Daddy Dearest
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"Talking"
"Thinking"
"Flashback"
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In the vastness of the dreamscape, the whining of a baby dinosaur was heard. "Oh! Is that my baby dinosaur I hear crying out for his daddy!" Dr.Z said as he ran towards the source of the crying. "I hear you! Where are you? Hey!" Looking up He saw the silhouette of a curled-up baby dinosaur surrounded by a rainbow. "Oh, there you are!" Dr.Z said, running up to the baby. "What's wrong? Tell me, why are you crying? Don't worry. Daddy's here!" The scientist comforted the baby as he tried reaching out to grab it. "Come to daddy! Come to daddy! Come to daddy! Come-ooh!"
Eventually, his dream ended when he bounced out of bed from his sleep jumping. Collecting his thoughts, the doctor quickly rose to his feet. "Oh! My Therizinosaurus is out there, and he needs me!"
(Intro Theme)
It was decided that he needed to take action as soon as possible to avoid the D-Team getting a head start and collecting the card before him, so he didn't even bother changing out of his pajamas. All around the room were dimly lit candles, two even above his eyebrows that probably should've burned his nightcap, as Dr.Z waved a dinosaur bone over the map he used for predictions, basically preforming some weird ritual. "Ancient bones, hear me!" The doctor called out to the heavens. "Oooh! In the name of dinosaur DNA, reveal his location!" As he waved the bone over Japan, the bone began to shake like crazy. "Oh! There he is! Hee hee!" He said gleefully as a pull chain came down and he activated it.
This activated some 'alarm clocks' in the A-Team's rooms: Ursula's bed shook around like a wild bull, Zander was tickled by giant hands, and Ed was smashed by a giant herbivore foot. "Can't we just use alarm clocks?" Ed groaned as his fat resurfaced from the impact and wiggled like jelly.
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After getting dressed, the trio met with Dr.Z, who took the time to also get dressed, to see what he wanted this early, while also trying to stay awake as their boss explained everything. "So you see, I raised Therizinosaurus all the way from egg to adulthood. Oh, and what a cute baby." He remembered happily.
"Haven't we heard this before?" Ursula asked him, so tired she didn't take off her nightcap. "But last time it was that Pachycephalo- whatever it was."
"And then when we found it, it hated your guts." Zander reminded him, a long strand of droll hanging from his mouth. As for Ed, he was sleeping standing up with a large snot bubble forming, hearing none of this.
"That was entirely different!" Dr.Z yelled back. "But I do see now that I may have spoiled Pachycephalosaurus a bit too much." He admitted with slight embarrassment.
"You do remember your father!" Dr.Z cried. "Good boy!" He hugged the Pachycephalosaurus, and it was at this moment Dr.Z knew he fucked up. The Pachycephalosaurus tossed him into the air so high he disappeared in the clouds. "Whaa!"
"However, with Therizinosaurus I enforced the strictest discipline." Dr.Z then remembered all of the training he put the little dinosaur through. "I put that dinosaur through its paces. Training it night in day to be the best it could be." He said before tearing up at the fond memories. "You should have seen how much that dinosaur appreciates me!"
His crying was stopped when he noticed that the A-Team had fallen back asleep while still standing. "Huh? How dare you fall asleep while my boy is crying out for help!" He scolded them, which woke the trio up. "I'm sending you three to rescue him, and you better not mess it up! Now fall out!"
At that signal, the floor opened up and the trio fell through. "Aah!" They screamed as they fell through a chute that would take them to their ride. Thankfully, they all landed inside the rocket. But unthankfully, they landed on the seats really hard, which really hurt their bottoms as shown when they yelped in pain on impact. "We need seat cushions." Ursula said in pain as she rubbed her behind.
"When you're close to the target, look for the colors of the rainbow!" Dr.Z yelled from above.
"Right. Colors of the rainbow." The trio groaned as the engines on the machine started and it took off towards Japan.
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At a constitution site in Sanjo City, a gold card was stuck to the wall. The sun was shining brightly today, meaning its release was only a matter of time.
While that happened, the D-Team just came up from the subways. "OK, guys, let's get this city fossil hunt going!" Max declared as the three of them were partnered up, to literally no one's surprise, for a homework assignment where they had to find a fossil within the city itself. "Now this kind of homework I love."
"Which is why you waited till the hottest day ever to do it." Terry groaned as he collapsed with the other dinosaurs, who were panting heavily to keep cool and could barely stand.
"Aw, come on. Don't tell me you're tired already?" Max told them. "We haven't even gotten started yet, and already you want to quit?"
"It burns!" Spiny cried as he felt like his sail was on fire. That was where most of his body heat was going in trying to cool the poor guy off.
Silently agreeing it was very hot today, Zoe looked around to see if there was a spot for them to rest and search at the same time. She noticed that a shopping tower that was being worked on prior to now was complete and open. "I'll bet that new shopping tower is air-conditioned." She told the others. "Let's start searching there."
"Great idea." Max said. "We'll hunt for fossils and lunch."
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"Aah." Spiny sighed as it felt like his back just had cold water dumped onto it to put out the fire. "Much better."
"And look at all this cool stuff!" Max said as he looked around. "Let's go!"
"Come on!" Terry told the others, now all back to full strength.
"Here we go!" Zoe said excitedly as they began their search.
"I've never seen so many shops before." Chomp said as he looked around the building. "Hey, some ice cream sounds really good right now!" He said as he pointed to an ice cream stand in front of them.
"I second that!" Max and Zoe agreed simultaneously. "Jinx, you owe me one." Zoe said with a smirk.
"No fair." Max groaned.
"Hold it. What about our homework, you guys?" Rex reminded them. "We got to concentrate on finding some fossils before we do anything else, or we're gonna be in big trouble."
"Ugh, fine." Zoe and Max huffed, once again simultaneously. "By the way that's two ice creams now." Zoe said, Max seething in frustration.
"I guess you're right." Chomp sighed as they continued the search, also disappointed by missing out on ice cream. "Let's start looking before we lose focus again."
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Eventually, they were able to find some fossils on a pillar. "Hey look, a Belemnite." Zoe said as she pointed to the fossil before squatting to get a better look. "But it's pretty small."
"Y'know, they're in the same family as the squid." Rex told her as he also examined the fossil.
"And I found another Squidy!" Spiny said as he showed them an ammonite he found on another pillar.
"Hmmm." Max inspected the two fossils with his camera. "I don't think either are good enough for our project."
"Yeah, I agree." Zoe said as she stood back up. "If you look hard enough, you'll find fossils like these two in concrete walls all over town."
"So where do we go to find the really cool, rare ones?" Max asked as he looked around.
"Depends on what you're looking for exactly." Ace told him. "Unlikely we'll find any dinosaur fossils here, but we should find something with about the same amount of interest if we look hard enough."
"In that case, we'll cover more ground if we split up." Zoe said as each team went off in different directions, except Spiny, who was playing with Squidy 2.0, as he called the fossil. "Spiny!" Zoe called out to him before he came running over.
And so the inspection began with minimal success. "Is that a fossil or just some old gum?" Max thought as he looked closely at the floor near some plants with a magnifying glass.
"Those two girls must think I've lost it." Rex thought to himself as he noticed two girls fawning over him as he searched around another, more circular, pillar. Attracting the attention of girls was something he knew he did, most likely based of his quiet personality and good looks, but didn't mean he enjoyed very much.
"Careful, guys." Zoe told her team and she searched over a ledge, with the two of them keeping her from falling. "If I fall, this mission is so over."
Terry gave Max's find a sniff and quickly identified it. "Yep, chewed gum."
"Yuck." Max said as he looked around for anything else.
Chomp went off to search in another spot and noticed the escalator. Not familiar with this device he put his foot on the moving steps a few times before getting carried away. "Wha? What's happening!" He exclaimed.
"Huh?" Max and Terry looked up and saw Chomp's predicament. "Dude! What the heck!" Terry said as he also leapt onto the escalator. Unlike his Triceratops brother, he knew what an escalator was.
"Save yourself, Terry! It's too late for me!" Chomp said as he saw the end of the escalator.
"Bro-" Terry tried to say before he was cut off by more of Chomp's nonsense
"Don't forget me!" Chomp said before he arrived at the end and realized he basically just went up to the next level. "Oh."
Terry glares at his brother as he arrived at the same spot. "You're an idiot."
Meanwhile, Tank and Ace were searching the floor near the pillar Rex was at. "Oof! Watch it!" Tank said as she bumped into people left and right.
"Maybe you should have your head up a little more?" Ace suggested, not having the sand problem Tank was having.
"Shut up, smart-ass." The Saichania grumbled, but did listen to Ace's advise.
And Spiny was currently searching the shopping center with some balloons he "borrowed" until the helium ran out.
After a while, the kids decided to leave before they might get kicked out from their dinosaurs' actions. At the moment, they were sitting by a fountain the dinosaurs were drinking from so they would still feel cool while outside, aside from Ace who just cowered below the step from so much water. "Ohh. It's not even noon, and I'm beat." Max groaned, looking defeated.
"And we still haven't found a single fossil that we can report on." Rex added, looking similar to Max.
"Nuhh." Zoe said as she looked around to find another search sight before noticing one in the distance. "That building looks like it's made of different stone. Maybe we'll have better luck over there." She said as she stood up, her friends following, though all were cautiously optimistic.
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As the construction continued, the Alpha Gang walked by in search of the card. "Are you sure you got the right location from Dr.Z?" Ursula asked Zander, who was using his scanner as a GPS at the moment. "There's no dinosaur and I'm extremely hot."
"No rainbow colors either." Ed added as he placed a wet towel on himself to stay cool. "Whatever that's supposed to mean."
"I guess this time Dr.Z's fortune-telling sent us to the wrong place." Zander assumed.
"Ugh! Why can't his mistakes ever send us to a beautiful spa and resort for a change?" Ursula asked in frustration before noticing something. "Hmm? Though as long as we're here, we should make the best of it." Zander and Ed looked towards the building she was referring to. "Let's go up the observatory on the top floor!" She declared, knowing such a building couldn't be open today without functioning AC.
Her teammates thought the same. "Air conditioning!" Zander said in relief.
"And snacks!" Ed added.
They all quickly ran to the building while the D-Team had arrived and checked for fossils on the outside of buildings. "You were right, Zoe. This is limestone, and there's a classic oncolite right here!" Rex said as he pointed to the fossil on the wall.
"And that one looks like a bivalve in that block over there." Zoe pointed to another fossil.
"This'll be great." Max said as he took pictures of both of them. "One of these is definitely going to come up with something good now."
"Let's keep our eyes open." Zoe said as they passed the construction site.
"Clear the area!" The man in charge of construction ordered. "All right. Back it up!"
At that moment, there was a glimmer from the card that caught Terry's attention. "Oh! Wait!" He said as he tried to check it out, making the others bump into each other at the sudden stop.
"Ah." Rex groaned as he rubbed his nose from hitting Max.
"What is it?" Tank asked.
"I thought I saw something in the rocks." Terry said as he looked again, and saw nothing. "Hmm, I guess not."
"Probably just the sun playing tricks on us." Zoe said as they continued their search.
At that moment, the sun began to reflect off the glass of the large buildings and land right onto the card. There was an explosion as the dinosaur was activated and revealed itself. "Aaaaah!" The D-Team felt the explosion and turned around to see what caused it.
The dinosaur was bipedal and covered with gray feathers with some large black areas on the sides, bottom of the throat, and top of the head, And finished with a red crest. Only its feet, hands, and face didn't have feathers. The main, and most obvious feature, were the three claws on each of its hands. Each almost longer than a man. "Whoa! A Therizinosaurus!" Rex exclaimed. "You can tell by those massive claws!"
"But he's glowing!" Paris pointed out. "That's not normal."
At that moment, Chomp quickly remembered something. "Wait, Diamond said that, including Brontikens and herself, there were six Secret Dinosaurs in total. And nearly all of them had that glowing feature."
"So you're saying that this is another one of them?" Ace asked.
"Exactly!" Turning around, they saw Dr.Z approaching them on hot air balloon aircraft piloted by Seth. "This Therizinosaurus is also one of my creations."
"It's him!" Max said as a button was pressed that caused the cage the machine was carrying to fall to the ground directly above the D-Team.
"Whoa!" The D-Team saw this and quickly got out of the way before being smashed.
"Hmph! Speedy little brats, aren't they?" Dr.Z asked Seth, annoyed he didn't crush them before complaining about more important things. "I should've known that I couldn't count on Ursula and the others to take care of this! Remind me to smack them around when we get back, Seth." He said, steam coming out of his head, before turning his attention to the dinosaur. "Hellooooo! Therizinosaurus! I've come to take you home! You've missed your daddy, haven't you?" He asked as he opened his arms like he was about to give a hug.
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While that was going on, the A-Team were waiting in line for the elevator. While they were, the Alpha Scanner started beeping. "Huh? Oh!" Before they could see what it was though, they were shoved into the elevator when everyone else entered. "Whaa!"
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Back outside, the Therizinosaurus started slicing everything it could get its claws on into pieces. Lampposts, bus stops, sides of buildings, you name it. "He's going nuts!" Max exclaimed.
"No, he's only making a threat display." Ace corrected Max's claim before noticing something about said display.. "Although, this isn't a normal threat display."
"Come here, Son." Dr.Z said as he jumped off the machine and landed in front of the cage with open arms. "Come to Daddy! Here I am!" The Therizinosaurus stopped once he noticed the doctor was on ground level. "You remember me, don't you? All those good times we shared when you were growing up. Heh, heh, heh." If he had his eyes open he'd notice the Therizinosaurus get into attack mode.
The Therizinosaurus looked at the doctor and remembered all the training he did with him.
"Go!" The doctor ordered as he pointed to a star, the Theriznosaurus crying as he was currently exhausted from all the training he had just done.
"Faster!" He ordered when the Therizinosaurus ran down a beach.
"Move it, lazy!" Came when he was running with tires attached to him that slowed him down. Again he was crying from all the pain he was enduring.
The resurfacing of all those memories made the Therizinosaurus roar in anger at the doctor. With just a few swipes of his claws, he destroyed the cage in seconds. "What are you doing?!" Dr.Z asked as he got away from the attack.
"Doctor, I think you have lost control of the situation." Seth told him as he lowered so Dr.Z could jump back on.
"I have not!" Dr.Z shot back before seeing the Therizinosaurus walking away. "Hey! Where are you going!?"
"He's getting away!" Max said as the D-Team ran after him.
"Errrr! Hey! Stop!" Dr.Z yelled at them, to obviously no avail.
As the Therizinosaurus continued his march, people screamed and ran away from just the sight of the claws. "Look out!"
"What is that thing?!"
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"Oooh!" "Ugh!" Back with the A-Team, they were able to get themselves free from the cluster in the elevator. When they looked out the window, they screamed in horror. "Aaaaah!" Outside the window was a furious-looking Dr.Z. "For a minute, I thought that was Seth and Dr.Z." Ed said, having a horrified look on his face just like his teammates.
"Ed, that is Dr.Z!" Ursula told him as they saw the doctor yelling, and pointing down before falling out of the machine and being caught by Seth.
"I'm afraid these windows must be soundproof." Zander said.
"I don't need to hear him to know what to do." Ursula said before doing said action. "Run!" They all screamed and ran back into the elevator.
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It didn't take long for news of this to reach television. "Breaking news reports of a huge creature causing panic in the streets of Tokyo." The Anchorwoman said. "Eyewitnesses have described the animal as a dinosaur with enormous claws. Safety officials are warning people to stay off the streets, but try to remain calm."
At his home, Spike slept through the whole news report. While at the D-Lab, many of the dinosaurs were watching the same report. "What kind of dinosaur do you think it is?" Asked Lucky.
"It has to be the Therizinosaurus." Diamond said as all eyes fell on her. "He fits the description perfectly."
"How do you know him?" Salty asked before remembering what Diamond told them when she first joined. "Wait, he's a Secret Dinosaur too?"
Diamond nodded in confirmation. "To make matters worse, he's stronger than even me. The kids will have to be careful with him. Especially if they mention that...thing around him."
"The assumed dinosaur has been causing massive damage to several buildings downtown." The Anchorwoman said as pictures of the damage showed up on screen. "However, authorities say that its current whereabouts remain known."
At that same time, the D-Team ran across the screen as they searched for where the Therizinosaurus ran off to. "Where did he go?" Max asked as he looked around. They got their answer when a bright light started shining from the top of a tall building. Looking up, they were barely able to make out the silhouette of the Therizinosaurus. "Aaah!"
"There he is." Chomp said as he covered his eyes, along with the rest of the team.
"I can't see! It's like staring into the sun!" Terry said as he hid behind Chomp since his arms couldn't cover his eyes, Ace doing something similar with Tank.
Spiny wasn't so lucky. "MY EYES!" He screamed as his eyes burned from the brightness, unable to look away.
Dr.Z flew up so the light wouldn't blind him and approached the Therizinosaurus. "My dear boy, why are you running away from me?" Dr.Z asked before getting mad. "How can you reject your own father?!" The Therizinosaurus responded with an agitated roar. "Say that you still love me. Give me a sign." Dr.Z opened his arms as the aircraft flew slowly towards the dinosaur.
The sign he had was the Therizinosaurus smacking it away with his tail, causing Dr.Z to almost fall out again. "Ah, ah, ah, ah!"
"Dr.Z, it's no use." Seth said as he pulled him back up.
"Oh! After all the things I've done for you, I will not stand here and let you treat me this way!" Dr.Z yelled at the Therizinosaurus.
"Let it go." Seth said as he pulled the doctor back to keep him from jumping off.
"Instead of just giving up, why don't you do something about it!" Dr.Z ordered him.
"I suppose I could analyze the dinosaur." Seth told him. "Right. I'll check for any of its weaknesses." As Seth did the analysis by a quick scan, he came to a startling conclusion that startled him. "It's more powerful than I thought!" He hadn't seen stats like this for a Secret Dinosaur for a long time. Not since the first dinosaur they fused with a Move Card. And if this one behaved the same as that failed experiment, it might be too far gone in rage.
As the aircraft went closer, the D-Team decided to intervene. "Hey! Why don't you just leave that dinosaur alone?" Max told the doctor.
"Eh?" Dr.Z said in response.
"Can't you see that you're scaring him? He clearly doesn't want anything to do with you!" Paris told him.
"But how could he be afraid of me?" Dr.Z asked as he looked back to the Therizinosaurus and was shocked to see him cowering in fear.
"It's not really hard to explain!" Tank told him.
"What have I done?" Dr.Z said as he realized just what his training did to his "child."
He remembered an instance where the Therizinosaurus saw a bowl of rice and reached a claw out to eat it, only for Dr.Z to smash said claw with a mallet. "I didn't hear you say please!" He scolded the dinosaur.
"But I- I was just trying to...make you a polite dinosaur." Dr.Z said as he started tearing up. As another memory came to mind.
The Therizinosaurus was crying in front of a wet blanket before Dr.Z started chasing him around with a large broom. "You see?! Agh! I told you not to drink so much milk before going to bed!"
"I'm sorry- I just wanted you to grow up to be strong." Dr.Z was starting to tear up as he also remembered how the Therizinosaurus struggled and cried in his restraints when he combined his card with a Move Card, all while he smiled wickedly. He whimpered at the realization. "I thought I was showing you tough love!" He cried with streams of tears coming out his eyes. This outburst only made the Therizinosaurus back away in horror as he thought Dr.Z was yelling at him again.
At that moment, the Alpha Gang walked outside and saw what was going on. "No way! There really is a dinosaur here!" Ursula exclaimed.
"Dr.Z's prediction and his crazy dream actually came true!" Zander said.
"It doesn't look like a very happy reunion though." Ed pointed out.
"Let's go!" Ursula said before grabbing their Scanners.
"ALPHA SLASH!"
All four of their dinosaurs appeared on the same roof as the Therizinosaurus and surrounded him. "What are you doing?! Back off, numbskulls!" Dr.Z yelled at both the dinosaurs and A-Team.
"Huh?" The A-Team said in reply.
"Therizinosaurus and I are about to have a breakthrough!" Dr.Z told them.
The dinosaurs ignored this and charged forward with roars. The Therizinosaurus responded by slashing them away with his claws. Armatus fell over the side of the building and was defeated before he hit the ground. "Gaah!" Ed shouted at how quickly he was knocked out.
The Therizinosaurus then activated one of his Super Moves. He started glowing before spinning around like a dreidel with his claws slashing everything in his path. He knocked Gigas and Maximus out of the way, knocking them off the building and meeting the same fate as Armatus, before meeting Brontikens in a stand-off. The Apatosaurus tried to push the Therizinosaurus back, but it was to no use. "Impossible!" He gasped as he soon was also knocked off the building and was defeated.
"Eeemmmmmmmm!" The Alpha Gang whimpered at their defeat. "It just used Gyro Claw!" Ed exclaimed.
"Ah!" The D-Team gasped at the display the Therizinosaurus showed. "Man, that guy's powerful." Terry said, amazed at how easily Brontikens fell.
"I want everyone to just leave my Therizinosaurus alone!" Dr.Z yelled.
Things only got worse when the police arrived underneath the building and started to form a wall around it. "Hut! Hut! Hut!"
On the roof, a bunch of news people started flashing cameras at the dinosaur, who tried to use his claws as cover again, while the Anchorwoman spoke. "I'm here just outside of our television station, where the dinosaur has been located on the roof of this very building."
The Therizinosaurus couldn't take the annoyance of all the flashing lights and people and charged forward, scaring the people off, before jumping onto a small building and then latching onto the skyscraper across from it. "Whoa! Look at him climb!" Zoe gasped.
"It's just like King Kong!" Rex exclaimed.
"Come on!" Terry said as he ran to where the Therizinosaurus was.
"Hey, Terry!" Max called out.
Terry ignored him and ran up the stairs before he was able to reach the Therizinosaur's tail and latched onto it just as the larger dinosaur started climbing up. "This is bad." Ace said. "They won't survive if they fall."
"We've got to help them out!" Max said before they all ran after them.
"I'm sorry that I was so hard on you, my boy!" Dr.Z apologized. "I didn't know! I'll be a better daddy to you from now on! I promise!"
As the aircraft got closer to the Therizinosaurus, he smacked them away like a fly with his claws. "We can't get any closer to him, Doctor!" Seth said as he regained control of the aircraft.
"Ergh! I've said that I'm sorry. What more can I do?" Dr.Z asked in frustration. "He leaves me no choice but to teach him a lesson."
"What are you talking about?" Seth asked him. "Doctor, you've already done enough harm."
"I was only going to have him fall so he would turn back into a card." Dr.Z explained.
"Perhaps, but it's also possible that he wouldn't survive the fall." Seth told him, making the doctor gasp in horror.
"Aaah! It was just an idea!" Dr.Z yelled in defense before tearing up. "Oh, I don't know what to do! My boy hates me!"
"Let's go get him back." Seth said as he pat the doctor on the shoulder.
At the Therizinosaurus climbed up the building, the D-Team followed with the elevator. "There they are!" Rex said as the duo went past the level they were currently on.
"What'd we do now?" Chomp asked, worried for his brother's safety.
"Let's keep following them up!" Max said as they went back to the elevator.
At the same time, Dr.Z was also advancing towards the climbing dinosaur. "We're almost there, Seth! Take us higher!" Dr.Z commanded.
"Right." Seth nodded and obliged.
The D-Team arrived on another level and saw the Therizinosaurus climbing up towards them. At the tail, Terry was slowly losing his grip. "Hang on, Terry! We're coming! Don't let go!" Max assured the Tyrannosaurus, who couldn't hear him through the glass. Rex and Zoe took this moment to attack.
"Let's go!" Rex said as he and Zoe recalled their partners.
"DINO SLASH! CARNOTAURUS, BLOW HIM AWAY! SHAKE HIM UP, SAICHANIA!
"DINO SLASH! SPRING UP, PARASAUROLOPHUS! GUSH OUT, SPINOSAURUS!"
The four dinosaurs broke through the glass and grabbed onto the Therizinosaurus before pulling him in, allowing Terry to let go of the tail. "Here we go, guys!" Max said as he got his partners ready.
"DINO SLASH! TRICERATOPS, ROAR! FLAME UP, TYRANNOSAURUS!"
Once the two powerhouses appeared, the Therizinosaurus decided to end this with his other Super Move. Starting to glow, this caught the attention of the D-Team. "What's that?" Tank asked.
"I don't know. It must be a new Move!" Chomp answered. "Brace yourselves!"
And he was correct when the Therizinosaurs' claws grew claws on top of them. With just a few swipes, he knocked Paris and Tank into a wall and defeated them. He did the same to Spiny and Ace and threw them into a window, also defeating them on impact.
Chomp and Terry tried to tackle it together, forcing the Therizinosaurus to block them with his enlarged claws, but the attack was too strong and overpowered them both. As they hit the wall, Chomp was defeated and Terry barely held on. "Terry, no!" Max exclaimed as his Dino Holder started flashing red.
Dr.Z watched and was amazed by the display. "Aw, Claw Blade! I can see you've learned well, my son! My super, top-secret, dinosaur!" Dr.Z had to hold back tears of joy at his son's accomplishment. "But now it's time to listen to your daddy!" He yelled, dropping the nice act. "I'll give you one more chance to come back home with me, OK?"
The Therizinosaurus turned around to listen to what he had to say. "And if you behave yourself, I'll even play tag with you again like we did when you were young! Remember, that was your favorite thing to do after a hard day of training." The Therizinosaurus turned his head as he started to remember. "I used to turn my back on your, and you'd chase me like this!" He said as he turned around and took a similar position. He even lifted up his lab coat to show the claw marks on his back. This got the Therizinosaurus to remember perfectly.
The baby Therizinosaurus chased Dr.Z around as he tried to tag him, while the doctor just skipped along. "Ha, ha, ha, ha! Tag, you're it! Ha, ha, ha! I bet you can't catch me! Ha, ha, ha! Ha, ha- ow!" They had to stop when the baby sliced him with his claws. "Ergh!" Dr.Z clenched his wound while giving the baby a reassuring smile so he didn't think he hurt his father. But, suffice to say, that was probably going to scar.
The Therizinosaurus gave a happy roar as he started to remember the good parts of his father. "You remember!" Dr.Z exclaimed as he turned around, the Therizinosaurus nodding in confirmation. "See, we did have good times together!" Dr.Z opened his arms as the Therizinosaurus did the same. "Come give your papa a big, old hug, my child!" He said as he leapt off of the aircraft, surprising Seth at this bold move, and landed on the Therizinosaur's nose, who welcomed him with open claws. "Ahh. Now that's more like it!"
"Aaah!" Everyone gasped at the action which confused Dr.Z.
"Huh?" Dr.Z then started to notice the Therizinosaurus was shaking.
"Doctor, your weight's throwing him off-balance!" Seth told him.
Dr.Z looked down a screamed "Aah!" The Therizinosaurus started to stumble as he tried to keep his balance and was about to fall out the window.
Terry noticed this and quickly got up and grabbed onto the Therizinosaurs tail. "I got you!" He assured the dinosaur and he tried to pull him back up.
"That's it, Terry! Pull them back up!" Max told him.
"You better not let go of me, you inconsiderate, clumsy dinosaur!" Dr.Z yelled as he struggled to keep hold of his son's snout. "H-help!"
"Hang on, Doctor!" Seth said as he flew closer.
"Of course! What else am I going to do?!" Dr.Z replied sarcastically.
"Well, we'll all be falling right now!" Terry said as he began to get pulled down as well due to his low energy.
"Terry!" The D-Team exclaimed.
"Aaah!" Dr.Z screamed as he, the two dinosaurs, and the aircraft, once they crashed into it, started falling to their doom.
Thankfully, Terry was able to return to his card before impact. "Let's go down!" Max said as they ran to get Terry.
With Seth, he went into the escape pod of the aircraft and shot himself out before he crashed. The Therizinosaurus grabbed Dr.Z from his nose and hugged him tightly. "Whaa!" Directly below him, the A-Team ran away before the Therizinosaurus landed on the ground and got carded.
The card floated into a bush while Dr.Z got his lab coat stuck in a tree. "You saved my life, my child. You do love me."
"I've got you, Doctor!" Seth said as he flew past Dr.Z and grabbed him with a Grappling Claw.
"Where's my Therizinosaurus?!" Dr.Z cried as he was reeled in and flown away.
Elsewhere, the D-Team looked outside the elevator as they tried to find Terry's card. "You guys got to help me! I need to find Terry's card!" Max told them.
Zoe looked around and gasped when she noticed something. "Hey!"
"What? Do you see it, Zoe?" Max urgently asked.
"No, but I did find a really big fossil!" Zoe said as she pointed to a large fossil of a dinosaur in the park.
"Aah! Oh, man!" Max gasped. "That'll be perfect for our school project!"
"It sure will!" Rex agreed.
A bit later, Chomp was able to find Terry's card in some bushes. "All right! We found Terry's card!" Max said as he picked it up before noticing something else in the bushes, the Therizinosaur's card. "Oh. And we've got the Therizinosaurus Card, too! Ha!" He cheered as he struck a pose.
With Dr.Z and Seth, they landed on a building and rested there. "Next time, don't rescue me so hard." Dr.Z scolded Seth as he tried to recover from the dizziness.
"Dr.Z, we're so glad you're all right!" Ursula said as the trio ran onto the roof towards him.
"We thought you were a goner." Zander said.
"Well, I'm not, but no thanks to you three!" Dr.Z yelled at them.
The trio tensed up at his tone. "We tried to help." Zander said.
"We really did! We were within seconds of coming up with a pretty good plan that might have had a slim chance of possibly saving you." Ed lied through his teeth.
"Well, in that case, Seth and I will make sure you get what you deserve."
"Really?" Urzila asked, surprised the lie worked. "And I thought we were gonna be toast!"
"Now why would you think that?" Dr.Z asked as he got into the pod and the engine started, right behind the A-Team.
As the pod flew away, the charred Alpha Gang yelled to the sky. "You said we wouldn't be toast!"
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"Although some extensive damage from the creature remains, there is otherwise no further trace of it." The Anchorwoman said on the TV in the Taylor Household. "Authorities are divided as to what kind of animal it really was."
"This is excellent!" Spike praised the kids as he looked at a picture of the fossil. "You kids really did a bang-up job on your school project. I'm very impressed."
The kids all smiled in pride and embarrassment. "Thanks, Dad." Max said. "Hey, do you what kind of fossil that is?"
"Hmm." Spike examined the picture. "Looks like the same family as Tyrannosaurus or Albisaurus. But if I had to guess-"
"A Therizinosaurus?" The kids eagerly guessed his reply.
"Huh? Well, that would make sense! That's what appeared in the city today!" Spike said.
"Yeah, and he was powerful, too." Tank said.
"That's for sure." Terry agreed. "Even with all six of us, we couldn't do a thing against those claws of his. We'll need to start training more."
"Easy for you to say. You have a trainer." Chomp told him. "Meg won't tell me who mine is."
"Artificially strengthening a dinosaur the way they do is very dangerous and irresponsible." Spike said.
"Yeah, for one thing, your own dinosaur might decide to turn against you." Max joked. "Serves the old geezer right."
"You can say that again!" Zoe said before they all laughed. "Ha, ha, ha, ha!"
DK
At Zeta Point, the mood was very somber as Dr.Z hugged a picture of him and the Therizinosaurus. "My little boy, we were going to be so happy together! A family once again!" The old man cried before getting angry. "Err! That D-Team! I'll get you back my son, don't worry! Err!" A single tear slid down his face. This meant war.
At the D-Lab, Teddy the Therizinosaurus was not much better off as he was already having conflicts with the other Secret Dinosaur; Diamond. "Let me at him! Let me at that traitor!" Diamond screamed as Beta and Coal held her back from attacking at the Therizinosaurus by grabbing her legs with their teeth. Teddy was currently cowering in a corner from Diamond's threats.
"Calm down, woman!" Coal told the Pachycephalosaurus. "There's no need to kill the new guy for having a heart."
"Having a heart?" Diamond rhetorically asked. The two theropods let go, assuming she wasn't going charge at Teddy. "If he had a heart, he'd have slit that bastard's throat in vengeance!" She stomped towards Teddy and glared at him with a look that could kill. "I ought to smash you to pieces for what you did! Give me one reason, one reason, not to do so!"
Teddy backed away as he tried to find a way to defend himself without starting a fight. Contrary to first impressions, he didn't like to fight unless it was for self-defense. "Diamond, he doesn't need to answer." Beta told her strenly.
"No! He needs to answer!" Diamond shot back.
Teddy thought before answering with his first response. "H-he's my father." He said quietly, almost sounding ashamed.
"So, you don't hate him like Diamond here?" Beta asked, giving Diamond a hard glare, telling her to be silent.
"Well I, uh, wouldn't say I forgive him for what he did to me." Teddy said, slowly building up the courage, lowering his claws from his face. "But he still raised me, and he did care for me. I may still hate him for how he treated me, but he's still my father." He then looked sternly at Diamond. "And I won't hesitate to fight you if you threaten him for no good reason."
Next time on Dinosaur King:
Ungaro: It's an enormous rhinoceros!
Alpha Gang: Poachers!
Ungaro: That white beast of yours could come in handy.
Mary: You're with Ungaro. You're poachers!
Chomp: I'd never do such a thing!
A/N: And I've finished another chapter.
So I remember someone asking me via PM for Dr.Z to actually win this one, but then I'd have to figure out what to do with Teddy, who got his name since I see him as a softy, and I don't trust him. Especially after rewatching this episode.
And that scene with Diamond at the end, it'll lead to something in the future.
Also, DO NOT ASK FOR NEW CHAPTERS! I don't take that long, people. Learn patience. If you didn't ask them don't worry about it.
See you all next time.