BloodLily16: WAAAAAH! HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?!
Shoni: Ummm... Well, you spent all your free time on Sunday watching cartoons, I don't know what you did on Monday, and your Tuesday was pretty hectic.
BloodLily16: But fun, and I was working on a Post-Canon FanFic for Sonic Underground! (It's published now, you can look it up on my profile.) Fossilfighter1313, you may like it. Anyhoo, on with the story! *points onward* Allons-y!
? PoV
It was a very good thing my teleportation device had broken. If it had not been broken I would not have been forced to go to the Fossil Center. If had not gone to the Fossil Center I would never have learned of the predicament. If I had not learned of the predicament I would have not been in the position to save a human female from death at the hands of a cybernetic Sinraptor.
As I jumped out of the way with the female in my arms the S-Raptor's momentum carried it into a rock behind the Fossil Fighter. It reverted into a Dino Medal. I put the female down and picked it up.
Out of the corner of my eye I saw the person who had ordered the S-Raptor to attack attempt to escape. Not on my watch, I thought.
I ran after the fighter, but was beaten to the catch by a familiar figure. He greeted me as I approached.
"Hiya Raptin," said an obviously struggling Hunter, "Dig up anything good lately?" I sighed.
"Hunter, would it not be prudent to have this discussion when you are not fighting with an attempted murderer?"
"I guess." I sighed again. Hunter was a formidable opponent, but he tended to have strange priorities.
"Dinurian filth!" I heard the captive yell. I looked down and could not contain my shock. Rosie Richmond was the one who had almost killed that female.
"Hunter!" I turn around to see ... Rosie Richmond! She stopped and looked at us. "I don't still have whiskers again, do I? 'Cause that was..."
Suddenly she was down in the mud, the female having tackled her.
"Oomph!" Rosie grunted, "What the hey? Get off of me!"
" I got you," yelled the female, no, girl, she was a teen-aged girl with carrot hair in a pony's tail, "you murderess!"
"Murderess! What do you mean? I haven't killed anybody! Well, except for that gerbil I had when I was seven, but that was an accident!"
"Rosie is speaking the truth, the person who let loose the Sinraptor is right there." I said, pointing to the Rosie in the uniform.
Something sharp made contact with my tail and I yelled in a mixture of surprise and pain. Instantly the Rosie who had attacked the girl threw Hunter off of her and attempted to escape.
I ran and grabbed ahold of her arm as the girl grabbed the other. Together we lifted the squirming child off of the ground.
"Let go of me you..." I clapped my hand over her mouth before she had a chance to prove just how colorful her vocabulary was. The girl grunted.
"Good call."
"Thank you." I said. "I am Raptin."
"Shoni." I frowned.
"Is that a..." The look she gave me indicated two things. That Shoni was her real name and that I was treading on thin ground.
"Interesting name." I said.
"Thanks, yours too."
"..."
"FREEZE!" We jumped and almost dropped Rosie. We were surrounded by men and women in similar uniforms to the one the Rosie had, but these were more simplistic and contained helmets. They had guns similar to the 576 Peacekeeper Rifle the security department used, but were more deadly looking. How did humans obtain Peacekeepers?
"More Dinaurian tech." muttered Shoni.
"More?" I questioned.
"No talking!" said the human male who had spoken before, "Hands up!" Shoni caught my eye. I noticed her hand was now in her pocket.
"I was kind of hoping he would say that." In a quick movement she flung a Dino-Medal up into the air. "Exit, stage up!"
I dropped Rosie as I felt myself go sailing through the air. I landed on the back of a Dimorphodon.
"Hey."He grunted.
"SHOOT THEM!" yelled the human male. The troops all pointed their weapons ... away from us?
"They're going to waste Pinky and the Grey!" warned the Dimorph.
"Hunter and Rosie!" shouted Shoni. "Look!"
The troops had trained their weapons towards Rosie and Hunter and were getting ready to shoot.
"Hold on to your hats! Ace, use Fiery Dive!"
"This should prove interesting." Said Ace, who I was currently astride.
Oh no.
Ace dived.
"WHAAAAAAAAHOOOOOOOOOO!" yelled an exuberant Shoni. I tried desperately not to throw up.
"Are you insane?" I yelled at her.
"Quite possibly!" She yelled, "But if you think I'm crazy you should meet my friend Trixie!"
...That is something to chew on.
We careened towards Hunter and Rosie, but it appeared that we would be too late. Just then the leader crumpled. A small Guanlong, lacking any spots appeared from directly under where...
Oh My.
That must have hurt a considerable amount.
Unfortunately, the incapacitation of their leader did not deter the militants.
As they were about to vaporize Hunter, Rosie, and the Guan, a woman in a purple jumpsuit and helmet on a cybernetic Dimorphodon scooped them up onto it's back.
"Follow me if you value your lives!" She called.
"I value my life!" Yelled Shoni.
The militants fired at us, but their aim was off. Ace dodged the blasts easily.
Eventually we escaped any firing from the militants. As I looked back at them I saw a level of hate that I had only witnessed once before, at the hands of the mob at the Fossil Lawn, the place were, two years ago, my (to use the human term) girlfriend was killed. Killed by a human who did not have the courage to look into her eyes as he crushed her skull with a thrown rock. He murdered my Soma.
"Soma. So that was her name." Shoni muttered.
"Was I speaking out loud? I was not attempting to bother you."
"You weren't." She said. "It was almost a relief to finally learn her name, after all these years. The Dinaurian girl that my former friend, Brett the brat, murdered." I almost fell off of Ace.
"You used to associate with that... that... rapti ti hachaltha?" I spluttered. Shoni did not seem like the sort of person to be around a person of that type.
"What now?"
"Hunter of his own offspring. It is a very offensive oath." I explained.
"Okay, used is the operative word. We used to be friends because Brett used to be nice. And kind. And compassionate. "But after the Dinaurians came to Earth he started acting... strange. I thought it was jitters..." She looked at me "...because of almost getting eaten by Gunash. In hindsight, it was probably all the Dinaurians around. Setting his xenophobic hairs upright.
"So anyway, I took him to the park and we sat on the bench by the T-Rex skeleton. Do you know the place?" She asked.
I nodded.
"We sat and talked and laughed, and it seemed like it was jitters." Shoni's mood darkened. "Then we heard the mob.
"We ran over to the... Fossil Lawn," Shoni swallowed, "and it was awful.
"You would know firsthand, of course." I nodded and unconsciously rubbed a part of my back were one of many scars laid.
"Well, all I wanted to do was go and get the police. But Brett" she shuddered "stopped me, grabbed me, picked up a rock, and, you know what happened next." Her voice took on a sorrowful tone.
"..."
"So, I freaked out, because Never-Hurt-A-Fly-Brett had just ... you know, and then he looked into my eyes and said:
" 'Don't worry Shone, it was just a Dinurian. It's not like it was human.' I just couldn't believe what I was hearing. I just couldn't believe it was coming from him. I hit him to make him let me go." Her fist clenched. So did mine.
"My feet carried me to the Police Station. I can't imagine what I looked like to the desk person." She chuckled darkly. "Like someone who had seen a person die probably. I only managed to say 'Fossil Lawn' before I collapsed into hysterics." I nodded.
"You can't imagine how amazing it was when the blows stopped," I said, "it was like a gift from heaven. A good many Dinaurians believed that they were dead for a little bit, at least, until they realized that they were still in pain."
"HOLY!"
"OH MY GOSH!"
Shoni was paling, staring down at...
"..." I retched.
Down on the ground were Dinaurians being worked by militants. They wore rags and were heavily scarred. An aura of hopelessness pervaded the air. It was a scene out of hell.
"Over here!" yelled the purple woman.
We followed her, keeping our eyes away from the ground. After a while we landed in a secluded area surrounded by abandoned buildings. Shoni jumped off of Ace.
"All right!" she yelled, "What the crud is going on? Why are all those Dinaurians like that, and who are you?" The woman paused and took her helmet off.
"You." I said.
BloodLily16: Onwards!
Hunter: Have you been hanging out with Nick Nack?
BloodLily16: '-_- No.
