The three mares and fillies walked into the visitor's center rotunda. It was dark, shadowy, and deserted; totally different from when they first arrived. The sounds of their hooves' echoed off the walls. Rainbow carried Scootaloo on her back as the filly was too hurt to walk after being electrocuted. They had used Applebloom's bow to bandage Scoots' burned hooves.
"Hello?" called Rainbow Dash. "Anypony here?"
"Twilight?" called Applejack.
"Fluttershy?" called Rarity.
They entered the dining area and set Scootaloo down on a table. She winced from her sore hooves.
"Ya'll are gonna stay here now." Applejack told the crusaders. "Rainbow, Rarity, and I gotta go find the others. Then we'll get out of this place, and get you to a hospital. Applebloom, Sweetie Belle, can ya'll look after Scootaloo?"
Scootaloo looked down in shame.
"Sorry I couldn't get off the fence."
"Aah come on now Sugarcube. It wasn't your fault."
She turned to Rainbow and Rarity.
"Come on girls lets go."
"Wait." Said Rainbow Dash.
She pushed her hoof around Scootaloo's mane.
"Your mane is all poofy. Scootaloo the ponified piece of toast."
Scoots smiled. The mares turned to leave.
"We'll be back soon. We promise."
Across the room was a table of food which was supposed to be eaten the night before, when the T-Rex broke out and attacked them. They hadn't eaten anything since yesterday at lunch and were starving. Scootaloo got up and limped over to the table. Applebloom and Sweetie followed her. They all got plates and silverware, and dug into the smorgasbord.
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Outside Applejack, Rainbow, and Rarity searched the compound looking for their friends.
"Twilight?" called Applejack. "Uncle Orange?"
"Fluttershy? Pinkie?" called Rarity.
Twilight was outside too and spotted them from up on a small ridge.
"Girls?"
The others turned and saw her. Twilight was so overjoyed she nearly cried. They galloped toward each other and embraced.
"Twilight!"
"Girls! Are you all okay?"
"We're quite banged up," Rainbow emphasized their injuries. "but we're all in one piece."
"Where are Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy?" Rarity asked.
"Emergency bunker on the other side of the compound. We found Pinkie when we came to look for you all. Her leg was badly broken, but she's okay. She's still Pinkie."
"Now where might my Uncle Orange be." Applejack quipped. "Pardon the pun but Ah got a real bone to pick with him."
"He's dead." said Twilight. "He got eaten."
The three mares looked at each other surprised. Applejack scratched her mane not knowing what to think.
"Eaten by his own theme park." she sighed. "Now that's just plain ironic."
"How did you all get here? Fluttershy and I went to find you."
"Well," said Rarity. "The Tyrannosaurus Rex broke out of its cage and threw us off a cliff, and we had to hike our way back here through the jungle. We had a great time with a Brachiosaurus', were nearly trampled by anklesaurs..."
"Ankylosaurs." Rainbow corrected.
"Whatever...Had a sweet encounter with a parasaurolophus family, scaled an electric fence and well, HaHaHa here we are."
"And the cutie mark crusaders?" asked Twilight.
"They're all fine." said Applejack. "We almost lost Scootaloo coming over the fence. The power came on while she was climbing down and gave her quite a jolt."
"Oh dear." Twilight covered her mouth. "I was the one turning the power on. Is she okay?"
"She's fine sweetness." said Rarity. "Rainbow Dash revived her and she's with the others in the dining hall. Now how about we get ourselves out of this crazy theme park."
"We have a bigger problem. We're not safe out here."
"What do you mean Twilight?" asked Rainbow. "Were back within the compound and the fences are back on, right?"
"Believe me, it's much more serious than that. Lets get to the emergency bunker. We need to regroup."
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Inside the dining hall, the Cutie Mark Crusaders were chowing down on some of the delicious food. Daisies and dandelion deserts, fresh fruits and veggies. They all smiled at each other. It was great to finally have some food. Scootaloo took a drink from a glass of milk. As she set it down she looked at Sweetie and Applebloom very confused. They were looking at something. Sweetie Belle, holding a spoonful of green jello in her horn magic started to shake. Her eyes widened. Scootaloo looked behind her. A snarling dark shadow appeared on the other side of the glass mural, and it was coming their way. The shadow's head turned and hissed at the little ponies. Scootaloo gasped.
The three fillies scrambled into the kitchen shutting the door behind them, but it had no lock. Sweetie turned off the lights and they ran to the end of a long metal counter hiding at the other end. Outside the sound of hisses and snorts became louder. A scaly toothed snout appeared in the door's small window fogging it with its hot breath. Scootaloo looked back from behind the table to see what it was. The dinosaur looked through the tiny window, and sneered at her. It made a loud snort fogging up the window. Scoots gasped and huddled with the others behind the counter.
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The Mane Six, now regrouped inside the bunker conversed with each other.
"Now let me get this straight." said Applejack. "What are these things again?"
"Velociraptors." answered Twilight. "They're pack hunting dinosaurs."
"They're the same dinosaurs that devoured that poor cow." Fluttershy whimpered.
"What's different about them than the other dinosaurs here?" Rainbow added in.
"Well for one thing, they are intelligent. Like solving quantum mechanics crossed with vector calculus intelligent."
The ponies couldn't understand what Twilight just said, but they knew if these types of dinosaurs were that smart they were in real trouble.
"Remember the baby dinosaur we saw yesterday in the lab?"
"Sure." said Pinkie Pie. "It was adorable!"
"Well that was a baby raptor, and these are all grown up.They're not just predators like the T-Rex, these things strategize and coordinate their attacks. They know exactly what they're doing. They set a trap for Octavia and she walked right into it. She never saw it coming."
The mares all looked at each other with a mix of amazement and fright realizing what they were up against.
"Not only are they intelligent. They're fast runners, incredible jumpers, and they have these."
She tossed a raptor claw onto the table.
"Raptors have six inch retractable claws on the inner toes of both feet."
"Holey Wiggy! That's a sharp little piggy!"
"My!" said Rarity. "Have these things never heard of emery boards?"
"How many raptors are out there?" asked Rainbow Dash
"Three." answered Twilight.
"So how do we call for help?" asked Applejack. "Spike ain't here to message Princess Celestia."
"No." said Twilight. "But with the power on now, we can reboot the park systems which will turn the phones back on. Then we can call Spike to message the princess, and get out of here."
Rainbow Dash pulled out one of the shoulder guns from the closet and loaded it up.
"Well what are we waiting for. Lets pony up."
"Fluttershy," said Twilight. "You and Pinkie stay here. We'll call you once the systems back up."
"Okay."
"Wanna play more cards?" asked Pinkie cheerfully. "Or how bout tic tac toe?"
"Twilight?" asked Rarity. "You think the cutie mark crusaders are safe where they are? What with these... ewugh...raptor things roaming about?"
"They should be, unless they figure out how to open doors."
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Back in the visitor's center kitchen, the knob of the door started to turn and then opened ajar with a three clawed hand behind it. The snorting dinosaur nudged the door with its snout, figuring out how it worked. Then pushed it wide open.
"Scootaloo." Applebloom whispered. "What is it?!"
"A velociraptor."
"Its inside?!" Sweetie Belle whimpered.
The raptor looked around the doorway then stood straight up making a very loud noise, as if it was calling something or someone. Another raptor came in right behind it. They sniffed the air for the smell of fresh meat.
Sweetie Belle looked up from the corner of the table, then pulled back and whispered to the others.
"There's two of them!"
"Follow me." Applebloom whispered.
The three fillies got on their knees and crawled alongside another counter. The raptors began prowling the kitchen looking for the little ponies. They were hunting as they would have millions of years ago. As if playing their own game of hide and seek; only this time if they were found they'd be lunch. The raptors' snorts, snarls, and hisses sent chills through the fillies' blood. One raptor was on the other side of the counter with a look in its eye of 'Come out, come out, wherever you are.' Underneath the counter the girls could see the raptor's sharp toe claws, tapping the floor as it walked.
The lead raptor snorted and the fillies stopped in their tracks. It looked over the counter top to see if they were on the other side. It didn't see them. Growling in disappointment, it kept moving. The crusaders crawled in the opposite direction. The raptors were getting frustrated. Snorting, the raptor's tail knocked some cookware off the counter top. The pots and pans fell onto the Crusaders. They brushed them off and hurried to the next counter. Appleboom and Sweetie Belle got to the other side, but Scootaloo stopped among a rack of cooking utensils, just as a raptor stuck its nose through a drawer on the previous cabinet. It sniffed the floor. Finding nothing, it pulled it's head back. Scootaloo breathed a sigh of relief, but a soup ladle fell off its hook and clanged on the stone floor. The raptors heard the sound. One jumped up onto the counter top and they both headed Scootaloo's way.
Scootaloo crawled halfway down the counter and stopped. Sweetie and Applebloom were down on the other end. They waved to her to crawl down, but she was too scared to move. The snorting raptors were right on top of her. Sniffing around the counter they would surely find her. Suddenly they heard a clanging noise. Using her horn magic, Sweetie Belle banged a metal spoon onto the floor. The raptors turned their attention to her and Applebloom. The two fillies crawled into an open drawer on the side of the counter. One raptor saw them crawling inside, and bared its sharp teeth. The girls tried to shut the drawer but the door was stuck. The vicious raptor reared up and screamed, charging for the ponies. The girls screamed as the snarling carnivore charged for them. The raptor crouched down and leapt toward the drawer for an ambush, but hit the front a metal cabinet, knocking it out cold. It had been fooled by the girls' reflection. Applebloom and Sweetie crawled out of the drawer and scooted away to hide.
Scootaloo peaked out from behind the counter where she was hiding. At the far end of the kitchen was a large walk-in freezer and the door was open. This gave her an idea. She got up and bolted for the freezer. The second raptor saw her and leapt off the counter in pursuit. Scootaloo limped as fast as she could toward the freezer, but the raptor was catching up. Almost in its claws the pegasus and dinosaur screamed into the freezer. Sliding on the slippery floor, the raptor crashed into a shelf of frozen vegetables. Scootaloo got up and slipped her way out of the freezer. The raptor quickly got to its feet and jumped for the door, just before Scootaloo slammed it into its face. Applebloom and Sweetie Belle ran screaming for the freezer. The snarling raptor pushed against the door trying to escape. With one final slam onto its hands and snout, the raptor let go and the door shut. Sweetie Belle slipped in the locking pin trapping it inside for good.
Scootaloo leaned on the side of a counter panting. Applebloom and Sweetie Belle grabbed her and they fled the kitchen. As they ran away, the raptor that had hit the side of the cabinet came too and spotted them. It sneered with the look of 'clever girls.' The crusaders ran back into the cafeteria where they saw Rainbow, AJ, Rarity, and Twilight.
"You girls okay?" asked Rarity.
"A velociraptor." Sweetie Belle cried. "It's in the kitchen."
"Control room." said Twilight. "Hurry."