Shelby...hated...this job. It wasn't hard to see, she had a way of wearing her heart on her sleeve. The supervisor spent his time running her through her duties, calling it an "induction". It wasn't as though she could imagine the job was particularly hard, but he insisted on showing her EVERYTHING.

"So here we have the register." He told her. "If someone orders a bronto burger, push this putton with the brontosaurus on it. If they order fossil fries..."

"Push the button with the fossil on it?" Shelby interrupted him sarcastically. The guy didn't seem to catch the sarcasm as she looked at him, just smiling at her.

"Yeah, that's right! I knew you were right for this job!" He told her. "Now, I know I have a uniform your size somewhere, in the meantime, why don't you get familiar with the area out here and I'll see if I can find something?"

Before Shelby could protest, he had put the hat on her head, and disappeared. She just rolled her eyes.

"It's fine Shelby, at least you're in the museum." She reminded herself. "It doesn't matter if you're just flipping sodding burgers; at least you're actually here."

As she turned to the desk, she saw three people arriving. She smiled.

"Hello, Dino Bite Cafe, how may I serve you?" She asked. The woman at the front of the group stepped up.

"Hi, I'm Kendall Morgan." She introduced herself. "We're taking over here..."

"Dr Morgan! It's amazing to meet you!" Shelby raced out, grabbing and shaking her hand. "I loved your presentation in Harvard about the climate shift between the Jurassic and Triassic era! You're..."

"Yes, thanks, but I'm not a doctor." Kendall corrected her. "Where are the offices?"

"In the back." Shebly told her. Kendall and one of the guys with her just left. Koda, however, approached the desk.

"Burger." He told her.

"Uh...yeah, sure...whatever." She told him, reaching to the hot lamp behind her and wrapping a bronto burger in greaseproof paper. "Um...so...are you...?"

"Sick on plane, hungry." Koda told her bluntly, taking a huge bite. He looked to the burger. "Too cooked."

"I'll try to remember that in future." Shelby stated as he walked away. She sighed and rested her face in her hands. "Yeah, because that guy is SO much more qualified than I am to be on the dig team."

As Koda got to the back, licking his fingers clean of the leftovers of his bronto burger, Kendall and Chase were waiting by a plaster T-rex head. Kendall just sighed.

"Koda, we were worried." She told him.

"Well, she was." Chase corrected her.

"Hungry." Koda replied gruffly. Given the fact he'd thrown up on the plane, Kendall wasn't exactly too surprised. However, this was the part she knew was important and that they'd need to know about.

"Alright, I've received a message; this is the way we get in to the new headquarters." Shelby told them. She reached into the T-rex's mouth, pulling one of the teeth, at which its tongue dropped down into a slide. Kendall climbed inside and slid down it.

"This Mercer guy has a flair for the dramatic, I'll give him that." Chase commented. "After you."

Koda swung himself inside, sliding down the chute into the base, at which Chase checked around for witnesses and followed suit. The entrance closed after them.

When they arrived at the bottom of the slide, they found a huge expanse of caves, most of which were empty, but they could see that someone was setting up huge banks of computers. Kendall was waiting for them.

"Wow, this is...pretty amazing." Chase stated. "So, what is all of this?"

"This will be our base of operations." Kendall told them. "Scans have shown the largest readings of Energem radiation is coming from this area, so we're going to start searching from here for the other eight."

"Wait...you know how many of these things there are?" Chase asked, holding up his Energem. "How'd that happen?"

"Because I told her." Keeper stated, pulling down his hood as he abandoned his work setting up the computers. Kendall gestured towards him as the guys stared at him.

"I'd like you to introduce you to Keeper." She told them. "He brought the Energems to Earth. He's an extra-terrestrial..."

"Wait...he's an alien?" Chase asked. Kendall just looked at him.

"Is that really the most surprising thing you've heard?" She asked. He had to concede that point. Keeper approached them.

"Allow me to show you what happened." He stated. "It will be more effective and far quicker than explaining it to you."

He placed a hand on each of their foreheads, at which images started to flow into their minds.

Long ago, far longer than the human race had even existed, somewhere in the region of 65 million years or so previously, Keeper was flying his ship, desperately trying to avoid the blasts coming from the ship pursuing him. It spun and flipped as he tried to get away, but his pursuer was relentless. In the end, some blasts finally caught its hull. The ship spun out of control, all the way to the ground.

Keeper managed to raise a shield around himself, protecting himself from the impact. When he got there, he knew he didn't have long before his pursuers would make the surface and be after him.

"Where are they, they've got to be here." He remarked, looking around the wreckage of his ship desperately. He was so intent on his search that he didn't notice a T-rex walking up to him. Either that or he didn't care enough to take notice. It was hard to tell. Either way, when it caught his attention, roaring into the heavens, he didn't seem at all phased.

"I mean you no harm." Keeper stated. It was a strange message; they could feel it through their mind, like it was intended to be understood regardless of language. Keeper looked into its eyes.

"Gather the bravest among you." He instructed it. "I need your help."

With that, the T-rex walked away, leaving him alone in the clearing. Keeper searched through the wreckage.

"There it is." He stated as he found the Energems at last. He took them out of the container, but knowing that his pursuer would not be far behind him, he knew he didn't have time to arrange anything else, so he took the damaged energy crystal that powered his ship and placed it in the container that had contained the Energems.

He then hid the Energems and lay down on the ground. A monster came into view, and started looking through the wreckage.

"Ahh, there's his ship!" The creature announced as he arrived on the scene. "Where are those Energems?"

Keeper lay still, not moving as he approached, playing possum.

"They've got to be here somewhere!" Fury growled in frustration. "I WILL find them."

His gaze finally fell on the fallen form of Keeper. He gave him a sick smile.

"Ah, Keeper, you've finally met your fate." He announced. "Just to make sure you're destroyed once and for all!"

As he raised his sword, his eye caught a container buried in the rubble. His boss, Sledge, only cared about the Energems. While he would gladly take Keeper's demise as a bonus, all he wanted was the gems, that was why he had sent Fury to Earth.

"Wait, the Energems." Fury stated, walking away and leaving Keeper alone. He picked up the container. "Yes, at last...Master Sledge will become..invincible!"

He left, at which Keeper revived and got to his feet. It wasn't long before he was joined by a group of dinosaurs.

"Gather round my friends. You are the mightiest creatures on the planet. I need your help." He said regally, unrolling a canvas bag before him. Inside were ten glowing gems. "These are the legendary Energems. Their incredible power transcend space and time, good and evil!"

He looked to the creatures pleadingly as he continued to explain, his incredible power managing to make his words transcend any form of understanding or language barriers. All of the dinosaurs present paid attention to his words.

"Your spirits will bond with them and keep them safe." Keeper explained. "If they fall into evil hands, the entire universe will be in great danger."

The Energems levitated off the rock, and flew into the assembled dinosaurs, merging with them. They all left shortly afterwards.

"Ah, the Energems are now safe." Keeper stated. He then heard someone calling out his name. "Fury, he survived!"

With that, he broke the connection. Both Chase and Koda stared at him.

"Fury...you know Fury." Chase stated. "He attacked me back home when I first got this thing."

"Koda know Fury." Koda told him. Keeper just nodded.

"Fury works for the one who pursued me to this planet. He has been searching for the Energems all this time." Keeper told them. "Now, I must ask you to stop him."

"Look, I know I'm strong and everything, but the last time I went up against Fury I didn't exactly mop the floor with him." Chase stated bluntly. "How are we meant to deal with that?"

"I'm glad you asked." Kendall replied, pulling back a sheet over a table near her. "These are your Dino Chargers, and these are your morphers. These will help maximise the power boost your Energems give you."

"Really?" Chase asked. "You expect us to just trust that this shit works?"

"Well, yes." Kendall answered. Koda picked up the oversized pistol, staring at it.

"How does it work?" He asked. Kendall approached him carefully.

"Here, I'll show you." She answered, standing beside him.

Upstairs, Shelby was at the counter, her elbow resting on it, while she rested her chin on her hand. The job was every bit as dull as she had predicted. It was mostly kids, and families she dealt with, people who had paid for a museum tour stopping off before they left to get something to eat since it was simpler than going back into town for something. She sighed as someone came to the desk.

"Dino Bite Cafe, how may I help you?" he asked in an off-hand way that in no way hid her contempt for the job.

"I'd like a Bronto Burger meal deal with a freshly squeezed lemonade as the drink and a Kiddy T-rex box with an orange juice." He stated. "I'd like the burger medium-rare, and I'd like the fries extra crispy."

"Anything else?" Shelby asked.

"I'd like it quick; I need to get the kid back to her mother in half an hour." He stated. "So chop chop!"

Shelby went to the rack looking for stuff to give them. The man just coughed.

"I DID ask for medium-rare." He reminded her. "How do you expect it to be medium-rare if it's been under the lamps for hours?"

"I'm sorry sir; I'll look in the back." Shelby said through a forced smile. What the hell difference did it make? All of the stuff here was mass-produced shit anyway, that was the way she saw it. Pretty much everything probably tasted like Styrofoam. She took the first burger she found on the hot plate without even checking, and put it in a bun, wrapping it up.

She came back out with a bag, prepared for take-away.

"Alright, that's one Bronto Burger meal deal and one T-Rex kiddie box that will be..."

Shelby punched in a few keys.

"217 dollars." She announced. The man just glared at her.

"Really?" He asked.

"That's what the till says." Shelby stated.

"Would you like to check that again?" He asked. "Do you really think an adult and child eating in a fast-food place should cost over two hundred dollars?"

Shelby had to admit, when it was phrased like that it did sound wrong. She checked the till again and realised the plastic covering for the keypad had slipped, meaning she had been pressing the wrong buttons. She adjusted it.

"I'm sorry sir, let me run that..." She just recoiled as he spat some of his burger on the floor.

"Do you call that medium-rare?" He roared. "Where's your boss?"

"Uh...he just got transferred this morning." Shelby told him honestly. The customer just threw the burger at her.

"Well, that plaque up there guarantees a hundred percent satisfaction or no charge. Guess what, I'm not satisfied!" He stated. "Now if you can be bothered, go and get my order before I feel the need to call Anton Mercer Industries and have you fired!"

Shelby had to bite her lip as she went to get his amended order. At least he wouldn't see what she did to his burger before she gave it to him.

Back in the cave, Koda and Chase were just familiarising themselves with the new base f operations. Koda came up to Kendall, beaming brightly.

"There cave over there, not needed." Koda told her. She just smiled.

"It's fine Koda, you can stay there." She told him. "I figured this climate would be just like your home."

Koda ran off, skipping gleefully at the thought of his new home. Chase came over.

"So...that leaves the question, where do we stay?" He asked her.

"Anton's arranged a deal with an apartment block." She told him. Chase came closer.

"So...we'll be rooming?" He asked her, putting his arm around her. Kendall just threw his arm off.

"Let's get something clear, I have a few rules." Kendall told him. "I don't date guys younger than me, I don't date guys that work for me, and I don't date guys dumber than me." She told him. "I DEFINITELY don't date guys that fit all three categories."

"Ouch." He responded as he heard this. Kendall threw a key at him.

"It's the corner of third and fifth." She told him. "I trust this'll be the last time we have this discussion."

Chase didn't say another word, choosing instead just to leave. Kendall went to the computers as she got a reading on another Energem.

"Shit, the residual radiation in the area's screwing up all the scanning equipment." She commented as Keeper came to her side. "But unless I'm wrong, it looks like we've found another Energem."

"It would appear so." Keeper answered. "Go carefully, I doubt Fury will be far behind."

"That's what they're for." Kendall replied as she gestured to the guys. "Guys! It's time to go! I'll explain how your tech works on the way."