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It was a cloudy overcast evening in Moab Utah, Josh and his friend Dylan were just leaving the theater after having seen the new movie Jurassic World Rebirth, and it’s very safe to say that both of them were disappointed.
They both decide to walk around a little bit and think about the movie before heading back to their shared apartment, walking in silence for about a minute before Josh groans and runs his fingers through his hair. “I’ll be honest that has to be… one of the most disappointing Jurassic movies I’ve seen, not as bad as Dominion, but still pretty bad.”
Dylan quietly sighs before nodding and bumping his shoulder against Josh as they walk “Agreed, at least it wasn’t the human hybrids idea that they had planned for the original Jurassic Park four movie, that really would’ve been a shit show… and I’ll be honest I’m kind of getting tired of hybrids.”
“God yeah that would’ve been awful, and same. It’s all just kind of getting a bit old at this point… the Indominus and Indoraptor were pretty cool when they were introduced but at this point they’re overusing it a bit, at least we got different actors this time around, Scarlett Johansson did pretty good I think.” Josh shrugged softly while shoving his hands into his hoodie, smiling softly as they both wait to cross the street.
The streetlight turns red as the pedestrian crossing sign flashes, both of them continuing their conversation as it turns to new dinosaur discoveries, Josh perking up softly as something comes to mind. “Oh shit I just remembered! Did you hear about that showcase in London that happened recently? Apparently two newly discovered dinosaurs are on display now!”
“Oh yeah, I actually do think I heard about that! We should really go to the natural history museum in Denver now that we’re on the topic of museums, I’ve always wanted to go to that one-“
In that moment everything seems to slow down for Josh as he hears the screeching of tires, faintly noticing the headlights shining down on him with the only thing he acts on is the instinct to push Dylan out of the way, Dylan trying to grab on to his arm to pull him before everything goes white as Josh feels himself going weightless.
He thinks he’s passed out before his vision slowly fades from the white and he sees himself looking up at dark clouds, only really able to hear his ears ringing while he can faintly hear his name being called, everything feeling so disjointed and heavy as he sees two figures run over to him.
He manages to recognize one of them as Dylan who’s now gripping onto his hand, telling him to stay awake and that everything‘s going to be fine… But his eyes are starting to feel so heavy, everything starting to hurt and the ringing in his ears is just getting louder, barely hearing the other person as they seem to be calling someone.
He manages to focus enough and pulls in a gasp of air as he realizes that he hasn’t been breathing, it hurts so much to breathe as he squeezes Dylan‘s hand, his body starting to feel wet from all the warm liquid starting to drip down his body.
Josh lets out a soft cough and grimaces in pain as he looks up at his friend and mumbles softly with a strained voice “Dylan please… p-please be a dino man like you wanted… You can name a dinosaur after yourself… Just like y-you always said you wanted to do…”
Josh then tries to pull in another breath before coughing and tilting his head to the side as he just feels so heavy, hearing Dylan’s voice start fading. “J-josh please just keep your eyes open for me! I promise that once you’re better I’ll be a paleontologist and we can have a dinosaur named after us, just please stay awake!”
And even with the pain coursing through his body and his mind growing darker, Josh can’t help but smile at the promise, him and Dylan have always wanted to dig up dinosaur bones… And hopefully Dylan can achieve that dream for both of them… he just… He just needs to rest now… he’s so tired…
His eyes feel heavier as he struggles to stay awake, feeling a soft shaking as Dylan’s voice fades out more and more, everything going black as he slips away, his hand going limp in Dylan‘s hand.
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Josh’s head is pounding as he feels his eyes flutter open to be met by barely any light, his vision blurry and body feeling so sore, he doesn’t know what’s going on and the last thing he remembers is the lights and getting hit by that truck.
Aside from his body feeling sore it also feels… Weird, like things aren’t how they should be, his head pounding as he feels the urge to move, to get out of wherever he is, his movements almost automatic as he starts pushing against whatever prison he’s in, instantly wishing he didn’t as when a peace falls off he’s instantly greeted by a blinding white light.
Letting out a chirp in surprise and pain he reaches up and rubs one of his eyes as it quickly adjusts to the light, pushing out more and more as this prison cracks around him, eventually with one big push he lands on the hard cold floor as he’s greeted by bright lights everywhere in the mumbling of people talking, quickly trying to cover his eyes and get his bearings.
(What the… Where the fuck am I? I’ve been to a hospital before and it’s never been this bright… and why am I on the floor??) Josh pulls his hands away from his face only to let out a chirp in surprise to see that they’re now four digit light-grey claws, staring at them in shock before putting them over his apparent new muzzle.
His heartbeat begins to speed up as he quickly turns around and sees a tail, trying to stand up before just wobbling and falling onto his stomach as he frantically examines his body, gray scales with small osteoderms along his back, unable to speak and just chirping in panic, and realizing the fact that his legs have repositioned themselves so he can’t walk upright like he’s used to.
(….WHAT THE-) suddenly all of the scientists working around the lab are startled by the sound of a shrill screech echoing through the incubation chamber as the new Indominus specimen has hatched without anyone realizing, thrashing against the glass incubator as a few scientists quickly run over to start examinations and calm the new hatchling down from whatever has startled it.