Dinosaur Amour!
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"Talking"
Thinking
"Flashback"
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"What do you mean you lost Zander?!" Dr.Z's furious voice rang throughout Zeta Point as he scolded Ursula and Ed, who were sitting down like punished dogs. "It's not like he's a set of car keys?!"
"I'm not really sure what happened." Ursula answered while flashing back to the events of the previous episode. "But the last time we saw him, we were hanging onto the log as we went over the falls."
"But when we came up and swam to shore, he was just gone." Ed took over, remembering how the two of them climbed out and looked around frantically for Zander.
"We waited, but he never came out of the water." Ursula finished the story.
"So you decided to leave him behind?!" Dr.Z asked furiously.
"You make it sound so cruel." Ed replied shamefully.
"I can't believe you could be so careless." Dr.Z scolded them as he started pacing around on the platform he was standing on to make himself look taller to his minions. "Now what will I do? This is a disaster!"
"I know what you mean." Ursula told him. "Even though Zander was basically worthless, I somehow miss him now that he's gone."
"It's a tragedy, really." Ed added. "To think that we've lost one of our own."
"Enough about Zander!" Dr.Z yelled at them. "The tragedy here is that you came back without the Torosaurus, and gave those brats another one of those lousy champions! Now I only have two losers left to punish for it! You've left me no choice but to grab you a very shocking lesson!" He exclaimed as he pulled out his electrical rods. "Hyaa!"
With just one touch, Ursula and Ed were both screaming as they were being electrocuted. "Waaaaa!" "Aaaaaaaaah!"
In another room, Maximus was looking for any trace of Zander with Rod and Laura's help. "Any sign of him?" She asked.
"So far it seems his Alpha Scanner is still active." Rod confirmed as he typed into his laptop. "And it has moved since our last check. That would mean that there is a very high chance Zander is still alive. Problem is, I can't pinpoint the location he's in, so he could be anywhere."
(Intro Theme)
Zander was indeed alive, but probably not for long as he walked through the arid deserts of Mexico. His clothes were torn, his ruined jack wrapped around him like a cape, and his body was extremely malnourished. "Where am I?" He asked himself. "And what am I doing stranded in the middle of a desert? The last thing I remember is that waterfall in Africa." He said as he started recollecting events. "I must have floated downstream for a long time and eventually washed out to sea, somehow without drowning as I'm positive I was far down due to all the water in my ears." He paused briefly to rub some water out of his right ear to prove his point before resuming whatever flashback he could muster. "I remember voices, and the sound of an airplane, then I was falling. The next thing I know, I'm lost and alone!" He exclaimed, presumably remembering that he was picked up by pirates at sea and then tossed out of an airplane into the desert.
"Maybe this is all just a dream, and Dr.Z will be screaming at me any minute now." He thought to himself. As he continued on walking, he failed to notice a capsule and stepped on it, causing him to trip and the cards to be released. "Ow." The tall man groaned as he looked to see what tripped him. In front of him, landed a card. "Dinosaur Card?" He gasped as he looked for the capsule and quickly put the card in. "Yes! I got it!" He said as he put the capsule in a bag he had. "Ohh...ohh...ohh." He finally collapsed due to the lack of food and water and began to fade away.
As a wind blew past him, a card landed on a cactus and came to life. The dinosaur was a yellow hadrosaur, with purple stripes on the arms, back (where there were also small spines of the same color from neck to tail), and one on the sides. It had a crest like Paris, but it was orange and looked more like a small bump than a cone. This dinosaur was a Saurolophus.
As it appeared, it noticed Zander and slowly approached him, sniffing the bag he had in his arms.
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"So there's a dinosaur, and we can't go?" Max asked Utah.
"The transporter is broken?" Terry asked.
"Unfortunately, yes." Utah replied while examining the Dino Holder, which was just showing static.
"Errr! Stupid thing!" Spike exclaimed as he started hitting the counter it was plugged into. "There's a signal, but it's not coming through."
"Dad, what are you hitting it for?" Max asked, not wanting his Dino Holder broken for the fourth time.
"Oh, in the good old days, all it would've taken was a good pounding to fix it." Spike said.
"That doesn't work anymore, Dr. Taylor." Utah said as she shoved him away. "Everything's all computers now."
"Why don't we have Reese take a look at it?" Chomp requested.
"Reese isn't here today." Zoe reminded him as she and her team approached the group after arriving at the lab late.
"Why not?" Chomp asked her.
"She went to Mexico on a fossil hunt with Dr. Owen." Paris explained.
"With my dad?" Rex asked.
"Yes, your father called me this morning from the excavation site to say he had come across a valuable fossilized egg." Spike told them. "Uh, we thought it would be a good idea to send Reese to go and bring it back."
"Aw, I wish I could've gone, too." Rex pouted, wanting to both spend time with his dad and see the fossilized egg.
"Why couldn't he just send the rock over in a package or something?" Tank asked.
"He was afraid it might break during the transportation without someone properly supervising it." Spike explained.
"Can't argue with that." Rex agreed, knowing first hand how fragile fossils were. He and Ace gave quick glares in Max and Terry's direction at the memory, which they either ignored or pretended to.
"Back to our main problem, we can't do anything without the transporter." Terry reminded them. "We can't even figure out where this new dinosaur just appeared."
"Come on, Utah, can't you fix it?" Max asked the Utahraptor, having more faith in her than in his father.
"I hate to admit it, Max, but this is the one thing I forgot to ask Reese about how it works." She shamefully admitted.
"And when it comes to computer know-how, I'm afraid I'm the dinosaur here." Spike told them before quickly adding when he heard Utah growling in offense to his joke. "Umm, figuratively speaking, of course."
"Maybe we should try calling Reese." Zoe suggested.
"I don't think we can even make contact." Spike told her. "She's out in the middle of the desert somewhere."
"Come on! There's a dinosaur out there!" Max pleaded, not wanting the Alpha Gang to get it because they couldn't even get there.
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In the deserts of Mexico, Reese was in the back of a jeep with Dr. Owen, being driven by his new assistant, heading for the site with the egg fossil. She was wearing her outdoor clothes which contained a pink shirt, blue vest, white pants, and a sarong around her waist.
At the moment, she was trying to get a signal from her phone to no avail. "I'm not getting a signal at all." She said to herself with concern before someone took her phone. "Huh?"
"You won't be needing this anymore, kiddo." Dr. Owen told her. "Out here, it's just you, me, Patrick, and the cacti!" He exclaimed before throwing the phone over the side.
"What?" Reese gasped as she looked back at where her phone was tossed.
"Same for these things." He said as he took Reese's glasses and did the same.
"Oh, my glasses!" She exclaimed once again.
"There now. Isn't that better?" Dr. Owen asked her. "You miss out on a lot looking at life through those."
"Really? Then how come I don't see you throwing your glasses out of the jeep?" Reese asked angrily, very tempted to do that right now.
Dr. Owen casually reached into the sombrero he was wearing and pulled out her glasses and phone. "Ta-da! Gotcha, didn't I?"
"Uh..." Reese said as she tried to grab them, but Dr. Owen stopped her by moving the objects out of her grasp.
"Now, don't worry. I'll keep these safe for you until you're ready to leave with the fossil. If you need to make a call, you can do it from the village near the excavation site, okay?" Dr. Owen assured her.
"But without my glasses, everything's kind of fuzzy now." Reese said as she struggled to keep her vision clear.
"Well, I guess we're lucky you're not driving this jeep!" Dr. Owen joked before laughing. "Ha-yaa!" He exclaimed as the jeep came to a sudden halt. "Patrick, why'd you stop?"
Patrick was a short man with an even smaller goatee: wearing a green and orange sombrero, blue shirt, and green cape. "Sorry, I had to." He responded.
"Oh?" Dr. Owen asked.
"Look, there's someone in the road." Patrick said, pointing to the unconscious body of Zander. Everyone got out of the jeep to see if he was alive. "He's alive, but he's not looking so good." Patrick confirmed as he lifted Zander's head up, small groans coming from the near dead man.
"Aww." Reese said with sympathy as she grabbed a damp towel and put it on his dehydrated face in an attempt to get him some water while he was unconscious. "Can you hear me? Are you okay?"
The water from the towel was able to give Zander a little bit of strength back, and he was able to open his eyes. "I'm.." He stopped when he saw Reese's beautiful face smiling at him, revealed eh at he wasn't dead. But Zander didn't quite realize that. "Ohh, an angel. I must be in heaven." He thought before collapsing back into unconsciousness. "Uhh..."
"Oh, no. We've got to get him out of the sun." Reese said urgently, using her head to block his face.
"Patrick, can you help me get him loaded into the jeep?" Dr. Owen asked his new assistant.
"Si!" Patrick nodded and helped Reese lift him up.
"Say, he sure does look familiar, but I can't seem to place where I've seen him before." Dr. Owen said as he saw Zander's face, being the one who say him before. "Hmmm. Oh, well." He shrugged it off as probably just remembering a lookalike before helping the others carry Zander.
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"Here it is, Reese!" Dr. Owen said as a scientist handed her the egg once they reached the site, sealed in a glass, egg-shaped case. "I estimate this dinosaur egg is over 70 million years old! Be careful taking it back to your lab."
"It's fantastic." Reese said as she grabbed the egg. "I'm sure Dr. Taylor will be thrilled."
"Excuse me, señorita?" Patrick asked as he came into the tent. "A place called the D-Lab sent a message for you to contact them as soon as you can."
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Inside a building in the village, Zander gasped as he finally came to his senses. "Aaaaah! Let me go!" He exclaimed before realizing where he was. "Huh? Where'd I end up this time?" He then quickly noticed something was missing. "Agh! Where's my bag with the card?! Who took my precious bag?! It's gone!" He asked as he searched around the room frantically. "Could I be hallucinating?" He asked himself before flashing back to earlier. "No, I definitely had a card!" He exclaimed as he swung the windows open. "Huh?"
He stopped himself when he saw Reese walking past him and started fantasyzing. "Angel... the angel who saved my life." He remembered before blushing red. "Ohh, she's so beautiful, and she's really real." Zander broke out of his fantasy when he noticed her carrying something in her bag that looked to be in an oval shape. "She must have the Dinosaur Card capsule in that bag!" He realized as she disappeared into another building. "But how could someone so kind also be a thief? How could the angel who saved my life ever do such a thing?" He cried before noticing something in the air. "Hey, That looks like something Dr.Z would invent." Realizing it had to be an Alpha Craft, he jumped out the window and ran after it.
In the aircraft, Ed checked the coordinates to see if they have the right location. "This is where the dinosaur should be." He told Ursula.
"All right, then take us down." Ursula told him. "You do know how to land this thing, don't you?" She asked.
"Ursula, Ed, it's me, Zander!" Zander yelled from below as he tried to get them to notice him while chasing after the machine. "Come back! Don't leave me again!"
"You know, I miss Zander so much, I can practically feel his presence." Ed said sadly.
"Would you blockheads put that thing on the ground?!" Zander yelled at the top of his lungs.
"Well, look at the bright side." Ursula assured him. "Zander was always hogging the rations. Now there'll be much more for the two of us to eat."
"I guess." Ed replied. "Well, prepare for landing." He said as he landed the craft
The aircraft started to descend from the sky, right on top of Zander. "Aah!" He screamed before getting crushed, but somehow surviving.
"This is bad, now I'm hearing his voice." Ed said as the duo exited the aircraft.
"Let's get lunch." Ursula said before they heard the sounds of groaning when they got on the ground. "Was that your stomach rumbling?"
"I don't think so, but-" Ed said as they looked around for whatever it was. Maybe it was the dinosaur.
"Down here." Zander told them as he felt his back getting smashed.
"Zander!" The duo exclaimed before kneeling down in front of him. "We were just talking about you!" Ursula said.
"How ya doin', buddy?" Ed asked.
"You're still alive!" Ursula exclaimed as she grabbed his head, almost snapping his neck while tears almost came out of her eyes. "I actually almost short of missed you, in a way."
"Yeah, me too, Zander!" Ed added as he sat on whatever part of Zander's back wasn't under the machine, namely his neck.
"Did you miss us?" Ursula asked while cradling his face before noticing him not responding. "What's the matter? You didn't really miss us, did you?"
"You're crushing my spine!" Zander told them, already feeling his lungs failing.
After moving the ship off of Zander, he sat down and told them everything that happened. "So wait, you're saying you had a dinosaur capsule with the dinosaur card in it?" Ursula asked as he finished the story.
"Yes, but I don't have it here." Zander shamefully admitted.
"Go get it." Ursula told him in an 'uh-duh' manner.
"There's just one problem." Zander told them, embarrassment in his voice.
"Problem?" The duo repeated with confusion.
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Once she was able to get a signal, Reese called the lab and they explained the situation. "All right, so I take off the red connector?" Max asked her once she starting giving instructions on what to do.
"Right. Unplug it, and then check it with the tester to see if it's short-circuited."
As they continued on discussing their situation, Zander's head appeared through the window and saw the bag with the egg inside, or what he assumed to be the capsule. "OK, I have it off." Max told Reese. "I'm plugging it into the tester now. Hang on."
From atop a cliff, Ursula and Ed watched and Zander looked through the window, the former lying on her stomach and moving one of her legs in boredom. "What is he doing down there?" Ursula asked in frustration.
"He said that he left the capsule in that house and he just had to go get it." Ed reminded her.
On the balcony, Zander was panicking as he tried to figure out what to do. "If I told them my angel has the dinosaur capsule, they wouldn't understand." He thought, not wanting Reese to get hurt over what he now assumed was all a misunderstanding. "There's no telling what they'd do to her! Somehow I've got to get it back myself."
"I don't know. I'm sensing there's a problem here." Ursula said with suspicion. They then heard a low rumble behind them. "Huh?" Turning around, the pair saw the Saurolophus right behind them. "Waaaaaaah!" The duo screamed as they leapt into the air before running down the cliff. "I was right!" Ursula exclaimed as the Saurolophus started to chase them.
Thankfully for the whimpering duo, the cliff were on was right above a car junkyard and were able to hide easily amongst the rubbish. "In here!" Ursula urged as they quickly hid in a small van. The Saurolophus stopped with her stomach right on top of the van, and thankfully didn't catch their scent as she roared in anger from the possible thieves escaping her.
Back at the D-Lab, everyone was working to figure out what went wrong with the transporter, with Rex searching through the system on a laptop. "I found it." He told the others. "There's definitely a short circuit in the R-3 block."
"Good." Reese said before glaring at Spike. "Doctor, there wouldn't be any chance that you spilled your coffee anywhere near the board, is there?"
"I might have done that, yes." Spike shamefully admitted as he felt Utah's breath behind him and one of her claws in his shoulder.
"Not again." Reese sighed.
"So this whole thing is your fault?" Utah asked as she started to tense in anger.
"Uh, perhaps." Spike said with wide eyes, hoping he wouldn't make it worse.
"Now what?" Zoe asked, shifting back to the main topic. "Is there any way to fix it, Reese?"
"You'll have to replace the motherboard." Reese told them.
"No!" Spike exclaimed for some reason.
"And I think we have a spare one in the system control room." Utah remembered.
"Right. I'll go get it." Rex said as he walked off with his team.
"How come you're not wearing your glasses?" Paris asked once he was gone, seeing as they had nothing else to do while they wait. "You look really different without them."
"Oh. I didn't even notice, but she's right" Chomp said as he just now noticed Reese without her glasses along with the other boys there.
"Maybe you all need glasses." Zoe muttered with embarrassment, seeing as she noticed right away.
"Ha, ha, ha! Seeing Reese without her glasses is like seeing a Dalmatian without any spots." Spike said, smiling at his own comparison
"Huh?" Everyone said with confusion
"It looks like Reese, but it's not quite Reese." Spike explained.
"What have you done with her!" Spiny yelled at Reese, thinking her to be an imposter.
"What are you talking about, Doctor?" Reese annoyingly asked.
"I'm saying if you have a Dalmatian and you lose the spots, it's still a dog, but it's not a Dalmatian anymore." Spike explained. "Are you following?"
Before anyone could answer, Zander burst into the room with a wooden guiro and started playing a song for her. "Oh, my angel! I love my dinosaur! But when I look into your eyes, I think I love you more! Be my Jurassic Valentine!"
"What the hell is he doing?" Spiny asked as they watched through the laptop's camera.
"I think he's trying to court her." Chomp answered.
"Falling deep into your eyes! I love the way you archaeologize! Angel, stay with me forevermore! And love me like you love your dinosaur!" Zander finished.
"Thanks, but I'm a little busy right now." Reese said, not even the slightest bit moved by the song. "I'm really glad to see that you're feeling better." She smiled at that fact.
"I didn't know any other way to express the love I feel for you deep down inside!" Zander told her as he gave her a rose.
"Oh, how nice." Reese said as she took the rose, unused to such gestures of affection. "Thank you."
"You're welcome." Zander said.
"Who's with you?" Zoe asked, ruining the mood.
"Oooh!" Tensing with annoyance at the interruption, Zander looked and saw the D-Team on the other side of the screen, still confused by what was going on. "Ooh, not you again!"
"Hey!" Zoe exclaimed as she recognized him.
"What's that goon doing down there?" Utah asked as she shoved her way to the front.
"Ohh, quick, turn that thing off!" Zander exclaimed as he covered himself in drapes.
"What's the matter?" Reese asked, not realizing who she was talking to.
Zander decided to break into song again. "Oh, my poor heart's hit the skids! Tell me you're not really with those kids! Oh, no, no, no, no, it can't be so! Why can't we just let our true love grow?!" He finished singing. "Now, the finale! This is mine! He said as he took Reese's bag and pulled out the egg. "Huh? What's this?"
"It's a fossilized dinosaur egg." Reese answered. "What did you think was in there?"
"Then where's the bag I had with me?" Zander asked, starting to get worried.
"Your bag?" Reese asked.
"Yes."
"You must mean that stuff we found in the desert." Reese told him. "It was close to where we found you, but we thought it was just trash, and I think it got thrown away."
"Oh, no!" Zander exclaimed. "I can't explain why, but I've got to find that bag!"
"I'll help you look." Reese said as the two of them left, still not knowing who this really was with her.
"No, Reese, stay away from him!" Utah screeched at the screen. She still had a massive hatred for Zander after he brainwashed her at the TV station.
"I've got the motherboard!" Rex said as he reentered the room and noticed everyone getting tense. "Don't get too excited." He mumbled at their apparent anger.
"The Alpha Gang's in Mexico with Reese and your dad!" Max explained to him
"Oh, no way!" He gasped and quickly ran over to help install the motherboard so they can get there quick and save them both.
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Zander ran to where the junkyard was, only to stop in his tracks once he saw the Saurolophus. "Oh!"
"Whoa, a Saurolophus!" Reese gasped as she joined up with him.
"Where's it going?" Zander asked as the dinosaur walked over to another pile.
"It seems to be looking for something." Reese answered.
"That's just like the dinosaur card I found." Zander thought as he watched the Saurolophus search the pile.
Inside the van, Ursula and Ed were starting to have trouble breathing. More so because they were crammed together than from being in a hot car in the desert. "You'd better open this thing up, or get your foot out of my face!" Ursula mumbled at Ed.
"How can I do that? I can't even move!" Ed reminded her before they felt the van shake. "Ooh! The dinosaur must be back!"
Sure enough, the Saurolophus' nose was right at the tip of the van before she knocked it away. "Whoa!"
The reason she did so wasn't because she knew Ed and Ursula were in there. Instead, it was to reach the bag right behind it. "My bag!" Zander exclaimed.
The Saurolophus grabbed the bag in her mouth, but the capsule fell out of the bag and landed in Zander's hands. "Come on! Let's go!" Reese urged as they ran away from the Saurolophus, who was now chasing them, noticing Zander had the capsule.
"It's coming after us!" Zander exclaimed. "We'll never be able to outrun it!"
"This way!" Reese said as she took Zander's hand and lead him in a different direction, forcing the Saurolophus to slow as she made the turn after them.
"Agh!" Zander exclaimed at the sudden action.
In the van, Ursula had enough. "Fine, I'll get us out of here." She said as she pulled out her Scanner.
Ed immediately knew what she was planning. "I don't think that's a good idea!" He warned her. Ursula ignored him and summoned Gigas right inside of the van. Just like the last time she summoned him in a tiny, enclosed space, the van exploded and the two were sent flying. "Waa!" They screamed while Gigas roared.
Zander and Reese hid behind and rock, hoping the Saurolophus wouldn't find them. As the Saurolophus approached them, Gigas stepping on top of the rock and roared at her. "Surprise, mother fucker." He said as he tackled her away and they started to brawl. First he tried to bite her, which she responded by using her shoulder to push him back. Then, as she tried to leave, Gigas pounced on her like a wild cat.
As Zander and Reese took a breather, the capsule opened and the card inside fell out. "Hey." Zander said as he picked up the card.
"What? A Saurolophus Card?" Reese said in shock.
"But it's already out here." Zander said.
"So it's a second card, then." Reese realized.
"Yeah, I guess so." Zander agreed.
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At the D-Lab, Spike and Utah were finally able to get the transporter working again and the map appeared on the screen with a blinking light in Mexico. "Yes!"
"It's in Mexico!" Ace said as he looked at the map.
"Well, that explains why the Alpha Gang is there." Max said.
"We've got to go help Reese!" Zoe said.
"All right. Are you kids ready to head out?" Spike asked them.
"Not so fast." Utah told them as she blocked their way onto the teleporter. "If Reese is in trouble, then I'm coming with you."
"Are you sure?" Paris asked her. "I mean, you're not the most powerful-"
"I'm coming and that's final!" Utah screeched at her, silencing any further rebuttals.
Chomp tensed when he saw Paris being threatened but stopped himself before he did anything. "What on earth was that about?" He asked him self as they teleported away.
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Back in Mexico, the Saurolophus had just been knocked down by Gigas' tail as the Tyrannosaurus went in to finish the job. At this moment, the D-Team arrived. "Look, there's the dinosaur, guys!" Terry quickly pointed out.
"Yeah, but where's Reese?" Zoe asked as she looked around frantically for her sister.
Rex heard footsteps approaching and saw Dr. Owen and Patrick running towards them. "Oh, Dad!"
"Rex, what are you doing here?" Dr. Owen asked before they noticed the battle below them. "Oh, my!"
"Agh, a live dinosaur!" Patrick screamed in horror, not knowing about the D-Team's secret. Things only got worse when he saw Utah with them. "Agh, another dinosaur!"
"Relax, buddy. I'm on your side." Utah assured him.
This didn't really help Patrick's fears. "Agh, it talks."
"Yeah, Patrick, there's some stuff about my son that I might have glimpsed over telling you about." Dr. Owen admitted, embarrassingly scratching the back of his neck.
"How could you forget to tell me about the live talking dinosaurs?!" Patrick yelled at his boss.
"Well, we were having so much fun, and it's not like we cross paths with them much anyway." Dr. Owen tried to explain himself.
Getting back onto her feet, the Saurolophus hit Gigas in the face with her tail. The Tyrannosaurus responded to this by grabbing the hadrosaur by the neck, dragging her back to the ground. "Chomp, you need to get in there save Saurolophus!" Max told him as he recalled the Triceratops.
"DINO SLASH! TRICERATOPS, ROAR!"
Once Chomp landed, he charged down the cliff at such high velocity he knocked Gigas away like a bowling pin, allowing the Saurolophus to get back up. "What?" Ursula gasped as she saw the D-Team right beside her, along with a certain pest she remembered from New York. "Can't I go anywhere without those brats?" She asked as she pulled out her Scanner and a Move Card. "I won't let them ruin this. Go, Magma Blaster!"
Max heard this and got his counterattack ready. "Got get 'em, Chomp! Lightning Strike!"
Both dinosaurs charged up their attacks at the same time, Chomp gathering Lightning and Gigas gathered magma, before they both fired at the same time. The lightning cut through the magma and struck Gigas dead center. "That was close!" Chomp panted as he went in to finish Gigas off.
With her attacker distracted, the Saurolophus continued on her search. She looked down and noticed Zander and Reese in front of her. "Oh, no! It spotted us!" Zander exclaimed before they ran away again, the Saurolophus chasing after them. "Why does this dinosaur keep chasing after us?"
"Do you think I could be because of that card you have?" Reese asked him.
"Uhh-aah!" Zander was too busy pondering that he didn't look where he was running and tripped on the ground. The card flew out of his hands and landed right onto a cactus before glowing green.
The Saurolophus let out a roar as a male Saurolophus came out of the green. Unlike the female, his crest was a blueish-green. The two approached each other and began to nuzzle each other.
The others saw this and watched as the two reunited, even Gigas and Chomp stopped their battle to watch the reunion. "No way! She has her mate!" Paris gasped.
"Well, those two obviously know each other." Ursula commented.
"Or it could be love at first sight." Ed pointed out as the pair started nuzzling cheeks, having thought they'd never see each other again.
"That's so sweet." Zander said, never imagining seeing such emotions from dinosaurs.
"Yes, it is." Reese agreed, causing Zander to blush.
"Okay! Enough of these lovebirds!" Gigas roared as he charged towards the pair in an attempt to defeat them both while they were distracted with each other.
"Leave them alone!" Chomp roared as he ran after him, determined to not have the Tyrannosaurus ruin the happy moment.
Max was in agreement. "Chomp, Lightning Spear!" He called out as he swiped the Move Card. Chomp started getting filled with lightning before tackling Gigas into the air and stabbing him in the groin with a spear of lightning.
The Tyrannosaurus twitched in pain before returning to his card and drifting from the sky. "That should teach you!" Chomp said bitterly as he landed before noticing his tone change again. "There I go again getting worked up. Why is that?"
"My poor Gigas!" Ursula cried as she went to pick up the card.
This was a mistake as she ran into Dr. Owen's field of vision. "Oh, my lovely Ursula!" He gasped before running after her. "Come back, my dear! You came all the way to Mexico to find me?! Waaaaiitttt!" Turning around, Ursula saw him speeding down the mountain towards her.
"Aah!" The greenette woman screamed as she picked up her pace and ran past Ed, who was going after the card as well, to avoid the crazed doctor.
"Ursula!" Dr. Owen called out as they got off the slope and ran across the plains. "Why are you running from me when you should be whispering sweet words of love into my ear like those two Saurolophus back there?"
"I already told you it'll would never work out!" Ursula yelled back at him, clearly having gained a massive disliking for Rex's father since she last saw him. "We're way too different, not to mention you're too old for me!"
"But age means nothing so long as there's love!" Dr. Owen replied. "We're meant for each other!"
"Oh, Dad." Rex sighed in embarrassment, alongside Patrick, who was also embarrassed by his boss while the others just watched with confusion.
"Ed, don't just stand there! Call out Maximus and Armatus and get those two Saurolophuses before this nut catches me!" Ursula ordered him.
"Oh, coming right up!" Ed replied as he picked up Gigas and switched cards.
"ALPHA SLASH! STRIKE 'EM OUT, TRICERATOPS! CLOBBER 'EM, STEGOSAURUS!"
The duo landed and immediately caused the Saurolophuses to notice them. "Maximus, Armatus, beat those two up and get them back into their cards!" Ed told them.
"Let's do this, babe!" Armatus roared before charging forward.
"Don't call me that!" Maximus replied before doing the same.
The two Saurolophus knew they couldn't handle those two and moved out of the way while Chomp stopped Maximus in a shoulder pushing struggle. "Leave them alone!" He yelled while struggling
"You look like you've been in quite the fight. Why don't you lie down?!" Armatus said before ramming into Chomp, allowing Maximus to literally walk over him and defeat him.
"Chomp!" Paris exclaimed in horror before a look of furry appeared in her face. "Zoe, get me down there!"
Zoe was briefly shocked at the tone Paris gave her but obliged. Utah gave out a loud screech as she ran down to help.
Sadly for the Saurolophuses, they were caught by the duo and defeated in seconds. But before Maximus and Armatus could even move, Utah landed behind them with another loud screech and Paris appeared next to her in a green glow, looking furious. "Oh, hey, Utah. Been a while since we last met." Armatus said to her nervously, not liking the look he was being given.
"Don't think I haven't forgotten what you and your friends did to me." She said as she leapt up onto the air. "I've felt your Move Card, now feel mine! Atomic Bomb!" She yelled as she descended at such a high speed that Armatus was struck right on the head and was engulfed by an explosion. Utah leapt out of the explosion while Armatus was defeated as his card floated out of the cloud.
"Stomping Hammer!" Zoe called out as she activated the Move Card.
"My turn!" Paris exclaimed as she ran to Maximus and knocked her down with her tail before leaping into the air and slamming into her. "Don't you ever do that to Chomp again!"
"And why do you care?" Maximus asked weakly before getting carded.
"Well, I-" Paris stopped herself. Why did she care so much? Sure Chomp was one of her best friends. But would his defeat really warrant that much anger?
"Maximus!" Ed cried as he grabbed the card.
"Poor Armatus." Zander said before noticing Reese running off. "Huh?"
Max had the same idea as he ran to one of the cards and picked up the male. "Awesome! We got a Saurolophus Card!" He cheered before realizing something was missing. "But where's the other one? There should be two of 'em."
It was Reese who found the female's card. But before she could pick it up, she was stopped by Zander. "Hold it!" He told her as he picked up the card. "I'll get that, if you don't mind." He told her before handing it to her. "Here."
"Huh?" Reese was confused by his action.
"Even I know that two lovers shouldn't be separated." He told her. "I'll have to accept the fact that you could never be mine. But these dinosaurs were meant to be together."
"Ohh." Reese said in reply, feeling sorry for Zander before hearing voices behind her.
"Reese!" "Here we come!" "Don't worry!" The D-Team said as they ran over to where they were.
"Take it so at least they can be happy!" He cried before running off, thankfully before the D-Team arrived.
"Reese, are you all right?" Zoe asked her sister once they reached her.
"Yeah." She replied
"Don't leave me!" Dr. Owen cried. "Ursula, waaaiiittt!" He yelled as the woman rode away on a donkey.
"Climb on! We've got to get out of here!" She told her partners, stopping briefly so they could climb onto the donkey's back.
"Are you sure?" Ed asked.
"But he loves you, Ursula!" Zander reminded her.
"Hiyo, Silver!" Was Ursula's response as they ran off into the desert.
"It's actually brown." Ed corrected her.
Dr. Owen stopped chasing them and cried at his failure. "Ohohohohoho!"
"Oh, Dad." Rex sighed as he ran up to comfort him.
"You're lucky that creep from the Alpha Gang didn't try to hurt you." Utah said to Reese as they watched the trio ride off.
"That was the Alpha Gang?" Reese asked in surprise.
"I would never hurt my angel!" Zander shot back from miles away. "And who are you calling a creep?"
"At least she didn't call you old." Ursula said as they got into the aircraft and flew away.
"For some strange reason, I feel like we forgot something important." Ed said.
It didn't take long for Ursula to realize what was missing. "What?! Don't tell me you don't have the Saurolophus Cards?!"
"Okay, I won't tell you!" Ed replied fearfully.
Reese smiled as they flew away. "Wow. For a crook, he was a pretty good dancer."
"I'm sorry, my son." Dr. Owen apologized. "I wanted to get you a new mom, but I failed again."
"It's okay." Rex assured him, secretly happy he failed.
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At Zeta Point, things went about as well as you'd expect. "You come back from Mexico with nothing?!" Dr.Z yelled at Ursula and Ed exactly like before. "No dinosaur?! No maracas?!"
"Well, we did manage to bring back Zander." Ursula said quietly.
"Yeah? I only see two dimwits here." Dr.Z replied.
"Huh?" The duo's eyes widened when they realized he was correct. "But he was here with us just a minute ago."
Zander was in-fact sitting on the beach, playing the same song he played for Reese. "Oh, my angel!" He sang much slower. "It's more than I could take! Without you by my side, my heart will break! Oh, it's you that I adore! Say you'll love me like you love your dinosaur!" Looking up at the orange sky, he saw both the Saurolophuses nuzzling each other and Reese smiling at him. Maybe, just maybe, he might see her again someday.
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At the D-Lab, the D-Team were just heading home after integrating Romeo and Juliet, the two Saurolophus, into the sanctuary. All this time, Chomp kept on feeling something urging him to say something to Paris. Something in his chest. And it wasn't his stomach.
He got that feeling again when he saw her about to leave with Zoe and Spiny. "Hey, Paris!" He called out to her. "Can I speak to you for a minute!"
"Sure." Paris replied as she walked over to him. "What's up?"
"I have something I need to ask you." Chomp told her. "Are you experiencing some weird feelings as of late?"
"What'd you mean?" She tilted her head in confusion.
"I mean, like, your heart starts beating faster whenever someone comes to your mind." Chomp clarified, pawing his foot on the floor.
"I guess so. Why? Is it happening to you, too?"
"Yeah, ever since we first met in Egypt I've had that feeling when I think about you." Chomp said. "And over time, I guess it just kept on growing until I'm getting what I'm feeling now."
"I've experienced feelings like that too ever since we first met." Paris said as she laid down.
Chomp laid down next to her before resuming their conversation. "I saw how you handled Maximus today. You were awesome."
"She had it coming for what she did to you." Paris replied.
"Yeah. You have my back, and I have yours." Chomp said. "We make a great team."
"We do." Paris replied before sighing. "Chomp, remember what Spiny said about our future at the amusement park?"
"The part where we're going to have to mix-breed to continue our species? Yeah, I remember."
"And you've noticed how Armatus acts with Maximus sometimes, correct?"
"I do." Chomp replied, not seeing where this was going.
"Do you think...we could be like that?"
"What are you-" Chomp was cut off by Paris nuzzling his cheek affectionally. "Paris."
"I think I know what our problem is. We're in love." Paris said as she stopped the nuzzle.
"But are you sure you'd want to be with me?" Chomp asked, starting to blush furiously as he knew she was right.
"There's no dinosaur I'd rather be with for the rest of my life than you. I love you, Chomp." Paris said as she nuzzled him again.
"And I love you too, Paris." Chomp replied as he this time returned the nuzzle.
Next time on Dinosaur King:
Ursula: We're looking for a crystal skull. Have you seen it?
Elder: No mortals have ever come back alive!
Max: I don't want to hurt you
Pawpaw: Then don't follow my friends, bad guy
Brontikens: His kindness will only get him killed one day
A/N: And so part of the anniversary is complete. I hope the patient ones were glad with their reward. Even though I delayed releasing this chapter for you all, yes I'm a jerk.
At last, we've had the ship set sail for Chomp and Paris. I've had this planned for a while, since the beginning, and I'm glad we finally get one of the couples for this series. That'll have you shipping fans busy.
Another thing is that the addition of Utah was added at the last minute since she and Reese and close friends. This felt like a moment to add onto that, as well as a perfect moment for revenge.
And now you can read Temple Tempest. Have fun!