Carnival of Chaos
Disclaimer: Dinosaur King is owned by Sunrise, Shout Factory, 4kidsTV, and any other company I missed. I own nothing
"Talking"
Thinking
Flashback"
DK
"Lunch time!" Helga announced as everyone at Zeta Point gathered around the table and took their seats. "So, what are you waiting for? Dig in!" She told them as she passed them the plates with their meal on them. Well, if you'd count a tiny gram cracker and a glass of water as a meal.
"Um..." Ursula said as tried to find the right words as to not upset Helga.
"Dig in to what?" Ed asked the maid as he and the others looked down at their food.
"I need a smaller fork." Zander said with the same disappointment as everyone else.
"I need a smaller appetite." Ursula added.
"Believe me, this is the best I could do working on a budget." Helga told them, annoyed at their rudeness when they should be grateful she was still able to feed them.
"Maybe you should work less on the budget and more on the menu." Ursula told her.
Helga glared at her with a look that made Ursula's blood freeze. "You can thank yourself and the Doctor for using up all our money." It was clear Helga was very pissed at the two of them.
"I have lots of expenses!" The doctor retorted as he shrunk in his seat.
"Until we have some more cash flow, you'll just have to grow your own food." Helga told the A-Team as she pulled out seeds and gardening tools from nowhere and tossed them to the trio. "Now get digging." The trio groaned in disappointment as they looked at the tools, or seeds in Ursula's case, in their hands. "Und you two." She said, turning to Rod and Laura. "Study hard so you don't end up worthless louts like them."
"Right." The children nodded before taking a bite of their whole food.
They looked over at the grandfather, who still looked ashamed from Helga's scolding. "Huh?" Seeing the looks he was being given, Dr.Z quickly followed suit and ate his. "Omm!" His two grandkids gave him deadpan looks.
Seth silently took a bite of his as he pondered the situation. Something had to be done.
Immediately after lunch, the A-Team went to the side of a cliff and began working on planting crops. Zander and Ed were hitting the ground with their shovels to make spots for Ursula to put the seeds when Zander stopped to take a brief back stretch. "Mmmmmmm! Oh, yeah!" He said as he finished and pulled out a handkerchief to wipe off the sweat on his forehead. "Nothing like an honest day's work getting back to nature and tilling the soil like our forefathers before us. You hear what I'm saying?"
"Yep, we'll be feeding ourselves with fruits of our labors." Ed agreed. "Vegetables, actually, but it doesn't quite have the same ring to it."
"Ahh, it's so true." Ursula sighed blissfully while sitting on a picnic blanket. "When harvest time comes in a few months and we- what am I talking about?! We'll all starve to death long before these crops are grown!" She yelled as she rose to her feet
"Nah, the dinosaurs on this island will definitely eat us all first." Dr.Z told them as he watched their work while sitting down.
"What?!" The Alpha Gang gasped at the news. "Are they starving too?" Ursula asked fearfully.
Dr.Z nodded in confirmation. "Mm-hmm. It's not easy feeding an island full of giant, picky eaters on my salary. They eat more than Ed. These dinosaurs have gone days without a decent meal!" As he was saying this, the dinosaurs were looked angrily at their empty food bowls, which only had tiny bits of food at breakfast. Even Brontikens was starting to lose his patience. And hungry dinosaurs are dangerous dinosaurs.
"But we're on a tropical island." Zander reminded him. "Surely three-fourths of our dinosaurs would be fine."
"I wish that was true. But, apparently, most of the trees and bushes on this island don't go perfectly with their stomachs and lack the calories they need. So they need to eat a lot of those plants to fill themselves up, much more than the cycads and other plants regularly feed them. They'll strip the island clean and then all of them will have to turn to meat-eating to survive!" Dr.Z explained.
"Eeeeeeeh!" The Trio paled at that news. "So we're doomed?" Ursula asked, horrified at the realization.
"There's still a chance, but we must act quickly."
"Huh?" The group turned to see Seth approaching them. "Seth, do you have an idea?" Dr.Z asked.
"I do." Seth replied. "Why don't we put the dinosaurs to work instead of the humans?" He proposed.
"Excuse me?" Dr.Z asked.
"Dinosaurs?" Ed started.
"To work?" Zander continued.
"Instead of us?" Ursula finished.
"Of course!" Dr.Z exclaimed as he leapt to his feet. "Humans already do that with other animals, so dinosaurs should prove to be much more effective at labor." The doctor then quickly realized something. "But would it be effective with our numbers?"
"If my new invention works successfully, we'll have more than enough dinosaurs on our hands." Seth said as he turned around to leave before stopping briefly. "Gather Brontikens and the other three. We'll need them for this to work."
(Intro Theme)
At the Taylor Household, Aki was doing the one thing that any kid would hate their mother for; showing baby pictures. "Aww, is this really Max?" Zoe asked as she and the others looked at a picture of a baby Max in a dinosaur suit, a pacifier in his mouth. "He was such a cute baby! Kind of hard to believe you're the same kid as in the pictures." She said jokingly to Max.
"Hey, what's that supposed to mean?" Max asked her as he paused the video game he was playing. "Why do you have to show people those pictures, Mom?"
"Oh, Max, don't be embarrassed." Aki assured him.
"Easy for you to say." Max told her before grabbing his game and toy Tyrannosaurs and going outside. "Come on, you guys. Let's go do something." He told the others present, slipping on his slippers on the way. For those that didn't already know, it was custom to wear slippers inside instead of shoes.
"Okay." Rex replied as he and most of the dinosaurs went after him, leaving Aki, Zoe, and Paris to continue looking at photos.
Zoe continued on flipping through the book until she came across a picture of interest. "Ah! This is you and Dr. Taylor, right?" She asked Aki as she pointed to a picture of a younger her and Spike in front of a ferris wheel.
"Mmm-hmmm!" Aki chuckled in response. "Yes, It is. That amusement park's a special place for us."
"Aaah." Zoe gasped when she realized what she was implying. "You mean that's where he asked you..."
"That's right. It was in that park that Dr. Taylor asked me to marry him." Aki said as she briefly recalled the events. "But don't tell anyone else about that. It's a secret between us girls, OK?"
"Yeah, OK." Zoe agreed before looking back at the book, seeing many pictures of Spike, including one of him with a goofy smile as he uncovered a dinosaur fossil. "What a great story! Whoever would've thought that Dr. Taylor would be so romantic?"
"I guess you're right. I'm afraid that he's been so busy these days that he's completely forgotten today is our wedding anniversary." Aki said with disappointment in her voice, making Zoe and Paris' eyes widen in shock.
Speaking of the doctor, he was currently at the D-Lab looking over all the work. Amy had just given the herbivores their breakfast and was about to move on to the carnivores. But his main attention was on Reese's work. "How's it going Reese? Are the upgrades to the Dino Holders ready?" He asked while looking at the large screen which showed the layout of each Dino Holder.
"Almost, I should be finished with them today." The blonde woman told him while electrically welding one of them.
"Great, you keep up the great work, Reese. Those Dino Holders are crucial."
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At Zeta Point, Seth had gathered the Alpha Gang's dinosaurs into his laboratory. All four of them were restrained in small pens and had some weird device that was strapped onto their foreheads and connected to a much larger machine. "So, uh, what is the purpose of this again?" Maximus asked.
"Well, whatever it is, it shouldn't waste my time. I'm hungry!" Gigas said angrily. "I haven't had a decent meal in over a week."
"Patience, my friends." Seth said as he walked over to them. "If everything works out in the end, we'll have enough food that you'll never go hungry again."
"And how is that connected with this, mate?" Armatus asked, gesturing to the metal contraption on his head.
"In order for this plan to work, we'll need a lot more dinosaurs." Seth told them. "This machine will scan your memories and give me that data I need to make replicas of the D-Team's dinosaurs." He explained.
"Wait, wait, wait. If you could do this, why couldn't you just do that instead of making us capture the cards?" Maximus asked.
"These replicas are only being formed from memories. They are not built for combat like the doctor wants. They are only needed to make this work." Seth said as he approached the on button. "Any last questions?"
"Just one. Will this hurt?" Gigas asked.
"You won't feel a thing." Seth said as he activated the machine.
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A little while later, the D-Team were sitting on a bench in the park, watching their dinosaurs play. "Max, I know your dad's busy and all, but how could he forget today is his wedding anniversary?" Rex asked him.
"Yeah, I agree!" Zoe said loudly with anger.
"You guys know my dad." Max said as he slouched back. "All he ever thinks about is dinosaurs."
"Well, I'm going to take them to their favorite amusement park later on." Zoe told them both. "I think when your dad sees it again, it'll all come back to him."
"What are you talking about?" Chomp asked as he stopped their game of chase to hear what she had to say, and felt the others crash into him. "Ohhh!" "Owwww!" "Oooof!"
"That is a secret between us girlfriends." Zoe said smugly, smiling proudly at her secret,
"Huh?" The others asked as they looked to Paris.
"The amusement park is where Spike first asked Aki to marry him." She explained, deciding not to keep it a secret from her teammates.
"Yeah. This is the place." Zoe said, also deciding they deserved to know, as she pulled out a magazine with an ad for said amusement park on the front cover with a dinosaur also there. "It was closed for a long time and just reopened. Now it's called Dinosaur Land, and it's all about dinosaurs."
"What?! Dinosaur Land?!" Max gasped as he took the magazine and began to dance in excitement. "I want to go! I want to go! I want to go!"
"I want to go! I want to go! I want to go!" Spike said as he mimicked his son's actions when he was told the news at the D-Lab.
"Great, but is it OK if we bring Mom?" Max asked.
"Sure, why not?" Spike said as he looked through the magazine. "I just can't believe there's a dinosaur park right here in our hometown! How could I have missed that one?"
"Well, I hate to break it to him, but that's not the only thing he's missed." Zoe whispered.
"Yeah, maybe once he gets to the amusement park, it'll trigger some sort of memory or something." Rex said.
"If not, we could hit him really hard on the head." Spiny suggested.
"That's if you have amnesia." Tank told Spiny as she whacked him on the head. "Or if you're an idiot. So, I guess it could work."
"You're on your own with those Dino Holders, Reese. I've got a roller coaster to ride!" Spike said as they left for the park.
"Wait, Dr. Taylor! Hold on!" Reese quickly got up, but they didn't listen.
"Bye! Don't work too hard!" Spiny said as they left.
"So how come no one thinks I might like to go to the amusement park?" Reese mumbled once they were gone before sighing in defeat and resuming her work.
"Would you have liked to go?" Hana asked Amy, who was sitting atop her head, as they walked into the sanctuary and went towards the waterhole.
"No thanks." Amy shook her head. "I'm still working on being around others, so I don't think a busy amusement park will do me favors at the moment."
"At least you can go if you wanted." Diamond told them as she stopped her drink. "The rest of us are forced to stay here, forever."
"It's not forever. Just until it's time to reveal you all." Amy reminded her as she hopped off Hana and pet the Pachycephalosaurus on the nose. "Your day will come. Trust me."
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Once they all arrived, the D-Team was amazed at the amusement park. All over the place were animatronic dinosaurs that looked just like their friends at the D-Lab, some even with the ability to move around. "Wow, this is so awesome, guys!" Max said with excitement as they took in the sights.
"Yeah, all the rides are based on dinosaurs." Rex agreed.
"It's really amazing just how real they all look, too." Aki mentioned.
The group then started to point out all the different rides they saw. "Ah! Would you look at that one? The roller coaster is a Supersaurus!" Spike pointed out the ride that had the gigantic sauropod under the rails like it was holding them up.
"Yeah, and the flying ride has Pteranodons on it!" Max said, pointing to a ride with three different colored Pteranodons strapped to the top: One green, one yellow, and one pink.
"Look! It's a submerging Futabasaurus!" Rex said, pointing to a Futabasaurus with a submarine on its back.
"Heheha! That one's made to look like the Carcharodontosaurus are turning it!" Zoe giggled as she pointed to another flying ride with two Carcharodontosaurs strapped to levers that would turn the machine gears.
"Last one to the roller coaster's a rotten dino egg!" Spike said as he immediately ran towards the ride.
"Right behind you, Dad!" Max said as he and the rest of his team ran to catch up.
"Max is just like his dad, they've both forgotten everything." Zoe said annoyingly. "It's not like we came here just to have fun."
"Hey! Come on, you guys!" Max called out to them while waving his hands.
"Hurry up! We wanna try and get the front car!" Spike added before they resumed their running.
"Oooooh." Zoe groaned as it seemed her plan was not working. "I guess it's gonna take more than just being here for Dr. Taylor to remember about your anniversary." She told Aki, disappointed that she failed her mission.
"Go have fun, Zoe, and don't worry about that." Aki assured her, seemingly not hurt by her husbands forgetfulness.
"Huh? Um, well, OK. Well, I'm still not finished yet trying to make him remember." Zoe stuttered in embarrassment before going after them. "Wait for me, you guys!"
"Rex, why don't you go catch up with the others?" Aki suggested to the blonde that remained with her.
Rex tensed when he heard that suggestion. "Uh, no, that's all right." He said as he started to get nervous, holding his hands up defensively.
"I'll be fine here on my own." She assured him.
"I know, it-it's not that."
"Oh?"
"I'm just not that big on rides throw you all around." He explained, remembering his experience on the plane ride when they found Meg. Tank and Ace saw this and immediately nuzzled his legs to comfort him.
"Ah." Aki understood. "How about we try something more calm." This made Rex sigh with relief. "It's strange, though. I don't remember there being so many rides here before." She said as she looked around at the various attractions, seeing many new ones.
Rex also looked around until he noticed something of interest in the ocean. "Why does that island look so familiar?" He asked himself.
That island was, in fact, Zeta Point. Inside the control room, the Alpha Gang looked over the progress of the park. "Ehahahaha! There's already over 2,000 paying customers in the park." Zander excitedly informed the others. "Wow!"
"As expected, Seth came up with a brilliant idea, taking over an old amusement park and using a bunch of clone dinosaurs to turn it into Dinosaur Land." Dr.Z said. Seth simply smirked at the praise he was receiving.
"So tell me how, much moola have we made so far?" Ursula asked Ed with excitement.
"I don't know." Ed said as he was about to check their totals before he remembered. "Oh, that's right. Helga took all the money we collected and went out to do some grocery shopping."
"Aaaah!" Ursula swooned when she heard that. "I can almost taste that first delicious bite already..." She said as her mouth began to water. "A juicy steak, or an omelet, or maybe fabulously fresh sushi!" She squealed as she began naming off possibilities. "Yum! I can't decide!"
"We have a problem." Seth said as he checked on the dinosaurs he created, snapping everyone out of their happy mood. "Doctor, because we didn't give the dinosaurs enough food after they were created, their glucose levels are getting dangerously low and making the control devices less effective."
"Uh, yeah." Dr.Z nodded as he clearly didn't understand what Seth was talking about but tried to pretend he did. As he said that, small A-shaped devices on each of the dinosaurs stomachs started blinking red the began to glow from blue, meaning all was functions well, to yellow, indicating failure was starting to occur.
"Which means..." Dr.Z started to say, hoping Seth will fill in the rest.
"If we don't feed the dinosaurs soon, their control devices will start to fail. They'll all go berserk in the amusement park!" Seth told him.
"Hmm. Somehow we have to hold out until Helga gets back here with all the dino kibble." Dr.Z said before turning to his minions. "You three, get over there and find a way to keep them happy until then!"
"What?! What are we supposed to do?!" Ursula asked before whining. "Oh, wouldn't you know? Just when I decided on surf and turf!"
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Back at the park, Max, Zoe, and Spike were all currently riding the roller coaster as they sped all around the park, Spike's hat somehow not flying off from the wind velocity. As it went around the park, Spike noticed a familiar-looking Ferris wheel. "Ah, that Ferris wheel. That's where I proposed to Aki." Spike remembered. "Yaa!" It was at this moment that things were starting to click into place. "Max, can you tell me today's date?!"
"What?! What'd you say?!" The brunette couldn't hear his father over the wind and screaming.
"I said I need to know today's date!" Spike repeated much louder.
"How come? You think it's a special day for you or something?" Max smirked as he knew they got his father now, which only confirmed to Spike that he screwed up.
"You're right today is..." Zoe was cut off by Spike's realization
"Our wedding anniversary!" Spike yelled as they went throw a loop.
"Aaaaaaand, he remembered." Terry said as they watched their partners go on the ride, unable to themselves since no pets were allowed on.
"I don't get what the deal is about forgetting an anniversary." Spiny said. "I mean, it'll just happen again next year."
"Remembering an anniversary means that you care about the relationship. At least that's from what I heard." Chomp explained.
"Why? Doesn't he have like ten other mates?" Spiny asked.
"Mmm-mmm." Chomp shook his head. "With humans, they have only one they pair with for life. Kind of like us in a way."
"I hear you. Back when I had a mate, I'd never look at another female again." Terry said proudly.
"You were in a relationship?" Paris asked.
"Yeah." Terry said before looking down sadly. "I doubt she's still alive, though. Or our offspring."
Paris noticed Terry slightly crying and nuzzled him. "There, there. We've all lost loved ones." She said as she comforted him.
"Yeah! And I'm sure you'll find a new mate someday!" Spiny told him.
"So far, I think there's only male Tyrannosaurus alive." Terry told him.
"Who said it had to be a Tyrannosaurus?" Spiny asked before getting slightly offended when he saw his friend's reactions of shock and fluster. "What? If we're gonna survive we need to have mix-species relationships, or no one's having children." Paris just blushed heavier when he said that.
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With the Alpha Gang, they were currently trying to get the dinosaurs to calm down, starting with the Daspletosaurus clone. "Take it easy there, big fella." Ursula said as she waved a sign of an unrecognizable food substance in front of the dinosaur. "We're gonna have plenty of food for you in just a little while. For now, look at this picture and visualize."
Zander and Ed were not amused. "What's that supposed to be, French toast?" Zander asked.
"Daspletosaurus is a carnivore, you know." Ed reminded her.
"Well, too bad! I don't have a sign for meat!" Ursula retorted. Just then, the Daspletosaurus took a bite of the sign. "Huh?" Looking up, the Alpha Gang saw the Daspletosaurus chew the sign before spitting it out in disgust. They didn't need to see him looking at them to know what it was thinking. "Aaah!" They screamed and ran away as fast as they could to avoid ending up like the sign. The Daspletosaurus leapt out of its pen and followed them, not wanting fresh meat to escape.
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"What'll I do?" Spike asked as the group walked away from the roller coaster. "This is terrible, and I don't even have a present for her. How about a t-shirt, or a funnel cake?"
"Aah!" "Run!" Before anyone could comfort, or insult him, they heard the Alpha Gang screaming and running for their lives.
"Hey, the old lady?" Zoe noticed when they ran into view.
"I am not an old lady!" Ursula shot back before she tensed up when she heard a roar. "Huh?" Looked behind herself. "Heh?" Screamed in terror. "Aaah!" And continued to run from the Daspletosaurus.
Once the dinosaur came into their eyesight, the team was horrified as they now knew exactly why these dinosaurs looked so life-like. They were alive. "Daspletosaurus!" Spike gasped.
"No way! These dinosaurs are real!" Max exclaimed.
And real they were. After the Daspletosaurus broke out, all the other dinosaurs broke out of either their cages or rides they were attached to and started rampaging in search of food.
As all the customers ran for their lives, the D-Team just stood around in the center of it all. "I can't believe the Alpha Gang are just letting their dinosaurs run wild in an amusement park!" Zoe said in anger.
"How do you know the Alpha Gang's responsible?" Max asked her.
"Where else do you think they came from? The lab?" Zoe asked sarcastically, Max wincing at her harshness.
"Maybe they are the others!" Spiny said. "And the Alpha Gang captured them when we weren't there!"
"Spiny, there are three problems with your theory." Zoe told him. "One; we would have noticed. Two; how did they set this all up before we got here if they captured them after we left to come here?" Before she could get to the third problem, the green, yellow, and pink Pteranodons flew right over them before circling a pair of Carcharodontosaurus and Ankylosaurus. "And that's reason three." She pointed up at the trio of pterosaurs that didn't not match the colors of Jet and his flock, and the duplicates of Coal and Trooper.
"Never mind where they came from! I have to find Aki! Where is she?!" Spike asked as he looked around frantically for his wife.
"Come on, we got to stop these dinosaurs before someone gets seriously hurt!" Max said as he reached for his Dino Holder, only to realize I wasn't there. "Oh, no! Reese still has our Dino Holders, and there's nothing we can do without those!"
"Guys, hi." Aki said as she and Rex rejoined them, looking around in confusion as to what was going on while Rex and his team looked like they also knew this was an Alpha Gang plan.
"Yaa!" Spike gasped when he saw Aki and rushed over to her, grabbing her hands. "My precious, Aki!"
"Wow, are you all right, Spike?" Aki asked, confused by her husband's behavior.
"Yes, of course I am!" Spike replied quickly. "Just look at that Ferris wheel. Do you remember that?"
As he talked, Rex began to notice that the dinosaurs were starting to look at them. And the looks they were being given were not like the friendly ones of the originals. "Hey, Dr. Taylor, why don't you two go on the love tunnel or something. Something to celebrate your anniversary and to get away from all the chaos." The blonde said as he pushed Spike and Aki away.
Spike was about to ask Rex why, but he quickly figured out that the blonde didn't want them nearby while the fighting was going on. "You know, you're right, Rex. We'll do just that. Far away from here." Spike said as he and Aki left.
"Will you kids be fine by yourselves?" Aki asked them as Spike led her away.
"Mmm-hmmm." The kids nodded and waited before the adults were gone to start conversing. "What was that exactly for?" Max asked Rex.
"Maybe that." Spiny said as he pointed to an Ankylosaurus, Maiasaura, Supersaurus, Amargasaurus, and Carcharodontosaurus approaching them. "Or that." Pointing to an Acrocanthosaurus, Megaraptor, Anchiceratops, and Saltasaurus. "Oh, there's also them." Pointing to a Styracosaurus, Utahraptor, Ceratosaurus, Altirhinus, and Euoplocephalus. "Maybe they want to say hi."
"Given how they're Alpha Gang, I don't think so." Max said grimly.
With Spike, he managed to find the love tunnel that Rex told him about. "Let's see what this ride's like, dear." Spike said as they walked in. "Ehehe. This'll be a nice, quiet break from all of the noise and craziness outside." He chuckled as Aki sat in the ride.
"Oh, yes, just the two of us. Come on." Aki said as she tugged Spike into the cart with her.
"OK." Spike said with uncertainty as he sat next to her.
"Hmhmhm. Now you behave yourself in the dark." Aki giggled, making Spike chuckle nervously.
"Ehehehehe."
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At the D-Lab, Reese was just adding the finishing touches on the Dino Holders. "Ooh, all done." She sighed in relief.
Amy walked over and handed her some tea. "Here you go, Reese." Amy said as she handed her the cup. "Thought this would be helpful after all the work."
"Thank you, Amy." Reese said as she took a sip. "Well, I guess I ought to test them." She said as she activated Max's. Immediately, she saw a signal appear. "Huh? A dinosaur." She zoomed in on the location and noticed there were actually many in a single place she instantly recognized. "At the amusement park! Oh, no!" She exclaimed as she raised to her feet.
"What's wrong?" Amy asked with concern.
"The amusement park is full of dinosaurs! Without their Dino Holders, Zoe and the boys can't fight back!" Reese explained before another grim thought emerged. "But even if they did have them, I doubt they could handle this many." She said grimly.
"Then, what do we do?" Amy asked worryingly. Her answer came in the form of a roar from Salty.
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In their room, Rod and Laura were busy doing their homework. "Ohh, I'm too hungry to study." Rod groaned.
"Me too. I keep thinking about food." Laura said in agreement.
The two of them heard a roar and looked out their window to see the Supersaurus clone. "I wonder how it's going over at the amusement park." Rod said.
"Yeah, I love amusement parks." Laura said sadly. "Why didn't we get to go?"
"Helga's gone, so who's stoppin' us?" Rod remembered with a smile
"That's right. Let's go." Laura agreed and smiled back.
Downstairs, Dr.Z, Seth, and Brontikens, in his chibi-form, were watching the situation unfold from their screen, unaware of what the dinosaurs were really doing. "This has become a huge disaster, Seth." Dr.Z told him. "If we don't get them under control, all of my precious dinosaurs are going to escape from the dinosaur park!"
"Then they'll kill everyone in town and you'll have to pay for all the damage, or the D-Team captures them all." Brontikens added, making the doctor even more upset.
"Thank you for bringing that up, Brontikens!" The doctor yelled at the sauropod with dismay in his voice, not sure which scenario would be worse.
"As I feared, the control devices are malfunctioning." Seth observed. "Because of that, it's making them confused and agitated."
"Thank you for the recap. Now tell us how to fix it!" Dr.Z commanded.
"If we can remove the devices, they should be exhausted enough that they'll return to their cards." Seth suggested.
"Sounds like a good plan. Glad I thought of it." Dr.Z bragged, making Seth roll his eyes.
Rod and Laura crept into the room while they were talking and took the Alpha Scanners lying on the table. "Grandpa, we're going out to play for a while." Rod told him.
"Good for you." Dr.Z replied, not really caring what they were doing. All he cared about was getting those cards back.
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Back at the park, the Alpha Gang were currently paralyzed with fear as the dinosaurs approached them, not knowing that they were really after the D-Team. "What now? They're all completely out of control!" Zander exclaimed.
"They need food! Should I go get some popcorn?" Ed suggested.
"I think we should reach deep inside and do what we always do when the going gets tough." Ursula said before doing it. "Run for our lives!"
"Good idea! Wait up!" Zander and Ed said as they ran after her.
Back with the D-Team, they were currently running from the Acrocanthosaurus and Suchomimus clones. "Man I can't believe that we don't have our Dino Holders!" Max exclaimed in frustration.
"If we keep running, they'll have to lose energy!" Chomp said, only to get blocked by the Styracosaurus and Pteranodons. "God damn it!"
"This way!" Zoe tried to lead them another way out, but the Supersaur's large foot got in her way as the other clones started to close in on their targets.
Boxed in, the D-Team clustered together as they tried to find a way out. When I looked like it was all over, they heard the sound of a plane approaching. "Heads up, kids!" Looking up, they saw Reese flying towards them on her plane. "The cavalry's on its way!"
She dropped the Dino Holders out of an open window and the kids caught them. When they did, they felt the ground shake. Everyone looked to where the source was coming from before the border of the park exploded to reveal the rest of the D-Team's dinosaurs running to where the kids were. The park's dinosaurs noticed the intruders and all grouped up together.
The D-Team's dinos all stopped once they reached the kids. "Need some help?" Meg rhetorically asked. Even after running all the way from the D-Lab, and taking the long way to avoid most people, they still had plenty of energy to fight.
"A lot." Max said as he got the Dino Holder ready. He noticed a new button under the screen and pressed it. When he did, the Dino Holder split and cards appeared in the middle.
Rex and Zoe noticed theirs had the same function. "Oh, wow! This makes it so much easier to pick the right card." Zoe said in amazement. "Thanks for the help, Sis!" Zoe called out to the plane, to which Reese responded with a thumbs up before flying away.
"Well? Are we gonna just stand here, or fight?" Terry asked. The kids nodded and got their dinosaurs ready.
"DINO SLASH!"
Once the six dinosaurs landed, the clones charged forward with the D-Team's dinosaurs meeting them midway. Due to their slightly greater numbers, they were able to hold the clones back.
The battle was a sight to behold: The Supersaurus clone was dealing with attacks from both Gertie and Charles, Thorn and Francine were in a horn lock with their clones, the Pteranodons were duking it out midair, the Futabasaurs were trying to overpower each other with their cannons, and everyone else was trying to knock their copies onto the ground.
Those that didn't have copies helped out others in their struggles: Terry assisted Coal, Chomp helped Thorn, Ace helped Beta, Spiny helped Sushi, Paris helped Bali, Tank helped Trooper, and Diamond helped everyone by blinding clones when she rammed into them, namely the extra Carcharodontosaurus and Ankylosaurus. The D-Team watched from afar as they helped, namely by giving commands, and supported the dinosaurs.
Despite all of their efforts, and how weak the copies were, the clones would not be defeated no matter what they did. "OK, how are they still standing?" Nessie asked as she smacked her opponent away with her neck.
"There seems to be something that is preventing them from getting carded." Utah hypothesized as she was currently rolling with her clone in a struggle.
"So, now what?" Bali asked and he and Paris pushed his clone back.
"We'll have to keep fighting till they get defeated." Chomp said as he lifted the clone Styracosaurus onto his shoulders and threw it onto the ground. The Triceratops then noticed a weird device on the dinosaur's stomach. Deciding to see what it was, he walked over to the clone and knocked the device off with his beak.
When he did, the clone immediately glowed yellow and returned to its card. A Droid came by saying. "Retrieval. Retrieval." Before picking up the card and running away.
Chomp immediately figured out what the device was and ran to tell the others. "Guys! On their stomachs are devices! Remove them, and they'll return to their cards!"
"He's right!" Jet said as he noticed one on the green Pteranodon. Flying up to it, he and his followers knocked the devices off with their wings and the clones were carded. "That's the weak point we were looking for!"
"Then let's use it!" Salty said as he caused his clone to trip using his tail, similar to when he fought Chomp.
Due to the clones terrible fighting skills, it was a piece of cake to remove the chips, and they began returning to their cards like dropping flies. All while the Droids ran after the cards, chanting. "Retrieval. Retrieval."
The real challenge came when three of the clones, the Acrocanthosaurus, Altirhinus, and Suchomimus, decided to make a run for it. "Three are getting away!" Zoe told her teammates.
"Then let's get them!" Max said as the trio and their teams went after them, leaving the other dinosaurs behind to do whatever while they wait.
With Ace and Spiny being the fastest, they were able to catch up to the Acrocanthosaurus and Altirhinus. The two carnivores bit onto their tails and caused them to stop in their track. The Suchomimus stopped running and turned to see its fellow clones trapped.
"Now!" Ace called out to Paris. Using the sound from her crest, Paris was able to paralyze the three dinosaurs in the tracks, preventing any struggling. That was the signal for Chomp, Terry, and Tank to tackle the clones to the ground and remove the devices.
Once they were carded, three droids came by saying. "Retrieval. Retrieval." And picked up the cards.
"We did it!" Max cheered.
"That's the last of them." Charles said as everyone else noticed the sky changing back to normal.
"I hope we didn't miss out on all the fun." The main D-Team looked to see Rod and Laura approaching them with Scanners in their hands.
"Huh? You again?" Max gasped.
"What'd you want?" Zoe asked, not very pleased to see them after the way they betrayed them when they first met.
"We figured the amusement park would be more fun than our homework." Rod explained.
"What'd you say? Want to find out which team has the better dinosaurs?" Laura said before they got ready.
"HA! ALPHA SLASH!"
"FLAME UP, TYRANNOSAURUS!"
"STRIKE 'EM OUT, TRICERATOPS! CLOBBER 'EM, STEGOSAURUS!"
"Yeah! Just what I was hoping for!" Terry said as he got ready for battle the second the trio landed.
"In case you morons forgot, we beat Brontikens." Tank told them proudly.
"Well, actually, it was Terry who did it." Spiny corrected her.
"We've been training, too." Gigas told them. "We don't need him to carry us to victory all the time." With that, the battle began.
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Inside the love tunnel, Aki and Spike looked around at all the chibi dinosaurs. "They're so cute." Aki said as she leaned up against Spike.
Spike chuckled nervously. "Ahahaha. They sure are." In reality, he was horrified by them. Especially the laughing Tyrannosaurs.
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Back with the fight, Max decided to make the first move. Pressing the new button on his Dino Holder, it split and the Move Cards began spinning around before the chosen one popped out and landed in his hands. "Lightning Strike!" Chomp fired the attack. But in a twist, Armatus dodged it.
"Ha! Not going to make me forget to dodge twice!" Armatus said to no one in particular.
"Magma Blaster!" Rod called out as he swiped his Move Card. Gigas fired the attack onto Terry, who just narrowly dodged.
After that failed attack, Rex decided to go next. "Cyclone!"
Ace ran forward right towards Armatus, who dodged the attack again. "Ha! You missed!"
"Not quite." Ace said as he turned around and hit Armatus.
"Go! Spectral Punisher!" Laura said as she activated the Move Card. Maximus fired her laser right at Chomp, who tried to dodge, but wasn't fast enough and got hit in the flank.
"Oh, no. Not good." Max said. This was a lot harder than they were used to when battling these three.
"That's the way to smack 'em, Gigas. Finish it with Spectral Lancer." Rod said.
But before he could swipe the card, something flew through the air and hit Gigas dead center. As it spun around on the Tyrannosaurus, the D-Team was able to identify it as Rocko. The Altirhinus leapt off of Gigas and landed right by the rest of the D-Team's dinosaurs, that were approaching the three of them with angry looks on their faces.
Gigas slowly got up and gasped at their new opponents. "Um, now I think would be a good time to run." He told Rod.
"Relax, Gigas. So long as we play it safe, we can take them all on." Rod assured him.
At that moment, he noticed a horrifying presence in the park that made him and Laura freeze in place. "I'm back with the groceries, Everyone! Helga announced as she rode into the park on a bicycle carrying many boxes with tons of food in them. "I've got oodles of noodles, und lots of liver, gizzards, and tongues as well!" Her eyes were closed at the moment, which you'd think she wouldn't be doing while peddling given how rule crazy she is, so she didn't see the battle going on in front of her.
"If she spots us, we're sunk!" Rod told Laura.
"Not only that, she'll make us eat liver again!" Laura exclaimed. "Let's go!" And they bolted before Helga opened her eyes.
"Wait for us!" Gigas said as he and his colleges ran after them and the Battlefield disappeared.
"Well." Max said as he watched them leave. "That was anticlimactic."
"Don't worry. At least we foiled their plan." Rex assured him.
"Mmhm." Max smirked at the blonde while rubbing under his nose. "Like we always do."
At that moment, Aki and Spike approached. The dinosaurs all froze and tried to pretend they were fake. "Ahh, I really enjoyed that ride." Aki said, oblivious to the frozen dinosaurs. "It was a lot of fun."
"So did I." Spike agreed before blushing. "Heh, um, dear, would you like a ride in the Ferris wheel?"
"Oh!" Aki gasped with a huge smile on her face. Everyone smiled as they knew that their plan to get Spike to remember his anniversary was a success.
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Sadly, the Alpha Gang were not having much better luck. "Oh, no!" Zander exclaimed as they saw Zeta Point sail away.
"Hey, how come Zeta Point is sailing away without us?!" Ed asked.
"Well, don't just stand there! Go after it!" Ursula ordered the fat man.
"But how? I can't even swim!" Ed reminded her.
"Hey, look!" Zander told them as he came across a large rocket. "There's a rocket here that we can ride back to the island!"
"Excellent!" Ursula beamed. "Let's strap ourselves on, blast off, and we'll be home in time for dinner!"
Ed, on the other hand, was horrified. "Wait, you guys! Did you read the writing on the side?"
"Why are you always such a wet blanket?" Ursula asked him. "Are you coming or not?"
"Yeah, all right." Ed complied, already knowing it will end badly.
After finding a way to light it, the rocket blasted off into the sunset. "What does this say?" Ursula asked as she noticed the writing on the side. "'Danger. Highly explosive fireworks.' Fireworks?!" She screamed in horror.
"I tried to tell you! But you guys didn't listen to me!" Ed told them.
"Because you never say anything worth listening to!" Zander and Ursula shot back before the rocket exploded.
"This is gonna hurt." Zander said before the fireworks started to go off.
Down below, the D-Team watched the display in amazement. "Beautiful." Zoe said.
"Well, it looks like the Alpha Gang went out with a bang." Rex joked.
"Are Alpha Gang dead?" Futaba asked.
"No, they're still alive." Paris said as she pointed to the trio hanging onto a log. "Those three could probably make it out of a black-hole."
"Anyway." Chomp said, changing the subject. "Since we have the whole park to ourselves, why don't we party!?" He exclaimed before everyone joined in on the fun. They probably wouldn't get a moment outside the lab like this for a long time. Better enjoy it while it lasts
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At Zeta Point, Dr.Z and Brontikens were watching as Seth collected all the cards before placing them onto a table with an old laser Dr.Z made to get rid of pests before he hired Helga pointing directly at them. Moving over to a lever, he pulled the device down, and the laser more-or-less erased the cards from existence, leaving no trace behind before it crumbled and fell apart due to both age and overusage. "Was that really necessary?" Dr.Z asked, slightly disturbed by the clones fate. Brontikens was disgusted by what he saw, but kept everything, even the smallest reactions, to himself.
"With the amusement park ruined, and us having money again, we have no reason for them." Seth told him. "Their combat skills were pathetic, so they wouldn't have benefited our cause at all. Something I'm positive the D-Team figured out and would have exploited if we tried using them again. Besides, it's not like they had any sentience."
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"I have to confess, Aki." Spike said as the two of them watched the fireworks from the Ferris wheel. "I'm so sorry, but the truth is I had forgotten our wedding anniversary."
"Mmhmmhmmhmm." Aki chuckled in response. "That's OK, but riding the Ferris wheel like this sure brings back some memories, doesn't it?"
"Ehehehe." Spike chuckled as the both of them remembered when they rode the Ferris wheel for the first time.
"Did you have a question for me?" A younger Aki asked a younger Spike.
"Oh! Well, yes. I was wondering, uh." Spike tried to find the right words. "Ah! I know how to say it! It's like the Maiasaura from the Cretaceous Period. The name Maiasaura means 'good mother,' you see, and that's what I'm looking for to raise my children and be my dinosaur and..." Spike stopped himself when he noticed the smile Aki was giving him. "Wait, I mean- oh, that didn't come out right at all."
As Spike chuckled nervously, he reached into his pocket and unknowingly pulled out a harmonica he had while reaching for his handkerchief. "Um, uh, how about I play you a song?" He suggested before playing a song he remembered.
Aki closed her eyes as she listened to the song. It was soft and very moving. When she opened her eyes, the two of them were holding hands in a field surrounded by dinosaurs. "I'm... kind of nutty about dinosaurs." Spike admitted.
"Yes, I like that about you." Aki replied.
Once they finished flashing back, Aki reached into her pocket and pulled out a gift she had. "Here, I thought you a little gift." She said as she presented it to Spike.
"Aah." Spike gasped. "I'm sorry, Aki, but I'm afraid I don't have any kind of a present for you." He said shamefully as he took her gift.
"Yes, you do." Aki told him.
"What?"
"Play me that song again. That's the very best gift you could give me." She told him.
"Uh." Spike nodded before unwrapping the gift and seeing that it was his old harmonica. "Ahem." He then began to play the song he played many years ago.
Aki looked out the window and smiled when she saw a Supersaurus and Seismosaurus right outside of it. Down below, she could see dinosaurs of all different kinds. All of them living together. She spotted the kids, each of them riding a dinosaur that looked like one of their dogs while ones that looked like the other three walked beside them. Aki didn't realize she was seeing the actual kids and dinosaurs below, assuming them to be as imaginary as the field she saw them in.
She saw herself and Spike down there with them. She saw the kids waving to them from their dinosaurs. And most of all, she felt Spike bring her in for an embrace. The same feeling she had many years ago.
Next time on Dinosaur King:
Dr.Z: My Therizinosaurus is out there!
Zoe: It seems to be glowing. That's not normal
Chomp: He must be another one of the Secret Dinosaurs that Diamond mentioned
Terry: He's too strong!
Diamond: I ought to smash you to pieces for what you did!
A/N: And so we begin the second half of season one. And with one of my favorite episodes.
I'll be honest, when I revealed I was doing CoC a lot of people were asking how I was going to tackle the whole double issue. I always saw the doubles as clones, so that's where I got the idea from. I made them not fit for combat because if they could fight well then Dr.Z wouldn't want the cards and we would barely have conflict.
As much as I wanted a big epic fight with all the dinosaurs, when I decided that the clones aren't made for fighting I knew the epicness just wouldn't make sense.
I will say for those of you disappointed by the lack of action from the minor dinosaurs, there will be another battle royal later down the line. Sooner than you might think.
I'll see you all next time