Chapter 1: New Car, New Place
This story will begin in Medina, Washington, "Neo! I'm home!" a young teen's father called to him. Neo scoffed, as a typical teenager would, "Yeah, yeah!" Neo replied. Then Neo got up, and he walked down the 50-foot tall spiral staircase to see his father with a smile on his face, "What is it, Dad? Why do you look so happy?" he asked his father.
Then Neo's father handed him about $6,000... in cash, "Why are you giving me $6,000 to spend? I've already got enough PS4s, and Xbox Ones to run 3 servers. Not to mention that I only use one of each. Why do you want me to buy more of them?" Neo asked, slightly confused. His father chuckled, "No. It's not for video games this time. You are buying another car, only this time, you get to choose it. All the cars you have I picked for you. I felt that you will find the best vehicle if YOU pick it instead of me," his dad replied. Neo's face lit up, "Really?" he asked, delighted.
"Son. You can go anywhere that you want to go to buy your car," his father replied. Then Neo's father just walked out the door. Neo didn't feel like taking one of his cars or driving at all, for that matter, "Don't know where dad went. I'll just take my skateboard." Neo thought. As he was skateboarding, he saw a parked Pontiac Grand Am. As he was passing it, the passenger window rolled down, Neo stopped right next to it, and the driver spoke to him, "Hey, Neo. Do you need a ride somewhere?"
Neo shook his head, "No, Caleb. I'm about to buy another car of my choice," he answered. Caleb gave a nod, "All right, then. I'll see you later, alligator!" Caleb said, driving away. Neo looked at the departing vehicle, "Not for a while, crocodile," he said. Eventually, he found a used car dealer owner that he knew, "Hey there, Neotigator." the owner said. Neo scoffed at that, "How about you zip your lip, Taterchip." Neo replied.
The owner and Neo both laughed, "Hey there, Dave." Neo greeted the owner. "Whatcha looking for, Neo?" Dave asked him. Neo sighed a little, "I'm looking for a car. I'll just look around until I found a car that I want. It doesn't have to run, because I might be considered the best mechanic there is." Neo explained to Dave.
Then Neo started looking around, "Hey. An '88 Oldsmobile Regency. Dang! It has no wheels, and I don't have any stock wheels to put on it. Aftermarket wheels on an antique like this? No Bueno." Neo thought. "Neo! You found anything yet?" Dave yelled to him, reading a book. Neo got out of the 79 Trans Am he was pretending to drive, "Not yet, Dave. Still looking!" Neo replied. While Neo was looking, Dave came over to him, "Nothing's calling out to me, Dave." Neo told him. Then, Neo felt a bump on his left side, and he looked to the left to see a 1987 Dodge Power Ram with extremely beefy tires, and an offroad lifted suspension, "Hey. How about this thing? It looks like a good vehicle." Neo said, admiring the truck.
Dave got a kind of spooked look on his face when he saw the truck, "Uh... sorry, Neo. That truck doesn't start, it has a blown head gasket. You can try it if you want." Dave said. Neo got inside, and Dave handed him the keys. But when Neo turned the key... the truck started right away, "Wha? Every single time that I tried to start this here truck, it never started once. Why did it start now?" Dave said, not believing anything he just saw.
Dave then got in after Neo got out, and the truck did not start this time, "Dave... I'll take this truck. How much?" Neo asked, still admiring the beauty of the vehicle. Dave got out, jaw dropped, and he stuttered, "Uh... um... uh, 8,000." Dave said. Neo realized he didn't have enough cash, "Damn! I only brought 6." Neo said. Dave then directed him towards the Regency that Neo was looking at earlier, "Now over here, we have that beauty right there."
While Dave was showing off the Regency, Neo felt something give him a slight push from behind, and he looked back to see that same truck come to a stop after seeming to coast towards Neo. Dave was still distracted by the Regency, Neo opened the door to the truck, and the radio turned itself on, "You're mine. And we belong together," the radio played.
By then, Dave heard the radio and got out, "What the? How did that truck get over here?" he asked, confused. Neo tried something, "I'm going to walk around to see if this truck does some stuff. And if it does, I get the truck free. Deal?" Neo said. Dave didn't reply to his deal request, but tried to get him to buy another vehicle, "This Pinto over here is a beaut for 6 Gs." Dave said.
Neo kept looking at the truck, "No, Dave. I want that truck." Neo thought. The truck was already right next to the Pinto, "This is a classic engine right here. I sold a car the other day-" Dave began to say before the truck's passenger door popped open and shoved the Pinto to the right, "Dave are you all right?" Neo asked.
Dave said yes, and he began to direct Neo towards another car, but the radio in the truck turned on again and tuned to some station that had a very high pitched noise, and it increased the volume until every single other car that had windows... the windows broke on every car except for the truck, and the radio then turned off.
Dave was looking around, shocked, at all the cars, "6,000!" Dave said, declined Neo a new price for the truck. Neo was happy, and when Dave was gone, the truck started bouncing around. Neo knew what was happening when the truck was doing that, "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Easy there. Easy, girl. It's all right, you're my truck now." Neo said calmly to the truck.
Eventually, the truck did stop bouncing, and it honked the horn twice, "What's that? You want a name? How about... Tina?" Neo said. The truck honked once, "No? How about Christine? Actually, no, not Christine. Uh... how about Christyna?" Neo said again. The truck honked twice, "Yes? Christyna it is! Let me take you home. Do you want to drive, or should I?" Neo asked Christyna.
Christyna opened her door, and honked three times, "All right. I'm the most aggressive driver you'll ever know. Here we go!" Neo yelled, punching the gas pedal. Neo really was an aggressive driver... for a while before he saw a cop doing some radar, "Whoa! I'd better drive more realistically or I'll get pulled over." Neo said, hitting the brakes.
On his way home, Neo stopped by a KFC to get a bucket of their chicken. On his way back to Christyna, who he parked half a mile away because there were no open parking spaces nearby, he was crossing the road, and he got knocked over by a car, "WHA! (Groans) Dude what's your problem?! Can't you see I'm walking here!?" Neo yelled at the driver.
Then, Neo noticed that the vehicle that had hit him was a 2006 Saturn ION Redline but he couldn't see through the windows. Neo loved all Saturn makes and models, but GM had discontinued the manufacturing of all Saturns in 2009. Then the driver door opened, but no one got out. Neo walked around to the driver side of the vehicle to apologize since Neo realized that he wasn't looking out for oncoming vehicles, "Whoops. That was my mistake, dude. I wasn't... "Neo began to say before he saw that there wasn't anybody inside the car, "What the? Now I know for a FACT that NOBODY could have gotten out of the car and disappeared THAT quickly. Wait... if no one was driving this car... then what was?" Neo asked himself.
Then, the ION's door closed, and it just sat there. Neo then got really creeped out and he started walking away. When Neo discovered that nobody was driving the ION, he had completely forgotten about Christyna. After about 20 minutes of walking, he heard an engine coming from behind. He turned around to see the same ION seeming to be following him. Neo then stopped, and the vehicle stopped as well. When the car stopped again, it opened its door again. Neo started to feel slightly worried. He pulled out his skateboard and he started skating away from the car as fast as he could. When he did this, the car once again closed its door and again began to follow Neo. When Neo saw an upcoming downhill piece of road, he went straight for it.
When he started down the hill, he saw that there were no major obstacles that might throw him off his board, he pulled out his Glock 18, set it semi-automatic, and he started shooting at the car. 95% of Neo's shots hit the car, but he did miss a few shots because the car started dodging and weaving. When he got to the bottom of the hill, he saw that the road was unfinished and he couldn't skateboard on it, or run away from the car.
He saw the ION coming towards him, when all of a sudden, Christyna came out of nowhere and smashed into the side of the ION, which then caused the vehicle to flip onto its roof, immobilizing it, "Christyna! Thank you!" Neo said with complete joy and relief. Then he quickly got into Christyna and he headed for home. On the way, he pulled over when he saw a man on the side of the road that looked like he needed to hitchhike, "Sir, do you need a ride somewhere?" Neo asked the man.
"Actually I do... but for another reason. GTFO the truck right now!" the man said back, quickly pulling out a shotgun and aiming it at Neo. He slowly got out of Christyna, and he walked to the front of her, "Where're the keys!?" the man yelled at Neo. Neo placed the keys on Christyna's hood, and he moved out of the back of her.
When the man attempted to grab the keys, Christyna made her hood fly open, then closed, and whack the man in the face, thus making him be knocked out, and making the keys fly back to Neo, and allowing him to quickly get in, and head for home. When he finally got home, he went to the garage, and he placed Christyna in there, "It's all right, Christyna. You're the best vehicle that I could own." Neo said to her.
After he got into his room, there was a box in front of his door, "Please tell me that my poster has arrived... [Opens the box and looks at what's in it] Yes! Finally! Now my Land Before Time poster collection is complete. Let's see... I've got Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Petrie, Spike, Chomper, Ruby, Shorty, and now I have Q. I can't help but read the story that was made by TLBT Nerd." (Cough, cough) Neo said, putting up a poster that was there made with a photo of what he pictured in his head when he thought of Q from that story.
He started playing some GTA V before he stopped a little while later, "I need some pizza," he thought. As he was going down the spiral staircase, he felt the house begin to shake, and then there was a sudden thrash that sent him over the edge and he was hanging onto the railing, "Do not want to fall." Neo thought. Eventually, he was able to climb back onto the staircase, "Phew!" Neo said. Shortly afterward, he saw something big pass by the window, "What was that? That looked like an Apatosaurus. It can't be. They're extinct. Unless I think have that I may have been put in the dinosaur world, possibly... I am now in the Cretaceous Period or one of the other periods. Although there can't be any progress of anything without time. Unless Land Before Time means before time was kept track of. There is only one way to find out if this is the place I think it is or not." Neo thought.
When he opened the front door, there were seven young dinosaurs staring at him, "Littlefoot?" Neo said to the young Apatosaurus in the front. "How do you know my name, stranger?" the dinosaur said, slowly backing away. Neo noticed this, "No, please don't be afraid. I'm a friend." Neo said calmly. Then Littlefoot started to approach Neo, "What kind of dinosaur are you?" Littlefoot asked him.
"Actually, I am not a dinosaur. I'm a person, or a human being. My kind is, or rather will be, a very intelligent race of animals." Neo said. "So, where did you come from?" Ducky asked Neo. Neo gave some thought, and he eventually gave a shrug, "Umm... I don't know." Neo replied. The others looked at one another, "Well... OK then. So how did you get here?" Ducky asked him again.
Again, Neo gave a shrug, "Ummm... I don't know." Neo said again. Then Cera asked him a question, "Well here's an easy one, what's your name?" Neo could easily answer this one, "Everyone just calls me Neo." he replied. "Who call you Neo?" Petrie asked him. "Um... my friends and my family," Neo said.
Neo started thinking of a few possibilities on how he could have possibly been sent back in time to the dinosaur time, "Hmm. The last thing that I remember, I was walking down to get some food, and then I there was a sudden shake that almost made me fall off my stairs. Then, I saw an Apa...Longneck, and now here I am. That's all I can remember. Then Littlefoot noticed the mansion behind Neo while he was trying to remember, "Neo, what's that?" Littlefoot asked, looking behind Neo. Neo knew he was talking about the mansion, "Uh... that's where I live." he replied. Littlefoot understood, "Guys, you want a tour of my house?" Neo asked them.
"House? What's a house?" Spike asked. Neo was surprised, "Spike... how long have you been able to talk?" Neo asked him. "Uhh... about 2 coldtimes." Spike responded. Neo knew and he understood the word usage of the gang, "Coldtimes I think equal a winter, maybe. So... 2 winters that he's been able to talk, I think." Neo thought. Afterward, Neo went to the front door, which had already Apatosaurus closed, and Neo had to do specific things to unlock the door. He typed in an 8-digit passcode, did a handprint ID scan, facial recognition, and had to do voice recognition as well, "N-E-O." Neo said into a small microphone. Then, a bunch of M4M16s, and AK-47s came out of the walls and aimed directly at the gang, "And guests." Neo added. Then the weapons went back into the walls, and an automated voice spoke, "Welcome home, Neo." and the door opened.
Then Neo only showed them some of the rooms, "Here's the game room. Over here is the master bedroom. (In his thoughts) This master bedroom is now mine. This room over here, guys, this is our TV room. Technically, if you think about it, you are all adventuring my home. That reminds me of your first adventure together from the Mysterious Beyond to the Great Valley." Neo said.
Everyone's heads snapped back to Neo, "How in the world do you know about that adventure of ours, Neo?" Shorty asked. Neo didn't know any possible way that he could explain that to them, so he just went into the TV room, turned on the TV, put a disc containing the original Land Before Time movie, and he played it to them, "[Littlefoot on the TV] Oh you can't quit now! What if the Great Valley's just over the top of these rocks?" the others were very shocked on how they could see their own adventures through something other than their memories after the giving had already happened.
After the movie was finished, Cera happened to glance over to the left, and saw a case, "Uh... Neo, what is 'Jurassic Park'?" she asked. When Neo heard her ask that, he got a chill down his spine, "Jurassic Park? Umm... that's a movie about how many dinosaurs really were. Not like your kind, I mean about dinos like T-rexes." Neo explained.
"T-rexes? What's a 'T-rex'?" Littlefoot asked. Neo realized that he needed to use their dinosaur terms instead of his human terms, "I mean Sharpteeth." Neo corrected himself. Cera wasn't so easily convinced about what Neo said about the contents of Jurassic Park, "Show us that 'Jurassic Park,' now." she ordered him. Neo gave a big sigh, "All right. But if you are a little startled by the end of the movie, don't say I didn't warn you." Neo told them.
After the movie had finished:
The gang was definitely startled, if not disturbed, and Neo could clearly see it, "See what I mean? I warned you all, but you listened to Cera instead of me." Neo said. The others nodded in agreement, "That is what your kind thinks of Sharpteeth?" Littlefoot said.
Neo nodded his head. "I agree that they are very dangerous creatures, but they aren't anywhere nearly as dangerous as the ones in Jurassic Park. Oh, no, no, no." Ducky said.
When Neo looked at the clock, it was still working, but whenever he tried to look up the year, every digital truly could not give him a valid date, "Guys, it's almost 10...nighttime. You need to get to your sleeping places." Neo pointed out. After he brought them outside, all of the gang's parental figures were waiting.
When the gang was next to their parents, Mr. Threehorn started inspecting Neo, "What kind of creature are you?" he questioned Neo. He told him the same thing he told the gang, "Human? I've never heard of such a creature, but you don't look like any creature I've seen before. I don't even think that Thicknose could identify you. (Goes over to Cera) Cera please just be a little bit careful around him. You never know what he could do." Mr. Threehorn said quietly to Cera.
Neo heard what he said, "I heard that, Topps!" Neo called to him. Mr. Threehorn turned and looked at him in confusion, and a little anger, "How do you know my name?" Mr. Threehorn questioned Neo again. Neo didn't say a word, he just had kind of a blank expression on his face, which somehow made Mr. Threehorn angry, and made him start charging at Neo.
Neo had no clue as to why Mr. Threehorn would just get angry at him, "I don't understand. Just for me knowing him and his name while him not knowing me at all he is charging at me?" Neo did next would shock everyone, out of some instinct, Neo grabbed Mr. Threehorn by the horns, and he threw him into a tree, just like someone throwing a baseball to the batter, "Wha?! How did you do that, Neo?" Littlefoot asked in shock.
Neo looked down at his hands, "Littlefoot... I really wish I knew." Neo replied, shocked as well. Afterward, the gang all went to their sleeping places, while Neo went into the mansion, and he couldn't wait for the next adventure, hoping to go with the gang on it.