Lost Island Rampage by Gustavo Bondoni

Author:Gustavo Bondoni [Bondoni, Gustavo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Severed Press
Published: 2021-06-14T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Sabrina growled as she watched the footage again. The first part was fun: those old women in the resort lobby had fallen to her Compsognathus without much of a fight. No matter what happened next, she would be able to use that footage to sell the product.

Even with that in mind, what happened next truly sucked.

The little dinosaurs went on a feeding frenzy, diving into the corpses with relish and losing track of the rest of the resort’s inhabitants.

Then, when they did get back on the trail, the scent disappeared into what seemed to be some sort of concrete storage locker built into a hill, complete with a solid curtain door. In the jumpy footage, it looked like a bunker, and she knew there was no way twenty little theropods were going to beat down that door. Besides, the Compsognathus weren’t remote controlled, so she couldn’t order them around. The way they worked was that you put them somewhere and let their instincts—hunger and self-defense—do the rest. The bunker wasn’t edible and they wouldn’t see it as a threat… so they’d ignore it.

But even that wasn’t the worst of it. As the little creatures milled around, unsure of what to do now that they’d lost the scent of fresh prey, arrows rained in from the forest and took down four or five—it was difficult to make an exact count—almost immediately.

The only thing that kept it from being a complete massacre is that the wind shifted and the dinosaurs caught the scent of their assailants.

The rest was literally a blur. It was impossible to truly see what had happened in the unfocused, jumpy night-vision images, but from what she could piece together, the remaining Compsognathus charged at the islanders hidden in the underbrush. She counted three or four definite kills against the natives… but at the cost of the entire complement of dinosaurs.

She consoled herself with the thought that gathering data like this was why you tested, and she could conclusively state that the little ones weren’t something you’d send after armed opponents, but Sabrina still ground her teeth to think that these bastards had murdered her babies.

The final insult came next. Instead of licking their wounds and counting themselves lucky to be alive, the natives got to work chopping down saplings, tying each carcass to a pole and carrying them away, presumably to be eaten. Every single camera was still working, and she watched them pull the poles over the fence and drag them out to a clearing where they were dumped among what looked suspiciously like dead human bodies.

What the hell had been going on on that island? she wondered.

Whatever it was, the savages were going to die, even if it meant flooding the entire place with little dinosaurs. Hell, she had plenty of them to send. She couldn’t take them back… getting them through US customs was a non-starter.

She smiled. “I hope you little savages have said your prayers to whatever insignificant tribal god you worship. Because I’m going to send you to meet them as soon as I deal with the jackasses from the resort.

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