Here it is, readers, chapter 3 of this experiment! Now, before we begin, I would just like to thank Greymon Leader Batx flashpoint for leaving some reviews for this experiment. Thanks, Greymon, you're a really good friend! Anyway, on to chapter 3!
After several minutes, Sid slowly got the three big, and obviously heavy eggs through the hole he fell through. He even drew smiley faces on them to make them look like him. Lastly, he climbed out, then gasped when he saw he drew a frown on the third egg. He corrected that problem by drawing a circle under the frown to change it into an open mouth filled with curiosity. He smiled at his work.
Next, he held two eggs in his arms and used his head to slowly roll the third egg. He nearly lost his footing and clumsily managed to give two of the eggs a gentle landing while standing on his head. Gently putting the eggs down, he gently whispered, "Here you go." to then and ran to get the third egg.
Sid was rolling the third egg to the other two, but these eggs sure were heavy. Now he knew how a Torterra feels carrying a heavy shell with a full grown tree on it. Sid panted as he finally got the three eggs together. But it didn't last long, because Sid accidentally slid and pushed the egg to his left over. When he noticed a second later, he shrieked when he saw that it was rolling down a steep hill.
Sid then turned to the other eggs and quickly said to them, "Stay here, stay here. And you, you take care of your brother now. Momma's gonna be right back." Then he dashed down the hill, yelling, "Momma's coming, baby!"
Since the hill was steep, Sid tripped and rolled over a rock, but he managed to catch the egg in his arms. "Gotcha!" But then he gasped when the other two eggs rolled down the hill as well. "What did I just tell you kids?" Sid cried out before he chased after the two eggs with the third egg in his arms.
When he got ahead of them, he turned and stopped to catch one of them. He caught the second one, but it forced him back, hitting broken bark and turning it into a sleigh. He screamed out before he stopped himself when he saw the last egg rolling close to him. He used his foot to turn the bark around, and the chase resumed. Sid almost got the egg, but he hit a bump. He gave off a girlish scream as he and the three eggs continued to slide down hill at high speed.
He gasped when he saw a log coming into view. With no way to stop, he threw the two eggs he caught into the air and braced himself for a bumpy ride in the log. After going through the log, the two eggs comically landed on him before he placed them in his arms. Finally he managed to catch the last egg with his feet and held it close to him.
But, it couldn't last long because Sid saw a slope rock in front of him. He screamed as he and the three eggs were tossed into the air. The eggs were off Sid's grasp once again, over the valley that was now the home of all Ice Age animal kind. Sid caught two eggs in his arms and tried to reach his legs to the third one, unfortunately he landed hard on the edge of a cliff with two of the eggs, but the third one was still falling down.
Sid shut his eyes and held an arm over his face in horror. When he didn't hear the sound of a cracking egg, he slowly looked down to find out why. He saw that Kate was using her Magical Leaf to keep the egg from hitting the ground hard. She looked up at the sloth and gave him a smile and a friendly wink.
Groaning in great relief, Sid carried the other two eggs and came rushing over to the Togetic, who was with Max and Ellie. "Oh, thank you! Thank you!" Sid thanked after Kate placed the egg back in Sid's arms. "Bad egg. Rotten egg! A heart attack you almost gave me!" Sid scolded the egg. His attitude quickly changed when he thought the egg was about to cry. "Oh, I'm sorry, darling. It's just that I love you so much."
He then turned to introduce the egg to the two human-turned Pokemon and the female mammoth. "Now, I want you to meet your Uncle Max, your Aunt Kate, and your Aunt Ellie."
"Hi!" Ellie greeted happily, being the first to find the eggs adorable. Max and Kate just looked at each other with quizzed looks on their faces.
"Hello!" Sid mimicked, holding the egg in front of him. "I'd like to present Egbert, Shelly, and Yoko." Sid introduced the egg on the right as Egbert, the one on the left as Shelly, and finally the open mouth face egg in his arms as Yoko.
Max blinked a little before he told the sloth, "Uh, Sid, whatever you're doing is not a very wise idea." He had a feeling that something bad would happen, one way or another. And being the leader he is wants to make sure his teammates/friends are out of harms way.
Sid shushed the Pikachu and held the eggs together. "My kids will hear you!"
"Sid, they're not your kids." Max pointed out. With strength that's stronger than the average Pikachu, he took hold of an egg and placed it in Sid's arms. "You've gotta take them back. I don't mean to hurt your feelings, but you're not the type to be a parent." He said, sounding like his leader self.
"Why not?" Sid asked/complained.
Max handed Sid the second egg, "I'll answer that with two reasons why. Reason #1; Stealing another creature's eggs." He held up Yoko, "Reason #2; One of them almost went from an egg to an omelet." He handed the third egg to Sid, who had trouble carrying all three of them.
"Sid, someone's probably worried sick about them and are now searching throughout the valley for them." Kate said, Ellie nodded in agreement.
"No, they were underground in ice." Sid explained. "If it wasn't for me, they'd be Eggsicles." When the egg on his head rolled off, he quickly caught it with his leg, sighing in relief as he did.
Max knew that he would have to try to reason with his sloth friend, and he thought he might do better than Manny did when the mammoth last talked to Diego. "Look, Sid, I have a pretty good idea on what you're going through. Don't worry, you're gonna have a family of your own someday! I know that you'll meet a nice girl with low standards, no real options, or sense of smell..." Max never got over the fact that both Sid and Pumbaa were probably the smelliest members of the team and would both need a REALLY long bath to fix that. What Max didn't realize was that the more he went on, the more annoyed Sid was getting.
Kate sighed and shook her head, "Oh, you're kidding me."
Ellie tried to make it more clear for Sid, "What Max means to say is..."
"No, I get it. I'll take them back." Sid cuts her off, thinking that no one was starting to care about him anymore. He carried the eggs over to the bark he used as a sleigh and placed them on it. "You each have your families, and I'm better off alone, by myself. A fortress of solitude, in the ice, forever. A lone, lonely, loner." He vanished as he pushed the eggs away around the corner.
Max, oblivious on what Sid was thinking, muttered to the two females with him, "That's a lot of 'aloneness'."
"Precisely!" Sid called out.
Not wanting a repeat of what happened between Manny and Diego, Kate called out to Sid. "Sid, wait! Come back!"
Max just shrugged it off. "Don't worry, everything will be fine. He'll bounce back. It's one of Sid's advantages of being him." Then he walked off. Kate and Ellie just glanced at where they last saw Sid, worried that the sloth's feelings might be hurt.
Later that day, storm clouds were starting to form and Sid was just wandering around with the eggs on the bark. Sid didn't have any intentions of taking them back. He couldn't quite grasp why Max wanted him to take them back. Max just doesn't understand, he's not even a father!
"Why should I take you back? I love kids! I'm responsible, loving, nurturing. What do you think?" Sid happily told the eggs. Thanks to the faces drawn on them, he took that as sign that they were saying, 'We love it, Momma!' Sid smiled, "I knew you would agree!"
Then lightning flashed and the rain came shortly after. Sid cringed a little, then he saw that the rain was making the drawn faces runny and making look like the kids were crying. "Don't cry! Don't cry. I'll find a dry place."
Shortly after, he did. Then he began to dry the eggs off, but he cringed when he saw that the faces were now messed up.
"I don't know. Being a parent's a lot of work. Maybe I'm not ready." Sid said, now doubting his skills as a parent. He began to think that maybe Max was right after all.
Then the rain stopped and the light from the setting sun was shining through the egg shells. When Sid looked at them, he saw three sleeping figures with long tails curled up in the eggs. That warmed Sid's heart as he held the eggs close to him, knowing that he will love the three children no matter who or what they are.
It's the start of a new happy family... Or is it?
Later, after the rain stopped, the ground was shaking a bit at the hole Sid made earlier today.
Then a monstrous growl was heard from within the hole, causing some more shaking in the area and chipping off more ice in the hole.
This could spell only one thing for the Pride Team... Trouble.
The next morning, egg shells were scattered around the floor of the cave Sid spent the night with his eggs. The mentioned sloth had no idea because he was sleeping on a rock.
As he yawned and got up, he stretched his back, cringing as it cracked back in the right place.
Still drowsy, Sid walked a bit with an egg shell on his right foot. He was too tired to even notice three figures following his movements. Three newly hatched babies were watching him with curious and happy smiles, mimicking his movements, like stopping when he stopped and scratching their butts after Sid scratched his.
Now fully awake and hearing something behind him, Sid turned and gasped when he saw the triplets. The three reptiles smiled at him happily, "Momma!" Then all three of them rushed and cuddled close to the surprised sloth who they thought was their mommy.
Sid was surprised at first, but then he held the three of them close with a smile on his face. "I'm a mommy." He whispered to himself.
Throughout the day, Sid spent time with his new kids. They played games with each other, like Peek-A-Boo. Sid then gave them a bath, the four of them took an afternoon nap. Then they played with a furry ball, but that turned out to be Scrat, who was trying to get back at Scratte... wherever she could be with the acorn.
Scrat and Sid then screamed, with Scrat scurrying away, as the three babies piled on Sid. At first, Sid laughed when the babies licked him, but then he yelped when they bit him.
"Hey! No biting! Nu-uh!" Sid scolded. Then the three babies began crying. Sid tried to calm them down. He was wondering why they were still crying. Then it hit him, "Are you hungry? Maybe you're hungry. I know just the thing."
Sid took the babies to get a meal. The sloth was sneaking up on a sleeping Wallebeast, hoping to get milk for his young ones, silently singing as he did, "Hush, hush. You mean, vicious animal. I'm your baby, and this is my milk." The Wallebeast woke up in pain when Sid yanked on... well... the thing that makes males well... males.
Sid's trademark scream could be heard on a hill behind Rockruff, Light, and Crimson who were walking off to have a Pride Team meeting somewhere in the valley.
"I thought you were a female!" Sid screamed, being chased by the angry male Wallebeast.
When Rockruff and his two older Lycanroc brothers turned, no one was there. The three of them thought it was nothing and turned back to the path ahead of them. Then the three babies hungrily followed after Sid and the Wallebeast for breakfast. Rockruff, Light, and Crimson saw nothing when they turned to the hill once again.
"Okay. Those were some random noises." Light said after a moment of silence.
"You don't think someone's having a party in the valley, do you?" Rockruff asked his older brothers.
"They might be, if they enjoy strange noises and messing with people's heads for fun." Crimson replied.
Light raised an eyebrow at the Midnight form Lycanroc, "Crimson, have you been snacking on sponge cakes late at night again? You know what happens when you do that to yourself."
Crimson scoffed, "No! I haven't even touched one in days!" When he had his back turned to his brothers, Crimson secretly pulled out a sponge cake and began to eat it, letting out a toothy grin as he savored the tasty sweet with cream filling. He didn't even see Rockruff and Light looking at each other with knowing smiles on their faces.
Meanwhile, in another part of the valley, near a boiling pool of sludge, a trouble-making Pokemon duo, Sneasel and Wynaut, were just lying around with their hyena friends from the Pride Lands, Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed. Normally, Sneasel and Wynaut would be causing trouble for the Pride Team, but they decided to take some time off from doing that. They decided to do a little something with their three hyena friends, but they couldn't figure out what to do.
They were so bored, they didn't even notice Scrat and Scratte fighting over the acorn and are now in bubbles of sludge and slowly rising into the air.
"You know, Sneasel, when you said you wanted us to spend the day together, this isn't exactly what I had in mind." Shenzi said with a bored look on her face.
Sneasel shrugged, "Well, I thought Wynaut would figure out something for the five of us to do."
"You told me you would think of something." Wynaut reminded.
Banzai looked upset, but then he looked up to see Scrat and Scratte still in battle in the bubbles. "You know, I wouldn't mind having one of those squirrels as a little snack when they come down. How about you, Ed?" He asked the other male hyena next to him. Ed just gave off a goofy little chuckle, as if he agreed with his friend.
"What did he say?" Wynaut asked Banzai in confusion.
"He said he would enjoy those two with a little salt and pepper." Banzai answered. Scrat managed to bump Scratte away, and claim the acorn as he hugged it lovingly.
But suddenly, the bubbles burst, leaving Scrat covered in sludge in the air for a few seconds. Then, he and the acorn began to fall down towards the ground and towards Sneasel, Wynaut, Shanzi, Banzai, and Ed, screaming in panic as he did.
Sneasel was the first to notice. "Hey, do you think Ed would like a squirrel smothered in sludge?" He asked Banzai.
"I don't know. Why?" Banzai asked in confusion.
"BECAUSE HERE COMES ONE NOW!" Sneasel yelled out. All five of them saw Scrat screaming and falling towards them. The hyenas were happy and drooling, ready to catch Scrat as a snack.
Unfortunately for the hyenas, Scrat crashed through the ice in front of the five of them. They went over to the hole and saw that Scrat and the acorn were falling down towards a cloudy abyss that was strangely underneath the ice.
Sneasel blinked when he saw the clouds under the ice, "Strange, I've never noticed that before."
"Where do you guys think that squirrel's falling towards?" Wynaut asked. Shortly after, the ice underneath them began to crack. They realized that they've been standing on thin ice this whole time, and now it was about to give out on them.
"Wynaut, hon, I think we're about to find out." Shenzi answered nervously. Then the ice gave out on them, and Sneasel, Wynaut, Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed screamed as they fell down towards the cloudy abyss below.
What was down there is probably beyond anyone's imagination.
Surprise! Bet you didn't expect the three hyenas from the Lion King to make a scene in this story, did you? I told you guys that some Lion King would be in the mix. I thought it'd be interesting with those three hyenas plus two Pokemon as well. Hope you enjoyed it, see you guys in the next chapter of this experiment! See ya!