Disclaimer: I don't own Splatalot or the defenders (except the Jr ones)
"Where on Earth have you five been?" James shouted about the chatter of the whole restaurant.
"That's going to be a hard question to answer." Danny whispered to Jack, "Since we weren't on Earth."
"I'm still waiting." James said tapping his foot impatiently against the floor while all of the defenders looked at them with either angry expressions on their faces or suspicious expressions.
"Do you know how sticky those toilet doors are?" Kyle asked awkwardly.
"You've all been trapped in the toilets for nearly 1 hour?" Skabb asked, "Where these toilets isolated on a desert island? Someone else must have come in to go."
"You would think." Annaka said shrugging carelessly.
The defenders eyed their children slowly but seemed to dismiss the matter while James stared at them as they sat down. Clearly he wasn't going anywhere soon. Jack looked back at James and both men made eye contact. He needed to tell James of the recent 'upgrade'. Jack looked back down at the table. Their parents were talking but every now and again they would glance his way.
Jack kicked Zsa-Zsa under the table to try and get her attention. Big mistake. She kicked him back twice as hard and with clear intentions of hurting him.
"Ow!" Jack exclaimed, "I was trying to get your attention."
"Well don't kick me next time. What do you want?"
"We need to tell James about the Dino Powers." Jack whispered under his breath, "But we can't with our parents watching us."
"Why are you asking me for ideas?"
"You're my second in command!"
"Fine." Zsa-Zsa said then leaned back on her chair. She looked around at the other families and smiled, "Hey everyone, why don't we play Chinese whispers?"
"That's a good idea my dear." Knightriss agreed, "Who'll start."
"I think Dad can then it can travel anti-clockwise and finish at Jack." Zsa-Zsa instructed, "Is that okay Jack? You'll have to listen hard and make sure you don't make any mistakes."
Zsa-Zsa winked and Jack caught on. Thorne thought of something obscure to say and whispered into Crocness and so on. When Faetal whispered "The door has no handle" into her ear, Zsa-Zsa was kind of glad that it was going to get changed.
James was still watching them but it was clear he didn't have his full attention on them as he was looking around clearly waiting for a sign of trouble oblivious that Meteorots were long gone and Astrid was certainly not coming back.
Kyle whispered the sentence into Jacks ears, the now red defender was clearly about to put on an act.
"Okay." Jack laughed then looked confused about the sentence, "Overdrive destroyed?"
James head shot up like a rabbit caught in the head lights. He looked at the Jr defenders, Zsa-Zsa nodded clarifying that it was true. The defenders burst out laughing also confused.
"How on earth did you get that from the dungeon door is locked?" Thorne asked.
"That's the game." Zsa-Zsa replied, "Seeing how much it changes."
"Considerably a lot especially when I whispered-" Kyle was saying before being rudely interrupted by Jack.
"Here Ky, have some bread." Jack said quickly stuffing a chunk into the Yellow Dino's mouth, "Isn't that tasty."
Kyle angrily removed the bread from his mouth and chewed it violently clearly not pleased with his friend's gesture. It was times like these that everyone remembered that Kyle was a lot younger than them and that he wasn't used to having friendly gestures thrown at him.
Once the bill arrived and the Defenders kindly split it, for once that didn't end in two people arguing to their hearts content, all the defenders left. They all slowly made their way back to the castle making racket along the streets due to Kook's hysteria over everything that was said and Skabbs shouting.
Despite being lit by street lights every 20 metres, the town of Pearl Canyon was still quite dark, to be honest, nowhere knew where they were going. Getting up the hill to the Castle was also fun in the dark as no one knew where the rocks were. Occasionally one of the defenders would shout out in pain as their foot crashed into the rock purposely put there to stop attackers.
Eventually the castle door was kicked open and Knightriss suggested that it was bed. Happily everyone agreed. The Jr defenders at the back of the crowd slowly moved towards the stairs when James pulled on Zsa-Zsa and Jacks shoulders and pulled them back.
"What are you playing at?" She shouted annoyed, "I could have gotten injured."
"Overdrive destroyed?" James repeated, "What happened?"
Jack and Zsa-Zsa glanced at each other. The pair explained how Astrid kidnapped them and teleported them into the Space Palace. Also the pair explained the fight with the Meteorots, Annaka's conversation with Ivar and the final battle with Astrid.
"The next thing we knew she was dead and our keys were destroyed." Jack finished off.
"Well then, how did you return to earth?" James asked rather annoyed that his hard work into the Overdrive powers was destroyed within weeks.
"Well we found new powers." Danny butted in from the stairs.
James turned around to Danny, confused on how he was there but shrugged it off, "Found new powers? Did they just appear from know where."
"No we stole them." Danny replied smiling.
"You stole powers like the Overdrive ones." James said sarcastically, "Did they just appear on the floor and you went cool and picked them up?"
"No." Zsa-Zsa butted in, "Astrid designed them to fight us if she didn't succeed in destroying the Overdrive powers."
"So you took powers from the enemy?" James questioned, "I though you would have more sense than that!"
"No but look at them." Zsa-Zsa said getting the memory stick from out of her pocket, "I downloaded the files onto this."
James took the memory stick without hesitation and left to go to the control room. The remaining three Jr defenders shrugged and wandered up stairs to go to sleep. They slowly clambered up all of the stairs, muttered good night to each other and went into their separate bedrooms.
Jack was having a peaceful dream where nothing much was happening, he was talking to friends and sparring with Danny. He was about to try a high kick when…
"Okay, what's happening?" Jack asked panicked as he was being shaken by someone, "Where's the fire?"
"James wants to see us." Annaka said casually, "And hurry up."
Jack got out of bed and opened his bedroom door just as Kyle walked past, "So he wants to see all of us then."
"Looks that way." Kyle said still sleepy, "Come on, the others will get mad if we're any slower."
The two boys sped up the pace, almost crashed into an angry Gildar who then complained that they ruined his hair, and made their way down into the control room. The boys joined their remaining team mates.
"I've checked the Dino powers and they seem to be one the same track as the Overdrive Powers, of course there not completely the same but they will do." James said reluctantly.
"Was there anything else on the memory stick?" Jack asked, "Anything useful like Robot information, upcoming attacks?"
"Nothing like that." James told him, "Although there were bios including Ivar's on there."
Annaka's eye lit up as his name was mentioned, Danny glanced her way and quietly sighed. He knew what she was planning to do.
"But overall the Dino Powers seem safe. So defenders welcome to Dino Time."
