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Ten years after escaping from Cretacea, Jordan and Jason are forced to return there as the hostages of a militant group of Native Americans. There, they discover that the United States government has turned the subterranean, prehistoric world into its own private laboratory. When Jason and one of the Sioux braves becomes infected with Organism Alpha, the group must reveal its presence in the hopes that the researchers now have a cure for this lethal disease. Fortunately, they are correct. Inside the huge complex, which has been built next to Lava Lake, they begin to learn the scope of the military's agenda. They are only told part of the story, however, the part that is ingenious and completely acceptable.The researchers have concluded that Jason's father, Nathan, was correct and Cretacea is unstable. They are involved in an effort to rescue the many endangered species that live there. But there is one species for which there is no place on the Earth from which mankind would be safe; the Chill, the giant arachnid predecessors to the subphylum Chelicerata. Their plan involves transplanting them to Europa, a moon of the planet Jupiter. It's previously been determined that a liquid sea exists beneath its frozen surface. The scientists intent to create an ecosystem like the one in Cretacea around the hydrothermal vents that have been found at the bottom of the alien ocean. In order to be sure the Chill can survive in this extremely hostile environment, there has been experimentation involving gene splicing. They've taken the most dangerous predator ever to exist on Earth and they've attempted to improve it. Unfortunately, by using genetic material from a highly classified source, they have more than succeeded.