Chapter 25
Full Scheme Ahead
It was morning, a new day had come upon Sanjo, everything was calm and smooth as the people went about their daily activities and routines. But little did anyone in the city know, was that it was going to be a day that nobody would forget for a long time.
Over at the D Lab, Cera and Reese were both working tirelessly over at the work table, where the android whom the D Team found at Russia, was being operated on. After the 2 girls finished adding the last few touches on opposite sides of the robot, when a spark flickered from his chest and his eyes opened, "REBOOTING! ONLINE!" he said loudly which made Miku at a nearby desk squawk and jump surprise as she shed a few small feathers.
"I think we've repaired him!" Reese smiled with relief while Cera nodded before going over to comfort her partner with a headset.
"RUN SCAN! ACQUIRE DATA!" the robot man then said in a deep loud mechanical voice as both Reese and Cera looked to him with concern.
"I hope there is data….." said Reese.
"Same here."Cera added, ever since seeing him get torched by Terry in Moscow, she couldn't stop worrying about him because he was the man who helped give her a home when she was lost, and also was there to help the D Team time and again, overtime she felt they've developed a kind of connection too and she felt she owed it to him to make sure he walks fine again.
A little later when the D Team were given the news, they hurried over as fast as they could. When they arrived they found him dressed in a proper uniform as he stood before them all to introduce himself, "MY NAME IS….Johnathan." he concluded in a regular tone. As Chomp and the other dinosaurs hopped up to where he was he then turned around to begin piecing together a disassembled theropod dinosaur fossil, looking over the bones and carefully fitting them nicely with both speed, skill ad precision.
"What's he doing?" Max asked curiously as he and everyone else looked on with interest.
"It looks like he's assembling a fossil model." Spike breathed in amazement with others.
"Well its possible he was programmed to be an expert on dinosaur bone structure." Reese stated observing the situation carefully.
"An android dinosaur expert huh?" Rex muttered feeling impressed.
"We weren't able to get him completely back online though." Reese added at the end as the others looked to her and Cera.
"What do you mean?" Zoe asked, "Is he still all messed up?"
"A little." Reese answered, "We did the best we could with him but….Some of his systems are more advanced than what current Earth technology could have produced." she said at the end after a pause..
"Yeah, even we don't fully understand what some of his components functioned as," Cera continued as she folded her arms in thought, "Considering man of his gears were torched to a crisp, we had to make do with the best substitute parts we could get our hands on." she added.
"So like he came from outer space?" Max then asked.
"Not necessarily," Reese replied, "But definitely some futuristic technology."
"From the future?" the 3 kids parroted in surprise.
"Say kids," Dr Taylor then asked in interest, "Didn't you say that the Alpha Gang's base had some futuristic looking stuff?"
"Yeah." Max answered, "And they had an android there too named…Helga." he said having finally remembered the female android's name right.
"Can't forget about her." Cera said to herself still shuddering at the fact of how berserk she was when she went toe to toe with a pentaceratops and even began cooking up dishes that could melt a tank one time!
Dr Taylor then folded his arms, "Seems to be me that Johnathan was built by the alpha gang." he theorised.
"Wouldn't be surprised if that was the case…." Cera then added at the end.
"But if this android is part of the alpha gang too then why did he save me and Rex?" Zoe then asked puzzled, "He threw himself fright in front of the fire move."
"That's true." Rex replied as he flashbacked to back in Russia when the robot jumped in to shield himself with his own body from Terry's off course volcano burst! An experience they couldn't forget.
Cera then closed her eyes in thought, "Well….they do tend to built rather unstable or faulty devices so he could have malfunctioned….." she then assumed before shaking her head, "But somehow I don't think that's the case." she then said having remembered him to have done so out of true intention and not out of a mere malfunction.
As they looked ahead they saw Johnathan had fully assembled the model t-rex skeleton and was now having fun petting all 4 of their dinosaurs who had gathered around him, feeling at peace with his company as if their instincts told them they could fully trust in him, as he stroked them all around gently and they hummed in enjoyment.
"I don't know what his relationship is with the alpha gang, but it definitely has got something to do with dinosaurs." Reese stated.
Thinking about it, Cera could tell it made sense since he did show up several times when dinosaurs were present, and on top of that there were occasions when he had dinosaur cards on him. As far as she could tell that could;t have been a coincidence.
"Hey little guy, come on up here." said Johnathan nicely as Chomp patted at his legs, prompting the mecha man to pick him up and hold him close to his face, "You're Chomp aren't you?" he then asked.
"Hey he remembered his name." Cera pointed out which made Max smile happily.
"Yeah." he nodded only to cringe a bit when Chomp began niggling on his beard and wouldn't let go!
"Ahahahahaha….." Johnathan laughed in amusement as he tried to pull the young trike away, only for him to accidentally fling Chomp away and unintentionally flip his head 180 degrees, till it resembled an entirely new face! All his lower face features like his beard and moustache became hair and eyebrows, while his previous eyebrows became a new moustache! As it did, his eyes turned yellow and it seemed as though he was rebooting again!
"Whoa look at that!" Max breathed in surprise as everyone looked closer.
"His head…"
"It turned upside down!" Max finished for Zoe who was just as surprised as she was.
After tightening his head on a little more, Johnathan looked around in confusion, "What's this? I have no idea where I am…." he said to himself eying his surroundings with curiosity while the dinosaurs looked up at him. "Or who all of you are!" he then gasped out loud as he turned his attention to the entire D Team.
"My name is Max." Max then introduced himself.
"I'm Cera." the red haired girl went next.
"And I'm Zoe so do you remember your name?" the pig tailed girl then asked.
The man then bowed politely before them with deep respect, "I am Johnathan nice to meet you." he said, "But you sure already know that since one of you is my creator." he added at the end which surprised them.
"No….not one of us." Zoe replied puzzled.
"We did fix you up though." Cera then added hoping that would suffice.
"I will run a scan to determine which of you…uh…matched my parameters." he then said as he went looking over each of the humans one by one, while they looked back at him strangely, "How odd….my memory seems to have been…partially erased…." he then breathed in surprise himself, before finally focusing on Rex, a scan awakened an old memory file in his circuits which revealed a much younger blond haired boy resembling Rex, in the hands of a kind looking man with brown hair, "Identity confirmed!" he then gasped as Rex blinked his eyes in surprise.
"Huh? Who me?" he asked as Johnathan began to utter an unfamiliar name.
"Dr Ancient…."
"No! Uh umm…my name is Rex Owen." Rex said back to him.
"Maybe his creator resembles Rex?" Cera asked, realising his tone had no hint of deceit in them, meaning he was absolutely sure Rex was his master or maybe looked like him.
"Who's Dr Ancient?" Max then asked.
The man then blinked a bit before acting all puzzled, "Err….I don't know…."
"But you just called me that name so you must know who he is." Rex replied.
"I have no recollection of having said that." said Johnathan in response, "You must be mistaken." he said sounding as respectful as he could.
"You don't remember what you've just said?" Zoe asked.
"Oh boy…." Dr Taylor muttered seeing they were in a bit of a pickle and at a dead end for answers, "There's been some major damage to his memory."
"Must be really bad at that…." Cera whistled knowing it must have been really bad.
"So Johnathan, is that your real face or is the other one?" Reese then asked curiously while trying not to sound rude.
"Whatever are you referring to?" the man robot then asked.
"Your head just turned upside down." Max answered rather bluntly.
"Oh that explains the post nasal drip." he replied before the D Team muttered feeling disgusted.
"Ugh….."
"For a robot he definitely exhibits very deep human-like traits," Cera thought to herself intently, "Far more advanced than any robot built in the word today that was for sure. In way he seems almost human himself, like Helga too….his memory lost too is rather peculiar, almost like mine….could it be a coincidence?" she wondered before shaking her head and shrugging it off.
"Well no point in worrying about what can't be done." muttered Spike, "All we can do now is wait and hope he gets his memories back soon." he said as the others sighed in disappointment hoping to learn more from Johnathan only to come up with a dead end.
"Guess so…."
"That's too bad I guess…." the rest of the D Team muttered.
"In the meantime I'll inform Dr Owen, no doubt he'll want to know about this." said Spike as he headed over to make an important call on the phone with Reese accompanying him.
"Man is stinks not knowing anything, especially what's most important." Max muttered as he folded his hands behind his head and walked to another part of the lab, with Zoe, Rex and their dinosaurs following him seeing there wasn't much point staying here for the time being.
"Yeah, I know how that feels….." Cera thought to herself hearing his words before looking over to Johnathan, who was still looking around aimlessly as if trying to figure out his won place in the world, "Johnathan, maybe you should go and take a walk or something, that could help you jog your memory a little." she said to him as he put a finger to his chin in thought.
"Hmm…yes…I will do just that." he nodded after pondering it over and then heading outside the door to survey the surrounding environment.
As everyone began leaving the premises, Cera narrowed her eyes with Miku, who had just perched on her shoulder as she began to go over everything that had transpired so far until this very point, she wasn't sure what was going on….but no doubt there was something big coming, and whatever it was, no doubt it would change their lives forever.
(Meanwhile)
Back at Zeta Point, Seth was busy typing away at his computer with a rather serious expression. "That was close….." he thought to himself having realised his cover was almost blown before smirking to himself in amusement, "It's fortunate for me that Laura is so naive, she doesn't suspect a thing." he said having figured he may have thrown her off his trail, seeing her and Rod to be kids it was so easy to get them to do his dirty work and manipulate their thinking too. He however then narrowed his eyes knowing because he was almost found out he had to make his move now, "Though I can't leave anything to chance, not when I'm so close." he said as his computer screen lit up showing various windows depicting dig sites around the world which included England's Jurassic Coast, the Jiufotang Formation in China and Hell's Creek in the US.
"Apparently there's only so much living dinosaurs can accomplish…..no matter how much they evolve and grow they always limits in the end." he said to himself having realised that each and every living dinosaur he had experimented on always hit a breaking point, which is why he was going to resort to something completely new as he smirked sinisterly at the many ideas that came streaming through his evil mind, "So perhaps….I'll need to make an entirely new dinosaur, one whose growth and potential knows no bounds, the perfect ultimate dinosaur of all!" he said as his smirk turned into a psychotic grin as he looked behind, "And luckily, I have just the machine to do it." as his eyes met with a newly constructed machine he developed aside one of his lab's chambers, one which he was able to design thanks to a certain idea he acquired from a…..reliable source.
"All that's left now, is to find some worthy candidates….." he then said as he pressed a button, sending off several vehicles via remote control, carrying a cargo of super alpha droids, hoping to bring back a high quality dinosaur fossil which he can utilise or even play God with, soon his brain child of a world where dinosaurs walked the earth once more would come to pass as he smiled with dark intent with each vehicle taking off to different corners of the world. Having taken care of that matter, hearing a beeping sound on his monitor he pressed the button, causing a nearby compartment to open up. It steamed hard and as it cleared it revealed what appeared to be a black dinoholder, which a nearby assistant droid picked up and hand to him. He smirked at it seeing the project was a success and now he had the means of summoning a dinosaur without the need for an actual stone inside, another monumental feat accomplished thanks to said reliable source.
Reaching into his pocket he picked out his new move card, he then narrowed his eyes at it, "Since Terry is currently out of commission….." he smirked before reaching into his pocket again and picking out a fire dinosaur card and focused on it, "You will have to do." he then said hoping that saurophagnax could hear him. Walking up to a huge holding beaker he slashed the card summoning the fiery jurassic dinosaur who roared angrily and clawed at the glass in agitation, which did little to deter Seth as his smirk darkened, "Do not worry, you should be honoured my friend, for your contribution to this experiment will be the first step in bringing your species back from extinction!" he proclaimed as he hit a button, causing lasers from the top of the holding beaker to fire down streams of energy into the saurophaganax! As it roared in pain and anger, slamming against the glass but to no avail, and Seth eyed it with dark intent.
To him he didn't care if it suffered or even died, in the end no matter the outcome he stood to gain something, either knowledge or a stronger dinosaur either way he couldn't be stopped now. Eventually, the saurophaganax's mind soon began to blank as its own will weakened till fully submitting to the mad scientist's full power and command, as it quieted down and relented, "That's much better." said Seth smiling pleased as he eyed the move card in his hand, which he knew would finally be perfected now that there was a dinosaur capable of handling its power, "As for this move card, I think I'll call it….fire scorcher." he said darkly at the end.
(Later)
Later in the day, while Max, Rex and Zoe were playing with their dinosaurs at the playroom nearby, Cera and Miku were looking over some of the cards they gathered so far which included a few dinosaurs which included 2 types of allosaurus (fragilis and attrox) as well as 2 types of lambeosaurus (lambei and magnicristatus). Dr Taylor and Reese were busy observing Johnathan as he seemed to be boiling some hot water nearby, and were taking notes on his every action and behaviour, when a ringing sound beeped from the main computer.
RING! RING!
Everyone stopped what they were doing and turned to look at the screen, as the noise caught their attention.
"Hmm?"
"What's going on?" The kids asked as they and their dinos hurried over to the big screen to meet with Cera and the adults, with Reese already typing away at the keyboards.
"It's an urgent call from Dr Owen." she blinked her eyes upon seeing what it was.
"Huh? My dad?" Rex blinked his eyes in surprise.
"Could be important let's go find out." said Max with a serous gaze as everyone else nodded with him in agreement.
"Patch us in Reese." instructed Spike as she typed away, eventually the screen lit up to show Dr Owen's concerned expression, "Yes Dr Owen, what's the emergency?" Spike asked him with concern.
"Well suddenly I've been I'm getting reports of these robot raiders tearing up fossil excavation sites all over the world." the other palaeontologist answered back sounding rather worried.
"Robot raiders?" Cera parroted as she blinked her eyes and then narrowed them, "Alpha droids no doubt…."
"What do they want?" Rex asked.
"They seem to be looking for something." his adoptive dad answered back.
"Maybe they were sent to look for more cards." Zoe suggested.
"But I thought all the dinosaur cards had already been found." Dr Taylor then replied sounding confused.
"Yeah we thought so too." said Rex before folding his arms and closing his eyes in deep thought, "But then we've been finding a lot more than just 37 cards….." he said as his friends nodded in agreement.
"True….." Zoe replied, as they recalled the times when they began encountering more than 37 dinosaurs, with new examples such as tarchia and gigantspinosaurus showing up, in fact, Cera's microraptor Miku too was still one mystery they haven't yet solved. Perhaps Rod and Laura may have been lying about the number of cards there were, but that possibility was soon ruled out when Cera arrived on the scene, with her own dinosaur, her own device capable of summoning them and her skill and mastery of using them, yet also having no connection to the Alpha gang at all. In the end they could only speculate from the very few clues they had and the only lead they put together so far wasn't as reliable ass the had hoped.
"What else could they be looking for?" Max then asked out loud, and no one answered back for they didn't know what the answer could be, and that worried them. For the droids to be acting up now, it meant the alpha gang were no doubt plotting some new diabolical scheme, one the D Team had no idea of, meaning they were pretty much in the dark and would be at a disadvantage once their foes did make their move when fully prepared.
"Dr Owen," Cera then asked him sensing something wasn't quite right, "Did the droids take anything at all in particular?"
"Hmm…." The older man muttered as he folded his arms in thought, trying to remember best he could what his workers and associates witnessed around the world as a result of the droids invading their digging activities, "Well if I remember correctly…they did make off with a couple of fossils from each dig site." he said, "One in particular being a tyrannosaurus skeleton that was recently uncovered, in near perfect condition but other than that nothing more."
"Fossils?"
"A T-rex skeleton?" Cera and Max asked surprised at what they were after.
"What would they want with that?" Zoe then asked as she looked to them both, who then shrugged their shoulders.
"Maybe they think there's dinomond in it like how you found it in the seismosaurus skeleton." Rex then suggested as his dad nodded.
"That could be a possibility." he said putting a finger to his chin.
As everyone began speculating over what the Alpha gang would be after, Cera then narrowed her eyes and folded her arms in thought, "Or maybe…..something different entirely…." she thought to herself. Suddenly a thought soon coursed through her mind, as a certain vision flashed through. It depicted several shadowed human figures, wearing lab coats or goggles, surrounding a large theropod fossil inside a glass casing. As the people began dealing on the keyboards around the machine, bright beams of light shot down from the upper part of the machine, illuminating the fossil in bright multicoloured light before it changed red and eventually took form as a full sized giganotosaurus, which stomped its foot down and roared ferociously upon its awakening, and the scientists around it began clapping or cheering with joy and amazement.
"Ah….." Cera quickly blinked her eyes and shook her head before rubbing her temple as her mind began to throb as that vision of hers passed, "It couldn't be…..also…what was that?" she wondered, dinosaurs being revived from fossils? Even that seemed rather farfetched. But still, how come she know about this? Also could Seth actually accomplish this himself she wondered.
While everyone still pondered over the alpha gang's intentions and Cera was trying to regain her composure, Johnathan soon dropped into the scene as he handed the group a tray with a tea set inside, "I'm sorry to interrupt but perhaps you could use a break." he said carrying freshly brewed tea and catching Dr Owen's eye.
"Is this the android you told me about?" he asked in surprise and amazement, seeing the man robot to be far beyond what he first assumed.
"Yes," Dr Taylor nodded with a smile before looking at Johnathan rather proudly, "His memory's been damaged but he sure makes a good cup of tea."
Cera smiled happily at how polite he was as the others observed, till the sound of Reese's handphone ringing caught their attention.
RING RING
"Yes? Oh hello dad." Reese answered before the reply at the other end soon caught her by surprise, "What? Who's there?"
"Hmm?" everyone blinked their eyes or narrowed them knowing that reaction couldn't be anything good.
"We'll be over there shortly." she then said as she switched of her phone and then hurried over to grab her things on the desk which she began putting into her lab coat.
"Is something up Reese?" Zoe asked curiously as her older sister turned back to her,
"Yes, apparently Rod and Laura just dropped by at the animal hospital just now." she said seriously which caught them all by surprise.
"Say what!?"
"Rod and laura?!"
"AH!" They all based or exclaimed in alarm at the 2 unexpected names who showed up at Zoe's house.
John than however blinked his eyes in surprise, feeling as though he heard those names before somewhere but he couldn't quite put his finger on it, till an old memory flashed in his own memory circuits, "Rod and Laura….." he breathed as a flashback of them being respectful to a certain older man at the halls of Zeta Point, and smiling and laughing with a young infant who was being carried in the hands of a blond woman wearing glasses.
"Dr Owen, I'm afraid we'll have to continue this later." said Dr Taylor politely as he could to his colleague knowing they had to finish their discussion another time due to the unexpected news brought up.
Fortunately the other palaeontologist was respectful of his reasons and nodded, "I understand, do what you must." he said, "In the meantime I'll keep you up to date until further notice."
"Thanks dad." said Rex gratefully as the screen turned blank as the call ended.
With that out of the way, Max turned to everyone firmly, "Come on guys, let's pay Dr Drake's a visit." he said pumping up his arms seriously knowing with Rod and Laura in their town it could mean trouble was brewing and they would have to put a stop to it.
"Yeah, and go kick out those 2 uninvited guests before they cause any trouble." Zoe said with determination as they all hurried out to the car. As they did, Cera's face gained an expression of conflict and insecurity, worrying about what might happen when they get there, also knowing Rod and Laura were both good kids….so to fight them would be rather painful for her to go through with, though somehow she was hoping that wasn't the case….
(Later)
As the truck arrived over at the entrance to the Zoe residence, the gang could see the Alpha jet parked nearby which was a sure sign that they were inside. Max and the D team charged in anticipating the 2 kids were probably up to no good, maybe planning another attempt on their cards as they charged in through the door ready for battle!
"Hey! What are you doing over here!?" Max yelled angrily as they arrived on the scene at the examining room, but very soon their anger and agitation turned to sympathy and concern when they saw what was going on. Rod was eying his sister with concern while Laura carried a very sad expression on her face. Looking to the side they could see why. Terry lay on the medical table, looking deeply exhausted and drained of every last ounce of energy, appearing to be almost dead! Despite being their enemy even they couldn't help but feel worried for him.
"Oh dear…." said Reese sympathetically and with worry.
"That doesn't look good…." went Dr Taylor with concern.
"What….happened to him?" They each asked, Cera most worried of all, being the only member of the D Team to have had a short but good relationship with the fire dinosaur, to see him like this worried her deeply. If there was a bright side they could at least confirm that they wouldn't be expecting any fighting at this point.
"Pardon me." said Johntathan as he dropped in while still carrying the tea set in his hands, "Tea anyone?"
Sadly none of them were in the mood to pay him any attention, as they were either fixated on Terry or the alpha kids.
"Tell me what's wrong with Terry." Rod asked Laura once more much more firmly.
"But Seth made me promise not to tell you." she said sadly which made her brother blink in surprise at her words.
"What does he have to do with it?" he then asked, not liking the sound of that.
Laura then turned to her brother painfully as she forced out the words from inside her, "He said that something bad would happen to grampa if I told anyone." she said tearing up
Rod widened his eyes, "Seth told you that!?" he exclaimed in alarm, to him this was the first he'd ever heard of Seth doing something so awful. Of all the times he was so kind and helpful to them, to think he would do such a thing.
"AH!" Cera felt her heart skip a beat upon hearing that name. And as she fixated her gaze on Terry, she then began to piece things together, realising that no doubt he was the one responsible for doing this to the poor dinosaur. She then clenched her fist and hardened her expression, him experimenting on other dinosaurs was one thing but to do so with the Alpha gang's own dinosaurs….that truly crossed the line….violent emotions began erupting inside her as she did her best to keep it to herself and to hide it from the others.
The rest of the D Team were beginning to feel on edge after hearing the kids' side of things, "Hey, what're you guys talking about? What's going on?" Max asked feeling uneasy about where this conversation was taking them, knowing it may concern them a lot more than they first thought.
"Who is this Seth person? Spike then asked not wishing to kept out of the loop.
"He's one of the alpha gang." Rex answered as the others soon began to recall first meeting him at the iron refinery, having modified a trio of velociraptors and being proud of it too.
"He's the one re-engineering dinosaur dna!" Max said out loud angrily at how he was looking at dinosaurs to be no more than tools or lab rats to manipulate.
Cera on the other hand….had a more traumatising memory come back to her which took place several weeks ago, one which continued to haunt her nightmares time and again, unable to move on from them, the fact that this revelation was brought up once more was like having salt rubbed in an open wound as she gritted her teeth.
"I always felt like he was the worst villain of them all in the alpha gang!" said Zoe as she and the others began feeling more on edge.
"The worst villain?" Jonathan breathed in confusion, before an old memory of his came back. Back at Russia, when Seth sucker punched him when his guard was down, and his precious data entrusted to him by Dr Ancient was stolen by the madman himself before being tossed off the train like garbage. "The worst villain!" His expression hardened, filled with bitter anger towards him and having recalled what Seth also did prior to his memory loss before slipping out the front door unnoticed by everyone else.
Meanwhile the rest of the D Team were still hoping to get more information out of Rod and Laura, "So did Seth do something bad to Terry?" Max asked feeling worried.
"He said it was just a new move he was working on…." Laura answered softly, sounding almost terrified at the move she saw him working on, not even Dr Z would go so far to push dinosaurs to such an extent.
"What kind of a move?" Rex asked.
She then turned to them tearing up with fear and sadness for her family, "I'm afraid that grampa's gonna get hurt!" she cried as the others gasped in alarm.
"Ah!" It was then they knew it was really that bad, and far more worse and serious than they first anticipated. It was at that moment that everything began to take sense for Rod, knowing their grandfather he would never risk them going on such dangerous field missions where they could get hurt badly, that was what Ursula and her bumbling buffoons were for. All those times that Seth told them everything was for them….for Dr Z's dinosaur kingdom….was nothing but a lie….
The sound of a roaring engine outside soon caught their attention as they turned around and quickly headed for the doors. As they ran outside and looked up to the sky they were surprised to see Johnathan was taking to the air inside Rod and Laura's own jet! They didn't know what was more surprising, the fact that the android was taking off on his own to who knows where, or that he somehow knew how to fly a jet!
As Rod and Lara both took a closer look at the one hijacking their ride, their eyes widened in amazement at what they saw, "Look!" Rod gasped as they caught sight of a face that they hadn't seen for so many long months.
"It's Johnathan!" Laura breathed in awe and amazement, a statement that had not gone unnoticed by Cera as she quickly looked back at them.
"Wait, you know him?" she asked as the rest of the D Team and then looked to them in surprise.
"Ah!" A sentiment shared by Dr Taylor and Reese when they came out of the the animal hospital.
"So then…..he's part of the alpha gang too!?" Max exclaimed which made them both turn their attention to the D Team.
"Not….exactly….more like….a friend….." said Laura scratching her cheek.
Rex blinked his eyes in surprise, "Friend?"
Rod then shook his head and gritted his teeth seriously, "Look there's no time to explain! Knowing him he's no doubt heading for where Zeta Point is!" he said before pointing out at him, "And since he took our jet we'll need to use your ride to get back home!"
"Say what!?" Rex exclaimed while Max and Zoe became on edge.
"Yeah right, this is probably some big scheme you're plotting!"
"Why should we help you!?" They each said angrily, having an history of bad blood between them for sometime now, the last thing they'd ever do is drop their guard around these 2 members pf the alpha gang, for all they know this could be another scheme to get into their base and get another crack at their cards!
While Reese and Dr Taylor both held back, unsure whose side to take, Cera seeing the sincerity in Rod and Laura's hearts this time decided to take a stand as she held her arms between them.
"Guys calm down…." she said to her friends firmly which quieted them down as they, along with Rod and Laura, eyed her in surprise of her unexpected behaviour.
"Huh?"
"C…Cera?"
She narrowed her eyes seriously, "I understand we all may have some bad blood between us….but…." she then looked to the alpha gang kids, finding their intentions to be genuine and truthful, "Do they have any reason to lie to us now?" She said at the end before lowering her arms. "Besides what choice do we have? We have to go to Zeta Point now, which is no doubt heavily guarded and the only way we'll be getting there is with their help." she said at the end.
Realising that something was indeed going on at Alpha gang's headquarters either way, and that Johnathan was no doubt going there for some reason, they realised she did have a good point there. Rod and Laura were both rather surprised too at the fact Cera was willing to stand up for them despite being on opposite sides, though Laura on the other hand had a feeling she knew why….
Seeing they wouldn't get anywhere if they argued and fought now, Rex and the others sighed with reluctance, "Yeah good point…."
"I don't like it too much either," added Cera at the end expressing her own since doubts bout this too, "But our options are limited now." she added at the end.
"Fine," Max gritted his teeth huffing before narrowing his eyes, "But we're keeping a close eye on you guys just to be sure!" he added at the end.
"Fair enough…." Rod shrugged his shoulders.
As he finished, the sounds of an engine rumbling made them turn to see Reese and Spike already in the truck and starting it up, "Come on, I'll bring us back to the D Lab post haste!" she said to them as the gang quickly ran inside and buckled up.
"Wait!" Dr Drake's voice yelled from behind them as they turned to look.
"Huh?"
"Don't forget Terry!" he cried out as he ran out of the front doors as fast as he could, carrying the little red dinosaur in his arms, which shocked both Alpha kids a bit.
"Ah! But shouldn't he be-"
"Don't worry," he said to them with a big comforting smile, "I have just given him a potent vitamin dose so after some rest he'll be back to normal in no time." he said with assurance and an encouraging expression on his face which provided some relief to both Rod and his sister, who took Terry into her arms and hugged him closely like he was an irreplaceable friend.
As she nuzzled against the sleeping dinosaur's head, Rod turned back to Zoe's dad as he bowed down with respect, "Th…Thanks doctor…." he said feeling a little insecure about being all humble before the father of one of his enemies, but at the same time eternally grateful for him saving their dinosaur's life.
"Don't mention it. I'm just doing my duty as a doctor." he replied back humbly while doing a short bow himself, "Now run along, you've got things to do no doubt so don't let me keep you." he said with a smile which made the 2 kids smile too, feeling glad they nodded back at him and ran to the truck.
As everyone too their seats, Spike looked to the back where they all were, "Alright, everyone buckled up?" he asked as they all nodded and replied back.
"Mhmm."
"All set."
"Ready to rock!"
Reese then smiled before turning serious as she pressed the accelerator pedal, "Then let's move!" she said as the truck spewed exhausted and sped along the driveway towards the D Lab, while Dr Drake waved goodbye to them from the front of the animal hospital.
(Later)
After the truck pulled over at the D Lab, everyone stepped in, with Laura and Rod marvelling in awe at the D Team's own HQ, admitting that for a place where their rivals used as their base of operations, it was rather functional and cosy despite being several times smaller. Since they had to get to Zeta Point, Rod volunteered to get the teleprinter prepped for bypassing the island's defences since he knew the place better than anyone else present. As he worked tirelessly away at the computer, which was slow and steady considering the technology he was using was a little less advanced but still proceeding smoothly no less. "Rod, you're great at this." Max complimented him feeling impressed seeing several lines of code appearing on the main screen.
"Yeah, maybe you should take a lesson Max." Spike mouthed out to his son which made him stutter.
"Oh….."
Cera couldn't help but snicker a bit at his reaction a bit before looking back to the main screen. She had to admit for someone so young he was gifted, no doubt he must have studied from a very high class facility wherever he came from, not even she would have been able to work as effectively as he could.
Feeling curious and interested herself, Zoe walked over to where he was working, "Hey, what are you doing?" she asked.
"Hacking the island's security." he answered her before a big smile came upon his face, "I've shut down Zeta Point's forcefield!" he said proudly as the map lit up on the main screen, with a red blinker on it too.
"As soon as you did a dinosaur appeared!" Rex gasped.
"And look at that," Spike pointed out at its location, "It's blinking where there's no land."
"Then it's for sure Zeta Point!" said Laura knowing it couldn't be anything else.
Cera then turned uneasy, "I'm worried….." she said putting hand over her chest while everyone looked to her wondering what was wrong, "Way I see it Johnathan may have run into trouble there with Dr Z no doubt." she said knowing that he met be up against a dinosaur without a doubt.
Rod however smiled back with confidence and patter her on the back, "Don't you worry a thing." he said, "Jonathan's way tougher than he looks, in fact I'd be more worried about whatever dinosaur he's facing rather than him." he added with a slight cringe knowing not even Tank or Spiny would last 2 minutes against him.
"You make a good point." Zoe added as she recalled the last time they met when he was up and kicking, "He did take the brunt of Terry's volcano burst back in Siberia after all….."
Laura then widened her eyes, "Oh yeah!" the memory soon came back to both of them which caught them both off guard, "That time….That was Johnathan all along!?" It was then Laura looked down at the sleeping Terry in her arms that she was feeling rather regretful at what she did that time, she and her brother unwittingly hurt one of their old friends….no doubt they'd have to apologise to him next time they see him.
"What's he been doing all this time?" Rod then asked himself as he folded his arms.
Cera then looked down at him, "How about we ask him later?" she suggested, "Right now we've got work to do."
"She's right." said Max as they all nodded together, "Let's go!"
"Okay" Zoe followed while Rex and Cera both nodded.
"I'm going too!" Rod spoke up as they all looked to him being serious.
"Sorry, you need a dinoholder to teleport with us and you don't have one." said Max wishing he'd be able to.
"I know, but I do have one of these." he said holding out his alpha scanner, "Your devices draw their power from the stone right?" pressing a button on it a compartment opened up revealing a stone with the crest of fire on it, "Well this has a piece of it too."
Cera narrowed her eyes focusing on it, "So the alpha gan does have the other 3 stones….." she mused as she put a finger to her chin in thought, still wondering what they all meant, and yet….she felt as though she might know them from somewhere….
"As long as the teleporter recognises that stone, teleportation is possible." Reese hypothesised, "Could I take a look Rod?" she asked holding her hand out to him.
Taking the stone out he handed it over to her, "Here." he said.
"Um, what about me?" Laura then asked.
"You should stay here and help Terry get better Laura." her brother answered as she sighed with reluctance.
"Mm…okay…." she said obediently as Reese keyed in the computer to accept the fire stone, therefore allowing him to transport too.
After the final modifications were made, Max looked to everyone with authority, "Alright guys, let's go."
"Yeah, and this time we'll finish things once and for all!" said Cera with determination in her eyes, this time intending to settle the score with Seth for good this time.
"Don't do anything careless okay?" said Spike to them as they all stepped on the teleporter and soon vanished in bright light. Before they did, Rod thought to himself how handy thus was, if they had something like this back home they wouldn't need to keep relying on expensive payments or their grandfathers unstable vehicles to fly them everywhere and risk stranding them far from home.
"Be careful." said Laura softly as Reese put a gentle hand on her shoulder.
"They'll be fine Laura, believe in them." she said smiling compassionately with Dr Taylor as she nodded back at them.
"Okay….." she breathed before deciding to settle Terry down on a nearby table and keep watch over him.
(Later)
Very soon the light shone in the hallways of Zeta Point and the D Team, along with Rod arrived on the scene, to see Jonathan having got into and won a scuffle against the Alpha trio, Dr Z and Spiny!
"Rod?" Dr Z muttered, blinking his eyes in surprise at the unexpected arrival.
"Grampa!" he said addressing the older man and his henchmen while the rest of the D Team looked behind them.
"Oh! There's Johnathan!" Zoe pointed out.
"I'm confused…." Max muttered unable to process what was going on.
"Ouch…poor Spiny…." said Cera covering her mouth as the spinosaurus struggled to get back up only to slump down again heavily beaten, and then forced back into a card which returned to the Trio. "My guess, they had a disagreement that's just been settled….." she theorised with Rex nodding at her in agreement seeing it to be no other way. Guess they were worried for nothing, on one hand they were relieved but at the other hand they were feeling rather sorry for Spiny and also somewhat terrified at Jonathan's own strength too.
"Hey! What do you know about Johnathan!?" Dr Z then demanded, "And Rod! What are you doing with these brats!?" he yelled as the Trio looked on in confusion.
Rod ignored his rants and called out at him, "Grampa you're in danger! Seth has been keeping things from you and plotting something behind your back all this time!" he yelled.
Dr Z blinked his eyes in surprise, "Plotting? What are you talking about?" he asked suspiciously.
"Like really evil experiments on dinosaurs!" Max answered.
"The worst kind of all!" Rex grunted hardening his gaze.
"So terrible that it put Terry in near critical condition!" Rod finished at the end which made the Alpha too widen their eyes in shock and horror.
"Huh!?"
"What did you say!?" Dr Z gasped widened his eyes before gritting his teeth in anger, "Rod! Did these kid brainwash you!?" he yelled pointing at him, "Sure Seth has always rather moody and disagreeable at times but he's been reliable ever since we crashed here!"
Soon the Alpha trio joined in supporting him, "Yeah! How dare you speak of him like that!?" Ursula cried out.
"Would your own grandkids lie to you Dr Z?" said Cera rather seriously which made him rethink things.
"Err….." It was at that point he began to remember the time Seth was experimenting on the velociraptor card he acquired from Australia, which he didn't notify him of and experimented behind his back too.
"Maybe, once we show you his secret lab and all his experiments he's been conducting all this time maybe you'll change your mind." Rod then added at the end as the D Team all held together their firm expressions at him.
Seeing he and his group were pretty much outnumbered and would get nowhere by arguing, as well as having all the evidence pointing at Seth, he then gritted his teeth with spite before relenting, "Tch! If you're wrong you're grounded you hear me!? I'll make sure Helga feeds you liver for the rest of your days too on to of that!" he yelled out.
Rod then sighed at his grandfather stubborn attitude, "Fine you got a deal so can we go now!?" he breathed as they marched forward towards the elevator with Dr Z and the Alpha trio right with them. As they went inside and slowly descended, Ursula, Ed and Zander began whispering to one another.
"I can't believe we just going to let these kids walk around in our base like this."
"What's the world coming to?"
"Well Seth has always been keeping to himself so this can be a chance to dig up some dirt on him." They said to one another was they reached the bottom floor.
When the doors opened, they were met with the shock of their lives! Before them lay a charred and badly beaten Helga, along with Seth who was holding a lightning rod in his hand!
"Ah! Helga!" Rod gasped in alarm as the rest of the gang widened their eyes in shock.
"AH!"
Seeing this was enough to convince Dr Z that Rod and the D team were indeed telling the truth, "What's going on!? And why on earth would you hurt Helga?!" he yelled furiously as he ran out at him with the others following in toll.
Seth however held a calm expression together and said nothing despite being heavily outnumbered, in his mind however he knew that this scenario would eventually play out, regardless of being found out or of he decided to usurp Dr Z, so in months advance he had prepared a contingency plan for this very moment.
"Tell me what you did to Terry to hurt him so bad!" Rod demanded as he hardened a fist at him.
"I've been looking for you!" Johnathan pointed at him, "You're the villain who stole the data from my memory banks!" he growled which made everyone look at him in surprise too.
"Huh!?"
"So what are you!? A double agent!?" Ursula then asked crossly as he folded her arms on her hips.
Seth calmly closed his eyes in response, "I can assure you it's not what you think it is." he said.
"What is is then!? What are you after!?" Dr Z demanded.
"All I'm after is pure dinosaur science doctor." Seth replied with a frown, "I don't intend to waste my time chasing hopeless pipe dreams like yours."
"Hopeless pipe dreams!?" the old man gasped in alarm, "My plans for the future are no such thing!" he yelled shaking a fists at his treacherous assistant.
"Wanting to build a vast dinosaur kingdom and then rule it as the dinosaur king? Tell me what could be more hopeless than that?" he retorted calmly.
The D Team kids then looked to each other in thought.
"He's got a point there…." said Max
"Mhmm…." Rex and Zoe nodded.
"And a very selfish one too…" Cera concluded at the end, knowing that even if Dr Z really did succeed it definitely wouldn't last long.
"Who asked you!?" Dr Z growled shaking his fist at them in turn.
"Hey brat!" Ursula growled looking to Max, "Don't forget you're the enemies of everyone else here!"
"The only reason we're here is to help the dinosaurs!" Max yelled ignoring her, "And that means our real enemy is anybody who wants to do things that are gonna hurt them."
"As usual you're completely wrong." chuckled Seth as he gained a sinister smirk which put the others on edge, especially Cera, "My goal in these experiments is to bring about the ultimate dinosaur evolution and it would do me no good to harm them."
"That's what you say but what gives you the right to force any animal to evolve!" Max yelled.
"And who are you to decide what's good!?" Rex followed.
"You ought to be locked up!" Zoe yelled.
"I bet the dinosaurs would rather be extinct than be used as guinea pigs in your experiments!" Cera concluded at the end. The memories of seeing stegosaurus, ampelosaurus and saurophaganax in the tubes being implanted with energy still burned within her mind, and most of all….what he did to her when she was his prisoner one time….
"What nerve!" Dr Z then hissed, "You've been conducting experiments behind my back when I would have been happy to help you if you'd just come to me from the beginning!"
"Doctor let's be honest here. Your special is stealing other scientists' hard work." Seth replied calmly as his expression darkened, "If I told you what I working on I would've ended up just like Dr Ancient."
At his words Dr Z fell speechless upon realising at what he truly meant, "AH!"
Looking to them all, Cera then blinked her eyes in curiosity, "So then….they all a history with this….Dr Ancient?" she thought to herself before narrowing her eyes, seeing the situation to be growing tense.
"That name sounds familiar." Max meanwhile whispered to himself.
"That's what Johnathan called Rex." Zoe added at the end as the others turned to focus on the blond haired boy.
"Ah!" They gasped before focusing on the android in the room.
Unbeknownst to them, Seth had overheard everything they said as he secretly narrowed his eyes at him, "So…it really is him after all…." he thought to himself before a small but certain smirk came on his face.
Johnathan looked back to them all, "It appears as though you're finished talking so I would like to get what I came here for." he said in a polite manner, "I am now going to retrieve the data this villain stole from me."
"OOOOOH NO YOU DON'T!" Dr Z quickly interrupted furious beyond belief as he took out Spiny's card, "Not until I'm done with the backstabber! Alpha slash!" He declared slashing the card with all his might! "Gush out spinosaurus!" Spiny soon appeared and roared out fiercely. Despite having taken a beating from Johnathan he was now ell rested and recharged for battle!
"Yeah! Me too!" Rod cheered as he joined in taking out Tank's scanner and card, "Alpha slash! Shake em up saichania!" Tank soon took the the field alongside Spiny as they both faced down Seth who was apparently unarmed and seemingly helpless before them both!
"Now Tank and Spiny! Show Seth what we do to traitors!" Dr Z commanded.
Seth howler remained expressionless and undeterred, which Cera no doubt recognised as a bad sign.
"Come on, surely you don't think I'm defenceless here." he said as he reached into his pocket and held out a black device, one which the D Team were quickly to recognise.
"Ah!"
"That looks just like our dinoholders…." Zoe and Max gasped as the others were taken by surprise.
"I've copied the dinoholder and the stone inside, of course my version is 20 times more powerful." Seth answered rather smugly which further surprised them all.
"Say what!?"
"I thought the stone couldn't be copied!" Cera and Rex both gasped.
"Ahahah! There's much you all don't understand, but allow me to give you a demonstration!" Seth laughed as he slashed a card on it, causing a familiar dinosaur to appear on his side of the field! "Saurophaganax!" As the large jurassic carnivore emerged and roared, the rooms of Zeta Point turned multicoloured with the battlefield setting in.
"The last dinosaur he had…." Cera recalled the time she visited his lab, there being 3 dinosaurs and the D team only recovered 2 of them. She then narrowed her eyes, sensing something very different about it…and that worried her as a drop of sweat dripped form her cheek.
Dr Z however remained undeterred by the developments as he pressed on his attack, "Heh! Spiny and Tank go crush him now!" he ordered as both dinosaurs rushed ahead and collided heads with their opponent! The 3 dinosaurs met in a tie, with Spiny and Tank barely struggling to push it back while saurophaganax was only being nudged slowly.
Cera narrowed her eyes at how the battle was proceeding, "Saurophaganax is holding up pretty well…." while that could have been a good thing right now her instincts told her it wasn't, "Seth no doubt did something to it….and that worries me…." The fact that he was outnumbered yet remained undeterred was proof of it, and what he said next confirmed her fears.
"As usual you're in over your head Dr Z." he responded calmly, "Observe a new super move I just perfected." he said as he reached into his pocket and took out a fire move card.
"A super move I don't know about!?" Dr Z exclaimed as he was caught completely by surprise at this startling new development.
Cera widened eyes in realisation, "Wait, could he be talking about-"
"I forced Saurophaganax into premature evolution so he could master this move!" he announced as he slashed said card, "Fire scorcher!" The saurophaganax was surround by an aura of fire before charging up a massive red and black meteor in his jaws before throwing it at Spiny and Tank! The flames quickly swallowed up both dinosaurs as they were being blown back by the force of the meteor while engulfed by massive biting flames!
The force of the blast sent Jonathan into a wall as his head went spinning out of control while everyone else had to cross their arms forward or hold them out to keep themselves from being blown back!
"AAAARRGH!"
"AAAAAAHHH!"
As the flames died down, saurophaganax emerged from them unscathed and roared in triumph, whole Spiny and Tank both crashed down and returned to their cards, defeated completely and utterly!
"Huh?" Rod looked up while his grandfather gasped in disbelief.
"Gah! No! This can't be!"
The D team lowered their arms and stared speechlessly at what just happened.
As Cera looked closer she then narrowed her eyes, "Those flames….when that meteor hits it takes everything out in its path….No wonder Terry couldn't take it…." she said having noticed that saurophaganax was unfazed by the meteor's flames, "That means he must have modified that dinosaur somehow…." as saurophaganax roared out fiercely she could hear its voice was complete and pure anger, followed by hint of pain and fear in it, no doubt as a result of the experiments Seth performed on him against his will. The very thought of such a vile act made her clench her fist which shook tense with rage, "Unforgivable…."
"Let's get out of here! Grab those cards!" Ursula cried out as Zander and Ed both ran out.
"I've got Tank!"
"I've got Spiny!" They each said before bating a hasty retreat with their boss,
"This isn't over Seth!" he yelled swearing vengeance as they ran off to regroup somewhere safer.
"Grampa!" Rod called out as he followed after them. As the D Team watched them head into the elevator and the door closed a roar caught their attention. Turning around saurophaganax charged straight at them baring his fangs wide! The earlier battle was no more than an appetiser for him, now it was the main course!
"You ready guys!?" Max cried feeling tensed up.
"All of 3 of us together!" Zoe followed readying herself for battle.
"Right!" Rex added with determination to take Seth down by any means necessary, as he held his hand out to Cera, "Cera! You stay back!" he said to her firmly as she nodded back at him in agreement.
"Yeah…" she nodded before cheering on them all, "Good luck you guys!"
"Go!" Zoe yelled as they all took out their cards.
"Dino slash!" they cried in unison slashing their cards.
"Go Triceratops! Roar!
"Carnotaurus! Blow them away!"
"Spring up Parasaurolophus!" Their 3 dinosaurs appeared on the field in full sized form before saurophaganax who stopped in his tracks after being faced with 3 new opponents.
Unwilling to take their chances, they took out their move cards and prepared to slash them in unison hoping to end the fight as quickly as possible, "Altogether now!"
Seth however refused to give them that chance as he quickly took out the deadly fire move once again, "Good luck! Now feel Fire scorcher!" he bellowed slashing it. Saurophaganax began charging up the dark meteor in his jaws before throwing it down, engulfing all 3 dinosaurs in a sea of furious flames as they all roared out in pain and began blowing back again t the D Team who had to hod out heir arms to shield themselves!
"GRRRRGH!"
Like with Spiny and Tank, their 3 dinosaurs crashed down heavily drained and out of energy before returning to their cards.
"Unbelievable…." Cera breathed as she shook tensely, feeling overwhelmed and helpless before the monstrous move…it was unlike anything ever faced before….what hope could they have against that?
As the D Team stared in utter disbelief, Rex gritted his teeth and rushed forward! Upon sight of the cards of his defeated friends, he rushed out courageously, unwilling to let them fall into Seth's evil hands and end up being experimented on like saurophaganax was!
"Come back Rex! It's too dangerous!" Max cried holding his hand out! He wanted to run out too but Cera held him back before he could make a move! "GRRGH! Let me go!" he grunted thrashing about trying to get loose but Cera maintained a firm lock on him, restraining his movements almost completely.
"Forget Max! No way are we risking you too!" she grunted in response.
As Rex managed to grab the cards in time, the sounds of footsteps rumbled through the ground, "AH!" he gasped in alarm as saurophaganax charged straight at him, jaws wide open ready to snap close!
"AH!"
"Oh no!" His friends gasped fearing the worst as the massive jaws came in close!
Right before saurophaganax could sink his teeth into fresh meat, Johnathan leapt into action, saving Rex by the skin of his teeth in time before the dinosaur's jaws snapped close and only swallowed a mouthful of air! In the process Rex dropped his dinoholder, before looking to the android who saved his life.
"Don't worry! Johnathan will protect you master!" he said firmly to the boy in a gentle and secure tone.
"Master?" Rex breathed unsure bye what he meant.
As Max reached in to grab Rex's dinoholder he then called out to them, "Where are you taking him!?" he cried, but his words came too late as they soon were out of hearing range.
"Max look out!" Zoe warned him as he turned to see saurophaganax coming straight towards him next!
"Run!" Cera screamed as he scurried off in time, the saurophaganax's foot stomped down and nearly flattening him!
The girls soon made it to the elevator and Cera frantically pressed the buttons on the controls hoping they would shut soon, while Zoe waved out frantically to Max who was lagging dangerously behind! "Come on! Come on!" she cried out panicky! Fortunately he was able to get back in, and thankfully for hime the doors shut a split second before the saurophaganax could get them!
"URGH!" they cited out as the elevator room shook inside violently upon collision!
With the danger behind them for now, the rest of the D Team took a breather knowing their were in the clear for the time being, "That was a close call…." Max wheezed as he fell down on the floor feeling overwhelmed.
"Yeah, I don't ever want to go through that again…." Zoe sighed deeply as she almost lay down on her back.
"That Seth….he's gone too far…." Cera hissed under her breath as she knelt. Max and Zoe both looked to her, slightly surprised to see her furious beyond belief, never before had they seen her like this as she swore vengeance, "He's not going to get away with this…." she growled clenching her fist, "Somehow, we have to stop him no matter what it takes…." she breathed as her friends looked to one another and nodded seriously at one another before turning back to her.
"Yeah, you bet Cera!" said Max pumping up his fist, "Once we regroup and get better prepared, we'll be sure he gets what he deserves soon enough."
"For now, let's find Johnathan and Rex!" said Zoe as the door soon opened up and they arrived at the upper floors, "The exit should be this way!" she said rushing out first with Max and Cera following after her.
(Meanwhile)
The elevator door opened in Seth's lab, and the maniacal madman soon stepped inside, with a dark and sister grin on his face. To him, despite being found out and his acts being brought to light, it was far too late for anyone to stop him. His all powerful fire scorcher and the dinosaur which was able to perform it flawlessly, was proof of that and since they stood no chance against him there was no one on the entire planet who could oppose him and his newfound might, "Now that those pests are taken care of, I can finally begin the first stage of my plan at long last." he chuckled to himself in dark delight as he began typing on his computer module, causing a loud whirring sound to echo inside the generator room. Finally, after so many long wasted months on repairs and acquiring the parts he needed, he could finally get Zeta Airborne once more as the countdown to take off lit up on his screen. "This is only the beginning," He then said as he pressed another button, causing the windows to open and revealing the tyrannosaurus fossil he acquired from Hell's Creek, sitting inside the testing room, "To think that child would be the son of that short sighted fool Ancient…heh like father like son, and just like him he won't be able to stop me from achieving my destiny." he snickered to himself remembering the many times Ancient tried to stop him, he may have interfered a couple of time before but he was never able to stop his ambitions, and in fact no one would.
"Now for the moment of truth." he thought as he turned a dial on. A set of laser like energy beams suddenly shot out from different corners of the room from nodes connected into the lab's mainframe, causing the fossil to be surrounded in energy like that of the stone plates themselves! The sight of this revolution development made Seth's grin widen, "Yes…Yes! It actually works!" he laughed out loud raising his hands to the sky before narrowing them once more, "To think this wouldn't have been possible if it also weren't for that girl and her fascinating device. Perhaps I should also accredit her for her…generous contribution to this momentous occasion." he thought to himself as he then smirked knowing that now everything was in the palm of his hand, "Who knows what other secrets she might hold too." he then thought as he began fantasising over the many hidden secrets that Cera herself might still hold that bring forth revolutionary change to the world that even he couldn't foresee, and that excited him even more so. "But there's no need to expend precious time and energy chasing after flies." he then said, "In time, they will come to me, and once I have everything I need, I'll usher in a brand new age of dinosaurs! Ahahahahah!" he laughed psychotically as his sinister voice began echoing through the halls of Zeta Point, unaware of the fact that the trio were spying on him form behind as they rushed back out to report back to Dr Z, in their plan to retake their island.
(Meanwhile)
A little while later after exiting form the elevator, Max, Zoe and Cera were both running out to the edge of the island which was a bridge like stone area surrounded with spikes on the end which resembled dinosaur rub bones, "So where do you think Rex went?" Max asked as he began looking around the endless expand of ocean, hoping to catch signs of a boat or jet passing by.
"Johnathan was carrying him, I hope they made it out okay." Zoe replied as and Cera looked around too.
The 3 kids soon caught the sound of an engine behind them, "Huh?" as they turned to look they saw the pink alpha jet rise into the sky, with both Rex and Johnathan safely inside!
"There they are!" Max pointed out
"They're both fine!" Zoe smiled brightly whole Cera let out a sigh she had been holding in.
"What a relief…."
"So let's teleport back to the D Lab and meet them there." said Zoe as the others nodded with her in agreement.
"Mhmm."
Before they could reach out for their the teleport function on their devices, the island suddenly began to shake violently catching them off by surprise!
"WAH!?"
"AAAAH!"
"BWAAAH!" They all cried in alarm as they began to shake and stumble off balance!
Looking around them the waves of the ocean thrashed about, and the trees too began to shake about, birds began scattering from the forest as to their alarm, "The island's lifting up!" Max gasped seeing they were lifting off the ocean surface and slowly rising into the sky!
"AH!?" Zoe yelped as she realised he was right, seeing pieces of lifted rock on the edges of the island began cracking apart and falling into the ocean!
Seeing no time to stay and marvel in awe, the D Team quickly forced themselves up to their feet and reached for their emergency escape, "Let's get off before it's too late Max!" Zoe cried.
"Before the jammer kicks in and we'll be stuck here!" Cera added at the end.
"Yeah!" Max replied nervously without hesitation as they all pressed the button and became enveloped in bright light! Before vanishing, Cera took one hard look at the rising island and narrowed her eyes furiously knowing they still had unfinished business left.
"We'll settle this later Seth, this is far from over." she swore under her breath as she and the others soon disappeared.
High above in the jet, Rex looked down and sweated a bit anxiously in deep awe and amazement at what was taking place below him, "I can't believe it…." he thought as the true form of Zeta Point soon came out of the water, "That whole island has turned into some kind of space craft…." As the jet sped off into the distance back to Sanjo City, the island bathed itself in bright light, shedding off its ilmd husk and revealing its true form underneath as a gigantic saucer like shape before flying off into the distance.
And thus begins the finale arc of season 1, stay tuned for more to come. Wanted to highlight some other bits such as making the t-rex fossil originating from Hell's Creek, fitting since it would be black t rex coming soon. Also we get another hint of Cera's old memories too involving dinosaur revival and how she was indirectly responsible for Seth's plans having gone so far now. Also felt Seth's black din holder would be better to be revealed here rather than with Black T rex.
In response to reviews:-
Drew Luczynski
-Glad you liked the chapter, with how long it was I was having doubts about how well it would be received. Yeah, also shows the A Team do have good in them deep down too. Wanted the chapter to end off with a secret dinosaur before heading into the finale and thought pawpawsaurus would be perfect for a Valentine.
darkblade2814
-Seth actually spoke about how he met the pirates in season 2.
Mausalet-AliceAsuka
-Glad you enjoyed it, thought I saw it an opportunity to develop them further