Chapter 11: Ambush

Chapter 11: Ambush is the eleventh chapter of Dinosaur Creek Part 1 and the eleventh overall chapter of Dinosaur Creek. It was released on August 8th, 2021.

## Plot Summary

After dragging the latest victim, Kireina approaches Tex and Emily, declaring she will get her revenge on Tex, but pleads one more time to mend their relationship. This way they can save their species and fix what they broke. She even brings up important facts about what they had before, which involves a moonlight night and a nest. Tex declines her offer, though, and swears he will not be brought down by her anymore. He eventually switches from his human form to the dinosaur form to fight her. Working together, Tex and Emily briefly battle Kiriena. During which Emily shows off her police combat training and impresses Tex. But seeing the two together makes Kireina jealous, thinking he likes Emily and calls the human/dinosaur pairing disgusting. Near the end, Tex claims Kireina can’t win if she’s outmatched. But Kireina eventually declares she didn’t come alone.

The two are suddenly ambushed by the Raptor Generals and Terrarium guards. Dreda shoots a tranquilizer dart at Tex, but Emily easily pulls it off him, even though he grows weakened. The guards then tie down Tex and have him muzzled and while Emily is cuffed. Dreda then declares Hero will want to speak to both of them before the troops take them both away. Dreda also declares this is her revenge for Emily hitting her head earlier, much to Emily’s concern. Dreda orders Kai to escort Kireina back to the base in a separate airship to give her the reward she was promised. She then orders Grey to help her escort Tex and Emily in another one. With it settled, the guards take Tex and Emily away. Emily realizes this was a trap and worries how the team will respond to this.

Back in the van, Caren is still panicking about the idea of Tex and Emily being together romantically, to the point where she breaks down in anger. Revit and Morgan watch with worry, while Shane is surprised and Blaster gleefully records her freak out (once again happy she’s expressing more of her emotions). However, Rover sees airships outside the van and alerts the group of the Terrarium troops kidnapping Tex and Emily. Seeing the two are in trouble, the group prepares to drive off to find them. But their drive takes them outside of the city and into the desert while following the helicopter.

In the airship, Emily questions Dreda if having Tex restraint too much is okay and if they’re going to try and erase her memory again. But Dreda clarifies that she will know once they reach the base. Their quick conversation reveals Dreda is deeply loyal to Hero and will serve him no matter the cost. However, to her and the team below surprise, the base they were previously with is revealed to be a full-on airship. The airship itself is shown in a cloaking disguise that makes it appear to disappear. The team down below gets a look at the ship and concludes that it's the original Terrarium base and it’s flying due to the ship part being hidden. Dreda claims Hero authorized this as part of a "test drive."

Knowing Tex and Emily are on the ship, the team knows they have to get them out but are stuck when they don’t know how to. Investigating the entrance, Caren thinks that the ship's cloaking device is inactive when the lower hatch opens to allow smaller ships to enter. The team concludes they need to fly up and get inside, with Blaster to carry them up cause he’s the only one who can fly and carry people with him. As the team drives closer to the ship, Peter sees it from a rooftop ledge as well. Seeing it, he prepares to follow it. He turns the tracker in his morph bracelet on to allow a Terrarium airship to find him and pick him up, enabling him to board the ship above.

On the airship, Tex and Emily are escorted onto the base ship, where the Raptors were showing them the different facilities that are on the base ship. This included the Defect Dino lab, where Buckley, Clay, and Mac are kept. In a separate jail cell, Elder is also locked up. Blaster flies the group up to the ship, managing to get in through another airship they fly near to avoid detection.

Tex and Emily are finally brought to Leonard Hero in his office. As part of their deal, Hero grants Kireina her freedom, and she is released from Terrarium. This worries Tex as he is oblivious to his actions of releasing a dangerous dinosaur into the world, even though Hero claims to be only releasing dinosaurs who are loyal to him and those who aren't locked up for good. When the Raptors leave the room, Emily does take the opportunity to ask Hero about his plans for the agents and he explains how he is training the dinosaur agents to be his personal soldiers that will fight for him in his army, an army that will one day help him rise to rule the world.

Hero talks to Emily about how he heard about Emily’s claims to the commissioner that involve them asking for her help thanks to an inside source. He decides to take up the offer and offers Emily a job in Terrarium, working as a full class agent like the dinosaur agents working. But if she doesn’t accept, she will have her memory wiped of herself completely. Tex and Emily don’t take this into consideration and she disagrees. But just before he can have them sentenced away, Emily presses the button on Tex’s morph bracelet to have him shape into his human form, thus allowing him to free himself of his heavy restraints. Fighting through the raptors outside, they escape. Hero then announces Tex and Emily’s escape and orders the Raptor Generals to recapture them. Unfortunately, he gets a call from another guard, explaining that the remote controlling the ship’s cloaking shield, much to his concern.

Caren, Shane, Blaster, and Morgan get onto the ship and Caren orders the boys to find the motherboard that powers the ship while she goes to look for Tex and Emily. Morgan says this would be a good time to search the base for any more imprisoned dinosaurs to help escape, including Elder. Caren does manage to get a signal on her phone and angrily calls Tex about how he got himself and Emily into trouble like this, but she does explain the plan to him and the two agree to meet up in the Defect Dino Lab, which is in between their two current locations. Caren has the rest of the team start searching for other trapped dinosaurs while she goes after Tex and Emily. Transforming into his dinosaur form, Tex and Emily make their way to the defect lab. On her way to the lab, Caren runs into a couple of Terrarium guards, who prepare to fight her. Just as Tex and Emily rush down the hall to find the team, they are approached by Peter, making them nervous since they know he’s a trained agent from Terrarium and might try to fight them.

## Characters

* Tex
* Emily Tops
* Caren
* Shane
* Blaster
* Morgan
* Rover
* Revit
* Peter
* Leonard Hero
* Dreda
* Grey
* Kai
* Kireina

## Trivia

* This chapter was actually meant to be combined with Chapter 10: Connect, leading Chapter 12: Infiltrate would have been the eleventh chapter. But because of page length, it was divided into two separate chapters