Short stories and novellas

Jurassic Park: The Missing Scene

<< Even though it may look like it actually is, this is not true,
for it was a project for one of my classes. Since it is not too
bad, I decided to put it here. No other intentions besides 
geting an "A" on this paper where made. Luck has it, I didn't
get the "A". Oh, well... >>

  This short scene is supposed to be sometime between the arrival 
of the guests to the island. This scene explains the storm coming 
and why there are not any workers on the island anymore once the 
guests arrive. The scene really focuses more on the role of the 
computer wizard and his stealing of the dinosaurs� embryos. On 
the original version, as we know, his role was not so important.
  Here you can also learn about the "bad guys" that bribe the
computer wizard to sabotage the computer system on the island. 
This renders the whole park useless and makes their future park,
one with a much better future for them.





     Murray kept on looking at the map with an amazed face. "I 
can�t believe this," he thought. "How could anybody design a 
tunnel system like this?"
     Murray was right. That map showed a labyrinth, a maze of 
tunnels of all sorts going to all kind of places. With all those 
scientific names instead of understandable ones, how was one 
supposed to know where to go? But he was no scientist. He barely 
finished high school. Poor Murray, he was completely lost and 
time was running out.
     "Darn! Darn! Darn!" Now he was completely mad. He 
kept walking, just the same, hoping he would find a sign that was 
written in plain English, like "friendly dinosaurs, this way." The 
tunnels were kind of dark, enough to make a person be aware of 
his or her surroundings. He was a tough guy, though. Maybe not 
very knowledgeable of the riches of that park, but of his 
profession. He wouldn�t give up, much less after spending two 
days in that rotten place. At last luck struck him, he thought. 
A maintenance worker was walking toward him from a two tunnel 
junction. This man seemed the typical cowboy with the 
hat and the boots, even though he was wearing a jumpsuit. His 
white skin didn�t contrast at all with the blond beard and hair 
coming out of the hat. 
     "Excuse me. Maybe you could help me," said Murray.
     "Shoot," said the worker.
     Murray made a small jump before realizing he couldn�t know 
of his profession. Nobody knew he was not an electrician, but a 
hired spy to retrieve blood samples of the dinosaurs. His usual 
work was as an assassin, but due to the money offered 
($2,500,000), he said yes to that unusual and odd work. He would 
get to shoot, but a special weapon with a syringe that retrieved 
blood instead of a plain bullet. He looked out of place with his 
clean and neat beard and perfect hair. His green eyes contrasted 
with his dark skin, much more in that dark light.
     "Uhm... I�m looking for the tunnel that takes to the 
herbivorous dinosaurs," said Murray trying to sound knowledgeable 
and remembering what his employers told him to do.
    "Aren�t you in luck! I just come from there!," said the man 
all happy. He pointed back at the tunnel he was just leaving and
then said "Just follow this tunnel straight and, at the last 
intersection, make a left. That's the main subterranean entrance 
to where you wanna go."
    "Thanks a lot!," said Murray all happy.
    The worker looked at Murray to see that it said "electrical" 
on his jacket. "Some repair?"
    "Uh...Yeah. There is a junction box that was wired the wrong 
way over there."
    "It figures... Nobody has a clue in this place!"
    "Yeah... ha, ha, ha."
    "Well, good luck," said the man seeing that Murray seemed to
 be in a hurry.
    Murray didn�t say anything and just kept on walking toward 
the tunnel.
    Another man came by the tunnel and, seeing the worker leaving 
the tunnel to enter the junction, yelled at him "Hey, Robert! 
Have you finished already?"
     "Yeah, man. I just come from there!"
     "Wait just a second. You �just come from there�?," said what
seemed to be his supervisor. "You just gave the Tyrannosaurus Rex 
the goat full of the tranquilizer?"
     "No," answered the man a little insulted. "I did that half
an hour ago. I just gave a ton of fruit to the herbivorous couple 
on the isolation area."
     "I just don�t think so," said the supervisor in an ironic 
way.
     "Why not?" 
     "OK. Herbivorous that way," said the supervisor pointing at 
the tunnel the opposite way. "Carnivorous this way," said again 
pointing at the tunnel Robert just got out of.
     "OK, let�s see... What is wrong with that?," asked Robert 
with a puzzled face.
     "Hello?" The supervisor couldn�t believe it. "After three 
months in here you still don�t know which one is which one? 
Herbivorous are the vegetarian ones, carnivorous the ones that 
eat meat!"
     "Ahhhh...," said Robert all amazed. "Anyways, we are leaving 
today, so who cares?"
     "You were supposed to give the goat that you gave all those
pills with tranquilizer to the tyrannosaurus Rex to avoid any 
problems with the guests arriving today. And now you�ll have to 
do it again."
     "I don�t think so, man. There are no more tranquilizers and 
our ship is leaving in an hour."
     " The next ship with supplies will come tomorrow afternoon,"
said the supervisor.
     "Well, ain�t no way in hell I�m spending another day in this
place. Nuh, uh! Besides there�s all them fences and stuff to keep 
the animal from doing anything." 
     "Yeah, I guess you are right... Let�s go," said the 
supervisor. They both walked toward the golf cart he had.Then went on 
their way toward the temporary living area they had had for those 
months, packed everything, and left.

     Murray kept on walking up the stairs. He had a bad feeling, 
but he was tired of being on the island and wanted to leave 
already, so he kept on walking. He opened the gate with the 
master key he copied and entered the combination on the keypad to 
avoid the alarm going off. Once outside he was happy to have left 
the dark tunnels. It was a sunny day and he enjoyed every 
second of the sun rays on his face.
     He walked slowly, not to scare any animal. He then saw a 
relatively small dinosaur and pointed his special gun toward it.
He shot it and the animal, once it fell the small sharp object 
enter his skin and suck the blood, started running. Thanks to the 
thin cord attached to the syringe, Murray was able to recover it 
once it had filled with blood. He put the small syringe on the 
small freezer of  his backpack and kept on going. He only needed 
a few samples, so there was no need to be greedy. That lasted for
about one hour and a half. His backpack by now was beginning to 
be full. Even though those were small syringes, from being tired
he felt the backpack was a lot heavier that what it really was.
     He saw then the last animal he would try to get blood from. 
It was a big dinosaur with a big mouth and that walked on two 
feet. He felt that for eating plants only, that dinosaur in 
particular seemed specially threatening. Little Murray knew that 
he was looking at the Tyrannosaurus Rex Jurassic Park was so 
proud of having. He approached the dinosaur with his regular 
caution, walking all the way toward the back of the animal. Once 
there he pointed the gun, made sure it was a sure shot and shot.
     The animal reacted immediately turning his back in a second. 
Murray, to be on the safe side, hid behind a tree. But it was too 
late, the dinosaur had already seen the movement. With those 
giant steps, the dinosaur went around the tree, to find Murray 
hidden on the other side confident that the animal wouldn�t hurt 
him. 
    The Tyrannosaurus Rex approached its face to make that 
horrible and loud noise. Murray didn�t think for a second that 
that was a friendly and harmless animal, so, he started running 
with all his might. But that was not much compared with the power 
of the Tyrannosaurus Rex. In no time the dinosaur closed on him. 
Murray threw himself into the ground to hide under a huge rock
that had a small hole underneath, big enough for him to hide.
    Murray felt his heart go at a thousand beats per minute. He
was safe now. Or was he? What was that hissing noise coming from 
under him? Murray took the flashlight from his pocket and pointed 
it at the hissing noise. A medium size snake appeared from the 
dark, with its mouth open and showing those horrendous sharp 
teeth. Murray jumped to knock himself on the head with the rock
just on top. Once unconscious the snake bit him a couple of 
times. After the apparent death, the snake felt no more curiosity 
for him and left the protection of the rock to try and hunt
something of a smaller and more digestible size.
     Murray awoke fifteen minutes later all dozed off. Half 
unconscious he crawled out of the rock. He could barely move his
legs, so he dragged himself with his arms not seeing were he was 
going since his vision was all blurred. He made it a few meters 
only to find a big hole on the ground. It was the imprint of one 
of the paw from the Tyrannosaurus Rex. That was a really big 
imprint and it scared the hell out of Murray.  But that was 
nothing. Once it fell that slow breathing on his neck he felt his 
heart go fast again. It was the Tyrannosaurus Rex again, 
breathing less that a foot away from his neck! With that horrible
sound Murray had heard once before, the dinosaur distanced itself
from Murray for a second, to come back with the fury of a train.
With a couple of bites Murray found himself on the inside of the 
dinosaur. That was the last anybody heard of him.





     A man entered in the office were the two old men were 
waiting. The office was huge and dark. Both brothers were siting
 side by side on a desk made of black marble, as cold as their 
souls. The man had bad news: No news from the spy they had sent 
as they where supposed to. The two men looked puzzled. They were 
in their seventies so they didn�t like waiting or hoping for the 
best. Time was money, and for them money was life.  They 
wanted immediate results or else. They were twin brothers and 
understood each other perfectly well, for something they had been
 successful in the entertaining business for so long.
     "Looks like your plan didn�t work," said the one on the 
right.
     "We�ll have to use yours then," answered the other.
    "There is still the chance he may contact us latter on, but I 
wouldn�t hold my breath..."
    "All right, all right! I said we will use your plan! What 
more do you want?" The old man was obviously mad.
     "We can forget the million dollar deposit we gave him, 
then..."
     Now is when the other man understood where he was going. 
"OK, we�ll offer your guy one million less, to compensate for the 
one lost. This way, if he accomplishes the work we will have 
spent the same amount we already agreed to spend." Now both 
brothers were talking money. They were both the same, old and 
greedy. " Let�s hope an inside work works better than an outside 
one."
    "Dodgson," said the brother on the left. "come here for a 
second that we have work for you to do."