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"Come on! Keep firing!" Jason shouted, as the ape men kept coming at him and his friends. "What are you saving your ammo for!"

The ape men kept coming and coming, until it became almost impossible to hold them off. The only advantage that the team had was their firearms, but with the beasts numerical advantage, it wasn't going to last for much longer. At that moment, Adam and Tanya had returned from the riverbank and saw what was happening at the camp. When she saw the beasts, Tanya immediately took out her dagger and went to attack them.

"Wait!" Adam said by holding her back. "There are too many of them! Come on, I have an idea!" He took her arm and they both rushed back to the river.

The battle had intensified; the ape men finally appeared to by losing their ground, since they didn't wear any armor, it didn't took more than one bullet to take one down; so they ran back into the bushes, from where they came.

"I don't think they are retreating!" Kimberly asked.

"That is because they are just regrouping!" Tommy responded and took out his spare ammo. "Reload your weapons!"

The crew hurried to get ready for the second wave. After a few short moments, the ape men attacked again.

"Fire!" Jason yelled and the battle continued.

***At the riverbank***

"Good, he is still here!" Adam said with delight, as he saw the T-Rex resting there.

"What are you doing!" Tanya said in shock.

"Hey! Hey, you! Big fella!" He began to shout at the dinosaur, which didn't even notice them.

"Are you mad!" She said and tried to stop him.

"Trust me! Hey, you!" He calmed her down, but when Adam saw that the T-Rex wasn't paying attention to him, he picked up a rock and threw it at him. "That got your attention, huh!" This time he had managed to get it to turn around. "You want something to eat? Come and get it!" The dinosaur got on its feet and roared, echoing through the forest and charged at them. "Run!" Adam told Tanya and they began to run back into the camp with the T-Rex on their trail.

***Back at the camp***

The ape men were surrounding the team, and their escape routes were becoming less and less. To make things worse their ammo was becoming greatly scarce.

"Fall back!" Jason shouted, as he saw retreat as the only viable option. "We stay here, we're dead!"

The ape men were preparing to make the final charge, when suddenly from the bushes came out Tanya and Adam. The simply ran past the creatures and went up to their friends.

"Go! Run, run!" He shouted at them and they obliged. The ape men began to charge, but at that moment appeared the T-Rex, who was trying to continue the chase, but found itself in the middle of the ape men. They tried to fight off the creature with their spears, but were greatly unsuccessful, as it began to pick them up, one by one and simply tossed them around, like they were nothing. As all this was happening the others had managed to get to a safe distance.

"Close call!" Billy exhaled.

"The egg!" Tommy worryingly said and unzipped his bag. " I hope it didn't get smashed!"

"Aw, %#**$#(%# your egg!" Billy began to shout at him. "At least be glad that we are alive!"

"Safe and sound!" he said with delight. "Once again, perfect timing!" Tommy said and patted Adam and Tanya on the backs. "You two are a great team!"

"Thanks, doctor!"

As the others were getting ready to depart, Jason looked on with admiration at the T-Rex.

"Now THAT would have made a great trophy!" He said to himself.

"I'm sure, he feels the same way about you!" Kim teased him as they both smiled and continued on their way.

***About an hour later***

The team was finally safe and their good mood was increasing by the fact that they were getting closer to getting home.

"I must admit, Tommy..." Billy said, as the team was walking through the jungle. " I've found this expedition, quite exhilarating! I almost enjoyed it, in a perverse way."

"You will enjoy it even more, once we get back to Angel Grove..." Tommy told him with a smile. "...and our little friend hatches."

"Angel Grove..." Billy sighed. "...I am actually starting to believe that we MAY get home!"

"Believe it, professor!" He encouraged him. "The world would never be the same again!"

"Maddie?" Tanya asked. "Is this it?"

Madison looked at the cave in front of them and the symbols that were imbedded on the outer part. "This is the way to the other world!"

"Doesn't look very inviting." Kim commented on the sight of various corpses at the entrance.

"I'll go with you, half of the way." Tanya said.

"That would be nice!" Adam responded.

"Looks like, someone who came before us, was kind enough to leave us some torches." Jason noted and took a few of them and handed them over to his team mates. "Let's go!"

"The caves are dark and dangerous!" Madison warned them. "Go slowly, and walk only where I walk!"

"Lead the way!"

They began to walk through the cave, slowly but surely. Along the way, Kimberly noticed some strange markings on the wall.

"Tommy, come here, check this out!" she said.

"Prehistoric markings!" Tommy noted. "Their quality is magnificent!"

"Look at this one, over here!" Billy said, pointing at another wall. "The depiction is very similar to the ones we saw back at the Repulsa village!"

"Yes!" Madison concurred. "These are not our making, but we believe they tell the story of the birth of Rita Repulsa!"

"Can you read it?" Tommy asked.

Kim looked at them and tried to decode them. "'Cop yrigh tban doraf rom zyur anger', it's unreadable."

"The symbolism isn't impossible to read, but it takes time." Billy said. "I just wish we had more time to study them."

"I suggest you take a picture of them!" Jason told him. "We need to get moving!"

"Yeah, Billy!" Tommy added. "You can study them in dept, on the return expedition!"

"Return expedition?"

***As they got deeper into the cave***

"How much further, Madison?" Jason asked.

"Not much!" she explained. "My father said that the entrance lies at the end of this cave!"

As they were walking they suddenly found themselves in a part of the cave that was entirely covered with sapphires and minerals.

"Extraordinary!" An amazed Tommy commented.

"Look at all these!" Kimberly said with delight. "And they are all just lying on the ground!" she commented and picked one from the ground.

"Now, where to?"

"That is the way out!" Maddie said, while pointing at an opening that seemed to lead to the outside. "My father said that you can get down from the cliff with a rope. From there is your world!"

"So, the only way out is to climb down the mountain?" Billy s id and looked down. "Isn't it a long way down?" he commented on the height that they had to scale.

"Easy enough!" Tommy said with a smile and opened his bag. "Jason, take this ladder and tie it up on that rock, up there!"

"You must think I'm some kind of mountain goat, Tommy!" Jason responded reluctantly and went to check on the exit. "At least there won't be a flying lizard on top, waiting to carry me around!"

"So..." Tanya said in low tone. "...I guess this is it."

"Yeah..."Adam responded, equally saddened. "Goodbye, Tanya!" he said and they embraced each other in a hug.

"Don't worry, Tanya!" Tommy soothed her. "I assure you, we will back, the first chance we get! Right, Adam?"

"Right!"

Finally Jason tied the ladder up, as strong as he could and team prepared to climb down.

"I hope you tied that knot well!" Kimberly told Jason, who was checking to see if the ladder wasn't shaking. "I don't want to fall, all the way down!"

"Oh, I would never let you fall down, miss Kimberly!" He responded caringly. "Where do you think we are going to get another ladder?"

To be continued…