Ice Age: Slut's Revenge.
Author's note: Welcome to another new Ice Age story, and yes I'm beginning another one since I'm suffering yet another writer's block on all of my current working stories. Since I loved Ice Age 5 so much I had an idea of Buck's back story and ect(since I felt that he was not only the leader of the mission in the film, but also the main protagonist of the movie itself.)
I do not own Ice Age. Those rights belong to BlueSky studios. I only own Slut, my first Ice Age OC.
CH1: Nutty landings and Perfect Family.
In a desolute land of ice and snow, it seemed rather silent with nothing out of the ordinary at first. But all that suddenly changed when an purple and pink alien ship came falling all the way down back to Earth once it ran out of fuel. Like an astriod that was just blown back into space in another part of the world, the ship caught on fire in the impact of landing through Earth's astomsphere. Inside the cockpit of the ship, was none other than Scrat who didn't realise that the vessel that took him away from his home world days earlier ran out of fuel and was screaming his head off as he prepared to make a crash landing.
Fortunately, unlike what happened to another planet that he thought was Earth earlier, life wasn't destroyed by this impact. Instead, the soft, icy snow softened the landing, but it landed half-deep within it. It also opened the cockpit and spat the Saber-toothed Squirrel and his prized Acorn out.
"OW!" Scrat grunted as he landed into the snow while making a small hole that was shaped like him along with his nut. Slowly, and rather painfully, he pulled himself out, dazed from his landing before shaking his head to rid the dizzy spells.
He then looked around at his surroundings, wondering where he was now. He sniffed the area, and once he noticed the familiar soft and chilling cold wet snow, and that he wasn't wearing the space suit, not to mention he was breathing the familiar air that he missed, the familiar sky as it was coming to sunrise, Scrat realised in pure happiness and relief that was back where he belonged.
He was back on Earth, home at long last. Scrat teared up before sighing in relief, and layed his face on the snow, hugging it and kissing the ground in an effection of 'home sweet home'. During his journey in space, Scrat definately missed Earth and wanting nothing more than to get himself and his acorn back home.
Remembering the very 'flying rock' with crazy things within it that took him on his unexpected adventure in the first place, Scrat gazed back at the alien vessel where it remained stuck in the snow, the power off and from the looks of things, now rather a bit damaged. He decided that from here on out, once he was back, he was never going anywhere near that thing ever again!
Giving the 'evil rock' a raspberry, Scrat pulled himself out of the snow, hugging his beloved nut, before quickly scampering away back on home soil. Unfortunately, he wasn't looking where he was going and didn't realise that he was on top of a very steep hill. The snow collasped underneath him and Scrat slipped and rolled down cannon-ball style, causing him to lose his acorn, screaming away which he was quickly stuck in a forming giant snowball that grew bigger and bigger.
Then the snowball crashed into a tower of solid ice which exploded away, leaving Scrat face-planted against the ice comically. Why did he always have to be face-planted in see-through ice?
Scrat recovered, rubbing his sore face from the impact. Some welcome home treatment this was, he thought. But when he was attempting to glare at the ice he crashed into, all thoughts of breaking the ice left his mind and instead, the anger he felt was immediately replaced in nervousness and fear as he gazed up at the most unusual creature he had ever seen.
Frozen in ice, was a giant reptile of some sorts that was possibly bigger than a T-Rex, skin all green, stumpy legs but looked as though it could be quite fast considering. It looked like a dinosaur, but Scrat felt that it was anything but. On it's back was some kind of skin scale. It's head was kind of shaped like a dinosaur, and from it's opened frozen jaws, it was a carnivore. It had a long tail as well. Another predetor that had fallen victum in the beginning of the Ice Age no doubt.
Little did Scrat know, this monster was one of the early species of the planet known as a Dimetrodon, a dangerous carnivore from the Early Permian era millions of years ago. But still, despite his lack of knowlage of what kind of living animal this was, just the sight of it was enough to inform him that this was very dangerous and he had no intentions of being eaten if it thawed out, especially when he just got back home.
Remembering his previous encounters, Scrat then innocently whistled before slinking away, and then made a run for it as fast as he could to avoid in accidently waking this thing up...only to end up crashing into another frozen ice piller. Recovering, Scrat's eyes widened in horror as he noticed yet another Dimetrodon frozen in ice.
When he slowly looked to his right, Scrat's lower eye-lid twitched as he soon realised he was in a valley of ice, filled with at least 100 frozen Dimetrodons, surrounded by frozen ice walls in a canyon.
"Eep." Scrat squeaked. Oh boy, this was not the welcoming home treatment he wanted. Suddenly, the dreaded sound of ice cracking caught his attention. His ear twitched at he looked at the Dimetrodon solid he crashed into and to his horror, and his fears coming true, the ice began to crack. This soon formed a chain reaction as the other frozen forms of the species began to follow.
Scrat began to quiver in fear, and soon enough he quickly made a run for it, finding a small hole in the wall on the hill he came from and immediately dove into it and slid down into the tunnels, screaming away as though he was on a water slide. Eventually after what seemed like forever and never-ending, Scrat emerges into an ice cave within the ice and landed hard on the icy hard ground.
But as he recovered from another painful landing, Scrat quickly found he wasn't out of trouble yet. He realised he landed on top of a frozen lake and underneath the surface, was an overwhelmingly giant fish and if he met Granny's giant pet whale Precious, you can imagine this massive fish was the same size as that!
Again, he was unable to describe the species, but it was a Hyneria.
"Uh oh." Scrat said to himself.
He may have finally come home to Earth, but once again, Scrat was in deep trouble. And like when he accidently caused the Continental Drift and like how he accidently sent that astriod that nearly destroyed life on Earth, his accidental prone once again endangered all life in the world.
This time, it was the release of the herd of ancient Dimetrodon.
A young Buck was cornered against a tree, his blue eyes widened in fear, his heart pounding as though it would explode, as a massive black Gigantopithecus that was the size of a dinosaur if not bigger had him cornered, grinning evilly. Blood still seeped on the giant monkey's mouth as he had just eaten a few mammals when he came here and that was very unusual as even Buck knew that monkeys were known to eat fruit, not meat.
Either way, the young weasel knew that he was in deep trouble. He shut his eyes in fear as the giant Gigantopithecus lunged with a massive sharp-clawed hands to grasp him...
Gasping while jolting upright in fright, Buck panted as his single blue eye widened. He looked around in the tree den he was staying in only to remember where he was and sighed in relief. It was just a dream. A nightmare.
No. He quickly realised that it was not a nightmare. It was a memory from his late kit years. The dinosaur hunter didn't think of that terrifying memory in years ever since he left his birth family behind and found himself in an underground world full of dinosaurs. Why now, though?
He then 'heard' a baby's crying and quickly realised it was coming from...well, let's just say that since he was still crazy, to him the crying came from his adopted 'daughter' which was the Pumpkin that rested in an leaf hammock he made for his 'child'. Buck quickly got up and went over to his baby and cradled 'her' in his arms, cooing it and hugging it lovingly.
"Oh, sweetheart, I'm sorry." Buck talked to it. "Did Daddy wake you?" before he began to comfort the Pumpkin, softly singing it a lullaby that his own mother used to sing to him when he was a baby and a very young kit. All thoughts of his nightmare-infested memory were quickly forgotten.
For now, anyway.
Later in the morning, Buck went outside of his new home to join up with the herd that he decided to stay with for the time being. It's been at least two days since the wedding of Peaches and her new husband Julian, which was also the same day when Brooke, the love of Sid's life joined the herd after regaining her youth for a mysterious reason. Gavin, Gertie and Roger all went back to the Dino-Realm, promising to behave themselves and make a fresh start by going into having fruit like Diego and Shira had done.
Days before the astriod was first known, Manny had been disapproving of his daughter's choice in having Julian as her made, but now he was very proud of the young male mammoth who, despite still being ridiculously clumsly and simple-minded, was brave, noble and caring. If it wasn't for Julian, then everyone would've died and the large crystal wouldn't have gone into the volcano to stop the astriod on time. Now Manny truly saw Julian as his own son.
Really, the herd, the three dinosaurs, the Geotopians and Buck were all heroes of the world.
Buck was considered the biggest hero of them all, but he pointed out that he never would've done this on his own without everyone's help and didn't want to take most of the credit.
Days before, Diego and Shira weren't sure if they should have kids due to them scaring other children and didn't want their own cubs to be outcasts. Now the children of the village saw them as heroes and were fasinated by stories of their and the rest of the herd's adventures. Now the two sabers were ready to bond and to have a child or children of their own.
At the same time days before, Sid was dumped by his old girlfriend Franchine(even if their first date only lasted for 14 minutes), and considered to die alone. Now, ever since meeting Brooke from Geotopia, Sid's life was at last complete, and he and his new girlfriend were ready to become mates and were even planning their own wedding.
Crash and Eddie were still the same as ever, but were also extremely happy for their niece and their new nephew-once-removed(try once-species removed), and they were especially happy that their idol Buck was here to stay. The weasel was like a big brother to both of the Possums, their hero, their master, their mentor.
Things couldn't get more perfect for the herd since they all survived the astriod, saved the world and lived to tell many tales to come. Now the herd, with Buck's help, were busy organizing a den for Peaches and Julian to live in, which, really, as Julian had said on Manny and Ellie's wedding anniversary, would be practically next door to their den.
Now, taking a break, while Peaches and Julian were going all lovy dovy as Manny and Ellie had done when they got married, Ellie was busy having parent talks with Shira who asked her some advice on pregnancy in the future, Sid was showing Brooke the village and the areas around them, and the rest of the herd, Manny, Diego, Crash, Eddie and now Buck who was excited to hang out with the guys while doing father duties with his pumpkin baby, were watching the den-window Hawk-Bears game.
"Yeah, c'mon! Get 'em!" Buck cheered, really getting into it along with his friends.
"Come on, Hawks!" Diego cheered as well.
"This is it, folks! It's sudden death." The animal announcer said on the outside. At the word 'death', Crash and Eddie both played dead and fell off Manny's head and into the bowl of berries, which annoyed Manny and Diego while Buck was puzzled.
Then all five of them gazed back at the game, the tension rising as it continued, and Crash cheered, "Bears rule!"
"Hawks on the attack! Here comes fuzzy wuzzy. He..." The announcer was cut off when a loud "Pow!" and the male mammals all cringed as feathers shot into the den, and they heard the pained squark and the group all suddenly felt sorry for the loser who was then being eaten by the bear. Buck, concerned for the welfare of his 'child', covered it's non-existant eyes to prevent his daughter from being scarred for life.
"Holy mastodon! That was sudden!" Said the announcer who sympatized the Hawk as well.
"It was sudden." Eddie agreed, a little scared at the sight at first.
"Very sudden." Buck agreed, then acted like nothing happened, "But not as sudden as fighting dinosaurs." proudly at himself.
"Or the fact that you married a Pineapple and adopted a Pumpkin." Manny couldn't help but comment in sarcasm.
"Exactly!" Buck grinned. "What can I say? I'm a family man, just like you, Manny."
Manny rolled his eyes at his crazy friend. Even so, the two of them had formed a stronger friendship after this adventure, despite how the mammoth knew that the weasel will always be crazy. None the less, he respected Buck now more than ever. Not only did he help save Sid, his plan to stop the Meteor had actually worked. He was intelligent, brave, daring, adventurous and especially caring.
"Hey, Buck." Crash spoke up as a question he wanted to ask returned to him which he forgot about when Buck came back. "How did you find that stone tablet anyway?"
Buck was surprised by this question, but since the herd was now aware on how the three flying dinosaur-birds had been following them in order to get to him, he shrugged and explained, "Well, it was shortly after I rescued a dinosaur egg and returned it to it's mother. I was, uh, kind of distracted when I first noticed the meteor shower from the cave and I hit a tree and fell into another cave where I found it."
"And that's when you found out the meaning of the meteor shower?" Diego blinked.
"Yup, and I knew that I had to figure out a way to try and stop it." Buck confirmed with a nod.
"Weren't you a bit scared?" Eddie asked.
Buck thought about it. Come to think of it, the only time he was actually scared in that day was when he fell into the tunnel, but it was more of a bit of panic than fear. But even then, he was not afraid that time. After all, he was taking a shower when he heard and saw the events that took place when Gavin and his children had stole the egg and he had been willing to return it to it's mother who in the end was so grateful for his heroics. Even the baby had briefly hatched and gave him a kiss as thanks.
"No, not really." He finally said after a moment. "Of course I still get a bit scared, but these days it's very rare for me."
"You're probably the only Weasel in the world who encounters dangers more than any other weasels." Manny thought.
"If only he knew about my existance, people." Said Neil DeBuck Weasel to the readers/viewers from within Buck's mind, once again breaking the fourth wall. But none of the animals, not even Buck were aware of this.
The weasel nodded in agreement, saying, "And the first mammal to have discovered that Dinosaurs still exist."
"Definately a hero!" Crash said happily, and his brother nodded in agreement.
Oh yes, life was near perfect for the herd, and Buck couldn't be any more happier with his new life. Someday he might return to the Dinosaur Cavern below, but for now, after his journey with his friends here on the surface, he found that during the journey he missed the blue sky, the clouds the floated above, the familiar surroundings that he was born in. Not only that, he missed his friends.
But there was something in his past that he always avoided, something that he thought would never come back to haunt him.
Stomp. Stomp. Stomp. Stomp.
Outside of the valley miles away, two bears that were having a drink near the river felt the ground move and noticed the water rippling. The two bears, one grizzly and another brown, looked up at each other, before turning to look behind them and their eyes widened in fear, as an overly grown black Gigantopithecus, as tall as a T-Rex, finger nails sharper than a tiger's claws, teeth as sharp that could put Rudy's teeth to shame, stomped towards the water, scarying even the other predetors of the Predetor Guild that inhabited the most evil and deadly predetors on Earth.
For evil only, anyway.
But then, not even the predetors of this guild would compare to the unusual giant monkey that was heading towards the two bears, and the other carnivores all quickly hid.
"I'm scared." Said the brown bear, whimpering.
"Me too." Said the Grizzly Bear, nervously.
Behind the giant monkey, overed unusual carnivore birds that were Hawk-like but sinistir looking. There were four in total and soon, all five of them towared over the two bears that were normally huge to smaller prey, now felt like miniture teddy bears instead.
"Out, of, my, way..." The monkey growled, "Or I will eat you."
1.5 second later, the two bears dashed away in high-speed, screaming like a couple of scared little girls. The monkey and his bird minions chuckled evilly and the monkey said evilly, grinning, "That was too easy."
"Master Slut, I'm very impressed in your skills of being the only carnivorous monkey." Said one of the birds, apparently the leader of the Hawk-like beings. His name is Shadow.
"Yes, well, until I met all of you, the only one who didn't fear me is my older brother, Gutt." Slut the giant monkey said, as he cupped the water in his hand and drank. His thoughts returned to the last time he saw his older brother, Gutt, who renamed himself since his original name was now forgotten. Gutt had set out into the open ocean to become a Pirate, the Master of the Seas.
Slut's expression then turned to anger, as he continued, "But now he's dead. All because of one stupid Mammoth!"
"How did that go again, sir?" Another Hawk, named Thorn, asked, as his companions, Duke the bossy red one, and Chaos, the clumsly purple one joined his side.
"It was several months ago," Slut began, "I journeyed through the ruined lands to find the one prey that escaped me. The lands crumbled away, and I discovered a river, where the remains of my dear brother. All that was left of him was his upper half of his body, his right arm eaten off by Sirens. He recongised me, and his words to me were, "Slut, my dear brother. A Mammoth who is family insane had taken away my ship, my crew, one of crew betraying me, and my life to serve as menu for Sirens. Find him for me, and give him my revenge. Take away his life and everything he loves." So then, I searched far and wide, even sailing on a large ice block to this continant."
"Pretty long last words from somebody who is dying." Chaos thought about Gutt's last words to Slut, only to be smacked on the back of the head by Thorn and Duke who both told him to shut up.
"So I gather you're not only looking for the prey that escape you so you can finally capture and eat him, but also avenge for your brother's death against one Mammoth." Shadow summed up, chuckling evilly. "Interesting. Mind if we get an entree of the Mammoth's herd?"
"You can have the Mammoth's family and if he has any, friends." Slut confirmed, before his face turned dark as he continued, "But the Mammoth and the prey I searched all these years are mine."
"Who is your prey that escaped you?"
The giant monkey growled, "A weasel...his name is Buck."
A/N: Slut is an original character which I thought off to be perfect as an opponent for Buck in his early years and also a new antagonist against Manny for killing his brother, Gutt in "Ice Age 4: Continental Drift". I also kind of based him off King Kong. Now, I know that Monkey's aren't normally carnivores, but I thought, what the heck? Besides, if they decided to make one of the herbivore dinosaurs into a carnivore, I could do the same with at least one monkey, right?
Shadow, Thorn, Duke and Chaos are the antagonistic birds from the "Ice Age LIVE" tour show which I never got the chance to see except on Youtube.
Dimetrodons are actually living mammals that existed before the age of the Dinosaurs. I have the DVD sets of "Walking with Dinosaurs", "Walking with Beasts(only the extended movie-length version, I have to get the full episodes set)", and finally, the prequel documentry series, "Walking with Monsters".
See you the next chapter of this new story, fellow readers.