Dinosaur King Retold Chapter 37: Ruff and Ready, a dinosaur king fanfic

Ruff and Ready

Disclaimer: Dinosaur King is owned by Sunrise, Shout Factory, 4kidsTV, and any other company I missed. I own nothing

"Talking"

Thinking

"Flashback"

On the Golden Gate Bridge, a fierce battle between the D-Team and the Alpha Gang has just reached its climax. Well, as climatic as the Alpha Gang running from six dinosaurs, including one using Electric Charge, could be. "Aah! Aah! Stay away!" Ursula yelled as she ran with Zander and Ed in her arms, both blue from the lack of oxygen.

Behind them were Gigas, Maximus, and Armatus, also running for their lives. "He's getting closer!" Armatus exclaimed as he looked behind them to see their adversaries right on top of them.

"See ya!" Ursula said as she picked up the pace.

Before the dinosaurs could respond to this abandonment, Chomp struck them all from behind and sent them flying high into the air. Ursula noticed the shadow looming over them and looked up to see the trio of dinosaurs about to fall on them. "Don't fall on us! We're on your side!" But this proved to be useless as they were all crushed paper-thin by the dinosaurs. "We blew it again." The trio said as they were literally blown away by the wind as the D-Team dinosaurs roared in victory.

When they reported about their loss back to Dr.Z, he was as thrilled as he always was. Which was not at all. "You failed!? How did you botch up this fool-proof plan?!" After realizing the D-Team show up any time one of their dinosaurs was summoned off the island, the plan was to summon their dinosaurs in a random location and wait for the D-Team to arrive before they jumped them and took all their cards. Unfortunately, the kids were able to figure out it was a trap due to the number of signals and were ready for the ambush. As a result, they were able to defeat Brontikens early on and heavily exhaust the other dinosaurs, which lead to their retreat shown earlier. "You three blockheads do absolutely nothing for me! Why do I bother keeping you around?!"

The Alpha Gang, who were still paper-thin, sucked in a big breath of air before they inflated back to normal and sat down to explain themselves. "Oh! Well, that's because we-" Ursula started to say before Dr.Z cut her off.

"Augh! I wasn't really asking!" He decided it was time to punish them harshly after failing 29 times in their feud with the D-Team. "You three are in the doghouse, so now you can act like dogs!"

"Dogs? For real?" Ursula asked.

"The lovable kind, right?" Zander asked before Dr.Z kicked him into the wall, creating a large crack on impact. "Unh!"

"The kind that bark!" Dr.Z replied before turning to the other two.

"Uhh. Woof, woof, wa-woof, woof, woof?" Ursula responded nervously.

"How long will you have to stay as dogs?" Dr.Z guessed was her reply, making Ursula nodded to confirm his correct guess. "Until I decided whether to keep you or not."

"Woof, woof?!" The trio woofed in horror.

"Shake!" Dr.Z commanded as he stuck his hand out, deciding to test them.

"Rowf!" Ursula responded by putting her "paw" on his hand, feeling completely embarrassed as she did so, same with Zander and Ed.

"Now speak!" Dr.Z ordered Ed.

"Owowwoooo!"

"Sit up and beg!" He told Zander, who sat up and started whimpering. "At least as dogs you obey orders." He told the trio, making them whimper in response out of shame and embarrassment.

"Rar! Rar, rar, rar, rar!" Ursula barked as she got up in Dr.Z's face.

"How long until you get to be people again?" Dr.Z responded. "Not until you finally succeed in collecting some of those dinosaur cards. Until then, it's dog chow in the dog house!" He yelled at them, making the trio howl in sadness.

From their living quarters, the dinosaurs were able to hear everything Dr.Z said through the air duct. "Wow, did you guys hear that?" Gigas asked the others as he turned away from the vent. "The Doc's making the three of them act like dogs until we win for once."

"If that's the punishment for them, I really don't want to know what he has in store for us." Armatus said as he started panicking.

"Probably won't allow us to eat until we get a card." Maximus assumed.

"You three need to stop worrying yourselves." Brontikens assured them as he walked over after taking a mouthful of plants from the trough. "He's too stupid."

"What does that have to do with us not needing to worry about starvation?" Maximus asked.

"Besides the fact the doctor needs us to capture the other cards, he always believes that those three are the ones responsible for our lack of victories. And it's best we keep it that way." Brontikens warned then.

"Still, I can't help but feel sorry for them." Gigas said as he turned back to the vent, now hearing sounds of violence from the other side that implied the trio were getting beaten by whips. Something they themselves have faced a few times as their own punishments. "It's not all their fault."

(Intro Theme)

True to Dr.Z's words, the trio were made into dogs. The mad scientist even got everyone else to do the same for them. This was especially shown during lunchtime when Helga brought everyone at the table a large banquet of food that was to die for. "Looks delicious, Helga!" Dr.Z said as he looked at all the food she prepared. "Bon appetit!" He and his grandkids cheered before they started eating their food while Seth quietly ate his.

The trio were off to the side of the table, each with their own dog bowl. "You three will be enjoying a special menu from now on." Helga told them as she dropped a bone in each of their bowls.

"Huh?" The trio gasped before whimpering.

"Bones are not only high in nutrition, they'll keep your coats nice and shiny." Helga explained to them as they chewed on the bones.

"And Grandpa has us build you each your very own doghouse out in the backyard, too." Rod added.

"Sort of like a beach house, but without the beach." Laura told them. The trio just continued whimpering.

"What?! We're supposed to live in these things?!" Ursula exclaimed once they saw the doghouses, which looked like they couldn't even fit in them.

"Shh! We're only allowed to woof and bark, remember?" Zander warned her as Ed checked out the doghouses.

"Who cares?" Ursula shrugged his warning off. They had even ditched crawling on all fours and were back on two legs.

"Guys! These doghouses are great!" Ed told them.

"What?!" Ursula exclaimed, almost thinking he'd gone off the deep end after all the torture.

"He's right, Ursula." Zander said as he looked into one. "It's nice in here. There are even doggie jammies for us to wear."

"Huh. You're right!" Ursula said as she looked into her own doghouse.

"And dog biscuits! My favorite kind!" Ed exclaimed as he crawled into his for some proper food.

"The little bed is so cute." Ursula said as she crawled into hers to lay down.

"There's a TV, too." Zander added as he crawled into his to see what was on.

"You know, some paint and new curtains, and this could be nice!" Ursula said

"Now this is a dog's life!" Zander declared.

Once he said that, the doors behind them closed. "Hey, who shut the door?" Ursula yelled as she banged the door. "Open up!"

"I'm locked in!" Zander exclaimed. "Help!"

"Turn on the lights! It's dark in here, I'm scared!" Ed pleaded.

"Did you think you were just going to lounge around in there?" Dr.Z asked from the other side. "I'm sending you to get dinosaur cards, and don't let me down!"

"Huh?" The trio exclaimed before the ground started shaking and they felt like they were being lifted into the air. "What's going on now?!" Ursula asked.

"This rocket has just enough fuel to get you to where the dinosaur card is, so once you crash, get to work!" Dr.Z ordered them.

"Crash?!" The trio exclaimed in horror. "Dr.Z! The Alpha Scanner?!" Zander reminded him.

"All right! Rod, throw!" Dr.Z told his grandson. Rod tossed an Alpha Scanner that was attacked to a small, metal airplane that hit Ursula in the back of the head. "Bring me back that card or don't bother coming back!"

"The fuel's gone! We're going down!" Zander exclaimed as the rocket approached its target. The rocket flew across Ayers Rocket before crashing landing.

As the rocket fell apart, revealing the trio lying down in a large crater, Ursula could only groan. "Call Dr.Z. I have a bone to pick." Before fainting.

The force of the impact caused a nearby capsule to open up and for a card to be blown into the bushes, where it activated. The dinosaur was an ornithopod that looked a lot like Rocko. In fact, he looked almost exactly like him, except he lacked the large nose. He was mostly a tanish-white with a long blue mark going along his back that had little stripes going down across the tail, which had the tip completely blue, while up front it covered most of his head, leaving the mouth tanish-white, and the upper portion of the arms, both of which had thumb spikes, like Rocko. This dinosaur was an Iguanodon.

When the Iguanodon appeared, he immediately noticed the trio lying in the crater. He walked over to Ursula and licked her face to wake her up. It managed to somewhat work and Ursula drowsily woke up and looked to see the Iguanodon looking down at her. She was so dizzy that she thought she was hallucinating and chuckled weakly before falling back into unconsciousness.

"Look, guys!" Zoe exclaimed as she ran into the Taylor Household with her newest accessory, a pink sash she was carrying Paris in. "These great Pet Sashes are the latest thing at our shop. Aren't they just adorable?"

"Are you kidding me?" Max asked her.

"Maybe, but you'll never catch me wearing one." Rex commented.

"As you should." Tank agreed, not wanting to see her partner wearing such a girly thing.

"What'd you know?" Zoe asked, offended by the comment. "Well, Paris and I love it because now I can take her with me wherever I go, and she'll never get tired out."

"What about Spiny?" Tank asked.

"I'll get him one once they're back in stock. Then I can carry both of them around." Zoe answered.

"It's pretty silly looking if you ask me." Max commented.

"What're you talking about? That looks awesome!" Chomp said as he hopped onto the table.

"Yeah, looks like Chomp disagrees with you." Zoe mocked Max.

"Any room for another in there?" Chomp asked Paris as he tried to climb in.

"No, there's not." Paris said as she shoved him away with her paws.

"Okay, no need to use force." Chomp told her as he backed away after getting pushed onto the table.

"Chomp, you can't be serious about wanting that?" Max asked him, still annoyed by his partner's reaction.

"Of course. I know something's good when I see it."

"Don't you mean when you taste it?" Terry asked.

"That too."

"Maybe you ought to get one, after all, Max." Zoe told him with an almost evil grin.

"No way!" He asserted, looking away like he was a little kid having a tantrum.

"Oh, what a darling little pet carrier." Aki said as she entered the room.

"I know! Isn't it great?" Zoe responded.

"It reminds me of the one I had. I used one just like it to carry Max." Aki said, making her son tense up.

"Really?" Zoe said with a mischievous grin. "Ha, ha, ha! What do you know?" She giggled.

"Yeah? So what's the big deal?" Max shot back.

"When he was fussy, I'd put him inside, and he'd fall right asleep because of the heartbeat." Aki told them. "It's a very calming sound for little babies."

"Why the heartbeat?" Zoe asked.

"Because the sound they hear before they're born is the mother's heartbeat, so that soothes them and tells them everything is all right." Aki explained.

"That makes sense." Zoe said as Paris cuddling next to her proved her point, though this was mainly 'cause she was getting cozy for a nap.

"It's hard to believe when I look at him now, but there was a time Max fit in that sash." Aki remembered. "Such a cute baby." She cooed, making Max more embarrassed as he pressed his fingers together to calm himself. "Wonder what happened?" She asked before she realized what she was doing. "Oh! Oh, my! Are you embarrassed? Let's see you smile, Maximus!" Aki said as she pulled her son's cheeks into a smile. A really forced, creepy one, mind you.

The dinosaurs all tensed up for a second when they heard her say the name of one of their enemies before realizing she was speaking to Max. "Maximus?" Zoe repeated. "Now isn't that a funny nickname?"

"Almost suspicious." Spiny growled quietly, thinking Max to be a spy.

Terry saw this and quickly shot down those thoughts. "Spiny, Maximus is just a fancy name for Max. He is not secretly a Triceratops spying for the Alpha Gang." He whispered to the Spinosaurus before adding. "He hates vegetables. You can't hate vegetables if you're a vegetarian."

"That's racist." Spiny turned his glaring onto Terry, who decided it was best not to respond and just have Spiny forget about it in a few seconds.

"You promised you'd never call me that again." Max groaned as he put his hands to his face to cover his embarrassment, as well as soothe his acing cheeks.

"How about I make you kids some lunch?" Aki offered as she went over to the kitchen.

"Yeah!" Rex replied before he noticed the Dino Holder going off. "Uh-oh, Mrs. Taylor!"

"Hmm?"

"Can we wait and have lunch later?"

"OK." She answered with confusion at the sudden change of mind.

"The dinosaur appeared in central Australia near a place called Ayers Rock, which is also known as Uluru." Reese said as a picture of the rock appeared on the screen.

"Uluru?" Terry repeated.

"I've heard of that." Ace said, remembering seeing that rock in a boon he read about Australia once.

"Yes. It's one of Australia's most recognizable natural icons." Spike told them. "When the light changes at sunrise and sunset, the color of the rock changes with it!" Spike exclaimed as she started to get excited.

"Cool!" Terry said in reply.

But Spike wasn't listening anymore, instead fantasizing about the many creatures that called the Land Down Under home. "Australia is full of plants and animals that are unique in the world, and some of them almost prehistoric, plus some are just so cute! In fact, while you're there, take some pictures for me, OK?"

"Dude, they've been gone for a while." Some said, breaking the doctor out of his thoughts.

"What?!" He screamed in dismay.

Back in Australia, the Alpha Gang woke up and walked with all their strength to find any water. "Where in the world are we?" Ursula asked as she used a stick as a came, her back injured by the crash. Surprisingly the only one, too.

"Well, it's hot enough to be Africa again, but it could be Death Valley, too." Ed responded, wiping off his sweat with a cloth.

"The Alpha Scanner showed Australia before we crashed, but now it doesn't work." Zander said as he showed the Alpha Scanner was nothing but static.

"That's just great. So now we can't even call for help." Ursula grumbled. "Not like any of those bastards care enough about us to come save us anyway!"

"Gigas and the others care." Ed reminded her. He was right as the dinosaurs were the only ones to show them sympathy while they were dogs, though it was just looks of pity as they didn't want to anger Dr.Z.

"The Alpha Scanner doesn't work so we can't call them out." Zander reminded him. "And they're not even with us. We only have Brontikens in here."

"Well, that makes things better." Ursula said sarcastically. "Dr.Z's lapdog is sure to help us out."

"Ugh! I'm so thirsty I could drink a mud puddle!" Ed exclaimed as he started to slant back.

"Yeah? How about I buy you a soda at the next mini-mall?" Ursula suggested sarcastically before noticing something in their way. "A frilled lizard." She realized. "I've never seen one before."

"Maybe it knows where the mini-mall is." Ed said before it hissed at them and ran away.

The group was about to continue, but gasped when they saw a much larger lizard walk in their path. "Aah! And that's a monitor lizard! This place is crawling with creatures!" Ursula said.

"And each that goes by gets larger." Zander said as the monitor lizard left to make room for the Iguanodon that passed right by them. "Ohh!"

The trio were so weak and tired they didn't even realize they just passed their target. "Wow, I guess it's true what they say. Everything in Australia is bigger." Ursula said.

"Too bad they're not bigger on drinking fountains." Zander said as they continued on walking.

"I know. I'm about to burst into flames." Ed told them.

"Yeah, and I'm starting to see things." Ursula said as she looked back at the mirage before realizing it was real. "Huh? That's not a lizard!"

"It's an Iguanodon!" The men gasped.

The Iguanodon noticed he got their attention and motioned for them to follow him. "Hmm?" Ursula wondering what it was doing

"Got a crick in its neck?" Zander theorized.

"I think it's telling us to follow it." Ed suggested.

"What've we got to lose?" Ursula told them.

"Yeah, that's true." Zander and Ed replied as they followed the Iguanodon.

The trio continued on following the Iguanodon until they reached the location he was leading them; a large water hole he was able to find thanks to years of experience in migrations.

The trio's eyes widened when they saw where the Iguanodon led them. "Oh! It's water!" Ursula gasped as she started crying. "Beautiful water! Ohh!" She exclaimed as they all jumped in. Once she landed in, Ursula immediately started splashing water all over herself. "Ha, ha, ha! Aah!"

"I could drink this whole thing!" Ed exclaimed while he drank as much water as his stomach could carry while Zander swam past him.

The Iguanodon stepped into the lake and started having his own full of water. As he did, Ursula just watched him in silence. "Iguanodon, leading us here saved our lives. Thank you." She told the herbivore.

"Um, you don't think it was just a coincidence?" Zander asked as he floated by.

The Iguanodon decided to prove Zander wrong by giving Ursula a friendly lick. "Ha, ha, ha! Hey. Stop it. Ha, ha, ha! That tickles!" Ursula laughed before letting the Iguanodon on the snout.

"It does seem to be pretty attached to you, Ursula." Zander told her. "Maybe he thinks he thinks you're his mom or something." He guessed.

"Huh? Nah." Ursula replied before the Iguanodon started walking off. "Now where is he going?"

"Shouldn't we catch him before he leaves?" Ed suggested.

"Of course we should!" Zander yelled at the top of his voice. "We came here for a dinosaur, and here he is, so all we have to do is turn him into a card before the brats show up, and we could quit being the Doctor's dogs!"

"But how can we do that when the Alpha Scanner is broken and there's no way to get Brontikens out here to fight with him?" Ursula asked, purposely not mentioning any alternate methods she thought of, like using the sun's light to bring the Apatosaurus out.

"You have a point there." Zander replied.

"I say we follow him." Ursula told them. "After all, he's brought us good luck so far." She said before getting out of the water and running after the Iguanodon. Once she caught up with him, the ornithopod lowered his head and she was able to jump onto his neck and ride him. "Well! Now isn't this nice?"

"Hey, that looks a whole lot better than walking!" Zander said as he and Ed watched Ursula ride the Iguanodon.

"Yeah! All aboard the Iguanodon!" Ed exclaimed before they ran up to get a lift, too. But when they tried to jump on, the Iguanodon simply reared up and made the two men crash into each other. "Ooh!/Ugh!"

"He says there's no room for you two." Ursula laughed as the two men rubbed their butts before chuckling as the Iguanodon gave a semi-smile. She was starting to like this guy.

At Zeta Point, the mood was anything but pleasant. "I've been trying to contact Ursula and those slackers for hours!" Dr.Z yelled as the screen just shows static by their names, indicating they had no signal. "Why won't they answer?!"

"I would appear that their Alpha Scanner has been damaged." Seth said.

"What?!" Dr.Z exclaimed.

"And without it, they won't be able to capture any dinosaurs." Seth added.

"How typical of those numbskulls!" Dr.Z said angrily. "Going on a mission with a broken Alpha Scanner! When they come back this time around, they won't even get dog food! They'll get lower than dog food, they'll get lima beans-"

"You mean if they come back." Seth interrupted Dr.Z's tantrum.

"Huh?"

"The way you treat them, they may not return. I know that I wouldn't." Seth told him.

"That's if they even survived the crash." Maximus said as she and the other dinosaurs entered the room.

"Why aren't you with-"

"You only sent one Alpha Scanner and didn't check who was in it." Gigas scolded the doctor.

"And, mate, I'm pretty sure the reason it's broken is thanks to the rocket you designed to crash them in Australia." Armatus added.

Dr.Z just looked around in horror as he realized they all had a point. "Hmm. You're all right. We'd better go after them." He said as he slumped over sadly before crying.

"What?"

"Eh, I've been too hard on them." Dr.Z said as he tried to hold back the tears. "I've got to bring them home."

"You told them not to come back without a dinosaur card, didn't you?" Seth reminded him.

Dr.Z tensed up as he remembered his threat. "Uh, yes, but who else would take in those three fools? Hmm?"

"You have a point there." Seth replied.

Meanwhile, the D-Team managed to find themselves in a small animal sanctuary. "Look, Max! How cute!" Zoe said as she held a koala.

"Oh, wow!" Max exclaimed as he never saw a koala in real life before.

"Come back here! I just wanna talk!" Spiny said as he chased a kangaroo around.

"Nice place you got there." Chomp told a joey. "Mind if I join you?" He asked if he started to climb in, only for the joey to punch him away, like what happened earlier with Paris.

"I don't think that pouch is meant for two." Terry joked when Chomp fell out in front of him.

"I will get my own pouch." Chomp said with determination as he got back onto his feet.

"Look! Even this little sugar glider has a pouch on its stomach." Rex said as he showed them its location.

"No way!" Zoe gasped.

"That's so cool!" Max said.

"Animals with pouches are also called marsupials." Rex explained as he watched Ace looking at some tasmanian devils, another marsupial species. "And they're mostly extinct on other continents, but not here in Australia." He said as he turned to see Paris singing with some cassowaries. "Animals here seem to have a unique evolutionary pattern."

"I'm positive that pattern includes being comfy." Tank said as she snuggled with some combat, careful not to poke them with her spikes. "What? I didn't have much sleep last night."

"So a dinosaur walking around here might not seem that strange, you know?" Terry said as they started leaving.

"That's crazy! They have this!" Spiny said as he emerged from the water with a platypus on his head.

"What's your point?" Max asked

"This thing is a freaking mess."

"It's a platypus, Spiny. They're supposed to look like that." Paris explained to the Spinosaurus. "That only proves that dinosaurs wouldn't seem too strange around here and might not cause a panic."

"Oh." Spiny said before he was stung by the angry platypus' ankle barb. "Oww! They even sting! Next thing you tell me, they're also great secret agents."

Meanwhile, the Alpha Gang continued on walking until they reached a village. Well, Zander and Ed were walking, at least. "Oh, my aching feet." The two men said before they were swarmed by villagers.

"What is it?!"

"Never seen anything like it."

"We've never seen anybody riding atop a lizard before!" One of them told Ursula, amazed by her and the Iguanodon.

Ursula started to get embarrassed by all the attention. "Eh? It's not a lizard, you know. It's a-"

"Wow! They're lizard charmers!" Another person said, cutting her off. "Fantastic."

This just made Ursula confused. "We're what now? What? Huh?"

"We welcome you to our hungry village, strangers." The elder said as he walked forward.

"Oh. Well, thank you." Ursula responded.

"Come, please follow me." He requested.

"Yeah?" Ursula replied as they followed the elder.

"You must be very tired after your long journey." He said as he led them to Ayers Rock.

"Actually, I feel great." Ursula commented.

"Of course you do." Zander and Ed grumbled.

"Whoa! So this is the famous Ayers Rock!" Max gasped as the D-Team approached the landmark.

"It really is huge." Terry said as they were all marveled by the size.

"Hard to believe it's all one big rock, isn't it?" Ace asked anyone.

"I say we try climbing it!" Max declared.

"No, Max." Tank groaned.

"We're here to look for that dinosaur." Zoe reminded him.

"Right! So why don't we look for it from way up there?" Max insisted as he pointed to the top.

"Oh, good idea." Zoe said. Team Rex could only groan in response. Hopefully, Max's instincts were right this time.

Many others started climbing the rock to take part in the welcome party for Ursula and the Iguanodon, who she named Iguano. Zander and Ed, however, were given the short end of the stick. "Water for sale! Come and get your water!" Zander called out as he and Ed carried large boxes with drinks on their backs.

"Frozen tangerines and ice cream, too." Ed added.

Both men stopped and they sighed before Zander erupted with rage. "Ooh. How did we get stuck selling stuff while Ursula gets treated like royalty?!" He screamed at the top of his lungs.

"It's not fair!" Ed added in the same tone.

"Hey! Watch what you say about Ursula, mates!" A tough voice warned them. The two of them turned around to see two tough-looking men cracking their knuckles at them. "Your boss lady told us you two rank below dogs, and we can treat you any way we like."

"Aah!" The two of them screamed in horror.

"So, if you're planning on living in this village, mates, then you should also plan on working." The other man said as they looked over to the field where Ursula and Iguano were having a banquet dedicated to them, the woman chuckling as the Iguanodon wolfed down his food.

"We're living in this village?!" They exclaimed. "Did Ursula say that?" Zander asked them.

"Yeah, she's really quite amazing, she is!" One of the men told them. "And the way she communicates with that big lizard is beyond belief. With Ursula living in the village now, we're bound to always be safe. Now go on and sell your things!" He ordered the two before they walked off.

The two men could only start crying as now they have two people treating them as slaves. "I guess we don't have any choice." Zander cried. "Looks like we'll have to perform tricks for them or we won't get to eat."

"Like a couple of stray dogs." Ed added. "Slavery forever."

"Excuse me, could we have some water please?" Someone asked the two.

"Yes, sir!" The two of them beamed, putting on an act, before turning around. "How about some ice cream or fruit?" Ed asked before they saw that they were talking to the D-Team.

"Aah!" The duo gasped when they saw that their adversaries had arrived as well.

"It's the Alpha Gang creeps!" Chomp growled. "So the dinosaur must be around here, right?"

"We don't know anything!" The two men quickly replied, frantically shaking their hands. "No dinosaurs around here! Help!" They screamed as they threw off their boxes and ran away as fast as possible. They continued on running until they realized they ran right off the rock. "Uh." They tried to run back, but they quickly fell from the sky and landed in a forest with a crash. As they twitched with their heads in the dirt, the Alpha Scanner fell out of Zander's pocket and suddenly started beeping again. "Hey! It's working again!" Zander exclaimed before they were crushed by the drink boxes.

As the sun began to set, Ursula was coaching Iguano as he moved rocks off the field. "Just a little bit more now!" She told him. "One big pull!" With one last tug, the Iguanodon was able to get the rock out of the ground. "Oh! That's the way!"

"Fantastic!" The village elder praised them.

"Thanks to you we can plant on this field!" The man next to him told Ursula.

"Aw. Don't thank me, thank my friend here!" Ursula replied with a smile. Iguano responded by giving a low growl before nuzzling his next with Ursula's. "Oh! Iguano, you're just a big softie, aren't you?" Ursula said as she pet his snout.

As they cuddled, Ursula began to reflect on a lot. "I never thought of them this way." She said quietly. "I always just say dinosaurs as cards, not loving, living creatures." The sun began to set and the two of them watch as Ayers Rock changed its color. "Maybe I'll stay here forever and never go back." She declared as she remembered the harsh words of Dr.Z.

"You're all dogs!"

"If I take you back to Dr.Z's laboratory, he would treat you even worse than he treats the three of us." She told Iguano. "Oh, you're definitely better off here." She said.

Suddenly, Iguano gave out a roar. "Huh? Oh." Ursula looked up and saw something coming straight for them at blinding speeds.

This turned out to be a rocket piloted by Seth. "What'd you think you're doing, Ursula!?" Seth asked her furiously.

"Seth, no!" Ursula cried out as he flew right past them, knocking villagers off their feet.

"Now capture that dinosaur!" He ordered her.

"Wait! You don't understand!" She told him.

"Are you defying the Doctor's orders?!" He asked her as he turned around and prepared to strike again.

Time stood still for Ursula before she answered. "Yes, I am!" She answered with all her might. "I've decided that I'm going to stay right here! I've had enough of being treated like some kind of abused animal by Dr.Z! I'm never going back to that island again!"

"Ursula, do you really mean that?!" Zander and Ed asked in shock.

Ursula took a deep breath after the outburst before turning away from the two of them. "You guys can go back if you want." She told them. "It's-it's up to you."

"I guess we have a choice to make." Zander told Ed.

"You choose. I always pick the wrong one." Ed told him before the rocket flew right past them again.

After this happening for quite a few times, Iguano started to panic and go on a rampage. "Stop that! Don't attack!" Ursula pleaded with Seth.

"If you're not going to do your job then I will!" Seth responded before firing two missiles at Iguano, exploding just in front of him to frighten him so he could possibly run off the cliff and get carded in the fall.

The Iguanodon roared before he started to attack the villagers, destroy houses, and knocking over a large rock with his head.

"The lizard's gone mad!" The elder exclaimed.

"Do something, Ursula!" The other man told her.

OK." She replied before turning to Zander and Ed. "So don't just stand there! Do something and make me look good." She ordered them, not wanting to ruin her chance at a new life.

"OK. I have an idea." Zander said as he pulled out the Alpha Scanner.

As he did so, something shinned from the rock that Iguano knocked down. "Huh?" Seth zoomed in on the object and noticed it was a card with a blank back.

"ALPHA SLASH!"

Once Zander called out Brontikens, the world changed to a Time Warp that looked exactly like the one when they first battled Beta. Iguano looked around in confusion before Brontikens knocked him away with his head. "Aah! Did you have to hit him so hard?!" Ursula yelled at the Apatosaurus, horrified at seeing her friend hurt so badly.

"Shut up and let me do my damn job!" Brontikens responded before noticing Iguano get back up and knock the Apatosaurus away with a push to the chest from his head. But all this did was make Brontikens slide back a few inches.

"Spectral Destroy!" Zander said as he activated the Move Card, ignoring Ursula's horrified look. "This'll take him out, and he'll never know what hit him!" He said triumphantly before Brontikens fired the attack.

Iguano was right in the attack's path and got the full force of it. Once the light cleared, the Iguanodon was lying burned on the ground. Thankfully, all the noise from the battle was able to allow the D-Team to locate them. "It's an Iguanodon!" Max exclaimed.

"But Brontikens' gonna beat him!" Rex added.

"Oh, yeah?" Zoe declared as she removed her sash and Paris leapt out.

"DINO SLASH! PARASAUROLOPHUS, BLOOM!"

"Oh, no! Now the brats are involved!" Ed exclaimed as he and Zander watched Paris run to help Iguano.

"Oh, Iguano!" Ursula cried as she ran over to her weakened friend. "Please be all right! I'm so sorry, Iguano!"

"Ursula, you've got to get out of the way!" Zander warned her. Turning around, she saw Brontikens charging towards them, ready to deal the final blow as a volcano erupted behind him. Not even bothering to move, Ursula hugged Iguano and waited for the end to come.

"Big Foot Assault!" Zoe called out. Purple storm clouds appeared before Gertie descended from them in Brontikens' path. The Apatosaurus stopped his charge immediately and proceeded to battle the Seismosaurus, being careful to watch where she steeped to avoid her powerful feet crushing him again.

With Brontikens distracted, Ursula continued to hug Iguano. "Ohh, Iguano!" She cried as he glowed green and returned to his card. The card gently floated to the ground before it landed in Ursula's hands. "I'll take care of you." She promised the dinosaur in the card.

Meanwhile, Brontikens and Gertie were continuing their scuffle. Each hitting the other with their necks to knock the other over so they'd be helpless. Due to his smaller size, Brontikens was able to get more hits and dodge majority of Gertie's. With one final swing of his neck, Brontikens knocked Gertie down to the ground with all his might. "Great job, Brontikens! Finish her with Spectral Destroy!"

Brontikens charged up another attack as Gertie struggled to get up. Just as she was able to get her footing, the attack hit her and defeated her in seconds.

"Oh, no!" Zoe cried.

"Let's go, Chomp!" Max called out as Chomp already leapt into battle.

"DINO SLASH! GO, TRICERATOPS, ROAR!"

Zander saw Chomp charging towards Brontikens and activated Spectral Destroy for a third time. Max saw this and decided to use the only Move Card he's yet to use in a fight. "You ready for this?! Thunder Bazooka!"

Chomp leapt into the air and avoided the laser before he started spinning around as he approached Brontikens, building electricity as he did so before he hit the Apatosaurus dead center.

The Apatosaurus was knocked back and continued slamming into rocks before he was finally defeated after the third one. "I've got you, Brontikens!" Ed cried as he quickly grabbed the card as it floated down and the world changed back to Australia at night.

As the fight happened, Seth landed the craft by the rock where the card was and picked it up to see what it was. "Ah!" He gasped as he immediately recognized it. "Velociraptor! Heh, heh." He chuckled before quickly putting the card away. Finally, he would be able to complete what he started with this one.

"Good job." Zander congratulated Ursula, who was still holding Iguano's card. "Now we don't have to act like dogs anymore!"

"I won't miss the dog food, but do you think Dr.Z will let us keep our doghouses?" Ed asked as he joined up with them.

The trio heard the sounds of the villagers chatting amongst themselves and looked up to see them in a bit of an angry mob. "Your key to the village has been revoked, and we must ask you to leave now."

"What?!" Ursula gasped.

"Your big lizard knocked over my house!" One of the men yelled at her as the villagers continued on voicing their complaints.

"But I don't want to go home!" Ursula begged. "I want to stay and be a villager!"

"No!" Zander and Ed exclaimed. "Don't say that!" Ed told her.

"You've got to come!" Zander pleaded. The two of them tensed when they heard the engines of the rocket and turned around to see it slowly lifting off the ground. "Wait. You can't leave without us!" They exclaimed as they grabbed Ursula.

"Hey! No! Let me go! No!" She struggled before they grabbed onto the rocket as it lifted up.

"Good riddance! And take your big lizard with you!" The villagers yelled as they disappeared from view.

As they went higher and higher into the air, Ursula just looked down silently. She could easily see the glares the D-Team was giving them. "My sweet Iguano, I can't take you with me." She thought quietly to herself. "You deserve better than that." With that last thought, she let go of the card and it gently floated to the ground. "Look after him, brats." She thought before covering her tracks. "Oops. Oh, look at that. I dropped the card."

"What?!" The two men exclaimed. "How could you?!" Zander accused her.

"Now we have to go back to dog bones!" Ed added.

"I'm sorry." Ursula apologized. "It slipped out of my fingers."

Seth saw this and immediately went to full speed before they could grab the card again. "Woof, woof." Zander and Ed moaned.

The card continued on floating down until it landed on Max's head. "Huh?" He grabbed the card and looked to see what it was. "All right! We got the Iguanodon card!" He cheered.

Inside the rocket, the Alpha Gang weren't so happy. "I can't go back to speaking doggish, it hurts my brain." Ed told Ursula.

"And I can't stretch out inside my doghouse." Zander added.

"So what choice do we have?" Ursula asked them. "No other villains are hiring, I checked. We'll just tell him that there was no card in Australia." As she said that, Seth pulled out his new prize and chuckled darkly. It was time for some fun.

"No way! This doesn't work, Chomp, so just forget it!" Max exclaimed as he held Chomp in a pet sash that Zoe bought for him. "You're too heavy to carry around!"

"Shut up, you big baby." Chomp whispered since Aki was in the room.

"He seems pretty comfortable in that sling thing." Rex joked.

"You'll get used to it, Max." Aki assured him.

"I don't want to get used to it! Do I look like a kangaroo?"

Once he arrived at the D-Lab, Iguano was finishing telling everyone else about his experience with the Alpha Gang. "And after that, she held me and I was carded before I woke back up here.

The dinosaurs just stared at him in silence before nearly everyone started laughing. "Good one! Alpha Gang being nice!"

"Crazy fool!"

"Don't be mean! Poor thing's just confused!"

"Yeah! Confused and dumb!" Were just some of the comments Iguano heard as he watched them all walk away.

The only exceptions being Teddy and the Saurolophuses. "I'm assuming you three are going to laugh at me, too?" Iguano asked as he waited for the insults.

"Reese told me about how Zander gave up my card to her because he cared about her, and that even if they couldn't be together than at least me and Romeo should still be with each other." Juliet explained. "I still have my reservations them, so does Romeo, however we believe you when you say that the Alpha Gang has good in them. But you must understand that the others have a hard time after all that's happened to them throughout this war."

"Yeah. Just stay away from folks like Diamond." Teddy warned the Iguanodon. "They'll take big offense to your comments after how they were raised by my father."

At Zeta Point, Dr.Z took the news a bad as he always does. "We're sorry, Dr.Z!" The trio apologized.

"What good does sorry do for me?!" Dr.Z responded furiously. "Well, since zero dinosaur cards is what you brought me, then zero meals is what you three mutts will get from now on!"

"I will not allow that, Doctor!" Helga sternly said as she entered the room. "That is enough with treating them like dogs! If I see any more of this behavior, you will be getting a time out."

Dr.Z knew better than to argue with Helga and had to concede. "Yes, Helga." He said nervously.

"Yeah!" The trio cheered. Just like Helga to save the day.

"Here is your supper." Helga said as she dropped a dog bowl with only three, tiny bits of dog food in it.

"But that's still dog chow." The trio said.

"I will not waste leftovers, so these three morsels are what you get." Helga told them. "Go on, eat up!"

Ursula heard this and, with an evil smile, quickly gobbled up all three pieces. "Hey!" Zander and Ed exclaimed.

"But I'm still hungry!" Ursula cried.

"Yeah? So how do you think we feel!" Zander and Ed said as they started crying.

"I'm going to send you to obedience school and never let you back home! I'll lock the doors, you mangy mutts, and throw away the keys!" Dr.Z continued on threatening them.

From their quarters, Gigas told the other dinosaurs everything that he heard. "And here I thought he actually learned his lesson." Gigas said sadly.

"He's human, my friends." Brontikens told them. "That is their major flaw, they can't change. Once they are the way they are, they're set for life. This is why they don't deserve the earth."

Next time on Dinosaur King:

Max: Who are you?

Seth: I modified the Velociraptors to be able to work with any dinosaur element. You could say I helped it evolve.

Max: That's not helping them! It's just evil!

A/N: And that's another chapter done.

Finally, I can start writing for Seth! Let's just say that if you didn't hate him before, you'll defiantly hate him here!

The last scene was added just as an explanation why this episode almost seems to have no continuity later on. All though, I don't think Ursula exactly learned her lesson given how she treated Zander and Ed. Also more character for the Alpha Dinosaurs.

Some people were thinking Iguano was the Grass Champion. I'm not sure why, just that he defiantly isn't. He was also originally going to be female, but the name didn't work for a girl.

I did get someone asking if season 2 dinosaurs will have names? While this does seem like a stupid question, I could see where they were coming from, so I'll confirm yes they will. Someone else asked about the Indian characters, we'll see them at least twice in season 2.

Finally, I am aware that Dinosaur King is leaving Netflix in June. This changes nothing about the story's production.

See you all later.