Author's note: This chapter will be having hints of one of my prequel stories of the "Sailor Moon Continuum" that I'm working on, which be hinted again in one of the secret endings of this story. Without further ado, let's continue on.

I don't own any rights to Sailor Moon, Ice Age, Pokemon, Shrek, Cardcaptors, Rugrats, Kingdom Hearts or Final Fantasy VII. I only own my OCs and Kingdom Hearts will be seen in cameos or in the secret ending of this story while the FFVII characters will be mentioned only.

Chapter seven: Serena's Guilt and Dark Pressence.

Meanwhile, around the same time, Rudy's roar continued to echo through out the night which was heard by Sid and the T-Rex family who were near a rock cliff with a cave opening at the height of Momma Rex's head. Gazing around nervously once again and fearing that the monster was quite too close, she decided that she and her children would rest in the cave for the night. Lowering her head to allow the children to climb down, the babies, now slowly coming to realise that she is indeed their real mother, did so and when she lifted them to the cave, they climbed off and into the cave, before she climbed up with just a bit of struggle herself, leaving Sid behind.

"Wait, wait. What about me?" Sid whined, before slumping in defeat with a sigh. He then decided to try his luck in climbing up himself, but since he hasn't climbed in years, even in the Afterlife before having been revived almost a year ago, his skills were slim to none. The sloth managed to get three feet up, and grabbed a leaf to support him. But then it lost it's grip on the wall, forcing him to fall back onto the ground.

Realising that he was stuck outside on his own, Sid gave up and called up to the babies, trying to lighten the mood for himself, "Sleep well, kids! We have a busy day tomorrow. Foraging, hunting,..."

Foraging, hunting...the two things he and the herd would used to do even before becoming members of the Sailor Team. These words and thoughts finally brought Sid into sadness. The herd and the Sailor Team were more than just his friends; they were his family. Or at least...they used to be. Memories of what Diego told him came back to him and his own thoughts of the possibilty of everyone splitting up was most likely coming true. He was also feeling homesick since he didn't feel it through out the day of being here.

Not to mention the feeling of loneiness returning to him, as he added to himself, "...Missing my friends, who probably aren't missing me." before placing a leaf on his body to use as a tiny blanket and layed on the ground.

Maybe Sid should spend the rest of his second chanced days here, alone. Plus, he would've heard from the others by now, before realising that he left his Commucator back on the surface. Not that it would've been much of help. The others would've found him by now. He came to a conclusion that they were most likely glad that he was out of their lives, despite everything that they all went through. They were probably so angry with him with what he did almost two days ago that they would never forgive him.

Suddenly, as though sensing his sadness and loneiness, Momma Rex's tail came gently down and to Sid's confusion and surprise, he was lifted up into the cave and gently rested down with her and the children, leaning against her leg. Yoko smiled upon seeing him and Sid smiled in return, gently rubbing her face as Momma Rex gently wrapped her tail protectively around the children and Sid himself.

Realising that Momma Rex had indeed sensed that he was kind and somewhat lonely, having now accepted him as a friend, Sid smiled and told his new Dino-Friend, "Aw, you're a real softy, you know that?"

Softy, just like both Diego and Donkey's wife Dragon. Carnivores or not, everyone has hearts. Dinosaurs were no different afterall. In the end, Sid realised that the Dinosaurs were just like everyone else. The only ones who didn't have that sort of thing like proper hearts and feelings were Heartless and Nobodies.

Momma Rex said nothing and gazed out at the jungle outside of the cave, though her thoughts were that she realised Sid was just an innocent mammal who cared so much and he gave the children the warmth and love to ease his own loneiness. The same warmth and love she did herself. She decided that he wasn't so bad after all. After a few moments, she layed down, curling up with her children and her new friend, all of them falling asleep to gain the strength to continue to Lava Falls tomorrow.

Little did they know, a shadow of the Great White Beast saw them, but bited his time, softly growling before retreating into the Jungle. Rudy could smell another mammal that wasn't a certain Weasel who escaped him at the cost of his eye, and had taken his tooth. The new mammal would be a much easier target. The Beast just needed the right moment to catch him.

After all, the surface animals were just as tasty as the herbavior Dinosaurs.

She didn't know where she was, or how she got here. One thing Kairi did know was that she was in a barren wasteland, with hundreds of different and lifeless types of Keyblades stuck on the ground, having formed four different pathways into different directions of the wasteland.

It felt like a Graveyard and from what the Princess of Heart could tell, she couldn't find anyone else in sight.

"Sora? Riku? Sailor Moon? Anyone?" Kairi called out, anxiously continuing to wander aimlessly to find her friends or anyone in paticular. Just then her anxienty grew as the area began to darken, dark clouds began to form in the sky that seemed like a storm was coming.

Suddenly sensing a dark, powerful and evil pressence behind her, Kairi's eyes widened as she turned around and gasped as a silloute of an elderly man with no hair and goatee stood there, unusual yellow eyes gleaming at her, with a gothic looking Keyblade in his hand. He chuckled evilly as he raised the Keyblade right at her heart, before launching forward. Kairi stood frozen as the Keyblade was aimed right at her heart...

"Kairi!" Serena cried out as she jolted upright into sitting position. Panting and looking around with her eyes, she realised that what she just witnessed had just been a nightmare. A twisted nightmare that involved one of her friends, and...someone with evil pressence that reminded her of both Xehanort's Heartless and the aura...it felt familiar but Serena couldn't figure out how or why. Chaos was gone, Xehanort was gone, and Kairi was safely back home in Destiny Islands with Sora and Riku.

But...that just made her guilt reach it's final peak as Serena gazed around at her friends with her who were still sleeping. She then caught sight of Ellie sleeping soundly, snuggled up against Manny who seemed to be shiftly a little, seemingly in mid-nightmare himself, before relaxing a little with a silent moan. Serena stood up and silently approached Ellie before softly sighing, lowering her head in guilt.

That's when she finally came to accept the fact that it wasn't Sid's fault that he took the dinosaur eggs by mistake. It wasn't Manny's fault that Diego had left the Sailor Team and that everyone was starting to split up. It was her fault, and hers alone. Serena realised how distant and stupid she had been for the last three months, and it was all because of her trying to figure out her lost memories along with Mickey, Loran, Cloud, Tifa, Aerith, Yuffie, Leon and Cid, while facing Ultimecia.

Instead of things getting better after finally regaining her lost memories, Serena felt that she only made things worse with her best friends who had been with her and helped her more times than she can count. But she helped her friends who she hasn't been with more in their time-travelling adventures against Kadaj, Hein, the Dahaka, and Caius, unknowingly edging the rest of her friends away in her desire to not be alone. Worse, she had suggested to Manny to talk to Diego what his problem was.

When she should've done so herself. Serena had done that for Cloud and Reno because she could sense it and she barely knew them for that long. But her biggest mistake now was that she didn't think to do the same thing to Diego, because she believed that closest friends would've done so but didn't think of that with the others. If Serena had talked to Diego instead, she would've heard his worries, and suggested that he went on a journey on his own for a while and then once he got his edge and dignity back, then he could come back home to reuighte with the Sailor Team.

Then Sid wouldn't have come to a conclusion that everyone was splitting up and then she realised that he feared that he would be abandoned all over again, which was why he felt that the T-Rex babies were abandoned because he didn't want them to suffer the same loneiness as he felt. Serena wouldn't have been so harsh on him and thought of him of being stupid. He wouldn't have been kidnapped. None of this would've happened. Ellie and her and Manny's unborn child wouldn't have been at risk.

Which made Serena's guilt grow twice as worse to the point of wanting to just hide in a dark place and cry. She knew that she was starting to sound like both Cloud and Vincent over Aerith, Zack and Lucrecia, and Riku over his actions, and Kaylie over her fear of her own darkness, but Serena felt that this was a Sin that she couldn't forgive herself for. All she wanted was a world for everyone, including her friends and family to be safe.

Serena didn't think through and that was her sin.

"What's going on? Are you okay?" Ellie's voice asked, making Serena realise that her friend had woke up and noticed her miserable expression.

Not saying anything at first, and trying to hold back the urge of cry, Serena sighed and confessed, "I'm sorry. I try to keep everyone including all of you guys safe, and, now you're in one the most dangerous places in the world."

Realising that her friend was blaming herself, Ellie told her comfortly like a mother would to a distraughted and guilt-ridden child, "Hey, this isn't your fault. It's bigger than all of us. We have to get Sid."

Despite that she was relieved that Ellie didn't blame her for this mess, Serena knew that it was her fault, and continued, slowly losing her battle to cry in her guilt, "I know, but, if I had been a better friend to him, we wouldn't be here."

"Better friend?" Buck's disbelived voice was heard as the two of them looked up to see that he was laying on a tree branch above them, having overheard the conversation. He could also tell that Serena was blaiming herself and realised that she was calling herself a terrible friend and asked, "Are you pluckin' my whiskers?"

Buck then hanged onto a vine and told the leader of the Sailor Team in his own supporting words since he realised that Serena did care so much for her friends, "You risked your life, your team and your future baby to save your buddy!"

Carefully dropping himself to the ground and landing safely, Buck then added since he was told of most of the things his new friends had gone through and their idenities, "Not the best leader or mother... but a darn good friend." walking off to return to his previous spot to continue to keep watch.

Serena watched him go and somehow wanted to thank Buck for his words. She came to quickly realise that he was right. In fact, what he said is what everyone else in the Team would tell her. None of them blamed her and were not angry with her. No matter her decisions, she was always there to do her best for them, sometimes risking the others of some of her friends to save the rest of their friends and others. She was indeed not the best leader and most definately not the best mother and she had a feeling that her future-self was just as she is now, but as Buck had said, she is a good friend.

Maybe she can make up with her friends once they rescue Sid. For now, the important thing was to keep the group here safe and to rescue their friend.

Diego, who had trouble sleeping himself, had heard the conversation and opened his eyes, with a hint of sadness of his own. Risking the lives of others to save friends including one's own life in anything, Diego realised that he forgot that strength wasn't just the muscle. The strength came from the heart, just as Hercules told him, the rest of the Sailor Team, Mickey, Zack, Cloud, Sora, Donald and Goofy. He began to realise that maybe leaving wasn't the right way to find his strength again.

Future-Piplup was in the similiar vote, deep in thought. It made him remember the time when, just before he and Chimchar went to save Temporal Tower and change history, Grovyle had sacrificed himself by taking himself and Dusknoir back into the dark future to give them more time, and how Grovyle risked his life to save Future-Piplup's from the dark pulse attack. He then realised that he forgot the most important thing; Friends watch each other's backs, whether they were together or not.

His thoughts were broken when an Acorn knocked onto his head before it bounced away. Annoyed on what hit him, Future-Piplup was then further distrupted by Scrat and Scratte who both kicked him the face unknowingly as he grumbled, "Hey! Omph!" and glared at their direction as they ran off.

Scrat and Scratte continued their brawl through out the night in a cavey-like area that looked like a ball-room in the moon light. They smacked and punched at each other, and just when Scratte took hold of the nut and made her escape, Scrat angrily grabbed her tail with a looked that translanted he wasn't about to let her go that easily. He pulled her back but both accidently pushed their faces close, their paws gripping the Acorn.

Both of them growled angrily at each other(as the violin musical version of the song "You'll Never Find" played in the background), before Scrat pulled away, but pulled Scratte with him. The two then gripped the Acorn again, and preformed a fight, dancing in a tango style...well, as tango as it could get. They twirled, tripped each other, violently played a tug of war until Scratte kicked Scrat in the jaws.

"Ooh!" Scrat moaned as he stumbled backwards. But he glared at her, determined to get his prize. He wasn't going to give up! He then gripped the Acorn, but was dragged like a helpless guy, begging his annoyed girlfriend not to go, or in this case, not wanting to give up the Acorn.

Scratte, noticing this rolled her eyes skyward with a look that said, 'Seriously?' as she continued to drag Scrat with her. How was she going to get rid of him if he was too stubborn?

Scrat eventually got the Acorn back, but gagged as Scratte pushed him backwards while choaking him with her paws. Scrat managed to get her off him, but then he was kicked upward right into his...uh, nuts.

"AHH!" Scrat screamed, before holding his pained manly parts with tears forming in his eyes. Why did she had to do that for? This never happened to him before, not even in the Ice Age. Didn't she realise that that part of a male's body was one of the most weakest and delicate spots? Or if she did, she used it to her advantage, that cheating female of his own kind! His expression was quite comical that one would've laughed since it was funny to see someone else suffer through that.

If it didn't happen to you as well.

Having taken the Acorn once again, Scratte then pretended to gesture the now quickly recovered Scrat to come closer as she battered her eyes. She stopped him from aggressively by using her tail to caress his face. He sighed lovingly. Wow, even though she was a cheater, her fur on her tail felt so soft and nice to feel and touch. If only she wasn't a trickster that Scrat might have a chance.

That moment ended a second later as Scratte dropped him to the ground and opened up her wings, with a smirk that said, 'Ta-ta!' before taking off with the Acorn. Scrat pushed himself up, and his eyes widened when he saw that not only Scratte was flying away with his prize again, but she was dangerously over a river of lava and his heart froze when he realized that due to the heat, it was lowering her flight and his eyes widened with sheer horror that she was about to smack into the cliff.

If that happened, then Scratte would most likely fall unconscious and fall to her death, roasting both herself and the Acorn. Scrat didn't think for a moment as he screamed at her to stop before leaping himself and grabbed hold of her tail without coming up with a desperate idea to save them. Not that it would've make that much of a difference, because Scratte was shocked when she saw him grab her tail and...

Smack!(The music ends)

As Scrat had predicted and feared, Scratte smacked face first into the cliff wall, losing consciousness and flopped down. Scrat in the meantime, managed to grab the Acorn with his foot, a vine with one paw and Scratte's tail with the other, saving her just in time. But with the hot boiling lava underneath them, and that he had no idea had to get himself, his Acorn and Scratte out of this mess, Scrat realised that they were stuck and he was terrifed of the thought that eventually they would fall and boil to death.

He didn't want to die.

Above them on the cliff, Jessie, James and Meowth, who had been searching for the Sailor 'Twerps' all day, eventually came to rest while collasping to the ground, exhausted, starving and thirsty. They had enough of being stuck here underground.

Meowth was lying on his back as he moaned, "Can we go home now?"

"Please, can we?" Jessie and James both asked in unison.

"Wobbuffect..." Wobbuffectt just muttered as usual.

When can Team Rocket go home, neither of them know yet.

The next morning, a trio of dinosaurs plucked at scattered fruit and vegatables, with very goofy smiley expressions, their eyes loosely rolling as though they were dolls. This was in the same area Sid and the T-Rex family were at yesterday, and that very area the Sailor Team, Team Pokepals and Buck had just arrived in now. Upon the group's arrival, the dinosaur trio ran off.

The group were just continuing to walk when Buck suddenly stopped and told his friends, "Everybody, stop!" causing them to freeze in their tracks. Sniffing the air, he told them, "I smell something."

Pikachu sniffed the air as well, before his face screwed up in comical disgust, groaning and looking as though he was about to be sick or that he was poisoned by a Poison-Type attack. "Pi, pi, Pika..." Pikachu gurgled. He knew that smell. Oh dear Arceus he knew it, and sometimes he wished that awful smell didn't exist, despite that they were now close as he recongised it.

Ash noticed and said awkwardly with sympathy to his poor Poke-Best friend, "Looks like Pikachu can too."

Buck sniffed the ground on all fours, but he didn't have to search far. Noticing a yellow-ish green small tuff of fur and realising that the, disgustingly to him, the smell came from him. He picked it up with the pointy end of his knife and stood up on two legs, saying, "It smells like a buzzard's butt fell off," sniffing it again, before cringing in distaste and disgust, concluding, "And then it got sprayed on by a bunch of Glooms."

"That's Sid." Diego smirked, knowing that awful stentch all too well and not surprised. Buck just described the very gross smell that Sid's fur smelled like, which finally saved him the trouble to figuring out what his friend smelled like.

Realising that Sid was indeed here, though he did wonder how the sloth could smell so bad, Buck decided to worry about that later and announced like a detective to the group, "Mammals, humans and Pokemon, we have ourselves a crime scene. Tuff of fur. Half eaten carcass," he pointed at the single giant bone that the three T-Rex babies ate yesterday, though everyone was unaware of this, before Buck continued as he pointed at something else, "Hunk of..."

But he cut himself off when he saw something that was one of his worst nightmares in his entire life, the very thing he longed to never see again, on the shores of the pond near him and the group. He felt his stomach turn and gurgle, his heart freezing at the mere sight, and his eye widened in sheer horror and he did something that surprised the group.

Buck screamed.

"Aaugh! No! Broccoli!" Buck cried out, turning green in the face and held his right hand to his mouth and very nearly vomitted on the spot at the sight of the Broccoli Sid had used yesterday.

Then, as though he didn't react to the sight of the piece of vegatable at all, Buck quickly returned to his normal self and turned to the group with a detective look, explaining his theory on what happened, "Here's what I think happened: dinosaur attacks Sid, Sid fights back with broccoli, leaving dinosaur... a vegetable!"

The Sailor Team and Team Pokepals all sweatdropped. Worse part is, they could actually picture the most ridiculous thing they ever heard in their heads, of Sid preforming some Kung Fu stance and knocked out the T-Rex who weirdly turned into a piece of Broccoli. Not that it happened at all, but it was still disturbing enough.

"Are you nuts?" Donkey asked, dumbfounded.

"Sid's not violent." Serena said in agreement, before shrugging awkwardly, adding, "Or a genius."

Dawn nodding in agreement and asked in concern, "Yeah, and where's the dinosaur?"

Realising that, from what he was told yesterday did make him realise that it was indeed a stupid theory, Buck replied, "Alright, good point." before continuing with another theory, "Theory two: Sid's eating broccoli, dinosaur eats Sid, dinosaur steps on broccoli, leaving broccoli... a vegetable!"

An awkward pause that lasted for a good full 60 seconds.

"Buck, when exactly did you lose your mind?" Shrek asked, both skeptical and exasperated.

The Weasel thought for a moment, before remembering the exact month of when and how long he's been this crazy and answered, "Three months ago. I woke up one morning married to a pineapple..." before making a face, adding, "An ugly pineapple!"

He then sighed lovingly, concluding as he remembered his beloved 'wife', "But I loved her..."

"Uh, Buck?" Future-Piplup called up since he, Chimchar, Pikachu, Piplup, Grovyle, and Rini noticed footprints and followed it to where they were standing now, as the former human-turned Pokemon continued, "I think you missed a clue over here."

When the rest of the group approached the others, they realised that Future-Piplup was right. They were standing on a newly created cliff to a new rock canyon, one that Buck at first hardly recongised before he realised what it was and realised how this place had been destroyed. Tale signs of lava could be seen in a distance from where they were, the final trail towards Lava Falls.

"Well, your friend might be alive. But not for long." Buck said, gravely at first, before he frowned with a serious expression as he told the group his inner fears, "Rudy's closing in."

Seeing how Rudy must've been here before them and that the giant monster had caused all this, the Sailor Team's eyes widened in awe and disbelief, as Chimchar exclaimed, "Whoa! Check it out!"

"You got it." Buck nodded, announcing the rock area, "The Plates of Woe..." before shrugging sheepishly, "Or whatever's left of them."

Serena clutched at her fist, shutting her eyes tightly. She didn't care if Rudy was real or not, but whoever or whatever destroyed the Plates of Woe was getting closer to Sid and she knew that if they didn't save him in time, it would be too late. They had to get going, now.

None of them, however, or even Sid knew, that the dangers were about to get more serious.

Meanwhile, back with Scrat and Scratte...

Having spent the entire night dangling for dear life, the vine Scrat had been holding on was beginning to break due to having hanged on for too long. He was beginning to really panic now. He tried to shake Scratte awake but she still remained unconscious. The vine continued to lower and continue to break. Scrat could feel his heart pound against his chest. He knew that he had to do something fast.

Finally he noticed a ledge of the cliff, and then an idea binged into his mind as he looked at Scratte. If Scrat could fling her up and use her as a boost to fling himself and the Acorn up, he could get to safety along with his prize. Perfect!

Happily realising that this was a good idea, Scrat then swinged Scratte back and forth a few times before flinging her up, but was just inches too low and he groaned in irritation before he tried again, harder this time. This time was a success as despite the unconscious female of his kind was sliding off, her sabor teeth caught a lump in the ground, which was enough to not let go.

Smiling after he tugged the helpful rope, Scrat then swung back and forth a couple of times until he stretched and leaped up onto solid ground, flinging Scratte up and happily holding the Acorn in his paws. Once again he did it. But his victory was dropped when Scratte surprised him by landing in his arms, causing him to drop the Acorn and hold her Snow White style.

Huh? How did she land neatly in his arms like this while still out cold? Scrat didn't know how to react to this, just dumbfounded, not realising what to do. Finally, Scratte regained consciousness and the first thing she saw was the Lava river. Scared at first and thinking how a close call it was, remembering how she was knocked out. But then...how was she still alive and...how as holding her?

She looked up and realised that it was Scrat, her arch Acorn enemy who looked at her, surprised himself at her own stunned expression. Scratte then realised he was holding her in his arms and that he had heroically saved her life. For real this time. Without having tricked him. No one has ever done such a thing to her before. She then sighed lovingly, in a language that she had that he saved her and thanked him. Now she could no longer deny it.

She was in love with him.

Realising that she thanked him, and seeing her up close, Scrat sighed lovingly, in a language that he told her that she was welcome. Not to mention that, in the last 48 hours of knowing each other, he couldn't deny it anymore. She was the most beautiful creature in the Realm of Light.

And he loved her.

Loved her so much that for the first time in his life, Scrat kicked away the Acorn, his eyes and heart lost into Scratte who's eyes and heart was lost into him. Edging closer to each other, the two then passionly had their true love's first kiss, as lava sprouted behind them to make their love more romantic.

Team Rocket, having been rudely awoken by the lava sprouting, yawned tiredly and rubbed their eyes from a rough night of sleep. Then they looked over the rock they were sleeping behind, their eyes widened as they caught sight of Scrat and Scratte kissing before the two held each other's paws, very much in love.

This sight made the trio emotional at the heartwarming scene, as Jessie wiped her tears with a hankerkeif, "Romance blooms..."

"So beautiful..." James whimpered in happiness.

"I love romantic scenes." Meowth sobbed, continuously wiping away his tears.

Wobbuffect came out of it's Pokeball once again and cried it's eyes out at the scene, "Wobbuffect!" as the group watched the two walk away, having become a couple.

Then, quickly recovering as they stood up, Jessie then told them, "Okay, now that those two squirrels are out of the way, let's get on with it and find those Sailor Twerps and their new Weasel Twerp friend."

"That's not the only thing we'll find." James muttered randomly.

Meowth cringed as he added worriedly, "Yeah, because lava sparks found Jessie's hair."

Quirking an eyebrow while wondering what her two idiotic friends were talking about, Jessie then felt unusual heat on top of her head. When she looked up, she realised to her horror that one of the lava sparks landed on top of her head and now her hair was caught on fire, just like several times before. Panicking, she hysterically screamed while running around and around in circles while James, Meowth and Wobbuffect watched her in confusion.

Finally the fire extinguished, but her hair would take time to recover as Jessie whimpered with tears falling, squeaking, "I had enough of this underground place." then collasped to the ground.

"Maybe we should get movin' before we find more trouble." Meowth suggested, getting worried since the underground jungle was really getting more and more scary.

James was about to say something when he sensed movement behind him. Turning around, and seeing what was with them, he froze in horror, his lower eye-lid twitching in fear, while he muttered fearfully, "I-I think trouble has already found us!"

When Jessie, who stood up after recovering, and Meowth turned to see what their blue-haired friend was talking about, they ended up in the same horrified stance as him. A lone Velociraptor glared at them for a second before the trio and Wobbuffect screamed in horror before turning tail and ran away into the jungle down the path with Meowth screaming, "Run for it! Giant meat-eating lizard on the loose!"

"WOBBA!" Wobbuffect screamed as he followed his friends and trainer, just as another Velociraptor who had been attempting to attack them quirked an eyebrow along with it's pack member who stood there, dumbfounded that their prey had ran before they could attack. The two dinosaurs shared a confused glance before giving chase, though they would eventually lose Team Rocket.

Back with the Sailor Team...

"Single file, everyone! Head for Lava Falls." Buck called out to the group as he took the lead on the safest path of the Plates of Woe that continued to crumble around them. The bottom was now seen and the team realised why it was called the Plates of Woe. The rock platforms had been supported by dead trees underneath them, though given enough weight can be unstable.

The path they were on was still crumbling, but it was the safest as long as they didn't run into more trouble. Crash and Eddie were behind Buck as the twins cringed nervously as the edge of the ledge crumbled too close to them, but not enough for the three of them to fall. Serena, Shrek and Manny were behind Ash, Pikachu, Donkey, Grovyle, Sakura, Team Pokepals, Puss and Diego, Ellie, Rini, Dawn and Piplup were behind the rest of them, carefull stepping on the rock platforms that gently wobbled.

Just then, strange sounds could be heard and the Possum Twins were getting more and more nervous as the two looked around. "What's that sound?" Crash asked, concerned and almost whispering.

"It's the wind. It's speaking to us." Buck answered, having been used to the unusual and haunting whispers.

Eddie paused in his steps, terrified, before he realised that he was lagging behind and quickly caught up to his brother and idol, whimpering as he clinged onto Crash's arm, "Wh-what's it saying?" while Crash patted his brother's arm to comfort him.

"I don't know. I don't speak wind." Buck replied.

As the rest of the Sailor Team continued to cross, suddenly both Ash and Pikachu sensed something down below, far into a distance away. Surprisingly, Sakura didn't sense it at all. In the far distance in ground down below the rocks which was far more darker than the other areas around them, a figure of a person seemed to be watching the group's movements. Up close, it seemed to be a young man with silver hair, wearing a black coat that belonged to Organization XIII.

So the group on the path were the so called Sailor Team, huh? The youth thought. The master he came in contact with wouldn't be disappointed to know that the chosens of the Realm of Light were unaware of the dangers. If they die here, then his master's plans can come to fruition in just a few months to come.

By the time Ash and Pikachu looked into the direction where they sensed the pressence, the youth had already disappeared into a corridor of Darkness, the wisps of the said darkness vanishing before the two could even notice. Nervously and realising that they weren't alone, Ash gazed at Pikachu, asking, "Pikachu, that wasn't just my imagination, was it?"

"Pikachu..." Pikachu shook his head to deny it since he sensed the dark pressence as well.

Now getting more nervous, he asked almost quivering, "Really? Then are we being followed by someone...who uses darkness?" as Ash thought how it was possible. Did that mean that Rudy and the T-Rex weren't the only problems they would most likely going to face today? But then...who would be using darkness and be here in the Solar Universe? It couldn't be Xehanort...his two halfs were gone.

"Hey Ash, is something wrong?" Donkey asked when he noticed that Ash and Pikachu look rather spooked.

Suddenly not wanting to have their friends worry about another trouble, Ash shook his head and hesitatedly lied, "Uh...No, it's nothing. Don't worry. We gotta find Sid." quickly catching up to the others.

As the group continued on, however, suddenly Ellie felt sudden and agonizing pain in her stomach which caused her to stop in her steps. Holding her stomach, she groaned, her eyes shut tightly. This pain...she could tell that it was the baby, but she never felt this much pain before. Normally the baby would just kick or move. Her groans was noticed by Rini and Dawn who both noticed and rushed back to her with sudden worry, all of them unaware that their friend's groans was heard by unwanted company below them.

Beneath them, was a pack of Guanlong who had been hunting for food, saw a possibly weakened female on a platform. They grinned before sneaking into the shadows, preparing to use the trees and rocks to their advantage to get to their weakened prey.

"Ellie?" Manny asked as he also noticed and his over-protective streak kicked in again. Seeing her looking hurt and uncomfortable, he grew very concerned for her and the baby.

The others noticed this as well and Serena added with concern, "Ellie, you okay?"

"I'm fine. Don't worry about me." Ellie eventually replied once the pain substained, taking her slow steps with Rini, Dawn and Piplup by both her sides since the three of them wanted to make sure that she was alright, continuing, "I'm just taking my...WHOA!" only to be cut off when all four of them cried out in alarm as the platform suddenly, attempting to cause them to fall to the ground below.

The Guanlong had grabbed hold of the tree of the platform Ellie, Rini, Dawn and Piplup were on, about to break it and kill their prey so they could eat them.

Everyone else on the plates stopped and saw this, gasping in horror. Serena and Manny both quickly turned back to reach the four of them, calling out to them, "Ellie! Rini!" before they both nearly fell through the rock that gave way below them, crying out in alarm, "WHOA!"

This at least caused the Guanlong pack to shriek in panic before they fleed, avoiding in getting crushed to death by the rocks above them. But now because of this the group's path was quickly crumbling and getting destroyed. Rini, Ellie, Dawn and Piplup were starting to lose their balance as all four of them panicked and becoming scared.

"Serena!" Rini cried out to her mother.

Serena couldn't think of anything but for any way to reach her friends and her future daughter fast. Thankfully, Ash noticed a ledge behind the four of them and called out to his friends, "Rini! Dawn! Piplup! Ellie! Get to the ledge now!"

Seeing the ledge, the four of them quickly did so, narrowly escaping just in time as their platform crumbled. The same wasn't said for Serena and everyone else as they all began to slide down, falling to the bottom as they all screamed now that the path was completely gone. Grovyle had took hold of Future-Piplup and Chimchar, Ash was holding Pikachu tightly, Shrek had grabbed hold of Sakura and Donkey, Buck was held Crash and Eddie in his arms, and Puss was on Diego's back.

The group landed on the ground or in Crash and Eddie's case, onto a branch of a dead tree. Serena was briefly stuck behind a rock and when she tried to push it, it was too heavy for her. With very little choice, she pulled out her locket and chanted her words, quickly transforming into Sailor Moon. She then summoned her Keyblade and then used the Moon version of the Power Card to push the rock away from her, catching sight of an amazed Buck after he dusted himself off. He knew about her ability, but to see it for real was one of the most amazing things he had ever seen.

Sailor Moon decided to worry about that later, as she called out, "Rini!" while the rest of her friends gathered around. None of them had even a single scratch, but their main concerns were on their four missing friends and that they were on the lower ground. At the moment, Sid would have to wait.

"Rini! Dawn! Ellie! Where are you?" Ash called out.

"It's okay!" Dawn's voice called out from above on the ledge she, Rini, Piplup and Ellie were on. "We're up here!"

"Piplup!" Piplup added to get the group to follow their voices.

Their friends were out of sight, but they knew where their voices were coming from, as Sailor Moon called out, determined to reach her friends and future daughter, "Hang in there, guys! We're on our way!" taking the lead as the rest of the group, even a now concerned Buck, quickly following to try and save the others.

Rini, Ellie, Dawn and Piplup gazed down below the destroyed Plates of Woe, unable to see their friends but knew that they were coming. Still, they were getting increasingly worried. Just then Ellie felt the agonizing pain again and groaned, now further alarming her friends with her.

"Ellie!" Rini and Dawn both cried out, fearing for Ellie's health and safety. That's when all four of them realised what was really happening and the real fear kicked in, something that everyone didn't want to be a reality while they were here.

That fear was now really coming true.

Meanwhile, back with Sid and the T-Rex family...

Egbert, Shelly and Yoko were happily playing as they continued down the path to the home they would be cared by their mother. Momma Rex happily helped Shelly up when he briefly fell and nudged him gently to go further. Seeing them play happily warmed her heart. But hearing the beast's roar made her continue on, hoping that the monster was still far away.

Sid was once again clinging onto her tail, before he lost his balance and was knocked into a log which caused him to let go and fall to the ground. Recovering quickly and realising that he was being left behind, he cried out, jumping up and down, "Wait! Sloth down!"

But Momma Rex didn't hear him, which forced Sid to run to try and catch up to the dinosaurs, but was quickly becoming exhausted, panting, "Wait. Wait. Time out!" slowing down completely into a slow walk, "Hold up...Geez...You guys are getting fast!"

Realising that the Mother Rex and their children were too far ahead, Sid was now left on his own, but he still continued to walk while nervously gazing around the jungle that surrounded him. He couldn't sense any kinds of dangers. The jungle was creepy now that he was on his own, but being the optimistic sloth that he was, he tried to lighten the mood to ease his paranioa.

"Well, it's not so bad down here. Nice weather, friendly neighbors." Sid said to himself, only to cry out twice when two giant foot steps banged behind him, nearly causing him to lose his balance.

He then felt hot winds of breath blow into his fur, and Sid felt his heart stop for a second. He hadn't sensed the danger behind him and now it finally caught up with him. Turning to look above him, Sid was terrified as he saw red-yellow eyes gaze upon his entire being, white scales and very sharp teeth. This thing was three or four times the size of Momma Rex and could easily swallow him up in one go. Even worse, it was evilly staring at him.

Very hungry.

"H-hi neighbor." Sid greeted scaredly before running for his life, just as Rudy gave out a powerful roar to have finally found the new mammal that became trapped here.

Rudy gave chase.

That powerful roar was heard through the land, even at the Plates of Woe that caused the Sailor Team, Team Pokepals and Buck to stop in their tracks and gaze behind them to the direction to Lava Falls. Sailor Moon and her friends were wondering in slight growing fear on what the roar was.

Buck on the other hand, recongised the monsterous and obviously very hungry roar that he heard thousands of times and sneered firmly, "Rudy."

"Rudy?" Eddie asked, now scared.

Just then a high-pitched girly scream echoed as well just after the roar. Buck tried to listen out the scream, trying to recongise it as a dinosaur, but couldn't and shrugged with a puzzled expression, "Never heard that kind of dino before."

Unfortunately it took the Sailor Team to realised that they recongised the scream this time and were horrified, as Sakura cried out, "Oh no! It's Sid!"

Realising that their fears, especially Buck's had come true; that Rudy had found Sid and was now chasing him, Buck quickly told the group urgently, "We have to move fast!" moving to go and save Sid before the sloth would become Rudy's latest meal.

But Ellie's voice stopped him as she cried out, "Manny! Pineapples!" which confused the group.

"Pineapples?" Buck asked, thinking that it was his 'wife' and not, well, just something that Ellie would want as the group thought.

"She gets cravings." Manny shrugged, but then what his wife was saying randomly was confusing everyone even further, trying to figure out what on Earth she was talking about.

"Pomegranates? Grapefruits! Nectarines?" Ellie continued, sounding more and more desperate, as though she was trying to remember something.

"She's ordering a fruit cocktail." Donkey muttered with a quirked eyebrow.

Grovyle glanced at Ash, asking, "What in the world is she trying to say?"

"Maybe she wants a fruit cake?" Ash shrugged cluelessly, just as lost as his friends were.

On the ledge, Ellie was indeed trying to remember something. She tried to remembe the codeword she and Manny had thought off in case she went into labor. "Come on, think!" she told herself, while Rini had already transformed into Sailor Mini Moon just in case they ran into more trouble.

Ellie's friends with her were trying to figure out what she was saying as well, before Dawn sighed and suggested with slight sarcasm, "If you want some fruit, Ellie, I suggest that Peaches for good nutrition."

The word peaches finally triggered in Ellie's memory and she gasped, before she shrieked hysterically that nearly bursted Mini Moon's, Dawn's and Piplup's eardrums, "PEACHES!" which echoed through out the entire area.

At first, this only confused the group again on why she screamed out like that, as both Sailor Moon and Shrek glanced at each other with quirked eyebrows, asking in unison, "Peaches?"

Why would Ellie want peaches for?

However, confusion soon turned to hysterical horror for Manny as he now quickly remembered the code word, crying out, "Peaches! The baby! What, what now!?" before he ran around panicking, after nearly giving Diego a heart attack.

It quickly clicked into everyone else's minds and they were shocked that Ellie was now in labor, of all the wrong times to happen. A second later and Sailor Moon was hysterically panicking herself, screaming, "What!? Ellie's in labor!? At a time like this!?" before she ran around panicking as well all over the place like Manny.

The rest of the Sailor Team shared shocked expressions as Ash cried out, "Oh no!"

"This? Not good." Puss muttered, eyes widening in horror.

"The baby's coming!" Manny cried out, in a hysterical panic attack, going over to Crash and Eddie who were both startled by their brother-in-law's sudden leaned up close expression, crying out, "Did you guys hear that? 'Cause sometimes I imagine it in my head, but..." before he continued to run around all over the place, panicking.

Crash then called up to his and Eddie's sister, asking stupidly, "Can you try to hold it in?"

On the ledge, Ellie rolled her eyes in exasperation while Sailor Mini Moon, Dawn and Piplup all groaned while falling to the floor(anime style) before standing up agani, as Sailor Mini Moon then called out to someone to smack Crash in annoyance, "Can somebody slap him for us please!?"

Taking their leader's advice, Eddie slapped his brother on the back of the head before dusting his hands off, muttering, "Done and done." only to be attacked by an annoyed Crash and the two were quickly fighting in their bickering fight all over again.

Sailor Moon then stopped running as she called out to Ellie and the others on the ledge, trying to calm down, "Just sit tight. We're coming!" while Manny stopped running just behind her.

"There's only one thing to do." Buck finally said after realising that now there were six lives on the line and in order to save all of them at the same time, splitting up into groups was their only chance. He turned to Crash and Eddie who both stopped their fighting and to Future-Piplup and Chimchar, telling them, "Possums, Pokepals, you're with me."

The weasel then looked at Sailor Moon and told her, "Serena, you and the others take care of Ellie until we get back." before turning to continue on towards Lava Falls to rescue Sid.

Shocked that Buck was leaving when Ellie was in serious danger along with Rini, Dawn, Piplup and the baby, Sailor Moon turned to face him, crying out in panic, "What!? No, you can't leave now! Rini, Dawn, Piplup and Ellie are off the trail! What about rule number 2!?"

Buck turned back to her and said, "Rule number 5 says "You can ignore rule number 2 if there are females involved, or possibly a cute dog"." sheepishly adding the last bit before he continued on, adding, "You know I just make up these rules as I go along."

"Yeah, but they're...You've got to-" Sailor Moon was desperate now. How can she save Ellie and the others on her own? Now that she needed Buck's aid the most.

"Sailor Moon! Calm down. It's okay." Ash cuts her off as he and the others gazed at her and the panicked Manny. The young Pokemon Master then told the two of them with his trademark determination, "We have each other's backs." with Shrek, Donkey, Puss, Pikachu, Sakura and Diego all nodding in agreement, determinded as well.

Sailor Moon and Manny's expressions both soften, realising that they were still together and like many of their previous adventures, they were a team. Their friendship in looking out for one another always turned out alright in the end, no matter how dangerous the situations were. They were the Sailor Team. A Team of friends and family. Even split up, their hearts were still one. Nothing could tear that apart.

"Now you're talkin'!" Buck praised, before gesturing at his group, "Come on, lads!" walking off to continue the rescue operation.

Both the Possums and the two Pokemon glanced at each other and nodded with determination of their own, before they gazed at their leader and friend, knowing that this was the only way and things would be alright.

"Don't worry, Sailor Moon. We'll save Sid." Future-Piplup told his friend.

"We'll be back before you know it!" Chimchar added, before he and his partner raced to catch up to Buck.

Eddie held a serious and for once a brave expression, telling Sailor Moon, "Take care of our sister, Meat-Ball Head."

Crash palmed his fist into his other hand, adding with similiar expression as his brother, "You're the leader, so no pressure." and with that, the twins rushed to catch up to Buck and the two Pokemon.

Sailor Moon didn't say anything, but now understanding that this was their only chance, and possibly her only chance to redeem for her sins, she would have to trust Buck to rescue Sid from Rudy and bring him back home while she and the rest of the group would be staying behind to keep Ellie, the baby, Rini, Dawn and Piplup save until the others got back.

When Crash, Eddie and Team Pokepals caught up with Buck, the weasel was asking the group in slight confusion about Ash's choice of words, "What does that mean, "We have each other's backs"? I mean, I'd rather they covered the front. That's where all the good stuff is, isn't it?"

"We have to move!" Grovyle told Sailor Moon and the others who all nodded, continuing to climb up towards the ledge towards their friends, hoping that Ellie would be alright during the labor and that the baby would be born safely.

On the ledge, Sailor Mini Moon, Dawn and Piplup carefully had Ellie rest and lean against the wall while she continued to pant and grunt in pain. "Ellie, take it easy." Dawn told her friend gently.

Ellie took the advice, before telling the baby that wanted to come out now, "Okay. All right. It's okay. Daddy's... Daddy's coming."

Sailor Mini Moon couldn't help but point out, remembering how Fiona went into labor during another crazy adventure that involved an evil Enchanter who turned a Princess into a Swan after Prince Charming was defeated, "No offence, Ellie, but your baby's coming in a bad time."

"I gotta say, sweetheart, you're right about that." Ellie agreed, laying down and allowed her two young friends to try and support her during this. She knew that giving birth would be painful as Fiona had told her weeks before, but this was far beyond what she had been expecting.

Little did they know, in the distance of the caves of the area, at their current level of ground, the pack of Gunalong were back, gazing at Sailor Mini Moon's group hungrily.

The dangers to the Sailor Team, Buck's group, Sid and even Team Rocket were just around the dangerous corner.

A/N: The rescue operation is put into motion in the next chapter. Get ready for more excitement and possibly laughs and gasping moments!