Jurassic World: War of the Ages – Chapter 25: As the Jurassic World Turns

A/N: I might start crying. Why? This is the FINAL chapter of Jurassic World: War of the Ages! I'm kind of happy and sad at the same time: sad because I'm going to miss writing it, but happy because that means we can go to a new and exciting story. But you'll have to wait until the end of this chapter to find out what it is! Please enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own anything related to Jurassic Park except the very characters I've made up.

Alisha watched as Billy talked to the US military over the phone. She frowned, slightly concerned about what might happen next. Matt put his arm around her. "Something's worrying you," he told her.

"Si."

"Care to share?"

"It's just that...once we stop the apocalypse from happening, that will change the future."

"Yes, it will."

"Does that mean...people who are born in the future will...disappear?"

"Well..." Matt bit his lip. He had long known that this was a possibility. However, he also knew that preventing the apocalypse was the most important thing he must do, despite the consequences. "I might disappear from the timeline."

Alisha hugged him. "I don't want you to go."

"There is a chance I might not disappear, but...um...it's hard to say."

A tear rolled down Alisha's face. "Can you kiss me? One last time, just in case?"

Matt smiled as he kissed her on the lips, unsure if this would be his last. They kissed with passion, treasuring what might be their final moment together. After they pulled back, Alan and Ellie Grant approached them, hand in hand.

"In case you and your brother do disappear," Alan said, "we just wanted to let you know that we're grateful for everything you've done for us."

"We all are," Owen added. "Thank you."

"You're welcome," Matt and Dave said in unison.

Billy hung up the phone. "The deed's done." So the homosaurian and human Biosyn scientists wouldn't hear, he whispered, "The US military will be here in 15 minutes or less. They'll shut down the entire facility, seize all the work done here and everything they've built. Homosaurians won't be able to take over the world this time around."

"Ha!" Claire cheered. "So what now?"

"Um...I'm not–"

"Look at the portal!" Gray exclaimed.

The time portal began to fluctuate as ribbons of glowing energy shot from the orb and flew around the room. A mighty wind shook the room, blowing papers and other lightweight objects around. A bright light enveloped the entire laboratory and in a moment, everything was bathed in white.

"What's happening?!" Brianna shouted above the howling wind. "I can't see anything!"

"The time line is fixing itself!" Luke shouted back.

Finally, the winds died down and the bright light faded. The group found themselves standing in a dense tropical jungle. There was no lab, no scientists, no homosaurians, and no time portal.

"Where are we?" Matt asked.

"You're still here!" Alisha exclaimed. She hugged him tightly.

Matt grinned. "I am! We're still here, bro!"

"Hallelujah," Dave agreed.

"You guys did it!" Jack Tyson shouted.

The Harris Team turned to see Barry, Gerry Harding, Cheryl Logan, Dr. Laura Sorkin, Anthony, Billy Brennan, Simon Masrani, John Hammond, Dianthus, Tembo, Logan's friends, Henry Wu, Jack Tyson and Will Mcarthy also in the jungle. The two groups met and congratulated each other on the success they shared.

"Dad!" Jess shouted as she ran toward her father for a hug.

"Jess," Gerry said. "Oh my gosh, I'm so happy to see you." He looked up at his other daughter, Sarah. "Thanks for bringing her home."

"No problem," Sarah said with a smile.

"How was that war?" Dave asked Tembo.

"Astounding!" Tembo told him. "We wiped out the entire army of homosaurians that came at us!"

"What?" Matt asked. "How? Our army was much smaller than theirs."

"You should have seen it!" Dr. Henry Wu said. "We were able to get a herd of giant herbivores stampeding toward the army, causing a large number of them to be trampled. We also were able to blow up a section of cliff that we used to corner them. After that, we took them out."

"Nice. I can't wait to hear the whole story later."

"Wait, where are my raptors?" Owen asked. Everyone looked around, but they were nowhere to be seen.

For the next few minutes, everyone tried to figure out where they were and what next course of action they should take. But then, they heard a loud voice in the distance, "Ladies and gentlemen, satisfy your prehistoric appetite for thrills at our Mosasaurus Feeding Show! Please note that this show may be disturbing for small children. The Mosasaurus Feeding Show will begin in a moment."

"No way," Anthony said. "Are we...where I think we are?"

"We can't be," Claire said.

"Wait, am I missing something?" Ellie asked.

Hammond and Masrani exchanged knowing glances. Picking up Dianthus in his arm, Hammond walked toward the source of the sound. Parting the vegetation, he chuckled. "It's true!" he proclaimed. "We're here!"

"Where is here?" Will Mcarthy said.

Hammond turned to Alan and Ellie Grant. "You two – well, all of you – may want to see this."

Everyone walked to the edge of the forest where Hammond was and found themselves on the side of a mountain where the Gondola Lift was located. What Alan saw blew his breath away – below him was the majesty and spectacle of Hammond's dream; to the north was a grassy valley where Mesozoic giants roamed, from the Jurassic long-necked Apatosaurus and plate-backed Stegosaurus to the Cretaceous Parasaurolophus, Triceratops and Gallimimus, where strange sphere-shaped vehicles moved among them in the Gyrosphere Valley; in the northeast lay an aviary, housing the park's flying reptiles, Dimorphodon and Pteranodon; in the south, tourists teed off into the Jurassic at the world-class golf course; and straight ahead of them was the crowing jewel of the theme park, where tourists jaunted down Main Street for shopping, dining and more; at the moment, a magnificent Mosasaurus leaped halfway out of the water to catch a shark dangling above the lagoon at the feeding show.

"I know this place," Matt said. "This is the same place we saw as ruins in the future...the place the natives called the Island of Tembos."

"John," Ellie breathed, "is this...?"

"Haha!" Hammond took a deep breath. "Dr. Grant, my dearest Dr. Sattler...welcome...to Jurassic World!"

"It's...mind-blowing!" Alisha exclaimed. "So this is the park you built!"

"We must have gone back in time," Oscar concluded, "to before the apocalypse."

Billy Yoder snapped his fingers. "If that's the case...I still need to make a call to the US military so they can stop the apocalypse from starting at Biosyn."

"You, Oscar and D-Caf should go attend to that," Masrani concluded.

"Perfect timing!" Owen said. "Here comes a monorail."

Hammond turned to the Grants, Alisha, the Harris twins, Tembo, Will Mcarthy and Jack Tyson. "How would you like to see the rest of the park?"

"What are we waiting for?" Luke asked.

Nedry continued typing at his desk in the park's Control Room. He was grinning on the inside, thinking about the $1.5 million he would get from smuggling an embryo from every species of dinosaur off the island. As excited as he was, he had to remain casual. Fortunately, considering he'd been smuggling dinosaur embryos from InGen for quite some time now, he was accustomed to this.

"Whoa!" Ray Arnold said. "What happened?"

Nedry looked up from the computer screen. "What do you mean?"

"I was just..." Arnold looked like he'd just seen a ghost. "The last thing I remember was...I was getting attacked by a raptor in this very room."

Nedry rolled his eyes. "You probably dozed off. You were probably dreaming."

Arnold sighed. "Whatever."

As Arnold got back to typing his own work, John Hammond who was carrying Dianthus, Billy Yoder, Oscar Morales, D-Caf, Claire and Anthony entered the Control Room. While Billy started dialing on a phone on the wall nearby, Anthony took a seat at his desk.

"I never thought I'd see this desk again," Anthony said with a grin.

"Hey, you're all back!" Arnold said. "What happened? Last thing I remember is getting attacked by a Velociraptor and–"

Hammond went over to him. "Ah, Ray. So much happened. Remember all the bad things that happened in the park – the animals escaped, the security systems became buggy – that has not happened."

"The time line was reversed," Oscar explained.

"It was? So...everything's back to normal?" Arnold asked.

Anthony said, "You bet. The park's still open, the I. rex hasn't gotten out and everything's back to normal."

Arnold nodded. "Well that's good news."

Hammond looked over at Nedry. He sat Dianthus down on the floor and walked over to him. As usual, Nedry's desk was strewn with soda cans, candy wrappers and other garbage. There were several other people working in the Control Room at the present time, but Nedry was no doubt the sloppiest.

"Dennis," Hammond said, "our lives are in your hands and you've got butterfingers?"

Nedry chuckled and turned his chair to face Hammond. "I'm totally unappreciated in my time. You can run this whole park from this room with minimal staff for up to three days. You think that kind of automation is easy or cheap? You know anyone who would do everything I do at this park for what I get for this job? Cause if you do I'd love to see 'em try."

Hammond nodded. "You know Nedry, I think we have been under-appreciating you."

Nedry's jaw dropped. "What?"

"This park wouldn't be able to run without you. You're a loyal and trustworthy member of our staff."

Claire smirked. She knew where this was going, but she decided to play along. "Oh yes," she said. "I completely agree with Hammond. That's why we've decided to give you a raise."

"A raise?" Nedry's eyes grew wide. "Are you serious?"

"Quite," Hammond continued. "We were thinking...oh, let's say...half a million dollars more than what we pay you now."

"That's terrific."

"I don't think he needs an extra $50,000," Oscar said. "Especially with all the money he's been getting on his own."

Claire shook her head. "You're right, Oscar. How could I forget? Dennis here is already making $1.5 million, why would he need the measly $50,000 we'd give him?"

"How on earth would I be earning $1.5?" Nedry asked sheepishly.

"Oh I don't know," Hammond said. "Maybe–"

"From smuggly my embryos and selling them to Biosynthetic Technologies," Dr. Wu said, entering the room.

Nedry chuckled nervously. "Why would I do something like that?"

"Quit pretending like you don't know," Oscar demanded.

"Smuggling dinosaur embryos," Henry said, "for $1.5? That's inexcusable. And illegal, I might add."

"Hold on, everyone!" Nedry proclaimed. "I can explain everything! I'm innocent!"

"That's what they always say," Oscar said. "Tell that to the judge, Nedry!"

Just then, Hamada and two other ACU members stepped into the Control Room. Hamada said, "Dennis Nedry, you are under arrest."

"Wait! No! I can explain! Wait!"

Hamada and the other ACU members grabbed Nedry's arms and led him out of the Control Room.

Anthony smiled with relief. "Ah! Maybe there is justice in the world after all."

Billy and D-Caf returned from their phone call.

"How did it go?" Claire asked.

"The US military is on the case," Billy said. "They're heading over there as we speak. There won't be any apocalypse today!"

"And I got a call from Dodgson," D-Caf added. "He wanted me to tell you all "hi" and said he could see some of the military helicopters coming right now."

The others cheered. Finally, everything in Jurassic World would resume to normal.

After arresting Nedry, Hammond took it upon himself to show the Harris brothers, Alisha, Jack Tyson and Will Mcarthy around the park, Alan, Ellie, Luke, Tom, Alaina, Brianna, Billy Brennan and Cheryl would meet up with Hammond for their personal tour later. Right now, Owen was taking them to a large pair of complexes situated a little ways away from the rest of the park. There was about 30 feet of space between each compound and they were attached to each other by a catwalk.

"So these are the raptor paddocks," Owen announced, taking them up a flight of stairs so they could see the animals inside.

"These raptors are absolutely incredible, Alan," Billy said. "You're going to love this."

Ellie rolled her eyes. "Raptors. My favorite," she said sarcastically.

First, Owen showed them the enclosure holding the park's untrained raptors. "In this first compound, we have nine dromaeosaurs, or raptors. If you'll look down here, you can see our Utahraptor specimen."

In the enclosure below, the Utahraptor was gnawing on a cow femur. She looked up at the humans suspiciously, cocking her head.

"She's big!" Tom said. "I didn't think raptors got that big."

"Most don't," Alan explained. "Most species were the size of a chicken or a turkey, like Velociraptor mongoliensis."

"Interesting," Alaina said. "What's in the next enclosure? Your raptors?"

Owen smiled. "No. These raptors wouldn't let me near them without biting my head off. Here, we keep eight raptors. Take a look."

In the next enclosure, they saw eight Velociraptors in the middle of a feast. They were tearing apart a freshly-killed cow, effortlessly eating mouthfuls of red flesh. One raptor shrieked at the others, demanding her fair share. She was larger and more aggressive than the other raptors.

"That's the Big One," Owen explained. "When she looks at you you can see she's working things out. We used to have feeders come by and feed them, but Big One would have the other raptors attack them when they came. She's a very intelligent creature."

Big One looked up from her meal and snarled at her observers.

Alan grimaced. "I don't think she likes me."

Owen shrugged. "Well, she looks at what she wants. Usually what she wants to eat."

"I believe it."

"And if you'll follow me this way, I'll show you where my girls stay." Owen led the group across the catwalk and into the other compound where Blue, Delta, Charlie and Echo resided. Delta was taking a nap in the shade of a palm tree, while Echo, Blue and Charlie were playing tug-of-war with an old cow bone. Upon seeing Owen, Blue released her grip and ran toward the edge of the enclosure wall. The other raptors followed suite, repeatedly leaping up at Owen, snapping their jaws. "I guess they're hungry already. You guys want to watch?"

"Are you feeding them a cow like you did before?" Cheryl asked. "I don't think I can stomach watching that again."

"Not this time of day. I usually just feed them rats."

Owen grabbed a bucket of dead rats from one of the raptor keepers also in the compound. Then standing where the raptors could see him he grabbed his clicker and pressed the button a few times. The raptors stopped jumping at the wall and stared at Owen with eagerness.

"OK! Eyes on me!" Owen commanded. "Eyes on me!" Blue, Delta and Echo obeyed, but Charlie gave a menacing hiss – she wanted her rat now. "Hey! Charlie! Quit it!" When Owen clicked the clicker again, Charlie reluctantly obeyed. "And...we're moving! Eyes on me!" As Owen moved to the right, the raptors tracked his movements below him.

"That guy is awesome!" Brianna whispered.

As Owen continued to hold the raptor's gaze, Simon Masrani and another familiar man walked onto the scene. Alan gasped.

"Look who I found," Simon Masrani said.

"Baselton!" said Alan.

"Dr. Grant," Baselton said.

"I thought you..." Billy started, "didn't you...die?"

Baselton shrugged. "I guess I'm back since time switched back to the way things were."

"Good to see you man," Billy said with a smile. Alan winced, confused by Baselton's non-antagonistic behavior towards them. "Oh, Alan. I forgot to tell you. Baselton and I...we put our differences aside."

Alan nodded. "I see."

"Dr. Grant," Baselton said. "I'd like to apologize to you for my behavior too, now that I have the chance to do so."

A grin appeared on Alan's face and the two men shook hands.

"Hey guys," Alaina called, drawing their attention back to Owen and his raptor training. "You're gonna miss this!"

"Hold!" Owen said. The raptors remained still, watching Owen and waiting for their reward. "Keep holding!" Owen then grabbed a dead rat from the bucket and held it up for the raptors to see. "See? Here's what you get!" Owen threw the first rat to Charlie, who leaped up and caught it in her jaws. Then he threw one to Delta, Echo and finally Blue. "Alright, hold! And...release!" At that moment, the raptors darted away. The others congratulated Owen on another successful training session.

"Owen!"

Owen sighed, knowing who was calling his name. He turned to see Vic Hoskins coming towards him.

"Owen! That's what I call progress, man!" Hoskins said. "You've got them eating out of your palm!"

"He's definitely the best raptor training around these parts," Alan said.

"He's the only raptor trainer in the world," Hoskins corrected him. "Owen, I think it's time we take things to the next level! A field test!"

Owen shook his head. "Hoskins...I've said this before and I'll say it again: these are wild animals. You don't want them in the field."

"But, Owen, they're–"

"Listen. I've seen what these animals can do 'in the field'. Trust me. I know what they're capable of. But it's too dangerous. Raptors are still wild and unpredictable animals."

Hoskins shook his head. "I don't believe this." Turning to Masrani, he added, "We're both men of progress, Masrani. Are you really gonna just let these animals not be put to good use."

"Hoskins," Masrani began, "Velociraptors would not reduce casualties on the battlefield like you think they will. In fact, I suspect quite the opposite will occur. So let me be as clear as I can: no Velociraptors are going to be let loose on this island."

Hoskins placed his hands on his hips and shook his head. "You're all making a big mistake." With that, Hoskins descended down the staircase and left the compound.

"Crisis averted," Masrani stated.

"My raptors were great when they helped us take on the homosaurians in our time-travels," said Owen, "but they have no place on the military field."

After Hammond proudly showed his guests around the park, everyone met up on Main Street for an impromptu great nighttime festival complete with outdoor music, refreshments, dancing and fireworks for all the park's tourists to enjoy.

"Mr. Masrani," Claire said, "are you sure it's a good idea to leave the music to a bunch of teenagers?"

"Hey!" Logan shouted from the music booth. "We're not just teenagers."

"Yeah!" John agreed. "We've battled raptors!"

"And we've survived numerous dinosaur encounters," Matt (Logan's friend) added.

Masrani smiled. "I'm sure they'll do fine. You know, you look tense, Claire. You should take the night off. Get your dance shoes on and have some fun."

Claire sighed and walked over to the music booth where Logan, Katy, Matt, John, Chloe and Logan's other friends were getting tonight's music ready. "Are you sure you kids know what you're doing. This is expensive equipment."

"Relax," Katy said. "We've got this. Chloe can you plug this in?"

"I'm on it," said Chloe. "Say, what song should we play first?"

"Hm...do you have the Descendants soundtrack?"

"Yeah. I brought it."

"OK, play Set It Off."

Logan winced. "Can we do that?"

"I don't see why not. Just don't let it play the rest of the songs on the soundtrack." She giggled. "I can imagine the looks on everyone's face if Evil Like Me starts playing."

A moment later, the music started to play. Attendees of Jurassic World's First Dance Night was officially underway. Hammond, Masrani, Owen and Claire watched the party from the sidelines.

"So far, it seems this party is a success," Owen stated. "It's great to see everyone having fun instead of running for their lives for a change."

"Yes, it is," Claire said. "I'm not sure how much more running I could do."

"I wonder where Billy, Oscar and D-Caf are," Hammond inquired.

"They're at the buffet," Owen told him. "As are Billy Brennan, Cheryl and Dave Harris."

"Aunt Claire," Gray asked. "Can Zach and I go look at the pachycephalosaurs again before they close that area up for the night?"

Claire sighed. "I suppose. Just don't get lost."

"After everything we've been through," Zach said, "getting lost is the last thing on my bucket list of things to—whoa, Gray! Slow down! Wait for me!"

Hammond laughed. "Ah, kids these days."

"They grow up so fast," Claire said.

Luke, Alaina, Brianna, Tom were at the buffet, grabbing food to their heart's content.

"Mm mm!" Luke exclaimed as he sunk a strawberry into his mouth. "Man! I haven't eaten a strawberry in years!"

Instead of getting food, Brianna was cuddling Dianthus in her arms. The little pachyderm trumpeted happily. "There weren't any where you were stuck in the future?" she asked.

"Nope. Not one. Literally all the native fruit growing on Isla Nublar has an acquired taste, or so I'm told."

"Hey," Tom stated, "at least you didn't have to live off of vending machine food for three weeks in a row! I got so tired of eating potato chips and candy bars I might never eat them again."

Alaina ate her last bite of pizza as she watched Ian and Sarah dancing with Kelly in some sort of three-person dance. She smiled. "What do you guys say we get on the dance floor?"

"I certainly feel like dancing," Brianna agreed. "I'll just go give Dianthus back to Mr. Hammond." Before going though, she turned to Tom. "Do I have you dance?"

Tom grinned. "You bet."

"Cool. See ya in a moment."

As Alaina was about to follow Tom onto the dance floor, Luke grabbed her arm. She looked back at him.

"Um...Alaina," he stuttered. "I...I was wondering. Would you like to go out with me sometime?"

Alaina tried her best to hide her smile, but failed miserably. "As your friend...or as your girlfriend?"

"Um..." Luke grinned. "The latter?"

"Oh you!" She lightly kissed him on the cheek. "Sure! But first, won't you escort me to the dance floor?"

"My pleasure."

Alan and Ellie met up with Hammond, Masrani, Owen, Claire, Alisha and Matt Harris as they left the dance floor.

"Phew!" Ellie exclaimed. "Dancing really makes me thirsty."

"No kidding," Alan agreed.

"Speaking of dancing," Matt said, "you want to join in the festivities, Alisha?"

"I would love to, Matt," Alisha told him. "Let us baile."

With that, Matt and Alisha strolled arm-in-arm toward the part of Main Street dedicated to dancing. Owen wrapped his arm in Claire's.

"Wait, I don't dance," Claire said.

"Me neither," said Owen. "I guess get some new learning experiences together."

Claire smirked and rolled her eyes. "Fine. You may dance with me, Owen Grady."

"Right answer."

Ellie smiled as they followed in Matt and Alisha's footsteps. "They sure make a great couple."

"Ha," Hammond scoffed, "you wouldn't known that from their first date. But that's another story." He scooped up little Dianthus in his arm. "Isn't that right, Dianthus?"

All of a sudden, across the Isla Nublar Lagoon, brightly-colored fiery objects zipped upward. A second later, a brilliant display of fireworks decorated the nighttime sky. Fireworks of all colors – red, yellow, orange, purple and blue – created a great show of lights for observers below. Masrani grinned to himself.

"Yes," he said, "the fireworks were a good touch."

"Haha," Hammond laughed. "Spared no expense."

"Mr. Hammond! Mr. Masrani!" Henry Wu said as he and Dr. Sorkin approached the four of them (five if you were to include Dianthus). "We did it!"

"You did what?" Ellie asked.

"The Time-Transportation Device is officially up and running again," Dr. Sorkin proudly announced. "And this time, without that idiot Nedry to mess up the system, everything is running just as it should."

"So you know for a fact that if actually works?" Hammond asked. "Does it actually go back in time?"

Henry and Dr. Sorkin exchanged knowing glances before Dr. Sorkin presented the others with a small, shelled creature that fit in the palm of her hands which were currently also carrying a handful of water; Alan recognized it instantly as...

"An ammonite," Alan breathed.

A little bit of water was flushed out of the creature's shell as its tentacles wiggled about – it was still alive!

"This little guy washed in from the portal just now," Dr. Sorkin explained, "in addition to a good bit of water. Anthony's cleaning it up now."

Dr. Wu smiled. "So, Alan and Ellie, we wanted to ask you if – after you have adequate time to recover of course – would be interested in heading another expedition through the time portal, this time to the actual ancient past."

Alan and Ellie looked at each other, then at Hammond and Masrani.

Hammond said, "We would be honored to have you both on our team again."

Ellie squeezed Alan's hand and nodded eagerly. Then, saying no words, Alan stuck his hand out in front of Hammond. Hammond grabbed it firmly and gave it a good shake.

A/N: Well, that's the end, not only of Jurassic World: War of the Ages, but of the entire Jurassic World trilogy I've been working on! Can you believe it?! I've been working on this trilogy since before Jurassic World even came out, so that was more than two years ago! It seems like yesterday I sat down in front of the computer to start writing the first chapter of JurassiQuest. I'm really going to miss this trilogy. I had a lot of fun working on it. How did you all like it? What were your favorite parts? Favorite characters? Favorite dinosaurs? I want to know! Thanks to everyone who's tagged along for the entire story.

So what's next for me? Well, I'd never get tired of Jurassic Park/World, but I'd like to do something a little bit different. I've shown a lot of interest in a wide range of Disney movies lately, so I decided to do a fanfiction story that includes several of them. Yep, you've guessed it! I'm doing a mega-Dinsey crossover fanfiction story! This one's called "Phineas and Ferb Save the Disneyverse", and I've already published the very first chapter! So if that's something you're interested in reading, you should start doing that! Thanks again to everyone who's finished "Jurassic World: War of the Ages" and congratulations if you've read the entire trilogy. And most important of all, as always...spare no expense!