see the bones in person.”
“Well now you’ll get to see recreations of it for the big screen,” Rafael declared.
“Is it the one with the guy training those velociraptors?” Falco asked.
“That’s Jurassic Worl-?! How are you watching these movies?!” Rafael demanded.
“We get bored and we have to fill up our time!” Gabi yelled.
“So this movie is about a park full of these things called dinosaurs?!” Hanji slapped their hands atop the table.
“Well there’s a deeper story about the ethics of bringing back things that are dead for entertainment-!”
“Levi, we could’ve had a park of titans! With Sawney and Bean being the stars!” Hanji shouted.
“Hanji, what the hell?!” Levi demanded.
“There wouldn’t be enough money in the budget for that,” Erwin declared.
“Boo!” Hanji jeered.
Later, Optimus stepped out of the groundbridge, letting it close behind him as he saw the Autobots and humans sitting down and getting ready for the movie. Optimus spotted a vacant spot with a blanket next to Bumblebee and quietly sat down next to the Autobot. However, his movements still alerted the Autobots, and they all turned to see him. They were all flabbergasted, clearly never imagining their boss coming to a small gathering, and to watch a movie no less.
“Optimus, you made it!” Armin greeted with a smile.
“Yes, I was able to complete my task,” Optimus informed them.
“…Not gonna lie, it’s so weird seeing you here,” Jack admitted.
“Nah, this is a dream come true!” Miko exclaimed.
“I told you, all you had to do was ask!” Hanji proclaimed.
“We have asked in the past!” Bumblebee retorted.
Bulkhead looked over at Optimus and handed him a few rust sticks. “Want some?” Bulkhead was surprised to see Optimus’ optics light up, just a little bit.
“Thank you.” The Prime took the snack from his servos before quietly eating one of them.
“Alright, I’m getting ready to start the movie!” Rafael informed as he inserted the DVD into his laptop and played the footage. Whoever was still over at the snack bar quickly rushed to take their seats.
When the movie started, the audience was met with silence and tension. It was late at night. Men in uniforms were standing in front of a metal facility of some kind, with large tasers and guns in their hands. A construction vehicle was transporting a large crate of some kind.
“’Isla Nubar?’” Colt asked in confusion.
“The geographical locations should matter too much in understanding the full movie,” Jack reassured.
“But there will still be pop culture reference you won’t understand. We’ll probably have to explain it to you,” Miko proclaimed.
“Is the dinosaur inside that box? Do we get to see it?!” Hanji asked.
“Just let the movie play out,” Wheeljack advised.
When one of the workers opened the crate to let the animal go into the facility, the crate got knocked back by the creature, leaving an opening for the creature inside the crate to grab the worker and try to drag him inside to devour him. The others desperately tried to taze the creature to get it to let the man go, but it wouldn’t budge. Through the chaos, the audience managed to catch a glimpse of the predator in the cage, scales and a narrow pupil. One man clinging to the worker for dear life shouted at the others to ‘shoot her’ twice. And as the hand of the worker slowly went limp, the scene cut to a man in a suit, standing on a raft in a river getting pulled along by the local natives.
“There’s a bit of a mystery to this. Like with the titans,” Armin commented.
“Have you guys really not read up on dinosaurs?” Jack asked in surprise.
“That’s clearly the last thing on our minds,” Annie reminded, “Why should we care about animals that are dead?”
“Because they were once alive,” Optimus replied.
A few of the Autobots stared in surprised while Annie just hummed in response.
“Boss! Boss! We found another mosquito!” Armin flinched at the words spoken on the screen. He was certain that it was in Spanish, but it still sounded like it was his own language.
“Are you sure?”
“Yes, come on.”
“So what are they mining for?” Falco asked.
“Didn’t you watch Jurassic World?” Rafael demanded.
“We were still confused at some of the stuff they were talking about! The science was so advanced!” Gabi retorted.
The camera zoomed in on the mosquito frozen in the amber.
“A bug? Are you serious?” Levi demanded.
“You’ll find out why in a bit, just shush!” Miko hushed them.
The setting changed from the underground mines to a barren desert. An excavation team was working out brushing the sand off of the bones of a dead dinosaur. A man off screen had called the names of two of the archeologist digging up the bones. A man named Grant and a woman named Sattler. The duo walked over to the tent and watched as the bones of an animal appeared on the screen.
“This new program's incredible. A few more years' development and we won't even have to dig anymore.”
“Where's the fun in that?” Dr. Grant chuckled.
“Hanji, are you taking notes?!” Jean demanded as Hanji pulled out a notebook and pen.
“What?! This is good information!” Hanji insisted as they began to write.
“The movie was made in 1993, so a lot of the stuff on dinosaurs that we’ve found out about has already been updated and changed,” Jack explained.
“Apparently they think dinosaurs had feathers instead of scales,” Miko recalled.
“Well I’m still gonna write it!” Hanji declared as they scribbled down their notes.
“That doesn’t look very scary!” A boy called out from the back of the crowd, causing everyone to turn to him, “More like a six foot turkey.”
The crowd laughed, but Dr. Grant saw this and grinned at the opportunity. “A turkey, huh?”
“Oh no, here we go,” Dr. Sattler sighed.
“Okay.” Dr. Grant approached the boy. “Try to imagine yourself in the Cretaceous period. You get your first look at this "six foot turkey" as you enter a clearing. He moves like a bird, lightly, bobbing his head -- and you keep still because you think that maybe his visual acuity is based on movement, like a T. rex, and he'll lose you if you don't move. But no, not Velociraptor. You stare at him... and he just stares right back. And that's when the attack comes not from the front, but from the side.” The archaeologist brought his two fingers together as a visual. “From the other two raptors you didn't even know were there. Because Velociraptor's a pack hunter, you see. He uses coordinated attack patterns, and he is out in force today. And he slashes at you with this.” Dr. Grant pulled out a long, curved, claw from his pocket, causing the boy to gawk at it. “A six-inch, retractable claw, like a razor, on the middle toe. He doesn't bother to bite your jugular like a lion, see? No, no. He slashes at you here.” He pretends to slash the boy's mid-torso. “Or here.” Then the boy's groin.
“Oh, Alan...” Dr. Sattler sighed in disapproval.
“Or maybe across the belly, spilling your intestines. The point is, you are alive, when they start to eat you. So ya know, try to show a little respect.” Dr. Grant warned.
“…well now I’m invested in this! I don’t know science but I do love animals!” Sasha grinned.
As Dr. Grant and Dr. Sattler continued their conversation about the downsides of having children, a helicopter flew onto the jobsite, nearly blowing away all of their equipment. Dr. Grant tried to tell them to stop, but the pilot merely pointed to their RV. Dr. Grant rushed inside to find an old man in all white popping the cork off of a champagne bottle.
“Who in God’s name do you think you are?” Dr. Grant demanded as he got in the old man’s face.
“John Hammond, and I'm delighted to meet you finally in person, Dr. Grant.” Hammond shook his finger before blowing away the sand and dust that was on there. “So I can see, my fifty thousand a year has been well spent!”
“Hammond…Hammond…” Dr. Grant mumbled.
“Okay who is this jerk?!” Dr. Sattler stormed into the RV.
“So why are they talking about this guy like he’s a big shot?” Jean asked.
“Oh wait! He was mentioned in th-!” Gabi yelped when Miko quickly covered her mouth.
“No spoilers!” Smokescreen warned.
==
“So who’s this guy?” Bulkhead asked as the scientist sprayed the shaving cream onto his hand after Dodgson revealed the embryo container hidden within the bottle.
“He’s the human antagonist for the movie: Dennis Nedry,” Jack explained.
“Human antagonist?” Erwin questioned in confusion.
“Usually when it comes to stories battling monsters, or nature, writers feel the need to add a human antagonist in the mix in order to help get the plot going or cause more drama,” Jack explained.
“But the dinosaurs are the focus!” Hanji retorted.
“But it’s human nature that made them,” Jack reminded.
“Does he die?” Levi asked bluntly, “He’s an asshole.”
“Spoilers,” Bumblebee commented.
==
“You'll have to get used to Dr. Malcolm. He suffers from a deplorable excess of personality, especially for a mathematician,” Hammond introduced the person now chewing gum.
“Chaotician! Chaotician, actually,” Dr. Malcolm corrected, “John doesn't subscribe to chaos, particularly what it says about his little science project.”
“Codswallop, Ian. You've never been able to sufficiently explain your concerns--!”
“Oh, ho, John, John, because of the behavior of the system in phase space?”
“How many characters are in this movie?” Erwin asked, “Shouldn’t they have all been introduced earlier?”
“The actual conflict of the movie hasn’t started yet, so this is the perfect time to still introduce characters,” Rafael informed.
“I suppose,” Erwin replied.
==
Dr. Grant stared in disbelief at something that was completely off screen. He took off his hat and glasses as he scrambled to stand up to look at what was in front of him. Dr. Sattler rambled on about the extinct plant she was holding, causing Dr. Grant to grab her head and force her to look at the sight before them. Dr. Sattler then scrambled to look out the jeep herself and gawked at the sight of a long neck dinosaur walking in front of them, making noise and some branches that were in its mouth.
“Whoa! That looks so cool!” Sasha smiled.
“I want one!” Hanji squealed.
“Meh, the effects were better in the other movie,” Gabi shrugged.
Miko smacked her in the back of the head. “This is a classic! We don’t speak ill of classic!”
“Alright! God!” Gabi rubbed the back of her head.
“It’s so odd to see something that big seem so friendly,” Mikasa commented, causing Armin to hum in agreement.
“How fast are they?” Dr. Grant asked
“Well we clocked the T-Rex at 32 miles an hour,” Hammond answered as he walked up to them.
“T-T-Rex?” Dr. Sattler stammered, “You’ve said you got a T-Rex.”
Hammond nodded as Dr. Grant grabbed his shoulder. “Say again.”
Hammond chucked. “We have a T-Rex!”
Dr. Grant nearly fainted from the news while Dr. Sattler tried her best to keep him upright.
“Dr. Grant, my dear Dr. Sattler, welcome to Jurassic Park!” Hammond introduced the park.
Dr. Grant and Dr. Sattler looked on in awe at the sight of multiple dinosaurs walking around in such a massive field and a huge body of water.
“I want them all!” Hanji screeched.
“Nice to see humans also be passionate about dinosaurs,” Wheeljack grinned.
“I feel like you’d do something like this,” Arcee commented, “And then Magnus would stop you.”
“Probably,” Wheeljack shrugged.
Bumblebee couldn’t help but glance over at Optimus to see what his reaction was to the movie, and he was surprised to find his former leader engrossed into the footage. It almost reminded him of a little kid….it was oddly nice.
==
“From your blood!” the animated DNA cartoon explained, “Just one drop of your blood contains billions of strands of DNA, the building blocks of life. A DNA strand, like me, is a blueprint for building a living thing. And sometimes animals that went extinct millions of years ago, like dinosaurs, left their blueprints behind for us to find. We just had to know where to look. A hundred million years ago, there were mosquitoes - just like today - and just like today, they fed on the blood of animals. Even dinosaurs. Sometimes after biting a dinosaur, the mosquito would land on the branch of a tree and get stuck in the sap. After a long time, the tree sap would get hard, and become fossilized just like a dinosaur bone, preserving the mosquito inside.”
“Oh that explains why they were mining for that earlier!” Hanji realized.
“Is this all actually true?” Armin asked.
“Some of it is,” Rafael answered.
“If we looked at screens like these once a second for eight hours a day, it'd take two years to look at the entire DNA strand,” The cartoon continued, “It's that long. Since it's so old, it's full of holes. Now, that's where our geneticists take over. Thinking machine supercomputers and gene sequencers break down the strand in minutes, and virtual reality displays show our geneticists the gaps in the DNA sequence. We use the complete DNA of a frog to fill in the... holes... and complete the... code! Phew! And now we can make a baby dinosaur.”
“Well that just seems like a recipe for disaster,” Annie crudely commented.
==
Hanji giggled excitedly when the dinosaur hatched from the egg Dr. Henry Wu was showing the others.
“Oh, before you guys knew where titans came from, what was the working theory on how there were so many?” Jack asked.
“I had the theory of humanity not being extinct, but I was never sure how the titans were created until we heard about the Colossal and Armored Titan,” Erwin explained, “Although, many people thought the titans were gods once.”
“Well considering the information we know now,” Jean mumbled.
“Kinda thought they got vomited out,” Levi admitted, “They can’t screw each other and they don’t have assholes to shit them out, so.”
“Gross,” Annie commented.
==
“Oh! It’s the guy from earlier!” Sasha pointed out, “The one that was trying to save the worker!”
“They show extreme intelligence. Even problem-solving intelligence. Especially the big one. We bred eight originally, but when she came in, she took over the pride and killed all but two of the others. That one... when she looks at you, you can see she's working things out. That's why we have to feed them like this. She had them all attacking the fences when the feeders came,” Muldoon explained.
“But the fences are electrified though, right?” Dr. Sattler asked.
“That's right, but they never attack the same place twice. They were testing the fences for weaknesses, systematically. They remember,” Muldoon declared.
Some of the audience members squirmed at the sight of the emptied and bloodied harness holding the cow. Others didn’t seem to care.
“I’ve seen worse,” Arcee shrugged.
==
“Yeah, I know. They're a lot worse,” Dr. Malcom declared.
“Now, wait a second now. We haven't even seen the park yet. There's no reason-!”
“Donald, Donald, let him talk. There's no reason. I want to hear every viewpoint. I really do,” Hammond reassured Donald.
“Yeah, don't you see the danger, John, inherent in what you're doing here? Genetic power is the most awesome force the planet's ever seen, but you wield it like a kid that's found his dad's gun,” Dr. Malcolm accused.
“It's hardly appropriate to start hurling generalizations-!” Donald tried to interject.
“Uh, just, just, if I may; I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here: It didn't require any discipline to attain it. You know, you read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility... for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could. And before you even knew what you had, you patented it, and packaged it, and slapped it on a plastic lunch box, and now!” Dr. Malcolm slammed his fist into the table, “You're selling it, you're gonna sell it. Well-!”
“I don't think you're giving us our due credit. Our scientists have done things which nobody has ever done before,” Hammond reminded.
“Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should,” Dr. Malcom emphasized.
“Condors. Condors are on the verge of extinction.”
“No.”
“No, no! If I was to create a flock of condors on this island, you wouldn't have anything to say.”
“No, hold on. This isn't some species that was obliterated by deforestation or the building of a dam. Dinosaurs had their shot, and nature selected them for extinction.”
“I simply don't understand this Luddite attitude, especially from a scientist! I mean, how can we stand in the light of discovery and not act?” Hammond demanded.
“Oh, what's so great about discovery? It's a violent, penetrative act that scars what it explores. What you call discovery, I call the rape of the natural world,” Dr. Malcolm answered him.
“Well, the question is, how can you know anything about an extinct ecosystem?” Dr. Sattler chimed in, “And therefore, how could you ever assume that you can control it? You have plants in this building that are poisonous. You picked them because they look good. But these are aggressive living things that have no idea what century they're in and they will defend themselves violently, if necessary.”
“Dr. Grant, if there's one person here, who can appreciate what I'm trying to do...?” Hammond turned to Dr. Grant, hoping to get his support.
“The world has just changed so radically, and we're all running to catch up. I don't want to jump to any conclusions, but look; dinosaurs and man. Two species separated by sixty-five million years of evolution have just been suddenly thrown back into the mix together. How can we possibly have the slightest idea, what to expect?” Dr. Grant asked.
“It’s a good thing that titans don’t leave any remains behind. Someone might be stupid enough to try and do the same thing that Hammond is doing,” Pieck declared.
“But Hammond is not doing this with a nefarious purpose. He does seem genuine in his love of dinosaurs,” Armin retorted.
“Yeah, they changed him from the book. He was originally an asshole,” Miko commented.
“It’s a blind love at best and ignorance at worst,” Pieck declared, “We’ve all seen titans being used as weapons first hand, and this man brought back a species too big for the world. Who’s to say what cruel humans could do with that information?”
“…I think that gets answered in the other movie,” Falco recalled to break the tension.
The movie progressed. Two children, Hammond’s grandchildren Lex and Tim, were introduced as they ran down the stairs to hug their grandfather. The cast, excluding Hammond, began their tour of the park in Jeeps attached to tracks. However, the tour wasn’t as exciting for the guests as they had hoped, as they have yet to see some of the star dinosaurs they dreamed all their lives about. Dr. Malcolm even mocked Hammond for it through the camera before talking about chaos theory, which confused Dr. Sattler. The other provided a demonstration using water, until Dr. Grant notices something in the grass and jumps out of the moving vehicle. In the control room, Muldoon complained about the lack of locks on the vehicles while Nedry spots the ship meant to pick him up on the camera before looking at the can he was given earlier.
As the characters ran through the grass, they found a group of veterinarians attending to a female Triceratops, heavily breathing on her side.
“Oh, my god. Hi baby. Hey baby girl. Hey,” Dr. Sattler cooed at the creature before approaching it to check its conditions.
“She was always my favorite when I was a kid, and now I see she's the most beautiful thing I ever saw,” Dr. Grant marveled with a smile.
As Dr. Sattler continued to examine the dinosaur, Dr. Grant laid down on its stomach, smiling like a little kid when he felt her breathing.
“I don’t know if I’ve said this, but it’s nice to see two people actually enjoy doing their jobs,” Bumblebee remarked.
“It’s refreshing and makes them likeable,” Rafael declared.
“But why do the kids have to be there?” Jean asked.
“Appeals to a child audience,” Arcee answered.
“Cannon fodder,” Annie gave her own answer.
“To give character development to Alan,” Colt answered, “They did something similar in the other movie.”
==
The storm had come and encapsulated the island. Dr. Sattler elected to stay with the Triceratops while the rest of the cast made their way back to the main compound. Nedry takes the chances to sneak away and steal the embryos, creating a power outage as a distraction for Hammond and the others. The doors shut down, the electrical fence holding the dinosaurs in shuts down as well. Nedry makes his escape, causing more damage to the power grid in the process. Hammond and Arnold tried to restore the power grid, until Hammond realized something horrid in his gut: where did the Jeeps stop?
The Jeeps had stopped in front of the T-Rex enclosure, the goat still active and alive. Malcolm and Grant were having their own conversation on what was going on while Tim, Lex, and Donald were in the other Jeep. Tim began to mess with the night-vision goggles, until he notices something. Vibrations were seen in the water cups as the goat was now completely gone. The leg of the goat crashed into the car as the three occupants stared in horror at the sight of the T-Rex eating the rest.
“OHHHHHHHH!” Hanji screamed.
“That thing is huge!” Sasha smiled.
Donald fled to the bathroom, leaving the two children alone in the car as the T-Rex climbed out of its enclosure and onto the road, letting out a mighty roar.
“Boy, do I hate being right all the time.” Malcolm stared at the titan in fear.
Grant and Malcolm keep absolutely still as the T-Rex slowly approached them, Grant stating that the vision of the creature was based on movement.
“Is that actually true?” Armin asked.
“It’s just movie crap. Ignore it,” Rafael answered.
The T-Rex turned its attention to the children, Lex trying desperately to turn off the light she had turned on by mistake. The creature attacks the car, trying to grab the kids but failing to do so by sheer luck. The car gets flipped over and the children scream in terror as they sink into the mud.
“Average titan experience,” Hanji shrugged, causing Levi to hum in agreement, “Still looks very cool!”
Grant and Malcolm get out of the cars and ignite the flares they had grabbed from the back seat. Malcolm ends up luring the T-Rex away, allowing Grant to go after the children. However, the T-Rex knocks into Malcolm, causing him to crash into the bathroom Donald was hiding in. Donald pleaded for his life, but it was useless as T-Rex chomped down on his body and devoured him.
“Get wrecked!” Gabi shouted at the screen.
Grant then tries desperately to save both children. He managed to get Lex out from under the Jeep, but Tim was still stuck. The T-Rex returned, trying to move the car around to get to Tim while Lex and Grant were barely missing its line of sight. Grant and Lex were later forced to climb down a wire into the T-Rex enclosure as the T-Rex knocked the car over the edge, just barely missing the two.
Meanwhile, Nedry was trying to escape to the ship, but his car got stuck in the mud and the rain. He tried to fish the car out, but was cornered by another dinosaur. It spit acid in his face, causing him to scream and cry out in pain, making him drop the can containing the embryos. Nedry climbed into the car and locked the door behind him, but the dinosaur had snuck inside the vehicle. Its skin flapped upward and it hissed before devouring the man alive.
“All that work, for nothing,” Jean commented.
“Well something needs to get the plot going,” Miko retorted.
“Well good riddance to that scumbag,” Levi declared.
As the movie continued, Grant continued to form a closer bond to the children he was protecting, doing everything in his power to get them to safety, forming a bond with them and developing a soft spot for the children, and showing them that some dinosaurs did not have to be feared. They were just animals. Meanwhile, Sattler and Muldoon went to rescue Malcolm, escaping the jaws of the T-Rex via car. When safe, Hammond tries to reason with himself on how to correct the park, but Sattler tells him the bitter truth: it couldn’t be contained. The control over something like this was just an illusion, and that they needed to save as many people as possible.
However Grant discovered something horrifying the next morning.
“You know what this is? It's a dinosaur egg. The dinosaurs are breeding,” Grant declared.
“But... my grandpa said all the dinosaurs were girls,” Time retorted.
“Amphibian DNA,” Grant realized.
“What's that?” Lex asked.
“Well, on the tour, the film said they used frog DNA to fill in the gene sequence gaps. They mutated the dinosaurs' genetic code and blended it with that of frogs. Now... some West African frogs are known to spontaneously change sex from male to female in a single-sex environment.” Grant chuckled. “Malcolm was right. Look.”
The three spotted the trail of dinosaur footprints leading away from the nest.
“Life found a way,” Grant proclaimed.
“Look at that Hanji. There’s your proof that you don’t fuck with shit like this!” Levi yelled.
“But-!”
“The story keeps beating you over the head with this message! Come on!” Levi yelled.
“Okay! Fine!...the movie has some points,” Hanji grumbled in defeat.
“Thank you!” Levi exclaimed.
Hammond began to formulate a dangerous plan to help possibly restore the power, much to the protest of one of the other characters, Arnold. But Hammond is forceful, and Arnold relents once Sattler and Muldoon agree to the plan. Grant then protects both Lex and Tim from a stampede of dinosaur, witnessing one of the smaller dinosaurs getting eaten by the T-Rex that escaped its enclosure. Muldoon and Sattler are hunted by Velociraptors, and and Muldoon urges her to make it to the maintenance room while he stays behind to hold them off. Sattler manages to turn the power back on, but at that moment, Tim was trying to climb down the electric fence the trio had managed to find. The current shocked the boy and he falls right on top of Grant. Grant starts to give the boy CPR to save his life, while Arnold was killed off screen by a raptor that had tried to ambush Sattler, evident by the bloodied arm that slumped down onto her shoulder. Meanwhile Muldoon slowly walks through the jungle, spotting a Velociraptor in the foliage. He approached it slowly, aiming his rifle to shoot it down, but he spotted another Velociraptor on his left, too close flee from.
“Clever girl.” Muldoon uttered his final words as he is devoured off screen by the predator.
“It’s like Grant said. They hunt in three’s and they ambush on the sides,” Armin recalled.
“Good callback,” Jack praised.
Grant manages to save Tim’s life through CPR, and he and the children, along with Sattler managed to regroup and the kids finally get the chance to eat. However, that moment of peace was short-lived when the Velociraptors began to hunt all four of them down. They managed to the control room, but one of the Velociraptors had managed to figure out how to open doors, and tried to show its way inside the room. Grant and Sattler desperately pushed the door shut while Lex hacked into the Unix system to get everything working again and send an S.O.S. signal. Lex managed to do it, but the Velociraptor managed to break inside the room. The four of them climbed up into the vents to escape the predator as it nearly caught one of them by destroying one of the openings. Lex was pulled back into the ventilation system at the last minute before the predator could chomp down on her leg.
“You know, this could really go for a horror movie,” Sasha remarked.
The four arrive at the visitor’s center and begin climbing down the skeletons on display. One of the Velociraptors was waiting for them, and it jumped onto one of the skeletons. They all scrambled to get down as the skeletal structure collapsed, nearly killing Tim in the process. They managed to make it down and try to run, but they are cornered by the second Velociraptor. They are cornered, there’s no way out, until the T-Rex managed to swoop in and eat one of the Velociraptors.
“Wait, how the frag did the T-Rex get inside without anyone noticing?!” Arcee exclaimed.
“Movie bullshit,” Rafael answered.
The humans take the chance to run outside while the dinosaurs are distracted, seeing Hammond driving up in a Jeep with an injured but alive Malcolm.
“Mr. Hammond, after careful consideration... I have decided not to endorse your park,” Grant declared as they all scrambled to jump inside.
“So have I,” Hammond agreed before hitting the gas and driving away as fast as possible. The remaining Velociraptor was killed by the T-Rex, before the bigger dinosaur roared. The banner that hung atop of the ceiling fell to the ground, emphasizing the words “When Dinosaurs ruled the Earth”.
“At least they made it,” Mikasa said.
“But a lot of people died in this movie,” Smokescreen added.
As the survivors made it to the helicopter, Hammond stopped when he heard the cries of the dinosaurs that he created. He stared solemnly at the park he worked so hard to create. Grant lets him linger a little longer before grabbing him by the arm and pulling him onto the helicopter. The helicopter takes off away from the island and the movie ends.
“…I still think Jurassic World was better,” Gabi commented.
“Without Jurassic Park, that movie would have never existed!”
“That was still a really great movie,” Armin spoke up.
“Thank you!” Miko yelled.
“That was such a great movie! Morbid message though,” Hanji mumbled.
“It’s morbid cause it’s telling you what not to do,” Levi hissed.
“We really need to watch more movies,” Jean declared while Sasha nodded in agreement.
“Sasha, I think you’ll really like the Predator franchise,” Miko grinned.
“Predator you say?” Sasha’s ears perked up at that.
“Soooo, how did you like the movie?” Bumblebee couldn’t help but ask Optimus. He was surprised to find that Optimus stayed the whole time, invested in the story and not even looking away at some of the gruesome moments.
“It was a good movie,” Optimus answered.
“Y-you…you’re kidding, right?” Smokescreen stammered.
“It’s an engaging story about the consequences of tampering with creation,” Optimus explained, “And it was conveyed very well through a scientific standpoint and action-oriented point-of-view.”
“Well…scrap. I guess if we knew you liked this, we probably would have invited you to more of these movie nights,” Bulkhead proclaimed.
“I probably would have declined given the war, but I would like to participate in more of these movie nights, if that is alright with you all,” Optimus requested.
“Hell yeah!” Miko cheered.
“Oh, I’ve been meaning to ask! Do you guys have dinosaurs?!” Hanji asked the Autobots.
“Like the movie, ehhh kinda.” Wheeljack moved his servo in a so-so gesture.
“The hell does kinda mean?” Levi demanded.
“Technically, they’re called Predacons, on records, and Predacons can actually fly,” Wheeljack explained, “Also Predacons are not considered extinct anymore.”
“What?!” Armin gasped.
“Really?!” Hanji squealed.
“Remember tall, dark, and scaly that grabbed you when you two tried to bust Megatron out?” Wheeljack reminded Hanji and Erwin, “He’s a Predacon clone.”
“NO WAY!” Hanji yelled.
Erwin recalled the brief interaction with the Predacon and remembered him stating he was created for the Decepticons. He didn’t expect him to be a living fossil.
“Yeah, Shockwave made him and two others from Predacon bones,” Wheeljack explained, “The rest were somehow born from the well.”
“Who’s Shockwave?” Pieck asked.
“For sanity’s sake, you don’t want to know,” Bulkhead answered.
“When was he created?” Mikasa asked.
“Near the end of the war,” Arcee answered, “He’s actually the youngest on the council. About four human Earth years.”
“He’s four?!” Hanji demanded, “That’s a baby! How is he acting like an adult?!”
“Clone and Cybertronians age differently,” Arcee answered.
“I wanna meet him again! I have questions!” Hanji yelled.
“I don’t think Predaking’s going to come back here,” Smokescreen declared, “He usually acts for the best interest of the Predacons. He’s super protective about them.”
“So then…why did he help us out?” Gabi asked.
Rafael shrugged. “Guess he’s got a softspark for kids.”
Vote in the new movie poll because I am not doing this movie night stuff four more times.
