Chapter 12: Infiltrate

Chapter 12: Infiltrate is the twelve chapter of Dinosaur Creek Part 1 and the overall twelve chapter of Dinosaur Creek. It was released on August 15, 2021.

## Plot Summary

Before Tex and Emily escape, they are caught by Peter, worried that since he said he’s with Terrarium, he might arrest them. Tex tries to reason with him at first, claiming Hero is evil and they just want to escape. However, just as more guards show up, Peter quickly turns into his dinosaur form: a green and brown crested parasaurolophus, beats the guards away, using a war hammer, and says he’s actually a rebel just like them. He gives them directions to the Defect Dino Lab, gives them a remote he stole that controls the cloaking shield around the base, and helps them take off. He declares he’s going to find a separate cell and break some dinosaurs out. At the same time, Caren is still standing off against the Terrarium troops. But thanks to the reading she’s done on studying fighting techniques, as well as gaining a whip from fighting one of the troop members, Caren fights her way through the guards and starts making her way to the lab.

Meanwhile, Shane, Blaster, and Morgan locate the power room where the ship’s power supply generator is hidden while searching for the cell rooms. Thinking this as a chance to expose Hero for his crimes, Shane proposes the team help crash the ship for the city of Hell Creek to see, much to Blaster and Morgan's shock. They contact Revit through their phones and tell him to lure the ship close to the city so the ship can fall in their path towards it. To assist, Rover barks at the ship while Revit uses the van’s loud horns to honk at the ship from below. Officials detect the horns and drive the ship towards the van, which Revit begins to drive towards the city. Revit then calls the city police department to alert them of the incoming ship. Though Owen is skeptical at first, Bryce detects that this may involve the Hero case, meaning Emily is there. Concerned, Bryce rounds up Owen and the cops and heads out. Shane and Blaster meanwhile fight off guards that stand between them and the generator. While the boys fight through, Morgan continues to search for the cell rooms to find other trapped dinosaurs.

In the separate jail cell where Elder is being held, Morgan beats through the guards and prepares to find a way to break Elder out. She asks to escape with her, but Elder declares he doesn’t want to leave because he believes that since he can’t be a real dinosaur anymore, he has no life anymore. Morgan, though, convinces him otherwise because he should think about leaving the past behind and try to be a new man in the form he is now. Also due to needing to escape execution for his second escape, Elder begins to reconsider escaping with Morgan. Just in time, Peter arrives and successfully helps Morgan break down Elder’s containment. With this, the trio begins to look for the rest of the team.

The Defect Dino Lab still contains the defective dinosaurs Buckley, Clay, and Mac, who are locked up in their cells Tex and Emily reunite with Caren, but the trio is ambushed by Dreda, Grey, and Kai.The generals make one final attempt to make the team surrender, but they refuse once more, going as far to call Hero their mad boss. But this angers Dreda even further and once again declares her full loyatly to him. The two sides fight one another for escape, with Tex battling Grey, Emily battling Dreda, and Caren battling Kai. During the fight, Emily’s gun accidentally goes off and shoots the panel for the lab’s lock system. As Dreda pins Emily, she finds the cloaking remote in her pocket and tries to retrieve it while still keeping Emily restrained. But seeing Dreda's pistol in her coat pocket, Emily retaliates by biting Dreda's hand. This catches her off guard long enough for her to take back the remote, toss it to Caren, and allow Caren to use her whip to toss it in the air.

Eventually, to the Raptors' displeasure, Emily steals Dreda's pistol and shoots the remote, destroying it as a result. This allows the ship’s invisible cloak to be disabled, causing the ship to be fully visible to the outside, including Revit and the city of Hell Creek in the distance. After fighting the Raptors away, Tex and the girls make their way to the power source to find Shane and Blaster. The Raptors meanwhile take off to look for Hero. Once they leave, the damaged lock panel causes the cells in the room to unlock, thereby freeing Buckley, Clay, and Mac. The trio prepares to escape by searching for escape pods.

Hero though sees this happening through the cameras in the security room. He orders his troops to evacuate to the escape pods while he goes to take care of the dinosaurs himself before they all go down with the ship. As he walks out, his eyes shapeshift into reptilian yellow eyes, intending he may be a dinosaur and not human.

## Characters

* Tex
* Emily Tops
* Caren
* Shane
* Blaster
* Morgan
* Rover
* Revit
* Peter
* Owen Spencers
* Bryce Brach
* Buckley
* Clay
* Mac
* Elder
* Leonard Hero
* Dred
* Grey
* Kai