All Fired Up!
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"Talking"
Thinking
"Flashback"
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"This is not a prime-time drama, folks. This is reality television we've got right here." The Anchorwoman from past reports said while they flew in a helicopter across the night sky. "We're flying high over a dinosaur battle, that's right dinosaurs, and the city is up in flames. We'll bring you the latest news as it unfolds for as long as possible.
And It looks like more dinosaurs have joined the battle. I've received confirmation from our experts that it's a Tyrannosaurus, Saltasaurus, Pachycephalosaurus, Utahraptor, Triceratops, and more against a giant, fire-breathing Acrocanthosaurus in what looks like a huge, dinosaur-sized, free for all.
This is the story of the Millennium, and I'll be bringing you all of the explosive news as it happens."
(Intro Theme)
So, you're probably all wondering how this all started. Well, it began six hours ago at Zeta Point with Dr.Z putting the finishing touches on his invention from the last episode.
"It's almost completed." The doctor said. "Just have to fuse this, and solder that, and wield whatever this is." He said as he worked all over the giant machine.
Off to the side, the A-Team and dinosaurs were watching. "I wonder what it is Dr.Z is inventing this time?" Ed asked, though his tone didn't show any interest.
"Whatever it is, I'm sure there'll be a huge bang and a cloud of smoke coming any minute now." Ursula replied, slumped on a couch shaped like the top of a spinosaur skull Ed was also sitting on.
"Well, maybe this one will be different." Zander told them, standing next to the couch. "It could actually work."
There was then an explosion and a huge cloud of smoke. "Aah! Ha, ha, ha! Ha, ha, ha!" Dr.Z laughed as he took off his welding mask. "At last, my Super Alpha Controller is finally perfected!" He declared as he gestured to a huge version of the Alpha Controller.
"Oh!" Everyone gawked at the new machine, except Brontikens.
"Allow me to demonstrate how it works using the Acrocanthosaurus card I went to such great lengths to capture." Dr.Z said as he pulled out said card.
"That's odd. Wasn't it us getting scolded by geysers?" Ursula asked him, feeling bitter about him taking the credit after all their suffering.
She wasn't the only one. "And dragged by firemen?" Ed added in a similar tone, tough more depressed.
"And burned to a crisp?" Zander finished in the same tone as Ed.
Dr.Z ignored them and continued his demonstration. "I simply insert the card of the dinosaur into the Super Alpha Controller, and turn it on." He explained as he did said actions. There was a bright light as the controller lowered itself onto the card and was activated. After a few seconds the light died down and Dr.Z grabbed the card from the controller. "Ha, ha, ha! Behold!" He said as he showed them the new Acrocanthosaurus. The main difference was that it had a bright pink color as opposed to the orange from before.
"Well, the color is nice." Maximus commented.
"Forget the color. This Acrocanthosaurus is now going to be insanely powerful. And when you activate it, this dinosaur will be under your complete control." Dr.Z explained as he handed the card to Ursula.
"That's nice and everything, but where do we come in?" Ursula asked as she looked at the card.
"You use it to get all of the cards back that those brats stole from here, of course."
"What?" The trio gasped. He was just going to let this new, destructive dinosaur out already?
"Ha, ha, ha! With a dinosaur this strong, even you three fools might win for a change." Dr.Z said proudly.
"There's no need to get nasty." Ursula muttered.
"So, will they all turn purple?" Ed asked.
"Will you stop with the color!" Dr.Z yelled at him. "Anyway, I'm so confident you clods will succeed, the rest of your dinosaurs can stay here and play." He declared.
"Awesome!" Gigas said before he and Armatus started to spar, shaking the whole room as they did so. Things only got more chaotic when Maximus joined the fray. Brontikens, who was in his chibi-form at this time, watched in disinterest, not showing any concern of being stepped on.
"Stop it! That's enough playing! Watch the equipment!" Dr.Z shouted as he tried to break up the fight.
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Ace slowly walked up the top of the volcano. As he passed his fellow pack members, they barked and snapped their jaws at him. "Where's our food?!"
"Yeah! We're hungry!"
Ace ignored them and continued on walking until he reached the top where his alpha was standing. "Yes, Alpha?"
"Where's your hunting party?" She asked angrily. "They're not doing their job."
"Alpha, the land's changed too much. The remaining game has moved on. No doubt they escaped the island when the tide last went down." The Carnotaurus explained.
The Acrocanthosaurus refused to believe this "No! You're just not looking hard enough!"
"Most of my party is dead from searching." Ace reminded her.
"And so is my family!" She roared furiously at him. "Dead from starvation!"
"I'm deeply sorry about that, but there's nothing we can do about that anymore." Ace knew what he said sounded cruel, but if the pack was to survive they had to focus on what their next move should be. "We must leave-"
The Acrocanthosaurus didn't let him finish and responded to his first statement by smacking Ace in the face with her tail with enough force to send him crashing into a rock, smashing it on impact. "Oooh, he's gonna feel that one in the morning!" One of the spectators said.
"I think he's feeling it now." Another replied.
"I've had it with you and your incompetence! You can't do anything right! Why do you even stay here?! Go and ruin someone else's pack! You're officially banished from this pack forever!"
Ace's eyes widened at what he just heard. "But, Alpha-"
"Get out, you failure!" She roared before she lunged at him.
"Aah!" Ace screamed as she got closer.
"Aah!" His head quickly lifted up as he looked around where he was. He was in Rex's room. He looked around the bed and saw Rex and Tank were gone. Looking at a clock as well as the sun, he realized that he slept in 'till some time in the afternoon. "Just a memory." He told himself before a sad look appeared on his face. "But one that just repeated itself."
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A few hours later, the Alpha Gang were traveling to Japan in a submarine that was being paddled by some Alpha Droids. "Row. Row. Row. Row."
Ursula watched from the end of the room and got annoyed easily. "Listen up! We're going too slow. Pick up the pace. I wanna see double time." She said before she kicked one of the Droids.
"Ouch." The Droid muttered before shifting gears. "Row. Row. Row. Row." The submarine was now moving insanely fast across the seafloor.
"This feels more like quadruple time to me!" Ed said as he struggled to get the machine under control.
"Yeah, Ursula! Maybe you should watch what you're saying!" Zander scolded her.
"Maybe you should watch where you're going!" She told him as she pointed to a cliff they were fast approaching. "Whoa!" They all screamed as they approached the cliff before crashing into it and surfacing.
The Alpha Gang gasped as they surfaced. Ursula growled when she noticed an octopus was attached to her head. "Get off." She growled as she tossed the thing away. "Well, at least we got here in one piece." She said as she looked at their location.
"Yeah, but where is here?" Zander asked, looking at the surroundings. "What's the map say, Ed?"
"Map? I thought you had the map." Ed answered. What they didn't know was that they had just arrived on the coast of Sanjo City.
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Nighttime fell over the D-Lab as the dinosaurs did their extracurricular activities. Chomp, who was full-sized, was playing four corners with Thorn and Lucky in the fields of the sanctuary. Ever since the escape from Zeta Point, the two of them had become close friends, which gave Chomp a bit of jealously whenever he wanted to hang around his horned brother, but still welcomed the Ceratosaurus into their friend group.
"Here it comes!" Thorn said as he rolled the ball towards Chomp with his horn. Chomp tried to stop it with his foot but missed and the ball rolled under him. "My bad."
"It's fine." Chomp told him. "This is mainly why we need a fourth player anyway." He looked to where the ball stopped and saw it was by Ace, who was lying down at the side of the waterhole. "Hey, Ace! Why don't you join us?"
Ace opened an eye and saw Chomp and the other two looking at him. "No thanks." He said before closing it.
"What's up with him?" Lucky asked as he and Thorn walked towards Chomp.
"I'm not sure. First waking up at 2 in the afternoon, and now lying on the ground like that. Something's up." Chomp quickly realized what it was and went towards Ace. "I'll handle this." He told his friends.
Ace felt the footsteps of Chomp approach, but didn't open his eyes. "Hey, Ace." Chomp said as he laid down next to him. "I'm assuming you're still upset about losing the Acrocanthosaurus to the Alpha Gang, huh?" Ace didn't bother responding, but the tensing of muscles told Chomp he was right. "Listen, Ace, it wasn't your fault."
"But it was!" Ace exclaimed as he stood up.
"Now it wasn't." Chomp told him as he got up at a much slower pace. "It was mine. I was the one who lost to Brontikens and made her too tired to fight him off. You didn't do anything."
"Exactly! I did nothing!" Ace stomped across the ground. "All I did was sit there while my alpha was captured by them. I've failed her again."
"Why do you want to please her anyway? From what you've told us after the incident, she wasn't an exactly nice leader if she banished you for not finding enough food." Chomp asked.
"Because I still feel like she's right in a way. I keep feeling that if I did more the rest of her family wouldn't have died." Ace looked down at his reflection in the water. "You don't know this since you were in a herd, but an alpha's approval was everything back in the day when you lived in a pack."
Chomp sighed in slight frustration. This was not as easy as he hoped it would be. He thought back about the time when Max comforted him about losing Thorn and tried giving the same advice Max gave him. "Just stay optimistic. You'll have your chance one day." Was all he could say before walking off with the ball to resume his game, leaving Ace to continue looking at his reflection.
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After some searching for information on where they were, the Alpha Gang was able to find out the location they arrived in, and were pleased to find out it was Sanjo City. And after some trekking through the forest, they poked their heads through some bushes and were able to see the lights of the city. "So, now it's our turn to visit the brats where they live." Zander said as he looked over the unsuspecting city.
"That's right." Ursula said as they came out of the bushes. "So let's get that Acrocanthosaurus out and see how much stronger it really is."
"Yes. Time for a little test run." Zander agreed as he pulled out the scanner.
"ALPHA SLASH! ACROCANTHOSAURUS, BLAZE!"
After a fancy summoning ritual, that was pretty much a ripoff of what Max does, a miniature version of the Acrocanthosaurus spun around in the air. After a transformation sequence, its eyes glowed red and it roared to show the finished transformation.
"What? You had to use blaze?" Ursula smacked Zander in the back of the head. "Can't you try something original?"
"Sorry. I guess I liked the sound of it." He replied sheepishly while rubbing his wound.
They all turned to look at the Acrocanthosaurus more closely now. "It looks a lot bigger than I remember it." Ed said nervously.
"And a lot meaner, too." Ursula added with equal nervousness she tried, and failed, to hide.
A modified version of the Alpha Ball circled the dinosaur before fading as the Acrocanthosaurus gave out a loud roar. "Dinosaur, show us your profile." Zander commanded it
"Please." The Acrocanthosaurus replied in a male voice. "If all the dinosaurs are getting names, I believe it's only fair for me to have one as well. Call me Pyro."
"OK, Pyro. Turn around and swing your tail back and forth." Zander commanded.
"Very well." Pyro replied before doing said action.
"He's actually obeying you." Ed said in astonishment.
"Yeah, thanks to Dr.Z's Alpha Controller." Zander said excitedly.
"So, the old goat finally made something that didn't blow up on us." Ursula said.
"Last test, I'll have Pyro come and greet us." Zander said as he pressed a few buttons.
Pyro responded by bowing to them. "Wow." Ursula and Ed said in wonder. And right after that, Pryo's sail lit up as he blew a fireball at them.
Pyro laughed at their burned bodies, while Ursula growled at Zander. "Thanks, but if I want barbecue I'll ask for it, all right?!" She yelled as she strangled the tall man.
"Yes. Point well taken." Zander said, choking until Ursula decided to let him go.
Pyro stopped laughing and looked at the burning tree he made. The fire coming from the burning plant made him feel even stronger. "So, I believe we have some business to take care of?" He asked them.
"Yep, let's show these folks a hot time." Ursula declared.
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In a dark void, the original Acrocanthosaurus laid on the ground. She groaned before she started to get up. "Where am I?" She asked as she looked at her surroundings.
"You're in the mind." Pyro's voice said before he appeared in front of her.
The Acrocanthosaurus jumped back at the sight of the larger predator, literally. "Who are you?"
"I am you. Only much more improved." He added smugly.
"You're me?" She asked before laughing. "Ha! If you're me then why are you a male?"
"I did say improved." He empathized, making the original Acrocanthosaurus glare at the sexist joke. "Anyway, consider yourself lucky. You may be in the back seat of this body, but you still have a front-row seat for all the destruction that's to come." He said before fading away and being replaced with a screen that was basically a window from the eyes.
"Hey, get back here! Don't just laugh and run!" The Acrocanthosaurus roared as she stomped across the vast void before stopping and watching what Pyro was seeing. Just what was that thing talking about? Whatever it was, she knew it would be ugly.
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As Pyro marched towards the city he left a trail of fire behind him. As he made his way onto the road, a man that was making a curve saw him, pulled over, and made a run for it. "The guy acts like he's never seen a dinosaur before." Zander jokingly commented on the man's behavior.
Pyro continued his march to the city using a coastal road, leaving footprints that might as well have been burn marks in the road with his hot feet. After a few minutes of walking, Ursula said. "I'm hurt. Those brats haven't shown up to welcome us to their town."
"But why would they welcome us since we know we're the enemy? And besides, we didn't tell them we were coming." Ed answered.
"That was sarcasm, Ed." Ursula told him before noticing they were heading right for a gas station. "Oh, hold on a minute. I'm not sure we ought to stroll past a gas station with a flaming dinosaur." Ursula told her teammates.
"It does sound a bit explosive." Zander commented.
Pyro heard this, but instead of staying put, he moved forward. "What are you doing?" The Acrocanthosaurus asked him.
"About to make an introduction." Pyro replied as a malfunctioning Alpha Ball flew around him.
"But the man just told you-"
"I know what he told me. But I don't have to obey him."
"What's going on, Zander? Tell him to stop!" Ursula told him.
"I did. Something went wacky with the controller, and now it's not working anymore." He replied as Pyro got closer to his target.
"Does it feel warmer than usual?" A man filling a car with gas asked the man cleaning it.
"Yeah. Global warming." He replied before looking up. "Oh!" Everyone turned to see Pyro heading towards them.
"What's that?" The man with the gasoline asked.
"I told you to stop." Zander said as he pressed buttons frantically to get Pyro under control.
"Run!" The two men and the guy in the car screamed as they ran away from Pyro.
The Acrocanthosaurus continued walking until he reached the gas station and stopped. "He listened. So who needs a controller?" Zander bragged.
"Great. If you have so much power over him, tell him to get back here!" Ursula yelled.
"Yeah, and then you can tell him to stop smoking at the gas station." Ed said nervously.
The other two quickly realized what he meant. "Do not burn the gas station!" Zander shouted as they ran far away.
Once they felt they were far away enough, they noticed Pyro didn't do anything. "Nothing's happening." Ursula said.
"Maybe he really does listen to Zander." Ed guessed.
"Well done. Well done by me." Zander patted his own back.
Once he said that, Pyro blew up the gas station. The blast was so large that the heat was felt by the Alpha Gang, and the D-Team and dinosaurs could feel shaking all the way from the D-Lab. "What's going on?" Max asked.
Once the shaking stopped, everyone ran outside to see what caused it. "Whoa! There's a fire downtown!" Spike exclaimed.
"It appears to be right on the coast. And it's a big one, even from up here." Jet told them from the sky.
"All right. I'll go check it out." Max said as he went for his bike. "You guys stay here, and wait 'till I call." He told the others.
"Be careful, Max!" Spike told his son.
"Right!"
At the gas station, Pyro laughed at the destruction he's caused while the Alpha Gang stood there, literally burned to a crisp. "Well, now you're well done, Zander. We're all well done." Ed commented.
"Ahhahahaha!" Pyro laughed into the night sky as he also roared. The Alpha Gang now realized they had just released a pyromaniac.
It didn't take long for the firemen and news to arrive on the scene. "We're coming to you live on the scene of what looks like a major gas station fire." The Anchorwoman told the camera. "Reports are will unclear at this time, but several witnesses say the blaze was started by the sudden appearance of a dinosaur."
Max parked his bike in the crowd of observers and saw who was responsible for the fire. "Whoa, is that the same Acrocanthosaurus?" He asked himself.
"Don't waste your energy fighting me! Use it to save yourselves!" Pyro mocked as he breathed fire at the fire trucks that were squirting water at him.
The crowd and even firemen started to take his advice and ran while Max just watched in shock. "If that is, then he's a lot bigger and stronger than I remember. And also male for some reason. I need to go get help. Huh?" He then heard the sound of tiptoeing and saw the Alpha Gang sneaking right past him. "It's the old lady. Except you're all burnt."
"Rgrh! I may be burnt but I'm not old!" Ursula yelled at him.
"We've been looking for you, kid!" Zander told him, pointing a finger at Max.
"You creeps are probably the ones who started this fire." Max accused them.
"Technically, that is not true." Ed answered. "Although you could say-"
"Thank you, Ed." Zander said as he covered the short man's mouth.
"Ha, ha, ha." Ursula laughed as she looked at Max, putting on a triumphant appearance despite being covered in ash. "Nice to see you again."
"So, what did you guys do to that Acrocanthosaurus, anyway?" Max asked them, getting straight to the point.
"That's our new and improved model." Zander bragged.
"New and improved?" Max repeated in confusion.
"And now that you've seen what our dear Pyro can do, give us back all those dinosaur cards you stole, or else we'll turn your town into one big barbecue!" Ursula threatened.
"No deal! You won't get away with this!" Max told them as he rode off.
"Hold on, how about just half of the cards then?!" Zander suggested. "Or a quarter of the cards? Or just one card will do!"
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Once he was far away enough to not get burned, Max called the D-Lab with his phone. "Bad news, guys. The fire was started by a dinosaur the Alpha Gang brought to town."
"What?!" Everyone gasped, the rest of the dinosaurs started exiting the sanctuary when they heard this. "Which one?" Rex asked. "Gigas? Brontikens?"
"Neither. It's the Acrocanthosaurus they nabbed the other day, only now it's a male and a lot stronger." Max told them. "It's also totally on fire."
Ace's eyes widened when he heard they did to his alpha. "On fire? You mean like on literal fire?" Utah asked.
"Yeah. They want the cards back or else they're gonna burn down the whole town." Max said, making everyone's eyes widen. "Dad, I need you or someone else to bring me my Dino Holder right away."
"I will. Until then you stay away from the fire." Spike told him.
"OK." Max replied before hanging up.
Once he did, the screen changed to a news broadcast showing Pyro in action. "And as you can see, the dinosaur is setting fires faster than the fire crew can put them out." The Anchorwoman said over the footage.
"He's right, that guy's doing just fine in the fire."
"We must run!"
"Where to?"
"Come on! We can handle him!"
"Are you crazy?! That thing's on a completely different level!"
"We've battled all of you before and came out victorious."
"But none of us breathed fire like that!"
"Enough!" All the dinosaurs stopped their arguing and turned to Rex. "This is what they want! They want us to be afraid! They want us to run away! But if we don't do something, everyone in this town will die!"
Everyone was quiet as Rex gave his speech. "I know you're scared, and you have every right to be. But you're all forgetting what we've accomplished so far. We've defeated everything else they've thrown at us, including an Apatosaurus.
You're all members of the D-Team, and the D-Team fight together. So long as we stand together, none of the Alpha Gang can defeat us!" Everyone cheered at the end of Rex's speech, Spike even shedding tears. "All right. Now, here's my plan."
He walked over to where Spiny, Salty, and Sushi were. "Spiny, you Sushi and Salty will be our first line of defense since your elements are water. Use your Move Cards as much as you can to stop him from breathing fire on you."
Salty and Sushi looked like they wanted to say something, but didn't get the chance when Rex then turned to Terry and Coal. "Terry, Coal, since you two are of the same element as the Acrocanthosaurus, you both will be right behind Spiny and the others and supporting them with your strength."
"Finally, a chance to crush those creeps." Coal said as she and Terry did a friendly headbutt, their version of high-fiving.
Then, he went to the Lightning Dinosaurs. "Chomp, you and Thorn are about as strong as the Fire Dinos, so you'll be covering them from his attacks, as well as attacking from behind to keep him on his toes."
Next came the Earth Dinosaurs. "Tank, Trooper. You both will try and avoid fighting as much as possible."
"Why? I could easily crush that thing." Tank whined in protest to her job.
"We need you two to work on putting the fires out. The Water Dinosaurs will help with their Moves, but that won't be enough so we need you and your tunneling skills."
"Fine." Tank grumbled, reluctantly accepting her job.
After them, the Grass Dinosaurs. "Mia, you and the Pteranodons main job is to protect Paris. She's the one with the healing powers, as well as what keeps the Pteranodons active. Other than that, help put out the fires."
"Yes, sir!" The Pteranodons saluted while Mia simply nodded.
Rex nodded in approval before turning to Diamond. "Diamond, avoid front-line fighting as much as possible as we can't have you using Laser Ray with everyone else out there. Cover the others, and feel free to go safely nuts."
"S-sa-safe?"
Rex groaned at her stupidity and facepalmed. "Ugh! Stay near us, but hit everyone that's not us!"
"Ooooh! OK! Can do! Maybe." She snickered.
Rex sighed at this. Maybe she should sit this one out, but they needed everyone as he went to their last dinosaurs. "Ace, you and the other Wind Dinos will mainly be helping out the fires out with Tank and Trooper. Also, keep the Alpha Gang in check. We don't know if that Acrocanthosaurus is all they brought."
"Understood." Ace nodded. He was honestly glad he wasn't going to be fighting the Acrocanthosaurus. He didn't want to screw it up for everyone else.
"All right, you all have your assignments. Me and Zoe will bike down there. Reese will teleport you all when I give the signal. Let's go, Zoe!"
"You got it!" Zoe said as they got on their bikes and rode towards the fire.
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Once there was no one else left, Pyro decided to leave the scene and head for the city. "Perfect. He's heading for downtown." Zander told his colleagues, all three of them having the ash covering them removed.
"This'll be fun." Ed said as they followed from a distance.
"The fire-breathing dinosaur has left the burning gas station and is now following the coast road toward town. If it isn't stopped, the entire city could soon be in flames." The Anchorwoman said. "We've gotten word that local authorities have declared a full state of emergency. Effective immediately, all residents are being urged to evacuate the city."
"Where are you going now?" The Acrocanthosaurus asked her counterpart, seeing him change direction.
"Towards that city where the humans live." Pyro replied with a tone of sinister glee. "It seems the enemy hasn't gotten the message yet. Examples will have to be made."
The Acrocanthosaurus gasped when she heard this. While it didn't look like it, Pyro did overhear Max's conversation with the Alpha Gang, and by extension her as well. Combining that with knowing Pyro's thought process, she knew exactly what he was going to do. "You'll kill all those innocent humans just to get some kids attention?!"
Pyro chuckled as Max continued to watch him pass by, setting the trees that decorated the roadside on fire just by stepping near them. "You OK, Max?" He turned to see Rex and Zoe appear next to him on their own bikes.
"Careful, guys. That thing is dangerous." He warned them.
"So are we!" Zoe said before sending a message on her phone.
A few minutes later: Chomp, Terry, Ace, Tank, Paris, and Spiny all appeared in front of Pyro in a bright light. "Oh, come on. Is that all they've got?" Ursula asked mockingly, crossing her arms in amusement at the pitiful defense. "They seem to be taking our super improved Acrocanthosaurus a little lightly."
Another bright light soon followed: bringing with it Salty, Coal, Mia, Trooper, Thorn, Utah, Lucky, Sushi, Diamond, and the Pteranodon trio. Zander and Ed whimpered on fear and backed away slightly at the sight of so many dinosaurs. "How's that for taking lightly?" Zander asked.
"Clearly this mission just got a whole lot easier." Ursula said before laughing. "Ha, ha, ha, ha!"
All the dinosaurs glared at Pyro, but the Acrocanthosaurus didn't seem the least bit intimidated. "So, you've all come here to save me the trouble of burning the city to find you." Pyro addressed the crowd. "Spoiler alert, your home won't be spared even after I defeat you all."
"You're too outnumbered to stand a chance against all of us." Chomp told him. "Leave. Now."
"Big words considering you couldn't defeat the original." Pyro mocked before charging forward.
"Everyone! Positions now!" Rex told them. Everyone went to where they were supposed to go: Tank and Trooper went by the line of trees on fire and started to cover them with dirt, the Wind Elements helped them from a distance, the Pteranodons flew overhead, while the rest blocked Pyro's path.
Spiny went first and charged towards Pyro. The two meet in a headlock. "Spiny! Your Move Cards!" Salty told him.
"Why can't you two do it?" Rex asked.
"It seems that we are unable to as we haven't learned how to use them, and can't unless we were summoned by the Dino Holder." Salty explained.
"Damn it. How did I forget about that? I had that in mind when assigning Paris and Mia!" Rex silently cursed himself for not remembering that detail about Move Cards in the control room. Hopefully this wouldn't hurt the plan too much.
"Well, that's bad." Spiny said as he backed off and activated Shockwave. "Thankfully, I have the power of the fire god!"
"Using water to fight fire. How predictable." Pyro said as Spiny fired the attack. Pyro's sail glowed before he breathed fire on the attack and evaporated all the water.
"What?" Everyone watching gasped before Pyro grabbed Spiny by the neck.
"It burns!" Spiny screamed before he was thrown down and attacked with another Fire Blaster. In mere seconds, he was carded.
"Just like that?" Paris said in shock. She didn't even have time to charge Nature's Blessing.
Realizing it was on them, Sushi and Salty charged forward. Sushi bit onto the Acrocanthosaur's neck, but quickly let go when she felt the burning heat of his skin. "His skin is hot to the touch!" She told them before she was smacked repeatedly with Pyro's tail and defeated.
Salty tried to hit him with his tail, but it was grabbed by Pyros's mouth before the Acrocanthosaurus flipped the Saltasaurus over. Unable to get up, Salty was helpless when the Fire Blaster attack reached him and defeated him as well. "Who's next?"
"Ha, ha, ha!" Ursula laughed. "It doesn't get any easier than that. Now we've already got three cards for the taking!" They ran to claim the cards, but were stopped by Ace, Utah, and Lucky blocking their path.
"Don't even think about it." Ace growled as he and the other carnivores got into pouncing positions. The Alpha Gang froze with fear, knowing better than to try anything that would set the predators off.
"Why does that Carnotaurus seem familiar?" The Acrocanthosaurus asked herself when she saw Ace for a brief second.
Terry, Chomp, Thorn, Coal, and Diamond all stepped forward as it seemed it now all fell on them to stop Pyro. "Finally, some real competition." Pyro said before the fight ensued.
Terry and Coal snapped their jaws at him, which he easily dodged, while Chomp, Diamond, and Thorn knocked him down. Pyro got back up and breathed fire at the trio. Unlike the Water Dinos, they, surprisingly, were faring a lot better. Pyro noticed this and stopped the attack. When he did, he noticed that they were having some kind of green energy surrounding them. Looking a bit to the left, he saw what was making it. "Clever strategy. But not clever enough." He said before leaping over them and going for Paris.
"Paris! Look out!" Chomp yelled.
Mia shoved Paris out of the way and took the force of the impact. "Dive! Dive! Dive!" Jet shouted to his men as they dived down to slice the Acrocanthosaurus. Pyro swung his head around like a club and knocked them all away. He then grabbed Mia with his mouth and tossed her right on top of the Pteranodons, carding both on impact.
Seeing she was all alone, Paris ran away since she knew she had no chance against the flaming dinosaur. "Where are you going?" Pyro asked. "The fun's just starting." He laughed before giving chase.
"Stay away!" Paris begged as she tried to get away from him.
Chomp quickly charged forward and knocked Pyro down. "Don't you dare touch her." He growled before charging up a Move Card. "Plasma Anchor!" An anchor of electricity came out of Chomp's horns and grabbed the Acrocanthosaurus. Chomp lifted him into the air before slamming the anchor down to the ground. Despite this, Pyro got back up, barely scathed.
Diamond, Terry, and Coal all appeared at Chomp's side while Thorn went to check on Paris. "You all right, Paris?" He asked as he led her to where the two ankylosaurs were still digging to put the fire out.
"I'm fine." Paris replied before she started kicking up dirt at the flames.
"You probably should stay here where it's safe." Tank told her. "Right, Trooper?" She didn't hear a reply. "Trooper?" She looked and saw a lack of an Ankylosaurus. "Oh, come on! Why is he able to break the rules?!"
Using his Mole Attack Move, Trooper was hoping to be able to sneak up on the Acrocanthosaurus. This proved to be more successful than he thought when Pyro stayed where he was and allowed him to knock him into the air. What he didn't expect was Pyro coming back down on his feet and knocking the Ankylosaurus onto his back, where he was as helpless as a turtle on its back. Pyro continued on beating him with his foot, adding burns to the Ankylosaur's stomach until he heard a screech in the distance.
Looking to the side, he saw Utah coming towards him with claws and jaws agape. "Oh, please." Pyro muttered and he grabbed her with his mouth, making her scream in pain from the heat even his teeth had, and tossed her next to Trooper before breathing fire on both and defeating them. "Give me some effort."
"OK, no one else do anything stupid." Tank said before she started picking up the pace with the digging.
In the helicopter, the Anchorwoman reported. "In a new development, a whole herd of dinosaurs has appeared on the scene and seem to be keeping the fire-breathing dinosaur from entering the city. But since then, their numbers have dropped drastically."
Down below, Pyro continued fighting off all four of his opponents. "This doesn't make sense. How is he not at all getting tired?" Rex asked.
Zoe put on her goggles and zoomed in on the fight. She watched as Pyro used another Fire Blaster attack before knocking Chomp down with his tail. "Of course!" She realized. "It's all the fire! Every time he uses that Fire Blaster attack, it's making him stronger!"
"So that attack of his is what is keeping him going? Is there any way to defeat him?!" Max exclaimed in frustration as he pulled his hair.
Things only got worse when Terry, Coal, Chomp, and Diamond fell to the ground simultaneously and were all defeated. "And now for the fun part." Pyro told the Acrocanthosaurus. "I'm sure you'll love this one."
"All you've been doing is brutally attacking all these dinosaurs. How will doing more of that make me feel better?" The Acrocanthosaurus asked.
"Because I get to kill that Carnotaurus for you."
"What are you..." The Acrocanthosaurus stopped as she started to remember seeing a mini Carnotaurus back at the volcano calling her Alpha. She didn't think anything about it at first, but know she knew exactly who he was. And it seemed Pyro knew what too. "No. You wouldn't!Not him!"
"What's wrong? I thought you said he was a failure? A waste of space. Now's the time to correct a mistake." Pyro laughed as he got closer to his targets.
Ace and Lucky were still guarding the Alpha Gang while they watched the fight and saw Pyro was heading for them. "Now what?" Lucky asked Ace.
"I know Move Cards, you don't. Help with putting out the fire. I'll handle this."
"Are you sure you can handle your former alpha?"
"That's not my alpha." Ace growled. "That's an imposter trying to take her place."
The Acrocanthosaurus was shocked to see Ace was still defending her after all these years. After all she did to him. Pyro, on the other hand, was very amused. "How adorable." He said before charging up another attack.
What he didn't know, or care, was that the Alpha Gang was still right behind them. "Jump!" They all shouted and leapt into the ocean once Ace and Lucky jumped out of the way of Pyro's attack.
What they didn't realize was that by jumping in the water they made the Super Alpha Controller sort circuit and made the Alpha Ball explode. On Zeta Point, the machine glowed red before it blew up as well. "What's happening?" Dr.Z asked as he ran into the room and saw the sorry state of his invention. "Oh, no! My Super Alpha Controller is fried!"
Once the ball exploded, a blinding light covered the whole battlefield. Everyone shielded their eyes, even Pyro. Once it faded, everyone gasped when they saw what was standing in front of Pyro. An orange Acrocanthosaurus. Ace slowly walked up to see if this Acrocanthosaurus was another new one. "A-Alpha?"
The Acrocanthosaurus turned to look at the Carnotaurus. "Ace, is it? Please don't call me that right now. But I do ask that you fight alongside me."
Ace smirked as best as he could. "It would be my honor."
"Oh, spare me the sappiness and fight!" Pyro roared before charging forward. Both carnivores side-stepped and smacked him down from the back with their tails. Pyro growled as he got back up. "You really think that is enough to defeat me?" His sail glowed again as he prepared another Fire Blaster attack at the Acrocanthosaurus. He fired at her, but she surprisingly didn't struggle as much as his previous victims. "What?!"
"Seems without the original you've just been nerfed!" Max told him, clear smug and excitement at the turn around in his voice.
"He's right." Pyro thought as he realized something that the separation made things even worse for himself. "I don't feel myself healing either." Roaring in anger, he charged forward and headbutted the Acrocanthosaurus to the ground. "You! You did this to me! You ruined me!" He roared as he put a foot on her neck, preparing to choke the life out of her.
"Leave her alone!" Ace shouted as he bit onto the Acrocanthosaur's neck. While it wasn't as hot as when Sushi bit it, it still did burn. Ace jumped off as he gained Pyro's attention, making him take his foot off the orange Acrocanthosaurus, and began charging up a Move Card. "Biting Wind!"
A giant tornado came down and separated into many smaller ones while a blue fire formed around Ace. The Carnotaurus gave out a roar before blades of wind came out of the tornados and flew towards Pyro. Pyro dodged as the blades hit the ground, sending embers everywhere. "Stop it, Ace!" Tank shouted as she started putting out the new, thankfully smaller fires with her tail. "You can't fight him with those types of attacks!"
"Yeah, all the wind is spreading the flames even farther!" Thorn added as he tossed dirt onto them with his horn.
"We need water!" Zoe said, shielding herself from the wind alongside her friends. "But all our Water Elements are defeated. We don't stand a chance against him now!"
"There is still a chance for Ace to defeat him with his Wind Moves." The Acrocanthosaurus told the kids once the wind died down. "Though Ace would have to get wet."
"What are you talking about?" Max asked.
"I remember that strong winds on water create hurricanes, and that might be just what we need to defeat him." The Acrocanthosaurus explained.
"Wind and water." Rex repeated. "I wonder if we could-? We've got all the seawater we need right here." He said, looking towards the coast. "The question is, will Ace do it?"
Not knowing their plan, Pyro turned tail and went for the city. "Look out!" The kids quickly moved out of the way when he passed right by them, stepping on their bikes and causing them to explode. In the city, people were being guided to a safer place by the police. Wherever that was. "If we don't do something really quick, our whole town is going to be up in flames." Max told the others.
"I know!" Rex said before running towards the sea. "Ace, over here!" He said before jumping in.
Ace followed before noticing where Rex was standing. "What are you doing?" He asked with surprise.
"I need you to jump in. You'll be OK, just trust me." Rex assured him.
Ace pondered the idea. If he didn't do anything, he would fail everyone, including his alpha again. But if he jumped in, who knows what could happen. "You can do it, Ace!" The Acrocanthosaurus encouraged.
With the encouragement from his alpha, Ace roared with determination and jumped into the water right besides Rex, creating a large ripple that slightly knocked him off balance. "Whoa! Now, ready to battle again!?" Rex asked once he regained his footing. "Use Cyclone!"
"You got it!" Ace replied before a tornado surrounded and engulfed him, creating a Cyclone much different than usual.
With the Alpha Gang, they were currently trying to swim away. Emphasis on trying. "Why aren't we getting anywhere?" Ursula asked when she noticed they weren't making any distance due to the lack of an ocean. "Where's the water?"
She got her answer with the appearance of a giant tornado full of water moving towards Pyro. "You had to ask?!" Zander and Ed shouted.
"Run!" Paris shouted as she, Max, Zoe, and the other dinosaurs moved out of the way of the attack.
Pyro noticed the attack and tried to run too, knowing when he couldn't take on that in his sorry state, but was stopped by the Acrocanthosaurus bitting onto his sail. "You idiot! Let me go!" He yelled as he desperately struggled to free himself.
The tornado then covered both Acrocanthosaurs while Ace headbutted Pyro. The Acrocanthosaurus let go as Pyro fell to the ground and was finally defeated, growing red and returning to his card.
"That'll teach him." Ace said as he shook the water off him, which didn't do much when it started to rain all the water back down. "Oh, come on!"
"Ace!" Rex said as he and the others ran over to them. "You both were awesome!"
"You both saved the whole town from certain destruction!" Thorn said.
"Well, I couldn't have done it without Alpha." Ace said.
"No." The Acrocanthosaurus shook her head. "From now on, I shall be known as Beta." The newly named Beta then bowed to Ace. "You are more of an alpha than I ever was. And I'm sorry for how I treated you. I'd realized it once you left the pack, you weren't the one to blame for my family's deaths, and I've been regretting my decision to banish you ever since. You deserved far better than what I gave you."
Ace noticed Beta started to cry and nuzzled her. "Hey now, that's all in the past. I was never angry at you. If anything, I guess I just wanted your approval."
"Well, you've got it now." Beta said before they both shared a laugh like old friends. "Ha, ha, ha!"
"Hey, guys?" Max asked. "Does anyone know what happened to Pyro's card?" He showed the deck he had in his hand of all their defeated dinosaurs. And sure enough, there was no sign of the pink Acrocanthosaurus.
"I'm guessing that since he was an alteration of Beta, he was erased when he was defeated since Beta's no longer a part of him." Paris guessed.
"Let's hope so." Thorn said. "I don't want to ever face someone like that again."
"Especially if I'm forced to get soaked." Ace said grumpily, which made everyone else laugh.
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"And that concludes our live coverage." The Anchorwoman said a few minutes later. "The dinosaurs vanished as mysteriously as they appeared. For now, at least, it seems the city has escaped a fiery and disastrous end."
As the helicopter flew away, The Alpha Gang were sitting on an island of trash at the side of the road that was over the water. "The things we go through for Dr.Z." Zander said.
"And does he even care we've been baked, boiled, and flambéed?" Ursula asked. It was then they heard the Alpha Scanner beeping. "Hmm?"
Once they told Dr.Z what happened, he was very furious. "What's that?! You lost the Acrocanthosaurus, and blew up my Super Alpha Controller!?"
"Well, maybe you should have told us it would short circuit if we jumped into the water with it, you know?" Ursula replied.
"And you should have told me you have only half a brain!" Dr.Z shouted before throwing a wrench at the screen.
The Alpha Gang recoiled in fear before realizing nothing happened. "At least I know you can't hurt someone by throwing things at the monitor." Ursula mocked.
When she said that, the screen began to crack. "Think again!" Dr.Z said before the Alpha Scanner blew up, once again covering the three of them with ash.
"All of his inventions blow up on us sooner or later." The trio said in unison. While that happened, something floated in the water right next to them before washing up on the island and being picked up.
Next time on Dinosaur King:
Max: Olé is going to cream them!
Zoe: They don't have Deckam!
Terry: An Altirinus?!
Tank: Why is he playing soccer?
Zander: Welcome to the first-ever Dinosaur League Soccer Match!
A/N: So this was fun to write. Hopefully you all enjoyed this battle, even if it was a little one-sided for the most part. I'll be honest, this episode is one of my favorites, mainly since I'm a big Ace fan ever since I was a kid. The reason for the battle royale was mainly... I liked the idea.
So there are some things I forgot to talk about in the last author's note.
1: People have been asking for Eoraptor to show up, as well as one for Eocharia. I'll say this now, only anime dinosaurs will show up in this. This is mainly due to complications with some Move Cards, as well as there being way too many if I did them all. Someone also wanted a rival for Brontikens in the Eoraptor, I'll say that he will have one that isn't Terry and Chomp.
2: D.R.O.I.D is kind of an original character, kind of not. If you remember that Alpha Droid that spoke in episode 48 that's him.
Anyway hopefully I covered everything, and I'll see you guys next time