Dueling Dinos
Disclaimer: Dinosaur King is owned by Sunrise, Shout Factory, 4kidsTV, and any other company I missed. I own nothing
"Talking"
Thinking
"Flashback"
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"Okay, one more time." Dr.Z said as he aimed a ring shaped like a dinosaur foot at Maximus. "Here it goes!" He tossed the ring, but Maximus moved her head up slightly and caused the ring to bounce off her horns. "Hey! You moved your head again!" Dr.Z whined. "You're a big cheater."
"I never said I'd allow you to ring me, I just said I'd allow you to try." Maximus retorted before leaving.
"You get back here!" Dr.Z commanded. "I'm not...ugh!" Pain surged through Dr.Z's back when he reached out. "Ooooh! Nobody cares about me and my bad back." He said before sobbing.
As he sobbed, Ursula came in with a cart of his lunch. "We brought you a nice hot lunch, Dr.Z." she said with a smile.
"Oh! What did you bring me? Soup?" Dr.Z asked excitedly as he sat back up, but not enough to hurt himself again.
"Yes, but it's a little bit too hot." Ursula said as she lifted off the lid and then started blowing on the soup with Zander and Ed.
"Uh, you don't have to do that." Dr.Z said, not wanting their disgusting germs all over his soup. "I'm serious. Don't. You're just getting your spit into it! Stop that!" He yelled at them, making the trio stop immediately.
"Anything else, sir?" Zander asked nervously.
"No!" Dr.Z screamed as he started throwing rings at them like crazy. "I called you here to be my ring-toss targets, that's all! Now hold still!" He continued throwing rings until he was out and the trio's hands were trapped by the rings, except Ed who just had them around his neck.
"Wouldn't there be another job more worthy of us?" Ursula asked.
"Yes, but Helga already took out the trash, so now all I need is a dinosaur card." Dr.Z answered angrily before kicking his table at them, knocking over the cart and sending the trio flying out of his room.
The trio crashed into a wall and two of their Alpha Scanners fell out of their pockets. Before the trio could pick them up, they were instead grabbed by Rod and Laura. "Well, look what we found." Rod said smugly as they held them up to mock the trio.
"Give those back." Ursula demanded.
"We'll just hang on to them for now." Laura replied.
"Being the big losers you guys are, I doubt you'll ever get close enough to a dinosaur to use 'em anyway." Rod mocked.
"Grrrr. One of these days, kid." Ursula muttered under her breath. Those two were just as infuriating as the D-Team. It was this reason she vowed to never have kids of her own.
"What are you two doing in here when there's homework to be done?" Helga asked as she angrily walked into the hallway.
"Aah!" Rod and Laura gasped when they heard Helga's scolding voice. "Oh. Hi, Helga."
"Since you have so much free time, perhaps you would like to help me clean toilets." Helga said as she angrily walked over to them.
"Yeah! That sounds like a swell idea." Ursula smiled, enjoying watching the brats getting punished.
"I'm glad that you think so." Helga said, turning her attention to Ursula and her partners. "In fact, since you think toilet scrubbing is so entertaining, we will use your toothbrushes to scrub them with. Go get them!" Laura and Rod smirked as Helga punished the trio. It's why you don't go mocking others in Helga's presence.
The trio shrunk down from both fear and embarrassment. "Yes, Ma'am."
"Und you two." Helga said, turning back to Rod and Laura, now it was their turn to cower in fear. "I'd better see your homework done when I check your room." The two of them nodded, and with that all taken care of, she left to take care of other business.
Rod and Laura both quickly went back to their room and sighed in relief as the door closed. "That was too close for comfort," Laura said, slumping against the door to the floor.
"Yeah, but at least we now have these." Rod said as he held up the Alpha Scanner he got.
(Intro Theme)
Later that night, Rod and Laura sat in their beds while an image appeared from a small hologram-like object. Laura grabbed the object's remote and pressed play. "Come on, Laura." Rod said in the video.
"OK! Bye, Mommy and Daddy!" Laura waved to their parents, standing in the doorway of their house, which looked like something from Candy Land.
"You two behave yourselves at Grandpa's." Their father told them.
"Have a good time, kids." Their mother said. "We'll see you both tonight."
"OK! See you later! Ha, ha!" Laura laughed as she ran over to where her brother was standing
The screen then changed to show a hatch opening up in an enormous aircraft. As they went through the loading dock, the camera turned back to show their parents waving. "Goodbye, kids!" And then the video ended. That video was filmed over a year ago.
"I miss them." Laura said sadly with a sigh.
Suddenly, the door to their room opened and the lights turned on. The kids looked to see Seth walking over to them. "Hi, Seth." Rod greeted before pulling out the Alpha Scanner. "We got these for you, just like you asked."
Seth nodded in confirmation. "The sooner you finish this job, the sooner you'll be able to go home." He reminded them.
"All we have to do is collect all the cards, right?" Rod asked.
Seth nodded again. "Focus on the remaining twenty-six first before going after the ones the D-Team has."
"That won't be a problem." Rod assured him.
"Yeah, that D-Team isn't even a challenge for me and Rod." Laura said smugly. "The last time we fought them, we were kicking their buts and only ran away because Helga showed up."
"Don't get cocky." Seth warned them. "Those kids should not be underestimated, or it will lead to your defeat." Rod and Laura nodded in understanding. "Good. Since I no doubt the D-Team's dinosaurs have been getting stronger since we fought in the iron refinery, I'm giving you this new card to take with you. Use it if you get into any trouble." He said before tossing it to Rod like a boomerang.
Rod caught the card and looked to see what it was, after getting over the fact it was triangle shaped. "Whoa. Velociraptor."
Seth nodded again. "That Move Card is a special one. It has two Moves for the price of one."
"Two Moves in one card?" Rod repeated. "How is that possible?"
"What Moves are they?" Laura asked.
"The first one is called Critical Block. Use it to prevent a dinosaur from using a Move Card. It should be able to block any Move from an Assist Move to Super Moves." Seth explained. "I'd say they could block up to three dinosaurs at a time, but I doubt they could fully block two Moves at once."
"And what's the final one?" Rod asked.
"Final Fury. It is an attack that is best saved for near the end of a battle when the user is down and the opponent is tired. The user will give the Velociraptor some of their energy, which will allow them to attack the opponent by grabbing them and slam them into walls and the ground until they are either defeated or are nearly defeated. Only use it when you're on your last legs and losing, otherwise it won't be nearly as effective.
"I understand." Rod replied, nodding as he and Laura took in Seth's instructions.
Seth turned to leave before stopping. "One more thing. Don't keep those Velociraptors out for too long. They're very aggressive. Savage if you will."
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At Max's place, he and his team were currently watching the climax of a western movie. The part where two cowboys meet in the town square and have a duel of speed with guns. "Oh, you're watching another Western?" Zoe asked as the rest of the D-Team entered the room.
"Nothing else good on, huh?" Rex asked them.
"No, he's just going through some cowboy phase." Terry answered.
"Shh!" Max shushed them as the duel began.
The two cowboys turned their backs to each other and started to walk away. "First one to cry out loses. Them's the rules in the Wild West." The first cowboy reminded his opponent. "Draw!"
Both cowboys turned around and shot at each other with their guns. There was a silence before the second cowboy gave a smirk, which quickly changed when he realized he was hit and collapsed. "Oh, yeah!" Max and Chomp cheered. "Got the bad guy!" Max then grabbed his Dino Holder and opened it so it looked like he was holding a gun. "Them's the rules here in the Wild West." He quoted the movie in a southern accent.
"Too bad they're not the rules for dinosaur fights." Chomp said as he grabbed Max's Dino Holder from him.
"Hey, Chomp! What are you doing?" Max said as he started chasing Chomp around the room. "That's my Dino Holder!"
"I guess Chomp's playing by his own rules." Terry chuckled as he watched them run around.
"I'll bet the Wild West was never this wild." Zoe said.
"From what I've heard from Lucky, that's almost exactly what the Jurassic was like." Chomp told them as he jumped onto a cupboard to avoid Max, who was constantly jumping to read him. "Nothing but barren deserts for miles."
"Jeez, Jurassic dinosaurs must not have had it easy." Zoe realized.
"Not exactly. The North was said to be completely green, which is where all the dinosaurs moved to when the desert started expanding." Chomp explained. "And I'm assuming that's where all the Jurassic dinos still alive came from."
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Speaking of the Wild West, two ranchers were supervising a controlled burn on the pasture for the town's cows. "What rotten luck." One of the men said. "We got to work while the rodeo's in town."
"I'd do anything to be at that rodeo instead of here chasing cows." The other man said before putting his pitchfork into the fire to keep it controlled. He noticed there was something else in the fire and pulled it out to reveal a capsule. "Hey! What in the world's that?"
"Just looks like an old egg. Throw it back." His partner said.
"Hmm." The man grabbed the capsule from his pitchfork and tossed it back into the fire. Big mistake as that caused the capsule to open up and activate the dinosaur.
The dinosaur was a large theropod from the Jurassic. Its back was a bright orange, with tiny spines from head to tail like Terry, with a tiny section of tan in between the orange and the black that took up the lower portions. It also had two small, yellow horns above its eyes. This dinosaur was a Saurophaganax.
One of the bulls noticed the large carnivore and gave out a cry before the whole herd started to stampede. The Saurophaganax turned around and noticed the herd burst through the fence. Due to being from the Jurassic period, he was unaware of what ceratopsians were and assumed the cattle, with their horns somewhat like his, were some new breed of four-legged theropod. Because of this, he started to chase after them.
The two ranchers just stared as the cattle ran from the Saurophaganax before shouting. "What was that?!"
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"Give it back!" Max struggled to keep in balance on the chair he was using to grab his Dino Holder from Chomp.
"You'll need more than that to get me." Chomp replied as he simply moved back a bit so Max couldn't reach. Right when he said that, the Dino Holder started to go off. "Like that." He said before giving it back to Max.
"Another dinosaur." The brunette said as he looked at his Dino Holder, before losing balance and falling off the chair. "Whoa! Wh-oww! Oof!"
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"Reese, where's it coming from?" Terry asked once they entered the lab.
"Oklahoma." Reese answered as she zoomed in on the location. "In the United States."
"Oklahoma: the state of real cowboys!" Spike exclaimed before swinging his whip like a cowboy. "Hyah!"
"Then I'll need a cowboy hat." Max said as he took his father's hat when they ran past him, much to his father's surprise.
"Hey, kids, the Wild West is a dangerous place." Spike told them. "Eh-I've seen lots of movies. Keep an eye out for buffalo stampedes." He warned them. "Take this."
He tossed his whip to Max, who caught it before putting it in his pocket. "Thanks, Dad."
"See you later!" Spiny said as they teleported away.
"They're so lucky." Spike said sadly once they were gone. "The wild, wild West." He said with enthusiasm. "All that roping and wrangling and cowboying out on the wide-open range."
"Don't forget poisonous rattlesnakes." Reese reminded him, making Spike go pale as he forgot to give them snake repellent or anti-venom.
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The D-Team found themselves arriving in an alleyway near the center of the town. All throughout the town, people were celebrating. "Whoa! Check it out! A real cowboy!" Max exclaimed as his eyes widened like he was a kid in a candy store.
"Looks like a festival." Ace observed.
"Well, whatever it is that's going on, these people sure don't act like they've just heard about a dinosaur on the loose." Rex said as he looked around and saw various kinds of stands selling things from pies to hats, and many drunken men gathered around a bar.
Deciding to go to a more open place, the team found themselves near a large crowd of people watching an event. "Welcome, all you cowpokes, to the annual Rough-Rider-Rodeo, where in the center ring another brave cowboy is trying to stay aboard our wild bronco, Firecracker!" The announcer said to any newcomers as they watched a man trying to not get thrown off a horse.
"I don't believe it. A real live rodeo!" Max exclaimed as they made their way to the front, just in time to see the man get thrown off.
"Nice try." The announcer said as the man was carried away by medics. "Now we're gonna need a new challenger. Surely there must be one more brave cowboy out there."
"Over here!" Rod called out as he and Laura ran to the announcer's seat.
"We have one!" Laura said.
"Hey, look who it is." Chomp said. "It's those kids from the Alpha Gang."
"What are they doing here?" Zoe wondered.
"Probably just sightseeing." Tank assured them.
"We sure do admire your courage, little one. But you might have bitten off more than you can chew now." The announcer told Rod.
"I'm not talking about me." Rod told him. "It's that kid in the middle over there." He said, pointing to Max.
"Huh?" The whole team said in confusion.
"He's the youth rodeo champion from our hometown." Rod explained.
"You're saying we got a real rodeo champ in the crowd?" The announcer asked before turning to the rest of the crowd. "Who'd like to see him take on Firecracker?"
The crowd immediately starting cheering for Max to give it a try. "Tell me this isn't really happening." Max said, nervous from all the attention he was receiving.
"Why would you tell a lie like that?" Zoe asked the two kids angrily.
The two kids only smirked cruelly. "Come on, Max. Don't tell me you're a chicken."
"You have two pet dinosaurs, but you're afraid to ride a little horsie?" Laura asked mockingly.
"No!" Max quickly retorted, refusing to be shown up by those two. "Fine. I'll do it!" He said before climbing under the fence and towards Firecracker. "Just you watch me."
"Don't listen to them, Max!" Zoe called out to him. "They're not worth getting killed over!"
"And we still haven't found the dinosaur yet!" Rex added before turning to the others. "Stay here and we'll go look. Come on." He said as he and his team left to find any sign of the dinosaur.
"Wait, Rex!" Zoe called out, but he was already gone.
Rod and Laura snickered at the D-Team's misfortune. Their plan seemed to be working perfectly. "I still can't believe it worked." Rod smirked.
"Are you ready, bronco-buster?" The announcer asked as a group of men held down the horse so Max could climb on.
"All set!" Max answered with a thumbs up.
"Ohh, I don't think I can watch." Zoe said as they walked over to where Rod and Laura were for a better view.
"Huh! I bet he lasts two seconds!" Rod mocked.
"I'll bet one." Laura replied, making Zoe wish she could punch them.
"Ready?" The announcer asked. "Set. Go!" He exclaimed before falling off his stand. "Whoa! Ow!"
Immediately Firecracker began kicking and thrashing around, trying to get the brunette off of his back. "Whoa!" Max yelped as he tried to hang on desperately.
"What's almost five seconds now." The announcer said once he got back into his seat. "Let's see what this buckaroo can do!"
"That's the way!" The crowd cheered. "Ride 'em, cowboy!"
"Ugh! Just let me off! Stop!" Max yelled as he was now grabbing the horse by the tail instead of the head.
"Isn't he hanging onto the wrong end?" Paris asked.
"Yeah! This is great!" Laura said as she recorded the whole thing.
"Why are you recording when you were just proven wrong about him lasting less than five seconds?" Spiny asked them.
"Because this is still the funniest thing we've seen in a while!" Rod laughed.
"I'll use this!" Max said as he reached into his pocket and grabbed out his dad's whip. "Hyah!" He gave the whip a swing and smacking Firecracker right on the behind.
This proved to be pretty painful as tears came out of the horse's eyes before he started to make a run for it. "Watch out!" A spectator said before Firecracker leapt over the fence and starting charging towards town.
"Where are the brakes on this thing?!" Max yelled as he was being carried away by the raging horse.
"The bronco-buster's done busted out of the ring!" The announcer exclaimed before a group of men grabbed some ropes and ran after Firecracker.
"Max!" Zoe called out worryingly as they ran after him as well.
Rod and Laura just smirked before going after them as well. "This just keeps getting better." Rod told his sister.
"I'm actually glad he didn't last two seconds. It wouldn't have as hilarious!" Laura laughed.
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Elsewhere, in the middle of the desert, the Alpha Gang were unaware of Rod and Laura's actions and were still hunting the dinosaur on their own. They were currently wearing cowboy hats and riding horses they acquired. "Hyah!" Ursula yelled as she whipped the reigns of their horses, which were just Alpha Droids wedding cardboard horse costumes. "I told you I'd rustle us up some horses!"
"I suppose." Zander said as he rode up next to her. "But traveling this way makes me saddle-sore. Couldn't we have rented a car?"
Ursula responded by kicking him in the face. "Riding on horseback is how to get around in the West." She told him. "Now keep your eyes peeled for that dinosaur."
"I think I see something coming." Ed said as he squinted to get a better look at an approaching dust cloud.
The dust cloud turned out to be the stampeding cows from earlier. "It's a cattle stampede!" Zander said as they stopped their "horses".
"Kind of makes me hungry for a steak." Ed said as he started to drool.
Ursula was annoyed by their ignorance, noticing the literal bigger picture. "If you could stop thinking about food, you'll see there's a dinosaur right behind them."
The two men looked behind the cows and noticed the Saurophaganax was still chasing them. "Whoa! It's a Saurophaganax!" Zander exclaimed before getting out their only scanner.
"ALPHA SLASH!"
Gigas appeared and roared at his opponent. From a watchtower, Rex and his team were able to slightly see the battle. "I found the dinosaur!" Rex told his partners.
Ace hopped onto the railing to get a better view of the battle. "I think I see Gigas, But I can't tell what the other one is. I've never seen that kind before."
"I thought you were supposed to be the one who explains everything?" Tank asked sarcastically.
"I'm smart, not a complete genius." Ace shot back, clearly annoyed.
"Guys, I think the reason why you don't know what it is is because it's from the Jurassic." Rex told them. "Looks like an Allosaurus."
Back with the fight, Gigas immediately started plowing through the cows, sending many flying into the air. When he reached the Saurophaganax, he met him with a headbutt to the stomach. The Saurophaganax responded by grabbing Gigas' head with his claws to keep him in place before grabbing him by the neck with his mouth as tossing him away.
The Alpha Gang gasped at the Saurophaganax's strength. "Gigas, get back in there!" Ursula told him. "Come on! Finish him off!"
Gigas got back onto his feet and charged towards the Saurophaganax again. The Jurassic carnivore responded by simply sidestepping. "What?!" Gigas exclaimed as he was forced to make a turn that made him slide across the ground. When he came to a stop, the Saurophaganax lifted him off the ground with his head and tossed him away.
With his opponent on the ground, the Saurophaganax was able to activate his Move Card safely. He started gathering fire in his mouth as he feared up before he slammed the foot to the ground and fired a column of magma as Gigas. Gigas saw the attack and tried to get out of the way, but he was too slow and got hit directly by the full force of the attack. "At least now I know how others feel when I use it on them." Gigas said weakly once the attack stopped before being carded.
The Alpha Gang gasped at what the Saurophaganax just used to defeat Gigas. "Was that-?" Ursula tried to say.
"Magma Blaster." Ed finished, fearful after watching that Move used with much more power than Gigas normally did. "Hoo, hoo, hoo!"
Zander grabbed the Grappling Claw and picked up Gigas' card. "We'll have to try something else." He noticed that the sky suddenly became dark. The Alpha Gang looked up and screamed as they saw the Saurophaganax was right on top of them. "Aaah! Like escaping!" They screamed before the Saurophaganax sent them all flying away with his tail, destroying their horses, and the Droids inside, in the process.
"That was definitely Magma Blaster." Ace said as he and his partners saw the whole fight between the dinosaur and the Alpha Gang. "How big is an Allosaurus exactly?"
"Too big to fit with Fire Elements." Rex answered as he thought about the sizes of an Allosaurus and the Fire Dinosaurs they've met so far. "I'm thinking it might be a Saurophaganax instead."
Down below, Firecracker made his way into down with Max still on his back. "Help!" Max screamed as he was only hanging on by the reins. A group of men tried to toss ropes around the raging horse's neck, but they missed and Firecracker started to pick up speed. "Whoa! Slow down!"
"Max, what are you doing?! Jump off!" Rex told him as he rode past the watchtower.
"How am I supposed to do that?" Max asked before Firecracker came to a screeching halt. "Whoa!" The brunette exclaimed as he was sent flying off the horse. "Uh! Oof." Groaning as he lifted himself off the ground, Max saw what made Firecracker stop. The stampeding herd from before. "Woah!" Max yelled before he quickly got out of the way from the stampede. "A herd of cattle. Wonder what they're running from." He got his answer in the form of a roar. Looking where they came from, he saw the Saurophaganax emerge from the dust. "It's the dinosaur!"
As the theropod ran into town, people hurried into their homes and waited for the dinosaur to pass like a common storm. "Oh, man! I'm sore." Max said as he came out of his hiding spot, rubbing his behind in the process.
"You OK, Max?" Ace asked as the team regrouped.
"What was that? An Allosaurus?" Zoe asked.
"It's bigger than an Allosaurus. I think it might have been a Saurophaganax." Rex told them.
"We saw him battle and defeat Gigas with a Magma Blaster Move Card." Tank added.
"Well. If it isn't the Rodeo champion." Rod said as he and Laura walked over to the D-Team.
"You won't win many competitions that way." Laura laughed.
"Yeah?" Max responded angrily. "Well, I'll get you back for-ow!" Max couldn't finish his threat due to his back being very sore.
"Sorry. We've got to run. We have a dinosaur to catch." Rod told them. "After all, we plan to round up all the remaining twenty-six cards left. So we should get to it!"
"There's twenty-six left?" Rex repeated as he quickly said the math. "Plus the twenty-nine we have, and Brontikens, that's fifty-six dinosaur cards in total."
"Fifty-nine if you count Gigas, Maximus, and Armatus." Ace added.
"Well, looks like they were right to call you two the smart ones." Rod 'complemented' them.
"Wait. You said your grandfather didn't make the cards. How do you know there's fifty-nine?" Zoe asked them.
"Oh, I guess only the real experts know that." Laura mocked with a shrug.
"Yeah. Bye!" Rod waved before they left.
"Hey, hold on!" Max called out to them. But he quickly realized someone was missing. "Hey, where's Chomp?"
"Now that you mention it, I haven't seen him in a while." Paris said. "Hey, Chomp!"
Meanwhile, Chomp was currently looking down at the Saurophaganax from the top of a roof while the carnivore was searching for the cattle. "Okay, just like before. Grab on, and stay on until he's worn down for the others to battle." Chomp said to himself before almost frowning. "Paris is going to kill me for his. Banzai!" He leapt off the roof and grabbed onto the Saurophaganax's side. The Jurassic theropod felt something bite his back, but he couldn't tell what it was.
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The Alpha Gang landed in a small forest and walked back to town in defeat. "I can't believe we lost the battle." Ursula sighed.
"Why are you surprised? We never win." Ed reminded her. "I say we go get steak instead and just forget the dinosaur."
Before Ursula could clobber him for making such a suggestion, they heard the sound of country music playing. Looking up, they saw a group of people square dancing. "Ursula, what do you think's going on here?" Zander asked.
"Ha! Of course!" Ursula beamed with excitement. "We're in Oklahoma. And it's famous for square dancing!" She said before dancing herself. "Ohh, swing your partner round and round, but not too fast. You'll hit the ground. Yee-haw!"
"Ma'am?" A man asked as he stuck out his hand. "Might I have the honor of a dance with you?" He asked as he gave her a smile.
"Oh? Me!" Ursula asked before quickly responding. "Yes! Of course!" She exclaimed before taking his hand and walking off. "You boys should dance, too."
This got Zander and Ed nervous. "Oh, I would." Zander said as he tapped his fingers together. "I'd love to, but I haven't danced since high school. Too bad."
"Me either. Darn." Ed said as he scratched his head.
"Oh, come on, city slickers. If you can count to four, you can dance." Ursula said as she danced with her partner, too happy by having a dancing partner to get annoyed with them. "You can count to four, right?"
"All right. We can try it." Zander said as he and Ed both scratched the back of their heads before joining the others.
Since there wasn't anyone else to dance with, they were stuck having to dance with each other. "Wow. I'd forgotten just how much fun dancing can be! I used to love it until Debra stood me up at the prom." Zander said as he and Ed danced fairly well.
"I took her." Ed admitted with a smile, before realizing who he was talking to. "Aah!"
"She said she had to take care of her Aunt Edna!" Zander said as he and Ed separated hands.
"Only Debra can call me Edna!" Ed told him.
"Dance somewhere else if you're going to fight." Ursula said as she kicked them away, not wanting them to embarrass her and ruin her chances.
Zander and Ed obliged and resumed dancing near the corner of the square, much slower and full of embarrassment this time. "If it makes you feel better, she walked out on me halfway through." Ed quietly admitted.
"Actually, that doesn't make me feel better." Zander replied.
"Yeah, me neither." Ed said before they both covered their eyes and started sobbing.
The dancing was suddenly interrupted when somebody noticed the stampede coming towards them. Everyone else ran away, leaving the Alpha Gang alone. "Is that the same herd of cattle?" Ursula asked, peeved at the cows for ruining her dance.
"If it is, you know what that means." Ed said nervously, haven broke off from Zander.
"The dinosaur's back!" Zander exclaimed.
Back in town, the Saurophaganax managed to locate Chomp biting onto him and tried to either throw him off or grab him with his mouth. "You're sure a fighter aren't you?" Chomp said as he continued to hold onto the Saurophaganax.
"Chomp, what do you think you're doing?" Max asked as they managed to catch up with him.
"I'm trying to wear him down." Chomp replied. "Like they do in the rodeos with the horse."
"Chomp, that's not what they do!" Paris told him. "Come down here!"
"That's kind of a problem." Chomp answered sheepishly. "If I jump off, I'm pretty sure he'll eat me for this."
"Another question would be why is Saurophaganax going after the herd?" Rex wondered. "If it was for food, he should've caught one by now."
"'Cause they have horns like him." Spiny answered in an 'uh-duh' tone.
"Spiny, Thorn was at least close to the same size as the cows. This guy is way larger than them. Why would he think they were the same as him?" Tank asked.
"You forget, he's a Jurassic species. I've heard nothing about horned dinosaurs from the Jurassic other than some theropods. So it's not completely impossible he thinks they're some new kind of dinosaur." Ace explained.
The Saurophaganax continued on shaking Chomp until he finally managed to free himself from the pesky Triceratops. "Chomp!" Max called out before he caught Chomp in his arms.
"No more bronco-busting for me." Chomp said weakly, trying to hold back some vomit. "How do they even do it?"
With the parasite off of his back, the Saurophaganax continued on following the cows. "Let's go." Max said before they followed him.
The Saurophaganax continued on searching for the cattle until he came into the Alpha Gang's sight. "There it is, all right!" Zander exclaimed, holding back the urge to scream and run for his life. "Now what?!"
"What do you think, you big baby?!" Ursula yelled at him. "We get Brontikens out here, and we capture that dinosaur!"
"We don't have Brontikens!" Zander answered.
"What?! Ju-all right. Then call out Maximus and Armatus!" She ordered Ed.
"Don't have Maximus or Armatus!" Ed answered as he waved his hands defensively.
"Rod and Laura took them when they grabbed our Alpha Scanners. Don't you remember?" Zander asked her.
"Grr!" Ursula growled. She did not need this much back luck right now. "Then summon Gigas again!"
"No, Ursula!" Ed pleaded.
"I check on him after we landed. And he's so sore from the last fight he can't move." Zander told her.
"Augh!" Ursula yelled in frustration. "Just once can't something go right?!"
"Not when you're so good at being wrong." Rod answered smugly as he and Laura walked over to them.
Ursula yelled in anger when she saw the two kids. "What are you doing here?" Ed asked as they just smirked at the trio.
"Well, someone had to come and get Grandpa's dinosaur." Laura answered smugly.
"Ugah! That's what we're doing! So, why don't you just go back to your room and do whatever Helga tells you?" Ursula responded angrily before pulling out a lasso she conveniently had. "Stand back while I catch him! Hyagh!" She tossed her lasso but ended up wrapping it around one of the cow's horns instead of the Saurophaganax. "Uh-oh." Ursula said before she was dragged away. "Whah!"
"Oh, man! Zander what do we do?!" Ed asked fearfully, not wanting to go back empty-handed.
"Think! There must be something else here that can take down a dinosaur!" Zander said as he looked around the town for anything useful. He got his answer in the form of a gun shop. "Oooooh. Ed, you thinking what I'm thinking?" Zander asked as he pulled the fat man uncomfortably close to him, giving an equally uncomfortable smile
"I want to answer, but I'm pretty sure I'm far off." Ed replied, slightly creeped out and trying to push himself away.
"Hey, it's the old lady." Zoe said as the D-Team saw Ursula being dragged right past them.
"I heard that! I'm not old! Whoa!" Ursula responded before getting carried away by the stampede.
"There's no way I'm gonna let them get away with that Saurophaganax." Max declared as he got out his Dino Holder.
"Hold on, cowboy." Rod said to him, prompting Max to turn around and face him. "Since we both want that dinosaur and we're here in the Wild West, why don't you and me settle this one-on-one with a dinosaur showdown? Huh?"
"Showdown?" The D-Team repeated. "Like in the movies?" Chomp asked.
"The very same. It'll make things much more interesting." Rod answered.
"Yeah, do it! Showdown, showdown, showdown!" Laura repeated while jumping up and down like a small child.
"We don't have time for your games!" Max told them.
"If you're not up for it, then we'll just have to battle for it." Rod said as he got out his Alpha Scanner.
"Stop!" Max told him, confusing his teammates. "I'll tangle with ya, Rod." He answered in a cowboy accent before tipping his hat.
"What?!" His teammates exclaimed at the idea and that Max would agree to it instead of just battle them like they always do.
"Let's do this! It's showdown time!" Max declared, still keeping the accent.
"Perfect." Rod smirked. "Defeat the dinosaur, and the card's all yours. No tricks or anything." If Max was paying attention, he'd noticed Rod had his arms behind his head, and his fingers were crossed.
"Gladly." Max said as he walked towards the Saurophaganax with a proud smile on his face.
"He's been watching way too many Westerns." Chomp said with uncertainty as he followed with the others not far behind.
Rod and Laura snickered quietly as their plan was working out exactly how they planned. "Ha, ha! We got him again." Rod said.
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The center of the town soon turned into one from the movies. On one end stood Max and Chomp, the Saurophaganax approached them from the other end. From the sidelines, the rest of the D-Team watched in anticipation and worry while Rod and Laura watched in interest. "Now, first one to cry out loses." Max told the Saurophaganax as he pointed his Dino Holder at him before getting Chomp ready, still not breaking the accent.
"DINO SLASH! GO, TRICERATOPS! ROAR!"
Once Chomp landed, both dinosaurs turned away from each other and started to walk away. "Wow! This is just like being in a real-life Western, only with dinosaurs!" Laura said with child-like amazement.
"And now the pace-off." Rod said.
"Are ya feelin' lucky, Saurophaganax?" Chomp asked his opponent, also trying to sound like a cowboy. The Saurophaganax said nothing in reply.
"Whenever you're ready, draw!" Max called out.
"Got it!" Chomp roared as he reared up.
"What a minute. They should draw first." Max reminded Chomp.
The Saurophaganax heard Chomp's roar and quickly turned around. "Now!" Terry told them.
"Here we go!" Max opened up his Dino Holder, and a Move Card was ejected into his hands. "Lightning Strike!"
As Chomp gathered the electricity, the Saurophaganax fired another Magma Blaster at them. "Oh! Wow!" Rod gasped in amazement.
Chomp narrowly dodged the attack before firing it back at the Saurophaganax, who dodged it as well. Both dinosaurs stared each other down before Chomp ended up collapsing. The D-Team gasped as a result. "Get up." Max urged him.
The Saurophaganax immediately charged towards Chomp as he started to get back up and met him in a headlock. The two of them separated and the Saurophaganax began to hit Chomp in the face with his tail repeatedly. "He can't take much more of this!" Paris said, worried for her lover's safety.
"Come on, Chomp! You can do it!" Max urged his Triceratops partner.
Chomp continued on receiving tail smacks to the face before finding an opening and tackling the Saurophaganax to the ground. "That's the way!" Chomp bragged as the Saurophaganax started to get up.
It was then Rod and Laura pulled out their Alpha Scanners and appeared behind the D-Team. "I think we've worn them down enough." Rod observed.
"Then it's time." Laura said.
"ALPHA SLASH!"
"DESTROY, APATOSAURUS!"
"GO, STEGOSAURUS! CLOBBER 'EM!"
"Attack, Brontikens!" Rod ordered once they landed.
"Smash 'em, Armatus!" Laura said.
Both dinosaurs landed and immediately attacked the Saurophaganax from behind, knocking him down in the process. "I get it!" Rex said angrily as he and Zoe turned around to face the two of them. "All this time you were just letting us weaken Saurophaganax so you can finish him off!"
"Wasn't it obvious?" Rod asked them smugly. "About time. I even had my fingers crossed."
"You're a little on the slow side if you fell for the same trick twice." Laura mocked them, referring to the time the Alpha Gang did the same against Beta.
"You won't get away with it this time!" Chomp said as he went to stop Brontikens.
But he was blocked by Armatus. "Sorry, pardner. But you're in my territory now." He said as he swung his tail at the Triceratops.
"Grr! Let's help Chomp out!" Rex said as he got it his Dino Holder, angry at Max for falling for such a trap.
"DINO SLASH! SHAKE THEM UP, SAICHANIA!"
"DINO SLASH! GUSH OUT, SPINOSAURUS!"
Once they landed, Rex and Zoe got their Move Cards ready. "Let's go, Dino Swing!"
"Water Sword!"
Rod and Laura saw this and decided to use their trump card. "Now, Velociraptors!" Laura called out.
"Critical Block!" Rod said as he activated the card. The three Velociraptors ran towards their targets before attacking them. The lower two both handled Spiny, since he was bigger, while the leader attacked Tank.
Rex and Zoe gasped as their Move Cards ceased to activate. "Hey! Somehow they're blocking our Move Cards!" Zoe exclaimed.
"They did this before at the refinery!" Terry remembered. "Shake them off!"
"Please! One little raptor can't keep me down!" Tank declared before she started charging towards Brontikens. The Velociraptor kept on biting her head, but her armor made it feel like nothing.
Suddenly, a gunshot rang out and Tank fell to the ground and crashed into a building. "Tank!" Rex cried out as he ran over to check on her. "What's wrong?!"
"My...leg. It hurts." Tank replied, clearly in pain. Rex checked her front right foot and saw that it was bleeding due to a hole caused by a bullet.
"Who did this?!" Rex asked, furious that someone would do this to Tank.
"That would be me." Zander said as he lowered the shotgun he had pointed at the Saichania, smoke coming from the opening. "Bet it never occurred to anyone to use guns." He said smugly.
"I'll be honest, Zander. I wasn't thinking you thought of that." Ed praised his buddy.
"Thanks for the help, Zander." Rod said before getting out another Move Card. "Brontikens, finish him off with Spectral Destroy!"
"Gladly." Brontikens said as he charged up the attack before firing it at the Saurophaganax, nearly obliterating him in the process. Once the light died down, two cards landed lifelessly on the ground.
"Those cards are mine!" Max said as he ran as fast as he could to grab them.
"Oh, yeah?" Rod and Laura asked as they snapped their fingers and two flying scooters appeared beside them. They hopped on a flew right next to Max. "No, they're not!" Laura told him.
"They're ours!" Rod said before they picked up speed and grabbed both of the cards before Max could reach them.
"Hey!" Max yelled at them.
"It's been nice battling with ya, pardner." Rod mocked as he held out the card to further rub their victory in their faces.
"Bye, y'all!" Laura said.
"Grrrrrr!" Max growled as they continued their mocking, stomping his foot in frustrastion.
The Velociraptors were recalled and the card appeared in Rod's hands. "We were lucky Seth gave us this new card."
They recalled Brontikens and Armatus before flying by Zander and Ed. "Suck it, brats!" Zander said as they grabbed onto the scooters while flipping them off
They disappeared in an alleyway before reappearing in a large jet that flew above the town. "Later, losers!" The two kids mocked on the microphone as the jet picked up speed.
"Wait! Come back!" Zoe called out to them. But they were ignored as the jet picked up speed and went light speed back to Zeta Point, taking the Saurophaganax with them.
The D-Team recalled their dinosaurs and summoned them back in chibi form. The bullet was removed from Tank when she was recalled, actually lying right where she crashed, but her leg was still in a lot of pain and she collapsed on it. "Are you all right?" Ace asked as he helped her up.
"I'm fine. Nothing some Nature's Blessing can't fix, I'm sure." Tank assured him.
"I healed Futaba, who was bleeding as well, so I don't think this'll be impossible to heal." Paris said.
"Well, it's great that Tank'll be all right. But they still got Saurophaganax." Max reminded them. "How did we ever let that happen?"
"You let that happen, Max." Rex answered angrily, still pissed about what they did to Tank.
"Yeah! They wouldn't have if you didn't let those trick you into that silly showdown." Zoe added.
Max felt like he was a deer in the headlights from the glares he was receiving. "Well, we did find out that there are fifty-six to fifty-nine dinosaur cards, and I found out I can't ride a bucking bronco. So the day wasn't a total loss." He said sheepishly, pressing his fingers together.
This just made his friends even more cross. "Look here, Max." Rex told him like he was a parent scolding a child, making Max feel like he was literally shrinking. "Now that the Alpha Gang has that card, they're definitely going to conduct many cruel experiments and modifications on that poor Saurophaganax. And you know it!" Rex turned away before giving one last remark. "We might have been able to save that dinosaur, you know." He said before he teleported back home.
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As the sun set at Zeta Point, Rod and Laura gave their report to Seth while Zander and Ed showed the card to Dr.Z. "Both the dinosaur and the Magma Blaster Move Card. Very good." Seth told the two kids. "Before long, we can return to where we came from."
"You mean we'll get to see our Mom and Dad?!" Laura asked anxiously as she and Rod both had huge smiles on their faces. "Oh! I can't wait!"
"We had a blast carrying out this assignment. Can we do another one?" Rod asked.
"Yes, Rod. Very soon." Seth replied.
"That'll be fine with us." Zander said as he and Ed walked over to them and handed the Saurophaganax card to Seth. "You should have seen Dr.Z when we showed him the card. I haven't seen him that happy in a long time."
"Finally, a night that doesn't end with him screaming at us until we somehow fell asleep." Ed said with relief.
"So, here's what we're proposing." Zander said to Rod and Laura. "So long as we get all the credit, you two can continue hunting down the other dinosaurs. Do we have a deal?"
"Deal!" Rod and Laura beamed as they shook Zander's hand.
While this happened, Seth gave a sinister smirk. "All according to plan."
"Hey, where's Ursula?" Laura asked, noticing the trio were one member short.
"Oh, she'll be fine." Zander assured with the wave of a hand. "After all we've been through, I'm sure some cattle would be no big deal.
"This is a big deal!" Ursula screamed as she was still being dragged by the cattle in Oklahoma. "I've got no dinosaur, and I'm positive my cute cowgirl outfit is being ruined by all this dirt!" She yelled angrily. "And this rope doesn't feel very rope-like." She said as she checked it, only for it to be a rattlesnake. "Screw the Wild West." She grumbled.
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Back at the Taylor Household, Max just stood on his balcony, arms crossed on the railing, looking at the night sky in sadness. "Hey, Max?" The brunette turned around to see Rex approaching him, a guilty look on his face. He had a pretty good feeling why he was here.
"Hey, Rex." Max replied as Rex stood next to him, looking at the stars as well.
"Look, I'm sorry for yelling at you earlier. I know it isn't all your fault for us losing the Saurophaganax. I should have realized that those two wouldn't play fair and stepped in sooner. I was just so angry at what they did to Tank that I ended up lashing out at you. But that's no excuse for what I said." He apologized.
"No, you're right." Max told him. "I got all caught up in being like a cowboy that I wasn't thinking clearly. If I was, I would have seen that trap coming from a mile away."
"Guess we'll have to be more careful with those two." Rex said. "They're not as goofy as those other three are."
"Yeah. But that's not why I'm upset." Max said.
"Why?"
"When the Alpha Gang captured Rocko in Brazil, I made a promise that I would never let them capture another dinosaur. And now I've broken that promise."
"Max, don't let that bring you down." Rex told his best friend, placing a hand on his shoulder. "You remember all those wars they taught us in history class? No side ever won all the battles."
"I know, it was a silly promise to make. But I still made it." Max said as he looked into the sky, now with a fire in his eyes. "And I swear I am going to make up for it. I will get that Saurophaganax back from them no matter what. And they'll regret they ever tricked the D-Team."
Next time on Dinosaur King:
Villager: As it was written, the mythological beast has returned!
Laura: It's a Stegosaurus
Helga: I'll take care of the dinosaur
Max: Oh my god!
A/N: Glad I was able to get one more chapter out before Dinosaur King leaves Netflix. Like I said before, chapter production will continue as normal. I just won't have subtitles anymore.
Anyway, little fun trivia for both this chapter and the original would be that the Saurophaganax was actually discovered in Oklahoma. So this is so far the second time, Spiny was the first, a dinosaur was activated in its homeland. Wait, actually it's third if you count Futaba.
That scene at the end actually came at the last minute. Not Zander getting a gun or making a deal with Rod and Laura, that was planned for a while. I meant the ending bit. I just felt I was good to give the D-Team some expansion so they won't come off as bland. And this is planting seeds for the season finale.
Also, Rod and Laura are real smug shits in this episode. I get the reason, but still.
And before anyone who looks at the profile asks. The reason the Saurophaganax was named but not the Velociraptors is because Rod and Laura named him. And this won't be the last of the Velociraptors, I can assure you.
I did actually get someone asking about the super forms from the arcade game, I'm sticking with stuff from the anime to make things not as much of a headache.
Before I end this, I just gave one thing left to say. A few more favorites and this'll be the most favorited Dinosaur King story on this site, excluding crossovers. I'm already #1 for K-T, but I'm just one story away from being the best. Let's see if you guys can make it.