Chapter One: Prolouge

This story takes place about two months after the events of Continental Drift, the fourth film from the Ice Age movie series. I have been wanting to this story for quite sometime but now, I am finally doing it. I know that this is different from most Ice Age fanfics out there, but I wanted to make it feel movie like as possible. So here is Whale Rescue. Enjoy

On a glacier-covered island somewhere in the ocean, a saber-toothed squirrel named Scrat had found safe haven from his long sea-faring journey to find his beloved, but cursed acorn. Scrat studied the acorn from the comfort of the beach and saw that it was laying on top of the ice-covered rocks. He was so excited to have finally found his acorn that the brown saber-tooth squirrel went running for it before cradling it before finally burying it on the glacier s edge. However, when Scrat was burying the acorn, the glacier that he was sitting on began to rumble to hard that a large chunk of it began to fall into sea taking Scrat and his acorn with it.

As Scrat continue to fall into sea, he glanced down at a pod of killer whales that were swimming together in the small cove teaching their calves the ways of killer whale life. Scrat knew that the falling glaciers could hit the orcas if hit the water. Soon, Scrat started screaming in fear in hopes it would get the pod's attention to swim away from the falling glacier. The whales, who luckily were able to view the falling glacier and hear Scrat's fearful scream, manage to swim away as fast as they can while glacier finally fell into the sea taking the not-so-well-groomed saber-tooth squirrel with it.

When Scrat fell underwater, he opened his eyes to realize that he did not die in the collapse but his acorn was missing, likely crushed when the glacier fell into the sea. However, it did not stop Scrat from trying to find it in underwater when a baby orca swam to him. The baby was able to sense Scrat's distress and saw that he saved her and her family from being victims of the glacier s collapse. The baby nudged him as if it she was saying thank you to him for saving her and her pod's lives. At first, Scrat did not know what to think of this animal's response because after all, killer whales were the top predators of the sea and can eat almost any animal that was on their food chain even some land mammals like deer and moose. Yet, Scrat responded to her by slowly swimming close to her face and carefully touching her rostrum with one paw thinking that she was going to bite him because he knows that killer whales would eat anything in ocean if they could. Yet, the young killer whale with very narrow eye patches, a dorsal fin with two nicks on the edge, and a light saddle patch did not show any sign of wanting to attack the poor brown squirrel who had once again lost his beloved acorn but instead gently grabbed him by his tail and on her back he went. What she did not realize though was that Scrat was beginning to loose his breath underwater and showing signs that he was on the verge of drowning in the sea. Soon, her pod swam back to her and saw the distressed squirrel for themselves and the baby's mother, a large female killer whale called Delta, who had a well very curved dorsal fin, partially narrow, but a little oval eye patches, and a much darker saddle patch, had her calf-aged daughter go up to surface by swimming next to her before hitting the surface of the water so that Scrat would be able to take a breath of fresh air. Scrat, was finally realized from his near death experience of drowning underwater thanks to Delta and her calf.

The moment was soon short lived when the entire ice shelf began to fall into the sea, causing the whales to leave what was once their former feeding ground and swim away from the dangerous collapse that could otherwise kill them. Scrat wanted to swim back into the little inlet where he last saw his acorn in hopes that he would find it again, but the ice shelf was collapsing so fast that there was no time to go back to retrieve it so, Scrat, who was forced to leave the inlet with Delta and her young calf, whose nicked dorsal fin he was holding onto so tight so he would not accidentally fall into the sea once more. As he was holding on to the calf for the sake of his own life. A strange looking animal that flew from the sky grabs on to Scrat so tight that he tries to fight it by continuing to hold on to calf's dorsal fin as if he was going to fall. Delta see what was going on with Scrat she tries to fight the animal off by snapping at it's claws with her teeth in order to keep Scrat on her daughter's back at all times, but the claws were too strong for her to let loose of Scrat and it flew away from the orca pod taking Scrat with it as he screamed for the killer whale pod to save him. However, the animals were too focused on escaping the collapsed of their feeding ground to deal with Scrat's abduction and swam far away from his presence. It made Scrat very devastated and yet, he was willing to look at the animal that took him away from his killer whale friends.

It turned out that the animal that snatched him from the killer whale pod was an animal that should not even be in the ice age at all. It was a purple male pteranodon called Roger and he was not really alone at all and had a reason for being in a world that he shouldn't be in. He was being ridden on a one-eyed weasel named Buck but, he was not alone either for with him were two teenage children of different mammalian species and one of them just happened to see Scrat was hanging from Roger's claws.

"Look Papa" cried a young yellow female sloth as she was trying to get her adoptive weasel father's attention. "I think Roger accidentally caught a squirrel and he looks like he needs help" she then said as she continued to focus all her attention on the distressed squirrel.

"Abigail, child!" Exclaimed Buck to his adoptive sloth daughter. "I'm glad you are realizing that the pirates have all been dead and buried since they left you and Phoenix down in my world, but I don't have time for sight seeing right now" he then said.

"No Papa, really Roger grabbed him by accident and I think we should get him to an island fast before he accidentally drops him in the ocean" Abigail said to her adoptive father once more.

The teenage sloth, who was a spitting image of her biological sloth father Sid, was ready to go down to Roger's claws to get Scrat out and take him back on his back so he would be safe from the fear of falling, but a brown male leptictidium named Phoenix saw that she was about to climb down on Roger to get Scrat and was afraid that she might fall into the sea and ran to her to stop her from climbing down.

"Abby are you downright crazy!?" yelled Phoenix. The male leptictidium who was a little older than Abigail and was raised with her by Buck as his own for several years now and was not going to let his adoptive sloth sister risk death for some squirrel.

"I just want to help this guy" said Abigail.

"You'll fall off Roger if you try to" answered Phoenix.

As the two adopted inner species siblings began to argue, Buck beings to see a land that he only heard of from his adoptive lepi son who had dreamed of the island where Abigail's biological sloth father lived.

"Oh, my goodness, I see it!" Buck exclaimed to his adoptive family.

"You see what father?" Phoenix asked his adoptive weasel father as he and Abigail stopped arguing for one moment.

"It's that island where Abby's father, the sloth I saved from death many years ago, lives with that herd of his, and it's just like the one you dreamed of" Buck answered to his adoptive son.

Abigail, who was now distracted from her concerns about Scrat, crawled forward to see what her adoptive father and brother were talking and soon, she got a glimpse of the island that her adoptive brother had told her he dreamed of her biological sloth father living there with the herd he made.

"It's, beautiful Phoenix" softly said the yellow female Sloth It's just like the one you told me where my other father lives .

Well, that wraps up the first chapter. When I referring to Pheonix as a lepi it's short for leptictidium just so people would not get confused at what I was talking about. Btw, how will Sid feel about having a child from a past relationship? Is Scrat going to be okay from his traumatic experience? And how is the orca pod who befriended Scrat doing? Stay tune and find out.

Ice Age is owned by 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios. I only own the orcas, Abigail (Abby), and Pheonix. I do not own any of the film cannon characters.