Gym


Separated from the group, Alice hurries across the infinite hallways in the building, not looking back at any point. The girl goes down a staircase taking a few twists and turns until no flying dinosaur could find her, and in this case no human as well. She was alone, anxiously she opened large doors to a new compartment in the building. This new place seemed to be under construction, it was a mess since it was abandoned by the workers and dinosaurs possibly left with those. Alice then uncovered a strange structure and it looked like a pinball machine, indicating that this must've been an arcade.

Out of nowhere, gunshots could be heard from afar, echoing through the corridors. Alice was frightened by the noise, assuming that it was potentially something dangerous she ducked, crawling through the dirty and dusty floor. She then found a tunnel-like structure, picking that as her hideout.

Until she heard someone call her name, "Alice?"

Luckily, the voice was familiar but it wasn't her sister nor Sandy. Alice peeked out of the hiding place watching the lady.

"Alice it's okay, it's me." Natalie affirmed trying to comfort the girl, "It's Natalie, can you please come out, we have to find your sister and my friend."

Alice didn't reply, realizing that the woman mentioned her sister being somewhere else. As the girl was about to leave the tunnel a noise was heard. Natalie turned picking up a piece of metal as a weapon to defend herself, "Whos there." She asked with an intimidating tone, "Alice, is it you?"

There was no answer. The figure that caused the sound slowly approached the light coming from the dark portion of the entire room. Natalie held the weapon tight, ready for anything. Natalie was surprised to find ut it was a single adult-sized Nanosaurus or Othnielia. The woman smiled bowing down to show the creature that she was unarmed and trustworthy. The Nanosaur came closer to Natalie's hand, rubbing its head on her arm like a cat. Natalie beamed denying every second of it, yet every beautiful moment has an end, another loud gunshot.

The Nanosaurus was startled by the sound, biting Natalie's hand. Natalie screamed in pain holding her wound. The alpha Othnielia emitted a loud call that would assemble a large herd of this species. Natalie cussed out, "Shit." The woman took cover behind a large crate ripping a piece of coat to use as a bandage after the procedure was done she tied the remainings of the coat around her waist.

Terrified by the unseen action, Alice trembled hearing the footsteps of about 5 Nanosarusus nearby the tunnel. Alice cautiously crawled towards the other end of the tunnel making sure she didn't make any noise, reaching the end an Othnielia jumped right in front of her face, the girl screamed dragging even more attention to her. She went backward as the creature was still facing her attempting to attack. 

As she managed to get out of the tunnel she saw an entire herd of stressed herbivores surrounding the tunnel. Scared, Alice ran from them. She walked through a rag door, strangely the tunnel wasn't flat but actually going up like a ramp. The girl then hit her head on a bar covered by a pool noodle. Alice rubbed her head looking back, assuming the creatures wouldn't be able to find her.

To her surprise, they were half-arboreal dinosaurs. A larger one was staring at her from the top trying to break through the nest ceiling. Running further through the strange structure, Alice began to realize she got herself trapped in an enormous jungle gym. Other variants discovered the same entrance Alice did chasing after her. The girl now faced a dead end and the only exit was a roofless bridge that led to a second tower. Alice rushed to the safe spot as fast as she could, dodging an airstrike from the large one, causing the bridge to be destroyed.

Now all she had to do was find a quick exit to leave this nightmare once and for all. Alice then went through several obstacles that were part of the Jungle Gym that difficulted her time to escape. Finally, Alice spotted a slide going straight forward to it but unfortunately, a creature found its opposite before Alice did, screaming once again, Alice was forced to take another sharp turn.

The girl went higher through the tower climbing through platforms that prevented the Othnielias from reaching her inside the jungle gym. As she finally reached the top, there were absolutely no exits, the slide wasn't added yet and it was the highest tower in the entire playground. Alice was trapped and the creatures were slowly climbing their way towards her. She was torn, and she certainly wasn't ready for death, there was so much she had to see and go through, but yet she could see her life flashing before her eyes.

In the last minute of hope, Alice was saved. Natalie began to cause a large noise by whacking metal bars against each other, "HEY." She screamed with anger. The Othnielias aggressively darted towards the woman, Natalie then dodged their attacks tricking them into going inside a container. Natalie uses the metal bars to lock them inside. Tired, Natalie sits against the door making sure the dinosaurs wouldn't escape.

Alice was surprised by the act of bravery that Natalie did just to save her. Gladly Alice stood up to get out of the jungle gym when suddenly she slips and falls from the high point. Natalie stands running towards the girl. Fortunately, Alice landed on the ball pit, calming Natalie down. But Alice injured her arm as she attempted to protect herself. Natalie simply helped the girl up and both left without a trace.

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