A/N: This scene has been so tough to figure out how to write, so give some credit for trying ok :)


Chapter 8

The movements of the Tyrannosaurus had been seen by the riders in the second SUV as well. Dr. Grant, Dr. Malcolm, Leonardo, and Raphael were staring at it with widened eyes as it swallowed the remains of the goat down whole, then swiveled its large head toward the fence it stood behind.

"Well, there's your carnivore after all, Raphael," Dr. Grant said, not taking his gaze away from the huge creature. "You got anything to say?"

Raphael had taken off his sunglasses and tossed them behind him. "Um... well it looks cool, but I'm not sure I'm liking it. If the power is out in the car, then-" He sucked in a breath, not really wanting to say the rest. "Hopefully it ain't that smart."

But just as finished his statement, the T-Rex reached out with one of its two-fingered hands and stroked a wire on the fence, obviously testing if the electricity was really not coursing through it anymore. The next thing everyone knew, it started to chew its way through, snapping the cables one by one!

"You just had to jinx us, didn't you, Raph!" Leonardo hissed through clenched teeth, but there was a hint of fear in his tone. The giant reptile outside got finished with getting rid of its useless barrier before taking a couple steps out onto the road between the two vehicles, then let out a ferocious roar, like it was saying, "Freedom!"

"You know, I hate it when I'm right all the time," Malcolm told half to himself. As the T-Rex stepped past the front of their car, Gennaro opened his door, frantically bolted off the road, and hid in an outhouse.

"Where do you think he's going?" Dr. Grant said irritably.

Dr. Malcom shrugged his shoulders. "Well, when you gotta go, you gotta go," he quipped.

"But that bonehead lawyer just left Mike and the kids in there!" Raphael exclaimed furiously. "We gotta go help them!"

"No, we gotta keep still. The vision of a Tyrannosaurus Rex is based on movement," Grant replied.

Leonardo leaned forward in his seat. "Sure we know that, but our brother and those kids won't be able to," he hissed into the man's ear.

On Que, a flashlight shined out the back windshield of in the other SUV and was being shaken around. Unluckily, the T-Rex saw this and made its way toward the car Michelangelo, Lex, and Tim sat in, attracted by the light.

"See, I told you so," the blue-clad turtle said.

"Turn the light off, turn the light off," Dr. Grant muttered angrily. "Whoever's doing that is making a huge mistake."


In fact, it was Lex who had the flashlight. It seemed she was trying to signal to the others but instead got the dinosaur's attention! Michelangelo felt fear rise in him as it got closer to their car. "Turn it off, kid!" he commanded.

"Turn the light off!" Tim repeated.

The T-Rex towered over them now, lifting its head to look off in the distance and ignoring them at the moment. Michelangelo saw Gennaro had left open the car door, so he took this opportunity to carefully reach across and shut the door. But that was a mistake- the T-Rex got startled by the noise and looked down at them! The orange-banded turtle and the kids whimpered, scooting back up against the opposite side of the car as it lowered its humongous head until it was eye level with them. Then after a sniffing around a bit, without warning, it nudged the vehicle's side and made it rock violently and the kids screamed!

Lex, you gotta turn the light off!" Tim said, trying to take the flashlight away from his sister.

"I'm sorry! I was trying to-" Lex cut herself off for she and the other two realized the T-Rex had seen their movements, no thanks to the light beam. The next second, the T-Rex smashed its large muzzle against the sunroof, trying to get to them now, but the three of them were desperately holding up the broken glass, the only barrier between them and its teeth! They screamed in terror as it took its head out from the roof and tipped the car, causing it to roll over until it was completely upside down.

"Oh shell!" Michelangelo exclaimed, climbing out from the front of the car. But as he did, he felt the car was being crushed!


"Mikey!" Leonardo cried, not taking it anymore to just sit there while the SUV's occupents were in mortal danger. He climbed out of the vehicle, ignoring Grant's shouts, and reached behind his back for his swords, which had been hidden underneath his hooded shirt, as he started running toward the other vehicle, which was now getting crushed underneath the Tyrannosaur's three-toed foot as it chewed off the tires.

But the T-Rex took notice of the ninja turtle and looked up with a roar. Leonardo froze in his tracks and held up his swords as it stepped away from its toy and started for him!

Having a sudden but crazy idea, Grant found a box of emergency flares under his seat, then took one out, lit it, and climbed out of the vehicle and waved it around. "Hey, hey! You!" he shouted. He got the giant carnivore's attention away from the blue clad turtle to him, so he slowly moved the red flare around, and similar to a tiger in a trance at a circus performance, the T-Rex's head followed the movement. Grant threw the flare over the fence and it was about to do the same when Malcolm decided to light one as well and get out of the car, shouting like a maniac, so the T-Rex turned to him!

"Ian, freeze!" Grant shouted. "Get rid of that flare!"

"Just get Mike and the kids out of there!" the other man cried back, leading the carnivore away from the cars.

Raphael sighed and got out of the vehicle, seeing what he could do to help out the crazy man. His efforts were useless though. The T-Rex was almost on top of the human and it tried to reach down to get him, but its gaping mouth missed him by merely inches! Instead, it crashed into the outhouse hut, causing its weak walls to topple down- one crashed down on top of Malcolm- and revealed the lawyer who had hid himself before.

"Gennaro, move!" Raphael shouted, but the man didn't listen; he was frozen in shock, just staring up at the creature. The second thing Raphael knew, the T-Rex stooped down and devoured Gennaro, and shook him around like a dog toy! During this, the dinosaur's long tail wavered around and Raphael had stood too close, so it hit him and sent him flying into one of the fence's tall poles. Knocked unconscious, Raphael fell prostrate to the ground.

Meanwhile, Leonardo and Dr. Grant were managing the best efforts to get Michelangelo and Hammond's grandchildren out of the crushed SUV. Lex was the first one they were able to help squeeze out, thanks to her thin body.

"Why didn't you let me kill the dang thing?" Leonardo demanded. "We could be rid of it!"

"I wasn't really sure you could kill it before it got to you first, ok! Shut up and get your brother out!" Grant shouted in response.

Frowning, Leonardo looked into the car. "Mikey, can you and Tim get out?"

Inside, Michelangelo, who had a gash in his head from the toppling action, struggled but to no avail. The bench seat held him tight in a vice-like grip against the roof of the car. "I can't move much at all, captain!"

"I can't move either. The seat's got my feet," Tim squeaked in pain beside him. Michelangelo reached over in attempt to free the boy's feet so he could join his sister.

Suddenly, Lex screamed out in terror, and Dr. Grant clamped a hand over her mouth, telling her not to move. The T-Rex was now standing over them and Leonardo, but like the man said, it didn't seem to see them for they kept still. It sniffed the air, causing Grant's hat to fly off his head, then let out a roar, spinning the car around on the ground. Grant and Lex moved along with it in able to keep out of the dinosaur's line of sight.

Leonardo wasn't as lucky. He had to run off to the side along the base of the fence and watched in horror as the T-Rex toppled the car over the edge into the fenced area, with Michelangelo and Tim still trapped inside! It landed in the top branches of a large tree below with a loud crush.

"Mikey!" he cried. Seeing that Dr. Grant and Lex had managed to get of that mess by climbing down the fence's broken cables, he was about to follow them when he heard a metallic creak beside him. Just as he looked up, one of the fence posts was timbering over! Leonardo tried leaping out of its path, but it caught his leg and he screamed out in pain for he felt the sharp pain of the bone cracking before he hit his head on the ground unexpectedly.

The last thing the young leader heard before completely blacking out was the T-Rex crying out in some sort of victory.