Dino Tales
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"Talking"
Thinking
"Flashback"
DK
The morning sun shined through the windows of the D-Lab's sanctuary, gracing the dinosaurs that lived there with its morning beauty. A chorus of yawns filled the air as many of the inhabitants started to wake up to begin their day. Others tried to tune out the noise and continue to sleep for a little bit. But there was one who was able to sleep through almost anything; Trooper. And this proved to be something that a certain dinosaur wanted to test out.
Before the sun was even fully out, Rocko and Charles were dragging a raft with a sleeping Trooper on it up the cliff that the Pteranodons sleep on. "Are you sure that this is a good idea?" Charles whispered to his best friend as he pulled a rope that was attached to the raft.
"Oh, hell no. This is so going to bite me in the ass later, brah." Rocko responded as he pushed the raft, being a lot less effective than the Supersaurus.
"Then why are you doing this?" Charles asked as they reached the top of the cliff. "And why am I helping you with this?"
"Because it's gonna be hilarious." Rocko snickered. "Besides, I'm a more 'in the now' kind of guy. As for why you're helping me, you knew you'd submit to me sooner or later so you just saved yourself the trouble." They continued on pushing and pulling the raft until the reached the pond that was at the top of the cliff. "All right, now push him in gently."
Charles did as told and gently nudged the raft into the water. "Someone's going to die from this." He warned Rocko was the raft drifted away.
"I've jumped off this thing many times. He'll be fine." Rocko assured the Supersaurus
"That's not what I'm worried about." Charles said as they watched the raft drift closer and closer to the edge of the cliff. And what was at the edge? A waterfall.
"3,2,1." Rocko and Charles whispered before Trooper went over the edge.
"'Snore.' What's going on?" Was all Trooper could say as he started to wake up before going over the edge. "Aaaah!" He screamed as he fell down the massive waterfall before landing in the water, with the raft landing on top of him.
Rocko was rolling on the ground in laughter from his successful prank. Even Charles couldn't help but chuckle at the grump's misfortune. "Okay, I admit, that was pretty funny." Charles said in between chuckles. "But he's still gonna kill you for this."
"Ha, ha, ha! That is if he survived!" Rocko joked.
Charles, however, didn't catch the joke. "What?! Are you saying we killed him?!"
"Calm down, brah, he's fine. Look."
Down below, Trooper crawled out of the lake that the waterfall ran into and glared at the top of the cliff. "You'd better sleep with both eyes open, you big-nosed fart!" He yelled at Rocko before finding a new place to sleep, if he could return to sleep after that stunt.
With their work done, the duo started to descend down the cliff. "I still fail to see why this was necessary." Charles said to Rocko.
"Dude, he's a grump. Them getting pranked on always leads to good comedy."
"But he's not some cartoon character that doesn't feel pain. He's a dinosaur like you and me."
"Calm down, brah, it's not like I make a habit of dangerously pranking you guys."
"Last week, you caused everyone to think that there were mosquitos in the building." Charles shivered at the thought of mosquitos.
"All I did was say that I hope that no mosquitos hid in here for the winter. I did not know they hibernate." Rocko retorted as he turned around and walked backwards. "Charles, buddy, relax. I'm not going to go on one of those pranking sprees that ends with the prankster getting his just desserts."
"Too late for that." Charles said as he looked ahead.
"I don't know what you're talking abo-uuuuuuuuuut!" Rocko screamed as he accidentally fell into a pit on the path.
As the Altirhinus groaned, Charles stuck his head down the hole until he was face to face with his friend. "This was just a coincidence." Rocko told him.
"Sure it is." Charles said as he pulled his head and out left to meet with Gertie. Rocko could get out on his own.
(Intro Theme)
There was the sound of a machine beeping as several dinosaurs waited outside two large troughs for their breakfast, one for carnivores and one for herbivores. A chute opened up and plants and meat fell out of the respective chute and into the troughs, signaling that breakfast has arrived.
Immediately once the food landed in the troughs, there was a mini-stampede as tons of hungry dinosaurs rushed to get the first bite. "Outta the way!" Sweet Tooth roared as she knocked Lucky and Delta out of the way with her head before grabbing the largest piece of meat.
She walked away to eat it in peace, making sure to keep her head up and away from the smaller carnivores that were snapping at the meat like they were hatchlings. "Thanks!" Ally said as she leapt up to the Mapusaur's mouth and grabbed the piece of meat and ran off.
"What?" Sweet Tooth blinked as she came to terms as to what happened. "Hey! That's mine, you slut!"
"Slut?" Ally repeated, feigning being hurt by the insult. "Now that's uncalled for. Besides, you're not exactly very lady-like yourself with knocking everyone out of the way just so you'd get the first steak."
"Don't even try and bring manners into this, hypocrite!" Sweet Tooth roared before she lunged at the Allosaurus.
Ally tossed the meat aside and was about to do the same, but stopped when she saw the meat land under a very familiar orange foot. "Aw, crap."
Sweet Tooth stopped her attack and saw Beta standing on the meat, glaring at the two of them. "It seems since you two fight over meat like hatchlings, it seems you'll have to be treated like such." The Acrocanthosaurus told the two carnivores.
"No! Please, not that!" "It'd be so embarrassing!" The two carnivores pleaded.
"Then I suggest you start acting your ages or you'll be getting the hatchlings share." Beta warned them before she grabbed the meat in her mouth and walked away. After having to deal with another stupid fight amongst the carnivores in the herd, she needed something to ease her tension.
She placed the meat under a tree and was about to take a bite when she saw the doors to the sanctuary open. Out of the door came Terry, Chomp, and the rest of the D-Team's dinosaurs. She also noticed as Amy was with them, carrying a glass box.
Her heart started to flutter when she saw Ace. Ever since she joined the team, she and Ace spent a good amount of time together. Originally it was her way to make up for being such a horrible leader to him, but over time she began to feel a connection to the Carnotaurus. Maybe it was his calm and responsible personality, or maybe it was their size differences. And when Chomp and Paris revealed their relationship to the rest of the herd, she knew that she had to be feeling the same about Ace. The problem was she wasn't sure if the Carnotaurus felt the same way, as he didn't really show it at all.
Picking up the meat, she walked over to Ace, who was currently looking for a spot to lie down. "Hey, Ace!" She called out to the Carnotaurus.
"Al-I mean, Beta!" Ace said in response as he walked over to her, still getting over her new name after years of calling her Alpha.
"I brought you this." She said as she offered him the meat.
"Thanks." Ace replied as he placed a foot on the meat and began to feast.
"So, why're you here? Aren't you usually at school with the kids?" Beta asked.
"Still on winter break." Ace told her as he ate a chunk of the meat. "The reason we're here is because they went to a ski resort for a couple days and the place doesn't allow pets."
"Ah."
I didn't take long for the Carnotaurus to finish the whole thing. "Well, thanks for the breakfast. Aki may be nice, but she doesn't give me and Terry the meat we need."
"Guess I'm lucky I'm too big for your house." Beta joked, the two of the sharing a laugh.
"Heh, heh. I'll see you around." Ace said before he left.
Beta watched him leave before she stomped away in frustration. "Damn it! I thought for sure offering a gift works! Those damn nature documentaries lied to me!"
As she continued her tantrum, she stepped onto a brown boulder and stomped across that. "Ow! Ow! Ow!" The rock said as Beta walked across. Once she hopped off, the rock revealed itself to be Trooper. "Is today the day that I'm not allowed to get sleep or something?" He asked angrily.
"Sorry about that, Trooper." Beta apologized. "Just not in the best of mods right now."
"Don't bother with the recap, I heard it all." Trooper quickly told her. "I know a surefire way to get a guy to like you. Works every time."
"Really?" Beta eagerly asked as she got into his face. "What is it?!"
"Tell him how you feel."
"What?" Beta backed away. "Trooper, this is Ace we're talking about. You know what he'd say if his former alpha suddenly confessed that she loved him and saw him as an equal, or even superior!"
"Oh, yeah. That totally isn't implied already." Trooper grumbled. "Fine. If that way, the obvious way." He muttered quietly. "Isn't going to work, try the mating dance. Usually gets the attention of the female, or male in your case."
"The mating dance." Beta repeated, taking Trooper's joke seriously. "Of course! That's it!" She exclaimed before running off to prepare a show for Ace.
"Idiot." Trooper muttered before he went to graze. "Hopefully this doesn't go on too long. And if it does, hopefully it's entertaining."
DK
Hana was currently grazing on some ferns, as well. At the same time, she was also constantly looking up at the small terrarium in front of her. Inside of it was her best friend's pet, Hana the Third. Apparently, Amy's family was having issues with their heater so the house was a little cold, too cold for a lizard like Hana. In order to keep her healthy, Amy brought him to the D-Lab and asked Hana, the Euoplocephalus, to watch him for a couple days.
Obviously, the Euoplocephalus accepted in a heartbeat. But this proved to be a lot more challenging than she first realized, mainly since she could never let the terrarium out of her sight. She put it under a tree while she went to talk with someone, and it almost got squished by Gertie and Charles. Because of that, she made a vow to make sure that the terrarium never left her eyesight for more than three seconds. Even then, she felt that may have been too long.
"Hey, Hana!" She looked up and saw Salty walking towards her, possibly oblivious to the terrarium in front of her.
Immediately she began to panic. "What're you doing?!" She frantically asked him.
"Uh-"
"All other dinosaurs are supposed to stay 10 feet away from the terrarium at all times! Don't you know that?!"
"What terrarium?" Salty asked. "Hana, are you okay?"
"Don't call me crazy! I'm just protecting Hana!"
"Why are you referring to yourself in the third person?"
Hana groaned in frustration. "Look down, nimrod."
"Okay..." The Saltasaurus looked down and noticed an terrarium in front of him. "Oh, that terrarium." He said before he realized something. "Wait. Terrariums usually hold lizards." He quickly looked down and saw the little red lizard. "Oh my gosh! He's so cute!" He gushed, wagging in the air like a dog. "What's his name."
"Hana the Third."
"Well, that's stupid to name him after yourself."
"He's Amy's pet."
"Oooh." Salty said in realization before asking something else. "Can I look at him?"
"You're already doing that now." Hana reminded him.
"No, I mean can I go and play with him." Salty clarified.
Hana's eyes widened at the thought. "No!" She shouted so loud that nearby dinosaurs looked at her in confusion. Blushing a bit at the attention, she looked back at Salty. "He can't leave the terrarium. He'd get lost in this place. And I'd promise Amy that I'd keep an eye on him."
"And that's why I think I should look after him." Salty said. "You're taking this job very seriously. Maybe too seriously for your own good." He explained.
"Excuse me for not wanting my best friend to lose another pet!" Hana retorted.
"Look, I'm not trying to offend you. But you seriously look like you need to relax." Salty said.
"And be out of the way so I won't yell at you when you play with the lizard and let him out of his terrarium." Hana added.
"Okay, that's partially true. But I am serious with you needing a break. You're acting as grumpy as Trooper."
"Oh, sure! Let's all pick on Trooper! It's not like he has feelings too or anything!" Trooper yelled from the other side of the sanctuary.
Both of them winced at the tone of the Ankylosaur's words. Hana was quiet as she realized that she was starting to snap at everyone like the grumpy Ankylosaurus. "'Sigh.' I guess you're right, I could use a break. But are you sure you can handle this?"
"I love lizards. Do you really think I know nothing about them?" Salty asked.
"I just want to make sure that I'm not giving this responsibility to some idiot that doesn't know how to handle lizards." Hana said before she started to leave. "And whatever you do, never let him out for any reason! The only reason he should be out that wouldn't get you in trouble would be if Reese or someone else told you to for Hana's sake!" The Euoplocephalus warned him before heading off. "I'll be at the falls for Delta's yoga class. If you need me, I'll be there!"
"Don't worry, Hana! I'm the best dinosaur for the job!" Salty called out to assure her.
DK
It was around mid-morning when Terry and the other Fire Dinos went into the lab's training room to train. Terry and Coal were exchanging blows while Bali and Sweet Tooth practiced their Move Cards on targets. "Nice job, Terry!" Coal said as Terry dodged a swing of her tail. "Look for an opening, and attack!" She emphasized this by quickly leaping onto Terry as he regained himself from the movement of the dodge.
"You should take your own advice." Terry playfully warned as he began to shake and cause the Carcharodontosaurus to fall off of him. Coal got up and shook herself before she and Terry got ready to got at it again.
But before they could collide, the door to the training room opened and Ally walked in. "Well, Terry, looks like you're working up a sweat as always." She said to him as she strutted over to the Tyrannosaurus.
Terry sighed in annoyance while his sparing partner chuckled. "Ally, can I help you with something?" All the constant flirting with him has been replaced by him getting flustered with him getting annoyed with her constant teasing.
"I was just wondering if I could join you guys." Ally said. "You know, to build some muscles."
"Don't take this the wrong way, Ally, but this type of training is for Fire Dinos only." Bali told her.
"Bali's right. This kind of training isn't safe for you." Coal said. "You're not strong enough to handle it. You don't have the muscles."
"Oh, I'm sure I can handle a little-"
"Damn it, Ally, this isn't a joke!" Terry roared at her, causing the Allosaurus to back up in fear. "You're a Wind Dino! Your muscles aren't strong enough to endure our type of training! There's a reason there are two types of theropod elements!"
"Jeez, Terry, calm down." Bali tried to calm his friend down.
"I'M COMPLETELY CALM!" Terry roared so loudly that anyone for miles could hear him.
"I think I can see the fire." Ally joked, the others shaking their heads frantically to tell her to shut up, but it was too late.
All this did was piss Terry off even more. "OH, WILL YOU SHUT THE FUCK UP! THE JOKE OF YOU FLIRTING WITH ME IS GETTING OLD! IT'S BEEN OLD SINCE WE CAME BACK FROM BARCELONA! FOR THE LOVE OF SEIKATSU, IF ALL YOU CAME HERE FOR IS TO GET ON MY NERVES WITH THIS STUPID JOKE, GET LOST!"
Everyone's ears were ringing from Terry's outburst. Ally was now cowering in fear from the much larger predator. Terry saw the fear and panic in her eyes and sighed. "I'm sorry for yelling like I did. But I really think we need to put this joke to rest." With that, he left the training room to calm himself down before he hurt someone by accident.
Ally watched sadly as he walked away. "But it wasn't a joke."
DK
"All right, Hana, so what'd ya wanna do?" Salty asked as he laid next to Hana the Third's terrarium on a small hill.
The lizard said nothing and just looked at the Saltasaurus blankly. Unlike the lizard in the Amazon, this one had seen dinosaurs before when Amy brought him over, so Salty's appearance didn't terrify him. "Yeah." Salty said as he stretched his neck before lying his head down. "Chilling seems like a good idea."
At the same time, Ace was taking a drinking from the watering hole. What he wasn't aware of was that Beta was watching him from behind a tree. "Okay, Beta." The Acrocanthosaurus said to herself. "Just go out there and strut your stuff. Seikatsu, that sounds so wrong."
Beta then began to slowly walked over to Ace. The Carnotaurus heard the footsteps and looked up to see his former alpha walking over to him, noticing that she seemed to look pretty nervous. "Hey, Beta. Can I help you with something?"
Beta didn't respond. Instead, she began to start stomping on the ground and making high pitched screeches. She kept on doing that for a minute before she switched to stomping around in a circle. Ace just watched in confusion as she switched back to stomping and screeching. Not knowing if this was normal or not for her, he quickly slipped away while she was distracted.
From his hilltop, Salty tried to channel out the noise that Beta was making, but it was proving to be very difficult. He tossed and turned and rolled around on the ferns to try and cover his ears. In doing so, he accidentally knocked over Hana's terrarium with his back, thankfully not crushing it. The terrarium fell onto its side and the top fell off.
The lizard inside was also having negative reactions to Beta's attempted dance. The constant shrieking was causing Hana to think he was being attacked and began to panic. He immediately darted out of the terrarium and into the ferns, disappearing in seconds.
Salty, oblivious to Hana's escape, constantly rolled his head on the ground before he had enough. "Will you shut up! People are trying to sun bathe!" He yelled at the Acrocanthosaurus.
Beta heard the yell and stopped her dancing. When she did, she noticed that she was reviving many odd looks from various dinosaurs. Most of them confused, but a few did look irritated by her noise. "Uh..." She turned to where Ace was and noticed that the Carnotaurus was gone.
Seeing that she had made a giant fool of herself, Beta quickly ran away from the crowd and went to go hide in embarrassment. As she ran, tears were falling out her eyes. She ran past a grazing Comet, and the Pentaceratops noticed her tears of sadness and embarrassment.
"Glad that's over." Salty said as he went back to sunbathing, unaware that his companion had scampered off.
DK
It was later in the day that Spiny and Guru met up in the watering hole for a sparing match. This was brought up when Guru noticed that Spiny was not partaking in any training of any short, even before he arrived from Moscow. As a result, he requested the Spinosaurus meet him in the waterhole for a test to see where he was before they started his training.
The two of them were in the middle of the lake while Tank and Paris watched from the sidelines. "Spiny's gonna lose." Tank said as she rested her head on the ground.
"Are you-"
"Paris, Guru's a battling master. Spiny's screwed." Tank quickly answered. "This battle is over." Paris wanted to retort, but she knew that Tank was right. Spiny had no chance of beating Guru at his current state.
Something that Guru had already taken into account. "Are you ready for this, Spiny?" He asked his opponent as they stood on opposite sides of the lake.
"Bring it on!" The Spinosaurus exclaimed with excitement.
"Than show me what you've got!" With that, the two of the dived into the deep end and swam towards each other to get the first hit.
The Ampelosaurus swam under the surface, keeping an eye open for his opponent at all directions. What he didn't expect was for Spiny to come from underneath him and push him through the surface. Guru fell onto his side and tried to regain himself. Spiny used this moment to slip away and wait till Guru was underwater again before attacking from behind by pushing his back with both his feet, which probably would've been painful if he hadn't aimed the point of contact correctly due to Guru's spikes.
This process kept on going for a while, Spiny attacks Guru, slips away while the Ampelosaurus regains himself, and attacks again. He continued this process until he decided that enough was enough. Guru resurfaced and took a large breath of air. "I must say, Spiny, you definitely know how to battle in the water." Guru complemented his sparing partner.
"Did he just complement Spiny?" Tank asked, shocked at what she just heard.
"Looks like he's exceeded your expectations again." Paris said. Tank didn't respond with a retort.
Spiny resurfaced and took a breath as well. "Wait, I'm winning?"
"Your speed in the water is making it harder for me to keep up with you. Keep this up and I'll be too exhausted to continue." Already the Ampelosaurus was slightly panting to prove this point.
"If you're so tired, then face the wrath of Poseidon! Shockwave!" Spiny accounted as he charged up the attack and fired it at Guru.
The Ampelosaurus wasted no time in getting his tail ready and used it to stop the water from making contact with him, creating mini-rain. "Try again." He told Spiny.
"I've got something better! Water Sword!" A large sword of water formed out of Spiny's mouth and he got ready to swing it at the Ampelosaurus. But Guru was already prepared to counter the attack and swung his neck to match with the sword. The two of them collided and the Ampelosaur's neck shattered the sword, barely damaging Guru. "What?!"
"My turn!" Guru said as he reared up and activated Aqua Vortex. A vortex appeared underneath Spiny and began to spin him around. Due to it being in the water, it was even larger than normal. Spiny spun with so much force that he was starting to get lifted into the air. Something Guru was expecting as he began to swim towards Spiny as if he was charging.
The vortex stopped and Spiny started to fall. Before he could hit the water, Guru tackled him away with his head, causing the Spinosaurus to crash land on the shore.
Guru walked over to see if Spiny was still able to battle, but it was clear that the match was his when he saw the Spinosaurus return to his card. Since the battle happened inside the sanctuary, Spiny was reactivated seconds later, still lying on the shore. "You fought well. But you still need to work on your Move Cards. You'll also need to change your strategies a bit." With that, he walked off.
Spiny raised his head to look where Tank and Paris were watching. "Did I do good?" He asked nervously.
"What'd ya think?" Tank said before walking off as well.
Paris walked over to Spiny and helped him into his feet. "Hey, now. You actually impressed her for a bit."
"Really? You mean I haven't lost all my chances?"
"Only if you give up."
"Never give up." Spiny muttered to himself. "Brilliant strategy."
DK
"Come on! Come on! Please tell me I'm getting warm! I'm begging you!" Salty had his head to the ground as he frantically searched for Hana the lizard. It took a good two hours before the Saltasaurus realized that he accidentally freed the lizard and that he had ran off. He searched all over the sanctuary, head as close to the ground as possible to find any lizard prints, but he was having so such luck.
Right before he was about to make another turn, he bumped into someone. "Ow." The dinosaur he bumped into hissed. "Watch where ya going, Salty."
Salty recognized the voice and raised his head to see Coal lying under a tree, taking a nap after training with Terry. "Sorry, Coal, couldn't see you."
"No surprise there. Why're you walking around like that? That's just asking for trouble." She pointed out.
"Well, I, uh..." Salty didn't want the others to know how he accidentally lost a lizard that wasn't even his. But as he stuttered, he noticed a tiny piece of red meat in between Coal's teeth. "Uh, Coal, when did you last eat?"
"About an hour ago." The Carcharodontosaurus answered. "Why?"
"Oh my god." Salty whispered as he put two and two together. Before Coal even had time to react, Salty knocked her onto her side and placed a foot on her neck. "Why?! Why'd you do it?!"
"What're you talking about?!" Coal asked as she tried to get the Saltasaurus off of her, with little success as all she could to was move her foot in the air.
"You ate Hana!"
"What?! I would never do that! Besides, I saw her by the waterfall earlier."
"Not that Hana, murderer! The other one!"
"Since when were there two Hanas?"
"Since today! Why'd you do it!? I thought we had something!"
The Carcharodontosaurus was starting to get uncomfortable with how Salty was almost crying. "Salty, we only really connected when we were the only dinosaurs here. We haven't really talked for a while."
"Don't change the subject! Why'd you eat Hana?!"
"I didn't eat Hana! If I did, then there'd be a Euoplocephalus carcass lying around." Coal pointed out.
"Stop changing the subject!"
"All right! Enough!" Utah hissed as she jumped in between them, making Salty back off of Coal. "What the hell are you two arguing about!? Everyone can hear it!"
"He's the one doing the yelling!" Coal retorted by yelling.
"Well she ate Hana!" Salty accused.
"For the last time, I did not eat her!"
"Not that Hana, killer!"
"Will you both shut up?!" Utah yelled at them both, making them slightly back away in fear. "Now, Salty, what makes you think that Coal ate Hana? And please don't yell it."
"I saw a piece of his tail in her teeth." Salty said.
"No, I dont have any tail in my teeth." Coal retorted. "All I have is some small piece of meat from my lunch."
"Which I'm assuming was lizard." Salty glared as he looked like he was about to attack again.
"No, it was beef, like always. Why would I eat a lizard? That's hatchling food." Coal asked.
"Ah." Utah said in understanding. "Now I get it. Salty believes that you ate Hana the Third; Amy's pet lizard." She explained to Coal.
"Well, I didn't."
Utah nodded in agreement before turning to Salty. "Salty, I know you're worried, but that's no excuse to go accusing people of pet slaughter."
The Saltasaurus lowered his head in shame. "I'm sorry. I just don't want to upset Amy and Hana." Salty admitted "The Euoplocephalus." He quickly added.
"And you won't if we look for the lizard together." Coal assured him. "What does he look like?"
"Small, bright red, could be mistaken for a salamander." Salty listed off the characteristics he could remember.
"Okay, good. Let's see if we can find anything on the security feed." Utah suggested.
"When did we have those?" Salty asked.
"Since the lab was created." Utah answered. "Just follow me. We'll get to the bottom of this."
DK
It wasn't too hard for Comet to find Beta. He knew she'd go to a secluded place, and there's only one cave in the sanctuary. As he entered the cave, he heard the sound of quiet sobbing. He looked behind a rock and saw Beta lying on the ground, tears rolling down her face. "You okay?" Comet asked, but immediately realized that wasn't the best question to ask.
Thankfully for him, Beta was too distraught to yell at him. "What'd you think?" She hissed.
"Yeah, not the best choice of words on my part." Comet admitted as he laid down next to Beta. "So, what was the reason behind that... dance you did?"
"I don't want to talk about it." Beta said as she turned her head away.
"Beta." Comet sighed. "You and I both know I'm not leaving until I get an explanation. So why don't you make this easier and just tell me what's going on so I can help you and we can both sleep happy tonight."
Beta remained silent as she debated if she should tell him or not. Swallowing up her pride, she decided to do the former. "I was doing..." She mumbled the last part so quietly that Comet couldn't make it out.
"I'm sorry, what?" Beta mumbled it again, a little louder. "The naming dance?"
"I was doing the mating dance!" She finally lost her patience and yelled at him.
"Glad to see the energy's back." Comet joked before getting serious. "So, you were trying to court Ace into being your mate? Isn't it supposed to be the male that does the dance to court the female?"
"Trooper suggested it."
"Trooper may be a grump, but he doesn't look like the type that would tell you to embarrass yourself." Comet pointed out.
"Well, he did say that I should confess to Ace upfront." Beta admitted.
"And you chose to do the mating dance over the easy solution?"
"You don't understand! What if he doesn't return my feelings? It could ruin the friendship I've been working to rebuild!" Beta began to frantically pace around the cave to calm herself, with little success.
Comet saw her distress and walked up beside her. "Beta, I can tell you that even if Ace doesn't love you back you won't lose him as a friend."
"How do you know that?"
"Because I was in Ace's position. It wasn't too long ago that Francine confessed that she had a crush on me. I won't lie and say that I didn't feel the same. But after what happened in Hollywood, I didn't feel comfortable with starting another relationship. And I told her exactly that. And, despite the awkwardness, the two of us still hang out together as friends."
"But you admitted that you also have a thing for Francine." Beta pointed out. "Ace might not feel the same way."
"Maybe he does, maybe he doesn't. The point still stands. You and I both know that Ace wouldn't abandon you or your friendship just because he doesn't return the crush. But continuously holding these feelings back is doing you more harm than good. If you ask me, I'd say go for it. But this choice is yours." With that, Comet left the cave, leaving Beta alone to ponder his words.
DK
At the same time, Utah, Salty, and Coal were in the control room for the security cameras. "I can't believe that you've been spying on us with these cameras this whole time." Coal said as they looked through the feed.
"How many times do I have to tell you these were here before us?" Utah asked, getting frustrated with the constant accusations of invading privacy. "Besides, I'm not the one who looks over these."
"Then who'd you know the password?" Coal asked.
"Reese told me incase of an emergency like this." Utah hissed before turning to Salty. "Do you know when Hana escaped?"
"It was most likely when I was sunbathing on a hill near the waterhole, which I started around the time that Beta was making all that noise." Salty recalled what he could.
"Okay. I believe that's around 1:47." Utah typed in the time and turned on the camera near the waterhole. "All right. I think I see you." Utah zoomed in on the corner and saw that it was in-fact Salty. "Perfect."
They watched the feed until they noticed Salty rolling around in the ferns. "Wow. You suck at pet sitting." Coal said as she watched Salty not even pay attention to the terrarium that he knocked over and almost could've crushed.
"Are you trying to help me or mock me?" Salty glared at her.
"It's called observing." While the three of them watched and chatted, none of them noticed Hana the Third crawling on one of the legs to the table. "Utah, the camera's too far. We can't even tell which way he went."
"I'll see if I can find another angle." Utah said as she started typing on the computer.
"The ferns are too high." Salty pointed out. "Don't you have any cameras at ground level?"
"I didn't make these. And these weren't made with the purpose of tracking lizards." Utah reminded him, starting to lose her patience.
"Do any of these cameras have a use other than spying on us?"
"Enough with the damn spy cameras ! Why can't you be more like this lizard?! He doesn't bug me!" Utah yelled, pointing at Hana before leaving in a huff.
The other two dinosaurs looked down at the lizard before Salty recognized him. "Hana!" He exclaimed, almost scaring the lizard away. "Sorry." He sheepishly apologized.
"Why is he here?" Coal asked as she tried to find something to keep him from escaping.
"Probably was scared off by Beta's racket and decided to come here. Where no dinosaurs would eat him." Salty guessed. "Can you hand me the terrarium?"
"I don't have it. I thought you would've brought it."
"How could I carry it? I don't have hands."
"My arms aren't much better." Coal pointed out.
"Just look for it. It should be on a hill by the waterhole. Hopefully it wasn't crushed by someone."
"And you-"
"Do you really think Hana would like to be near a carnivore?"
"'Sigh.' Just what I need, a bleeding mouth full of glass."
DK
As the sun began to set, Ace was talking with Trooper about the afternoon. Mainly what was going on with Beta. "I don't know, Trooper, she's been acting really strange lately. And her... whatever that was at the waterhole earlier is making me worried about her."
"Don't worry yourself." Trooper assured him, not looking up from his grazing. "She'll be fine."
"So, do you know what's wrong with her?" Ace asked, his curiosity getting peaked with Trooper's word choice.
"I believe so. But I can't tell you."
"Why not? Don't you care about Beta?"
"I do. But it's not my job to tell you."
"Tell me what?" Ace asked.
Before Trooper could respond, Ace heard that someone was approaching them and turned around to see Beta walking nervously towards them. "W-well." Beta started to stutter as she tried to say what she wanted to say.
"Beta, what's wrong?" Ace asked as he walked over to her, the concern impossible to miss in his tone and body language. "Are you sick?"
"No." Beta quickly responded. "I'm fine health wise. It's just that I...I...I..."
"Just spit it out already!" Trooper yelled at her, wanting them to just get to the point already.
Trooper's yelling was the push that the Acrocanthosaurus needed. "I have a crush on you!" She finally yelled, panting heavily once she got it out.
It took Ace a few seconds to process what his former alpha had just told him. "You have a crush on me?" He repeated.
Beta sighed and slowly nodded her head. "Ever since we started hanging out together, I've been growing feelings for you. And I've been trying to find ways to tell you. That's why I gave you the meat this morning. I stumbled onto Trooper and he told me to tell you directly, or to do the mating dance."
"I was being sarcastic, mind you." Trooper added.
"So I tried that and made a fool of myself. I was so embarrassed that I ran to cry in the cave, and that's where Comet found me-"
"We don't need a recap on what just happened." Trooper said.
"Will you stop with the commentary!" Beta yelled at him before turning to Ace. "The point is, I've been acting foolish for long enough. I'm not going to hide these feelings anymore. I have a crush on you, Ace. And it's okay if you don't feel the same."
She turned around and started to leave, but not before she feel something grab her tail and attempt pull her back. Turning around, she saw that it was Ace. "Why didn't you just tell me sooner?"
"Because I was afraid you'd reject me and it'd ruin what we already have." Beta admitted.
"Beta, even if I didn't feel the same way, I don't think I could hate you just for having feelings."
"Comet helped me realize that- wait, what?"
Now it was Ace's turn to feel embarrassed. "I've kind of been growing feelings for you as well. I just haven't been able to figure out the right words for when I tell you."
"O-oh." Beta said as she mimicked Ace. Both theropods were now were feeling like quite the fools.
"Are you both gonna kiss or something?" Trooper asked, breaking the ice, and making them more embarrassed. But that didn't stop them from nuzzling their cheeks affectionately against each other, giving off purr-like growls as they did so. "And this is why we listen to Trooper." The Ankylosaurus said as he watched them nuzzle in the sunset.
DK
At the same time, Salty and Coal were sitting on a hill with Hana the Third when Hana the Euoplocephalus came back to retrieve him. "Hey, Hana." Salty greeted the Euoplocephalus. "Just chillin' here with Hana. Waiting for you to come back."
Hana looked at the Saltasaurus. "You lost him, didn't you?"
"It was only for a few hours!" Salty said before he realized he just confessed into doing so. "Oops."
"I should've known you'd fuck this up. Why did I think it was a good idea to leave him with you?"
"Now, hold on." Coal spoke up. "The guy took losing the lizard very seriously. He almost killed me when he thought that I ate him."
"That doesn't change the fact that he still lost him."
"He didn't die." The Carcharodontosaurus pointed out.
"But he could've easily became someone's dinner." Hana pointed out in return.
"Coal, you don't need to stick up for me." Salty said before turning to Hana. "I'm sorry I lost the lizard, Hana. I was sunbathing with him and I knocked over the terrarium when I was rolling around. I really have no excuse."
"Hmm." Hana thought as she listened to Salty explain himself. "Maybe you did learn something from this." She said before gently picking up the terrarium with her mouth. "Perhaps I might give you another chance. At least, with someone there to help you." With that, she took her leave.
As they watched her leave, Salty turned to Coal. "Thanks for backing me up back there."
"Hey, we're herd-mates. It's what we do." Coal said before she got up. "If you even get put in charge of lizard sitting again, I can always give you a hand."
"I'd appreciate that."
DK
It was past midnight when there was the sounds of bolts being unscrewed in the walls. One of the tiles became undone and fell to the floor. As it did, a pink ball rolled into the room. The ball opened up and revealed itself to be D.R.O.I.D. "Operation: Sneak into Enemy Base is a success." The robot said before he received a call. "Oh, god damnit." He groaned before he answered. "What is it?"
"Have you gotten the stones yet!" The voice on the other side yelled at him, almost causing the Alpha Droid to jump out of his metal skin.
"Keep it down!" D.R.O.I.D hissed. "You want them all to hear you?"
"Don't take that tone with me, trash can!"
"And don't cause my cover to get blown or Seth's gonna kill you." D.R.O.I.D said before he rolled over to the edge of the control panel where the cards were placed. At the end was a container that held the six stones that powered the sanctuary. "Just as Seth said, they're all here."
"Perfect. Now grab the damn things." The voice ordered.
"Do you not remember Seth's orders? We take the physical stones and they'll hunt us down like wolves. Have you forgotten that they outnumber us ten to one?"
"Have you forgotten who has the authority here?" The voice growled. "I perfectly am aware of what Seth's orders are, but I say that taking the stones would be more beneficial."
"And I say that we don't take any major risks." The mystery partner froze when he saw Seth walking towards him, looking very crossed. "I'd like to remind you my policy on traitors."
"No need to, boss." The partner bowed to his master. "You've made the point clear with those raptors."
"Very good." Seth said before turning his attention to D.R.O.I.D. "Proceed as instructed and return to base. Leave no evidence behind."
"Understood." D.R.O.I.D replied before his arms changed into syringes and he injected them into two the stones. He repeated the process with the other four before he ejected his arms from them and they returned to normal. "Mission success." With that, he climbed back up to the hole in the wall he came in from and placed it back while also screwing back in the bolts, making it so that no one could tell he was there.
Next time on Dinosaur King:
Seth: The attack's improved, but it still drains all of Torch's energy
Laura: What was that Move? It looked like you were were hurting Torch
D.R.O.I.D: I can only carry nine samples
Voice: Then there'll be 10!
Rod: What's wrong with Torch?
Laura: We need to go to the animal hospital!
Mystery person 1: What's happened while I was out?
Mystery person 2: We've managed to locate Ancient's cards
Android: My name is Jonathan
Seth: We're making progress, gentlemen
A/N: My first original chapter. Hopefully this was enjoyable and I've made a good first attempt.
Let me just say that I've been busy. For one I had my wisdom teeth removed, and that was fun, still feeling the pains now. And another is I started one of my college classes, with two more starting in a couple weeks, plus I'm apart of this other program. Thankfully, I'm really only about as busy as I am during high school, but you guys deserved to have a heads up.
Like I said last time, this chapter was a bit of a test to see how my original writing is. So feedback of both kinds is appreciated.
The idea of this chapter originally was supposed to be kind of a season-recap before he get to the final parts of the season, like The Ember Island Players. Heck, Terry and the other main dinos wouldn't have shown up at all aside from the mention. But as the story went on, plot points came up and I decided to use this chapter as a way to work on plot points for the finale. And I also got a better idea for a recap chapter I'll do in season 2. The name came as a reference from Veggie Tales, and because dinosaurs have tails.
The stories were all originally going to be way more unrelated and mainly be more random skits. I don't remember them perfectly well, one was going to be about Pawpaw wanting to be treated like an adult, and we get the whole take your time with growing up message. We also would've gotten one about Comet and Francine, but I decided not to do that when more important romances were starting to bloom, and didn't want to make them a couple right away since I thought I'd be a bit more interesting and appropriate considering what happened with Comet.
The only one that made it past the draft was the Salty story, which is really the only one that's basically just there. Nothing about it is supposed to come back in reference in later chapters. The bit with Rocko and Charles as the begin I believe was added because I wanted more funny/random bits in this chapter
As for the plots that did get in; Spiny vs Guru was something I remember having planned for a while. I wanted to show that Spiny was kind of the slowpoke when it came to training, the late bloomer, something like that. But I did want to make sure that I didn't have it where Spiny lost badly without any chance, so the fight was not completely one sided. But it does show Spiny that he still has ways to go if he wants to beat Guru or impress Tank. Is that spoilers? I don't care.
The Terry and Ally bit was put in so we'd get to see that Ally does legitimately have a crush on Terry and isn't just teasing him. Also to show that Terry's quite done with the joke. Not really much to that one.
And finally there was the one with Beta and Ace. I remember debaiting If Beta should go with Ace or Guru. But I eventually chose Ace since I'm sure that's what people would've wanted. The mating dance bit had many inspirations, the main one being a scene from the first episode of Dinosaur Revolution. Also Trooper is a lot of fun to write for.
And finally there's the last scene. Just wait a bit longer, and we'll finally get the answer to Seth's partner, though I'm sure some of you have figured it out already, please don't say it in the reviews for those who haven't. As for what D.R.O.I.D did, he didn't zap the stones of their power if that's what you're thinking.
Many questions have been made as of late, and many are about to be answered. Next time.