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Frost slid onto the floor of the hollow, huffing from the long climb. Lifting her head up and seeing Buck staring at her with an unimpressed expression, she pushed herself upright.

"You better be prepared to be mauled," she said ominously as both brothers arrived at the entrance.

"Buck!"

"Careful, lads!" he warned them before they could jump on him. They shrank back a little, remembering that he had an injury. He didn't mean to be harsh, he was just tired and in pain.

"Are you okay, Buck?" Eddie asked softly as he approached the weasel at a much more reasonable speed.

"Jus' a little banged up," Buck smirked his classic crooked smirk. "I'll be fine lads. But now tell me, what are you two doing down here again?"

"Well…." Crash drawled out, looking down at his feet.

"We were going to play a prank on Sid," Eddie said.

"And then the cave we were in started to collapse," Crash added in.

"And we fell through the floor and wound up here. Then we tried to find you and wound up in this forest," Eddie finished, crossing his arms as if to make it official.

"We would've been able to handle ourselves if she hadn't intervened," Crash jerked his thumb to the fisher who had been standing quietly by the entrance.

"That's a load of crap," Frost hissed, pushing her way between the twins. "I need to take care of his leg so it doesn't become infected."

"You better not hurt him," Eddie warned as the frosty mammal kneeled down.

"What could I possibly gain from hurting him more than what he already is?" Frost looked up at the possum, her green eyes glinting wickedly. "Alright, tough guy, let's see what's wrong here."

Buck refused to hiss or even twitch with the pain as the fisher probed his leg a little less than gently. Already he had allowed himself to be shown as weak in the eyes of her; he wasn't going to ruin the possums' view of him. But slowly his eye began to falter in its harsh stare as the face of the female started to contort from ornery to concerned.

"You got this from falling over the falls, right?" she asked, biting her lower lip.

"Aye, lass," Buck replied slowly, pulling his leg back underneath him as the fisher ran a paw through the long, spiky fur atop her head.

"Don't move, I'll be back," Frost dashed out of the hollow, leaving the trio bewildered.

Crash and Eddie shared a look and disappeared out of the entrance, dashing along the vine that wound and wrapped around the massive tree. Together they ducked and weaved over giant flowers and other vines in their search for the surprisingly elusive fisher.

"Man, where do you think she went?" Eddie asked as the possum brothers pulled to a halt.

"Well, she couldn't have gone far," Crash said. "She did say that she was going to be back."

"She could've lied," Eddie pointed out.

"Maybe she wants to get rid of Buck," Crash rubbed his chin thoughtfully, as if this were an actual possibility.

"Or maybe, she went to find some herbs so that Buck doesn't lose the feeling in his leg," another voice added in.

"Nah, I don't think she'd be that smart," Crash dismissed it with an airy wave of his paw. "Even I can't tell what plant is what."

"Up here, genius," the voice spoke again.

"Oh, hi," Crash and Eddie both said as they turned their heads skyward to see the fisher hanging from a branch that was just above a massive bunch of flowers.

"So, you're either really bad at getting away quick or you're not trying to get rid of Buck," Eddie surmised, still looking up at the scarred face of Frost looking down at him.

"Conspiracy theorists," she mumbled as she continued to gather the nectar from the center of the flowers.

"Heard that!" Eddie shouted.

"Whatever a conspiracy theorist is," Crash muttered.

"You two should either bug off or help me get those yellow flowers way out there on that vine," Frost pointed towards the little blooms that were draped over a vine that hung precariously off the edge of the tree over the forest floor some two or three hundred feet below.

"What if you want to get rid of us too?" Crash questioned.

"Sure," Frost rolled her eyes, flipping upright on the vine. "Anyways, I don't think either of you surface dwellers could get them even if you wanted to."

"Lies! I could totally get those!" Eddie objected.

"Not if I get them first!" Crash laughed, zipping around the vine out towards the delicate flowers.

"No guy can resist a challenge," Frost murmured, chuckling as she climbed up the tree higher to collect the other things she was going to need.

"Well, that was something I had hoped we wouldn't be doing ever again," Manny grunted and stood up shakily after landing in the dirt from the ride down. At least the giant leaves of the sky high trees had broken the trio's fall.

"Look at the bright side, Manny, we're taking an early vacation," Sid gave him a lopsided grin.

"At least we know some of the locals," Diego said as he shook the dirt from his pelt.

"But how do we get back up?" Manny asked, looking up at the small hole in the ceiling of the lushes land under the ice. "Buck sealed off the only other way out."

"Maybe there's another way," Sid suggested. "If there is, I'm sure Buck would know where it is."

"I hate to say it, but Sid's right," Diego shrugged. "Buck would be the only one who would know where another way out is."

"Well, let's find Buck," Manny started to walk away into the thick vegetation.

"What about Crash and Eddie?" Sid asked, nearly tripping over his own feet trying to catch up with them.

"We'll just say that they decided to move to the subtropics," Diego chortled, dashing ahead of the sloth and mammoth to pick up the scent trail.

"And I might as well not return home, because you've seen Ellie when she's in a mood," Manny said, cutting a line across his neck with his trunk.

"Nah, I think she would just-"

"Don't even say what I think you were going to say, Sid," Manny whacked the sloth across the top of the head.

"Hey! Hush up! Something's coming this way," Diego paused, nose lifted to the air and ears pricked forward.

"What is it?" Sid asked quietly, coming to a halt beside the saber.

The pebbles on the ground rattled as a sound like thunder echoed through the ground. There was another, right after the other. And another. Footsteps. They were giant footsteps coming in their direction. The fog on the edge of the forest was incredibly thick, allowing the trio to only see the shadow of a beast that should have been long dead.

"Rudy," the three of them whispered.

It cocked its head to the side. It was way too high up in the clouds and fog to see properly, but one eye cut through the fog like the moon did at night.

"Run," Diego grunted as the shifting orb caught them in its orange stare.

The monstrous mouth cracked open and a sound like nothing on the planet unleashed, rustling the leaves and blowing the fur on the mammals as they took off at a break neck speed for the cliffs.

"If Rudy's here, that means Buck's here, right?" Sid asked, tripping over a tangle of tree roots.

A foot with massive talons slammed down mere feet from where he fell. The pebbles skittered away as a gust of hot breath blew down on him. Coughing from the stench, he prepared to be eaten as a trunk wrapped around his neck and carried him away from the jaws that bore down into the dirt.

"No time for napping!" Manny yelled.

Diego was standing at the edge of the cliff precariously, and had no time to warn the mammoth that was charging at him full speed. All three of them tumbled over the side just as giant claws scythed through the air at them as they fell.

The beast roared in frustration, turning back into the fog, the giant sail on its back disappearing along with the rest of it.

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