ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS SWITCHEROO

INTRODUCTION

THE BABY'S COMING

HEY, GUYS!

I HAVE BROUGHT YOU GUYS A NEW STORY. THE THIRD ICE AGE STORY IN THE SERIES. DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS.

JUST A NOTE. THIS IS NOT GOING TO BE A LOT LIKE THE SCRIPT, BUT IT WILL HAVE SOME THINGS IN THE SCRIPT.

I DO NEED SOME HELP, THOUGH. I WAS WONDERING IF ANY OF YOU WOULD LIKE TO HELP ME FIND THE COLLISION COURSE SCRIPT. I'VE SEARCHED FOR IT BUT HAVEN'T FOUND IT YET. I WANTED TO GO AHEAD AND SEE IF YOU GUYS WOULDN'T MIND HELPING ME OUT. THANKS.

WELL, ENJOY THE STORY.

On a cold snowy day in the Ice Age, which is always how it is, a saber-tooth squirrel name Scratte was running through the snow with her acorn in her tiny paws. She was, once again, looking for a place to bury it at. When she found a place, she stuck it inside a hole, but the second she placed it in there, it popped out, making it's way somewhere else. Scratte screamed and ran to try and find it. She hopped over to find not her acorn, but something even better and hotter than that.

Another saber-tooth squirrel stood there by some ice, giving Scratte a look that meant to say hello to her. The female squirrel was giving the male squirrel goo goo eyes, which meant to say that it was love at first sight. A loving background was seen. The male squirrel's name was Scrat, and just like Scratte, he couldn't talk, either. They both already had something in common, so they were the perfect pair. That all changed when Scrat showed the acorn in his paws to Scratte.

Scratte started freaking out. She knew that her main priority was to find her nut, and she did. Snatching out of Scrat's paws, she gave him a piece of her mind and left. Scrat had a look of sadness on his face. Scratte looked at him the first time and turned away, but the second time got the best of her. She felt bad for making him sad and decided to do the right thing. It was hard, but she gave Scrat the nut and he took off with it. Scratte stood there a minute, acting natural, but after a few seconds, she started going crazy and chased after Scrat.

The male squirrel looked to see Scratte running towards him and started running himself. He stopped when he was about to go off a cliff. Scratte didn't notice and knocked him down, grabbing the nut and hugging it tight. She looked to see Scrat hanging off the cliff. She knew that the only way to save the male squirrel was to let go of the nut and help him. That was one thing she couldn't do and Scrat fell. Her eyes widened as she jumped off the cliff and went after him. When they saw each other, their eyes sparkled as they stared into each other's eyes. That's when Scrat held out his arms and flew up in the air. Scratte saw him go back up the cliff and she tried flying herself, but she wasn't a flying squirrel and crashed to the ground. All that could be seen was dust and a shape of Scratte in the ground.

Scratte groaned in pain, but she felt a rumble in the ground. She looked to see a male saber running towards her, carrying a turtle shell full of water. "It's happening!" He stomped on the female squirrel as he passed by. Two possums did the exact same thing, that time making her mad. Then a female sloth stepped on her and stuck to her foot.

"Wait for me!" Brooke, the female sloth called out. She felt something on the bottom of her foot. "Huh?" When she found Scratte on her foot, she screamed and started running.

Meanwhile, Diego was running down the trail. "The baby's coming. The baby's coming." He began bumping into other mammals.

"Watch it!" someone from the crowd shouted.

"I'm having a baby!"

"Code blue!" Crash called out, "Code blue."

"Or pink,' Eddie said, "If it's a girl."

"Maybe it's both pink and blue. You know how sabers are."

"The baby's coming," Diego kept on repeating, "The baby's coming. The baby's coming. I'm coming, Shira." Diego ran so fast that he didn't see a rock in the middle of the trail and tripped over it, causing the turtle shell full of water to fly off in the air.

"We got it!" the twins shouted, jumping on top of their brother's head and trying to catch the turtle shell.

The tree males slid in the snow until the possum brothers caught the turtle shell, getting it before they fell off the cliff. They were okay for a minute before Brooke came running up screaming as Scratte was covering up the female sloth's eyes. She bumped into Diego and they both including the twin possums fell off the edge of the cliff, crashing to the ground.

The next thing you knew was Diego was running around the place with an empty turtle shell covering his eyes. "Shira! Shira! Shira, where are you? Ugh! Where am I?"

"Diego?" Shira asked, walking up to her husband and brother-in-laws. She giggled. "I told you it was only a kick." Shira say down and rubbed her bloated stomach.

Diego removed the turtle shell off his head. His twin brothers fell off his head and landed on the ground and the male saber chuckled. "Right! Right! Wow!" He walked up to Shira's pregnant belly. "Oh, you really gave Daddy a scare. Daddy got silly. Daddy fall down cliff and go boom, boom, boom, boom. Silly daddy. Yeah." He realized a moment later that there was a crowd staring at him. He chuckled nervously. "Oh, sorry, folks. False alarm. It was only a kick."

Everybody grumbled and complained as they left the two expecting saber parents. Brooke was trying to help clear out the crowd. "Alright, everyone. Move it along. Nothing more to see here." She looked to see a female sloth who looked pregnant walk up to her. "Oh, I see somebody else has a little bun in the oven."

"Excuse me?" the female sloth asked, "I am not pregnant." She slapped Brooke over the head and left.

"It's too bad. You would've been a wonderful mother." The female sloth threw a stick at Brooke, knocking her out.

Shira placed a paw on her husband's shoulder. "Diego, I know you're excited. I am, too, but you're starting to get a bit too carried away with all this."

"Okay, okay," Diego said, "Geez, you're starting to sound like Manny and Ellie." He then noticed something. "Wait a minute. Where are the two mammoths?"

"Probably out on a picnic or something."

It was true, actually. The two mammoths were on a picnic in the snow fields. Manny and Ellie have been married for about a few months now and they thought it would be a good day to spend some time with each other. It seems as though an entire flock of eagles had the same idea to spend the day in the fields and they decided to have an air show.

Ellie wasn't really paying attention to it since she was hoping that her and Manny would be the only one's to sit and talk, but it seems Manny was more interested in the show. She did have something important to discuss with him, but how could she when he wasn't paying any bit of attention to her?

Ellie sighed. "Hey, Manny, would you like some more fruit?"

"Yeah!" Manny cheered, "Woohoo! This is amazing! Oh, I think this was a great day to come out here for a picnic, honey."

"That's great, dear. Do you want some more fruit?"

"Sure, bring me some more." Manny placed his trunk out to grab the fruit from Ellie. He are while continuing to watch the eagles. "Come on. Do some serious air flying?"

"Manny, do you mind if we discuss some important matters?"

"Sure, Ellie. What's on your mind?"

"Well, remember last week when we discussed about-"

Manny cut his wife off from saying anything. "Hold on a second, Ellie. I think they're about to do some actual flying." He watched to see what the eagles would do, but they were only doing some flips. "Aw, come on. Maybe they'll do something in a minute. So what were you trying to say, Ellie?"

"I was trying to remind you about last week when we discussed about-"

Manny cut Ellie off from her sentence again. "Hold on, Ellie. They're about to do something." The eagles soon were zipping across the sky, doing so many flips and zigzag, it was hard to count them. They all soon landed, ending the show. "That was really great. They always save the best for last. So what were you trying to tell me, hon?"

"Well, it seems I can't remember what I wanted to say. Hopefully it'll come back to mind and I'll be sure to let you know."

"Oh. Okay."

"Why don't we just head on back home?"

"Are you alright, Ellie? You just see out of sorts today. It's starting to worry me."

"I'm fine, Manny. Hey, let's go see how Shira and Diego are."

"I thought you wanted to head back home."

"We will after we visit the others. Come on. Let's go."

"Okay, if you say so."

Back with the sabers, Diego and his brothers were leading Shira near their den. She was blindfolded so Crash and Eddie were leading her in the right direction. She was excited and impatient, wondering what Diego was surprising her with.

"Can I see it now?" Shira asked, "Come on. When can I see it?"

"Easy," Diego said, "Don't freak out the baby...or babies

"The baby or babies are fine. It's just the freaked out father I'm worried about." Shira moved the blindfold up a bit to look at her husband.

"Hey, no peeking." Diego walked up in front of Shira as she placed the blindfold back over her eyes. Diego motioned for his brothers to take the blindfold off Shira and he showed her the surprise. "Surprise! Playground for the kids."

Shira opened her eyes to see the magnificent playground and gasped. "Oh, Diego." She walked inside to see everything that a child would love to play on. Swings, slides, seesaws, you name it. Tears filled up her eyes. "It's amazing." She looked to see a set of wind chimes hanging on a tree. It had everyone in the herd on it, including the new kids that would be joining the family. "Oh, how beautiful."

"I made it myself. It's our family."

Brooke walked inside the playground. "Oh, how incredible! I've never seen anything like it." Her eyes widened when she saw the wind chimes. "Oh, you added everyone to it."

"Well, the herd is a family, you know. Of course, it's still a work in progress. A few rough edges here and there." Diego took some snow into his paws.

"I don't believe it," Shira said, "You're trying to baby proof nature."

"Baby proof nature? Get out of here." Diego placed a snowball on a bird's beak when he was trying to place it on a twig to one of the bushes. The bird shook the snow off it's beak and flew away.

"Diego, this is the world our baby or babies are gonna grow up in. You can't change that."

"Of course I can. I'm the most fiersest predator on Earth."

"Okay, fierce daddy. I can't wait to see how you handle the teen years." Shira looked behind her to see Brooke looking at everything. "Come on, Brooke. I don't want you touching anything in here. You've started becoming a bit accident prone lately. I don't want the kids playground becoming damaged or completely destroyed."

"Oh, I suppose I have been a bit accident prone lately," Brooke said. To prove that point, she step on an apple that was lying on the ground. She giggled. "Whoops."

Diego looked to see Manny and Ellie walking on the trail. "Manny, Ellie, there you guys are. You both missed the big surprise."

"You already did the big surprise?" Ellie asked in a not so happy way, "Why didn't you wait for us?"

"Well, there's no reason to get angry about it."

Ellie took a deep breath, calming herself down. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to cause an outburst."

"Are you sure you're alright, Ellie?" Manny asked, "You haven't been yourself lately."

"I've noticed the same thing," Shira said, "Is something going on?"

"Listen, if I knew what was going on, I would tell you, but I don't know what's going on, so there's no reason to tell you," Ellie said.

"Well, have you considered going to see someone about it?" Diego asked.

"I have, but I can't think about that when I have other things on my mind, too. I just feel so stressed out right now and I'm starting to get a really bad headache."

"I know exactly what you need, honey," Manny said, "Why don't you go on vacation?"

"Vacation?" Ellie asked.

"Yeah, maybe that might clear your head and take away some of that stress. I know this great place that can help. The Mud Springs."

"You want me to go to a spa?"

"Yeah. I'm just trying to help you relax, Ellie. Getting some of that tension out might help you."

"Are you sure about that?"

"Pretty sure. Come on, don't just do it for me. Do it for you. You look like you could use some alone time."

Ellie sighed. "Okay. I'll go, but just for a few days."

"Fine by me as long as you get some mud in your fur." Manny walked away as did the sabers and possum twins.

Brooke was the only one that stayed behind. "Oh, Ellie, you poor dear. I feel so bad that you don't seem like yourself. This should be the happiest moments of our lives. We're having a baby."

"I know we are and I'm very happy about that, but I can't express it for some reason," Ellie said, "I just feel these sudden changes inside me."

"Oh, you definitely need a mud bath."

"Don't worry. I'll head out for some relaxation time once Shira has the kids. I already promised her that I'd be there for emotional support. Besides, I think it's best if I learned how to do all this. One day, Manny and I will have kids of our own. That is if he'll only listen to me and agree that we're ready to be parents."

"I think somebody is having an imbalance on her hormones. I always thought that happened when you're pregnant, but I suppose it can happen to girls anytime."

"Wait a second. Isn't Shira the one with the hormonal imbalance?" When Ellie saw that Brooke had walked away, she sighed and started heading for home. She needed a nap for some reason. Maybe because it's been a long day.

WELL, I HOPE YOU ALL ENJOY THIS CHAPTER. I'LL RETURN WITH MORE SOON.

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