Prehistoric Park

Finding a Spined Monster

After Nigel Marvin's last mission into the past, a new hunter entered the park's service: Ronald Pinkerton.

He was to find prehistoric creatures and bring them back to the present, and this is the story of his first mission: to find a sail-backed Dimetrodon, an ancestor of all mammals on Earth.

The New Guy

A real-world version of the Halo Warthog drove up to the gates of Prehistoric Park.

Its driver was Ronald Pinkerton, an ex-Canadian Forces fighter pilot and game hunter.

"Well, I was told to come to this place at the request of Nigel Marvin, but I still have no clue why a TV crew had to come with me!"

The camera crew shrugged.

"'Rescuing prehistoric creatures from extinction'. Ha! Everyone knows that you can't clone something that's been dead for over 1000 years, let alone 65 million!"

The gate opened and Ron drove in. he nearly ran into a huge animal.

"Holy shit! That's Ruyangosaurus, a sauropod dinosaur! But those things are extinct!"

Then they got to a rope bridge. It had recently been strengthened to hold up the Warthog.

Ron calmly drove across until he saw a huge, 30 foot crocodile.

"Is that...a Deinosuchus? Where the hell did he get these things?"

They got to Nigel's treehouse.

Ron entered and a small bird-like animal landed on his shoulder.

"What the? A Microraptor?"

"She likes you."

Nigel Marvin walked over and chuckled.

"She? It's a female?"

The conversationalist nodded.

"Where'd you get them? I mean, I've seen the herd of Ruyangosaurus, that bloody Deinosuchus and now this Microraptor."

"Microraptors. There's more: 3 more."

"Answer my question."

"We use a device to travel back in time to save these little things."

"LITTLE? Those Titanosaurs are over 40 meters long and weigh over 5 tons! But I do get your point."

"I'm going to a conference in Paris and I need you to continue my work until I get back. Here's your first...mission, you could call it."

He gave Ron a picture.

It was of a sail-backed reptile with sharp teeth.

"This is a Dimetrodon, right? One of those mammal-like reptiles?"

"Yes, it is."

"I'm supposed to get one back by any means possible, sans death? Sure, I can handle that."

Nigel sighed.

"You can bring back other animals as well, as long as you get the Dimetrodon back."

Ron loaded his M4A1 Carbine with 5.56mm darts.

"Ok, what next?"

"Follow Bob. He'll take you to the capture pen."

Ron walked to his Warthog, which was being looked at by the park's head keeper, Bob.

"Nice vehicle you've got here!"

"It helps. So where's the capture pen?"

"Over there, about a mile east, but we're strengthening the walls. Don't recover anything too big!"

"Don't worry, I'll dart the Dimes before I drag them back to the future!"

Bob shook his head.

"Dimes? Oh, no. That bloody Dimetrodon!"

Ron drove to the capture pen in his Warthog.

"So, how do I get to the past?"

One of the capture team grabbed a remote and activated the time portal.

"Ok, to the past we go! 280 million years ago, ready or not, here we come!"

Ron drove through the portal, and the Warthog entered the past.

The many things missing were grass, trees and other modern plants, and the area had changed. (AN: Think Walking with Monsters, where the Dimetrodon nested)

"Now, let's set up cam-"

A small creature landed on Ron's head.

"Son of a bitch!"

It was a hatchling Dimetrodon, that dropped down from the trees above.

He picked the miniature killer off his head.

"Cute little bugger. Well, that was easy, but the more, the merrier. They climbed into the trees, so grab the ladder on the Warthog and grab them."

But they were being watched by a bigger threat: an adult Dimetrodon.

Five more miniature Dimetrodons were found and put into a cage.

Then Ron found a copycat of the predator sail-back: Edaphosaurus, a plant eating mammal-like reptile.

"Big guy, but-"

Ron turned to see the carnivore version of Edaphosaurus looking at his team.

"Oh, shit."

Ron shouldered his M4A1 and took aim at the adult killer.

One dart went into the sail, and that got the murder's attention.

"Great, now I've got to run for the next ten minutes!"

But thankfully, the Dimetrodon didn't want to eat the large man.

It wanted the Edaphosaurus herd.

It attacked the plant eaters, but this gave the Air Force pilot an idea.

Two birds with one stone: the Dimetrodons, adult and mini, and the Edaphosaurus herd.

"Bob's going to be pissed."

The man pulled out a flare gun.

The herd didn't see it coming, and they ran to a secondary time portal set up by the first team, and Ron activated it.

The herd of 16 Edaphosaurs and the pissed off, hungry Dimertron entered the 21st century.

"Bob's going to be really pissed." Back in Prehistoric Park, Bob was raving.

"He brought back 17 bloody Dimetrodons!"

Then the Warthog came through.

"16 Edaphosaurs, 1 adult Dimetrodon and 6 babies! Not a bad haul if you ask me, Bob!"

Different then my usual stories, but I'm a Jack of all trades.

I loved Prehistoric Park when I first saw it, and when no new episodes came out, I was pissed, so I decided to write a 7th episode with my OC joining the crew and bringing a famous reptile: Dimetrodon, an ancestor of all mammals, including us.

Next Time: a famous dinosaur joins the park from 200 million years ago: Dilophosaurus.

Ja Ne!