The door to Nicholas’ office opened up quickly but gentle enough not to qualify as someone bursting through it. Nicholas looked up from his desk to look towards the door with his one good bright cyan eye and narrowed his eyes to see one of the people from the HR department. He never was good at remembering people outside of his department and he tried his best not to get to know anyone from the HR department either.

Nicholas leaned back in his chair as he had leaned over his desk due to being over six feet and eight inches and had a large frame of strongman build. His dark maroon hair was styled with an undercut ponytail, and medium full beard that covered his square jaw. The most notable scar on his peach skin tone was one that ran horizontally across his face and another one was over his right eye, which made it blind.

Nicholas was wearing a simple black shirt that hugged his chest and a pair of dark blue cargo jeans. He had his shoulder gun holster still on and it had a strap that ran just under his pecs. His brown work boots were steel toe and currently had some jungle mud on the bottom of them from his last mission.

He knew the young blonde woman from HR was from the id card hanging around her neck and she was formally dressed like one of the desk sitters. Nicholas’ nose picked up her perfume and caused him to internally recoil.

“Mr. Overland, I’m from HR and here to drop off a new recruit, Miss. Fisher.” She said and her voice was like nails on a chalkboard for Nicholas.

“It’s Miss. Nelayan,” A young lady said and Nicholas finally looked at the young lady. She looked to be of southeast asian descent, and if Nicholas had picked one he would say Indonesia. She looked to be a barely graduated college student and stood around five feet tall. Her black hair was short pixie cut and the most odd thing was her sea blue eyes.

She was wearing a simple dark blue suit jacket with matching pants and a tucked in white dress shirt. She was clearly dressed for an interview and was very nervous where she stood.

Nicholas was half way to standing up when the HR woman started walking to the door, “Thank you and good luck, Mr. Overland.” She said quickly and closed the door, leaving Nicholas dumbstruck from the audacity.

“Ummm…Mr. Overla-” Miss. Nelayan flinched when Nicholas looked at her and he just let out a sigh. He slumped into his office chair making it creak loudly and he pointed to the chair in front of his desk.

“Sit and it’s either Nicholas or Boss, not Mr. Overland or Sir.” Nicholas said as she sat down and he noticed she was relaxing a bit more. Nicholas grabbed his reading glass on his desk, normally he didn’t need them but ever since computers became common he found he needed them and they often rested at the end of his nose. “So Miss. Nelayan, what is your first name?”

“Rina, Rina Nelayan,” She said and Nicholas started to type her name to pull up her file. He hated typing on the keyboard with his big fingers and found the keyboards were getting smaller and smaller each year. “I’ll try my best here in the engineering department…as I need the money to replace my wrecked car”

Nicholas stopped typing and slowly turned head to her and raised his brow. “Engineering department? Rina…do I look like an engineer to you?” He turned his seat so his body faced her.

She opened her mouth for a moment but closed it and Nicholas gave her small nod to not hold back. “If you were ex-military…but I don’t think it’s normal to have a gun holster on or have a gun that big.” She finally said and Nicholas shifted in seat.

“You mention a wrecked car? Mind tell me about it as I pull out your file to see what is going on.” Nicholas said and turned back to his computer.

“Alright, well after a few days after my first interview for the engineering department, a bus crashed into my car and that caused a pile up. There were a lot of people hurt but I was lucky enough to come out unscratched.” Nicholas could see Rina pause in thought before she returned to her story. “The doctors were baffled and a day later I got a call for a second interview and offered me a job, signed some papers and then…”

“You ended up in my office,” Nicholas finished and got her file up with it being flagged for his department due to her blood work. He let out a sigh as he took off his glasses and rubbed the bridge of his nose before getting up from desk. “It’s best to show you what you just signed up for…after you get a biometric scan by the lab boys, which HR should have done before handing you over to me.”

Rina stood up when Nicholas put his glasses down than grabbed his leather coat from the wall hanger. “Biometric scan? Lab Boys?” She asked as walked in lock step with Nicholas the best she could and Nicholas shifted his walk to make it easier for her.

“It’s standard for the department you joined…to put it simply, you applied for a public position in the Bristlecone Organization but instead ended up in the ‘private’ sector of Bristlecone.” Nicholas pulled out his id card out of his pocket and held it to the scanner beside the elevator. “Stick close to me.”

“Yes, Boss.” Rina automatically responded as the elevator opened up and walked in with Nicholas. Nicholas pressed a hidden button in the elevator that made the hand scanner and retina scan pop out of the wall. He used his blind eye for the retina scanner and his right hand, which almost didn’t fit on the hand scanner.

Once the scan finished a robotic voice greeted him and he took a step back to stand with Rina. He glanced down at Rina for a second, “Do you have parents or grandparents that are traditional when it comes to medicine?” Nicholas smirked when saw Rina look up at him with confusion written on her face.

“Grandparents but they listen to modern medicine as well.” Rina paused before smirking. “Like one time grandma cooked up chicken noodle soup when I was sick once but it wasn’t chicken she used.”

“Let me guess, it was actually shark meat.” Nicholas interjected and Rina looked dumbfounded by that answer. “I can’t read minds but I remember the parts of Indonesia that use sharks as medince.”

Rina blinked before regaining her composure, “Well it wasn’t just any shark, my grandpa had personally fished.” Rina said full of pride before it faded to sadness. “Both of them passed away a month ago, first my grandma then a week later my grandpa…”

Nicholas shifted as felt the elevator slow down to stop, “Sorry for your loss.” He said and the elevator doors and Nicholas smirked as Rina’s eyes widened at the sight before them.

Lying in a very large steel cage was a parasaurolophus and it was knocked out from drugs that would normally be used for elephants. Its side was going up and down from it breathing and showing it was a living and breathing animal. There were a bunch of scientists in their lab coats examining the dinosaur and few other members of his department were close by with rifles ready to tranq the dinosaur again.

“No, we didn’t pull a Jurassic Park,” Nicholas said as walked up to the cage and Rina followed. “This is a very natural and out of time creature that I caught down in the Amazon, she ruined some poor farmer’s field. Though it should have been slingshot back to its time, not being poked and prodded.”

“Cassandra’s team came back with Carnotaurus and the machine needs time to cool off before we slingshot back another large dinosaur,” One of the people in a labcoat that was near them. 

“And large carnivores are first in line than large herbivores.” Nicholas crossed his arms and glanced at Rina, who was crouching down to get a better look at the parasaurolophus’ face. “Is Dr. Goldschmidt in her office?”

“I was but some Mädchen called my office to tell me you had a new recruit for scanning.” A female voice with a German accent said from the left of Nicholas and he turned his head to look at Doctor Petra Goldschmidt.

Petra stood at six feet on the dote and she was very beautiful, too beautiful for Nicholas, almost in an uncanny valley way in Nicholas’ eyes. Maybe it was because of the cybernetic lines on her body he could see or maybe in his eyes he could see the electrical aura of people but couldn’t see hers. Today she had long blonde hair in a braid, which still reached her butt, and kept her glassy cybernetic eyes bright gold.

She was wearing the standard white lab coat and Nicholas could tell it was a new one as Petra normally had strains on sleeves from her experiments. Under the lab coat was black knee high skirt and white blouse that looked just as clean as her new lab coat.

Nicholas finally noticed Rina’s reaction to Petra and she looked completely taken aback from the doctor. She was taken aback so much that had gotten up and moved slightly hidden behind Nicholas out of instinct. “Aww, don’t be scared, I don’t bite.” Petra said as noticed Rina’s reaction.

Nicholas couldn’t help himself as let out a small snort, “Doc, you may dress up all nice but…” Nicholas paused to tap just under his good eye. “I think she has a similar sight as me.”

Petra took a pause to think before letting out a huff, “Oh you already know what mana heart she ate, eh Old Man?” She snipped and Nicholas just tilted his chin up with a smirk. “No matter what, to my office.”

Petra turned on her heel and Nicholas walked behind her while Rina followed him. “Boss, what is mana heart? I mean I know mana is some fantasy eng-”

“Not fantasy or at least it is the energy the subjects use to control their power.” Petra interrupted and Rina slightly flinched from her voice. Nicholas understood the flinch and could feel Petra was about to rant.

“Before Doc goes on rant, the dinosaurs slung into our time are transformed to allow them to control one or two elemental powers.” Nicholas explained and saw Rina relax from his voice. “A human can grain powers if they kill than eat dinosaur’s heart, and you're about to be scanned to see what you got.”

Perta stopped at a door and pointed to another female in a lab coat, who was standing in front of a different door. “My lab assistant will guide you through the process, while we man the computers in this room.” Petra said and Rina glanced at Nicholas.

“It’s similar to getting an MRI but you don’t have to worry about a giant magnet pulling out any piercing you have.” Nicholas ensured Rina and he noticed her hand about reach for her forearm but stopped.

“Alright,” She said before walking over to the lab assistant and following her into the other room. Perta opened the door and Nicholas followed her into the room that had a similar set up to MRI computers. There was a large panel window to a different room to the machine that looked like an MRI machine and Petra sat in front of the computer.

“So, what subject do you think she ate?” Petra asked as typed something into the computer. Nicholas glanced at the coffee machine off the side of the room and he walked over to it.

“Did you make this or was it one of your lab assistants? Because you can’t make good coffee if your life depended on it.” Nicholas asked and Perta glared at him. “Take that as no, also it’s megalodon heart.” 

She let out scuff as Nicholas poured some of the coffee into a paper coffee cup and returned to stand behind Perta. “That is impossible, that would be on the news and we would have covered up something that big.” She waved him off. 

“Want to bet on it?” Nicholas asked with raised brow and Perta spinned around in her chair with crossed arms. “Hunderd bucks against you have neon green for month.”

Perta narrowed her eyes at him and he sipped the coffee. “A week and pink instead of green.” She counter and raised her hand to him, which he took with a shake.

“Deal.” He said as let go of her hand and she spinned back around to the computers as Rina entered the machine room. She was in hospital dress and showing a blue and white tribal tattoo on her forearm. Nicholas leaned over to the mic and pressed a button, “Nice tattoos.” 

Rina looked at the window and gave a nervous wave and Nicholas waved back as sipped his coffee, which tasted decent. The lab assistant helped Rina into the machine and Perta pressed the mic this time, “Now stay still and I will tell you when you can get out.”

The machine hummed to life as the table Rina was now lying on slid into it and a light blue grid of lasers harmlessly covered her body. Perta’s fingers ran over the keyboard at fast pace and as seconds ticked by her stern composure slowly slipped to defeated look. The machine stopped humming as the scan finished and Rina was slid out.

Nicholas leaned to the mic, “Get dressed and the lab assistant will print out your ID badge.” He said and he looked to Perta, who was looking at him with a glare. “What?”

“You set me up, there is no way that child killed a meglodon.” Perta hissed and Nicholas smirked as sipped the last of his coffee. Perta was still glaring at him and even crossed her arms as waited for his answer.

Nicholas held up four fingers, “She was raised by her Indonesian grandparents, in her file it said she’s originally from Vancouver, salmon sharks are common in that area, and her surname is Nelayan, Doctor Goldsmith.” Nicholas stated and Perta’s glare switched to confusion before clicking her tongue.

“What the heck is a salmon shark?” Perta asked as Rina entered the room with her blazer over her arm and her ID badge around her neck. Nicholas looked at her with a smirk and nodded to her to answer the question.

“It's a species of mackerel shark that can grow to six to eight feet, and kind of look like mini great white sharks.” Rina said and a smile formed on her face. “I caught one when I was thirteen as a coming of age family tradition…why are we talking about salmon sharks?”

Nicholas looked to Perta as it clicked her in her brain, “Hey Doc, how big is a baby megalodon?” He asked her and Perta shot him glare before relaxing and fixing her skirt.

“A baby megalodon came out as big as six to thirteen feet long and most likely had similar coloring as great white shark.” She said as spun in her chair and typed something in the computer, which caused the printer to purr to life. “She is lucky she doesn't constantly need to move to live or stay in the water.”

Nicholas moved to the printer and sorted the papers before giving a set to Rina and Perta. He leaned against the wall with the wall phone beside him as he scanned the papers, “High durability, mid-healing factor, water breathing that is rare to get, low hydrokinesis, a low electroreception, evolution growth and…”