Chapter 20: Guilt

Soon both Momma Dino and her kids brought the herd back to the Ice Age World. The mighty t-rexes dropped the mammals one by one onto the snow as the reptiles began to leave. Peaches firmly glared at the dinosaurs, rolled up a snowball and snapped, "It is not nice to drop us like that!"

She was about to throw a snowball at them when Manny halted her and said, "Hang on, sweetie! Just let them go. This isn't going to help."

Peaches then took deep breaths and calmly sighed, "OK. I'm fine, I'm fine dad."

"Good," Manny said with a nod as the herd backed away before Peaches angrily threw the snowball at Momma Dino, to which Manny groaned, "Oh come on! Really?!"

The snowball hitted the t-rex on the back before Momma Dino darkly turned around to glare at the herd and roared at them.

"See?! Now you made her mad!" Manny scolded.

The t-rex stomped towards the herd, making them flee from her as she chased them far off from the cave.

"Why do you have to be stubborn?!" Manny scolded at Peaches loudly.

"Because I'm just like you!" Peaches argued.

"Now I know there's a bit of her dad in her," Diego said to Shira as they fled with the others.

"Now's not the best time to say that!" Shira huffed.

Soon the herd halted abruptly when they come close to a cliff as they huddled together for the t-rex ferociously leaned in at them and roared, "DON'T COME BACK!"

The herd was shocked to hear that Momma Dino could speak as Manny gulped and squeaked out, "W-We won't."

Momma Dino glared at the herd for a bit, then slowly left with her kids back to the Dinosaur World. The herd sighed in deep relief to which Crash and Eddie fainted a bit.

"Well...that was close..." Shira softly sighed.

"Bye bye, lizards!" Granny waved at the dinosaurs.

"I never knew dinosaurs could talk," Diego pointed out.

"Maybe some do," Louis shrugged.

"I can't believe it...How could Sid do this? Kick us out like nothing but dirt?" Manny firmly vented.

"What?" Ellie asked.

"We were going to fix everything and then he just threw us out like we're nothing to him? I mean, what kind of a friend does that?" Manny exaggerated a bit as he felt betrayed by Sid.

"Oh I can think of someone," Peaches spoke out which made Manny looked at her.

"Excuse me?" Manny asked.

"I mean, you do it all the time to Sid," Peaches pointed out.

"Now wait a minute, Peaches. I'm not heartless. I care for Sid," Manny also pointed out.

"Really? Because your temper back there kind of threw the apology off," Peaches said a bit firmly.

Manny tried his best not to be stern with Peaches much as he sighed, "Look. Maybe I might have lost my cool back there, but that doesn't mean I wasn't going to break my promise on being a better friend."

"True, but we had took Buck's advice to come back another time," Ellie said

"But if Sid faces those wolves, he'll be killed! Am I the only one who's concerned about that?" Manny asked.

"I'm concern too Manny, but those weasels need Buck and Sid. Who knows? Maybe Sid can do this with the help of Buck. Maybe we can help him if we can," Ellie pointed.

"How can Sid really achieve saving those weasels? Even with our help, he can't do anything right," Manny replied before he realized what he burbled out.

"What?" The herd asked in confusion.

"Th-That came out wrong! I never meant it like that!" Manny stuttered as he tried to explain what he meant to say.

Peaches just looked at her father in disappointment as she asked, "Why do you hate him, Dad?"

"What?" Manny asked in confusion.

"I know you do. Every time I see him with you and Uncle Diego, you all never get along even when Sid is being a friend most of the time towards you...He's always the butt of the jokes and a punching bag to you guys," Peaches sadly sighed.

"Sweetie, that's not true. I love your uncle Sid," Manny confessed while petting his daughter on the head.

"Yeah, kid. Sid is my best friend too. He's not that bad," Diego said, trying to comfort Peaches as well.

"Just cut the act! Both of you! You never liked him from the moment you all met...You always abuse him and get angry at him every time no matter what he does for all of us...I'm starting to think you guys never wanted him in the herd," Peaches sadly sighed.

Manny and Diego looked down as they couldn't help but admit that some of the things that was said about their actions in the past with Sid were true. Manny and Diego never wanted Sid to be with either of them much when they first met. Even when they became a herd, they were always sarcastic, angry and never supporting the sloth for everything. Even Sid had his faults but even without the faults and the lessons he learned, they never treated him with much respect like Sid did with the entire herd.

"You're right Peaches...I'm not a good friend to Sid and...it's all my fault...I'm a horrible friend," Manny sadly sighed as he left the herd for the time being.

"Manny..." Ellie started but stopped as she sadly watched her husband wander off.

"Dad..." Peaches whispered sadly as she never meant to upset her dad that badly.

Shira noticed Diego feeling guilty too as she whispered his name but to no avail as Diego was deep in thought about the stained relationship with Sid and Manny as well, wondering if there was any way in the world that they could be a herd again.

What happens next?

Stay tuned to find out!

ALSO PRETTY PLEASE GIVE CREDIT TO DUSK19, FOR NONE OF THIS WOULD BE POSSIBLE WITHOUT HIM