Volcanic Panic
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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On the coast of an island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, an old man was by a hot spring cooking clams. "Ahh, the hot springs." He sighed. "Natures own crockpot." He looked down to see if the clams he had were ready to be sold. "These ought to be cooked by now." He said as he used a fishing rod to raise the basket the clams were in out of the water. "There we go." He said as he put them next to him.
As he checked to see if any still need to be cooked, he noticed one was a lot larger than the rest. "Hmm? Hey! How'd this ostrich egg get mixed in here with my clams?" He asked. "I can't sell that. I guess I can just throw it back in the water." He leaned down to pick up the egg, but forgot that it was sitting in a hot spring by for a while and got burned. "Aah! H-h-hot!" He exclaimed as he juggled the egg in his hands before tossing it away. What he didn't know, was that the egg he tossed wasn't an ostrich egg, but a capsule. And once it landed in a fire and opened up, the dinosaur was released.
The dinosaur was a theropod that was completely orange, with darker markings forming large spots going along its side. What was most obvious was the bright orange sail on its back with a light stripe going through it midway and barely noticeable barbs running across its darker top. While it could be mistaken, this one was not related to Spiny and Sushi. This dinosaur was an Acrocanthosaurus.
The Acrocanthosaurus gave out a roar before walking away. The old man didn't hear her, but he definitely felt her movements. "Hmmm? Another earthquake?"
(Intro Theme)
On the balcony of a hotel room, the D-Team was looking at their surroundings. "Wow! Look at this view." Zoe awed.
"Yeah." Rex added. "And that's Devon Island over there." He pointed to an island with a large volcano on it. Ace looked at the volcano with interest. For some reason, it looked familiar.
"I wonder why it has all that smoke coming from it?" Zoe asked as she looked at the top of the volcano.
"Because there's an active volcano on that island called Mount Devon." Spike explained.
"How original." Tank muttered sarcastically to Spiny.
"We may even see an eruption while we're here." Spike continued. "There has been a lot of seismic activity and earthquakes lately."
"Really?" The kids asked with interest and excitement while the dinosaurs had clear sounds of fear in their voices. Mainly because back in the old days, a volcanic eruption was never something to find pretty. "That's not good." Chomp said.
"Or it may not happen for many more years." Spike assured them.
The dinosaurs sighed in relief. "Why did you have to scare us like that? You know volcanos aren't a laughing matter." Paris told him.
"Sorry about that." Spike apologized. "How about I look it up?" He suggested.
"You can do that?" Ace asked. He learned many things of this time, but nothing about predicting volcanic eruptions so easily, mainly since it never crossed his mind.
"Sure." Spike said as she got out his phone. "Let's see. I'll just quickly find out the date of the last eruption. And then I can do a mathematical calculation of what the chances are for the next erup-"
"Doctor." Reese said with a smile. "I thought you said no research during this vacation." Instead of her lab outfit, she was currently wearing an orange shirt covered by a white jacket that resembled her lab coat and green pants that covered her legs.
"Huh?" Spike said as he remembered what he was drilling into everyone's heads while preparing for the trip. "Oh, right! Ha, ha, ha, I forgot. From now on we are going to have nothing but fun to reward ourselves for all our hard work."
"Whoo!" Spiny cheered.
"And that means absolutely no research for as long as we're here." Spike told them.
"Oh?" Everyone asked in curiosity.
"And to make sure that never happens, I'm laying down the law that we can't say anything about whatever we are currently working on. That way, we'll all be rested and ready when we go back to our research." He explained to them.
"Great idea." Reese applauded.
"So the rule is, no one is allowed to make any mention of anything having to do with dinosaurs while we're here."
"Hold on. You mean we're not even allowed to say the word dinosaur?" Max asked.
"Our first violation!" Spike chimed. "And now for the consequences."
He grabbed a black marker and drew a funny marking on Max's face. "No fair." Max said as he looked in a mirror. He was about to wipe it off before his father stopped him.
"Anyone who breaks the rules must have to wear the mark of shame all day."
"Oh, come on! I didn't even know the rule!"
"If you ask me, it's not evil enough." Spiny told him.
"Shut up, Spiny!" Tank said as she tackled him, not wanting Spike to get any ideas.
"Ah, another violation!" Spike said as he approached Tank. "Saying his name is just as bad as saying the D-word."
Spike tried to write on her face, but the minute he touched her skin, Tank leapt onto his face like an angry cat. "Gaah! Get her off! Get her off!" He screamed as he stumbled around the room.
After a while, Tank leapt off of Spike and huffed before lying down on the bed. Spike had many scratches all over his face. "OK, maybe I was getting carried away." He said as he went for a towel.
"Ah, ah, ah." Max said with the wag of a finger. "You have to wear the mark of shame for the whole day." He reminded his father.
"OK, I was getting carried away, but you all get the point." He said as he grabbed the towel anyway. "Just don't do any research while we're here, OK?"
"OK, can we have start having fun now?" Terry asked, starting to get impatient. "I really wanna hit the hot springs."
"OK, let me clear this off, and then we'll hit the hot springs!" Spike declared.
"Yeah! Yay!" Everyone cheered, minus Rex's team who simply smirked.
"Just make sure to leave all your valuables in the safe." Spike reminded everyone.
"Good idea." Rex said as he and the others put their electronics into the safe, including their Dino Holders.
"Now we're all locked up." Spike said as he locked to safe.
"All right! Let's hit the hot springs!" Terry cheered.
"This is great." Spike said to himself. "Nothing to do but soak all my worries away in some steaming hot water. And maybe later I'll go and enjoy the local attractions." He said as he looked at the poster for a traditional ceremony. He started humming a conga tune as he left the room.
When he did, the Dino Holders started blinking. Outside the hotel, the Acrocanthosaurus was on the move.
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Once at the hot springs, everyone was able to relax as the hot water did its job. "Oh yeah, this water feels so good." Max sighed. He was joined by the other boys at the moment, excluding his father who decided to try something else.
"Yeah." Rex agreed. "And if it gets too hot we can always jump into the ocean." He joked, gesturing to the ocean right in front of them.
"Join us, Ace." Chomp said as he, Terry, and Spiny swam around the spring playing chase.
"You know how I feel about water, Chomp. I'm fine right here." Ace said as he laid right by the edge. "Close enough to feel the heat, but far enough to not drown."
They weren't the only ones enjoying the warm water at the moment. On the other end of the pool, Zander and Ed were also relaxing. "Coming here was one of my better ideas." Zander praised himself.
"Yeah, I just hope Dr.Z doesn't find out we're sitting around doing nothing." Ed told him, though his tone showed no signs of caring.
"I wouldn't exactly call this nothing. Soaking and relaxing can be hard work." Zander told him. "Besides, we're only doing this because he gave us time off." He reminded Ed as he recalled the doctor's instructions.
"You fools! How can I concentrate on my invention when I have you three in my sights non-stop?" Dr.Z asked as he pushed the trio away from the large machine he was working on, as evidenced by the welding mask he was wearing. "Now take your dinosaurs, and get out of here so I can actually get some inventing done."
"Yeah, you're right." Ed agreed. "Luckily all he has to do is look at us and he gives us a vacation."
"That's true. It's nice to feel appreciated for a change." Zander said before doing a stretch. Once he did, he saw Spiny and Terry swim right in front of him. "Huh?" He adjusted his posture and saw nothing. "That's weird. All this mist must be making me see things. Oh, well."
On the women's side of the hot spring, Ursula was lounging around as well. "Ah, this water is heavenly. And from what I heard about how good these hot springs are for the skin, I can only imagine how beautiful I'll be." She fantasized.
On the other end, Zoe and the other females were doing the same thing. "Ah, this water is heavenly." Reese sighed.
"Reese, that sounds like something an old lady would say." Zoe joked.
"You're right." Reese said before they both started laughing.
"Ha, ha." Tank said as she laid on the side. Still upset about what happened earlier with her and Spiny.
"Spiny, we don't wear clothes. Just let me in."
"No way, you peaker!"
"That's not even a-"
"Gah!"
"Spiny-"
"Ah!"
"...Spiny, just let me-"
"Ah!"
"He just had to be that guy." Tank grumbled. She hated being treated like a female sometimes. It brought back unwelcome memories.
On the other side of the spring, Ursula heard what Zoe said and briefly sank into the water in despair. "Who's an old lady?" She asked as she resurface and looked around, but saw no one else there. "I guess I'm just hearing things. Maybe I've been marinating for too long?"
On the beach, Spike was currently buried in sand for a sand bath. "Aah, nice and hot. Nothing like a sand bath to make you feel like a toasted marshmallow."
Right when he said that, the ground started to shake. The sand began to crack before the Acrocanthosaurus erupted out of it. Everyone screamed as they ran for cover. Spike tried to escape but was currently trapped. "Help! I can't get up! Now I'm going to be a squished toasted marshmallow!" He screamed as the theropod got closer to him. He put all the strength he had into breaking out of the sand. Thankfully, he was able to do it in time to scramble away before being crushed.
In the hot spring, Max and the other boys all felt the earth shake. "What's that?" Max asked.
"Feels like an earthquake!" Chomp exclaimed as they got out of the water.
"It doesn't feels like one to me" Ace said as he tried to have a feel. "It's more small and focused than any earthquake I've felt before."
"Aah!" Rex screamed as he saw what might have been the cause.
Max turned to see what was making him scream. "Aah!" He screamed as he placed his hand on Rex's head and accidentally pushed him into the water.
Zander and Ed screamed in terror as the Acrocanthosaurus approached their side of the hot spring. Max and Rex gasped as they grabbed their towels and got out off the spring, revealing to have been wearing their swim trunks at the time. "Aah! Ursula, do you see this?!" Ed asked as he and Zander went over the wall separating the hot spring between men and women and climbed to the top.
"Take a look!" Zander pointed towards the orange dinosaur.
But they forgot one important detail. "This is the women's side." A woman screamed as the two were pelted with baskets. They landed in the water before surfacing and spitting out water in their mouths.
"Hey! What are you two creeps doing here?!" Max asked as he and Rex wrapped their towels around their waists, making the two men gasp as they realized they weren't alone on this trip.
"That's what all of us girls would like to know?" Ursula asked as she looked over the wall. She looked to the side and noticed the male members of the D-Team. "Where'd you come from!? Aah!" She screamed as she covered her chest in embarrassment, even though it was covered by a towel, and went back to her side.
"The whole Alpha Gang's here." Max realized.
"That's bad." Rex told him. "But, wow! That's an Acrocanthosaurus!"
"It can't be!" Ace thought as he looked at the Acrocanthosaurus more closely.
"Get out of that bath, you prunes." Ursula said through a hole in the wall. "There's a dinosaur here and I intend to catch it."
"All right." Both men said as they quickly got out.
The Acrocanthosaurus roared before she continued marching through the streets, uprooting anything in her path from trees to small buildings. In the hotel lobby, many people we gathering in panic. "What's going on?"
"Didn't you hear that?"
"We've got to get to the Dino Holders fast!" Ace said as he led the boys to the hotel room.
"I think we all can agree on that, Ace." Rex told him. "That Acrocanthosaurus could seriously hurt someone."
"No! It's not just because of all the guests here!" He said.
"What?" They all asked. What was so important about this dinosaur to make Ace this worked up?
The Alpha Gang, on the other hand, were side-stepping along the wall, while they had towels covering their swimsuits for some reason. "We can't chase dinosaurs in our swimsuits. We already did that in our undies." Ed said, shuddering the memories of the Monaco mission.
"Is there time to go back to the room?" Zander asked.
"Absolutely not!" Ursula said sternly. "Do you want the brats to beat us to it?"
Both men sighed as they realized she had a point. Thankfully, she was suffering with them this time. Or maybe there wouldn't be any suffering at all as they approached a locker room. "Maybe we can find some clothes in that locker room." Ed suggested before they snuck in.
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On the stage, a performance was going on with men drumming on bongos, and women, dressed in skirts, doing a traditional dance like in the poster. The dancing and drumming ceased as the audience applauded the performers.
Another performer blew onto a torch as part of the act to summon something. Once he did, the Acrocanthosaur's head burst through the background. At first, the audience applauded, as they assumed this was a part of the show. Even the performers thought this was part of the act they didn't know about hey. But when the Acrocanthosaurus roared and blew out the flame with a powerful breath from her nostrils, the mood changed. "No way! That thing's real!" The performer with the torch screamed. Everyone gasped before making a break for it as the Acrocanthosaurus completely burst through the wall and started to destroy the room with her tail.
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In their hotel room, Ace was pacing around while Rex worked on the combination for the safe. "Come on, Rex! We need those Dino Holders out now!" He said anxiously.
"It's no use." Rex told him. "We'll need to key to get this thing to open."
"Dad has it." Max told them.
Speak of the devil, Spike ran into the room, still in his robe. "Boys! There's another dinosaur! An Acrocanthosaurus just showed up!"
"We know!" Ace practically screamed at him. "Do you have the key?!"
"Calm down, Ace, I've got it in here." Spike went into his sleeve and picked up nothing. "Um, I wonder what I did with it?" He asked as he searched himself. "I bet I dropped it in the sand!"
"Then go get it!" Ace told him, slightly scarring Spike
"Ace, that'll be like counting the sand. We'd never find it." Chomp told him.
Ace ignored him and started bashing his head onto the safe. As he did, the girls showed up. "Hey, did you get the Dino Holders?" Zoe asked. The boys replied by shaking their heads. "What?"
"What's going on with him?" Tank asked as she watched Terry and Chomp pull Ace away from the safe.
"He's just very impatient." Chomp told her, struggling to keep his hold on Ace's tail. "Really wants to get that card before the Alpha Gang does."
"It's not just that!" Ace replied, only confusing everyone again.
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With the Acrocanthosaurus, she just burst out of the hotel and started heading towards the beach. She was greeted by a group of firemen. "Water at full pressure. Force it back inside." The lead fireman ordered before the men fired at the Acrocanthosaurus. All this did was give the Acrocanthosaurus a slight shower as she continued moving forward. "It's not working!"
"Watch out!"
"It's coming at us!"
The Acrocanthosaurus used her head to knock the fire trucks away before arriving on the beach, the firemen unable to do anything but cower in fear. When she did, she had another greeting party in the form of the Alpha Gang, wearing clothes like those of the performers. "Thanks for dropping by, and welcome to our show." Ursula said with a smile. While she wasn't too embarrassed by the revealing clothing choice, Zander and Ed clearly were. "Now to kick things off, we're going to out a nasty native island curse on you!" She declared.
"Nasty island curse, oh yeah!" Zander and Ed sang as Ed drummed on a bongo they stole.
"Bring out the secret curse!" Ursula told them.
"Ooga, booga, boogaloo!" Zander and Ed chanted before Zander pulled out a scanner and raised a card into the air. "Come on out, Brontikens!"
But before he could summon the Apatosaurus, a water hose wrapped around them. "Don't worry! We'll save you!" A fireman said as he and the others started reeling them in.
"Pull, men! We've got to save them from the dinosaur!" The leader ordered.
"No, wait. You don't understand." Zander told them.
"Don't be so brave." The leader told him. "We know you're performers from the show."
The Alpha Gang realized the firemen were mistaking them as performers thanks to the costumes they were wearing. "We're not really brave at all." Ed retorted.
"Would you release us, you annoying do-gooders?! He's getting away!" Ursula struggled.
"Keep pulling, men. Save them." The leader ordered as they ran back to the destroyed trucks.
The Alpha Gang moaned as they realized there was no way out of this. "I think I've got a sand wedgie" Ed said.
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As the sun began to set, the Acrocanthosaurus continued to look at Mt. Devon. As she did, she started to have flashbacks.
A family of Acrocanthosaurus: consisting of a mother, father, and juvenile were at the side of a river to have a morning drink. Once they arrived, the little baby started splashing around in the water. "Be careful. There might be crocodiles in that lake." The mother warned her offspring in a teasing manner.
"But, Mom!" The baby whined. "You said it's too hot for them in these waters."
"She meant that as a way so you don't go too far in. And even still, winter is approaching, which cools the water down for the crocs." The family turned to see a Carnotaurus carrying the carcass of a large reptile creature that wasn't a dinosaur or relative. "Good morning, Alpha." He said as he placed the carcass in front of the female.
The Acrocanthosaurus female looked at the carcass before addressing the Carnotaurus. "Was this the best you can do?"
"My apologies, Alpha. Like I said, with winter approaching my hunting party is having a harder time finding food for the whole pack." The Carnotaurus replied.
"Then start your hunts earlier! If this is what you gave me, I can't even imagine what you gave the rest of the pack!" She said before diving into the meat with her family. "You're dismissed for now."
"Yes, Alpha." The Carnotaurus bowed.
On the balcony of their hotel room, the D-Team just watched in silence while they waited for the replacement key to arrive. "She just keeps staring at Mt. Devon." Zoe pointed out.
"Yeah, I wonder why." Max thought.
Before anyone could reply, an earthquake began shaking the area. It was so big everyone nearly lost their balance.
Ace felt the earthquake as well and looked out the window. His eyes widened when he started putting two and two together. "Oh, no!"
He quickly leapt out of the window and onto the streets. "Ace! Come back!" Rex told him. "Where are you going?"
Ace didn't listen as he continued running to the beach, making distance quite fast for such a small dinosaur. But, by the time he got there, the Acrocanthosaurus was already waist-high in water. "Alpha!" He screamed as he tried to get the larger carnivore's attention. But she didn't even look back as she continued swimming towards the island. Ace continued running until he was stopped by the arrival of a small tide, his fear of water forcing him back. Seeing he was trapped, he cried out one more time. "Alpha!" But the Acrocanthosaurus was now completely submerged in water, on her way to Devon Island.
On the balcony, Rex asked. "Why is Ace calling the Acrocanthosaurus Alpha?"
"Maybe that's her name?" Max suggested.
"We didn't have names in the old days, remember?" Chomp told him.
"Except those in positions of power." Tank remembered from her old group. "I think I might know what's going on." She told them. "But I'll need Ace to confirm it."
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About an hour later, the spare key arrived and they could finally enter the safe. "Good to have this back again." Max said as he grabbed his Dino Holder.
"It's just too bad we didn't have 'em a little sooner, if you know what I mean." Rex said indirectly to Spike. Speaking for Ace, who was lying on the floor looking depressed, since the man who brought the key was still there.
"Yeah, too bad." Spike said quickly before turning to the clerk. "Thank you so much, sir."
"No problem, but please be aware there'll be a 50 dollar charge for the new key and dents the dog caused on your bill when you check out." The clerk said with a smile before leaving, making Spike sigh in defeat.
"Ooh."
Once he was gone, Rex looked at his Dino Holder to find the Acrocanthosaur's location. "According to this, the Acrocanthosaurus is on Devon Island."
"So, what are we waiting for? Let's get her out of there before she hurts herself!" Max said as he went to the door before Reese stopped him.
"Hold it. The ferry shuts down when there's seismic activity." She told them.
"Then we'll just ride Spiny to the island, like we did in the Amazon." Zoe answered.
Reese shook her head. "It's still way too dangerous with all the seismic activity to approach the island.
"But if we don't go she could be killed." Paris told her.
"Or the Alpha Gang could beat us to her." Spiny added.
"Reese is right." Spike told them. "It's far too dangerous for us to go there. We'll have to wait, and hope the Acrocanthosaurus returns soon."
While they agreed it would be dangerous, the D-Team still did not approve of this plan one bit, all showing looks of uncertainty. That Acrocanthosaurus had to be aware of the tremors too, so why did she still go to the island?
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Later that night, another earthquake shook the hotel room. Spike didn't notice at all as he was snoring heavily. Tank looked over at him before turning to the others. "If that didn't wake him up, a few whispers would be impossible."
"Great." Rex said before walking over to Ace, who hadn't moved at all. "Ace, you OK, buddy?"
"...No." Was all he could reply with.
"I've been meaning to ask you this when I saw you chase that dinosaur." Tank told him. "Ace, do you know that Acrocanthosaurus?"
There was a quiet in the room before Ace replied. "She was my alpha back when we lived on that island."
"What?!" Everyone quietly gasped. "That was the abusive alpha that kicked you outta your pack?" Chomp asked.
"She wasn't abusive, just got angry easily at me." Ace said. "Mainly since I kept on messing things up for the pack."
"Ace, I told you not to think like that." Rex said sternly. He didn't like it when Ace got depressed and felt worthless.
"I'm not, but she probably still thinks that about me and seeing her again reignites that urge to correct her." The Carnotaurus explained
"So you wanna prove yourself to her." Terry realized.
"Exactly. And with the amount of earthquakes we've been feeling, I only feel more confident that the volcano's about to erupt. She probably knows that too, but hasn't turned around 'cause that's where her family should still be lying, and she feels the need to be with them. To see if their remains are safe."
This bit of information slightly surprised the others. If the Acrocanthosaurus and Ace were part of the same pack in the old days, and if the Acrocanthosaurus lived here, then that means Ace lived here, too.
"If that volcano's gonna erupt very soon then we've got to go save her!" Max declared before grabbing his Dino Holder. "Are you with me or not?" It was a stupid question to ask as he already knew the answer and was right when the others got out of bed.
A few minutes later, after Max and Rex got their clothes on, the six of them quietly crept down the hallway, as to not disturb anyone. "Ssh." Max said as they crept past Zoe and Reese's room.
Just when they thought they were in the clear. "Where do you think you're going?" They turned to see Zoe, in her daytime outfit, Paris, and Spiny standing behind them. "I'm sure you weren't planning on leaving us behind." Zoe said with a smile as she pulled out her Dino Holder.
"No." Max shook his head with a smile as he gave her a thumbs up.
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The next morning, Reese was awoken by the sound of knocking at her door. "Open up, Reese! It's an emergency!" Spike said as he continued pounding on the door. When she did open the door, Spike recoiled at the sight of her morning hair.
"I hope you have a good reason for this, Dr. Taylor." She droned.
"I do. The boys and their dinosaurs are gone." He explained. "I don't know where they are."
"So?" She asked, not realizing what this was starting to mean.
"Are Zoe, Spiny, and Paris still here?"
"They left a note saying they were going to go bowling." She answered before going back to the bed. "Sounds odd, didn't take them for bowling fans."
Spike gasped when he realized his theory had to be correct. "I'll bet you they've gone to Devon Island!"
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Using a rowboat they stole, or borrowed in Max's words, the team was able to make it to Devon Island by morning. "All right. Now that we're here, we really need to find the Acrocanthosaurus and quick." Max told the others.
"Yeah, before that volcano blows." Rex said as he looked at the flaming mountain, the amount of smoking coming out of it concerning him greatly. "Ace, do you remember where her family died?"
"It was by the nest, but the earth has changed so much I have no idea where it could be." Ace said before he and Terry sniffed the air while Paris tried something new and gave out a call to possibly get a response from the dinosaur, mimicking echolocation.
Their response was a roar from said dino. "That must be her!" Max said as they looked towards the volcano.
"She's close, too." Terry added. "Let's go!"
Before they could leave they heard the sound of cackling. "Ha, ha, ha, ha!Looks like you losers took the slow boat. Hi." Ursula mocked as they laughed, back in their clothes, though Ed still had the bongo. "Ha, ha, ha, ha!" "Heh, heh, heh, heh."
"Old lady." Zoe muttered.
"How many times have I asked you to stop saying that?!" Ursula yelled at her. "I should have known it was you when I heard those words back at the hot spring! Grrrr!"
"Patience, Ursula." Ed said with the tap on the bongo.
When he did, a plane appeared carrying a large object below it with the Alpha Gang logo on it. "What is that?" Tank asked.
She got her answer when the device opened up and Alpha Droids started falling out. They were balled up when they did, so once they eagerly landed they opened back up. Once they were all out, a pink Alpha Droid appeared in front of the masses. "So, this is the D-Team?" It said with a presumably male voice as it observed the group, shocking them to see an Alpha Droid speaking a full sentence like a normal person.
"Who are you?" Max asked.
"I am known as D.R.O.I.D." It introduced. "The leader of the Alpha Droids. And as my first order, I order for your imprisonment!"
Once it said that, the Droids attacked. "Stop intruders. Stop intruders." They said.
"No, guys. It's 'capture brats.'" D.R.O.I.D told them, face palming at the not so obvious mix up.
"Capture brats. Capture brats." They said as they grabbed onto the kids.
"Not again." Max said as he tried to hold them off with help from his partners with little success.
"Let's give it up for Dr.Z. And his timing for bringing in the Alpha Droids!" Ursula said triumphantly.
"Lo, the island wind smiles down upon us and bring us robots." Ed said as he drummed the bongo.
"Sorry we can't stay and play ourselves, but we've got to collect our dinosaur before this big, bad volcano erupts." Zander mocked before all three snickered.
"She's not yours!" Ace told them, struggling in an Alpha Droid's grasp.
"Get away from us, you creeps!" Zoe struggled against the Droids holding her down. "Leave us alone!"
"That would be as suicidal as staying on this island." D.R.O.I.D told her.
As the trio cackled, they revived a call on the Alpha Scanner. "Aah! Dr.Z!" Zander screamed when he saw who it was.
"Quit standing there cackling you numbskulls! There's work to be done!" He scolded them. "That Acrocanthosaurus is just the dinosaur I need to complete my research and finish this invention. So I'm counting on you three to bring it back here. If you fail, you can stay on that island!" He threatened. "Have I made myself perfectly clear?!"
"Yes, sir!" The trio said before hanging up. They sighed as they calmed themselves from the threat. "The master's wind blows harshly." Ed said as he drummed again.
"Would you stop that!" Ursula yelled at him, clearly annoyed by his drumming. "OK, let's get going." She said as she speed-walked away.
"Right behind you." Zander and Ed replied.
"Guys, the Alpha Gang's getting away!" Ace told them, increasing his struggling to no avail. The Alpha Droid's grip was iron tight.
"There's too many of these robots!" Max replied. "I can't reach my Dino Holder!"
"I've got this!" Spiny said as he leapt onto one of the Droids holding Zoe and started biting on its head, causing it to malfunction.
"Crap! I forgot the stupid one might know the insides of the other Droids!" D.R.O.I.D said in panic.
"Leave her alone!" Paris charged onto the other Alpha Droid and destroyed it.
"That's using your heads, guys!" Zoe cheered as she grabbed her Dino Holder. "Now we can do some damage!"
"DINO SLASH! PARASAUROLOPHUS, BLOOM! GUSH OUT, SPINOSAURUS!"
"Shit! We weren't trained for this!" D.R.O.I.D said in panic, knowing that they couldn't handle a dinosaur, much less two. "Retreat!"
"Retreat. Retreat. Retreat." The robots let go of their captives tried to run, but Spiny and Paris got in their way stopped them, sending them back with roars that blew them off their feet and swipes from their tails that made many of them lose their feet, along with the rest of their bodies.
"Go on, guys! Leave 'em to us!" Zoe said as she started whacking D.R.O.I.D with a stick.
"Thanks, Zoe!" Ace said as they ran off after the Alpha Gang. "Hurry!"
"This is why I don't do combat!" D.R.O.I.D screamed in pain as Zoe continued on hitting him on the head.
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"She couldn't have gotten far." Max said as they climbed up the mountain.
Suddenly another earthquake was felt. "Look at the volcano!" Rex pointed out, noticing a change in the smoke color. "I think it's erupting."
"We're running out of time! We have to move!" Ace said before darting away.
"Wait up, Ace!" Chomp called out as they went after him.
"Alpha! You've got to get away from the volcano now!" Ace cried out as he looked frantically for the Acrocanthosaurus. He managed to find her looking at a pair of fossils, roaring in sadness. "There you are." He said more quietly.
"Looks like we beat the Alpha Gang here." Rex said as he looked around. "Wonder what happened to them."
"Hopefully something painful." Tank replied.
"Check it out." Max said as he approached the fossils.
"Careful, Max." Ace warned. "Don't let her see you."
"This one looks like a baby. Father and child." Max said as he rubbed his hands against the fossils.
But by doing so, he gained the Acrocanthosaur's attention who immediately thought the worst and roared angrily at them. "Behind you!" Terry warned before the Acrocanthosaurus attacked them with her tail, careful to avoid the fossils. Max grabbed out his Dino Holder and recalled one of his dinosaurs.
"DINO SLASH! TRICERATOPS, ROAR!"
In the ocean, Spike and Reese were on a speedboat to get the kids off the island when the battle started. "That looks like a Battlefield." Spike said as he looked up at the sky.
Reese noticed this too, but also something else. "Uh, Doctor?"
"Yeah? Did we run out of gas or something?" He asked when the boat stopped moving.
"The ocean's vanished!" Reese exclaimed.
"Reese! Dr. Taylor! We need help!" Zoe called out as she and her dinos, now in chibi-form ran to the boat.
"Zoe, where have Max and Rex gone?" Spike asked her. "We've got to get off of this island before that volcano blows!"
"What island?!" Spiny asked as he looked around before another earthquake happened.
At the foot of the volcano, a Time Warp happened that made the world turn into an ash field. "Sorry we have to do this, Ace. But if we don't I doubt she'll leave willingly." Max explained to the Carnotaurus.
"I understand. Just be careful." Ace replied as the battle began.
The two opponents locked heads before the Acrocanthosaurus knocked Chomp away with her tail. He slid across the gravel, before charging back and attempting to stomp on her, which she dodged. Chomp then tried to leap at her and was knocked away by a kick.
"Got to hang in there, Chomp!" Max called out to his partner.
"Ace, your alpha is tough." Tank said in shock.
"Of course she is. She's defending her pack." He replied before correcting herself. "No, she's defending her family."
"Knowing how protective Mia gets of Shep, this could be a problem." Rex said.
The Acrocanthosaurus snapped at Chomp, which he quickly dodged. He then tried to attack again, but she dodged just as quickly. This, however, gave him an opening as he latched onto her tail. The Acrocanthosaurus replied by grabbing Chomp's tail. With her being larger, she was able to toss Chomp into a bolder. Everyone gasped as they saw Chomp was losing. To make things worse, the volcano started to erupt.
"That volcano's gonna blow!" Terry exclaimed.
The Acrocanthosaurus didn't respond to this and roared at her opponent. Chomp got back up and charged forward. He was meet by her tail knocking him away before she leapt up high into the air. "Look out!" Max warned before the Acrocanthosaurus landed and knocked Chomp away with the force of the impact.
"Maybe you should try a Move Card!" Ace suggested.
"Right." Max said before grabbing one. "Lightning Strike!"
Electricity formed on Chomp's horns as he fired at the Acrocanthosaurus. It hit her dead center and she fell to the ground. "All right!" Chomp cheered as it looked like he won. But the Acrocanthosaurus started to get back up. "She still wants to fight?"
"Hit her one more time, Chomp!" Max told him.
Chomp replied by charging at her again. But before he could hit her, a whip-like tail knocked him away. "Oh, no." Chomp said as he recognized the tail.
"Apatosaurus on the field! Apatosaurus on the field!" Terry repeated in panic before they heard Ursula's cackle.
"Why don't you just go away and leave us alone?!" Ace barked at them angrily.
"Why would we do that now that you've done all of the hard work for us?" Ursula mocked.
"That dinosaur is so worn out that it's ours for the taking. Ha, ha." Zander laughed.
"The foul winds of thievery surround you." Ed said before drumming on the bongo again.
"You're not gonna get away with this plan of yours." Chomp told Brontikens.
"Your empty threats mean nothing to me." The sauropod responded. "I wasn't going to let you get away with what you did to me. You see, you humiliated me." He explained to the Triceratops. "Now it is time for me to have to remind you all who the true ruler of the dinosaurs is!"
He roared and charged towards the Acrocanthosaurus. The orange theropod responded by snapping her jaws at the Apatosaurus. Brontikens simply raised up, as a way of mocking her efforts. His long neck gave him a clear view of Chomp's oncoming attack. "Pathetic." He said before smacking Chomp away with his tail again, making the Triceratops roll like a tumbleweed and defeating him.
"Oh, no, Chomp! I've gotcha!" Max exclaimed as he ran to retrieve the card.
"He used up all his energy in his fight with the Acrocanthosaurus." Rex realized.
"We fell right into their trap." Ace said grimly as Max picked up the card.
Just then, a huge earthquake happened before the volcano started to erupt. Large flaming rocks flew into the air before slamming into the ground. "Run!" Everyone screamed before they ran to take cover. Only Brontikens and the Acrocanthosaurus remained undeterred by the eruption and dangers that came with, each refusing to forreit their fight for different reasons.
With Zander and Ed, they were trying to shield themselves from the falling rocks with nothing but their barehands as Ursula took the only nearby reliable cover. "Things are getting a little hot. Maybe we should go before we are hit by all the rocks and ash." Zander suggested.
"Not to mention the sheering lava." Ed added as he clutched onto his bongo tightly.
"Never! We will stay here and fight till one of us falls!" Brontikens told them, standing tall and undeterred by the growing danger. "Running away is the sign of weakness!"
"He's gone crazy! Use a Move Card and end this battle now!" Ursula told Zander from her hiding place.
Zander didn't need to be told twice as he grabbed Brontikens' Move Card and swiped it. "Now seems like a good time for Spectral Destroy!"
Brontikens charged up his attack before firing at the Acrocanthosaurus. The attack damaged her so much that she returned to her card the minute she hit the ground, taking the Battlefield with her as the card floated to the ground.
"We've got to get that card now!" Ace said as he and the others started running towards it.
"Dream on, little runt. That card's mine." Zander said as he ran to retrieve it, only to be stopped by an erupting geyser.
"All right, now's our chance!" Max said as they got closer. But they were also stopped by another geyser. "Whoa!"
"Come one, everyone! Let's go!" They all turned to see Spike and the others running towards them.
"Oh, Dad!" Max said in surprise of his father's appearance.
"We need to get off of this island right away!" Spike explained.
"But what about the card?" Chomp asked.
"Don't worry. There'll be other chances." Rex said as he knew it was too dangerous to stay as well. "Come on!"
"No!" Ace said as he continued running. "I can't fail her again!"
"Damnit, Ace! Don't be a hero!" Tank said as she grabbed the Carnotaurus and pulled him away. As much as she hated to admit it, they lost this round.
"No! No! Alpha!" Ace cried! The Carnotaurus struggled in her grasp, but Tank refused to let go.
"I'll get that card back from you someday." Max told the Alpha Gang before he left.
"Please, attempt as soon as possible." Ursula mocked before she picked up the card. "And that completes another successful mission. Now let's hear it for the ever-powerful Alpha Gang!" She cheered.
"Yay!" They all cheered. "So how about a little victory dance?" Ed suggested before playing his bongo.
"Victory, victory! We got the card! Victory, victory! It wasn't hard!" They sang and danced. "Victory, victory! We got-"
"You're missing the beat, Ed!" Ursula yelled at him.
They all suddenly heard, and felt, another rumbling sound. They were soon created by a geyser erupting right on top of them. "Hot! Hot! Hot!" They screamed as they ran away.
"Idiots." Brontikens muttered before diving into the sea and swimming back to Zeta Point, even though it was hundreds of miles away. Guess he couldn't handle the idiocy.
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Meanwhile, the D-Team were currently on the speedboat driving from the island. "Any way you can speed this thing up?" Spike asked urgently. "That volcano is just about to erupt."
The driver, who was the old clam salesman, laughed at the comment. "I don't think you need to worry about that. Old Mt. Devon's been dormant for a hundred years or so." He told them.
"Then what about all the smoke and fire?" Max asked.
"Oh, that column of smoke's been coming out of it since I was a lad." The old man explained to them. "But if you thought you saw fire, you must have been dreaming."
"So apparently, all those smaller eruptions we were seeing were only happening within the Battlefield." Reese realized.
"Aaah!" The rest of the team gasped at the realization. "Dad, you made us run for nothing. We could have stayed, and fought to get the card back." Max scolded his father.
"I suppose that's a possibility." Spike muttered as he looked down to see Tank growling furiously at him, followed by the rest of the team giving him angry and disapproving looks, minus Ace, who was just lying down depressed. "So, I've noticed that everything that went wrong is all my fault, and I'm sure many of you have some anger you need to cent out. But, to save yourselves the trouble, I'll do the punishment myself." Spike said before he started punching and slapping himself. "Dah! Doh! Oof! Doh! Doh!"
Rex and Tank went to Ace and started to comfort him, Rex rubbing his back while Tank laid down next to him, something she normally would never do but made an exception for her teammate. "Those fossils were her family you know." Ace told them. "She fought the way she did to protect them."
"Yeah, I just hope the Alpha Gang will leave them alone." Rex said as they all looked back on the island.
"Alpha. I swear to the creator above us, I shall save you from them." Ace thought, a determined and vengeful look on his face.
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On Zeta Point, Dr.Z laughed evilly after getting the report from D.R.O.I.D and Brontikens. "The Acrocanthosaurus is mine! Now I can complete my work!" He said as he welded a large machine together before stopping and removing his mask. "My ultimate invention will be stronger, faster, and better armed than anything I ever devised!" He declared before laughing again, not even caring or noticing that part of his beard was burned off. "Hahahahaha!" The D-Team would stand no chance against his new plans.
Next time on Dinosaur King:
Reporter: We're flying over a dinosaur battle royale!
Dr.Z: With this device, all the cards will soon be mine!
Rex: If we don't do something, everyone will die!
Acrocanthosaurus: Who are you?
Alpha Acrocanthosaurus: I'm you. Only much more improved.
A/N: So that chapter happened. Once again, not sorry.
The backstory with Ace and the Acrocanthosaurus came from Ace apparently knew her according to the wiki. I then remembered Ace's backstory in Tanks A Lot, and voila!
For the poll. We got two votes. One for Armatus and one for Brontikens. Thank you to those who voted and I'll see you all next chapter.