Many years have gone by, and Isla Sauro went through 13 years of war with monsters called the Kaiju. After that, almost 4 years of peace till a new enemy arrived named Queen Chrysalis and her Changeling army. But there has been recent sightings of them over the months, but no attack so far.
But many fear that a war could be underway.
18 years later, airships over by an airfield.
And 2 of them descend down for landing.
Eastern Region, January
An airship touches down on the runway, and slows down.
In one ship, a Troodon named Red climbed out as well as Dakotaraptor named Anthony.
"Where's Fury-20 and Razor-7?" An Allosaurus asked.
"Still training, sir." A Velociraptor named Billy said.
Some distance away, Toothless all grown up flies at high speed creating a high-pitch banshee whistling sound.
"All right, Windshear." Toothless said through a commlink. "Now let's show 'em how to fly. We're gonna play chicken. You ready?"
At the other side of the base, Windshear also grown up flies at high speed.
"This ain't the farm, and we ain't no cropdusters." Windshear said. "I'm not playing chicken with you."
"Now don't be a baby." Toothless said.
"I'll tell you what..."
Windshear shook her head. "Not doin' it, T."
"Well, I'm coming right at you." Toothless said. "You can turn, or you can hit me. It's up to you."
Then Toothless came soaring by the base as everyone turns to him.
"What the..." The Allosaurus said.
"Oh, boy." Billy said.
"This oughta be good." Ty said.
Toothless soon straightens out as they then turned to Windshear as she flew towards the base.
"Why you always bustin' my tail, Toothless?" Windshear asked now giving out. "Which way you goin'?"
The group then turns back to Toothless as he made his approach.
"I guess I'll go right." Toothless said. "No, uh, left. I'll go left."
They begin their approach towards each other as Toothless split open his dorsal plates ready for the tight turn.
"Okay, we're goin' left, right?" Windshear said getting ready.
"Ri-uh, right. Right?"
"Right like we're goin' right, or right like goin' left?" Windshear frowned.
"Oh, well, now you got me all mixed up!" Toothless said now confused. "I don't know. Make up your mind."
The 2 now begin to close in on each other.
"Gosh, Toohtless, we're going right!" Windshear yelled. "Righty-tighty!"
The 2 then near each other.
"Aah!" Windshear yelled turning.
The 2 then turned right as they narrowly bypass each other leaving everyone but the Allosaurus cheering.
'WHOO-HOO!" Ton-Ton cheered.
"HAY YEAH!" Red cheered.
Windshear laughed from the rush.
"Whoo-hoo-hoo!" Toothless cheered and laughed.
"BOO-YAH!" Hookfang cheered as Windshear twirled around in the air.
"Those are some smooth aces." Anthony said.
"Did you say something?" The Allosaurus questioned.
Anthony remained silent.
"'Cause let me tell ya, those farm dragons are grounded!" The Allosaurus said.
"Yes, sir, an entirely unacceptable use of m-m-military flight, sir." Red stuttered a bit.
The Allosaurus stared at him. "Get my hat."
"Yes, sir." Red then walks off.
"Get those hedge-hoppers in Doolittle's office." The Allosaurus said.
Later, they were in Doolittle's office as Doolittle was a Utahraptor.
"After 2 years of training... you believe that being an officer is there for your amusement?" Doolittle questioned.
"No, sir. I was trying to keep my edge, Major." Toothless said.
"And when you did the outside loop last week what did you think that was?" Doolittle inquired. "Honing your skills? That's not training, Toothless. That's a stunt. And I consider it to be reckless and irresponsible."
"Major... How could that be, when you're famous for being the first dinosaur in the world ever to do it?" Toothless momentarily looked over at his rewards.
"Don't get cute with me, son." Doolittle warned.
"No, sir, I-I don't mean to be disrespectful." Toothless said. "I just think that... Well, I... It is reckless and irresponsible if you're just doing it to be a show-off. But... I was doing it to try to inspire the members, sir. In the way that you've inspired me. I believe the lemurs even have a word for that, when they get together to honor their leaders. They call it an homage, sir."
"A what?" Doolittle said not catching it.
"An homage, sir." Toothless said.
"That's heck, Toothless!" Doolittle snapped.
Windshear silently gulped.
"But it's very, very good heck." Doolittle said.
"Thank you, sir." Toothless said.
Doolittle lightly clicked his teeth. "Toothless, you remind me of myself 15 years ago." He said. "Which is why we need to discuss this." He showed a letter. "The northern army has accepted you into the Eagle Squadron. You're on your way to northern island chain, if you still want to go."
"Huh. Wow." Toothless said as it was something he wanted to do for a while.
"Just a few flyers are all that stand between Changeling sightings and victory in Sauro." Doolittle said. "They're gonna need all the help they can get."
"Yes, sir." Toothless said. "Well, I'm on my way."
"Just for the record I'm supposed to ask you to reconsider." Doolittle said.
"Sir?" Toothless frowned.
"Sooner or later we're gonna be in this war whether we like it or not." Doolittle said. "And I'm gonna need all of my best pilots. So it's my duty to ask you to stay."
"Major, what would you do?" Toothless asked.
"If it was me..." Doolittle said and thought for a moment. "I'd go."
Later towards sunset, they were finishing up for the day.
"Get out." Billy said letting at himself in the mirror. "Am I going white right back here?" He thinks he's seeing some white on his head.
"Ooh!" Red exclaimed.
"Man, I am one good-lookin' son of a gun." Billy said. "Don't you ever die." He said to his reflection.
Anthony then snapped his fingers. "Die. That's exactly the concept you gotta work tonight."
"This oughta be good." Dozer said.
Anthony then grabs a vial of clove oil. "You put a drop of clove oil under your eyes... and you let 'em sting and well up. You get your girl alone, take a breath, let her see your eyes glisten, and say, "Baby, they're training for war and I don't know what'll happen but if I die tomorrow, I want to know that we lived all we could tonight"."
"Real poetically." Ty said.
They soon headed outside.
"Come on, guys!" Billy said. "We got ladies waitin'."
"Come on, before the rest of his scales falls out." Anthony joked.
Toothless went over to Windshear who looked uneasy.
"How could you do this?" Windshear said.
"Well, Doolittle assigned me." Toothless said. "He wanted me to get some real... real combat training in."
"Well, guess what?" Windshear said. "It's not training over there. It's war. Where the losers die, and there aren't any winners. Just guys who turn into broken-down wrecks like my father."
"Yeah, I understand that, Windshear." Toothless said. "But I feel like I got a duty to go."
"Don't preach to me about duty, dang it." Windshear said. "I fly the same unit you do. Now, if trouble wants me, I'm ready for it. But why go looking for it?"
"Gosh, Windshear, come on." Toothless said. "I'm gonna be 25. I might as well be an old dragon. They're gonna have me bein' a flight instructor. I don't wanna teach loops and barrel rolls. I wanna be a combat fighter."
"Hey, come on!" Red called out. "The ladies can't d-d-dance by themselves."
"Let's go." Toothless said and heads off.
Windshear then sighed and shook her head.
Later towards night, they arrived at an area as Rafe waved out to someone. Which was a Velociraptor named Evelyn he met nearly a month ago.
And close by, were 4 of Evelyn's friends as they watched as they were in the Saurian medical team.
"Hello, Lieutenant." Rafe said. "It's good to see you."
"You, too, Lieutenant." Evelyn said.
"Pick a hand." Rafe said.
Evelyn then picked Rafe's right hand, and he showed an origami in the shape of a Raptor.
"It's beautiful." Evelyn said. "What's in your other hand?"
"Mine." Rafe said showing his own of a dragon. "Well, it took me 6 hours to fold these."
Evelyn then laughed as then Rafe lifted her off her feet and spun around.
"I want you to meet my friends." Evelyn said. "Rafe, this is Martha, Barbara, Sandra-"
"Hi. I'm betty." Betty introduced herself as she was a Troodon.
"Hi." Rafe said.
"Would you happen to have any friends?" Betty asked.
Rafe then turned to his friends as Billy waved.
"Huh. Take your pick." Rafe offered.
"Hi." Betty smiled.
Shortly later, they were at a club as swing music played and everyone was talking and laughing as they were having a great time.
The group were chatting as they laughed.
At a bar, Anthony was trying his luck with Sandra who is a Dakotaraptor.
He then held her hand. "We ever get in this war and somethin' happens to me, I can't tell you how good it makes me feel to know that someone as sweet as you will be there to nurse me back to health."
"Good, but we're not in the wat yet." Sandra said pulling her hand free. "Ahem."
"Okay, that was a bad line." Anthony said.
"Better luck next time, Anthony." Echo joked who was with Skull.
Elsewhere, Red was trying his luck with Betty who was dancing with Martha.
"Hi." Red greeted.
Betty laughed as she turns to him.
"I'm... I'm Red." Red introduced himself in a nervous tone. "Red-" He then nervously snorted as he was a stutterer fella. "S-S-S-S-strange."
"Heh heh. Your last name's Strange?" Betty frowned.
"Yeah. She's all yours, soldier." Martha said and leaves.
"No. It... it's Winkle." Red said.
Betty then laughed Billy some of the others watched.
"Red is such a ladies' man." Billy said stunned of how Red was handling it.
"Do you always stutter?" Betty asked.
"No. Only when I'm..." Red then snorted as it almost sounded like a dolphin clicking.
"She's totally buying it." Billy said.
"Nervous?" Betty said.
"Yeah." Red said.
"Why can't I get someone like that?" Billy asked.
Everyone continues on their night as the swing music continues playing as they enjoy themselves.
Later, Sandra was at the table along with Danny.
"Hello." Sandra said.
"Hi." Danny said.
Close by, Rafe and Evelyn were dancing as Evelyn saw him.
"Danny seems kind of shy around the girls." Evelyn said.
Rafe turns to him.
"It's not that he's shy." Rafe said. "He's just, ahem... a little unsure of himself, you know. His old man used to run him down a lot. Get him in a plane, he's sure of himself. He's like my brother. He's like my best friend. He's my right hand."
Elsewhere, Billy, a Velociraptor named Barbara, and Anthony were by the bar.
"Excuse me." Barbara said and walks off.
Anthony then held out the vial of clove oil, and hands it to Billy as he placed a drop under each eye and blinked a few times for it to take affect.
And he hands it back to Anthony as Barbara came back.
"You and me, we got to talk." Billy said.
He then leads her somewhere.
"So, rumor's is the Navy's shipping us to Saurian Harbor." Evelyn said.
"Well, won't be so bad." Rafe said. "It's about as far from the fighting as you can get. You'll get a suntan."
"So maybe the Army'll post you guys there, too." Evelyn said.
The next day, Toothless begins to board an airship heading to the northern island chain along with Rafe as he volunteered as well.
"If, uh, anything happens to me... I want you to be the one to tell her." Rafe said to Danny if anything happened to him. "All right?"
"You just make sure and come back for the both of us, all right?" Danny said.
"Okay." Rafe said.
They then hugged each other.
Rafe then grabs his things and begins to board the airship.
"See you when I get back." Rafe said.
"Yeah." Danny said.
Rafe then got into the airship.
"Good hunting, Rafe." Danny said.
The airship's engines soon started as then Evelyn quickly arrives as Rafe soon saw her and waved to her as the airship started to head across the runway. Evelyn soon saw him and waved bye to him.
Soon, the airship takes off into the air.
The next day, a team of dinosaurs and dragons went about their business at a military camp as Toothless and Rafe stood by.
They soon walked off into the base.
"This is a real mess." A Baryonyx said examining some damage to an airship.
"Lieutenant McCawley and Fury-20 reporting for duty, sir." Rafe said.
The Baryonyx turns to him.
"Good." he said. "We'll get you settled into your quarters." They then walked off. "And then introduce you to the crate you'll be flying."
"Yes, sir." Rafe said. "If y'all are patching up bullet holes right here on the runway maybe we ought to skip housekeeping and get me in an airplane."
"2 didn't come back, sir." An Iguanodon said. "We counted only 11."
"Are all Yanks as anxious as you to get themselves killed, Pilot Officer?" The Baryonyx asked.
"Not anxious to die, sir." Rafe said. "Just anxious to matter."
"Just trying to help in any way we can." Toothless said.
Soon, they got to an airship that has some damaged.
"This is yours." The Baryonyx said. "Good chap. Didn't die till he'd landed and shut down his engine."
Rafe looked at the airship as some blood was stained on the windshield as it was recent, and must've took a bad hit with some Changeling scouts.
Author's Note:
Next, Queen you-know-who will appear and she plans.