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"Careful..."

The red hybrid acknowledged Indy's voice with a growl of his own, despite still hesitating all the while. He needed to level his confidence before taking his first step, otherwise he'd march straight into hell without thought or reason. And that wouldn't look so pleasant given his previous declaration of 'doing better to kill me'. So his three-toed talons coiled in anticipation, and his thick tail twitched, letting loose all his terrible intuitions.

And then he took his first step.

THOOM!

Red's jaws gritted together. Too heavy. Even with all the caution in the world, both the hybrid and Indy still felt the shallow tremors of his steps echoing the hall. The lights, too, wavered in response like chandeliers in an earthquake. Indy's tail twitched. This wasn't going to be so easy. Down went Red's horned head, struggling to fit the small gap between the ceiling and his horns. He took a second step, nearly scraping against the puddle, then went for a third. Red growled to himself, risking two extra steps and nearly tearing into the ceiling, before pausing at the region where the thrown ball sat. He studied it for a moment, careful not to accidentally slip into the indent of the ground, and carefully hobbled around it, making it to the other side. His red nostrils flared in relief.

Indy watched Red leisurely approach the other end of the hall, stab his horns into the closed-off wall, and twist. As soon as sparks flew, the door nearest to Red and the one behind Indy started to open. A breath of fresh, Californian wind rushed into Indy's nares, finally relieving her of the nature-less world she had been entrapped in. Her eyes widened as the world opened up before her very eyes, heightening her silenced senses. The darkness of the night had never looked brighter to her... and never so beautiful...

"Go, Indy," Red suddenly called. "Get to the beach, I'll catch-"

Without warning, Red seized up, his jaws falling open the moment his body stilled. Indy hadn't a clue what happened, not until his teeth started quivering in its binds, and his tail started to flail. Then her eyes fell to his lower region; Red's next step had entered a puddle of steaming water right next to his first toe. Only when Indy noticed the dangling cord connected to it did her heart skip a beat.

He was being electrocuted.

A second passed before the hybrid finally roared in pain, fumbling backward until his left foot stepped right into the indent of the ground. The ground buckled beneath Red's claws, dragging the hybrid right through a tear in the earth, and almost out of sight. Shrieking aloud, Red's claws quickly swung out, stabbing straight into the tiles before his whole body fell over the edge. His fangs clamped onto the cliff, too, a last ditch effort before all hope was lost. But, to Indy, it already seemed that way.

"Red!"

"Mmph!" The hybrid cried out, digging his fangs deeper into the remaining flooring. His claws were skidding across the flooring, losing traction every second wasted. Red's feet kicked into the emptiness, trying to seek some sort of binding that connected the upper floor to the invisible ground below; there was nothing there.

Nothing but air. And blackness.

And death.

"Rrrr!" Red squeezed his eyes shut, tasting a burst of fresh blood as his teeth nearly caved in from his tight grip. "Indy!"

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Lewis Dodgson drew close to the screen, watching his creation struggling to save himself from a grizzly end. His eyes quickly transferred to the white hybrid standing there, eying the trapped hybrid before her. His eyes narrowed.

"Leave him," Lewis whispered at the screen. "Leave him, damn it..."

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Indy froze. Watching the hybrid losing his grip to the trap his maker made set a wave of torment into her soul. She knew how much he despaired being locked in this place. How long he's spent in a cage just like hers, alone in the dark. Bleeding. Dying. Waiting for nothing but a change that felt more false than fantasy. Many times over did her will to save him skyrocket over her desire to run. Though, there was a part of her that urged a different manner, a darker one. Some sense beyond thought or control felt a sort of wrong in saving him, something she didn't quite understand. He broke her out. He was helping her...

No. She couldn't leave him, no matter her intuition. He was a hybrid, too.

Indy growled; taking the same first step as Red, she snaked her scaly body past the puddles of death until finally ending up at Red's position, toes nearly dipping over the abyss of nothing. She pivoted a full circle then lifted her upper body so her tail draped over the edge and toward Red's snout.

"Here!" she called. "Grab my- ow!"

A spark of pain ignited as soon as Red bit onto her tail, forcing another snarl from her lips. Not that hard! She wanted to bark. Her front claws sank into the chiseled ground, struggling to pull the flailing hybrid twice her size to safety. She managed despite the weight; growls upon growls later and Indy's pulls started to work in her favor... slowly, that is. She tugged and pulled, wincing as her tail started to bleed around Red's mighty fangs. She kept wary of the puddles as seen earlier, continuing to trudge toward the light in the dark until the load started to lessen. Turning around her shoulder, the indominus rex watched her partner finally gather a footing on the tiles, and push away from the hole. They hobbled out of the terrible hallway in unison, and finally, touched the fresh flavor of overturned dirt and sickled grass.

They were outside.

Red exhaled in relief before blinking over to the panting indominus. His head dipped in thanks. "You helped me..."

"Of course," Indy grunted with a wag of her ivory colored tail. "You don't deserve to be there anymore than me."

The red hybrid grunted, wordlessly for that matter. No thank you required. He casually lifted back up to his normal height to peek over the dark trees in his path. "Hrrr... We need to go."

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"Of course, she..." Lewis gritted his teeth. He whirled his head to the others in the room, including Henry Wu, taking in their terrified faces for a second. In truth, he felt the same, but he couldn't afford to show it, especially in front of Wu. Focusing on one of the men, Lewis raised his head and sneered. "Alright. Do it."

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It didn't take long for the two hybrids to storm their way past the emptied construction site and into the woodlands beyond the massive structure that held them captive. Indy only got a brief second to look upon her prison before following her newfound friend into the thickets of leaf and stick, and whatever lurked beyond her predatory eyes. For a while the world seemed to turn to forest; the ground squished and rippled to the heavy thumps and thuds of their steps, and the fragrant air became a whooshing whirlwind of unintelligible words within her ears. She hadn't a clue where she was going, of course; her trust fell upon the hybrid running ahead of her. But that only lasted until Red's terrible roars severed the growing joy in her heart.

Indy flinched. What happened?

Mid-way in their sprint Red scrambled to a halt just short of a beach. Indy faltered as well, following his gaze over to the bridge in the distance.

"Hrrr... He knew!" Red snarled, lashing his tail. Indy watched helplessly as a wide-scale concrete bridge, possibly the same width as themselves, started spitting into two; the ends of each half raising tall like the wings of a pteradon. Vehicles from the facility started making their way toward it, perhaps preparing for the two hybrids in advance to their inevitable arrival. Indy's growl surfaced in annoyance; another trap.

"Is there another way out?" she asked. Red's eyes lowered in thought, trying to think beyond this point.

"Hrrr... There's nothing else," he began in defeat. "The bridge was the only..." he trailed off, glancing off toward the water. Once more, Indy followed his eyes, glancing into the dark, murky waters of Clearlake, reflecting only the sinister moon in the sky, and the pristine gloss of their unique scales. She didn't understand what he was considering until her second peek into the lake's depths... then her stomach lurched.

"No," Indy whimpered, backing into the thicker whims of the forest. "No, not that."

Red turned to her, watching the courage leave her eyes long before he ever uttered his plan. Her tail coiled between her legs, and her head bowed in submission toward the churning world waving before her eyes. In truth, Red also feared the darkness surrounding them; swimming was a strength for either hybrid. But, if this was the only way out...

"I'll stay..." Indy growled, taking another worried step backward. "T-That's too far, and I'm not taking my chances out t-there."

"You'll die here then..."

"No! There's always another way! Right?! T-There has to be a panel like the doors to control the bridge, this can't be it-!"

He coughed suddenly; fresh blood burst from his maw, spoiling the beach of his essence for the lake to swallow whole. Over and over did he gag and retch, until his beak painted red of blood. Red nearly fell over, his eyes half-lidded and worn from his expulsions, and both talons trembling in terror. He heaved a final time to return back to his normal stance, horns raised high once more. Indy stared for a moment, sensing her guilt rise a second time to the dying hybrid.

"Hrrr..." Red growled to himself. "But this may be... my last try. Our... last try."

"I..." Indy glanced back at the water, tears starting to grow in her eyes. "I-I can't do it. I c-can't swim."

"You can."

"But the other-"

"Forget the other indominus!" Red suddenly snarled as if triggered by her words. He leveled his voice for a moment and growled. "Hrrr... Forget her... you're not her."

Indy shuddered, once more turning toward the water's ludicrous design and flustering waves of black. Her heart sank another inch, and she whined, already agreeing to submit to the waves.

"We'll swim near the bridge," Red grunted, moving alongside the beach toward the bridge. "The water's much shallower there. And the pillars near the bridge will help keep us afloat if anything goes wrong."

As Red's body started moving out of picture, Indy's whimpers started to increase in magnitude. She stared at the water, hopelessly imagining herself sinking into the abyss, and dragging the red hybrid down with her. She coiled her claws into her chest and swallowed.

"I'm not ready for this..."

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"Okay, okay. They're near the bridge, but they're... not going toward it. They're..." Lewis Dodgson tried to glance over at the top edge of the camera, barely able to see the tail tip of the indominus rex moving toward the water. His eyes widened.

"Oh God."

"Oh God, what?"

"They're not... wait," he peeked again, then drew from the control panel toward a map of the island, placing his finger against one of the beaches present, and his other finger toward the Californian land.

"They're trying to swim..."

"That's half a mile to shore," Henry muttered, drawing toward the camera feed in shock. "More, even, and at night-"

"They won't be able to make it..." Lewis parted his maw. "Right?"

Henry said nothing.

"Henry?" Lewis turned to him. "Will they make it?"

"I don't know-"

"Will they, or will they not?"

Wu turned to him, feeling his throat convulse mid-swallow. "She can't," he rasped softly. "But he will..."

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"Ready?"

Indy blinked out of her momentary stare, letting her jaws go lax like the rest of her body. She could feel the cool splashes of the lake against her lower talons, and shivered in each wave, struggling to accommodate to the awful temperature awaiting her. Red was already marching into the water, the water now up to his pubic bone and tickling his underside, much to his dismay. Now he waited for the indominus to follow along, though, he figured it'd take some time for her to adjust.

Indy looked behind her at the bridge, then back to the water. She took a brave step forward; half her body had submerged into the depths of the lake water. She tried for another.

And froze.

Her memories struck her like a rock from the sky; horrors from the deep shredding her soul in two. The female hybrid whimpered and withdrew quickly, as if suspecting something was waiting for her in the depths of this lake. Even if she couldn't smell it, Indy's mind imagined the two terrible eyes of that Mosasaurus in the darkness of Jurassic World, licking its chops for another pathetic meal to savor.

"Kick... and push," Red then crooned, trying to break that fear out of her. "Lift your head and breathe through your nostrils. That's all you need to do."

Indy continued to shake. "I'm g-going to die."

"You won't if you trust yourself," said Red, swaying his spiked tail in impatience. "We have to try."

"I'm n-not ready."

"You are," Red growled, bobbing his head to the hybrid. "You can do this."

Indy stared at the water a second time, already beginning to panic. She retook her earlier steps, starting to push into the deeper end of the water and near Red. She could feel her heartbeat starting to accelerate the further she walked, and lifted her skull higher as the water rose from her ankles to her after belly. Red motioned toward the furthest point that he could hold land and turned to her, noticing that, at his height, the water was up to his chest. But, for Indy, the water had risen to her neck, and the poor white indominus was already hyperventilating to the sinking feeling in her body.

"No, no, no..."

"Kick and push," Red growled one more time, looking behind his shoulder. "Kick and-"

BANG!

The two flinched, hearing a gunshot sound behind them; the humans found them. With a growl, Red grabbed Indy's neck and snarled.

"Push!"

He shoved off the floor, dragging the terrified white indominus with him. The two gasped as the water rushed up their chin, into their maws, and right over their skulls. Indy gagged for a breath before falling under, and squeezed her eyes shut as the lake's algae flushed into her face.

"R-Red, wait-!"

Then everything vanished.

The world became dark. Empty. Gone. There was no smell. No taste. No touch. No sound. Nothing but blackness surrounded her. And nothing was more terrifying than that.

Indy lost her touch to Red in the blackness of the lake. The hybrid thrashed and squirmed in the abyss, alone, struggling to tell which direction was up and down. All the while her lungs screamed for a breath of air, something she couldn't seem to find.

Air! Air!

In the midst of her horrifying experience, instinct drew her toward Red's final demands, a final attempt to reach the surface. Indy whimpered, ordering her body back in order and directed each limb as Red instructed.

Kick. Push.

Kick. Push.

Kick... Push...

It didn't feel like it was working. Her head was still underwater, and her earholes still echoed with the deafening ring of nothingness. She felt her nostrils accidentally flex, and, without warning, inhaled a mouthful of water to gag upon.

Kick. Push-

*cough!*

Air! I need air!

Indy inhaled again, writhing painfully in the darkness as water filled her lungs. Her kicks became frantic and forceful, now turning momentum into urgency. It was coming.... That terrible sinking feeling. That fate that doomed her predecessor... she could feel it.

Erk-

I... need...

G-Gurk-

And then, just as the true darkness could take hold, Indy's snout suddenly tipped something cold. She flexed her nostrils in that split-second-

And in came a mouthful of oxygen.

Her head bobbed above the water for a moment, just enough to cough up the water in her lungs before her body weight plunged her back into her watery grave. Indy gasped, sealing her nares and flavoring the taste of the fresh air above before kicking and thrashing for another round. But she did reach the surface. That means she could swim... but Indy had to keep pushing for however long the lake stretched.

She only hoped she was swimming in the right direction.

It's there... she growled to herself, resetting her claws to try again, Y-you can do this. Just kick. Push. Kick. And push!

Indy snarled valiantly to the shadows watching all around her. Again and again, her snout managed to poke above the surface before sinking further into the darkness. Indy felt her confidence starting to surface each time, her body falling into a pattern slow enough to follow. But no sooner had she controlled her limbs did another problem arrive. A problem she was starting to feel the longer she stayed in the water.

Tired... she thought suddenly. I'm tired... hurting...

After six minutes of pushing, Indy noticed a burning sensation deep in her legs. The more she tried to ignore it, the stronger it grew... but it wasn't so serious. And then-

"Mmph!"

Indy nearly lost all her air. Her sickle jaws squeezed shut as liquid fire raced up her calf and hamstring, eliciting another whimper from her constricted throat. She was cramping! Indy squealed as the fire manifested into her abdomen, writhing and spasming uncontrollably. She knew something was happening to her body, she couldn't tell what. But now that her leg had seized up, she was forced to push more water with the other, just to raise her snout high enough to gather one last mouthful of air.

Before the other cramped up, too.

No!

Indy cried out; the lake muffled her screams with a wave of water to slam her back under. She urged herself to move the other leg; it wasn't working. Neither was the second. Indy tried to swing her claws to resurface herself, but not even talons made for skinning prey was enough to command the waters that clawed at her scales and feed on her lungs.

It was happening again.

The carnivore spurted and moaned, trying to sound her pleas to anything and anyone that could hear her. But nothing returned, not even her own voice. Only the silence was there to greet her, and silence her for eternity.

There was no more air to take. No final push, no tank of extra energy. No other chance was there for her to reach the surface world she knew dearly. And, without much choice, Indy allowed the sea to pry her maw open, and fill her throat with Death's terrible pleasures.

Gallons upon gallons of freshwater flooded her body, forcing her throat to part ways to the inevitable. Her body twitched and choked as she drowned, eyes bulging and jaws reared back in a silent scream.

It was all too much.

Her body shook and quaked in denial, but she couldn't fight it. Just a couple seconds was all it took for the world to consume her whole, and lock her in place for Death to take hold. Indy twitched one last time, opening her eyes to watch one last bubble drift from her nares and rise into the void. Further and further did she sink, into a sleep-like state she knew all too well. It felt comforting... Warm...

She felt her eyes growing heavy and let her muscles fall lax.

It's okay, Indy... she thought quietly. It's... okay...

She closed her eyes just as a shadow crossed her vision...

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*cough...*

*cough-cough!*

Indy doubled over, puking blood and water from her throat, and gasping for air like a newborn hatchling. It took a few minutes to return to full strength, and an extra few seconds for her thoughts to come racing in from beyond the grave. There was no need to question what happened -- she knew it all too well, just as she didn't need to sniff the air to know her lifelong savior, who also splayed out upon the ground out of breath.

"I said kick and push, not drown," Red rasped, spitting out mouthfuls of lakewater. "But now... we're even."

Indy nodded weakly, dragging her limp tail across the beachside to caress herself.

"H-How... did we not... get caught?"

"Hrrr..." Red motioned to his scales. "You're not the only hybrid... who can camouflage."

"You?" Indy blinked in surprise. "They really did... pump you full of everything..."

"Yes..." Red's eyes lowered, coiling his blood-soaked claws away from Indy's eyes. "Yes, they did..."

The two hybrids suddenly perked their heads sky-high, alarmed by the noise of screeching vehicles and shifting plants. Red lurched to his feet, eyes narrowing and blood-stained teeth trembling.

"He doesn't quit, does he?"

"Who?!" Indy barked; she still wasn't given an answer. With a snort of worry, Red rushed to her side and used his snout to force her body to stand. Indy obliged to his urges, but only a few steps before wincing; the cramps she had earlier was slowing her down. Too slow for either of them to escape from. Red glanced behind his shoulder at the coming lights; they were coming, fast. Too fast. He suddenly stopped in his tracks, coiling his claws into the sand, and falling still.

"Red?" Indy stumbled to a halt, peering behind her wavering tail to his body with wide, terrified eyes. "Red, what are you doing?!"

"What I should have done a long time ago," He coughed hard before turning to her. "Keep... going."

"No, I-"

"I'm not asking, indominus," he snarled fiercely. "Go."

She shook her head.

"Go home, Indy!" He used his pointed horn to bump her flank toward the forest, then a second time as she tried to resist. The dear indominus shifted slightly to his forceful push, staring behind his legs at the coming men, then to the massive hybrid. She didn't want to leave him. She couldn't, not like this. A wave of fear fell upon Indy's shoulders; the look in his eyes told her enough of his intentions to worry for. But she understood, just as he did, her injuries were going to slow him down, or worse, end them both.

And neither hybrid wanted to lose the one chance they had left to change the script of their poisoned history.

"Go home..."

Indy exhaled in solemn agreement, taking in his scent one last time.

"Be careful," she warned. Red snorted, fading back a step, then vanished into the night, leaving a small tremor in his wake. Withholding a whimper, Indy limped as fast as she could manage in the other direction, snaking her thickened tail into the crimson forest, and out of sight.

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Camouflaging felt easier done than said for Red. The hybrid watched rounds upon rounds of human vehicles and soldiers race past him without batting an eye, searching for a hybrid they thought was hiding on the beach. To an outsider, he looked like a rolled over boulder, or a fallen tree in the heat of autumn. Strange how red and yellow scales helped service the trick, but he didn't question it. It took long enough, but, eventually, Red was able to sneak his way from the forest, across the street tied to the uprooted bridge, and diverge onto a path leading straight into a different forest bordering the town of Clearlake, California.

But he had no intention of hiding. He had to keep moving, and direct those wretched humans elsewhere. Or, at least, create enough of a diversion for Indy to be in the clear.

Within minutes of entering the forest, the three-horned carnivore was storming out from beyond the dark trees, his footsteps rippling into the paved asphalt of a dead end. He took his time walking into the human infested biome, eying each shelter as if it were prey. He looked to his right and left, then snorted.

No more waiting.

Planting his foot down, Red leaned back and let out a ground-shaking roar, loud enough to reverberate against the very stars above him. Within moments, he could hear every soldier in that forest whirl their heads in the opposite direction of their chase, away from Indy's trail. And, at the same time, every little creature hidden in their 'caverns' had exited, forming a massive crowd miles in length to gawk at the strange dinosaur in their midst.

He didn't expect this kind of reaction. It stunned him, to be honest. And it wasn't just the size of curiosity, but the lack of fear in their eyes, especially on the human nearest him. The little blond girl standing right beneath him, barefoot in her pajamas

Red leaned down, letting his shadow fall over his prey as a means to scare her. But it did nothing. He watched, mesmerized at the little girl who fearlessly waddled toward him. One of her arms cupped around a small teddy bear as a safeguard, just as a small, innocent smile coiled across her face. Red stared for a while, starting to lower a talon toward her rising finger. He could feel the ground echoing with the noise of the charging vehicles Lewis sent, and the crackle of gunfire echoing in the distance. But none of that mattered; all he focused upon was the creature standing proudly before him.

He made a show of her plush, scar-less skin. And the way her eyes twinkled of a million radiant stars in the heat of the night, he couldn't get that out of his head. Briefly did Red's eyes shift toward that of the teddy bear -- those sad, gifted, and painful black orbs that filled with nothingness and dread. It was something beyond understanding. Beyond touch. Aye, the bear in the claws of that girl was nothing short of beautiful. But the closer he stared, the more he saw. The more he smelled. The more he felt. Those untimely strings, those torn ruffs of fur, it's cold, emotionless look...

To the human eye, it was a symbol of purity and innocence. But to a hybrid, it stood for something much more. Something twisted by the norms his maker had forced into him. It may stand to embrace the warmth of another, but it could never shed the weight of being imprisoned by the claws of its true fate. A fate no corrupted creature can escape.

And, in that instant, Red finally understood who the true monster was.

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Indy jolted to the sound of an explosion. She seized up mid-step only to turn toward a dark smoky plume in the sky. Her heart sank instantaneously.

Oh no. Red!

She didn't care for his instructions anymore. The smell of INGEN had long since passed, and her decisions were freely in her command, rather under the stress of being chased. The indominus rex stormed back up the beachside and uphill, her every footstep crushing vehicles and rattling trees like pins on a table as if they weighed nothing. Already there were fears growing over her newfound friend; she didn't care if she had to fight another round of humans, she couldn't afford him to die to the monsters that entrapped them here. The ones who starved her. The leeches that killed Rexy.

Red couldn't be next, he can't be.

Another caterwaul echoed the ravine; Indy burst into a sprint, footsteps cracking the fragile soil and leaving prints deep enough to mold. It didn't take long before she, too, found herself at the same strange town Red had entered. But it wasn't the same. Red entered a glistening, simmering aurora of danger and despair.

Indy walked into a nightmare.

The region before her was littered with INGEN cars from left to right. Corpses of soldiers and gunmen marked the streets with red blood, while houses on her left and right had been crushed by the weight of a struggle.

"Red?"

The indominus hastened her pace over the corpses and destruction, but froze just short of the second house. Not because of any lone sound, but of a sight so unholy, it broke her on the spot.

A little girl. Pink pajamas, blond hair, silver streaks running down her pants, and a little teddy bear. She was lying on the floor.

Dead.

Indy paused mid-step, retracting her clawed feet away from the corpse of a little girl. The human looked untouched, asleep even; her small hand gripped around the torn leg of a blood-soaked teddy bear. But, once Indy nosed her pink flesh, her heart cried of pain; soft, cold skin, and a puncture wound flowing of dead blood. She nuzzled the youngling over and over; it was no use. All that moved was the strands of loose blond hair fluttering against her body in the smoke-stained wind.

No. No, no, no...

It wasn't any better when Indy's head lifted from the ground. There were dead bodies everywhere. Young, old, thick, skinny -- no human seemed to be spared from whatever monstrosity found them. They were tucked together, some hand in hand, others slumped upon the backs of another; it was clear to Indy that they were fleeing before Death took them. Her eyes rose; the town looked no different from their misfortunes. Flames licked the walls of their every creation, making the air reek of burnt skin and charred metal. Buildings seemed torn, and bullet holes marked every nook and crevice formed in this, once, magnificent town.

"W-What did..." Indy's tears started to flow, her eyes looking slowly around the terrifying scene. "W-What did Wu do?"

She couldn't get that terrible smell out of her nostrils. That fuse of smoke and rotting flesh was a recipe of disaster, and it tormented her soul to the grave.

"R-Red?!"

The bloodshed seemed to extend for an eternity. The further she walked, the worse it got -- dogs, cats, elderly, infants, teens, soldiers -- until all the poor hybrid could do was cry aloud in anguish. This was Wu's doing. He had to be responsible, it only made sense. Collateral damage to blame against the monsters he birthed. Indy figured it was only a matter of time before she came across her friend's body. And that sickened her the most-

CRUNCH!

Indy gasped, hearing the crunch of bones echoing to the right of her. Down that street was more smoke, collected in a fog that darkened the horizon from her eyes. The female exhaled shakily, approaching the shaded area with uncertainty, claws at the ready in case she had to fight. A vicious snarl soon left her trembling lips, and her head began to lower in a hunting position as the noises grew louder and louder.

CRUNCH! CRACK!

Indy shuddered, squinting her eyes in the smoke to get a better picture of what was ahead. For a moment it was nothing, just a hillside leading up to-

Her heart sank into oblivion. Both eyes trailed a line of dead humans and overturned vehicles leading all the way to the top. And there, standing firm like a benevolent king to a fallen valley, stood Red. Human blood soaked his body from horn to tail, and his sinister jaws tightened upon the severed leg of a little boy. Upon swallowing, Red suddenly met the horrified eyes of the indominus rex beneath him, and snarled in annoyance.

"I told you to go home."