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In Southern England in the Middle Ages, six knights discover a town has been decimated by a dragon and vow to kill it. At its lair, the dragon attacks the knights, who divide up into groups, carrying barrels of gunpowder and hide. In the ensuing fight, the dragon shoots a fireball at the barrels. This causes an explosion and a cave-in which traps the dragon and five of the six knights.
One thousand years later, in the nearby desert of California, Captain David Carver transports Dr. Ian Drakovitch, carrying a suitcase, to an ultra-secret underground research facility, where scientists specialize in cloning endangered or extinct animals. The suitcase carries top-secret items. The helicopter which the men are riding in develops fuel problems, but David manages to land the craft.
At the facility, David becomes the new security officer. Russian security officer Captain Sergei Petrov introduces him to Dr. Meredith Winter, Dr. Greg Travis, Kevin Korisch, and Bailey Kent. He also meets Cookie, the supposedly deaf facility's cook. Ian eventually reveals that he uncovered the remains of a "winged dinosaur" in a cave in Southern England. They were found alongside human remains and are over 1,000 years old. The other people do not believe this, saying that the remains are too young. David suggests that the remains are those of a dragon. This idea agitates Drakovitch, but everyone else laughs at this possibility. David tries to fix the helicopter but is coaxed by Dr. Winter to see the cloning process. Ian then orders the fossil samples to be put by scientists in hazmat suits inside a cloning chamber and says that the whole animal should reform within 24 hours.
To everyone's surprise, the cloning process is completed within three hours. Ian sends the two scientists into the cloning chamber to retrieve the specimen, but an explosion blows the room apart. David and Ian go in and find the room destroyed. The creature blew a hole in the back leading into an underground basement. David and Greg head into the cellar, directed by Dr. Winter from inside the lab, and find the consumed bodies of the two scientists.
Greg is eventually killed by the dragon. David fires a shotgun at it, but the bullets barely affect its skin. Later, both David and Sergei head into the hallways to reach the elevator so they can all escape. However, the back hallway explodes, killing Sergei.
The dragon blasts its way out from the basement, and David flees. Having blasted the entire system, the dragon causes an automatic lockdown which traps it with the humans. It is getting hungry and starts wander around to search for food and a nest. It is also warm-blooded (much like the dinosaurs) and needs to keep itself cool, so the scientists have to revert the cooling system to another spot in the facility to lure the dragon away from the elevator. To do this, they need a laptop in Kevin's room, so David orders Kevin to accompany him because he is the only one who can open it. Kevin reluctantly agrees to go after being threatened by David. They make it into his room, but Kevin insists that he wants to stay. David leaves him, grabs the laptop and heads out. Kevin plays music, which attracts the dragon towards David, who escapes through a vent. The dragon then eats Kevin.
David returns to the lab with the battered laptop. They download the information needed access the elevator into the main computer. Ian goes mad and starts shooting the mainframe, screwing it up even more. The damaged mainframe activates a self-destruct system, which will cause the entire facility to explode in minutes. David then has to return to the vent to reach a storage box and reboot the elevator's system manually (he also finds out that Cookie is not deaf but pretended to be to get a job), but the dragon returns and attacks him. David escapes, heads for the storage box, and reboots the system. At Ian's room, David discovers evidence that the doctor had known that the fossil was a dragon all along. David returns to the lab and gets the remaining people to run for the elevator before the base explodes.
They head into the elevator, the wires of which the dragon fries, preventing it from moving. The survivors have to climb out of the elevator, but the dragon rams itself into the door. It eventually opens, and the dragon breathes fire into the elevator, killing both Bailey and Cookie. Ian, David, Dr. Winter and her pet cloned dog head outside and start up the helicopter before the facility explodes. However, the dragon escapes by squeezing through the elevator vent, and flies after the helicopter. David calls for backup at a nearby military base. Ian opens a side door to take pictures of the dragon, which knocks him out of the helicopter, causing him to fall to his death.
Five jets eventually appear, but cannot lock on the dragon, which is too cold for their heat-seeking missiles. The dragon gets mad, blows two jetplanes apart and keeps following the helicopter, which is about to malfunction again. David figures that it is heading for the nearby city and that they got to keep it away from there. He then has an idea and tells Dr. Winter to take control of the helicopter. He opens up the fuel hatch and dumps half the fuel on the dragon, then fires a flare gun at it, causing it to burst into flames. With a target hot enough to fire upon, the jets kill the dragon with a missile. After a rough landing, David, Winter, and the cloned dog make it out alright.
At the destroyed facility, two soldiers head in to retrieve anything from the explosion. They discover a second lab under the first one and a cloning chamber housing a dragon embryo that grows in size, breaks out of the chamber, and kills them.
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Bio Dragon
While there is no official name some fans refer to the monster as Bio Dragon; another name occasionally used to refer the creature is the "Genetic Dragon". The monster is roughly 30 feet (about half that is its counterbalancing tail) long, 6 feet tall when moving at speed, and nearly double that when fully erect as if to breathe fire or otherwise. It moves in a traditional theropodian stance with its long, dexterous arms folded and held near, but not to, its chest; the wings stay tight to its back when not in use. The dragon has the typical horns and spines of dragonkind, but are not too elaborate in design or size. The dragon is a stony grey-black color. It is carnivorous and warm-blooded. Its endothermic nature combined with breathing out fire is its only serious fault because it needs to stay in cooler areas to keep from suffering from heat stroke or exhaustion, so it keeps near the air conditioning vents in the facility. This would explain why the reptile was living in England in the Middle Ages, a relatively cold place. The dragon can also breathe a napalm-like stream of fire, fly/glide and condense the flames into explosive fireballs with the added addition of having tightly interlocked armored scales that is sturdy enough to withstand many bullet shots, even a shotgun cannot breach the scaly skin of the flying reptile. It can, however, be destroyed by ordinary missiles from fighter jets.
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