Prehistoric Legacy: Tierra Olvidada

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### Summary

A valley teeming with prehistoric animals was discovered in the 1930s. What marvelous discoveries could be made researching this magnificent place? However, greedy men with no care at all for the dire consequences of this fragile habitat's destruction have caused the valley to fall. When a mole sabotages the facility, everything goes wrong...

### Characters

2. Samson Quell
3. Miguel Onyx
4. Dimitri Lambros
5. Victor Martinez
6. Mike Doyle
7. Warren Dirk
8. Lola Escarra
9. Joseph Williams
10. Hannah Williams
11. Axis Boulder
12. Gladys Quell

### Species

1. *Amargasaurus* (La Amarga Lizard)
2. *Ankylosaurus* (Fused Lizard)
3. *Argentinosaurus* (Lizard from Argentina)
4. *Arambourgiana* (Titan Wing)
5. *Cryolophosaurus* (Frozen Crested Lizard)
6. *Dakotaraptor* (Predator from Dakota)
7. *Eoraptor* (Dawn Thief)
8. *Giganotosaurus* (Giant Lizard)
9. *Iguanodon* (Iguana Tooth)
10. *Irritator* (Irritating)
11. *Lambeosaurus* (Lambe's Lizard)
12. *Olorotitan* (Titanic Swan)
13. ***Onyxodon*** (Clawed Tooth)
14. *Ornithomimus* (Bird Mimic)
15. *Oviraptor* (Egg Thief)
16. *Pachyrhinosaurus* (Thick-Nosed Lizard)
17. *Pentaceratops* (Five-Horned Face)
18. ***Quellotyrannus*** (Destruction Tyrant)
19. *Rhamphorhynchus* (Beak Snout)
20. *Sauropelta* (Lizard Shield)
21. *Shastasaurus* (Mount Shasta Lizard)
22. *Sinornithosaurus* (Chinese Bird-Lizard)
23. *Tenontosaurus* (Sinew Lizard)
24. *Tropeognathus* (Keel Jaw)
25. *Tyrannosaurus* (Tyrant Lizard)
26. *Utahraptor* (Predator from Utah)

### Plot

In the 1930s, Hobard Quell discovered Tierra Olvidada, a land where dinosaurs and other prehistoric species still live. In the following years, he manages to gain exclusive control/ownership of this land, and he begins construction of Quell Laboratories and its facilities here. His goal is to study the animals, the properties of Amahirium (a mysterious group of extraterrestrial plant-like organisms that may contribute to the survival of these Lazarus species), and to preserve the lost world.

Over time, his son, Jonathan, takes control, but he goes in a different direction, using the land's resources to produce pharmaceuticals and drugs. Unfortunately, he's damaged a lot of this land, causing many species to go extinct; this brings Quell Laboratories under a lot of pressure with the general public and, because of this, the Paleo Patrol, an extremist conservation group, is formed.

As a method to get the Paleo Patrol's favor, he forms a partnership with OnyxoCore, led by Dr. Jonah Onyx, a genetics company that's specializing in animal cloning; new dinosaurs and other prehistoric species are cloned to hopefully fix the damage that was done.

Time later, Samson Quell, Hobard's grandson, takes over the company. Corrupt and selfish, Samson convinces OnyxoCore to clone more and more species to experiment on. Jonah is against the whole thing and threatens to expose Quell Laboratories, forcing Samson and his partner, Dr. Dimitri Lambros, to poison and murder him; there isn't any proof to expose this crime. After Onyx's death, his nephew, Miguel Onyx, becomes the head of OnyxoCore.

Unfortunately for Quell Laboratories, a mole in the compound reported the animal abuse to the government. Although there hasn't been proof, the government, under the pressure of the Paleo Patrol, has declared that, if any animal, including the cloned ones, is found to be experimented on, then Quell Laboratories will lose control of TO and the dinosaurs. Therefore, a representative of the Paleo Patrol is always on site; Victor Martinez, the vice-president of Quell Labs., is the representative of the Paleo Patrol.

Samson, desperate to get out of this, decides to use a loophole by ordering Miguel to create new species, aka hybrids, reasoning that non-existing species would have no rights. Although Miguel clones them, he's against the whole thing. The mole sabotages the facility, and all goes downhill.

After the mole sabotages the facility, the dinosaurs start getting closer and closer to the facility, forcing Samson Quell to order an evacuation. Shortly after ordering the evacuation, Dimitri berates him for giving up everything while Samson blames Dimitri and threatens to bury him when they get back to civilization, including imprisoning him for Jonah Onyx's murder, to which Dimitri retorts that whatever happens to him will happen to Samson as well. After their discord, they each leave to attend to the evacuation.

Sometime later, as Samson is preparing to leave, he finds out that Dimitri hasn't left yet, so Samson orders Martinez to bring him back. Quell then drives off in his Jeep to reach the evacuation site. Meanwhile, Dimitri is at Paddock 22, trying to salvage as much research as possible. Martinez arrives and tries to force him to leave, telling him that he won't what's coming to him, to which Dimitri retorts and then shoves him into a hallway, locks the door, and opens the paddock gates. He calls for a pack of genetically designed dinosaurs, the Quellotyrannus pack, to Martinez via an alarm call used to let them know that it's their feeding hour. The pack devours Martinez as Dimitri goes to his bungalow to gather the rest of his research.

Samson is halfway to the helicopter before a hunting Giganotosaurus causes a nearby herd of hadrosaurs to stampede, running into the car and causing it to fall into the swamp. As it gets lodged into the bog and it starts to sink, Samson quickly gets out and begins to walk in the direction he thinks the helicopter is in. As Samson walks, a dense fog forms, and he starts having trouble figuring out where he is when he hears a splash nearby. Turning, he notices an oddly shaped log that seemed to go against the current but couldn't tell what it was due to the fog; he realized that it was an Irritator. He turned to run, but it jumped out and knocked him over, biting his leg and clawing his sides, dragging him; as Quell was desperately grabbing onto rocks, logs, and the mud, two more appeared out of the forest. He was dragged into the river, and all of them ducked under the water.

Meanwhile, Dimitri is distracted trying to salvage his research at his bungalow and doesn't realize he left the front door slightly open, allowing a pack of Sinornithosaurus to enter. As Dimitri finished downloading the data and was getting ready to leave, he was bitten by the Sinthies; their venomous bite caused him to become dizzy and disoriented and he fell, breaking the USB in the process. The Sinthies closed in around him and ate him.

In the aftermath, news about the fall of Quell Laboratories was known worldwide. The company was on the verge of becoming bankrupt and shut down, but Gladys Quell, granddaughter of Hobard Quell, decided to repair the damage. She tracked down Miguel Onyx, one of the survivors with intimate knowledge of the layout, and together they formulated a plan to obtain all the lost research from Tierra Olvidada. They put together a team of people to head back into this lost world....