Escape From Zeta Point
Disclaimer: Dinosaur King is owned by Sunrise, Shout Factory, 4kidsTV, and any other company I missed. I own nothing
"Talking"
Thinking
DK
Last Time on Dinosaur King:
Max: Another dinosaur just showed up
Spiny: Let's go!
Max: The mark of the Alpha Gang
Chomp: We feel right into their secret headquarters
Thorn: Eliminate
Dr.Z: You're not getting away!
Max: Let go of me!
Ursula: Finish them off Brontikens!
Max: What now?
(Intro Theme)
As Brontikens continued his roaring, Thorn joined in. "Targets destroyed." He said before they were both returned to their cards and landed in Ed's hands.
"I got him." Ed said as he swiped the card in the opposite direction and called out a smaller version of Brontikens. The Apatosaurus simply laid on the floor and watched the events transpire. Alpha Droids appeared and held onto Rex to prevent his escape.
Laura used the Grappling Claw to pick up Ace's card. "Here you go." She said to her grandpa as she handed him the card.
Dr.Z held the three cards in his hands and smiled mischievously. "Hehahehehe! Ah yes, my dinosaurs have come back to me!" He cackled.
Once he heard those words, Max was peeved. "What'd you mean your dinosaurs? Terry isn't your dinosaur! None of them are!" He told the doctor.
Dr.Z just looked at the boy and smiled. "All the dinosaurs that became cards are mine, you snotty brat. And I'm about to put your little friends here to work building my dinosaur kingdom once we capture them all."
"What's that supposed to mean!?" Rex yelled.
"They'll never obey you!" Zoe added.
"Our dinosaurs aren't your slaves, you old fossil face!" Max said aloud.
Dr.Z was taken aback by this. "What?! What did you call me?!"
Ursula stepped right in front of the brunette and looked him in the eyes. "You'd better start minding your manners, little boy." She lectured him before pulling his cheeks. "And you could start right now by apologizing."
"I'll never apologize to him! Forget it!" He told her.
Ursula glared at him and was about to pull even harder when something smacked her foot really hard. "Ow! Ow! Ow!" She yelped as she held onto her foot and hopped around in pain, Zander and Ed snickering at her misfortune.
Brontikens looked at his work before turning to the D-Team. "Perhaps you kids don't understand the bigger picture." He told them. "This isn't some demotion to slavery for a power-hungry tyrant."
"Excuse me?! I'm right here!" Dr.Z interjected.
Brontikens ignored him and continued. "What you are looking at is the start of a glorious future. One where our kind shall rise from the ashes of extinction and reclaim the world that is rightfully ours!" He said proudly.
"Oh, really?" Max asked sarcastically. "Then what about Thorn and Utah? As far as I can tell, they were brainwashed into mindless drones!" He told the sauropod. "Hard to 'rise from the ashes' when you're enslaved like that!"
The Apatosaurus was unfazed by the remark from the brunette. "Yes, and trust me, I despise it as much as you do. But if they won't go along with our plans, then we have to remove the third parties from the equation. And I think you would disapprove of the other method to take care of them even more." He didn't need to say it for the kids to know he was talking about murder. "Now, you could either join us and be amongst the greats, or we will have to use force to quiet you."
"Never!" Max said as he spat in the Apatosaur's direction.
Brontikens looked at the saliva on the floor and sighed. "I was hoping you'd see reason. But since you can't." He turned to the doctor. "Do with them what you see fit." He said before walking off.
Rod watched him leave before turning to his grandfather. "So, what exactly should we do with these three? We can't exactly let them go or they could find a way to come back and bring reinforcements." He explained, reminding him of the other dinosaurs they had besides the normal six.
"Hmm." Dr.Z thought. Yes, he could just use his gun to blow their annoying little brains out. But aside from the mess that would make, he'd rather they suffer for all the misery they have caused him. "It's times like this I really wish I bought that plank from those pirates." He said, confusing the three kids.
"Ooh, Dr.Z!" Zander said eagerly as he raised his hand in the air. "You could have them work for Ed and I."
Ed loved the idea. "Oh yeah, that'd be great! We could make 'em cook lunch for us and stuff like that, and really, really boss them around." He fantasied.
Ursula wasn't amused with the idea. "What? Are you kidding me?" She asked them as she got into their faces. "You two aren't qualified to boss around a worm."
"What'd you mean? I'd just tell them to squirm left to right to left.." Zander answered as he did said motions.
"Put a sock in it!" Ursula yelled at them, making the two of them cower in fear. "The only one who's going to be bossing them around is me!" She told them.
"Yeah, I can live with that." Ed said as he and Zander hugged tightly.
"Silence!" Dr.Z shouted. "I am the deranged dictator around here, and don't you forget it!" He reminded them before stroking his beard in thought. "Now let's see." He thought before something shined off the corner of his eye. Looking towards the source he noticed Rex holding a card in front of his Dino Holder. "Aah! That's mine!" He told the blonde.
Rex glared at the doctor and held the card up. "The Ceratosaurus you were beating up before is now mine! Let's go!" He said before swiping the card and activating the Ceratosaurus. "Go, Ceratosaurus! Pay them back for what they did to you, now!"
The Ceratosaurus roared in agreement and turned to the Alpha Gang. The group tensed up and looked behind them to see the dinosaurs missing, all that was there was a note saying 'off to lunch'. Seeing they were defenseless, they all screamed and ran away from the angry carnivore as he chased them around the room. "Aaaah!"
With many of the Alpha Droids leaving their posts to deal with the attacker, the ones holding Rex's forgot their job and ran after the dinosaur. "You guys, let's go!" He told the rest of his team.
"Right!" Max agreed before bashing the robots holding him. Once they were down, both of them kicked down the ones holding Zoe and made a break for it. "Let's get out of here!"
"Alpha Droids! Catch those brats!" Ursula ordered the remaining Droids as she and the others continued running from the Ceratosaurus. "And get some help, please!"
"Capture. Capture. Capture." The Alpha Droids repeated as they ran after the trio. Rex found an elevator and pushed a button, opening the door. They all ran in and the door closed right before the robots could reach them.
While the elevator headed downstairs, the D-Team took this moment to catch their breaths, with Rex working on the ropes tied around Zoe and Max's hands. "Wow, that was a close one." Zoe sighed.
"Yeah, but we still got to get our cards back, and find the rest." Max reminded her. "There's no way I'm letting the Alpha Gang keep Terry." He said as his hands were free
"And I want Paris back, but it's only us three against all of them." Zoe reminded him.
"They may outnumber us, but we can outsmart them." Rex said as he worked on Zoe's knots. While this went on, he kept on thinking one thing. "Chomp. Spiny. Tank. Stay safe wherever you are. You too, Ceratosaurus."
With said Jurassic dinosaur, he was still chasing the Alpha Gang around when he heard something charging towards him. Looking towards the source, he didn't have enough time to dodge as Maximus knocked him into a pit. "That showed him." She said smugly before going back to her lunch.
The rest of the Alpha Gang looked into the pit where the Ceratosaurus fell into. "So... should we grab the card?" Zander suggested.
"Are you kidding me? There's no way it survived that fall. We don't even know how deep that thing is." Ursula told him.
"Never mind that." Dr.Z told them. "We've still got three more dinosaurs running around here. Without those brats, they should be in their tiny-forms. So, if you can't capture them, then I don't know what to do with you."
"You can count on us, Doctor!" The team saluted.
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In the storage room for spare Alpha Droids parts, a mini pathway opened up and Tank fell out. "Oof!" She got up and dusted herself off before looking around. "Where am I now?"
"Tanky, I'm coming for you!" Tank looked up and was greeted by Spiny crashing into her. "Hi, Tank."
"Get off of me!" She snapped as she shook off the Spinosaurus. "Where are the others?" She asked him.
"I don't know." Spiny answered.
"What'd you mean you don't know?" Tank asked, starting to get pissed off.
"It means I don't know." Spiny told her, earning a wack on the head.
"Great." Tank said as she stormed off. "Not only are we trapped in the headquarters of our arch enemies, but we're also now separated from the rest of the group!" She yelled as she flopped onto the ground. Anyone should remember that in the old days separation from the herd equals death.
Spiny saw how distraught she was and walked up to her. "Hey, now, we have each other." He comforted her as he nuzzled her.
"That doesn't make me feel any better." Tank muttered. She pushed Spiny away and looked around at the room they were in. "These look a lot like the robots from earlier." She said as she noticed the heads. "Must be a storage place for spare parts."
As Spiny looked around at the heads, a lightbulb went off in his. "I have-"
"Oh, no." Tank groaned at what the Spinosaurus was about to say.
"-A plan!"
The Saichania sighed in frustration. "No, you don't, Spiny." She told him.
"Yes, I do. I'm not just any idiot, I'm a smart idiot." Spiny retorted.
Tank's eyes twitched at the stupidity. "How can you be smart and stupid at the same time?"
"Because I'm me!" He said proudly.
Tank was about to make another comment when the thought came to her. They were all alone with no real way to defend themselves against the Alpha gang's dinosaurs or robots. At best, Spiny's plan might give her a good idea. "All right." She sighed with defeat. "What's this plan you're talking about?"
A few minutes later, the door to the room opened and two tiny Alpha Droids came out. The Alpha Droids working in the room stopped their cleaning or whatever jobs they were doing and looked at the two new arrivals in curiosity. "Droid?"
Despite this, they didn't do anything to stop the two robots. The robots were actually Spiny and Tank with Alpha Droid helmets on their heads. "Wow, this might actually work." Tank whispered to Spiny.
"This is just phase one, mi compadre." Spiny whispered back.
"Phase one?"
Before she got an answer, Spiny addressed all the robots in the room. "Hello, my brothers."
DK
Back with the D-Team, the elevator door opened to reveal the engine room. They all gasp in astonishment at the room. "Whoa, what kind of place is this?" Max asked. Looking around they could see different-looking robots working on some kind of large contraption in the center of the room. "I don't get what all the machines and stuff have to do with dinosaurs." Max whispered as they went to get a closer view while trying to stay hidden.
"And there's a bunch of robots, too." Zoe added. "That's so weird."
"Robots and droids? Maybe they're from a different planet." Rex suggested.
"Yeah, that would make sense. They're Martians." Max said sarcastically.
Before Rex could respond, he noticed someone on one of the higher platforms. "Someone's up there." He told the others. "He must be controlling all of this."
Seth noticed the kids when they first entered the room, but didn't do anything about it since they weren't getting too close for comfort. That was starting to change when he heard Rex's voice. He looked down at the three kids and they noticed. "Run." Max said as they hid themselves. "Think he spotted us?"
His question was answered with all the robots saying. "Intruder. Intruder. Intruder." As their eyes glowed red.
"I'd say that's a yes." Zoe replied before three of the pink robots landed in front of them.
The three kids gasped and ran back to the elevator while the Alpha Droids changed their words to. "Capture. Capture. Capture." Their legs turned into wheels and they chased after the kids. The trio made it to the elevator in time to close the door on the robots faces.
"We're going up." Zoe told them as she looked at the arrows. "But I wonder where."
"Any place is better." Max replied.
"That depends on who's waiting for us when the door opens up." Rex told him.
"If that's the case, I don't want it to open up." Max said. "After seeing that Apatosaurus, I doubt anyone could be worse than him. But I'm not taking chances."
Unfortunately for him, the door opened and revealed an angry-looking Helga. "You're not getting off so easily." She said before grabbing them.
DK
At the bottom of the pit the Ceratosaurus was knocked down, Chomp was lying unconsciously on the floor after getting knocked into the slot by Thorn. Though it seemed like he wasn't waking up anything soon, one loud thud was enough to kill the sleep.
"Aah!" He exclaimed as he jumped into the air like a startled cat. "What the?" He asked himself as he looked at his surroundings. "What on earth happened?"
He continued looking around until he noticed someone else in the room with him; the Ceratosaurus. Chomp gasped quietly and ran over to him. The theropod was on his back and looked like he was dead. "Hello?" He said quietly. "You alright there?" He tried nudging the Ceratosaurus, but couldn't do since he was in his chibi-form. "Are you-" He asked as he jumped onto his chest and listened for a heartbeat and/or breathing. Thankfully, he found both quick and they didn't sound weak. "OK, you're still alive, just knocked out." Chomp said as he leapt off of him.
"But how am I going to get you un-knocked out?" He asked himself. He thought for a bit before coming to a solution. "Hopefully this works and he won't kill me." He thought as he leapt onto the Ceratosaur's nose and covered his nostrils, thankfully his mouth was closed at the time.
After about half a minute, the Ceratosaur's eyes shot opened and he raised his head to take a breath in his mouth. "'Gasp!' All right! I'm up! I'm up!" He said as he quickly got back up on his feet.
Chomp leapt off his face and turned back to face the Jurassic carnivore. "Sorry about that. I needed to make sure you were alive."
"Why? So you could kill me?" The Ceratosaurus asked as he got into an attacking position. "Are you one of them!?"
"What?! No!" Chomp replied quickly, waving his forelegs frantically. "I'm on your side. Don't you remember? We picked up your card before those creeps did." He explained, causing the Ceratosaurus to stand down.
"That would explain why the one kid ordered me to attack them." The Ceratosaurus said to himself as he put two and two together.
"What are you talking about?" Chomp asked, starting to get worried.
"I mean this blue mammal kid told me to get revenge for what happened earlier today, so I chased them around until I was defeated." The Ceratosaurus explained.
"Were there any other kids or dinosaurs out at the time you were summoned?"
The Ceratosaurus paused as he tried to remember. "I recall there being two other kids being held down by these gray creatures." Chomp's eyes widened when he realized that meant they got captured. "And the only other dinosaur I saw was a larger version of you which knocked me into this pit." He looked down and noticed Chomp wasn't looking so well. "Are you OK?"
Chomp stopped listening halfway through and began to panic. "Oh god! This is bad! Who knows what they'll do to them! And what about Terry?! He could end up like Thorn!" Chomp started breathing harder and harder and it looked like he was about to collapse.
"Hey, buddy, snap out of it!" The Ceratosaurus roared, stomping his foot on the ground to get his attention.
Chomp broke out of his panic attack and returned to reality. "Sorry about that. There's just a lot going through my mind right now." He said as he put a paw on his forehead, attempting to calm himself and think clearly.
"I know the feeling." The Ceratosaurus replied. "I'm still trying to grasp what's going on."
"I don't exactly know myself." Chomp told him. "But if we want to escape this place and rescue our friends, we have to work together. Are you with me?" He asked.
"Definitely." The Ceratosaurus said with a nod. "I owe it to you guys."
"Great! Then let's go!" Chomp said before running down a hall.
"Do you know where that leads?" The Ceratosaurus asked.
Chomp stopped in his tracks. "Umm...No." He said quietly, making the Ceratosaurus nearly fall over comedically. It was then Chomp realized something else. "Say, do you have a name?"
"A name?"
"Yeah, like my name's Chomp, my bro's name is Terry, my partners are Ace, Paris, Spiny, Tank, etc. Do you have one?"
The Ceratosaurus shook his head. "No, I do not. Until now. After all that's happened: me being saved before they could do anything to me, and surviving that fall, I will now be known as Lucky."
DK
Back with the D-Team, they were currently being dragged down the hall by Helga. "Let go!" Max struggled under her iron grip. "What do you think you're doing?"
"Yeah, you're stretching my sweater." Zoe added.
"You children have some learning to do." Helga told them.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Rex asked.
Before he could get an answer, they heard the sound of children laughing. Zoe looked up and saw who it was. "Hey! It's those kids."
"You guys may have escaped the Alpha Droids." Rod said.
"But your gonna wish you didn't run into Helga." Laura finished. "Good luck, guys."
Helga stopped walked and looked up at them. "Since you two have nothing better to do than laugh, get down here and I'll show you something funny." She told them, making the two of them gasp and the D-Team snicker at their bad luck.
She continued dragging them until they reached Rod and Laura's room. "Go! Time for you to study!" She ordered them as she flung open the door.
"Study? We don't even live here." Max told her as she pushed the three of them into the room.
"I completed all my homework last night." Rex said as he took his seat while Helga carried Max and Zoe.
"What do you even want us to study?" Zoe asked
"Be quiet! According to what Brontikens told me, you won't be leaving anytime soon. And I won't have that as an excuse to skip education. You are children, and children must study." Helga said as she plopped them onto seats and turned on the computers.
Max looked at the screen and couldn't even tell what was on it. "What's this stuff?"
"It's Riemannian geometry." Rod answered and he and Laura took their seats across from them. "You know from the general theory of relativity."
"Wha?" Was all Max could reply.
"You're kidding me. You don't know this?" Laura said.
"Hey, it's pretty cool." Rex said as he scrolled through the page.
"What? No way. You get it already?" Max asked him in shock. He knew Rex was smart, but he didn't know he was that smart.
"Actually, about one-percent of it" He replied, making Max sigh. This was even worse than dealing with Brontikens.
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"Despicable little brats." Dr.Z said as he walked into the main room. "Did they really think they could infiltrate my hidey-hole and get away with it? I laugh at that, ha!" He said before putting the cards of Terry, Ace, and Paris on his table. "And I'll have the last laugh, too. 'Cause I was able to get my precious cards back from them. After we capture the stowaways, we'll take the rest of them by force, and soon they won't be interfering with the Alpha Gang anymore." He said before laughing. "Ehahaha!"
He continued his evil laughing until he noticed something in the room, or rather lack of something. "They're gone!" He exclaimed. "My priceless Dinosaur Cards! Where'd they disappear to?" He said as he searched all over the room. "Wait, I bet those rotten kids are behind this." He said before running to the exit. "Ursula! You and your hooligans get in here this instant!" He yelled out, before literally running into Ursula. "Well, that was fast."
"Dr.Z, we have a bit of a problem."
"I know! Those brats took all the cards I had! I need you to-"
"No, worse than that." She said as she stood up. "It seems two of the Alpha Droids went rouge and are now leading a revolution."
Dr.Z blinked as he processed the information. "A... revolution?"
In another room, Zander and Ed were running away from an army of Alpha Droids marching down the hall. On a podium two were carrying, Spiny and Tank sat proudly with uniforms and mustaches. "We shall capture them on the beaches! We shall capture them on the landing grounds! We shall capture them in the fields and on the streets! We shall capture them in the heels! For the world must be made safe for Droids!" Spiny said as he raised his claw into the air.
"Lange lebe das Alpha Droid Reich!" Tank said as she mimicked her partner, somehow knowing German. This plan was actually a lot of fun.
Back with Ursula, she was just done explaining the situation. "Not gonna lie, those were boss uniforms. Totally got the whole Hitler and Eva thing going down."
DK
With Chomp and Lucky, they were currently walking down a dark tunnel, trying to find a way out. Lucky's predator vision really helped him navigate the two of them through the darkness. "So." Lucky started. "How'd you get separated from your herd?"
Chomp paused as he tried to remember exactly what happened. "Thorn attacked me."
"Who's Thorn?"
"He was a Styracosaurus we befriended in Hawaii." Chomp explained.
This just made Lucky confused. "If he was your friend why did he attack you?"
Chomp looked back and glared at the Ceratosaurus. "One, he is still my friend so don't ever talk about him like that!" He said sternly. "Two." He looked down to the ground in sadness. "The Alpha Gang captured him and most likely brainwashed him."
"So even though he's your enemy now, you still see him as a friend?"
"Of course!" Chomp said, taking offense to what he just heard. "You don't know him at all. He'd never do that to me!"
"From what it sounds like, you don't know him much either." Lucky reminded him. "How do you even know he would still be your friend if we reclaim the card?"
"I know he's still in there." Chomp said as they continued forward. They eventually saw a light and quickly ran down the end of the tunnel. At the end, what they saw was a room full of troughs and bowls with food and water in them. And eating out of one of the troughs was Thorn.
DK
As the Alpha Droids continued marching down the hall, Spiny and Tank began to discuss the rest of the plan. "So, what is the plan now?" Tank asked her partner.
"With our new robotic buddies, we shall have all of this hideout under our control." Spiny said before laughing evilly. "Mwhahahahahaha!"
"Focus, dingnut." Tank said giving Spiny a wack to the head, careful to not remove the helmet disguise. "This isn't a world domination plan, it's a rescue." She reminded him.
Before they could continue they noticed that the army had stopped moving. "What the heck?" Spiny said as he and Tank hopped off the platform to see what was stopping them. They made it to the front and saw Brontikens waiting for them.
"So." He addressed the two. "This was your plan. Not bad. I applaud you for creativity."
"Why thank you-I mean, capture him!" Spiny ordered the Alpha Droids.
"Capture. Capture." The droids repeated as they advanced towards him. Brontikens responded by leaping over the front lines and landing right in front of Spiny and Tank.
Using his tail, he knocked off the helmets and revealed who they really were. The Alpha Droids stopped their attack and looked to see their leaders were not droids like them at all. "Now that I believe their loyalty is back with us." He said before turning to the robots. "Get rid of them."
"Get rid. Get rid." The Alpha Droids repeated as they advanced to their former leaders, arms ready to grab the chibi dinosaurs.
"Oh shit!" Spiny and Tank jumped right out of their uniforms in fright before running away as fast as their legs can carry them from the robots. The plan was now completely ruined.
DK
In the study hall, Max was currently snoozing instead of working. Zoe noticed this and gently tapped his shoulder. "Max, wake up. She won't like that you're falling asleep."
"So." Max said as he opened an eye. "What can she do, give me detention? We're already their prisoners again."
"Yeah, but if we get that old lady-" Max quickly covered her mouth in fear. "Not that one." She said as she pulled his hand down. "I was talking about the big one."
"Yeah, don't get her mad." Laura interjected. "It makes Brontikens look like a bunny."
"You see? If we go and upset her we'll never get out of here." Zoe pointed out.
"Hey? Where is she anyway?" Max asked as he looked around the room for the large maid.
"Probably off cleaning something." Rod suggested.
"Then let's go." Max said as the three of them got up and went for the door.
"So, you think you're just gonna walk on out of here?" Rod asked them.
Max opened the door and saw no sign of Helga. "I don't see why not. The doors wide open." He said as they started to walk out. But before they could even move one foot outside the room, Helga appeared out of a flash. The trio screamed in fear of her inhuman speed. "Hi! We missed you." Max quickly said.
"So, you're a comedian now." Helga said, unimpressed by the lie.
"Everything OK?" Zoe asked.
"Nice try, missy!" Helga shouted at her as a tick mark grew on her head. Max looked down and noticed all the Move Cards in her pocket. "Where do the three of you think you are going?" Helga asked them, snapping Max out of his thoughts. "Study time is not over."
Well, we had to go to the bathroom. But we were going to come right back here." Rex told her, hoping she'd by that lie.
She didn't. "Ach! Do I look like a dummkopf!" She yelled, making the kids back away. "The bathroom is right over there!" She pointed to them.
"There it is." Max said innocently. "Thank you, ma'am." Helga responded by simply slamming the door on his face.
"You won't get anything by Helga." Rod said smugly as he was proven right.
Zoe and Rex simply went back to their seats. "Actually, I really do have to go." Max said as he ran into the bathroom. A minute later he popped his head out. "Hey, now I know how we can get out of here." He told them. "Rex, Zoe, come here. Look what I found."
"What is it, Max?" Zoe asked.
"Did you find a window or something?" Rex asked.
Max then turned to Rod and Laura. "If you guys are tired of studying that stuff, come here and help." He suggested to them.
"What?" Rod said in shock.
"You want our help?" Laura asked.
They all went into the bathroom to see what Max found. "Well? Where's the window we can escape from?" Rex asked him.
"I never said window, I have a plan." Max said as he opened the closet to reveal many plumbing supplies. "Ta-da!"
A few minutes later, Helga was cleaning in a room when she felt a disturbance in the force. She quickly sped to the children's room in time to stop Max from walking out again. "What's going on here?" She asked the brunette.
"Sorry, Helga. It's the toilet." Max said, all soaked. "It blew up."
"You are lying!" Helga yelled as she got into his face. But when she did, she noticed everyone was drenched in water. "Oh? Why are your clothes soaking wet?"
"Like he said, it's the toilet." Rod said as he pointed to the bathroom. "Take a look."
Helga slammed into the bathroom and saw both the toilet and sink overflowing with water. "Ach! Mein Dusseldorf! This is very bad!"
"Yeah, big trouble right?" Max said as he sneaked a hand to grab the deck of cards, only for Helga to smack it away. Max yelped in pain as Helga began working on the problem. "Rats."
"Max, come on. We've got to do this now." Rex whispered.
"Yeah, I'm coming." Max said as they all snuck out of the room, leaving Helga to her work.
"Ugh. Messy, filthy, children. Why do I bother?"
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With Chomp and Lucky, Thorn looked up from his meal and noticed the intruders in the room with him. "Destroy intruders." He said before charging forward, knocking the troughs and bowls away as he did so.
"Get out of here!" Lucky said as he nudged Chomp away in time to meet Thorn in a headlock.
"No! Don't hurt him! He's my friend!" Chomp pleaded, not wanting to see Thorn getting hurt for something he didn't mean to do.
"I thought we talked about this! He's not your friend anymore!" Lucky said as they separated and began circling each other. After about a minute, they began to fight.
Thorn hit Lucky with his horn before he was knocked away by the Ceratosaur's tail. The Styracosaurus got up and went back in to attack. Chomp watched in horror as his two friends were fighting each other ferociously. He needed a plan to stop this before they defeated each other and they were all captured and brainwashed.
Meanwhile, Spiny and Tank were still running from the army of Alpha Droids. "You've got any plans to get us out of this one?!" Tank asked the Spinosaurus.
"We could fly?" Spiny suggested. If they weren't running for their lives, Tank would have bonked him on the head for that one.
They continued running until Tank noticed a dark room. "In here!" She said before they ran in, only for it to be another slide. "You've got to be kidding me!" She screamed as they slid away, the Alpha Droids thankfully running right past the room.
Back with the fight, Lucky had grabbed onto Thorn's horn with his mouth and was trying to hold him in place to tire him out while the Styracosaurus tried to break free, ignoring all of Chomp's pleas telling him to stop. If he did, then it was all over of them.
Chomp just continued watching, feeling helpless as he did so. He didn't know what to do, or how to help. Or who to help.
Suddenly something landed on top of him. "Where are we now?" An angry feminine voice asked.
"Not where we were earlier." A male voiced replied stupidly.
Chomp instantly recognized the voices. "Spiny? Tank?"
"Chompy!" Spiny said as he leapt off the Triceratops. "I'd thought I'd never see you again!" He cried as he nuzzled Chomp
"I thought the same thing." Chomp replied as he accepted the nuzzle.
"Um, sorry for running this moment, but what's going on over there?" Tank asked as she pointed to the fight, in which Thorn managed to break free of Lucky's grasp and was hitting the Ceratosaurus with his tail.
"Our friends got captured and Rex sent out Lucky to distract them so they could escape." Chomp explained.
"Then why are you here?" Spiny asked.
"I was separated from Max and Terry when Thorn attacked me." The Triceratops answered.
Remembering the Styracosaurus he was referring to, Tank was initially confused by this information. "Why would Thorn-" She started to ask before remembering what happened with Utah. Looking towards the battle, she glared when she saw a familar object circle Thorn. "Of course! They used that ball thing to brainwash him! Which means if we destroy the ball, Thorn should be freed!"
"Chomp? Remember how we saved Utah from their control?" Tank asked him.
"Well, it was when I used my Electric Charge against her Atomic Bomb Move, we destroyed that ball. But how can we do that without anyone to make us full-size?" He asked her.
"Maybe if you try and get Thorn to remember you the control will be broken?" Spiny randomly suggested.
Tank looked unamused by Spiny's suggestion. "That idea is so cliche-"
"It just might work." Chomp said before leaping into the middle of the battle, right as the two larger dinosaurs were squaring off.
"Chomp, no!" Tank shouted, but it was too late to stop him without the risk of getting crushed by the feet of the dueling dinosaurs.
Chomp ran across the battlefield until he was right in front of Thorn. "Thorn, it's me!" The Styracosaurus responded by hitting him with his long horn. Chomp was sent flying into a wall and hit it hard.
"Chomp!" Lucky shouted in fear before being knocked over by Thorn.
"Stay down." Thorn said before walking towards Chomp.
"Huh, something that wasn't 'destroy' or 'eliminate'." Tank said as she started to get interested in Thorn's behavior. Maybe Spiny's stupid idea wasn't so stupid after all.
Chomp got up and looked Thorn in the eyes. "I know the real you is in there somewhere. Don't you remember the fun we had in Hawaii? We were the best surfer bros."
Thorn raised his foot and he prepared to lower it on Chomp. "Chomp!" Everyone shouted in horror at what was about to happen.
But Chomp didn't move an inch, instead looking defiantly at the ceratopsian above him. "And don't you remember when we first met? You helped pull a thorn out of my paw." He said as he showed his paw to the Styracosaurus.
The foot still came down, but it missed Chomp by quite a lot. Everyone looked surprised to see Thorn shaking his head around as the Alpha Ball appeared. Only this time it was shown malfunctioning. "What's going on?" Lucky asked Tank.
"The control device is starting to wear off." Tank said before getting an idea. "Quick, hit me towards it!" She told the Ceratosaurus as she rolled up into a ball.
Lucky got the plan and hit Tank with his tail like she was a golfball. Tank flew like a bullet right into the Alpha Ball, destroying it on impact.
Thorn gave a roar of pain as he collapsed on the ground. Chomp slowly walked up to him to see if they had succeeded. "Thorn?"
His response was Thorn slowly opening one of his eyes. "Chomp?"
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Outside, an elevator came up from the ground and the kids came out of it. "Hey, that was fun." Rod said as they started walking along the cliffside.
"Yeah, we've never escaped from Helga and studying before." Laura said.
Max sighed in disappointment. "Man, I almost had the whole deck."
"You did?" Rex asked.
"Yeah, that close. That Helga woman's tough." Max told him.
"She may be tough, but we tricked her." Rex reminded him with a smile.
"That's true." Laura told him. "And you've figured out that making a mess is the best way to distract her. Ha, ha!" They were definitely going to remember this for the future.
"Not bad." Rod commented. "Do you guys always do that kind of stuff?"
"Mainly Max." Zoe said. "In fact, he made another toilet overflow just before we came here. Ha, ha!" She laughed while Max just glared at her.
"I guess you must really like playing in toilet water, huh?" Rod joked.
"Hey, watch it! My idea got us out of there didn't it?" He reminded them. "So who are you two and what are you guys doing here anyway?" He asked the duo.
"I'm Rod."
"I'm Laura." They both introduced themselves. "And you're the D-Team: Max Taylor, Rex Owen, and Zoe Drake."
The trio were shocked that they knew both their first and last names. "How do you know all that? Have you been spying on us?" Rex asked them.
"Everyone knows you three ever since that TV quiz show." Rod told him.
"Oh, yeah." Rex remembered, embarrassed he forgot that.
"So, are you guys part of the Alpha Gang?" Zoe asked them.
"Sort of, I guess." Rod said with a shrug. "We do some things to help our grandpa from time to time."
"Are you kidding me?" Max said aloud, not realizing who he was talking to. "That mean guy's your grandpa?"
"Oh, he's not that mean." Laura assured him. "He just gets really excited when there's something about dinosaurs. He has this big dream about being the Dinosaur King one day." She told them.
"Dinosaur King?" They all said aloud.
"That's right. And he's dedicated his whole life to constructing his dinosaur kingdom." Rod explained, putting his arms behind his head.
"If you ask me, he acts more like a lunatic than any sort of a king." Rex said.
"Oh, yeah? Well, I don't remember asking." Rod told him. "Besides, Grandpa wasn't even the one who created the cards to begin with."
"What?" The trio said in shock. "Then who did?" Rex asked.
"Can't tell." Rod answered smugly.
"Hee. Nope." Laura cheerfully added.
"Why not? After everything else you told us, why not tell us the rest?" Zoe asked.
"It's a secret. Right?" Laura turned to her brother.
"Yep." Rod said before they chuckled. "Hehe." The D-Team just sighed in disappointment. Now even more questions were being added to the ones answered. "So now that you know why Grandpa's trying to collect all the Dinosaur Cards, could you please stop interfering with his plans?" He turned around and asked them.
"Yeah, can't you just leave him alone?" Laura added, putting on a smile to come off as friendly.
"What?" The D-Team gasped at what they just heard. "Leave him alone?" Max asked, still shocked at the question. "The dinosaurs are in trouble because of him, and they're asking for help."
"And whatever your grandfather says he wants to do with the dinosaurs, it isn't what they want at all." Rex added.
"Besides, the old lad-" Zoe started.
"No! No! No! No!" Max and Rex both said frantically as they covered her mouth, not wanting to be found by Ursula hearing the insult.
"I mean Ursula and those other two." Zoe corrected herself as she removed their hands. "You must have seen his horrible they are to the dinosaurs. They treat them like they don't have feelings and don't matter at all."
"Oh, yeah that is too bad." Rod said sarcastically.
"Sure is, but, oh well." Laura added, mimicking her brother.
"Huh?" The D-Team said as they realized the shift in tone.
"You were about to call me an old lady, weren't you?!" The trio gasped and saw themselves surrounded by Alpha Droids. Ursula held up a scanner that showed Dr.Z's laughing face.
"Ehahaha!" The doctor laughed like a lunatic at seeing his enemies at his mercy once again.
"How'd they find us?" Rex asked aloud.
"Oh, yeah. I sent them out coordinates." Rod said innocently as he pulled out an Alpha Scanner that also had Dr.Z's face on it.
"Ha, ha! And now you're gonna be prisoners again." Laura giggled.
"Those snakes!" Max thought as he made such a fist it was hurting him.
"Thank you, kids!" Dr.Z said over the speaker. "Good work."
"There's no escape for you this time." Zander said as they inched closer to them.
"Not that we can think of." Ed added as they got closer.
"Not without dinosaurs." Ursula finished before they got ready to pounce on them.
But before they could, they heard the sound of a plane flying towards them. The plane flew close to the ground and blew all the Alpha Droids away. "Whoa!"
"Max! I'm here!" Spike said as he pressed against the screen.
"Ugh! Dad!?" Max gasped when he saw the symbol on the plane and his father's face.
"Who's that?" Rod asked.
"Don't worry, kids, I'm coming to the rescue!" Spike said from inside the plane.
"There's nowhere for me to land this hydroplane." Reese told him.
"That's all right. I'm ready for anything." Spike said as he put on a parachute.
"Do you know how to work that?" Reese asked him.
"Not a clue!" He answered. "How difficult can it be?" He asked before jumping out the open door.
"Less difficult if you had it on right side up." Reese said before flying somewhere else.
Spike chuckled to himself as he fell before he pulled the string, or would have if it was in the right spot. He searched frantically for it before finding it right next to his head. He pulled it and the parachute came to life. If only it helped in slowing down his fall before he crashed into the trees.
"Dad!" Max yelled as he ran to where his father landed.
Thankfully, his father fell out of the trees, upside down. "Max, I've come just in time to save you." Spike said determinedly. "But, uh, could you save me first?" He asked.
"No problem." Max said before working in the rope, clearly embarrassed by his dad again.
"We'd better hurry." Zoe warned them. "'Cause here they come!"
"Quit running away, you brats!" Ursula yelled as they arrived at the scene.
"I recognize you three!" Spike said once he was freed from the tree. "You're the Alpha Gang monsters who are always threatening my kids!"
"Who are you? Buffalo Bill?" Dr.Z asked.
"I am dinosaur expert, Spike Taylor Ph.D." Spike introduced confidently. "And a sworn dinosaur defender."
"But not a great parachuter." Ursula muttered.
"That was a nasty fall." Zander pointed out.
"You should take classes." Ed suggested.
"Hey, I survived, didn't I?" Spike reminded them. "Anyway, I am here to rescue these kids. Because that's what parents do. You may know me as a brilliant paleontologist, but I'm also a concerned dad."
"Thanks." Max said to his father. Rod and Laura simply watched the scene in silence.
"So now, villains, you shall taste my whip of extreme justice!" Spike said as he pulled out the whip he used in London, only for it to get tangled around a tree branch behind him. "Uh, in just a second." He said before tugging the whip
"So much for that." Max sighed.
"Listen up!" Dr.Z said, almost making the scanner jump out of Ursula's grip. "You kids better give me back the cards you stole! Or this big, bad paleontologist dad is going to be Gigas' next meal!"
"Whose?" Spike asked.
"Attack!" Dr.Z ordered. All three pulled out scanners and cards and summoned their dinosaurs. All while using a new catchphrase.
"ALPHA SLASH!"
All three dinosaurs landed and gave out roars. "Ready?" Spike asked the kids. "Run for it!" They all ran away in time to dodge Gigas' jaws.
"This way!" Rex said as they ran to where the pipe they used before was.
"Why? Where are we going?" Spike asked.
"To the ventilation duct. We've got to get Terry and the other cards back." Max told him.
"I thought the old man said you had all the cards?" Spike asked.
"He doesn't know his cleaning lady has them."
They all jumped into the pipe, ignoring Gigas' roars of anger from above, and made their way to the door. "Open Sesame!" Max said before they ran through the now open door. They just hoped they weren't too late.
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"Time to summon dinosaurs!" Dr.Z said in delight as he ran to where he placed the three cards. "I'll start with this one." He said as he picked up Terry's card. "I'll sure have one hell of a time turning that brat's Tyrannosaurus into my ultimate Alpha Dinosaur." He said as he approached the Alpha Controller and placed the card in, but before he could activate it he got a call. "Huh? What is it now?" He pressed a button to show Seth on the screen. "Talk to me, Seth."
"Doctor, the engine is now partially functional and we're powering it up. I'd like you to come and give it a test run."
"Really? That's excellent!" Dr.Z said with a smile. "That's the first thing that's gone right around here all day." He said before ordering Seth. "Proceed. Let's get this thing going."
"Very good, Doctor. Over and out." Seth said before hanging up.
Dr.Z laughed before turning his attention to the Alpha Controller. "At last, my time machine will be working again. Now to add some new dinosaurs to my collection." He said as he pressed the button that activated the device. It started to lower on the card as Dr.Z smiled in joy.
But before it could cover the card and the brainwashing process could begin, a whip came from nowhere and snatched the card from the device. Dr.Z gasped before looking to see Spike and the kids having entered the room by climbing down a ladder. "Oh, no you don't! Those cards don't belong to you, old man!" Spike told him as the whip returned with Terry's card.
"I said this before, all cards belong to me! Including those on the table!" The doctor yelled before he realized his mistake and noticed Rex and Zoe head for the table where the other two cards were. "Hold it right there!" He told them as he pulled out a gun from his lab coat, pointing it at the D-Team. "One false move and I shoot. Actually, you already made a false move by being here." The team tensed as it looked like they were in trouble once again. Only this time instead of being captured, they were going to be killed.
Dr.Z started to pull the trigger, but before he could fully. "Here's Spiny!" Spiny said as he flew into the room and knocked the gun harmlessly out of his hand, not even an accidental shot coming out.
"What?!" Dr.Z shouted in shock and anger, clenching his hand in case Spiny bit it.
"Spiny!" The D-Team yelled in joy.
"Grrr! Why you!" Dr.Z went to make an example of the Spinosaurus by strangling him. But before he could, a purple ball started rolling around him, causing him to lose balance.
"Tank!"
"Get away from me, you scaly thing!" Dr.Z continued to hop away from Tank's attacks and went right into the path of Thorn's horn, waiting to fling the doctor into their trap. "Whah!" The horn sent him propelling into the air and landed in an open pipe on the wall Chomp set up.
"Chomp!"
Dr.Z struggled in his prison and looked down to see Thorn was the one that trapped him in the pipe. "Traitor!" He screamed at the Styracosaurus.
"I follow you no more." Thorn told him as he was joined by Lucky. "And we never will make you the King."
While Dr.Z was trapped, the D-Team took this opportunity to reclaim their cards and summon out their chibi-forms. "I'm so happy to see you, Terry. You OK?" Max asked as he hugged him.
"I'm glad you're alright, Ace." Rex sighed in relief.
"Welcome back, Paris." Zoe sobbed in happiness as she hugged her.
Before the reunion could continue, they heard the sounds of many footsteps approaching. Looking up, they saw the Alpha Gang back again. "OK, you're good at escaping. I'll give you that." Ursula commented them. "Dr.Z, we'll get rid of these pests for you." She said before all three grabbed out their scanners. "Here it goes!"
"Doctor, your lizard soup is ready!" Helga announced as she walked into the room with a bowl of said soup.
"Yuck!" The D-Team all gagged when they heard that, except the carnivores who ate lizards many times before.
"Now's not really the time, Helga. Please put it somewhere and help me out, please?" Dr.Z said as he continued struggling to get out.
Suddenly, the whole island began to shake. "Whoa!" Everyone gasped as they lost their footing. Max took this opportunity, while she was distracted, to grab the cards from Helga. Problem was he tripped over Tank and lost his grip on Terry, who he was carrying at the time.
Thankfully, Terry was able to grab onto the pocket piece that was holding the cards and tore it apart, causing the cards to fly out. Dr.Z gasped in horror as his precious cards flew all over the room before they were all caught by Spike's whip. "Now we got all of the cards." He told the kids. "Let's find a way out of here." With that, they all ran down the hall for the nearest exit.
"Don't let them get away!" Dr.Z ordered, before noticing no one following it. "Huh?" He looked. down and saw the A-Team in a big pile on the floor. "Errrrr! You fools! Don't just stand there! Go and get those cards back!"
"Yes, sir, Doctor, sir!" They all replied before chasing after them.
"And as for you!" He said turning to Helga. "What were those cards doing stuffed in your apron?" He asked, not realizing his tone.
Helga did. "Don't take that tone with me, or there's no soup for you!" She scolded him, making the doctor wince. She, however, gasped when she saw what Terry did to her apron. "Oh, my! More mending to do."
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The team continued running until they arrived at a stretched-out beach with dinosaur tooth-shaped, stone pillars going along the edges. "Where's Reese with the plane?" Max asked as he looked around for any sign of their escape.
"Are you sure this is where you told her to pick us up?" Zoe asked Spike.
"Yes, this is the location we agreed upon." Spike confirmed.
Terry looked around as well, before noticing something with the clouds and the way they were moving. "Hey, is this island moving?"
"That's impossible." Tank told him. "Islands can't-"
"He's right." Spike said as he pointed to the water, showing how it was moving against the island, or rather how the island was moving against the water.
"So; that must be what the earthquake was." Max guessed.
"Yes, must have been a rumble when the island was turning." Spike theorized.
"That would mean this whole island isn't a real island." Thorn said.
That realization just made things seem even more confusing. "Who are these guys?" Rex thought to himself.
Before anyone could answer, the roars of dinosaurs were heard. They looked behind themselves and saw Gigas, Maximus, and Armatus land behind them with Brontikens leading them. The Alpha Gang appeared behind them with scanners in their hands. "You've escaped for the last time!" Ursula told them. "Brontikens and his friends are going to finish you off now!" She declared.
Chomp, Paris, Spiny, Tank, and Lucky gasped at the size of Brontikens. "Who is that?!" Paris asked.
"Brontikens. A new member of theirs." Max told her.
"Think we can take 'em?" Thorn asked Lucky, who was panting heavily ever since their fight, having taken more of a beating then Thorn did.
"Maybe." Was his reply as he eyed the group.
"Brontikens will make things a lot harder." Max told his partners. "But we can't let Thorn and Lucky battle them alone. Can you do it, guys?"
"Let's do this!" Terry roared as he and Chomp growled at them. Max smiled and got them ready.
"DINO SLASH! TRICERATOPS, ROAR! FLAME UP, TYRANNOSAURUS!"
"DINO SLASH! CARNOTAURUS, BLOW THEM AWAY! SHAKE 'EM UP, SAICHANIA!"
"DINO SLASH! SPRING UP, PARASAUROLOPHUS! GUSH OUT, SPINOSAURUS!"
All the dinosaurs appeared and the battle began: Lucky and Thorn handled Maximus, Tank and Ace battled Armatus, Spiny and Paris got Gigas, leaving Brontikens for Chomp and Terry.
Terry gave out a roar as he charged forward. Brontikens responded by simply raising onto his hind legs and blocking his attack before he started to push him back. Terry struggled to keep his place. "Nothing's changed since last time." Brontikens told him. "Don't waste your breaths."
Chomp saw this and went to his brother's aid. "Something has changed! He has me now!" He said as their combined efforts helped evened the odds, leaving the three in a stalemate.
"That's not the only thing that's changed." Spike said as he pulled out the Move Cards they collected. "We have these." He handed them to Max. "Give 'em a try. Good luck, Max." He said to his son before noticing something approaching. "Hey, it's our flight!"
Max nodded and turned to his team. "You ready, guys? Let's finish these creeps off with some new Moves!" He handed them the cards with their respective elements.
"Way ahead of you, Max. Ninja Attack!" Rex swiped.
Ace began running very fast and made duplicates of himself. They all jumped into the air and surrounded Armatus. "What the?" Was all the Stegosaurus had time to say before he was attacked by the clones repeatedly running into him, each building up speed the more it went on.
"Now, Earthquake!" Rex said as he activated Tank's Move Card.
Tank reared up on her hind legs and slammed them into the ground hard. "Take this!" She roared as she did so. The earth opened up in front of her and Armatus fell into a ditch, Ace dodging thanks to his speed. The Stegosaurus struggled to get out as the walls closed around him. But he was too late and was squished by the two ends before getting carded.
"Water Sword!" Zoe cried out.
Water formed in Spiny's mouth before he injected it as a large sword. Swinging it around, he sliced Gigas with it and made the Tyrannosaurus collapse.
"Great Job, Spiny! Now, Paris, let's give him Stomping Hammer!"
Paris roared as she charged forward. Using her tail, she knocked Gigas back to the ground and leapt up high into the air before slamming into him. After repeating the process two more times, Gigas roared in pain before being carded as well.
While this happened, the Alpha Gang watched in fear. "What's this?" Ursula said through her teeth.
"They're using Dr.Z's Move Cards!" Zander told them.
"Come on, Max!" Terry urged him while he and Chomp continued their struggle with Brontikens, neither side getting the edge over the other so far.
"Let's get him good!" Chomp added.
"I'm trying!" Max replied as he looked through his deck. "I don't know if there are any ones to take him down though!"
With Lucky, he and Maximus were currently in a headlock. "This feels like deja vu." Lucky told her.
"Why's that?" She asked. Her answer was Thorn charming into her from the side and sending her crashing into one of the pillars, getting carded on impact.
With Max, he was finally able to pick out the right cards. "Go! Ultimate Thunder and Fire!" He said as he activated the cards. Both dinosaurs backed away from the Apatosaurus and glowed their respective colors.
The Alpha Gang looked on in horror. "D-did he just say?" Ursula stuttered
"Yes, he did." Ed confirmed
"But that's impossible." Zander said before all three shouted together. "No one's ever been able to use those attacks before!"
Suddenly, lightning started to strike around Chomp in a path, across from each other, before one struck Brontikens, paralyzing him. With his tail almost looking like the blast from a spaceship, Chomp then started to slide forward, joined by Terry who erupted in flames and did a flaming charge. Electricity built up in Chomp's horns before striking Brontikens dead center. If that wasn't enough, Terry struck him as well as he charged past, knocking Brontikens away. The Apatosaurus roared in pain before returning to his card, just before he landed on the, now trembling and huddled in fear, Alpha Gang.
Everyone roared and cheered as the dinosaurs were defeated. Well, everyone except the Alpha Gang. "Go get those cards!" Ursula ordered Zander and Ed.
"Going and getting." They both said as they picked up the four cards. Once they did, they felt hot air on them. Looking to the left, they saw Lucky and Thorn glaring at them. "Aah!" They screamed as they hid behind Ursula before angry growls were heard. They all looked forward and saw the main dinosaurs glaring at them as well. "Gah!"
Ace crouched to the ground, Tank pawed the dirt, Spiny stretched his neck, Paris reared up, Terry growled, and Chomp winked his right eye before they all charged at them and attacked viciously.
"Take that, you stupid!"
"Oh god, no!"
"Take that! And that!"
"You wouldn't hit a guy with glasses?!"
"I got his face!"
"No! That doesn't even go there!"
When the dust cleared, the Alpha Gang was a bloody mess on the floor, but still alive. "That was something to remember the next time you try and take us all on." Chomp said before they all were called back, even Thorn.
The plane landed in the water and Spike lead everyone to the entryway. "This way, kids. All aboard."
"Dad! Help!" Max said as he struggled to get on.
"I got ya." Spike assured him as he helped his son on, and closed the door before the plane took off.
"So that's a dad." Rod said as he and Laura watched them leave.
"Kinda nice, isn't he?" Laura added.
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"Sorry it took me so long." Reese apologized as they flew into the sunset. "When I went to the original coordinates, the island wasn't there anymore."
Well, it's all right now." Spike assured her before asking. "Hey, Reese? Is there a meal served with this flight?"
"Thanks for rescuing us, Dad." Max told his father. "I don't know if we would have gotten out of there if you hadn't shown up. Have I ever told you what a really awesome dad you are?"
"Thank you." Spike told him. "I have to admit, I was really worried about you this time." He confessed. "I want you all to be more careful in the future, all right?"
"Ok." They all replied.
"Because who's going to do janitor and clean-up duty if you're not around?"
"What?" Max said.
"I've got to get you three back so you can finish the work you started."
"Is that why you came to rescue us?" Max asked with a deadpan look.
"No, that's just one of the reasons." Spike told him. "As they say, a deal's a deal. Three fun days on janitor duty. Ha, ha, ha!"
"So not far!" Max and his partners whined.
Zoe and Paris chuckled at the scene before noticing Rex looking out the window. "There they go. Think we'll see Rod and Laura again?" Zoe asked him.
"Yeah." Rex replied as the island got smaller the further away they flew. Even if they did backstab them, they weren't that bad. Maybe even kind of nice.
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As night fell around the D-Lab, all the dinosaurs were outside looking for the plane. "Any sign of them?" Mia asked Salty.
The Saltasaurus reared up to get a better view. "Still nothing." He said before squinting at a star, or at least he thought it was until he noticed it approaching. "Wait, I see them!" He told the others. As the plane got closer, it was confirmed to be true. They all cheered in delight as their friends/saviors were safe.
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The happiness was not the same on Zeta Point. Such as Dr.Z still being stuck in the pipe. "How did this happen?" Dr.Z thought bitterly. "Children coming into my lair and stealing my cards? I will not rest until every single one of them is back in my hands! Not only that! They'll rue the day they found that first Dinosaur Card!" He declared before he heard a rumbling sound. "Huh?" Looking down, he felt pressure building up in the pipe before it exploded with water, setting him free but soaking him in the process and filling up the room with water. "Hey! What's going on with the plumbing?! Somebody turn it off! Helga, help me! I'm drowning in here! Mmmmmph!"
In the dinosaurs sleeping quarters, Brontikens, full-sized, walked into the room, seeing the others having dinner. "Feeling better?" Maximus asked as she and Armatus moved to give him space in the huge trough of plants.
"One battle doesn't decide a war. If anything, this defeat has shown me that there are some dinosaurs out there that have improved and can give me a challenge." He responded as he took a mouthful of plants. "So long as we fight for our future, we shall never fall. And then we'll rule the Earth once again."
"It's not the empire we want." Gigas told him. "You may want to return to glory, but we still don't know our purpose."
"You'll figure it out." Brontikens assured him. "And the next time we see those kids, we'll make them pay. Dearly."
Next time on Dinosaur King:
Max: A Pachycephalosaurus?
Reese: look at its head. There's some kind of light coming off it.
Dr.Z: That Pachycephalosaurus is part of a breed of secret dinosaurs I've designed like Brontikens
A/N: And the Zeta Point arc is done. Hopefully, you all liked it.
This was my first time writing fully original scenes into this story so I hope you all enjoyed them. The reason those three were the focus was because they were arguably the most popular of their teams. And I wanted a way for Thorn to be free from the mind control with more screen time from the Ceratosaurus.
On another note, we've officially reached over 100,000 words! The first DK story to do so! And we've still got a long way to go.
Final note, the results of the poll are. 4/5 votes for Spiny, no shock there, and 1 vote for Paris. Thanks to all who voted. The next poll will be favorite Alpha Gang dinosaur, so vote now.
See you all next time.