A Kyoto Caper
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"Talking"
Thinking
"Flashback"
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The D-Team joined Spike at an excavation site in Fukui to observe the many different fossils found in the area from footprints to the skeletal remains they were currently looking at in a tent. "Thanks for bringing us to Fukui with you on this dig, Dr. Taylor." Zoe said to the paleontologist.
"There've been quite a few Fukuiraptor and a lot of Fukuisaurus excavated from here." Ace said as he recalled the knowledge he read before the trip before asking for confirmation. "Haven't there?"
"Yes, but just fragments." Spike answered as he looked at the specimen of a Fukuisaurus on the table in front of them. "We've never found a specimen as complete as this one is."
"It looks like a cute dinosaur!" Zoe gushed.
"As cute as a dead body can get." Tank muttered to Spiny.
"I read that it was an herbivore and a fast runner." Max recalled what he read. "But what else do we know?"
"Sadly, none of us have met any Fukuisaurus to tell you if anything other than, like you said, they were fast herbivores." Terry said.
"Well, we should be able to get more details from Dr. Owen once we get the fossils to him in Kyoto." Spike answered.
This confused the D-Team. "But why're you and Dad going all the way to Kyoto?" Rex asked. "Just stay here."
"Oh, right." Spike quickly answered, showing his nervousness. "That's just because, uh... Kyoto University has better facilities, that's it. And... yeah!" He responded before pulling out his phone. "Now, Dr. Owen should arrive there soon! So let's go, kids, Kyoto, here we come!" With that, Spike quickly got onto his feet and went into the car.
"Okay... I don't know what, but Dad's obviously hiding something." Max said.
"Oh, well, we get a trip to Kyoto!" Paris reminded them, looking on the bright side.
As they all left to head for Kyoto, none of them noticed that there was a capsule amongst the fossils.
(Intro Theme)
"Here we are, Patrick, Kyoto!" Dr. Owen beamed as he and Patrick looked at the large glass building in front of them, which was most likely the Kyoto University.
"Uh, shouldn't we get to the excavation site?" Patrick asked, starting to get embarrassed as Dr. Owen began to excitedly look around.
"Owen, you old goat!" A voice called out to him.
Dr. Owen immediately recognized the voice and say Spike with the D-Team. "They let you in?!" He jokingly gasped.
"Dug up anything new?!" Spike said before they both answered. "Only this. funny bone! Yeah!" And began to do their cringy dance routine, with new lyrics. "Eeeny, meeny, miney, moe, catch a dino by the toe! Take his fossils home for a show! And then you put him in a fossil show! D-I-N-O, spells dino! Spells dino, yeah!"
Patrick, Max, and Rex all groaned in embarrassment at their fathers, boss' in Patrick's case, dance. "This is so embarrassing." Rex sighed.
"How're you doing, Rex?" Dr. Owen asked as he and Spike leaned over once they finished their song.
"Fine." Rex answered, putting on a smile to be nice.
"Well, in that case, Spike, shall we head to that place you told me about?" Dr. Owen asked with a creepy smile.
"Uhh." Spike started to get nervous when he realized the kids and dinos were listening. "Keep that on the down-low." He whispered.
Max heard him and immediately glared at his father. "He wouldn't happen to be talking about the geisha, would he, Dad?"
"Yes, it's true, but it's not for me, son!" Spike quickly replied. "Kyoto's geisha are famous the world over, and I wanted to introduce them to Dr. Owen!"
As he explained the reason for his madness, a geisha walked right past them. "Oh, there's one now!" Dr. Owen exclaimed as he started leaping after her, causing Spike to fall to the ground in the process.
"Hey! Wait for me!" Spike called out as he got back up.
"You know how badly Dr. Owen wants to find a mother for you, Rex." Patrick reminded him.
"Why don't you kids do a little sightseeing, while I introduce Dr. Owen to one of Japan's national treasures?" Spike suggested before chuckling nervously. "Haaa! You know!" He laughed before regaining his composure. "Well, I'll see you later!" He said before taking off after Dr. Owen.
"Hold on, wait!" Max called out to his father.
"Hey, wait for me, too!" Patrick called out as he ran after them.
"Come back, my love!" Dr. Owen called to the geisha.
"Dr. Owen, you need me!" Spike told him.
"He needs me, too!" Patrick added as they both followed the love-struck doctor.
"Oh, brother." Chomp groaned as they left. "He'll never get a girlfriend this way."
"Do not chase after females. Makes you look stupid." Spiny mumbled as he wrote that down on a notebook he magically had, though his writing was basically nonexistent and just random squiggly lines.
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"All right, Joe, lower away!" A man told the guy working a mobile crane that was carrying the fossils from Fukui to Kyoto University. "Nice and easy now. That's it."
Once again, nobody noticed the capsule amongst the fossils. And I never they touched the ground, the capsule rolled into the grass. It stopped once it opened up and two cards landed on the grass, causing them to activate.
The dinosaur was actually pretty small compared to all the others, only about the size of a human. It was an iguanodont like Iguano and Rocko, so it also had a thumb spike. While its lower half was tan like a lot of the other dinosaurs, its back was a lime-green mixed with yellow-green that made squares of like-green on its back from head to tail. This dinosaur was actually not too far from its original place of discovery. It was a Fukuisaurus.
Once it appeared, the people around it started running away in panic. While it may not be as big as the other sightings, all dinosaurs are monsters according to most people.
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"I can't believe Dr. Taylor brought us all the way to Fukui, then to Kyoto, and then just left us alone." Terry said as they walked across a bridge to find something to do.
"I can. This isn't the first time he's used family outings to do something completely unrelated." Max told him before they heard their Dino Holder's going off. "A dinosaur's appeared." Max gasped.
"Let's be honest here. Is this really a shock considering we're in a different location than normal?" Zoe asked.
"Not really when you think about it." Chomp answered.
"We got to get this one, guys." Rex told them. "If it's a new one, then we need to prevent it from being corrupted by Seth."
Everyone shivered as they remembered their encounter with Seth and Torch in Siberia.
"What you all are about to witness is the start of a glorious, new era! An era of evolved dinosaurs! An era in which I rule! Behold, Fire Scorcher!"
Torch began to glow as a giant ball of fire formed in his mouth. The ball grew until it was almost like a small sun before he fired the ball. The ball slowly flew into the air before it started to descend upon the dinosaurs, the heat and brightness preventing them from escaping. When it looked like they were all about to be hit, Guru charged forward and pushed them all out of the way in time, but was unable to get out of the way himself. The ball made contact with the ground and there was a huge explosion of fire. "Guru!" Everyone cried as they heard the Ampelosaur's roars of pain, along with those of Torch, before both faded into silence.
"At this point, they're our biggest problems." Terry said once they all finished the flashback.
It was then that Reese called them from the D-Lab. "Hello, kids."
"Hey, Reese, so where did this dinosaur show up?" Max asked.
"It's in Kyoto, right near you." Reese answered.
"Figures." Tank said. "If we're going on a trend from what just happened then it's most likely a Fukuisaurus."
"If it is then you don't want the Alpha Gang to have that one." Guru said as he walked over to the screen. "The Fukuisaurus is the final champion you'll need to find before you all have your own trainers."
"Any more pressure you want to put on us?" Tank asked sarcastically.
"This is the amount of seriousness that all your missions in the future will have." Guru said before Reese hung up.
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While the D-Team began their mission, Spike, Dr. Owen, and Patrick were currently watching a geisha dancing while enjoying some treats. "Beautiful! And so elegant!" Dr. Owen cheered. "What talent! Oh, my!" After having one too many beers, the doctor was clearly drunk. "Yah!"
"Dr. Owen, inside voices, please!" Spike reminded him, not wanting himself or his friend to get kicked out for being a disturbance.
"Oh, my bad." Dr. Owen responded, but probably not listening.
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"I can't get a hold of my dad." Rex said as he put his phone away. "He must've turned his phone off."
"Yeah, same here." Max said as he put his phone away as well. "That or they lost them."
"You really don't like your dad right now, don't you?" Zoe asked him, noticing his annoyed tone any time he talked about Spike.
"Let's just say that this little stunt he and Dr. Owen pulled on us brought back some bad memories." Max told her, not wanting to go to into detail about that experience. Rex silently nodded in agreement, knowing exactly what he was talking about.
"Enough about how annoying your fathers can be, we got to look out for that dinosaur." Chomp reminded them.
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In an alleyway, a geisha was walking with an elderly woman. The Fukuisaurus was also in the area and noticed something in the geisha's hair, a hairpin. Attracted to the shiny object, the Fukuisaurus quickly ran up to the geisha from behind and gently grabbed the hairpin with his beak.
Despite his stealthiness, the geisha still felt her hairpin get removed and looked to see who did it. "Huh?" Both of them turned around and came face to face with the Fukuisaurus. "Aah!" Both of them screamed as the Fukuisaurus hightailed it out of the alley.
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At Zeta Point, Helga was still torturing the Alpha Gang with extreme education. Currently, they were all strapped to electric chairs that would shock them if they answered wrong. "Now pay attention, next problem." Helga said as she stood in front of a chalkboard that had the problem '3_2-1 =2'. "What symbol goes in the square, Ed?"
"Uhh." Ed looked at the problem, but couldn't figure out what the equation was. He couldn't even remember his numbers perfectly thanks to all of Helga's abuse. "I think... a plus sign?" He weakly answered.
"Incorrect!" Helga yelled before he was zapped and fried along with Ursula and Zander.
"Hey, Ed's the one who got it wrong!" Ursula yelled at the android. "So why punish all three of us?!"
"As if you knew it!" Ed retorted.
"You will all sink or swim." Helga answered.
"But, Helga, why are you making us do schoolwork in the first place?" Zander asked.
"If you don't learn this, how-how can you move on to first grade." Helga said as her voice started to deepen as she glitched again, static coming from her part of her head Seth crushed.
"First grade?!" The trio repeated in fear.
Across from them, Dr.Z watched from his bed with Rod and Laura. "I'm lucky I have a bad back." Dr.Z said. "Maybe I should shatter my spine next."
"Maybe we should go study a little ourselves." Rod suggested as he left the room.
"Good idea." Laura agreed as she followed him.
The Alpha Gang shrieked as they were shocked once again, over a precalculus problem. During the commotion, Dr.Z noticed that the map of the world had activated, meaning a dinosaur was released. "What? Ooh. Another one of my beautiful dinosaurs has appeared!"
"Huh?" Rod and Laura stopped when they heard that.
"Dinner time." Helga said to the trio. "Tonight we have poisonous mushrooms und mud sauce with a lovely rocks-and-twigs soup." She said while short-circuiting.
"You call that dinner?! I call that a swamp!" Ursula yelled at her again. Helga didn't respond and went to the kitchen, crashing into the chalkboard in the process.
"Forget about dinner! A dinosaur's appeared!" Dr.Z yelled at the top of his lungs as he enlarged the map.
Ed shook off the soot from the electrocutions and took a closer look at the map. "Hey, I recognize that place on the map. Isn't that Kyoto?"
"That's right, the city famous for its geisha." Zander answered.
Something that immediately got Dr.Z's interest. "What?!" He exclaimed as he leapt onto his feet. "Geisha, you say?"
Something that everyone immediately noticed. "Look, you're standing." Ursula pointed out.
"Huh?" Dr.Z looked down at his feet and saw that he was standing on them with no pain whatsoever. "So I am! It's a miracle!" He cried.
"Can a geisha really make a grown man cry?" Ed asked Zander.
"I guess so." Zander answered. "Considering how many men I see cry over Disney movies, I'm not too surprised."
"Now, let's hit the road!" Dr.Z declared, deciding to go on this mission.
"We'll come with you." Rod said as he and Laura walked back over to them.
"After all, you might need our help with this dinosaur." Laura pointed out.
"Good point, kids." Dr.Z told his grandkids. "Once we get this one, we'll get the remaining cards before finally destroying that D-Team and taking all their dinosaurs!" He declared.
"Let's do it, Grandpa!" Rod said before he and Laura went to prepare for the mission.
"Yes, my lovely geisha awaits." Dr.Z said before realizing what he said aloud. "Aah-eh, I mean, my dinosaur is waiting! Hahaha, that's what I meant." He quickly said as he leapt off the bed to get dressed, leaving the Alpha Gang unconvinced at his motivations.
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Back in Kyoto, one particular geisha was dancing in front of an instructor to show her skills as a geisha. She had black hair with many hairpins and garnets on it. Her dress was mostly cyan, with the ends yellow. She also had an orange cloth tied around her waist that went behind her like a scarf. Her face was painted white like the other geisha, with red makeup by her eyes, and finally, she was holding a fan as part of the dance.
She was doing fairly well until she tripped on one of her legs and fell to the ground. The instructor clapped her hands in annoyance, cutting the music. "Shino! Much too clumsy!" The instructor scolded her.
Shino looked up and the instructor, shame in her eyes. "I'm sorry."
"To perform the traditional dance of the geisha, much elegance and grace is required. Something you lack completely." The instructor told her. "Maybe you should give this up."
"Oh, no." Shino gasped. "No."
"Perhaps you should go home now before you fall again and break something." The instructor told her as she turned around to leave.
"No!" Shino cried, but the instructor was already gone.
A little while later, she was crying in an alleyway when the D-Team walked by and noticed the crying geisha. "Just ignore her." Tank said as she tried walking away, but she was feeling the need to try and help like the others and gave in.
"Are you all right?" Max asked as he walked over to her.
"No." Shino said before resuming her sobbing.
"Have you seen a dinosaur by any chance?" Chomp asked from atop Max's head.
"Dinosaur?" Shino asked as she stopped crying a got back on her feet. "Why would you ask that?"
While she was distracted, the Fukuisaurus snuck up from behind and grabbed her hairpin with his beak again. Shino turned around when she felt her hairpin disappear and gasped with the D-Team when they saw the Fukuisaurus.
As the Fukuisaurus backed away, Shino fell to the ground in shock. "Tank was right, it is a Fukuisaurus." Rex identified.
"Then he's the last trainer!" Paris said as she leapt out of the pet carrier she was in and chased after him with the others.
As they chased after the iguanodont, Shino could only blink in confusion at all she just witnessed. "Why would a dinosaur want my hairpin? What am I saying?"
The team ran to the end of the alley and found no sign of the Fukuisaurus. "No trace of him." Terry said before sniffing the air. "Even his scent is gone."
"He's almost ninja-like." Chomp said. "I bet he could beat Dino and the other Deinonychus."
"There's that urge to flatten Chomp again." Dino said at the D-Lab.
"He's definitely a champion with that stealthiness and speed." Paris said. "But where'd he go?"
They went back to Shino and saw her dusting herself off. "How're you feeling?" Max asked her.
Shino chuckled. "I'm feeling much better now. I'm Shino." She introduced herself.
"Hi, I'm Max, and this is Rex, Zoe, Terry, Chomp, Ace, Tank, Spiny, and Paris." Max introduced himself and his friends. "And we're gonna get your hairpin back."
"We are?" Tank asked before she was lightly bitten on the leg by Ace. "Ow! I mean we are!"
"Oh, that's all right." Shino told them, her mood turning back to depressed.
"What? You mean you don't want it?" Rex asked.
"There is no use. The dinosaur must have sensed that I will not need such things anymore." Shino said.
"What'd you mean, Shino?" Paris asked.
"My teacher just called me clumsy and told me I do not have what it takes to become a geisha." Shino explained.
"Is that why you were crying?" Spiny asked.
Shino nodded before burying her face into her hands and sobbing again. "Oh, what was I thinking, chasing such a crazy dream! I'll never be a geisha!"
Max saw her crying and felt his heart being tugged at. He remembered himself in a similar position before with his 6th-grade teachers telling him that he was too stupid to pass his classes. 'Hopeless' is what he remembered them calling him when they talked with his parents. He remembered almost giving up if it wasn't for Rex and Zoe, but it still took a while and many hurtful comments before he was able to prove to the teachers that he wasn't the hopeless moron they called him. And he was not going to let someone else live through what he did during 6th grade.
"Come on, Shino! Don't let someone else try and take away your dreams!" He urged her. "You've fallen, so you get back up! Prove to them that you have what it takes to be a geisha! I'll get that hairpin back for you myself!"
Shino stopped crying and looked at Max. "Really?"
"Trust us, Shino. When Max says he'll do something, he won't stop till it's done." Zoe said.
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After escaping from the D-Team, the Fukuisaurus made his way back to his hideout. He entered the building that was full of shiny objects he's stolen, including Shino's hairpin, and placed it with the rest.
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Above a bridge, an Alpha Craft piloted by Rod and Laura flew slowly over the water. "We're coming into Kyoto now." Rod said as he looked at their coordinates.
"And all of my geisha!" Dr.Z gleefully added before he realized what he said. "Ah, what I mean is, all of my dinosaurs."
"Yeah..." Ed said, obviously not convinced. "According to the scanner, your dinosaur is near the river."
"Excellent! I suggest you three go down and take a closer look!" Dr.Z said as he pulled a rope that conveniently appeared next to him.
"Huh?" The trio said as the floor beneath them opened.
"Bye!" Dr.Z waved as they fell out of the craft.
"A parachute would've been nice!" Ursula yelled at the doctor before they crashed into the river. Hadn't even been a day, and she was already missing his bad back.
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Back with the D-Team, Shino had just finished talking with two other geishas and bowed at them before they walked away. "This is all so strange." She said to the D-Team. "The other geisha have lost hairpins, too."
"Why steal a hairpin?" Ace wondered. He felt like the answer was staring him right in the snout. He just couldn't remember it from the hundreds or thousands of books and articles he's read since joining the D-Team. "When we do find the answer, I just know I'm going to feel like an idiot."
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Rod and Laura continued on flying the craft until they landed it behind some people sitting near the river. "Well, we're here now." Rod said as the windows to the craft opened. "You can go check out the geisha."
"You mean my dinosaur?" Dr.Z incorrectly corrected his grandson before noticing some geisha walking across the bridge. "Ooh! Aha! I think I might see it now!" He exclaimed as he started bouncing after the geisha.
Rod just chuckled at his grandfather's antics before Laura noticed someone else crossing the bridge. "Look!" She pointed to some familiar faces.
"It's the D-Team again." Rod said grimly.
"From the way they're looking around, they must've not found the dinosaur yet." Laura observed.
"Max, why don't you try giving your dad a call one more time?" Chomp suggested as they all looked around for the Fukuisaurus.
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"Next time we come, I hope you'll leave some tea and cookies for the rest of us, Dr. Owen!" Spike sternly scolded his drunken friend, who was currently staggering around.
"It's no wonder you're sick." Patrick told him.
"Hmm?" Spike heard his phone ring and pulled it out. "Eh- oh, hello, Max." Spike said as he listened to what Max told him. "What?! There's a dinosaur here in Kyoto?!" Spike exclaimed.
Dr. Owen heard this and the hangover immediately vanished. "Let's go!" He urged before they dashed to where the kids were.
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At another part of town, the Fukuisaurus noticed a shining box that had gold decorations. He gently grabbed the top decoration with his beak and ran away again.
Not too far from him, the D-Team waited for Spike and Dr. Owen to show up. "Kids, what kind of dinosaur do we have?" Spike asked as he ran over to them.
"It's a Fukuisaurus." Terry said. "We were chasin' him, but he got away somehow."
"Huh." Spike said at the report. "So we got that right. Fukuisaurus are fast. Guess what, Dr. Owen." He called out to his friend to share the information about their theory, but saw that he had vanished. "Dr. Owen?"
"I've never seen such beauty." Dr. Owen said as he took Shino's hand and started rubbing his face on it.
"So did this girl have her hairpin stolen also, Max?" Spike asked, remembering Max also saying that the Fukuisaurus was stealing hairpins from people.
"Yeah." Max said.
"It's not just hairpins, either." Zoe added. "The mirrors on the street corners and all kinds of other shiny things are missing."
"Hey, Dr. Owen!" Spike called out to his love-stricken friend. "Do you think the Fukuisaurus could be stealing all this stuff?"
Dr. Owen got back onto his feet and started to get serious, a hand under his chin as he thought. "Well now, birds are thought to have descended from dinosaurs, and some birds do like to collect shiny things to put in their nests."
"But what good is a hairpin?" Tank asked.
"Well, human beings aren't the only creatures who know how to appreciate beautiful things." Dr. Owen said as he grabbed Shino's hand again. "Are they, Shino?"
"Hehe." Shino giggled in embarrassment. I really hope that she isn't underage.
"One hairpin wouldn't be enough, but a whole nest full of shiny objects should definitely attract a female." Ace finally remembered what he read. "That must be what he's trying to do!"
"Get shiny thingys." Spiny mumbled as he wrote that down.
"Then I guess we'd better hurry and find him before he gets into some serious mischief." Paris said.
"Yes, that's a good point." Chomp agreed.
What they didn't know was that the Alpha Gang was hiding behind a statute and listening in on their conversation. "So, it likes beautiful things." Ursula said as they slowly emerged from their hiding spot.
"So do I, but I like 'em barbecued medium-rare." Ed said.
"And with a side of fries." Zander added.
"If it's beauty that it's looking for, what better lure could there be than yours truly?" Ursula asked rhetorically.
"A large mirror?" Ed suggested.
"Silver teaspoons?" Zander added.
"Oh, never mind." Ursula said as she slammed their heads together. "Here's the plan."
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The D-Team walked by a small creek in search of the Fukuisaurus when they came across a sight that disgusted nearly all of them. Except for Dr. Owen, who gasped when he saw who was standing in front of him. "Do my eyes deceive me, or is that my darling Ursula?" Ursula was currently dressed up as a geisha while Zander held an umbrella with the Alpha Gang logo on it above her, looking ashamed with Ed.
"Oh, boy. The old lady." Max sighed in annoyance.
"I'm not an old lady, I'm a beautiful geisha!" Ursula yelled at him.
"An old geisha." Spiny commented, earning a head bump, a dinosaur high five, from Terry at the comeback.
"I'm not old in any way! Get it right!" Ursula screamed as Zander and Ed pulled her back.
"Okay." They both sighed, getting tired of this constant trend.
"My dear Ursula a geisha?" Dr. Owen repeated what he was told as tears of joy came out of his eyes. "Woo-hoo!" He cheered as he ran to hug her.
"Be careful, Doctor! She could bite and have rabies!" Patrick warned him. Rex just looked away in embarrassment while Tank, who he was carrying at the time, patted his shoulder in comfort.
"That's great! Just what we don't need!" Zoe said angrily.
"Yeah, and why is she dressed up like that?" Max asked as the geisha wannabe ran for her life.
"Ursula, my love, come back!" Dr. Owen cried out as he chased after her.
"Leave me alone!" Ursula yelled at him as they passed a truck with neon lights.
"Wait, my love!"
"Now that's actually what we do need." Zoe laughed as they watched the chase.
What none of them did notice was the Fukuisaurus appear next to the truck and start grabbing the lights, multiple this time.
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Ursula climbed several flights of stairs as she tried to escape from Dr. Owen. "My little dove, I understand that you want me to earn your love, so can't we sit down together and discuss our future as man and wife?" Dr. Owen asked as he chased her.
From behind them, Zander and Ed struggled to keep up. "Ursula's plan to use her beauty lured in a monster, all right, only it wasn't a dinosaur." Ed commented.
"Why won't you leave me alone?!" Ursula yelled at the crazed doctor.
"Because I love you!" Dr. Owen responded.
"Señor, we have to go!" Patrick called out to his boss. "There's a dinosaur on the loose!"
Ursula continued on running until the Fukuisaurus came right into her path. The greenette screamed as she fell to the ground and crawled away backwards from the dinosaur. "Stay away from my Ursula, you big oaf!" Dr. Owen ordered the Fukuisaurus as he stood protectively in front of Ursula. The Fukuisaurus responded by roaring at him. Dr. Owen looked at where the Fukuisaur's attention was and noticed that it wasn't on him or Ursula, but rather the hairpins that Ursula had as part of her costume.
Thinking fast, he grabbed one of the hairpins and chugged it into the air, above the Fukuisaurus. The iguanodont saw the shiny object fly above it and started to chase after it to add to his growing nest. "So he is attracted to shiny objects." Dr. Owen realized.
"Don't let it get away!" Ursula yelled at her teammates as she saw the Fukuisaurus run away.
Zander and Ed quickly appeared in front of her and Zander pulled out his scanner. "All right, I'll summon Maximus to go after it!"
"ALPHA SLASH! STRIKE 'EM OUT, TRICERATOPS!"
Once she appeared, Maximus started chasing after the Fukuisaurus. At that movement, the D-Team was finally able to catch up with them. "After her!" Rex said.
"We can't let the Alpha Gang beat us to him!" Max exclaimed
Spike and Shino were bringing up the rear due to either their outfits or being out of shape. Spike then noticed something that should help one of them; a rickshaw. "Oh! Hey, Shino, come on over here! I'll give you a ride!"
"Oh, thank you!" Shino accepted the offer, tired from all the running.
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Maximus continued on chasing the Fukuisaurus to the top of a building that looked like it was still being constructed. Many people moved out of the way from the chase to avoid getting trampled by the Triceratops. "Okay, this is getting old." Deciding she's had enough, Maximus slammed her tail on the floor and caused the floor to split. The floor cracked right above the Fukuisaurus and he fell into the crack, like if someone used Earthquake on him. "Perfect, I've got you now." Maximus said as she got ready for the finishing blow.
Unfortunately for her, the D-Team arrived. "Fukuisaurus is trapped!" Paris exclaimed in horror.
"I can fix that!" Ace assured her as he was recalled.
"DINO SLASH! CARNOTAURUS, BLOW HER AWAY!"
Ace landed in front of Maximus, facing away from her, and kicked her with his feet as he did a backflip. "Aah!" Zander screamed in horror from Ace's skills.
The Fukuisaurus silently thanked Ace before he lowered himself down the crack and leapt from poll to poll before landing on ground level and running away. "Wow! I wonder where he's off to now?" Paris wondered, still surprised by the Fukuisaur's skills that she nearly fell out of her carrier.
"He must have a nest where he hides things." Spike said.
"Then Terry and I will go and try to find it!" Max declared.
"With a nose like mine, there's no place in this city he can hide that I won't be able to find him. Terry boasted.
"Okay! We'll take care of things here with Maximus." Rex said as they left.
"Leave me alone, I've got a job to do!" Maximus yelled at Ace as she got back up and tried to go after the Fukuisaurus.
"I have a job too, stopping you." Ace responded as he leapt up, kicked her to the ground, and started repeatedly jumping on her.
"That's the way, Ace!" Tank cheered.
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"Faster!" Ursula ordered Ed, who was carrying her on a rickshaw away from Dr. Owen who was doing the same with Patrick.
"Ursula, stop, why are you running away?!" Dr. Owen asked.
"I can't go much more!" Ed told her, feeling like his chest was going to burst like a balloon.
"Oh, quit your complaining!" Ursula yelled at him as she pelted his head with her fists. "There's a dinosaur in front of us and a nutjob behind us! You do the math!"
"It would help if you weren't so heavy." Ed said as he stopped in a courtyard to catch his breath, earning a head bashing from Ursula.
Patrick stopped right next to him to catch his breath as well. "Doctor, why are you still chasing the lady and not the dinosaur?"
"Oh, well, actually, I, uh..." Dr. Owen struggled to figure out the right words before they heard screaming in front of them.
"Huh?" Looking in front of them, they all saw the Fukuisaurus dead ahead. "Look! The Fukuisaurus is right in front of us!" Ursula noticed.
"So you can see, there was a method to my madness, after all, right?" Dr. Owen said to Ursula as he inched closer to her.
"Say what?" Patrick asked as Ursula punched the doctor away from her.
"Ed, catch that dinosaur!" She ordered the fat man.
"I'll try!" He saluted.
"ALPHA SLASH! CLOBBER THEM, STEGOSAURUS!"
Once Armatus appeared, the two dinosaurs started staring each other down, giving the D-Team time to catch up, along with Rod and Laura on their scooters. "Take this!" Armatus yelled at the Fukuisaurus as he swung his tail at him. The Fukuisaurus responded by leaping into the air, dodging the attack, and slamming onto Armatus' back. The Stegosaurus rolled on his back before he came to a stop. "A little help, please?" Armatus asked Ed.
"Don't worry, buddy! I've got you! Spectral Stinger!"
Crystals formed in Armatus' back and gave him the support he needed to flip himself back onto his feet. "Look out!" Paris warned the Fukuisaurus of the oncoming crystals.
The Fukuisaurus saw this and glowed green as he prepared his attack. An energy ball of plants formed in his mouth before he fired the attack. "Ed! It's using Emerald Garden!" Ursula warned him as she noticed the attack. "So watch it!"
The ball landed right on top of Armatus and began to do its work. All around the Stegosaurus, plants started to grow around him, and Armatus was struggling to stay on his feet. "Aw, that Move is sucking all of Armatus' energy out!" Ed yelled in frustration.
The energy that the attack stole went back to the Fukuisaurus and he gained more energy. Shino saw the attack and was immediately entranced by the Fukuisaur's skills. "Oh, my! What a graceful way of moving! That dinosaur could probably teach me more about the elegance of being a geisha."
Armatus collapsed to the ground, crystals shattering, and returned to his card, his energy completely depleted. The Fukuisaurus saw this opening, grabbed his hairpin, and went back to his hiding spot. "There he goes, running off again!" Terry said in frustration.
"Back to his secret hideaway." Chomp added.
"Based on what we've learned about the habits of this Fukuisaurus-" Spike started before Dr. Owen cut him off and hopped into the rickshaw with Shino.
"He would no doubt have made his nest in the brightest, shiniest place in town." Dr. Owen finished.
"Oh!" Shino realized where he might have wandered off to. "The shiniest place in all of Kyoto is... is..."
"Golden Pavilion!" Everyone realized.
"You heard 'em, Golden Pavilion!" Ursula yelled at Ed, who picked up Armatus' card. "Go!"
"I'm so tired." Ed quietly cried as he began pulling Ursula to the possible hideout.
"Come on, let's go, Laura." Rod said. After watching that battle, he's figured out a plan to take out the Fukuisaurus.
"Okay!" Laura replied as they flew to Golden Pavilion.
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It turns out that Dr. Owen's guess was correct. Using the lake in front of the pavilion, the Fukuisaurus swam to his home and entered the building where the pile of the things he stole was still there. He placed the hairpin with the others and decided to take a nap before going after more items.
What he didn't know was the D-Team was spying on him from a bridge that was in front of one of the openings. "Well, this is his secret hiding place, all right." Terry said as he sniffed to make sure that it was the Fukuisaurus they saw in the opening.
"Perfect. We'll go inside and look for Shino's hairpin." Max said as he grabbed Terry and ran to the opening.
"Be careful, Max!" Spike warned him.
"I will!" Max responded. He silently crept up to the opening when he was close to it and peeked his head inside and saw an almost blinding pile of shiny things. "Whoa, Fukuisaurus keeps his room even messier than I do." Max whispered as he placed his dinosaurs on the floor. When he did, the entire building began to shake. "Whoa!" The team yelped as they tried to keep their footing. Max fell to the ground and his face landed right in front of a turtle hairpin that he remembered Shino describing as her own. "Haha! Here it is!" He smiled as he grabbed it before feeling a powerful shake.
This shaking was not because of an earthquake, but because of Maximus shaking the whole building, having finally been able to escape Ace and find the Fukuisaurus. "Huff! Good job, Maximus." Zander panted as he was finally able to catch up with her.
"Max needs help!" Rex said as Ace stopped by the rest of the team and he and Tank leapt off. "Ace, go!"
Ace was about to leap in and help, but stopped when he realized that the only way to get there in time was by crossing the lake. "I-I can't." He told the blonde shamefully while backing away.
"Ace, I thought we got you over your fear of water!" Tank yelled at him in frustration.
"And you did! But I still can't swim that fast without the fear of possibly drowning due to lack of energy!" Ace retorted. "And I can't make it there in time using any other path."
"Tear it down if you have to, Maximus!" Zander told her, seeing that shoving it was getting them nowhere.
Max and his dinos tried to escape, but they took a wrong turn and ended up on the same side of the building that Maximus was attacking. "Wah!" They screamed as they ran away from Maximus, who was preparing a charge attack.
But she was unable to initiate it before the Fukuisaurus spun right into her and caused her to fall to the ground while he flipped back, similar to what Ace did earlier. With his opponent down, the Fukuisaurus wasted no time in charging up another Emerald Garden and firing it at the downed Triceratops. The attack landed a direct hit, and the Fukuisaurus got back the energy he used to steal all these objects. "That attack is broken." Maximus said as she collapsed her head and returned to her card.
"Not again!" Zander exclaimed.
"Zander!" Ursula yelled as Ed pulled up behind him. "Can't you do anything right?!"
With Maximus out of the way, Max and his team were able to return to the rest of the group without any trouble. "Shino, look, I found your hairpin." Max said as he handed the geisha her hairpin.
Shino smiled as she accepted her hairpin before noticing someone behind Max. She gasped when she saw who it was, confusing Max. "Ah!"
"Huh?" Turning around, he came face to face with the Fukuisaurus. "Agh! Back off! That pin belongs to Shino!" He yelled at the dinosaur.
"It's all right." Shino assured him as she walked up to the dinosaur.
"Huh?" Max was confused by her actions. He recalled her thinking she didn't deserve the hairpin, but he knew that she still wanted it back.
"I'd like him to have it." Shino said as she handed the pin to the Fukuisaurus, who took it in his beak. "Oh, yes, it suits you." She giggled as the Fukuisaurus almost looked like he was trying it on like an outfit.
"Are you sure?" Max asked her.
"Yes, I am." Shino replied. "Thank you, Max." But the mood changed when they all felt the ground shake. "Oh!"
Turning around, the Fukuisaurus saw Brontikens appear, his head sticking out of the trees. "We're here for the Fukuisaurus card!" Rod said as he and Laura stopped their scooters. "Spectral Destroy!"
As Brontikens charged his attack, the Fukuisaurus tossed the hairpin to Shino and charged his own. Unfortunately, Brontikens was faster and fired his Move at the Fukuisaurus before he could activate Emerald Garden completely. When the blinding light died down, beautiful purple and green colored leaves fell to the ground along with the Fukuisaur's cards. The card landed at Shino's feet and she picked it up. "He saved my life, and he didn't even know me." Shino whispered to herself as she looked at the card.
"Hand over that card if you know what's good for ya!" Rod threatened.
"I'd hate to have to make things more difficult than they'd need be." Brontikens added as he slowly walked towards her.
Shino started to panic as she backed away from the advancing Apatosaurus. "Nice try!" Rex said as he and Max leapt in front of Shino to protect her. "But you're not getting it!"
"This card's ours!" Max added before recalling Chomp.
"DINO SLASH! GO, TRICERATOPS! ROAR!"
"Biting Wind!" Rex activated the Move Card before Chomp was even on the field. Ace roared as wind formed around him and fired blades at Brontikens, creating a cloud of dust that blocked his view.
"Ultimate Thunder!" Lightning started striking the ground to form a path before one landed directly on Brontikens. His tail glowed like a rocket engine, his eyes lighting up like a car, and Chomp started sliding towards his opponent before he made contact with Brontikens. The force of the attack caused Brontikens to get knocked back, rolling like a tumbleweed and knocking over several trees, before he was carded.
"Uh, let's go!" Laura quickly said, surprised at how fast the battle ended.
"Y-yeah!" Rod agreed as they quickly flew to get Brontikens.
"You'll pay for this, you horrid half-pints!" Ursula yelled at them as the rickshaw briefly stopped in front of them before they joined Rod and Laura in their retreat.
"I don't quite understand." Shino broke the silence. "The dinosaur gave me back my hairpin."
"So maybe it's a sign that you should keep on working toward your dream." Max told her. "What'd ya think?"
Shino was quiet for a bit as she processed Max's words, both from now and before. "You know, Max, I think you're right!"
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Later that night, after a few hours of practice with Kui the Fukuisaurus on elegance, Shino attempted to impress her instructor once again. She did the same moves as last time before getting to the part where she tripped. She carefully timed her steps and was able to pull off the last bit flawlessly. Her instructor clapped at the results, this time with joy. "Shino, you've done it! You finally demonstrate the grace and elegance of a true geisha!"
"I owe it all to Max." Shino said, looking at her audience.
"Oh." Max chuckled at the embarrassment, blushing and making Zoe get a little peeved.
"Ahem." Kui snorted from his hiding place to remind Shino that he was watching too. "I think I also played a big part in this. Probably more than him."
"Yeah, that's defiantly true." Zoe said, slightly less annoyed.
"Hmph!" Max huffed in embarrassment, still thinking he gets most of the credit. "Well, all that matters is that you're following your dream."
"Yes, thank you." Shino smiled, getting her own blush.
"Help them when they're at their lowest point." Spiny wrote down.
Dr. Owen quickly appeared in front of her and took her hands. "And you'll become a geisha one day!"
"You better hope my dad doesn't ask you to marry him." Rex warned her, being both serious and not.
"And if he does, just say no." Patrick added. "Pretty sure you're both not at the right time age yet." With that joke, everyone started laughing, including Dr. Owen and Shino.
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As always, things were not cheerful for the Alpha Gang. As they started their trip, Ed realized that they were a person short. "Hey, we left Dr.Z behind." He pointed out.
"Turn this thing around and get him!" Ursula ordered before the craft quickly went back to where it took off.
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"This is terrible." Dr.Z sadly said as he walked through an alleyway, snow starting to fall. "Left behind here in Kyoto, with no dinosaur and not even a single geisha to comfort me!" He cried.
"Are you all right?" A female voice asked. "You seem upset, sir."
"Huh?" Stopping his crying, Dr.Z looked up to see a geisha standing in front of him.
"Can I help?" The geisha asked.
"Aah!" Dr.Z gasped at the beautiful sight before him. His excitement grew as the geisha slowly began to turn around. "A geisha!"
The geisha fully turned around to reveal herself to actually be Ursula in a new geisha outfit, giggling as she revealed herself to her boss.
Dr.Z looked at the makeup and only thought of one thing. "Aah! It's a geisha clown!" He screamed as he ran away.
"Huh?" Ursula pulled out a mirror and realized what a terrible job her partners did on her makeup. "Aah! How did they mess this one up, but not the first?!"
"I hate clowns! Help me, this I horrible!" Dr.Z screamed as he ran for his life.
"Dr.Z, come back! It's me; Ursula!" The greenette tried to call out to her boss, but he didn't listen and leapt into the air to escape her.
As they ran past the building the D-Team were at, the dinosaurs opened the door and saw the snow falling on the ground. "What's this white stuff?" Spiny asked as he looked around at the descending snowflakes.
"I'm pretty sure this is snow." Chomp answered, noticing the resemblance to Siberia.
"It is." Ace confirmed. "I remember it falling on our island during the winter."
"Hey, didn't Rex and the others say there was something big that came only once a year at winter?" Tank asked.
"I remember!" Spiny said, getting really excited. "Christmas!"
Next time on Dinosaur King:
Spike: Christmas time! My favorite time of the year!
Dr.Z: I know what you two want. You want another mission
Aki: I thought Rod and Laura could spend their Christmas with us
Dr.Z: It's my dear, old Megalosaurus!
Spiny: Let's get this party started!
A/N: Posting this chapter from Disney World. Been having a blast here, especially at Animal Kingdom with Flight of Passage, DINOSAUR, the various treks, and Kilimanjaro Safaris. I've already been there twice and are going again tomorrow so I can see the elephants again. If you couldn't tell that's my favorite park.
Now that you all know I've been having fun here, let's get onto talking about the chapter. Really, this one doesn't have too much interesting backstory. Max's troubling past came from my College Success Skills class I took over the summer, and I think it helps explain why he's so set on helping Shino without making it a bad love triangle.
And as for Spiny, I think you could figure out what he's writing about. If not, wait till after next chapter, or the one after that. Point is, it'll be addressed soon.
Before I leave I should tell you all this, the reason for me posting this chapter so quickly was due to the fact that I'm going on the Disney Cruise as well. For those of you that don't know, cruise ships don't really have good internet, so I have to keep my phone on airplane mode to prevent my family from getting completely screwed by my idiocy and can't use cellular. If we're lucky I'll have a network to go off of, but I doubt it, so I'll be without internet for 7 days, which would probably kill a lot of people. Don't worry, I'll be gone from the 4th to the 10th and I'll be back pretty early on the 11th.
See you all then!