They arrived in partial darkness. They would have to wait until morning which meant for Skylar and Andrew that they would be spending their first night here somewhere at the bottom of Thunder Mountain.

Among all the snakes and cactus it wasn't the most luxurious of places to sleep but somehow they made it through the night.

The sun was just rising over the mountain when early in the morning when a loud holler echoed out over the canyon. Covered in red dust, Skylar raised her head to catch a glimpse of Pecos Bill at the tip of a cliff calling out something she couldn't make out.

"What is he doing?" Andrew asked irritated from being woke up at the crack of dawn.

"I don't know but it's best if we don't question anything in this world, none of it ever makes sense." Skylar scoffed, edgy from the lack of sleep.

"Well we have to head up the mountain anyway. Why not start now?" He quipped back, trying to brush off the dirt.

"Fine." She sighed then yawned. Skylar picked up the bag and began to walk.

"I didn't mean literally!" He called after her but she pretended not to hear. Andrew gave up, went after her.

The sun was slightly above the mountains by the time they had made it over the first mountain. Pecos Bill had left them a while ago in search of another tornado to lasso. As they got to the highest point of  first hill it let down into a gorge.

Down in the gorge was only a train, nothing else but that. It sat on a wooden track deserted but they knew better. Having no other choice they boarded the train in the third car down from the engine and cranked the safety car down.

As soon as they did that a voice let out from somewhere they could not place. "This here's the wildest ride in the wilderness." The train jolted to a start and began to glide along the track.

Skylar and Andrew were sat closely next to each other but both were against with padded sides of the car (trying to be as far apart as possible).

This train was slow at first but it began to speed up. The train whistle let out two loud blows and the train sped into a dark cave. It was dark for a moment then a faint glow let them see a little bit.

Bats swooped around them, screeching and blinking their beady eyes. The train began to take a steep incline and they moved past the bats.

Half way up the hill they entered into Rainbow Caverns. Colorful minerals pools swirled around in the bottom of the cavern. On the ceiling white icicle-looking stalactites dripped silently.

The train kept ticking up the track slowly and as they neared the top  it became lighter. The train leveled out at the top and as they finally broke outside the train plummeted down.

They knew the rest of this ride was to be rough. The sharp twists, turns and drops had them slamming into each other as the car swiveled them around violently. The ride was going as usual, even the normal explosion at the end was nothing dangerous.

It came to the last drop where the giant T-Rex skeleton usually lay implanted in the wall but it was not there. The train traveled to the same place it started but it did not stop.

The two pulled up on the bar but it didn't lift up at all. The ground began to shake and a roar explained the missing skeleton. It was gaining on them quickly but they were unable to do much.

They entered the cave and it did not follow but as soon as they were out it found them. Talking in the fast going train with the wind whipping around them was almost impossible so Skylar tried to figure out something on her own.

She dug rapidly in the bag for anything but came up short. Apparently it didn't just produce anything. Skylar searched for anything in her pockets but again found nothing.

"Look for something to hit the door opener with!" She tried to tell Andrew but her words were lost in the wind.

The train suddenly jerked back as the dinosaur clamped it foot done on the seventh car of the train.   The engine kept struggling to move but the T-Rex had its eyes fixed on the two people.

In desperation Skylar took of her shoe and threw in at the button on the outside of their car. It bar flew up and she jumped onto the seat.

"Get up to the engine and figure how to work it!" She directed Andrew throwing the bag at him.

"What are you doing?" He shouted over the dinosaurs destruction noise.

"Just be ready to go when I tell you!" She yelled back and without another thought she jumped into the car behind him.

Andrew worried for her safety but went in the opposite way hoping to get the engine ready for her in time.

Skylar jumped from car to car quickly approaching the dinosaur that was now chewing up the seventh car but preventing the train from moving with its giant foot.

With her other shoe in her hand, Skylar stood up to the T-Rex and uselessly yelled. When that didn't work she threw her shoe at it and that got its attention.

Skylar distracted it by detaching  the sixth car and pushing it towards him. She waved her arms like crazy to get Andrew's attention and the train moved immediately. Skylar fell over into the fifth car because it had jolted to live so quickly but she hoped this means they had lost the T-Rex.

It had taken but a second for the dinosaur to devour the train car and it was after them once again. The dinosaur was too close for comfort so Skylar quickly worked on a way to detach other train cars.

Hair whipping everywhere, she jumped from car to car detaching them as she went. It slowed the T-Rex down some but she was running out of train!

In the very first car before the engine she was able to communicate with Andrew and urge him to make it go faster. They were about to take this train a third lap around but their chances of making it to the cave were slim.

Andrew pulled Skylar into the engine and he cut off the last car. It was smashed instantly by the monstrosity behind them but it bought the engine just enough time to go barreling in the pitch black cave.

Andrew hit the brakes and it came to a screeching stop. Peeling themselves off the dash board the two felt around. Although silent, the pitch black was not too comforting.

"Any bright ideas?" Skylar said irritated to be trapped in total darkness.

"Great choice of words," Andrew scoffed, frustrated with her. "Can you try not to be so annoyed by everything?"

"What do you mean by that? The last few times I've been the one getting us out of things so if any one is to be annoyed it should be me." Skylar snapped back.

Andrew didn't respond. Both were worn out beyond belief and sleeping in the desert didn't exactly help that. Andrew knew at this point they were just arguing due to all the stress and he started to think of what to do.

He finally remembered a bright source of light that they possessed and dug in the bag to get it out. He found the IPhone and turned on the flashlight to reveal the engine's gas meter. Andrew and Skylar exchanged glances but said nothing.

Andrew got out of the train and motioned for Skylar to follow. They walked up the track slowly,  passing the bats and approached Rainbow Caverns. Stalactites glistened above them and the mineral pools still swirled down below in the cavern.

They saw the dinosaur outside waiting for them and pondered on what to do.

"I've got an idea." Andrew said breaking the silence.

"Good because I'm really starting to run out of them." Skylar teased, lightening the mood.

"Hey! I've had them here and there but it's hard to constantly think of a way to escape." He responded.

"If only we weren't in constant trouble." Skylar pointed out but also stated the obvious.

Now that there was even a chance of hope the two tried their best to keep in high spirits and not fight because that wouldn't get them anywhere.

"So what's the plan?" She said eager to begin.

"As crazy as it may sound, first we got to go out there." Andrew admitted reluctantly, and headed out.

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"This was your brilliant plan?!?" Skylar yelled as they ran back in the cave for the third time.

"You're the one who wanted me to come up with something!" He hollered back, out of breath.

They were playing a kind of cat and mouse, taunting the dinosaur on each side of the cave. It was hard work and it seemed to be getting them nowhere. They would run out, wait until it got from the opposite side to them and then race back in quickly.

They were doing this in order to tire out the dinosaur but so far they were they only ones getting tired. When they finally realized this, Andrew had to think of something else.

" I've got another idea." He said, catching his breath.

"Let's hope it's better than the one you just came up with." Skylar rolled her eyes and waited for him to go on.

"We have to use the engine as a decoy. I'll take off the brake and let it roll out by itself off of the hill. Then we go in the opposite direction." He explained, making it up as he went along.

"I'm liking our chances with this plan even less than the first one." She exasperated, becoming more depressed by the minute.

"Well sitting and waiting isn't really an option. Things like this never go away, and we are meant to figure them out. After all that's what we're here for, to figure things out and to restore Walt's name to this park." Andrew said more to himself then to her.

"I just think that this should be a little bit more detailed and thought out. Our chances aren't very good with your idea. It needs something else." Skylar said nothing after that and began walked back down the hill.

She came to the engine and had it drive up to Rainbow Caverns. Skylar then climbed on top of it and stood up, reaching for the stalactites on the ceiling. She succeeded in breaking one off and the crack echo through the cavern.

"What are you doing?" Andrew questioned.

"You'll see." Was all she answered and continued what she was doing.

Finally she jumped down with quite a few sharp spikes.

"We can use these to our advantage." Skylar said, examining the rigid texture of the stalactites.

"How?"

"See that walk across the way?" Skylar pointed across the mini canyon, over the minerals pools, to the far wall.

"Yeah, so?"

"Watch and see." Skylar took one stalactite in each hand and walked over to the wall. She drove the spike into the wall and pulled down on it, it stayed. She did the same with the other and then, much to Andrews surprise, she swung her body off the floor, and hung from the two stalactites.

Her feet dangled below her over the mini canyon and she began to climb. Andrew said nothing but just quietly watched as Skylar rock climbed to the far wall and the down to the minerals pools. She jumped the last few feet down to the floor.

She just over a mineral pool and looked up at him. To Andrew she was a tiny figure down below. He clapped slowly, trying to act mildly impressed but truly he is surprised by her.

"Can we go now?"

Skylar rolled her eyes at him although he couldn't see it and she began to climb back up.
When she was standing next to him he handed her the rest of the spikes.

"Where did you learn to do something like that?" He asked amazed now giving her the proper credit she deserved.

"That's not all I can do with this." She left it at that. "Now come on we've got a dinosaur to face."

"Jurassic park two, here we come." Andrew muttered unenthusiastically.

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"Running was not how I wanted to end this escape." Andrew mumbled under his breath.

The T-Rex had its eyes fixed on them, intently watching. Skylar had a stalactite drawn (like a sword) as if ready to strike. Andrew has no idea what chance they had in the position they were in, they had already distracted the dinosaur with the train engine and now it was time for plan C.

They dare not move or say anything. Even though they did this the T-Rex decided to charge anyway and came start for them.

Skylar veered off to its right and thrust a spike at it. The stalactite chipped a portion off of its rib and that got its attention.

It turned furiously towards her and Andrew had to duck quickly not to get knocked out by it bony tail. Skylar drew more and more spikes out of the bag, throwing at the T-Rex.

She had good aim and one stuck in the bone of its skull. It shook violently but could not dislodge the weapon from itself. It ran towards her but she went through its legs it avoid being attacked.

She joined Andrew by his side and forced a spike into his hand.

"You're gonna to need this." Skylar told him and once again began to taunt the dinosaur.
"When I say, distract him!" She yelled behind her as Andrew stood there watching her do all the hard work.

"Now!" She called out to him and Andrew threw the one stalactite he had. It bounced of the T-Rex but it charged at him anyway.

Skylar ran the other way quickly, leaving Andrew to figure things out. To sum everything up she got the engine running and came back for him. As he jumped in, for the fifth time that day, the T-Rex was chasing them.

Skylar directed the engine toward the last hill of the track where the explosion had taken place. The only problem was that the fuse was all burnt out. She fished a match out of the bag and lit it.

The dinosaur squeezed inside of the large tunnel and Skylar rapidly through the lit match on the fuse. She cranked the engine into full gear and the train powered forward.

The dinosaur followed them slowly by scraping the top of its bony head against the ceiling. The fuse sizzled up and up getting closer to the box of dynamite. Skylar was unsure if they had enough time to even get out or not!

The train kept barreling up the hill and smaller explosions went off on both sides of them. They got closer and so did the flame.

Just a the flame hit the box the train made it to the top of the hill and made it down with a loud boom. The explosion gave the train an extra push and it gave the dinosaur the dismantling it deserved.

"Glad that's over." Andrew said breaking the silence.

"Now let's go back and get some more stalactites." Skylar beamed.

"Really? You're still on that?" He shook him head chuckling.

"It's that, then off to the Mark Twain!"
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Wow I'm finally done with this chapter. It took me a very long time to write it but it's finally finished! Hope you guys like it!