The cult captures Leo. Their leader, Mother Suture, reveals the truth: the rift was created by a failed time-dilation experiment in 2098. Now, every time a dinosaur dies on one side, its “echo” resurrects on the other as a twisted hybrid. They show Leo a T. rex from Primal Earth fused with Hive Earth Raptor neural tissue—a Rex-hive , a walking nightmare with six eyes and venomous bite. Elara and Kai infiltrate the cult’s lair: a crashed space station overgrown with dual-jurassic flora.