Chapter Six - Prehistory In The Re-Making
"Are they close yet?" Hideo asked for the twentieth time, arm hanging limply from the tree as he swung it back and forth.
"Yes!" Miho said, voice happy as if it were true. Hideo nearly fell out his tree in an attempt to sit up so quickly, and the youngest of the group nearly laughed at how funny he appeared when it happened.
"Really?!" He asked shocked, looking back to the area that they would be arriving at soon.
"No." Miho responded flatly. "The sun's up now though, and it's around breakfast hours, so they should be soon. If you don't stop whining, they'll find us."
"Alright, Mom!" Hideo mocked, and Miho shot the man a quick but efficient glare, before noticing a certain group of kids walking the path that lead to this discovery.
"Time for a bit of Prehistory in the Making!" Miho whisper yelled o her siblings, who were nearby enough to hear her. "Or Re-making, technically."
Hideo grinned proudly, whispering to his siblings quietly. "Prehistory in the Re-making! I like it."
The voices of the D-Team started to carry and the siblings shut their mouths so that they could watch as one of their favorite moments from the show played out in front of them.
"You'll change your mind when we find that meteor." Max's voice came, carrying up to where Miho was grinning from her position, mouthing the lines as they were said.
"Well I hope we find it soon, 'cause I'm hungry." Rex commented, and Miho couldn't help the small but silent laugh that followed that sentence. Well, they'd definitely find something soon.
"I'm sorta hungry too, Max, and it feels like we've been walking a long time and we really haven't seen any-" Miho was sure that Hideo could relate to Zoe's words, and chanced a glance away from the trio to meet her adoptive brothers eye. They had done their fair amount of walking, and the siblings had done a god amount of waiting.
Zoe gasped as she finally looked around, noticing the trees that had been cleanly slashed through, the trunks standing at varying heights. It was only now that Miho really took into account how much damage the Alpha Gang had caused to the forest when the cards scattered. She hugged her tree a little tighter, feeling a bit sorry for it.
"Look at that." Zoe's faint voice called, and Miho went back to mouthing along to the words of her favorite group of dino hunters.
"That's weird. What do you think happened to all those trees?" Rex asked, and Miho held back a snort, eyes trailing over to Max, who was just about to yell out.
"Look at that one! I told you! This must be where the Astroid hit." Miho nodded, mumbling her own comment of 'brilliant analytical skills,' a fond smile on her face as she continued to watch, eyes filled with mirth.
"Be Careful, Max! It might be dangerous!" Zoe said, but Miho stopped at this point, looking at Zoe as she always did when this part came. If they really thought it was an asteroid, what was a little space rock that already hit the ground hours ago going to do. Sure, it had turned out to be Chomp, and she, Kamiko, and Hideo knew what was coming next, but what was Zoe worried about?
"And exploring dangerous stuff like this is exactly what D-Team is all about, right? D for danger!" And again Miho really couldn't comprehend what was so dangerous about something like what they believed it to be… Did they think it could be an ET situation? An alien life-form was going to jump out of the space rock or something? Truthfully though, she'd never seen E.T. so she couldn't know what happened there.
"Yeah, well, "dumb" also starts with a "D." Rex stated, and Miho and Kamiko shared a look this time. Sassy Rex always had the best comments, and it took a large amount of self-control not to start clapping for the boy.
Max leaned farther into the tree, and Rex walked away from Zoe, causing the three siblings to smile and pay closer attention to detail, a silent chant moving through their minds.
'Here it comes, and here we go!"
"Whoa! What's this thing?" A piece of the tablet of course, but it wasn't like anyone would say that, and the kids didn't know yet. "Looks like it has a lightning bolt on it."
'Pikachu, I chose you!' Hideo mouthed, but otherwise kept his mind in the present.
"I found something, too, but it looks more like wind."
"Here's another one, maybe with a symbol for grass?"
Eh, they were close enough.
"Hey. I wonder what this thing is for." Wonderful, Max was officially playing with the little switch on the side of his piece. "Huh?"
As if on cue, th D-Team started glowing, and Miho touched her hand to her own Dino holder, hearing the voices but not bathed in the light emitting from the stones as they were. Max hit his head, but Miho was paying more attention to the calls of the lost Dinosaur cards that cried out to them all.
Well, the siblings at least. "Help us, Please? We need help, help us!"
The D-Team stopped glowing, and the voices stopped as the siblings took their hands away from the holders, sharing a shocked and scared look. So that was the difference that came with their own holders, they would hear the dinosaurs cries more than the D-Team, they would hear them.
"What's going on?" Zoe called to the boys, and Miho mouthed to her siblings her own answer. 'I just don't know anymore.'
How would this effect the story?
"I don't know." Max said, rubbing the back of his head to sooth the pain that was no doubt caused by the hit it took earlier. "Hey. Check this out!"
CHOMP! The siblings remembered at the same time, looking back to watch the fearsome dinosaur appear.
"What?" Zoe asked as they all gathered around Max.
"Isn't this a Triceratops?" Miho nodded her head proudly. Max was great at identifying the dino's, and she always found it interesting how he was able to do so with such ease. He turned the card over, noting the type identifier, which was on the back of the card. "And the card has the same symbol that's on this rock thing."
"What?" Rex asked quietly, looking back at his portion of the stone tablet.
"Maybe that means you're supposed to put the two of them together." Cue, the siblings going back to hugging the trees for dear life. He slashed the card with his stone, and the card glowed brightly, as did the egg when the Dino was activated.
And chomp glowed brightly before becoming his full dinosaur self, roaring as fiercely as they imagined he did the day he was put into that card. It had been millions of years, after all.
The D-Team hid behind each other, all faces showing absolute fright, and Miho took a picture of them, thankful she'd quieted her phone and turned the flash off. This was definitely going in the album. The three screamed, running back towards some of the trees and hiding, as if they thought that would help them if the Dinosaur really wanted to do something to them.
"It came to life!" Max said, stating the obvious. The siblings let out silent yawns as they watched the D-Team cower behind a tree.
"And it doesn't look happy!" Rex added
"I thought the D stood for danger." Miho mumbled to herself, honestly a little over this scene.
"You did this, Max! Now put it back!" Zoe yelled, fear and anger present on her face and in her eyes.
"But I don't know how!" Max exclaimed, looking flabbergast that she would suggest such a thing.
"Maybe you can reverse what you did before!" Rex said, and Miho grimaced as she realized how different this could have gone if Max hadn't understood. Honestly, that could have lead to Max using his move card, but whatever.
"That's a great idea!" Max said, again being the excited one. Hideo shook his head, astounded by the quick changes in attitude between th three.
"Holy chalumpa, they switch emotions faster than that chick in switch girl." He pondered quietly.
"It's a herbivore idiots, it's not like it's gonna eat you." Kamiko commented, apparently also getting fed up with this scene.
"No!" Zoe screamed, running back farther as she watched Chomp move towards them, causing Miho, Hideo, and Kamiko to cover their ears and hiss in discontent. She was so loud for such a small girl.
Rex also saw what was happening and followed Zoe farther away after her shriek, but Max had turned away. The blonde haired male called out to his friend in warning. "Max, run for it."
"Oh he looks constipated." Hideo commented, covering his mouth to stop th laugh that threatened to boil over and expose them. Max did indeed look as if he was having a certain difficulty associated with certain things like what Hideo stated. He was getting desperate, shaking the thing up and down.
"Huh?" Max turned, finally seeing the triceratops as it watched him though the trees, huffing after being brought out. "Waaahhh!"
Max cried out, once again not noticing when the dinosaur glowed and went back to card form. Not until it landed on his hand that is.
"Where'd it go?" Rex asked curiously, and Miho stopped clinging to the tree, shifting slightly a few times to get back to the trunk, hidden fully away from sight.
"I'm not positive, but I think it went back into the card." Max commented. This was their cue to get going, and the three did just that. Leaping from tree to tree, but staying on those with stronger trunks and branches to avoid having them swing all over the place.
"Man! I really wanted to see Chibi-Chomp." Miho complained once they had touched down just a small ways away from their house. "Such bad luck, let's get breakfast going."
"Sure." Kamiko said, voice soft. "What should we make?"
"Pancakes and scrambled eggs." Miho said quickly, opening the door for them all. "And you know, Danger and Dumb might both start with 'D', but Dead takes them both by starting and ending with it."
"She has a point." Hideo said, smiling at his little sister. "Now, about that whole, answering your phone thing? You owe me now."
Miho groaned, remembering that last time this had happened, she ended up doing his chores for a week while he sat back and binge-watched one of their shows without her. Kamiko giggled at her siblings antics, and went to the kitchen to prepare them all breakfast, Miho joining her a few moments later.
"I really don't know why we keep him around here." The youngest commented, washing her hands so she could help her sister prepare the foods.
"Oh hush now, you know you love him." Kamiko said, being the voice of reason once more."
"I guess." Miho pouted, but said no more on the matter.
I do not own Dinosaur King, thank you.
I do, however, own Miho, Kamiko, and Hideo.