Now that the Pride Team knows that a flood's coming, they need to get moving fast! Finding Sneasel, Wynaut, and Snorlax are gonna have to be put on hold. What matters is escaping this upcoming flood! Enjoy!
Max and the other ten kept looking ahead at the many miles of water in front of them.
"Oh man. This is not good." Riolu muttered.
"It's all gonna flood in a matter of time." Simba said in horror.
Manny looked serious and began to turn around. "Come on, we gotta warn them." He and the others turned around to warn everyone down below.
"Hmm...Maybe we can rapidly evolve into water creatures." Sid thought out loud.
"That sounds like a genius idea, Sid." Timon replied sarcastically. He got on Pumbaa's back and the two of them followed the others.
"Call me Squid." Sid said proudly. He began to follow the others as they walked over an ice bridge over a streaming river which was directly above the eviscerator.
Sid grabbed a piece close to him and it yanked off right away. "Sheesh, this whole thing's a piece of junk. I can't believe I live here." He hopped on the bridge twice. However, it caused a cracking noise and a rumble that had Max, Riolu, Manny, Diego, Simba, Timon, Pumbaa, Kate, and CatDog stop and gasp a little. Then they turned to glare at Sid a little. "What?" Sid shrugged cluelessly. But then he felt that something was off too.
Then, the ice broke right underneath them because of their weight and they fell screaming. Even Kate fell when Cat clung to her tightly. Manny was taking most of the unexpected water ride down the eviscerator on his back while his friends clung on to him for dear life.
Back on the ground, the crowd began to leave, and that meant Fast Tony was losing customers. He had to do something to make them stay. "Forget reeds. I present you with this revolutionary gizmo we call bark. It's so buoyant, it actually floats." He held up some bark, but the crowd was still leaving.
"I'll show you something that floats." The small-trunk animal mocked. He then laughed along with his wife.
"All right, it's your funeral." Fast Tony replied. He was becoming more and more aware of the screaming from behind him. The screaming was coming from the Pride Team, Manny, Sid, and Diego who made it to them bottom. Now the eleven of them were skidding over in Fast Tony's direction. Fast Tony saw them coming and curled into a ball to avoid being hit. He was lucky when they stopped right in front of him.
Fast Tony uncurled himself a little to see Max hanging upside down on Manny's left tusk. "Uh...Hi?" Max said awkwardly.
Ignoring the Pikachu, Fast Tony uncurled himself some more to get everyone's attention again. "You see? This is exactly what I'm talking about. Giant balls of furry lava, the size of mammoths, raining from the sky!"
"Eh, go suck air through a reed." a male mouthdigger mocked. That got the crowd laughing again.
"Everyone, please! You've gotta listen to Fast Tony! He's right about the flood!" Max yelled urgently. That got everyone's attention, including Fast Tony. He only made that flood stuff up, and now a Pikachu was saying that he's right?
"I am?" Fast Tony asked himself. But then he corrected himself proudly, "I mean, er, yes, I am."
"Wait a minute, Volt Boy. Your mammoth friend there was the one who said there wasn't going to be a flood. Why should we listen to you?" a male deer asked suspiciously.
"Because me and my friends saw what's up there, and it's not a good sign." Max replied. Simba stood next to his Pikachu friend. "Listen to what he's saying! The dam's gonna break and it's only a matter of time before the entire valley floods!"
The crowd of animals burst into laughter, not believing what Max and Simba were saying.
"Flood's real alright." A dark voice got them to stop laughing. Everyone turned to see a vulture on a tree branch looking at them. "And it's coming fast. Look around. You're in a bowl. Bowl's gonna fill up. Ain't no way out."
Everyone looked around and they saw that he was right. The ice around the valley made it seem like they were in a giant ice bowl. They began to panic at this news. "What are we gonna do?" a young female deer asked in fear while everyone else discussed the situation.
"Unless," the vulture got everyone's attention once again. "you can make it to the end of the valley."
"The end of the valley? Uh, what's there, Mr. Scary Vulture Guy?" Dog asked, shaking in a little fear.
"There's a boat, my dear boy. It can save you." the vulture smirked casually.
The male stumpy-trunk scoffed, "I don't see anything." The others discussed about this too, until the vulture spoke up again.
This time, he was frowning. "But...y'all better hurry. Ground's melting, walls tumbling, rocks crumbling. Survive that and you'll be racing the water, cos' in three days time, it's gonna hit the geyser fields." He smirked again when they leaned in close. "Boom!"
The animals screamed and a horned beaver even fainted dramatically.
"There is some good news though." the vulture got them to smile hopefully. But that quickly changed with what he said next. "The more of you die, the better I eat." The animals gasped at that. The vulture just shrugged his wings. "I didn't say it was good news for you." He then flew away from the Pride Team, the herd, and the other animals.
A bit of a pause happened before someone spoke up. "Pfft, that guy wouldn't even last ten seconds against my ol' pops." Riolu told his friends.
Then everyone heard a loud rumble and then looked up. To their fear, large chunks of ice crumbled off the wall and began to fall towards the water and everyone. Most of them screamed and ran away. One of them had to use the slide to escape. The slide itself began to tip over thanks to the landing chunk.
The slide would've crushed little Ashley, who was making a small dam again, if her father hadn't ran by and scooped her to safety just before the slide landed on the ground. That was a close call for them as they looked up at the ice wall that was slowly melting away. "Dam." The horned beaver dad remarked in shock.
"Okay, you all heard what that mysterious vulture said, let's move out." Simba ordered everyone. They knew there was no point in arguing about it, so they began to move out to the end of the valley.
Timon gulped a little. "Uh, do you guys really think there's a boat?" Both he and Pumbaa were quivering quite a bit.
"To be honest, Timon, I have no clue. But, it's not like we have much of a choice. This place is gonna be a mile underwater in three days." Max answered honestly. Manny agreed with the Pikachu, "Max is right. If there's any hope, it's that way." He nodded to the end of the valley. The Pride Team and the herd began to move out as well.
Dog then suddenly realized something. "Wait! Kate, what about the troublemakers Max was talking about?" He asked the Togetic floating next to him. "I don't know, Dog. But we can worry about them some other time. Right now, we need to make sure everyone is safe from the flood." Kate replied.
As he began to follow his friends, Max stopped and his ears twitched when he heard something behind him. When he looked behind him, he saw a big block of ice floating in the water. Feeling that something wasn't right, Max narrowed his eyes. It sounded like the ice was creaking a bit, he could also hear the sound of growling. Does anyone else hear quiet snickering.
Max couldn't really determine what it was because Diego, who noticed that the Pikachu had fallen behind, called out to him. "Max, let's go!"
Max knew that the tiger was right. So, despite the uneasy feeling, and taking just one more glance at the ice, he walked away from the ice and followed his friends.
However, if he had stayed a little longer, Max would've noticed something inside the ice. Two dangerous fishes, a purple one named Cretaceous and a big green one named Maelstrom.
Then something emerged from the water next to the ice. It was the troublemakers themselves, Sneasel and Wynaut, along with their new teammate, Snorlax the Former Giant. They were now getting the water out of their mouths.
Wynaut coughed, "Why couldn't we have landed in a nice soft pile of snow when we came to this time period?"
Snorlax shook his head a little. "Never mind that. I overheard them saying something about a flood."
"Oh really?" Sneasel smirked when he spotted Max trying to catch up to his friends. "I knew it! Once we left our time, those Pride Pests came chasing after us! Now, with this flood coming, we can make sure that they drown right here and they'll never be a problem to us 20,000 years from now!"
Snorlax laughed a bit. "Sounds like an interesting idea to get revenge on those guys for what they did to me back up in the skies!"
Wynaut screamed and swam behind Sneasel in fear all of a sudden. "Wynaut, what is it?" Sneasel asked. Wynaut pointed to the ice next to them. "Those are some scary looking fish in the ice!"
"Fish?" Snorlax asked. They looked at the fishes in the ice. Sneasel even noticed that Cretaceous' eye turned to them, showing that he and Maelstrom were still alive. With a new idea beginning to form in his brain, Sneasel held up his claws with a smirk on his face. "Well, maybe we should let them out of there for some fresh water."
Meanwhile, everyone in the valley began to evacuate in order to avoid the flood. The many vultures and Mandibuzz's were hoping for some sort of casualty so they can get a bite to eat.
"We got an overturned glyptodont in the far right lane. Traffic backed up as far as the eye can see." a male vulture said, sounding like a traffic reporter.
"Ooh, would you look at that?" a Mandibuzz with two male vultures noticed something. The vulture from earlier noticed it as well. "It looks like there might be a fatality."
The other vulture licked his beak and Mandibuzz gave a dark smirk. "I call the dark meat!" the first vulture called out playfully. The three of them rushed off to the fatality.
Everyone was leaving to the boat. A mother bird gathered her babies in her nest, then she rushed off, carrying the nest of chicks. Four young mole-hogs were trying to get their stubborn grandpa to leave the hole. Even a family of dung beetles were rushing off with the father rolling a ball of dung with them.
Manny and Max were directing traffic with the Pikachu on the mammoth's left tusk. "Come on, everyone! You're doing great! Keep your children close!" Max instructed.
Sid then rushed over to the two of them with some berries he was eating. "Hey, Manny. I just heard you're goin' extinct." Sid finished off the berries he was eating, leaving some of the juice on his face and paws. He began to lick his claws.
CatDog joined the others. "Hey, if you ever master hygiene, you might want to work on sensitivity next." Cat suggested to Sid in annoyance.
"I'm not going extinct!" Manny snapped. He was getting tired of hearing about the possibility of mammoths becoming extinct.
The same aardvark that started the extinction rumor came to Manny with his children. "Kids, look. The last mammoth." The children were in awe when they looked at Manny. "Well, you probably won't see another one of those again." The aardvark family began to walk away from Max, Manny, and Sid.
"See?" Sid asked. That made Max and Manny glare at him.
The aardvark dad was counting the number of kids currently with him, but he noticed that one was missing. "Where is James?"
Where was James, he asked? Why James was back where everyone else was standing earlier. He was laughing and making bubbles in the water with his mini-trunk. He didn't even notice that the ice that had Cretaceous and Maelstrom inside cracked in half and the two fishes, as well as the troublemakers, were nowhere to be seen.
James was having too much fun, he didn't even notice that something was coming up to him from the water. It came up to him with a splash so big, it made James scream and run off.
It was only Fast Tony's dumb assistant, Stu. He had the reed in his nose again and laughed a little. He went back underwater and swam without a care while breathing out the reed through his nose. He suddenly screamed as something pulled him deeper into the water.
Unaware of what was mysteriously happening in the water, Fast Tony was calling to his assistant. "Stu? Come on, Stu. Let's blow this ice cube stand." He screamed when something landed from the water in front of him. It was the turtle shell of Stu. "Stu!" Fast Tony looked inside, but found the shell to be completely empty.
He kept looking at the shell, then he looked at the departing crowd as another idea came to him. "Folks, be the first in the valley to have your very own mobile home!" He ran off with the shell over his head in an attempt to sell it.
No one realized that Cretaceous and Maelstrom emerged from the water with Snorlax holding on to both of them. Sneasel was on Cretaceous and Wynaut was on Maelstrom. "Well now, those two have a healthy appetite." Wynaut said. "Still not as big as mine." Snorlax mentioned.
Sneasel patted Cretaceous a bit. "Now there's a couple of good boys. But, I bet you two would want something else to eat. Am I right?" Cretaceous and Maelstrom growled a yes to Sneasel's question. "Well, an unusual group of animals and Pokemon are off to the end of the valley as we speak. I'm sure you'll be pleased with the taste, won't you?" Sneasel asked. Proof that Sneasel and Wynaut spend a lot of time with their hyena friends, they would help them get a bite to eat.
To answer the question, Cretaceous and Maelstrom dove underwater and swam off with the two troublemakers and former giant.
Meanwhile, in a completely different part of the lake, Scrat recovered from the unexpected ride from earlier and was now searching for his prized nut.
He was sniffing at the thin ice he was on until he spotted his prize underneath the ice in the water. He tried to bite through the ice first, but that didn't work.
Annoyed, Scrat stomped on the ice three times, but he yelped when he flipped himself under the water while the acorn was now on top of the ice.
Not sure how that happened, but Scrat tried to flip himself to the surface, only to end up in the same spot. He tried to do it slowly this time, clinging to the edge of the ice, but then he began to flip the ice rapidly. He tried to run to stay on the surface, only to end up flipping with the ice. It even knocked the acorn away while Scrat ended up underwater once again.
The acorn was sliding on the ice. Scrat, with the amount of air he had, scurried upside down after it. At one point, he managed to poked his nose out to sniff the air. However, the acorn was sucked into his direction, blocking his nostrils, making him unable to breath. Scrat had to act fast in order to breath again, so he blew it off his nose where it clucked and landed.
Painfully pulling his head up to the surface, Scrat smiled when he spotted his prized nut not that far. There was still one problem, he was stuck! Then he used his teeth to cut circle in the ice. Once he was done, Scrat pulled himself out of the water...but he still had the ice circle around his neck. It was making it hard for him to get the nut because it was heavy for him.
He rolled around to get the nut. He leaned forward to get it with his nose, but he leaned too far and the ice circle squished his face. The acorn was knocked into the air before it landed on a piece of ice floating in the water. Despite the pain, Scrat wasn't one to give up. He got back on his feet and stumbled to the edge so he can see where his acorn was...but he fell off the cliff and landed on the floating ice. It catapulted the acorn high into the air and it landed on a thin ice block tower, out of Scrat's reach.
Seeing where his prize landed this time, Scrat whimpered pitifully. Now what was he gonna do?
And so begins the journey to the end of the valley to escape the upcoming flood! At the same time, Sneasel's newest, and also wet, plan against the Pride Team begins to unfold! But, are they right? Are mammoth's extinct? Find out in the next chapter!