Downtown Runaround
Disclaimer: Dinosaur King is owned by Sunrise, Shout Factory, 4kidsTV, and any other company I missed. I own nothing
"Talking"
Thinking
"Flashback"
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At the animal hospital, Zoe and Paris were currently playing dress-up. Zoe was just finishing the touches on Paris' outfit. "There! All done!" Zoe said as she backed away to look at her work. "You look beautiful!" She said to her friend.
Paris looked at her outfit, which consisted of a small, yellow shirt like those you put on a doll and a blue and white striped scarf. "Well, the scarf looks nice." She said, sounding unsure. "But I really don't feel like-" she said before she started to remove the scarf using her mouth and feet. Sadly, without hands, she only ending up tearing it off.
"No!" Zoe screamed as she saw the scarf get torn up.
"Oh my gosh! I'm so sorry!" Paris cried once she realized what she had done. "I was just trying to take it off! I didn't mean for it to get ruined!"
Zoe sighed. "It's fine, Paris. I guess scarves aren't for everyone." She joked, trying to lighten the mood. It was then that the door opened and Reese came in, causing the two of them to silently panic. "Oh, Reese! You're back from the lab already!?"
"Hi." Reese replied before looking on the couch. "That's odd. I could have sworn I left my new scarf here." Both Zoe and Paris chuckled nervously while Zoe hid the ruined pieces behind herself. "Have you two seen it? It had blue and white stripes." Reese explained. "Expensive too." She added
"Sure haven't! Right, Paris!?"
"Yeah! Haven't seen any scarves around here!" Both of them were sweating like crazy. Even though dinosaurs can't sweat.
"Well, I suppose it will turn up eventually. Keep your eyes open. I'd hate to lose it." Reese said as she walked off.
Once she was gone and out of earshot, Zoe sighed. "I'm doomed."
Spiny then proceeded to play a happy jingle on a conveniently placed piano. "Oh, wait. Wrong number." He said before playing a more appropriate dramatic jingle.
(Intro Theme)
At Zeta Point, a fierce battle was going on between Ursula and Zander against Rod and Laura. Well, in the virtual world that is.
All four were looking at a large screen while they controlled two large birds. Rod and Laura had an eagle while Zander and Ursula had an albatross. And it was obvious who had the advantage.
"Let's go, Eagle!" Rod cheered for his character. "Yeah! Go for it!"
When the eagle managed to make the albatross fall to the ground Laura said. "All right!
When the albatross landed a food dish and a wooden hammer fell onto its head. "We're losing again." Ursula said depressed.
"Yeah, but that's because we always get stuck with the albatross." Zander told her. He knew they made this game unfair on purpose.
"Now finish it off!" Rod said as he got the eagle into position. Once it was ready, Rod made the albatross fly straight down towards the albatross.
The albatross had a look of surprise on its face as its end approached. "Come on, Albatross!" Zander begged.
Ursula on the other hand smirked. "We sucked you right into our trap. Albatross, give 'em the Albatross Kick now!" She ordered the sea bird.
The Albatross got into position and gave the eagle a dropkick. Or it would have if the eagle didn't dodge. "Oh no!" Zander and Ursula both said as the eagle turned around and pecked right into the albatrosses stomach, winning the match.
As the victory chime went off, Armatus and Gigas were finishing their own game of Battleship. "D-24?" Gigas asked.
"Miss." Armatus replied.
"Damn." Gigas said as he put a white dot onto the spot the boat wasn't. "How is it your boats are so hard to hit?"
"Maybe it's because he's lying." Maximus said as she strolled by.
"Wait, what?" Gigas turned Armatus' board and saw that all of his boats were in locations he called and didn't have any red dots on them. "You sneaky, little pest!" Gigas roared as he pushed the game aside with his head before moving towards Armatus with his jaw open.
The Stegosaurus back up nervously. "N-now, Gigas, it's just a game. There's no reason to eat me!" He said until he found himself stopped by the wall as the teeth got closer. "Let's discuss this!" The stegosaurus winced as he waited for the dreaded pain of an angry Tyrannosaurus bite.
Thankfully, he was saved by Dr.Z coming into the room. "What's all this squawking going on?" He asked before looking at one of the walls. "And why is there a game of Battleship everywhere?" He asked.
"Ragequit." Maximus simply answered.
"Oooooh." Dr.Z said in realization when he saw Gigas looking at Armatus funny before turning to the others present. "And you four?"
"We're playing a new game I invented." Rod explained.
"So far, Ursula and Zander's team has lost ninety seven times in a row." Laura added. "And we even gave them a head start for fifty two of them."
"That's because you always have us as the loser albatross!" Ursula yelled at them.
"Let us be the eagle next time!" Zander added.
"No way!" Rod said.
"Forget it!" Laura added.
"Fat chance." Maximus said.
"Ooh!" Both of them complained while Ursula bit on a handkerchief she had on her.
While the insulting of his minions was enjoyable to watch, Dr.Z noticed that someone was missing. "Where's that dimwit Ed, anyway?" He asked.
"He said he had to search the internet for some important top-secret research he was doing."
"Hmm." Dr.Z said as he thought about what Ed was really doing. "I need to check this research out myself. You kids stay here. Gigas, play nice with Armatus." He said before he left, only for everyone else to follow him out of either curiosity or to get some dirt on the doctor.
In a hidden room, Ed was busy looking up something on the computer. It was a fashion series online to pick the best model. "Yes, vote her off now!" Ed cheered as he saw a contestant bite the dust. "Finally I can watch 'Survivor of the Next Super Model' in peace and quiet." He said as he began fantasizing about the one he was rooting for. "Don't worry, Bethany, I voted for you!"
But of course, the peace didn't last. "Hey! I love this show! Is Ashley still on?" Laura asked as she appeared out of nowhere.
Dr.Z and Ursula followed. "Is this a rerun?" Dr.Z asked.
"Oh, that Bethany girl is just wretched." Ursula commented.
"I can agree with ya on that, Sheila." Armatus added as he and the other dinosaurs appeared.
"How's that top-secret research coming along?" Rod asked as he appeared.
"Not the research I was expecting." Gigas said to Maximus which made her blush and hit his leg with her tail. "Ow." He muttered.
Ed sighed as he knew his quiet time was up. Zander's head then appeared in front of Ed as he recognized one of the images on the screen. "Hey, don't we know that man?" He said as he maximized the image. Sure enough, it was a familiar face. The A-Team yelled in anger as they recognized him, Ursula even using Dr.Z as an armrest.
"Well, who is he?" The doctor asked.
"The crazy pilot who flew us to Switzerland." Ursula answered before she started to have a flashback of the incident.
"What's wrong?" Ursula asked him.
"We're out of gas." He calmly replied before grabbing a parachute and saluting to them. "Bye!" Was all he told them before jumping overboard, leaving the three of them to their fate.
"The geezer who bailed on us at 10,000 feet." Zander added as Ursula snapped out of her flashback, which was not actually what happened as those who remember the event would say.
"Huh?" Dr.Z asked, as he didn't recall him as the pilot of the flight he booked.
"And without even serving us one measly meal." Ursula commented.
"Ooh." Dr.Z said as he started to realize what happened, and had some words for Ursula later he didn't want Rod and especially Laura to hear. He looked at the image on screen again and noticed something in particular. Squinting his eyes, he was able to get a better look and gasped at what it was. "Ah, look!"
"What is it, Grandpa? Are you having one of your spells?" Laura asked.
"Do you know that guy, too?" Rod guessed.
"Not him, the book!" Dr.Z told them before enlarging the image. "It's a Card Folio! And it's loaded with Dinosaur Cards!"
"Where would a pilot get that?" Maximus asked.
"Maybe he got fired and is a homeless guy who stole them?" Armatus guessed.
"Well, whatever the reason, they could be fakes." Rod told them.
"Well, we got to at least take a look! The Alpha Gang has a new mission!" He told his minions.
"Aye, aye, Doctor!" The A-Team and dinos said before running off.
"You'd better succeed this time." The Doctor thought as he looked at the screen, noticing a peculiar looking card. "'Cause if I'm correct, that book has the dinosaur that will give us a huge advantage over those brats."
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Meanwhile, Zoe had figured out a plan so Reese wouldn't know that her scarf was destroyed. Though it was going to take a little extra help.
"You want to go to the Mega Mall?" Max asked.
Knowing she might need some help, Zoe went to Max and Rex's place to bring them with her, though she had to keep out the part about the scarf. "Yeah, come on, it'll be fun. We can check out the stores. I-I'll even buy you some food on a stick."
"You had me at food." Max told her.
"Then it's decided!" Zoe beamed before holding up a bag. "This is for Chomp and the others."
What was in the bag turned out to be clothes. Ace was wearing a suit, Chomp was dressed like a baby, Terry looked like a rapper, and Tank and a ribbon on her head and tail. "Adorable!" Zoe gushed as she looked at her designs.
"You got 'em clothes?" Max asked bewilderedly as he looked at the designs.
"Yeah! And they love 'em too." Zoe said with pride at her choices of clothing.
"Love's a pretty strong word." Ace said as he looked at his outfit with uncertainty.
"I mean, it's fine." Terry added as he and Chomp did the same. Looking at his brother, the Tyrannosaurus couldn't help but snicker. "Hehe! Better than being a literal baby." He teased, which just made Chomp blush and look away.
"You're just jealous I can make it work." The Triceratops thought, smirking as he knew this outfit works better on him than Terry, and would have more people gushing over him than his cringy brother.
"Take them off me now." Tank said in disgust at her outfit. "I look like a girly-girly."
"But you are a girl." Spiny said.
"Yeah, but a tuff one." Tank said with pride, striking a pose.
"So what does that have to do with the ribbons?" Spiny asked, leading to Tank waking him in the head.
"And where are your partners clothes?" She turned and asked Zoe.
"Yeah, Zoe, why is it so important to you that they have clothes on anyway?" Rex asked her.
"Because we're going to the Mega Mall." She told him, with emphasis. "You got to look your best when you go there!"
"Well, I'm just wearing this." Rex said, referring to what he currently had on.
"And, again I must ask, why are Spiny and Paris not wearing anything?" Tank growled as she looked at Zoe's dinosaurs without any clothing on them.
"Oh, well, we're looking for something for us there." Paris hastily told her while pawing the floor. "The design has to match whose wearing it." She explained as she recalled what Zoe told her.
"Grrr." Tank muttered under her breath. Just because Paris is shy didn't mean she would go easy on her.
And Zoe and Paris noticed this. "Well, let's get going!" Zoe exclaimed, though her nervousness could be heard.
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While on the train to the mall, Zoe and Paris came clean and told the others the real reason for the trip. "So, we're looking for a scarf?" Max asked.
"Yeah." Zoe said depressed. "The truth is me and Paris were messing around with Reese's favorite scarf and accidentally tore it into pieces."
"We tried sewing it back together, but it was very evidential really quick that wasn't going to work." Spiny said. "Tried glue, that just made it worse."
"The point is." Zoe said, interrupting the Spinosaurus before he made a scene. "The real thing is probably too expensive to replace, so we're hoping to find a knockoff of it at the Mega Mall."
"Why do that when you could just apologize?" Ace asked.
"Yeah, just tell her what happened and say you're sorry." Max told her.
Zoe just looked at him like he was crazy. "Have you met Reese? Not exactly the forgiving type."
"Yeah, remember the other day Max?" Rex reminded him.
"What?" Max asked before he remembered the events of that day. He and Rex were making a little too much noise while their dinosaurs were also playing. It annoyed Reese so much that she dropped a firecracker on Chomp and Terry. Things only got worse when the explosion disturbed Trooper, who would have killed them all if Rex hadn't begged him to stop and promise Reese they won't disturb her again. The blonde boy was the only one the Ankylosaurus seemed to respect. All this happened while Reese's glasses were completely white, blocking her eyes and making her look unsettling to everyone else.
Coming back to reality, Max responded with. "Guess you're right."
Soon a chime was heard, and the conductor's voice came over the intercom. "Next stop; The Mega Mall."
Max just smiled. "Well, since you're going to be in trouble later, might as well have fun now, right?" He asked Zoe, who simply looked at him with uncertainty. He clearly didn't understand the situation.
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Once off the train and at the mall, the D-Team looked around the various shops for a scarf or anything else of interest. The dinosaurs all had leases on them since it was law. And yes, they hated it.
As they approached an arcade, Chomp noticed one of the mascots and decided to take a bite out of him. "Whoa!" Max exclaimed as Chomp pulled him towards the cardboard robot. "Chomp. Get down." Max whispered sternly.
"I haven't chewed something in a long time." Chomp told him. "And I'm gonna do it, like it or not."
With Tank, she noticed an inflatable mascot that was really annoying her and decided to tackle it. This resulted in her getting knocked back into Rex's arms, her spikes thankfully not puncturing it. "Come on, Tank! Behave yourself." Rex scolded her.
"Maybe you should have a tighter leash." She told him.
"Maybe I will." Rex answered back, making her worried.
"Hey, is that an Arcade?" Max asked as he noticed the building.
"No way!" Chomp said as he along with the other boys and Tank went towards the arcade.
"Come on! Let's see what games they have!" Rex said as they went in, leaving Zoe and her dinos behind.
"Hey!" Zoe pouted. "They're not the only ones who could use a tighter leash." She said to herself. And not a second later, she exclaimed. "A jewelry store!" Before dropping her leashes and gushing at the jewelry.
With their freedom, Spiny took Paris and began to walk off. "We are we going?" She asked Spiny.
"To find a scarf." He told her. "That or steal something. Depends where the writer takes us."
"Paris, what'd you think? You like them?" Zoe asked as she held out two earrings before noticing her dinosaurs' absence. "Paris? Spiny?" She called as she looked through the crowd.
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"'Gasp!' It's been ten minutes, and I don't think I can go on!" Spiny said dramatically as he collapsed from exhaustion.
"Spiny!" Paris exclaimed, rushing over to him and lifting his head with her snout. "Say something!"
"Food." Was all Spiny muttered before he fainted.
Not knowing if he was just being overdramatic due to lack of breakfast, or being serious in his own Spiny way, Paris assumed it was the latter and looked around urgently for something he could eat before noticing the old man the Alpha Gang is after about to eat a burger. "Forgive me." She mentally said before snatching the burger from him just as he was about to take a bite before handing it to Spiny, eating the vegetables so Spiny wouldn't have problems.
Spiny sniffed the air before picking up the burger's scent. " Food!" He said before joining Paris.
"Stop! Spiny! Paris!" Zoe exclaimed as she ran up to where the old man was. "That's not yours!"
The old man held up a hand in reassurance. "Nah. Don't worry about it." He assured her before he felt something rubbing against him. Looking down he saw Paris rubbing her head against his knee, no doubt thanking him for the meal. "Aw, that's a good girl." He said as he pet her back. "I'll be, this is one cute dinosaur you've got." He said to Zoe.
"Thank you, sir." Zoe said before realizing what he fully said. "Hey wait a minute! She is a dog!" She said offended.
"Huh?" The man asked.
"A dinosaur here?! How ridiculous! That's just..." She said nervously before looking down and noticing his book. "Hold on. Are those all Dinosaur Cards, Mister?" She asked the man.
"Yep. That's exactly what they are." He told her.
Zoe gasped before running off. "Can you watch them for a minute, and I'll be right back!" She told the man before looking for her friends. "Max?! Rex?! Where are you?!"
"OK." The man said before petting Paris again. "You don't have to worry, I'll keep your secret." He assured her.
"Thank you." Paris told him. "And sorry for taking your burger, my friend was really hungry." She said as she gestured to Spiny, now full and reenergized from the meal.
"It's fine. I can always buy another one."
"Uh, Paris. I thought we don't talk to other humans?" Spiny whispered to her loudly that even the man could hear him.
"Relax, little guy. Your secret's safe with me."
"Thank you, stranger!" Spiny gleefully replied.
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Meanwhile, the Alpha Gang had just gotten off the train they had to take to get to the mall. After figuring out Ursula's little plan from the Maiasaura mission, Dr.Z refused to pay anything so they had to go the long way. And yes, they hated it.
"I hate taking the train." Ursula said as they walked out, slumped over.
"At least you got a seat from that little old man." Zander told her.
"Where'd you learn how to do a stranglehold?" Ed asked as he recalled the events on that train.
Before she could answer, Ursula was interrupted by a female voice telling them. "Hey! Move it or lose it!"
"We'll move when we're ready!" Ursula yelled at them before looking at who addressed them.
They were a group of models, or girls wearing really weird clothing. "What are you looking at?" One of them asked.
"Take a picture. It'll last longer." Another one said.
While Ursula found these designs disgusting, her partners begged to differ. "Wow! Are you models?!" Ed gushed.
Zander pushed Ursula aside and showed them the way, like a gentleman." Go right ahead! I'm sure you need to rush off to a fashion show or something!" He said before they walked off, Ed fawning at them.
"Fashions for what, Halloween?" Ursula asked sarcastically.
"Real talk, I'm a little worried." Zander told Ursula.
"Huh?" She asked him.
"Are you sure these tickets will get us through the turnstiles?" He asked as he held up the tickets they were given, which were children's tickets.
"Don't worry about it." Ursula assured him as they went to the turnstiles. "Just follow me and do what I do." She told them before inserting the ticket into the slot. "Make yourselves look as little as possible." She whispered to them before she shrunk down to look smaller, her colleges doing the same.
Just as they reached the end of the lane, the gate closed and a station employee shouted. "Hey, hold it!"
"Who, us?" Ursula asked innocently to sound like a kid. Obviously failing as they were taken away.
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Back with the D-Team, they have all gathered around the man and were looking at his Card Folio. "I can't believe how many Dinosaur Cards you have, sir." Max said as he looked through the folio. It was mainly Move Cards, though there was one actual card and one that was a new kind.
"Yeah, but who knows if they're the real thing?" Rex told him.
"Only one way to find out." Max told him before addressing the man. "Mister, is it ok if I take one of these out for a minute?"
"Help yourself." The man said.
Max grabbed the one Dinosaur Card and slashed it in his slot. But when he did nothing happened. "Too bad, it's just a bootleg." He frowned.
"Check the symbol, moron." Tank told him.
Max flipped the card over and say that it had a wind symbol on it. "Oh, Wind Type." He said, a little embarrassed how he missed that. "Rex, why don't you try it?" He said as he handed the card to the blonde.
"All right." Rex said as he took the card. He slashed it in his slot, and this time the results were different as the same picture of the card appeared on his screen and a white glow appeared. Out of the glow, the card revealed itself to be a Ceratosaurus as it came to life with a roar.
Meanwhile in a detention room, the Alpha Gang were currently getting scolded. "Well, this is a first." The employee said. "I've never seen anyone as old as you try to sneak in on a child's ticket."
"Did you have to use the word old?" Ursula asked, clearly depressed by the word used.
It was at that moment the Ceratosaur's head could be seen through the window. "Aah! A horrible beast! The employee screamed.
"Yeah, I get it!" Ursula told him, annoyed at the insult.
"No, not you! Worse than you!" He said, pointing to the window. It was then the Ceratosaurus disappeared when the Alpha Gang looked behind them. "I. Just. Saw. A dinosaur!" He stuttered.
"Dinosaur?!" The Alpha Gang asked as they leaned forward.
Back outside, people were asking around if they saw the same thing.
"Didn't that look just like a dinosaur?" A woman asked.
"I know it's crazy, but.." A man responded.
"This one is real." Max whispered as he put the card back with the rest. "Um, excuse me?" He asked the old man.
"Yes?"
"If you don't mind telling me, where exactly did you get these cards from?" Max asked him.
"Well.." the old man started.
"Yes?" The whole team said as they inched towards him.
"I forget." The man told them causing them all to groan in disappointment.
"All right, next question." Rex said. "If you were willing to sell us these cards, how much would it cost?" He asked.
"Hmm, that's hard." The man said as he thought of the price.
"Hold it right there, you!" Ursula shouted at the old man as she leapt into the air.
The D-Team frowned as they saw the Alpha Gang has arrived. "Ohh, it's that old lady again." Zoe said.
"Would you please quit calling me that?!" Ursula yelled and the pinkette.
"Sometimes that's used as a term of respect." Ed told her, hoping to calm her down.
This resulted in her bashing his head in. "Respect that!" She yelled at him.
"Excuse me." Zander said as he pushed them aside. "Remember us from that lovely flight to Switzerland. I never enjoyed a more dangerous flight. The one where you forgot to fill up on gas and abounded us to die a fiery death, which I'm hoping got you fired, which is why you're here."
The man looked at them a bit before responding with. "Nope."
Zander muttered something under his breath, no doubt some type of insult or rude comment while adjusting his sunglasses, before continuing. "Anyway, we're here for those cards of yours. So name your price for the Card Folio, and we can all go home happy."
"Hey, we were here first!" Max told him.
"Yeah, wait your turn like everyone else, shady!" Spiny added.
"You buzz off!" Ursula yelled at the Spinosaurus. "Fly home and watch cartoons, or whatever it is you brats do!"
"Joke's on you! We're in our hometown!" Spiny told her.
"Whatever!" She said before turning to the old man. "Now, unless you're a worst businessman then a pilot you'll sell them to us!" She ordered him.
"Please, sir, don't sell them the cards to them! Please!" Max begged the old man.
"Sell! Sell! Sell!" The Alpha Gang chanted.
The old man watched as the small dinosaurs looked at the Card Folio. "You kids love your dinosaurs, don't you?" He asked the D-Team.
"Yeah." Max said with a nod. "More than anything." Rex and Zoe nodded in agreement.
"Then I'd like you kids to have the Card Folio." He said as he handed them the book.
"What?!" The Alpha Gang gasped. They just got denied a win by him of all people.
"Are you serious?" Max asks the man.
"Yep, seems you kids love dinosaurs just as much as me." He said with a smile.
"Thank you, sir." They all said as Chomp picked up the book and handed it to Max. "Wow." He said with amazement at all the cards it had. Especially that mystery one.
Sadly, the Alpha Gang didn't like to play fair and used the grappling claw to snatch the book from them. "Huh?" The D-Team gasped as the book disappeared and went to Ursula's hands.
"Thank you so much, punks." Zander said before running off. "Later!" They all said as they laughed.
"Grr." Chomp growled as he remembered what they did with the claw beforehand. "Give that back!" He said before they all ran after the trio.
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The Alpha Gang continued running from the D-Team until they decided to hide in a shop before the kids and dinosaurs spotted them.
The kids stopped running and began to look around. "Huh, that old lady sure moves quick." Max said aloud.
"She does make pretty good time for such an old lady!" Rex said aloud as well.
"You wouldn't think such an old lady would be hard to spot." Zoe said.
"Nice try, but it's not gonna work!" Ursula said angrily as she unintentionally revealed herself. Zander and Ed tried to hold her back, but they knew the damage was already done.
"It worked!" Spiny cheered while Ursula realized her error.
"Uh-oh." She said as they ran off.
"Get back here!" Max said as the chase resumed.
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Eventually, they lost the Alpha Gang again. "How'd those creeps disappear again so quick." Chomp growled as he sniffed the air. Little did they know, the Alpha Gang was right behind them, disguised and posed as manikins.
They however got an easy lead when Ed belched loudly. "Opps." He said as he covered his mouth.
"There you are!" Max said as they turned to see them.
"There we go!" The Alpha Gang said as they ran off again.
"Oh, no you don't!" Max told them before turning to his Saichania teammate. "Ready, Tank?"
"Let's do this." She said as she rolled up into a ball. Max gave her a kick and managed to score a direct hit onto Zander causing him to drop the book.
"We got it!" Zoe cheered as she caught the book in her hands and ran off.
"Thanks, butterfingers." Tank mocked as she rolled away. But the Alpha Gang was in pursuit.
"After them!" Ursula ordered.
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Thanks to home-field advantage, the D-Team was able to lose the Alpha Gang pretty quickly.
"They've got to be around here someplace!" Ursula said as they came to a stop. "You'd think tiny dinosaurs might stand out." She said while looking around. "Oh!" She exclaimed as she noticed Max and Rex running in one direction. "There they are! Let's go!" She told them as she ran after the boys.
"Give up those cards, half pints!" Zander ordered them.
What didn't realize was Zoe coming out of her hiding place and running in the opposite direction with the book. All except Ed, that is. "Hey, there goes the girl and she's got the Card Folio!" Ed told them.
"You'd better be right." Ursula threatened as they changed course.
"Oh, no!" Max said as a truck blocked them. Zoe was on her own now.
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Zoe continued on running until she reached the park. She climbed a small hill and made her way towards the fence "We've got to catch her, or she'll slip through the bars!" Ursula said before picking up speed.
But she was too slow and too old to make it in time before Zoe and her dinos crawled through the bars. As they escaped the Alpha Gang grabbed the bars as they tried to reach her. "Grr, why is it they can fit through these bars but I can't?" Ursula asked.
"Uh, do you want me or the narrator to answer that?" Zander asked.
"Never mind. There's a gate over there." She said before they went towards the gate, since they were too old to fit through the bars. "Stop calling me old!"
Once on the other side, Zoe accidentally tripped on her knee and caused the book to fall. "Ah." She hissed.
"You OK?" Paris asked as she helped her up.
"I'm fine." Zoe assured her before grabbing the book and running off, not noticing that a card had fallen out.
"We've got to a place to hide this." Zoe told her dinos as they looked around.
"Hey, why doesn't that guy help us? He has a bag large enough." Spiny told them. Zoe and Paris turned to see him pointing towards a statue in the middle of a fountain.
"Perfect." Zoe commented before running towards the statue and putting the book in the bag before running away before the fountain water came to life.
"The chase is over, little miss card-thief." A threatening voice said. They looked to see the Alpha Gang towering above them. "Give it to me." Ursula ordered.
"You wouldn't be stupid enough to attack me. There's too many people here." Zoe told her. "Besides we don't even have it anymore."
"What?!" The Alpha Gang exclaimed before getting into attack positions. "Then where is it?!" Ursula asked threateningly, ignoring Zoe's earlier warning and about to jump her.
"Stay back!" Paris said as she used her horn to make the loud sound she did back at the museum.
The loud noise caused the trio to cover their ears in an attempt to block out the deafening sound. "What's that sound?!" Ursula asked as she plugged her ears.
"What?!" Ed asked. "You'll have to speak up! That Parasaurolophus' call is damaging my ears!"
"Your ears?! I think that Spinosaurus is eating my leg!" Zander said as he showed Spiny biting on his leg, unaffected by Paris' attack.
Ursula couldn't take it any longer called out one of their dinosaurs to save them. "Go, Gigas!"
The white Tyrannosaurus appeared and scarred off everyone else in the area. Max and his group turned around to see the Tyrannosaurus roar in the air. "We got to get over there!" Max told them as they ran towards the Tyrannosaurus.
"We won the folio far and square." Spiny told them once he let go of Zander while Paris hid behind him. She didn't want to get crushed by the much larger dinosaur.
"And that's why we're going to steal it." Ursula told him. "Now tell us where it is."
"I ate it." Spiny told them. "You'll have to check my belly!"
"You WHAT?!" Ursula looked like she was about to throw up at the thought before Ed stopped her.
"He's bluffing! It's on the statue!" He said as he pointed towards it and the folio in the basket.
"Curses." Spiny muttered.
"Grab that thing!" Ursula said as they ran towards it, Gigas blocking Zoe's way. "Our moment of victory is almost-" Ursula was unable to finish her sentence before they were carried into the air by the water surrounding the fountain. "Waah!"
"'Sigh.'" Gigas sighed to himself, embarrassed by the Alpha Gang's not-so epic fail, before turning his attention back to Zoe and her dinos. "Well, now it's just you three and me." He said before moving forward with his head down, causing the trio to back up as they knew that he was literally going in for the kill.
"Actually, now it's you and all of us!" Someone called out.
Gigas lifted his head to see Max and Rex arrive on the scene. "Oh, great." He muttered to himself.
"You guys OK?" Max asked when they reached Zoe.
"We're fine." Zoe assured him. "Now let's so this guy what happens when he messes with the D-Team!"
"I'd thought you'd never ask!" Max smiled before all three got their Dino Holders ready.
"DINO SLASH!"
"TRICERATOPS, ROAR! FLAME UP, TYRANNOSAURUS!"
"CARNOTAURUS, BLOW THEM AWAY! SHAKE 'EM UP, SAICHANIA!"
"PARASAUROLOPHUS, BLOOM! GUSH OUT, SPINOSAURUS!"
All six dinosaurs landed and roared at Gigas. "We've got 'em now!" Spiny said eagerly.
It was then that the world started to change. The park was being replaced by an environment like the one simulated at the lab. The Alpha Gang landed and took a look around. "Hey, how did we get to this place?" Ed asked them.
"Yeah, where are we?" Zander added.
"Must be a Battlefield." Ursula told them.
"Did we transport somewhere?" Tank asked her teammates as they looked at their new surroundings.
"Maybe back to the dinosaur age?" Ace hypothesized.
"It's a Time Warp." Gigas explained. "We're basically in an alternate dimension right now that looks like the world you came from."
The D-Team took in what he said before the dinosaurs advanced forward. Gigas knew he was outnumbered heavily and started to back up. "Uh, guys? Reinforcements would be helpful right now!" He told the Alpha Gang, losing his earlier confidence.
"Got you covered, Gigas!" Zander said as he and Ed grabbed their Scanners. "Come on out, Maximus!"
"You too, Armatus!" Ed said as they both swiped their cards.
Soon both dinosaurs appeared next to Gigas to help even the odds.
Both sides started at each other: Gigas and Terry pawed the ground, Tank and Armatus swung their tails, and Chomp and Maximus showed of their horns.
"Charge!" Both Chomp and Gigas roar at the same time before both sides ran towards each other and clashed.
Even with it six to three, the Alpha Gang dinosaurs proved to not be easy to beat. Gigas currently was biting onto part of Terry's upper lip while they circled each other before Chomp knocked him away. Armatus and Tank were in a tail struggle to flip the other one over onto their back when Ace leapt on top of him.
Spiny and Paris weren't so lucky, Maximus charged at Paris and tossed her into a large boulder that she shattered on impact. She turned her attention to Spiny and grabbed his tail before tossing him to the ground, running over to him, and beating him with her foot many times. "Hang on, guys!" Zoe told them.
"Knock it off!" Someone roared. Maximus turned to see Chomp and the other three running towards her.
Ursula noticed this too and angrily grabbed her Move Card before Zander and Ed followed suit. "Grr! Go, you three! Take them all out at once! Spectral Lancer!"
"Spectral Punisher!"
"Spectral Stinger!"
Mist formed around all three dinosaurs before the crystals formed around their respective areas. Using his crystals, Armatus fired them into the air to make it that Chomp and the others couldn't pass. It worked on all but Chomp, who kept on running forward. This made Maximus use her laser to again knock Chomp off his balance, allowing Gigas to pick him up between his lancers.
With Chomp in his grasp, Gigas ran towards a wall that appeared and pushed Chomp against it. The deeper he went, the more pain it caused for the Triceratops. "Chomp!" Paris cried as she watched her friend get hurt. She looked around to see Spiny still lying on the ground injured and Terry and the others blocked by crystals with Armatus and Maximus guarding them. Eventually, Gigas let go of Chomp and roared in victory as Chomp fell to the ground. Seeing the threat taken care of, he went to take care of the others. Paris wasn't worth the effort.
Paris silently cried to herself as she walked towards Chomp, who was unconscious at the time. "Chomp?" She whispered. "Chomp?!" She whispered again, this time more urgently.
She felt like a failure. Even after only a few missions, she was always needed to be protected. For goodness sake, all she did in her last battle was stand there and charge up Nature's Blessing while most of the team attempted to guard her so she could use it, only to fail and be knocked aside easily.
Chomp and Terry were so strong they could probably be their own army. Ace was smart and as fast as he was brave. Spiny was tuff and could take as many hits as he wanted. And Tank was her idol. She wanted to be a strong, independent female like her. She didn't want to stand around anymore. She didn't want to just be the burden her friends had to worry about guard while also defending themselves. She wanted to do something. Something more.
Rearing up, she gave the loudest roar she could muster. Gigas and the others looked back for a bit before turning the attention to the prisoners who were attempting to escape and didn't notice her charging towards them.
Zoe saw the determination in Paris' eyes. She knew she wanted to get stronger, and she would help her all the way. But she didn't know what to do. That is, until she noticed something on the ground. "Huh? What's this?" She asked herself as she picked up the card. It was a Move Card with dinosaurs on it, and it had the Grass Symbol. Knowing what she had to do, Zoe activated the Move Card. "Please. We need your help." She said to the dinosaurs in the card.
Suddenly, three flying reptiles came from behind Paris. They were blue with yellow crests on their heads. Two were flat shaped with one being larger than the other while the third had a more hook-shaped crest. They had wings similar to that of a bat with fingers on the ends and talons on their feet. They were not exactly dinosaurs, but the pterosaur species Pteranodon.
Thanks to them being dinosaurs in everything but name, and being a Move Card, the leader, the one with the large flat crest in the front, was able to contact Paris. "Madam, who is our target?" He asked Paris.
Snapping out of her shock, Paris answered. "The Tyrannosaurus! The white one!" She told them, making sure not to confuse them with Terry.
"Affirmative." The leader answered before addressing his two partners. "All right, men, the white Tyrannosaur and his friends are our enemies!"
"Yes, Alpha!" Both responded.
"All right, men! Dive! Dive! Dive!" He exclaimed as they began to fly down towards him.
"Whoa! Where did those things come from?" Zander asked as he finally noticed the Pteranodon trio.
"They're Pteranodons right?" Ursula asked.
"Whatever they are, they're heading straight for Gigas!" Ed exclaimed as he saw them attacking.
Gigas heard something behind him and turned around. When he did, The Pteranodons used their wings to slice him. They didn't cut him open, but they did damage him and caused him to lay on the ground in pain. "Oh, wow!" The D-Team said as they watched the Pteranodons own Gigas.
"Hey! They used Metal Wing!" Maximus exclaimed before Paris attacked her again. This time things went differently. Before Maximus could recover, Paris head-butted her, knocking the Triceratops down again. She then charged towards Maximus and the two went into a head-lock. This lasted for a bit before Maximus was interrupted by Spiny grabbing her leg with his mouth, allowing Paris to knock her back.
"What the heck." Was all Armatus could say before he heard the sound of crystals shattering. Before he could turn around, he was tackled to the ground by three angry dinosaurs.
Gigas recovered and snapped his jaws at the Pteranodons, who were flying around him. "Get back here and fight, cowards!" He yelled at them.
"If that's what you want!" The Pteranodon leader told him. "Aerial Strike, men!"
"Yes, Alpha!" The Pteranodons flew high into the air before grouping together and flying doing so fast it was like a missile.
Zander and Ed hugged each other in fear as the attack got closer. "This looks bad!"
"It was sure nice knowing you, pal!" Ed cried, even though they weren't the ones being attacked.
"This seems familiar." Ursula told herself as she watched the Pteranodon's attack. "Ooh." She realized that this was exactly like the video game they just played. "That's right! I remember now! Gigas use a deadly Terrano Kick!" She told him.
"A what?!" Gigas asked her. Not knowing what else to do, Gigas turned around and tried to use a dropkick on them. Of course, the Pteranodons were able to dodge with ease.
"Pffff! Ahhahahaha! What was that!" Chomp said as he got back up to rejoin the fight.
"It would have worked in a video game." Ursula muttered as she cried to herself.
While Terry, Ace, and Tank batted Armatus away with their tails, Chomp and Paris lifted Maximus into the air with their heads and tossed her towards Armatus, while the Pteranodons struck Gigas again with Metal Wing, this time all three simultaneously, and Spiny used his tail to hit him towards the other dinos like a baseball.
All three hit a large boulder and groaned before returning to their cards. "I got you three!" Ursula said as she caught the three cards in their hands.
"Yes!" Max cheered as the Battlefield changed back to the park.
"Hey, we're back home." Zoe noticed as they looked around at their surroundings.
"The Time Warp reversed itself." Rex said.
"Look who has the Card Folio!" Zander cheered. They all turned to see Zander holding the book in his hands braggingly.
"Oh, no!" Max said as he noticed.
"Oh, yes!" Zander said as he regrouped with his teammates.
"Good job, Zander!" Ursula congratulated. "Now let's get out of here!" She said as they ran away surprisingly fast for humans, too fast for even the exhausted dinosaurs to catch up to.
"Grrr." Chomp growled. The Alpha Gang was really starting to make his blood boil. "They won't win next time!" He declared
"Wow, she actually runs pretty fast for an old lady." Zoe commented.
"Who are you calling old!" Ursula shouted from miles away.
"I think she meant you." Ed told her which resulted in his head getting bashed again.
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At the D-Lab, the three Pteranodons, named Jet, Turbo, and Glider, were being introduced to everyone else. "There were so many cards in that Card Folio, and they are the only ones we managed to make it back with." Zoe told the others. "I feel like we failed."
"Well, sounds to me you did well to get one." Spike commented her.
"I agree." Mia added. "You managed the save three Pteranodons from the Alpha Gang's plans." She said as she walked up to Zoe and lifted her chin up with her foreleg. "So don't feel so down, dear, you'll have your chance."
"Yep, I'm gonna cream the Alpha Gang next time!" Max said eagerly.
"So will I." Chomp said, though more coldly, which frightened Max a little.
"If you ever need our help, just call us and we shall help you to the best of our abilities." Jet told them.
"Thank you, Jet." Rex told the pterosaur.
"So, Zoe, how did you know those cards would be at the Mega Mall in the first place?" Reese asked. "The scanners are meant to pick up dinosaurs, not cards." She told her.
"Oh, we didn't know the cards were gonna be there when we went!" Zoe told her with a smile. "The reason we went to the mall was..." She paused.
"Was what?" Utah asked as she and everyone else looked towards Zoe, even Trooper took a moment to see what she had to say.
Max noticed her rising stress and gave her a gentle nudge. "Go on, Zoe. Just tell her the truth."
"Yes, and the truth shall set you free!" Spiny told her.
"What truth?" Reese asked.
Taking a deep sigh, both Zoe and Paris steeped forward. "Reese, we're sorry." Paris apologized.
"Your blue and white scarf got ruined cause of us!" Zoe said as she clapped her hands together. "I tried it on Paris and she didn't like it and accidentally tore it up when she tried to take it off."
"So we thought to replace it with a scarf from the mall. But we knew we couldn't afford it so we tried to find a knockoff." Paris said.
"And we talked the others into going with us. That's the only reason we found the cards!" Zoe finished.
Everyone got a little nervous when they noticed Reese getting an emotionless look in her eyes, but that soon went away when Zoe finished. "You didn't have to do all that."
"Huh?" The two girls asked.
"The fact is, I got that scarf from the bargain bin." Reese explained.
"Wait, whaa!?" Spiny over dramatically gasped.
"I was going to let you two off easy. I just wanted an apology from you." Reese explained.
"Really? You knew what happened all along?" Zoe asked her.
"I did. It was pretty obvious." Reese said, making Zoe slump to the floor.
"Oooooh." The pinkette groaned as she went through all that worry for nothing.
"Next time leave the fashion statements to Paris...France." Reese said, adding the last part to avoid confusion.
Paris chuckled silently to herself as she watched Zoe sigh in embarrassment. While this may have been a bit so pleasant day for her best friend, today was great for her. She was taking the first steps in becoming stronger.
DK
As nighttime fell on Zeta Point, Dr.Z was looking over the new cards he collected.
"Ooh! This will be perfect against those mangy brats." The doctor said as he held up a Fire Move Card. As he continued flipping through the book, he noticed the bizarre card Max saw earlier. "Oh-ho-ho!" He laughed to himself as he picked up the card. "So I was right! It was here all along!" The Doctor said excitedly before picking up an Alpha Scanner and summoning a smaller version of the dinosaur in the card. "My old friend, together again." The doctor said with an evil smile.
The dinosaur opened his eyes as they pierced through the shadows. "Doctor."
Next time on Dinosaur King:
Tank: We're doomed! That's it! We're done!
Ace: Tank, it's not that bad
Tank: Not that bad!? Our hope for success lies on Spiny!
A/N: Boy this was a chapter. Hope you all enjoyed.
So this episode really helped me give some development for Paris' character. She's probably the one character I feel I haven't given that much development towards. Thankfully this should change that.
The Pteranodons mainly came from the idea of flight teams like the Blue Angles
Also, anyone who saw Dinosaur King should know who that was at the end. Please don't spoil for the others.
I got one question from Xialion Dinosaur Master who asked if the other dinosaurs would appear again like in Pokemon? By that he means will they be in other battles. The answer is yes, but mainly in season 2. But there will be one coming up soon.
Anyway, some announcements to make before I end this.
1: I had to delete a review since it was basically asking for when the next chapter was out. Now I made the same mistake before, but it's still not right. Please don't ask for the next chapter. Only ask if I haven't done anything on this account for a year.
2: I am currently writing a one-shot that I want out sometime before the 11th. So I'll be having that take up most of my time. It is completely original with dialogue so it'll be an experiment/ celebration of a character I love.
3: Please vote on the poll. I only had two voters and I'd like to know the results so I can use those characters more.
Catch you guys around.