Chapter 47: Black Heart

The sun was slowly lowering in the sky as was the light over the rocky landscape where the canyon routes, carved from flooding in the far past, now gave way to routes for dinosaurs to take. However, an alien light shone from within a cavern not far from an open field route walked by many a herd of many type of dinosaurs. Inside the cavern, the light was created from a set of three rods placed in a triangle by the dark predator, the Black Raptor. She fixed the rods on the ground and took a few steps back from them.

"Good thing about Tri-MacRock-Labs… the 3D imaging system works at trimacix frequency linked to the present," Black Raptor told herself taking hold of the remote and pushed the red button. The rods activated and a light along the inner parts shined against each other, forming into a 3D holo-image of Chi-Sanner.

"Ah, I see the good lady has made it there safely even though it has been about… two weeks since we lost contact with you?" he said over the crackling static.

Black Raptor crossed her arms, "I got your long range spectral transmission a few days ago. So what is it old man? I got a mission to complete…" Black Raptor said with a thin line of patience in her mind.

"I have the Chrono Maximum at the point. It can be at maximum until we have those three nanochips," Chi-Sanner said to her. He then lifted a hand up showing an image beside him, "This is what I called you for. We've managed to run a system following on others pasts from the points they are born. I want you to give me names so I can check them out if they will be a threat to this mission," Chi-Sanner explained pointing at his new system.

"I see. Well, I have a list stored as a file on this disc right here. If you know how to transfer it through sixty-five million years without it degrading," Black Raptor said flatly waving the disc in her hand having taken it out of the bag sitting beside a rock.

"Simple. All you do is place it in one of the rods and it will send it all to me in a second. You, however, will just have to wait till morning. Your data of all those on that disc will be yours in a neatly packed gift to you, my dear lady." Chi-Sanner raised his arms in the air and looked behind him as Black Raptor placed the disc in to transfer the data.

"That is a lot of names and pictures…" he looked back at Black Raptor.

"I've been here for two weeks old man… so this is the list that I want to know about. Give it to me by morning like you said or no deal with the chips and if there're others that met with the ones in that list, I want to know about them as well." Black Raptor pushed the red button on the remote and the image disappeared. She took out a cigarette and placed it in her mouth. Just as she was about to light it, she heard a sound. Looking to the entrance of the cavern, she saw a bird that was sitting on a large alligator.

"Oh no, not you two again… this is the seventeenth time this week. Can't you two learn that I am not going to be eaten by the likes of you idiots," Black Raptor moaned as she pulled out her gun and took aim at them, "This time, I will not go lightly. I will shoot you now, and then talk."

"Wait, wait!" Icky cawed waving his wings up and down, "We want to talk… right Dil?"

"Yes Icky! What did we talk about before coming here!" Dil shouted at Icky. Black Raptor leaned up against the rocky side of the cavern, waiting for the explosion of temper.

Icky looked into one of Dil's eyes with an angry glance, "Hey! Don't shout at me. I am not the one who can't see well!"

"Why I oughta hit you!" Dil growled.

"Are you done or should I take a rain check on the meeting for now?" Black Raptor interrupted. Walking up to them, she poked Dil on the end of the snout, "Now, tell me. What is it you want to talk about before I get bored and shoot you two anyhow?" Black Raptor raised her gun putting right against Icky's torso.

Icky pushed the barrel away from his body with his wings, "I told you, we're here to just talk. Don't worry, ok!"

"Like what Icky said, you are too much trouble for us to catch. That's why we want to talk," Dil spoke up. She watched with some difficult as Black Raptor move away from them.

"Then speak!" Black Raptor shouted at them.

"Do you know you look…" Icky started but was quickly cut off.

"Tell me now! You got five seconds!" Black Raptor warned them.

"Ok it was that we… erm," Dil paused looking up at Icky.

"I forgot," Icky said dumbly. Angered, Black Raptor pulled the trigger on her gun and let off a bullet next to Dil's front foot.

"Get out of here and never return! Or I will kill you two for sure!!" Black Raptor fired off another shot and another at Dil's feet making the bellydragger back away before turning away to make a run for it.

"Bloody large mouth idiot and beak head friend… God! They are so annoying when it comes to completing a mission…"

"She is worse than anything!" Icky cried out as Dil moved quickly out the cavern not noticing a large herd of longnecks nearby.

"I know Icky! Let forgot this place. The Land of Mist was better for getting a meal," Dil suggested getting further away from the cavern.

"For once Dil, that a good plan you've come up with," Icky said also feeling scared to be near Black Raptor. Even though she was a human that had a temper, she also had a power that scared them both.

Black Raptor placed the gun back in is holster and walked to the rods. Picking them up, she packed them back in their holders and placed them back on the side of her bike. She started to take down the wall lighting she fitted in the cavern, turned them off one by one and placed them back in the bag.

"This better be worth the pay… I had to deal with missions before but this is far from normal," she mumbled as she took down more of the wall lighting and packed them in the bag. Black Raptor placed the last one in the bag and fastened the bag onto the back of the bike seat as she checked the other gear she took with her.

"Ah, my trusty sniper rifle and one super, long range rocket launcher; the key to my success," she smirked as she looked down at her leg, "But a knife always helps." She pulled the knife out of her leg strap and looked at her knife with an even bigger smirk.

Black Raptor looked at the entrance of the cavern, noticing the large movements of large and heavy dinosaurs.

"Brontosaurus… lots of them. Must be a herd," Black Raptor said to herself as a cruel smile came to her face, "And if I am right, one Brontosaurus has a special place in their heart for the brat with the last nanochip. Well, I have that something for that one." She looked at the launcher on the side of her bike. She sat down by the cavern wall looking at her bike. "By tomorrow, I will have that nanochip and be out of this hell hole of a world." Black Raptor held her gun close to her chest as she closed her eyes, getting ready for her nap. "Soon you will meet your doom child," she whispered with an evil smile as she faded into a light sleep.