A Loch Ness Mess
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"Talking"
Thinking
Flashback"
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It was a foggy night on Loch Ness when two men were searching the lake for the fabled Loch Ness Monster. "No wonder it's so hard to get a picture of the Loch Ness Monster." One of the men said as he searched with a lantern. "I can't see a single thing through this fog."
"Hey, less talkin' and more lookin'." The man doing the rowing told him. "I know Nessie's out there somewhere, and we're gonna catch her and make lotsa loot." He declared.
"Yeah, we're gonna be millionaires." The man with the lantern said as he turned around his face his partner.
While his back was turned, something bumped against the boat. "What was that?" The rower asked. The two looked behind themselves and saw a huge creature that looked like a sauropod. "Aah!" Both men screamed. "I think we're gonna need a bigger boat!" The rower said. "Let's get outta here!"
But before he could row away, the water beneath them rose and caused them to fly out of the boat and land in the water. When they surfaced, they both hugged each other in fear. "It was the Loch Ness Monster!" They both screamed as the creature vanished from sight.
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At the D-Lab, Reese, while snacking on some chips, and majority of the dinosaurs were watching the Anchorwoman report the news from Scotland.
"A recent reported sighting has focused worldwide attention once again on the Loch Ness Monster known as Nessie. The town of Loch Ness has offered a cash reward for proof of the creature's existence, reigniting a Loch Ness Monster craze." The Anchorwoman said as the camera showed a check for 100,000 dollars before shifting to the two men from earlier, having been pulled from the water and wrapped in towels. "We here at the station have dispatched a crew who will be going on-site with Dr. Spike Taylor and his assistants from the D-Lab in hopes of finding out more information for you." In reality, she was actually in front of a scenery prop that looked like she was in her studio in Sanjo, but was actually in Scotland right by where the mayor of the town was giving his announcement about the hunt.
The camera then showed the D-Team posing at the airport: Rex and Zoe looking nervous and blushing in embarrassment, Max giving the stupidest smile ever, and Spike really looking like he has to use the bathroom. "Now, a break for our sponsors."
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After meeting up with the news team and bringing out their dinosaur partners, who they had to keep in card form on the plane, the D-Team got into a van on the way to Loch Ness. "This is so cool. We're in Scotland, you guys!" Max said with excitement. "A Nessie's, like, the most famous dinosaur of all! I can't wait until we see her."
"And when we fight her." Terry added, wagging his tail like a dog in Max's lap.
"She's not a dinosaur, nor is she even real." Ace told him grumpily. "There is no way she could have survived the asteroid, much less live for millions of years, and go unnoticed." This whole craze was driving him up the wall with all the stupidity of these claims. Even with all the impossibilities regarding his current living circumstances, everyone has to draw a line somewhere.
"Of course Nessie's real." Spike told him. "Don't forget, they put me in charge of this little expedition." He reminded them with a big smile on his face.
"You only reminded us about that a hundred times." Tank muttered with an eye roll.
"They even call me 'Chief', and I don't take that title lightly." Spike said with excitement as well.
"Your dad's really getting into this, isn't he?" Chomp whispered to Max from atop his head.
"I just think that he likes that they're calling him Chief." Max replied with a knowing smile.
"Glad to hear you're serious, Chief, 'cause if we come back without a story, we're all fired. But, hey, no pressure, right, Chief?" The director asked Spike as he gave him a nudge.
"I like the sound of that." Spike sighed. "You can count on me, Mr. Director.
"See?" Max told his friends while chuckling.
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After a while, they arrived at Loch Ness. "Whoa! So this is Loch Ness." Rex said as he looked around.
"It does feel sort of mystical, ya know?" Zoe commented on their foggy surroundings.
"The Loch Ness Monster could be out there, right?" Max asked.
"That's right!" Spike declared as his eyes beamed. "And now I say let the search begin!" He said as he struck a pose, only to realize quickly that Chomp was biting on his pants and pulled them down. "Cut it out, Chomp! You ruined my big moment!" Spike cried as he ran around to get the Triceratops off. "I've been working on that!"
"I knew I forgot to feed someone today." Max sighed, facepalming from the embarrassments of both his forgetfulness and dad's antics.
"I hope we haven't made a casting mistake." The director also sighed in embarrassment.
"Are you here looking for Nessie, then?" A man asked with a Scottish accent.
"Huh?" The director turned around and saw a man in a fur vest approach them.
"Oh! Yes, that's right. Why'd you ask?" Spike stopped running and asked once he noticed the man. He also took this moment to get Chomp off and pull up his pants.
"Well, now in that case, if you'd be interested, I can show you a place where you'd be certain to spot her." The man told them.
"Are you serious?!" Spike exclaimed as he and Max slid up to the man.
"Yeah, have you actually seen Nessie, sir?" Max asked.
"Aye, I have indeed." The man answered.
"Wow, that's awesome." Terry said.
"He's only lying to gain money or attention." Ace told him.
"See what a great chief I am?" Spike said to the camera. "Already, I have located an eye witness who can prove the monster's existence."
"No, you haven't. Don't believe that old man" A young boy, also with a Scottish accent, said as he came down from a tree.
"Quiet, lad!" The old man told him before chuckling nervously. "Hehahaha! John here is quite the little comedian, huh?"
"He's terrible." Spiny said, believing the obvious lie.
"Begone! Scat!" The old man told John while glaring nastily at the boy, who gave a 'hmph' in reply.
"Tell me more about the time you saw Nessie, and can you take us to the spot where we can see her, too?" Spike asked nicely while the old man fumed with anger.
The old man regained his composure. "Well, I suppose I could tell you a little bit about it." He said before chuckling and looking sly at Spike. "Why don't you come see my Nessie museum and my genuine Nessie artifacts?"
"Really? Artifacts?" Spike repeated.
"Follow me." The old man told them as Spike and the camera crew followed him. "Rarer treasures you'll never see."
"Uhhh." The D-Team said in reply to this, not sure about what this man was saying.
"You got to tell lies to get new customers, don't ya?" John mocked.
"Go and kind your own business, boy!" The old man yelled at him. John blew him a raspberry and ran off, leaving the D-Team confused by the little boy.
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"So these are your Nessie 'artifacts', sir?" Rex asked as the museum turned out to be a gift shop filled with many different kinds of Nessie-themed toys, keychains and other merchandise.
"Well, you do have a lot of them." Zoe commented.
"And every one is authentic because no one in Loch Ness knows more about Nessie than me." The old man said proudly from atop the stairs.
"Uh..." The D-Team replied.
"Or makes more money off of her." John said as he appeared through the window.
"I told you to stay away!" The old man ran down to the window and yelled at him again before turning his attention back to the group. "Uh, never mind him, folks, it's just one of the local riffraff." He apologized before resuming his position.
"No problem at all. Why don't we get some shots of you telling us about the time you saw Nessie?" Spike suggested.
The old man cleared his throat and began. "Yes. It was back-"
"The Loch Ness monster is dead!" John told the camera, suddenly appearing beside the old man.
Everyone gasped at this. "John, why are you saying that?" Max asked him.
"'Cause everybody knows she's been dead for centuries." John said.
"I told you guys." Ace said.
"That's enough out of you!" The old man said as he tried to grab John but failed as he boy slid down the railing to the others.
"But, there was a sighting just yesterday." Rex pointed out. "And the two men's testimony gave too much evidence to just be staged."
"Right, but what they saw was just the ghost of Nessie." John told them.
"Ghost? Really?" Spike and the director tensed at this information.
"Really?" Ace mumbled to himself in disappointment. Just when things were making sense.
"Boo! That's right!" John said into the camera, adding a little creepiness into his statment.
"You rodent!" The old man tried to grab him again and failing on before chucking nervously at the camera. "Hehehehe."
While that was going on, the Alpha Gang was turning out to be watching the show from somewhere else. "A ghost!?" They all repeated.
"This lake is haunted!?" Zander asked before he and Ed started freaking out.
"I wanna go home now! Can we, Ursula!? Please?!" Ed cried as he hugged her.
"Errrgh." Ursula responded by bashing them both on the head. "Would you two get a grip? There is no ghost! What they saw last night was us!" She reminded them. "Did you forget we disguised our submarine as Nessie?" From underwater, the submarine looked like a typical Alpha Gang sub. But above the water, a large plastic animatronic was attacked to it, giving off the appearance of Nessie.
"Oh, that's right." Zander remembered embarrassingly.
"This way, we'll attract the real Nessie because she'll think that we're another Loch Ness Monster. And then we'll catch her." Ursula explained.
"Maybe we should stick on a mustache?" Ed suggested.
"Be quiet and start looking!" Ursula ordered as Zander looked through the eyes of their Nessie submarine, the eyes of the animatronic going forward like a periscope.
"Wow. Looks like that fisherman caught himself a nice bass." Zander said.
Seeing they were hopeless, Ursula pushed him aside and grabbed the periscope. "Get out of the way and let me handle this!"
"A 100-pounder, too." Zander said in disappointment.
"If we catch the Loch Ness dinosaur, we not only get the card but the town's cash reward, too. And after all our troubles lately, talk about a two for one!"
"But if Nessie's a Dinosaur Card, wouldn't our Alpha Scanners be going off?" Ed asked, pulling out his to show a lack of a signal.
"And wouldn't getting the hundred-thousand just remind Dr.Z we lost the million?" Zander added.
"Shut up and watch some TV!" Ursula told them, her annoyance rising, which made the two men easily comply with the order.
Back at the shop, the old man had John in his grip that looked like a chokehold. "Let go of me, you big phony!" John struggled.
"You have made a fool out of me!" The old man said.
"Uh, guys, the camera's still rolling." Spike pointed out. "So settle down and tell us what you mean about Nessie being a ghost."
"All those who seek the monster will be cursed." John said before slipping out of the man's grasp and getting in the camera's face. "She'll come for you!
"Aah!" Zander and Ed screamed. "First a ghost, now a curse! This place is terrible!" Ed freaked out.
"Yeah! Let's bag this mission, Ursula!" Zander told her.
"How many times will I have to tell you, there is no ghost?!" Ursula yelled at them. "We've got a dinosaur to catch! Now, are you men or are you mice?"
"Are those the only choices?" Ed asked.
As the submarine drove across the lake, it drove right over a capsule.
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Once the camera stopped rolling, the team decided to head outside. "Do you really think Nessie is a ghost?" Paris asked, shaking a little at the thought.
"That would explain why the Dino Holder didn't detect anything." Zoe said as she pet Paris on the back to comfort her.
"It didn't detect anything because there's nothing to detect." Ace said, his frustration growing.
"Well, ghost or dinosaur or whatever it is, I just want to see it for myself." Max said.
"Chief!" The director called out as he and the camera guy ran over to them.
Spike, who was looking through some binoculars at the time, turned around to see what the director had to say. "Huh?"
"The shopkeeper says there's something in the forest we should check out right away." The director told him.
"Yeah?" Spike asked with growing excitement.
"Let's go!" Max said.
"No! You kids need to stay here." Spike told them, confusing the team. "I, and I alone must determine if this is, in fact, the authentic Nessie."
"But why?" Max asked.
"Because I'm the chief here!" Spike yelled at him, startling his son at his tone. "And as the chief, I have no choice but to face any danger alone." He said before getting a grin on his face. "Yeah! I like the sound of that! Chief!"
Max just sighed and slumped as his father and crew left. "Hey, we can search around the lake." Chomp told him. "We'd have much better luck finding Nessie in her element."
"Okay." Max said as they went off to search.
Minus Ace, who stayed behind. "You're not going to find anything!" He told them as they left.
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On another part of the lake, the Alpha Gang parked their submarine on the shore of the lake and emerged from the back of the animatronic, gasping for air. "I'm sorry, guys." Zander apologized. "I knew I shouldn't have had those burritos for lunch."
"Hey! It's those kids!" Ed pointed out as he saw the D-Team in a clearing thanks to their height.
"Huh?" Zander and Ursula gasped as they noticed the D-Team as well.
"Nessie! Come on out!" Max called out. "Where are you? Just come on out and show yourself!"
"Well, at least for a change, we don't have the old lady to worry about." Zoe commented.
"Hey! Did somebody just call me an old lady?" Ursula asked.
"I don't think so. I didn't hear anything." Ed pointed out.
"I can hear it even when I don't hear it!" Ursula yelled at him before growling in anger. "Errrrgh! I'm not about to let those brats find Nessie before us! Prepare the sub to submerge!" She said before going back in.
"I'm not so sure my stomach's ready." Zander told her.
"Shut your yap and then shut the hatch!" Ursula yelled at him, making the two men wince with fear.
"Okay." Zander and Ed obliged.
Both men got into position and Ed grabbed the controls. "Here it goes." He said as he started to lower the sub.
"Submerge!" Zander commanded.
Instead of diving down, the submarine went forward and collided with the shore. "Aah! What'd you hit now?" Ursula asked Ed.
"I'm not sure." Ed replied.
"We must have gotten stuck on something." Zander guessed. He was correct, as the head of the animatronic was trapped in between a tree branch.
"Is there any job you can't mess up? Give me that thing!" Ursula said as she snatched the periscope from Zander and started shaking it around in an effort to get themselves free. "All you have to do is wiggle it like so, and then jiggle it around like this, and then turn it like that." All this did was shake the head around, open the mouth, and expand the eyes.
While this was going on, the D-Team noticed the trees the head was stuck in were shaking. "Look at that! Something's moving around in those trees." Rex pointed out.
"Do you think it could be Nessie or her ghost?" Paris asked fearfully.
"Only one way to find out." Terry said before charged towards the source of the shaking.
"Hey, Bro! Wait up!" Chomp called out.
Terry continued on running until he found what was making the noise. To him, it wasn't the Loch Ness Monster. It was something worse. "Brontikens!" He growled before leaping into the air and biting onto the animatronic's head. "Not so tough now, are ya?"
"Oh, no! It's the ghost!" Zander and Ed cowered and screamed as they heard the new noise from above.
"It's not the ghost! There's someone else out there!" Ursula told them. "Now do something!"
"Ehe." Zander and Ed chuckled sheepishly. "Of course, we knew that the whole time." Zander lied. "Now we just have to get back into the water." While this was going on, Terry was biting many holes on the subs head, still thinking it was his Apatosaurus enemy, despite the fact he was tearing the skin off and revealing the mechanical parts inside
"I'll get us loose!" Ursula said as she began shaking the head around like crazy.
"Hey, Terry!" Max called out as the rest of them arrived on the scene.
"Almost there! Yaah!" Ursula gave one last giant swing, which was enough to send Terry flying off the machine and into the water.
"Woah!" Terry exclaimed before he splashed a few good feet from the sub. Due to all the adrenaline going through him, when the Tyrannosaurus resurfaced he was struggling in the water. "Help me!" He begged his teammates.
"Oh, no!" Max and Chomp exclaimed as they and the others ran to help him. They found a dead tree on the shore and tried to break off one of the branches.
With the Alpha Gang, they finally managed to break free from the tree. "Ah! I think we're finally free." Zander said.
"Then submerge immediately." Ursula commanded.
"Rodger that!" Zander and Ed saluted before the sub went back into the water.
Max and Chomp managed to break off a branch and held it out for Terry to grab onto. The little Tyrannosaurus saw the branch and latched onto it. "I got it."
"All right. I've got you." Max said before he started pulling him in. Once Terry was ashore, Max gave him a hug. "You're okay."
"Look! Whatever it was, it's gone now." Tank pointed out.
"It was Brontikens. I'm sure of it." Terry told them.
"Bro, if that was Brontikens you'd be crushed by now." Chomp pointed out.
"Does this mean Nessie really is a ghost?" Paris asked, shaken by what happened.
"I'm not sure." Max replied. "All I know is that something is out there."
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Underwater, Ursula was lecturing her partners. "Honestly, you two. Do you think you could maybe go at least five minutes without getting us into any more trouble, please?"
It was then that the periscope started to malfunction as the head of the animatronic was damaged by Terry's biting. "Uh?" Was all they could say before the whole sub stopped working and crashed on the lake bottom. "So much for that! You couldn't even make it five seconds!" Ursula coughed as the smoke cleared to reveal their fried bodies.
"Maybe we should shoot for two?" Zander and Ed suggested.
As the sub started to resurface to check for damages, they failed to notice the opened-up capsule and the card that was activated.
The dinosaur was a small sauropod. The water gave it a dark blue color with a white underbelly, when, in actuality, it was yellow with a row of red bumps in pairs going from its neck till its back, ending where the tail starts. The nostrils this time were in front of the eyes, as opposed to just above on the head or slightly behind like Salty, Gertie, and Brontikens had theirs, but not as close to the snout as Charles. But the main feature of this dinosaur were the spikes on its neck, eight pairs across from each other on the red bumps, with one solo spike up front. This dinosaur was an Amargasaurus. Once summoned, it immediately went to the surface to get some air.
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Once they returned to the museum, the D-Team told Spike and the crew everything they saw. "So you're saying that you actually saw Nessie's ghost?" Spike asked them.
"Well, it disappeared before we got there." Max told him.
"But Terry was definitely attacking something." Zoe said. "It even threw him into the water."
"Aah! No!" Spike exclaimed. "Why did you let me listen to that shopkeeper?!" He asked the cameraman as he started choking him by accident before letting go. "I knew we wouldn't find anything in the forest." He said before dropping to the floor and pouting, imagining a lone spotlight shining on him like the loser he is. "I'm a sorry excuse for an expedition chief, letting a chance like that pass me by!"
"Do you have any proof of this ghost you saw?" The director asked them. "Like a photograph or a videotape?"
"No." The kids replied together. "It all happened way too fast." Zoe said.
"No problem." Spike said as he got back up. "There's one simple solution to this. We'll capture Nessie's ghost! Hyah!" Spike exclaimed as he pulled out a butterfly net.
"Does he seriously believe he'll catch a ghost in a butterfly net?" Ace asked.
"Yeah, even for Dad that sounds pretty stupid." Max admitted.
"Here we go! Follow me to glory, everyone!" Spike said as he marched away.
"We're with you, chief." The director said as he and the cameraman followed him.
The D-Team just sighed at the hopelessness of the situation. Things got better when the Dino Holders started to go off. "A dinosaur!" Rex exclaimed as they checked the location. "And it's right here on Loch Ness!"
"So Nessie's both a dinosaur and alive after all!" Chomp realized.
"Still pushing it, but yes, it's more likely now." Ace admitted as they walked down to the lake's beach.
"Well, it makes sense. How could Terry even attack a ghost? Aren't they made of imagination?" Spiny asked.
"Never mind that. Let's split up and look for it." Max decided.
"Okay!" The rest agreed as each trio went in a different direction.
In a cave not too far away, the Alpha Gang was repairing the head of their sub. "Would you two hurry up and finish with those repairs?" Ursula asked impatiently, lying atop the animatronic's back. "Do I have to remind you that dinosaur's out there waiting for us to find it?" She sat up, revealing the Alpha Scanner in her hands that was giving off the same signal. "Ergh. If those brats get the dinosaur before us, I'm gonna flip."
"Why flip when spinning is much more fun?" Zander joked as he did said action like a ballerina.
"Well, I had to rebuild the whole head, but I think this'll work." Ed said as he showed his finished creation to his teammates.
"Let me see." Ursula said as she took a look and was immensely impressed. "Ed, that's a brilliant improvement." Even Zander thought it looked fitting.
Suddenly, the cave went dark as the Amargasaurus walked right in front of the entrance. "Hey, look! There it is!" Ed pointed out.
"Ha, ha! Old Nessie came right to our door!" Ursula cheered. "Get that new head attached and let's go!"
"Hip, hip, hooray!" Zander and Ed cheered.
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"Nessie!"
"Where are you, Nessie!?"
Max and his team were running along the beach until they passed a boat and a voice asked them. "What's the use in calling out for a ghost?"
"Hmm?" They turned around and saw John come out from the boat and sit on the edge. "Oh, it's you again." Max recognized him. "You scared us." He said, which John replied with a chuckle. "Are you sure about Nessie being a ghost?" Max asked as he walked up to him and sat on the boat as well. "Or are you just saying that? Come on, you can tell me the truth."
John paused for a bit before responding. Something about this kid and his pets made him seem like the type that wasn't going to run to the reporters once he told him. "Maybe. But first, you tell me something about your dogs here." He said as he pet Terry and Chomp on the head, which they kindly accepted . "Looks more like a Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus, if you ask me."
Chomp responded by playfully nibbling on John's hand while Terry did the same on his jeans. "Hungry, huh?" He asked jokingly as the both looked up at him. "Aww, you're both really cute."
"So do you like dinosaurs?" Max asked him.
"Yeah." John nodded before looking serious. "I guess I probably ought to tell you the truth."
"Huh?"
"What I said about Nessie being dead, I was just making that up." John admitted.
"I thought so." Max said. "How come you wanted us all to think that?"
"I thought that if I said there was a ghost, it'd scare everyone off." John told them. "People are always coming here to expose her. I guess I just wanted to protect her."
"Yeah, I can understand that." Max agreed, knowing that was why they never told anyone about the dinosaurs at the D-Lab.
"Ever since I saw her when I was little, I've felt like Nessie and I were friends, even though I've never seen her again since that day."
"So you have seen her!" Max realized before asking him a ton of questions. "What'd she look like? How big?"
"I don't really remember it all that well." John said as he recalled the event. "I was only four years old, but I remember she came right up to me."
Nessie lowers her head to John's level, and the little boy responds by touching her snout
"I always wonder, if I'll get to see her again, if she'll recognize me."
The little boy's eyes beamed in delight and he laughed.
Suddenly the water started to rise as the boat started to rock around. "Whoa! Oh!" Out of the water, something began to rise. "Well, we're about to find out." Max said as the figure emerged and revealed itself to be the Amargasaurus.
"It's not her! Nessie didn't have spikes like that." John told them.
"Actually, that looks an awful lot like an Amargasaurus." Terry realized.
"Did you just-" John started to ask.
"Yes, I can talk. All dinosaurs can."
Suddenly the water erupted behind the Amargasaurus. "Guys! What's going on?" Rex asked as he and his team arrived on the scene. "Is that Nessie!?"
The water cleared to reveal a creature that looked like Nessie, except the head was a lot like Ursula, only creepier. "If that's not a Loch Ness Monster, I don't know what is." Terry said.
"Never mind that." Max told him. "The Alpha Gang!" He pointed to a hatch opening up on the back.
Ursula emerged from the hatch and laughed. "Hahahaha! What do you little snot noses think of our latest creation?"
"It's called Lady Nessie!" The trio said together as the head shook around and gave them a wink, just making everyone watching uncomfortable.
"Lady Nessie?" Rex repeated.
"That's just so wrong." Max groaned while facepalming.
"Do you know these weird people? Did you bring them here?" John asked them, getting pretty upset at the possible betrayal.
"We more happen to cross paths a lot." Chomp told him. "You should get out of here. They're dangerous."
Back in the lake, the Amargasaurus noticed the 'monster' behind her and ran away in disgust. "Huh? Why would she run from such a beautiful face?" Ursula asked as she started to cry at the insult.
"Well, I don't know, Lady Nessie, It looks like your for being Queen of Mean has preceded you." Zander answered.
Ursula decided to ignore the remark, this was more important. "After her!" Ursula said as they went back inside and went after the Amargasaurus. "Come back, Nessie! Let's chat, monster to monster."
"Why'd they have to come here?" Max asked in frustration as they ran after them.
As the Amargasaurus went onto the beach, Ursula decided to initiate their capture plan. "Launch Project Capture!"
"Robot Hydro Missile number one, fire!" Ed said as he activated the missile.
A missile was launched from below the sub and surfaced the water before exploding to reveal a ton of white Alpha Droids. "Capture. Capture. Capture." They said as they all latched onto the Amargasaurus. But there wasn't enough to hold her down, so she was able to throw them all off with ease. "Release!" They said as they all fell into the water
"You got to get in there and save Amargasaurus, Chomp!" Max said as he got the Triceratops ready.
"DINO SLASH! GO, TRICERATOPS! ROAR!"
Zoe looked up to the sky and noticed the change. "Huh? It's a battle!"
Back with the fight, John couldn't believe what he was seeing. "Ah, no way! That's fantastic!"
"But keep it a secret." Rex told him, putting a finger to his own lips.
Ace looked at the fight and saw the Alpha Droids getting back up. "Rex, the robots are recovering."
"Then you'll have to go in and help." Rex said as he got his Dino Holder ready.
"No thanks!" Ace quickly said as he shook his head and backed away.
"Just send me in." Tank sighed. "Remember, Ace hates water."
"All right, then." Rex said as he got Tank ready instead.
"DINO SLASH! GO, SAICHANIA! SHAKE 'EM UP!"
Both dinosaurs ran forward and began to take action. Tank leapt into the water and was able to keep back most of the Droids with the swing of her tail. But a few escaped and gathered in front of the Amargasaurus. "Capture. Capture."
"Oh, no you don't!" Chomp said as he got in front of the Amargasaurus to protect her. The Amargasaurus responded by knocking him into the robots with the swing of her neck, not realizing the Triceratops was trying to help due to her stress.
"Chomp! Get up!" Max urged him as the Amargasaurus roared in frustration, waving her head around in agony. "The Alpha Gang's making that Amargasaurus even more upset!" He realized, remembering what their partners told them about rampaging dinosaurs. "If we don't stop her, she'll hurt everyone, including herself!"
"We're running out of Capture Droids!" Ed told them.
"Then do something about it!" Ursula ordered. "Launch the second missile so we can capture that Triceratops, too! Do I have to think about everything around here?"
"Missile Two, launch!" Zander deployed the missile and it once again surfaced and exploded. Instead of robots, this one had an electric net, as in the kind of net that was made out of red energy, not that the kind that was shocking them. Everyone gasped as the net covered both Chomp and the Amargasaurus.
"Oh, no!" Max said. "Tank, help them out!"
"I'd like to, but there's too many damn robots on my back!" Tank said as she tried shaking them off of her, majority clinging onto her back like barnacles.
"We got 'em both!" Zander and Ed beamed.
"This is called surfing the net!" Ursula joked before giving the order. "Pull 'em in, boys!"
They attempted to reel the two dinosaurs in, but along with their combined weight, the Amargasaurus was moving in the other direction, making the task impossible. "They're too heavy! It's gonna tear the ship apart!" Zander said before cracks started to form.
The animatronic then broke apart, leaving a skeleton of the original and just the hatch and head, which actually was blushing, still attached. "This is called humiliation." Ursula said with shame.
Once the net faded away, the Amargasaurus knocked Chomp into the water with her neck. Chomp looked up to see the Amargasaurus slowly walk towards him, like a carnivore going in for the kill. "Chomp!" Max cried out to his friend.
Thankfully, help was on the way as Tank threw off the Alpha Droids on her back and ran to where Chomp was to assist him.
Before she could reach him, Zander opened the hatch and stepped on out. "We're still afloat! Go kick some asses, Maximus!"
"ALPHA SLASH!"
When Maximus appeared, it was right on the sub. "Aah! You're too heavy! Get off the ship! Aah!" Zander begged as he started panicking.
"You're sinking Lady Nessie!" Ursula yelled at the Triceratops.
"All right! All right!" Maximus complied as she jumped off the sub, Zander falling off when she did so.
Maximus landed right in front of Tank and immediately recognized her. "So, we meet again, Thick Thighs." She said as the Saichania came to a stop
"Don't go confusing yourself with me." Tank said as she leapt towards Maximus. The Triceratops sidestepped before quickly tossing Tank away with her horns. The Saichania landed on her back and tried to get up, but had no such luck.
"And that's game!" Maximus said as she charged forwards and knocked Tank into a cliff. Once the Saichania made impact, she was carded, her earlier struggles using up all her energy.
Turning her attention to her main targets, Maximus charged to them both. She knocked Chomp away with her horns before attacking the Amargasaurus. The sauropod tried to crush the Triceratops with her forelegs, but Maximus stopped her with a tackle, knocking the sauropod down, and tossed the Amargasaurus over herself with her horns and into the lake.
Before she could finish the job, Chomp stopped her and the two meet and on a headlock. "Leave her alone!" Chomp told the other Triceratops.
"Okay." Maximus said as she slowly backed away.
Before Chomp could question her behavior, the Amargasaurus appeared behind him and bit onto his back. "No!" Max cried in horror.
"This is bad!" Rex said as he ran towards the group after picking up Tank's card.
"Hey, guys!" They turned around to see Zoe and her team standing on the cliff behind them.
"Zoe!" Max said in happiness. "Perfect timing! We could really use help here!"
"No problem!" Zoe said as she got out her Dino Holder. "Let's kick some hiney, Spiny!"
"DINO SLASH! GUSH OUT, SPINOSAURUS!"
"Spiny Powers, away!" Spiny said as he landed and sent Maximus flying away with his head. Before the Triceratops could get up, Spiny lifted her with his neck and tossed her into the air.
"Nice hit!" Paris commented.
As Maximus fell back down, it was right on top of the sub. "Move! A little to the left!" Zander and Ed told her. But, it was for naught as she landed and destroyed the whole sub. "Never mind." Zander and Ed moaned. The trio laid groaning on the Alpha Droids like they were a raft while Maximus' card floated down.
"Yes! Way to go, Spiny!" Zoe cheered.
Back with Chomp, the Amargasaurus had grabbed onto one of his horns, and wasn't letting go anytime soon. "Get off!" Chomp said as he pushed her to the shore.
"Nice job!" Max told his partner. "Now, let's see how Thorn's Move Card works. Go, Lightning Spear!"
Electricity surged through Chomp's body before he charged forward and lifted the Amargasaurus into the air. The lightning than attacked the Amargasaurus in the form of a spear and went right through her. "No way!" John said as he watched Chomp defeat the Amargasaurus.
Both dinosaurs landed and the Amargasaurus twitched around before being carded and appearing right at Max's feet, probably congratulating him for his victory. "All right! I got her Dinosaur Card!" Max said as he picked it up and chuckled. "Heh! Wasn't expecting this."
"That was amazing!" John said as he ran up to him. "Wow! You're great!"
"Oh." Max chuckled as he blushed in embarrassment.
"I'm starting to think you've led us on a wild goose chase!" Spike said angrily as he and his crew walked into view. "Where's Nessie? And for that matter, where's the goose?"
"I'm not lyin', man." The shopkeeper told him, trying to convince him otherwise. "I saw Nessie's ghost with me own eyes, I tell ya! Just give me one more chance!" He then noticed the head of Lady Nessie. "A-ha! Look at this! It's another genuine Nessie artifact! This was definitely left by the ghost!" He exclaimed as he started hugging the head. "What other explanation could there be?! Ahh, I'm hot on your trail now, Nessie!"
"My expedition's officially a disaster." Spike sighed as he walked over to the kids and slumped in defeat.
"Not completely." Max said as he showed them their newest catch.
"Hmm? Oh, my! An Amargasaurus Card!" Spike exclaimed.
"Shh!" The team told him, not wanting to attract attention.
"Hey, don't worry about it. I know how to keep a secret." John whispered to Max.
"Oh, yeah, and Nessie's Just a ghost right?" Max asked back before giving John a thumbs up to tell him he's on his side. "I guess we both have a secret."
"Yeah." John said as he gave a thumbs up back.
"How many times will I have to explain that Nessie's ghost isn't a thing?" Ace asked with frustration. Chomp and Terry snickered to themselves. If only he was there.
DK
At sunset, Brontikens was attacking the town. Well, more just walked through it, scaring everybody. Everyone ran away in fear before he stopped in front of where the prize was. "Just what is this horrible creature?" The mayor asked in horror, the fright making him fall on his behind.
"You don't recognize your own Nessie?" Ursula asked as she walked up to him. "You wanted it caught, and that's exactly what we did for you." She said as she recalled Brontikens.
"Now, we'll take that reward money." Ed said.
"Thank you very much. Pleasure doing business with you." Zander said as he and Ed grabbed the check and the trio ran away laughing. "Ehahahaha!"
The mayor could only blink in confusion. "Don't know why they want fake money."
Later that night, the Alpha Gang celebrated as they used the Alpha Droids as a ride home. "Well, I can't believe we got away with all this money!" Ursula bragged.
"Like taking cash from a baby." Zander said.
"And all for catching a monster that doesn't even exist!" Ursula said before they all laughed. "Hahahahahahahahaha!"
The laughing ceased when they saw a huge sauropod-like creature swim right past them silently before disappearing into the night.
The trio immediately started to tense once it vanished. "What was that?" Ed asked.
"You don't suppose that that was Nessie's..." Zander couldn't say the word.
"Ghost?!" All three screamed in fear before hugging each other and whimpering.
Next time on Dinosaur King:
Ed: That was sneaky telling Dr.Z a dinosaur showed up show you can see Paris
Dr.Z: Impossible! A dinosaur just appeared in Paris!
Max: Don't tell me it's broken again!
Spiny: Chomp's gone too! Talk about Deja Vu. Hey, that rhymed!
A/N: Well, I told you I'd get one last chapter out to close the year off.
A bit of trivia for this chapter: The main reason Tank was added was for Maximus to defeat her. She hasn't lost till now, and I didn't want her to be a Mary Sue.
Ace's behavior in this chapter was meant to mirror off how I feel about Nessie in real life. It's too hard to believe something so big can go unnoticed for a long time.
Also, before any of you ask, the Amargasaurus is called Nessie.
As for the poll, I've gotten guesses in the comments, but no actual votes. Come on, guys!
With nothing else to say: here's to 2017, and for all that's to come in 2018.