While the emergency phone in Gray’s dork pouch was actually a great idea, it was proving to be fucking useless out in the middle of... wherever he’d managed to end up. No signal, barely any battery - what was the point of it? Other than to remind Zach that his own was smashed and forgotten back at the demolished Gyrosphere. So now he was stuck in the middle of nowhere, god he didn’t even know where Gray had disappeared to now. He’d told him to stay put and he’d find a way back up the craggy, too steep to climb, cliff. But that had been easily an hour ago, and he was no closer to finding his baby brother. What the  fuck was he supposed to do now?

An irritatingly bright flicker out the corner of his eye had him looking down at the series of numbers slashed across his forearm... steadily nearing triple zeros. Panicked surprise had him freezing, phone no longer important in his hands. All the way out here, in the middle of a freaking jungle full of things prepared to eat him alive - and now’s when his soulmate decided to show up? What kind of fate was this? He didn’t have time to worry about another important person, not alongside his anxiety that Gray was being eaten somewhere right there and then. The slow countdown - shit, 00:01:03 so soon - raised complications he really didn’t need right now.

                                                “Hey... hey!” 

The words were sudden and loud in the strange sort of silence that had settled in the clearing since he’d stopped a few minutes before. It hadn’t startled him... much. Attention dragged painfully away from the near zero-ed out counter on his arm (this was it, this was them it had to be), Zach’s gaze settled on the girl at the edge of the clearing. She looked older - not by much perhaps, but definitely older - and she looked pissed. Dirtied and clothes disheveled, the girl looked much like he guessed he did, minus the cuts and bruises from the brush with the I-Rex. She didn’t appear entirely pleased to see him, even from here he could pick up the faint harsh words under her breath and yeah - he was totally not happy with the situation. He wanted to call her out, but something about the way she’d spoken those two words made him rethink. 

He didn’t move as got closer, her steps cautious and yeah this was really gonna be bad wasn’t it - there must be something there. Something he hadn’t noticed as he stormed into the clearing and was now deeply regretting throwing caution to the wind in his desperation to find his brother. She was kinda small, the nearer she got - but had an air about her that made him think she was more  than capable of handling herself. A twitch, a rustle of branch above and slightly to the side had his muscles locking. Zach struggled to stop himself from looking, keeping his eyes on the girl as she drew level and turned him, slowly, carefully. He swallowed thickly, mild panic rising at the words she loud-whispered (he still didn’t let his eyes waver too far from her, who knew what would set the things off... though maybe that wasn’t entirely why he refused to let his gaze wander from her own). He wanted to ask questions, wanted to fucking take a pause from the weird ass situation and danger they were in and address the glowing zeros between them - but he didn’t. Her voice, now she was close enough for him to really listen to, was a little husky and full of self-confidence and authority. Not one to take shit from anyone. Perfect. He knew it’d be stupid to argue - they’d probably both die a horrible death if he did ‘cause Pteranodons were vicious creatures from what he could remember from the videos online and things Gray had spouted to him over the years. So he kept his mouth shut, just gave a small nod of the head to show he understood. He really didn’t want to die just mere minutes after finding his soulmate, ‘cause that’d just suck.

So he turned, body twisted towards the massive creatures he could just feel in the trees above them, and started walking. Steps faltering only once or twice in the careful path across the clearing, it took all of his self control not to run or look up and actually get a view of the giant man-eating monsters. He didn’t even glance to the side to check the girl had followed, could hear the soft pads of her own footfalls slightly behind him. He could feel, and hear his heartbeat in his chest - loud and hard and fluttering with anxiety. He really didn’t wanna die  ‘cause of some overgrown turkey. The second he breached the treeline, he half-jogged a tiny bit further in and spun on the girl expression torn between a grimace, annoyance and wondered surprise, 

bear wrestling XD

               Our plane has crashed on Isla Sorna and a dinosaur is trying to get inside.

It was predictable and somehow he had known that this would find no good end. He should have never come here. But now it was important that he concentrated on getting out of here alive and rescue the survivors before the Tyrannosaurus rex would get to them. They could only make it together, if at all.      “Give me your hand,” he gasped, trying toreach for her.