Start: 12-15-10
Finish: 12-25-10
WhazzupPeeps: Couldn't agree more in chapter 2, especially on Captain Ron's part. As for chapter 3, we'll soon find out...
The Cullens of Death Metal: Will the other groms & seniors find out about this? Let's find out, shall we? And I'm not plannin' of featurin' Jurassic Park, since this fanfic's not a crossover. Close guess, though.
Woahnessness: I'm SO glad ya found the third chapter funny! I was hopin' I did it good enough.
Disclaimer: Just so we're clear, I own nothin', capisce'? Kendra Hamilton belongs to SFJames, and Kaycee & Roxxie to Woahnessness. Got it? Good.
Chapter 4: Unwanted Visitors
"Oh, man, we're so toast!" Broseph shouted.
"How can we do our jobs if we're dinosaurs?" Emma blurted out. "I mean, Fin, Reef, & Broseph are now too big to fit through the doors without breaking them!"
"And we don't have opposable thumbs anymore!" Lo complained, flexing her remaining two fingers to emphasize her point.
"Emma, Lo, something tells me our jobs are going to be the least of our problems." Johnny said. His speech sounded a bit off, but that was only due to the lack of lips. Then again, Reef & Broseph no longer had lips either, albeit at the end of their snouts.
Fin turned her attention to Reef with agitation.
"Reef, did you have something to do with what happened to us just now?" Fin asked with anger rising in her voice.
"I swear, Fin, I didn't know! I don't even know what caused our transformations or how it got our drinks in the first place! You think I want to be a dinosaur for the rest of my life?" Reef asked defensively. "C'mon, you think I'm smart enough to pull this scheme off?"
"Yeah, you got a good point." Fin accepted, simmering down from those last words.
"Say, Fin," Lo called out. Fin turned her big, brutal head to her. "Remember when we compared each other to certain dinosaurs?"
"Yeah. So?" Fin inquired.
"Well, you're now an actual T-Rex, and your attitude goes perfectly with it!" Lo spat out.
"And you're now a dwarf T-rex! I'd say a Nanotyrannus, but you're a little small for that. Dunno exatcly what you are now, so we'll stick with dwarf rex." Fin said.
"Let's not forget you compared Reef to a Triceratops. You said he had the manners and bravado of one!" Lo added.
"What?" Reef exclaimed.
"That's still none of your business, you feathered runt!" Fin snarled at Lo. Lo's left eye twitched at the insult.
"Well, you also didn't have to insult Broseph by comparing his intelligence to that of Stegosaurus, even though he now is one!" Lo blabbed out.
"Fin said what?" Broseph shouted incredulously.
"And you did call me a dinosaur while on duty!" Fin talked back to Lo.
"Hey, you kicked me in the butt!" Lo replied in retaliation.
"You were slouching and making excuses, you spoiled brat!" Fin spat out.
"Hey!" Lo yelled in offense.
"Guys, guys! This is no time to fight!" Emma told them. "We gotta get outta here before our fellow surfers see us like this."
Then they heard gasps of great shock and turned their heads to see... Ripper Morris, Kendra Hamilton, 'No Pants' Lance Stewart, and Kaycee & Roxxie Johnsonbaugh, eyes wide with shock and jaws dropped at they were seeing. They were already in their swimwear and carrying their surfboards, ready to shred.
"Uh-oh." Lo muttered quietly. Fin slowly and cautiously walked over to them... or at least tried to. Not yet accustomed to her new body, Fin stumbled and fell onto her side after just a few steps. The humans looked on with perplexed looks on their faces. In a matter of seconds, she tried and managed to get the hang of her new body. She got back up on her hind legs and continued to walk carefully towards them.
Ripper, Kenny, Lance, and the Johnsonbaugh sister took a couple steps back, still in disbelief from the sight.
"Where did these dinosaurs come from?" Roxxie whispered to her big sister.
"I have no idea." Kaycee whispered back. Fin came within an inch from their faces. Beads of sweat formed all over their skins.
"Oi, it's Jurassic Park all over again." Ripper whispered in a shaken tone.
"Keep absolutely still, dudes & dudettes." Lance uttered through his teeth. "It can't see us if we don't move." Fin gave Lance an incredulous look.
"What are you blabbing about, Lance? I can see you guys just fine." Fin said to him. The humans gasped in shock at the fact this dinosaur just spoke to them, in Fin's voice.
"Why do you sound like Fin, but look like an ancient reptile?" asked Ripper.
"Because I am Fin, in the body of a dinosaur, you idiot!" Fin yelled out. The humans trembled from Fin's attitude.
"Question," Roxxie asked, unsteady hand raised in wonder. "How did you guys get this way?"
"We're wondering about that ourselves." Emma blurted out. Kaycee's eyes widened in shock from seeing the Deinonychus talking in Emma's voice.
"Emma?" Kaycee asked in disbelief. "Is-is that you?"
"Yeah, it's me." was the redhead's reply. The dinosaurs -and pterosaur- and humans gathered around. At least, they tried to gather, especially since the Reef, Broseph, and especially Johnny were still getting used to walking on all fours. The now-scaly groms, after they got used to walking their new bodies, explained that they turned into animals after they drank their 'energy drinks' and had no idea what caused the transformation or even what was in their drinks to do so. The humans were still in shock from hearing their voices in those reptilian bodies, but that was starting to wear off and they agreed to help them out- somehow.
"I got you in my sights!" A voice called out. The surfers -human and Mesozoic reptile alike- craned their heads to see... two people and, to their surprise, Captain Clam, in a turquoise jeep, with nets, tasers, and even tranquilizer guns! The man behind the wheel had a well-muscled build in the kahki clothes, with a pith helmet and a thick mustache, blonde hair and brown eyes. The girl with him had her head wrapped in a pink hujab (a headscarf), tanned skin, blue eyes, and kahki clothes that appear to be dyed pink. There was something suspicious about them...
"Where'd those haolees come from?" Ripper asked, stunned that a pair of hunters and Captain Clam had shown at The Office.
"Not important!" Captain Clam called out.
"Why is Captain Clam here, and with a couple of lolo hunters?" asked Kenny.
"We're, uh, animal control!" The 'hunter' blabbed, though the groms & seniors of Surfer's Paradise weren't convinced.
"But we didn't call animal control." Kenny pointed out.
"Look, we're only here to detain those talking dinosaurs right there. The Pteranodon, too." said the huntress. The paleo-groms uttered "Uh-oh!"
Fin said "With tasers and tranquilizers? Ha! The three-horned kook-"
"Hey!" Reef responded in offense.
"The afroed Stego, and I are too big for them!" Fin finished.
"Oh, you're right about that. Three of you are too big for the tranqs, but the other three are just small enough, dude." The hunter stated, aiming his tranquilizer gun at... Lo!
Broseph repositioned himself in front of Lo.
"Over my scaly body." Broseph said.
"Hey, wait a minute! That hunter said 'dude'." Kaycee pointed out.
"Yeah, Kaycee's right. A British hunter dude wouldn't say 'dude'." Lance put in.
"You know, there's something familiar about them. I think we've met before and what we're seeing here is just a disguise. Isn't that right... Tuna McGillis & Betty Sandstone?" Fin blurted out. The 'hunter' and 'huntress' were shocked that Fin saw through their disguises and so had to remove their headgear, revealing their faces. The three groms and two seniors -who were still in human body- couldn't believe they came in disguise and showed up at The Office!
"I just KNEW we didn't call animal control!" Kenny exclaimed.
"Now, how did they find The Office?" Ripper asked in curiosity.
"Ripper, don't we have bigger things to deal with now?" Johnny pointed out. "Especially since they got guns!"
"Okay, so you saw through our disguise. We're still taking you out. We got enough tranqs to put an elephant to sleep" Tuna announced, taking aim, now at Emma! Betty picked up a tranquilizer gun herself and aimed it at Lo!
"That's a tad overkill, don't you think?" inquired Roxxie.
"Guys, I think we should get away from them. Right now." Johnny suggested.
"I'm with Johnny on this one." Emma agreed. Then they tunred tail and bolted away... or at least, they tried to. The guys fell on their faces as they stumbled on their own four feet. Johnny in particular tripped on his own wings and stabbed his beak into the ground! The girls -and the other surfers- were annoyed by this. Johnny pulled his beak out and landed on his back, wings flailing for a few seconds. Fortunately, Reef positioned himself between Johnny and the minion trio. Broseph and Fin did the same. Emma and Lo went behind them to help Johnny back up on his own four feet. The humans followed suit.
"Johnny, try launching yourself!" Kenny offered.
"How?" asked Johnny.
"Use your wings like springs!" Ripper said.
"That's good enough, but I need something higher to launch off of!" Johnny tacked on. His friends looked around for a higher point for him launch off, and saw a few trees close by and asked Johnny if he could climb. He wasn't sure if his new body was made for that, but had to try. Ripper and Kenny carried Johnny to the nearest tree by his right wing, Lance & Kaycee by his left wing, which helped tremendously, given they still had their opposable thumbs.
Fin, Reef, & Broseph, meanwhile, were still facing Captain Ron's minion trio. Reef charged the jeep, flipping it and sending them rolling back, giving the groms some space and a chance to catch their breath.
"Finally, a good use for that big, hard head of yours." Fin stated. Reef gave her an annoyed look at her comment. Then the three giant dino-groms turned their attention to the others and saw Johnny trying to climb up a tree for his first-ever attempt to fly.
Once Johnny got high enough, he pushed himself off the tree and flapped his wings. He was in air, all right, but he went down pretty quickly.
"C'mon, Johnny, you're a flyer, for crying out loud! Fly, Johnny, fly! Higher! Higher like a flyer! Flap your wings!" Roxxie shouted out.
Johnny flapped his wings as hard as he could, but he just wasn't going up. Fin blew gently under him to slow his descent until his feet touched the ground.
"Did I fly?" asked Johnny. The others nodded negatively.
"Well, that was a bust." Johnny said, shoulders & head drooped down in disappointment.
"Roxxie," Kaycee asked her sister, who looked up to her. "Were you, George and Grommet watching The Land Before Time, again?" Roxxie let out a nervous laugh before replying "Maybe."
"Guys, focus!" Fin growled, startling the humans. "We have a bigger crisis to deal with!"
"Yeah. We gotta get back to the hotel before they do away with us!" Lo tacked on.
"But how?" asked Lance. "None of you have opposable thumbs to pick up a card, let alone, say, a duster, or luggage cart."
"We'll improvise." Fin insisted.
Meanwhile, Tuna, Betty, and Clam were struggling to crawl their way out from under the jeep Reed headbutted. Captain Clam was having the most difficulty doing so due to the size of his mascot head.
"C'mon, dudes! We gotta bring them down or Captain Ron's gonna have our heads!" Tuna said.
"But how?" inquired Captain Clam. "The bigger ones are just too strong!"
"How about this stuff?" asked Betty. She had a couple of small silvery spheres she took out of the glove compartment.
"They vent out a sleeping gas that can put a few elephants to sleep for a half hour." Betty told them.
"I didn't know we had them." Tuna stated.
"Me neither." The mascot and blond replied.
"First we get out of this jeep, then we toss one these things at them." Betty suggested. After several minutes of struggling, the surfer couple and the mascot finally got out of the overturned jeep. Too bad their targets escaped bt the time they were free!
"Drat!" Captain Clam yelled.
"We gotta go after 'em! Or the big man'll tear us limb from limb!" Tuna insisted.
"At least they left some tracks for us to follow. Surely they hadn't gone far." Betty tacked on, pointing to the trails of footprints the paleo groms left behind.
"At least get this jeep back on its wheels. We can catch up to them more easily by jeep." Captain Clam offered. Tuna & Betty agreed and got a car-jack to try and turn it back over, which took a matter of minutes. They had minor delays due to the crabs pinching their claws at their toes and butts (when they fell on them). They had to move their feet like crazy dancers just to avoid getting pinched. One even pinched Tuna's nose! Despite this hassle, they got their jeep right side up, got in, buckled up, and sped off into the woods.
They broke out their tranquilizer guns, net-guns, and even the sleep-gas balls at the ready once they caught up with the dinosaurs. How hard could it be to find and catch a dinosaur, let alone five of them and a pterosaur, they thought. They will soon find out!
Didn't expect the OC's to turn up in this story, did ya? If I did poorly on this chapter, I apologise for that. Just tryin' to make it good enough for y'all.