Dinosaur Fight Club
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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The streets outside a mansion in Rome were darker than normal when a limousine pulled into the driveway. It stopped in front of the front door and a man came out. He was wearing a black trench coat that covered his entire upper body and completely shielded his face from view.
The man walked into the mansion and removed his hood, revealing a face with strongly resembled the Roman dictator Sulla. "Welcome back, Master Cornelius." A butler greeted him. "I take it your preparations are going smoothly."
"That they are." Cornelius responded. He sat down by a fireplace and took a apple from a fruit bowl that was placed there for him. He took a large bite from the fruit, its juices leaking from his mouth before he tossed it aside. "Any word from our agents?"
"They've just arrived at the target's destination this morning." The butler replied. "They are awaiting for your orders to initiate the plan."
"Excellent."
There was silence for a few minutes, with the exception of the crackling fire, before another servant came into the room. "Master, I thought you should know that today's feeding resulted in one of our workers losing an arm."
"Is that so?" Cornelius said with interested. "Perfect."
"How exactly this that news perfect?" The butler asked.
"It shows that it still has fight in it after all this time. Normal prisoners would seem to take less then a day to break, but this one has lasted almost a week."
"If I may ask, Master, how exactly have we not been found out by the kids yet?" The servant asked. "From what our data claims, they should've known by now about the prisoner and come to free it."
Taking another bite of an apple, Cornelius gave a disgusting smile. "You can thank our new friend for that. He was able to create a forcefield around the Colosseum that blocks all signals coming from the inside, specifically the prisoner's. Allowing us to complete our plans undetected till there is only one step remaining."
"And what might that be, sir?" The butler asked.
Cornelius got up from the couch and looked out the window, his smile growing even more disgusting. "Tell our agents to move by the next nightfall. By then, all the pieces will have been put into place, and the games can begin." He finished with a dark chuckle.
Deep underneath the Roman Colosseum, a theropod as struggling in its bindings. Chains were holding down its arms, legs, and tail. Another chain kept its mouth shut, only to be removed when it was to be fed. And even its eyes were blindfolded to keep it from using the Move Cards it had in its capsule when it was activated by Cornelius.
The more the dinosaur struggled, the more desperate it became. It was going to get out of here. And nothing was going to stand in its way.
(Intro Theme)
"Shake-a-bone, shake-a-bone, shake-a-bone, stew! Ride your own dinosaur two by two!" Dr.Z sang as he rolled his bones. When the bones stopped rolling, two teeth stopped on Italy, both of them pointing in the direction of Rome. "Ehahahaha! I've rolled this bones 10,000 times in the past hour, and every single time they point to Rome. There's no doubt about it. The next dinosaur has to be there."
"That's great." Ursula responded, clearly not listening. Turning around in annoyance, he saw his minions were feasting on a large pizza behind him. "This pizza is delicious. How were you able to get this?" She asked Zander, taking a large bite of a slice.
"You can thank my card for that." Zander replied, grabbing another slice. "I was finally able to get some credit back onto my account. Though I don't know how it happened. It just magically had money in it one morning."
"Who cares!" Ed said, his mouth filled with pizza, one even sticking out like it was a tongue. "It feels like I'm in heaven!"
Before any of them could take another bite, Dr.Z swiped all the boxes away in the blink of an eye. "You ingrates! It's thanks to me that you even have money to buy this junk! So unless you want your money to go down the drain, I want to see your butts in an Alpha Craft heading for Rome!"
"But, Dr.Z!" The trio whined.
"Dr.Z nothing!" The mad scientist yelled back. "If you want pizza so badly then go to the Leaning Tower of Pizza!"
"Tower of Pizza?" The trio repeated before getting dreamy smiles on their faces. "You heard him, boys! There's a dinosaur out there, and we're going to capture it!" Ursula declared, obviously not caring about the dinosaur.
"Tower of Pizza here we come!" The two men cheered, clearly focusing more on food than dinosaurs, as they raced to the hangar.
Dr.Z rolled his eyes at his gullible henchmen. He couldn't belive they actually fell for that old joke. "Idiots." He said to himself as he took a bite of pizza. His eyes widened at the taste of the meal. "Wow, this is good." He admitted before having more. Maybe he should show this to Helga later.
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Meanwhile, Max and his team were in the training room of the D-Lab doing exactly what the room was intended for; training. At least, Terry was training while Max and Chomp watched from the sidelines. "Come on, Terry, you can do it!" Max cheered.
"I know that!" Terry snapped back. The reason for his grumpy attitude was most likely the result of his training. This particular exercise involved him dragging a large amount of titanium blocks from one side of the room to another, adding another load each time. The idea was for him to be able to build up stamina as he continued, which in turn would allow him to be able to use Fire Scorcher and still be able to fight afterwards. Maybe, if they were lucky, he could muster the energy to use it twice in one battle and still carry on.
"No need to get cranky with us, dude." Chomp told him, referencing his attitude in Antarctica.
"I don't see you pulling all this crap!" Terry roared in response just as he reached the goal line. "Finally!" He sighed in relief as he shook off the rope and took a deep breath. "Look, guys, I didn't mean to yell like that."
"We get it, Bro." Chomp assured the Tyrannosaurus. "I'm pretty sure anyone would get cranky if they were constantly doing tons of heavy lifting."
"No, it's not that." Terry admitted. "I've just been feeling very pressured lately."
"How come?" Max asked. Terry wasn't known for being the most calm individual, that's more Ace's thing, but he definitely wasn't as moody as someone like Trooper, Diamond, or even Tank.
Terry sighed before explaining himself. "Simply put; I'm tired of losing."
"Losing?" Max and Chomp repeated. "What'd you mean losing? We haven't lost in almost half-a-year. Not since we lost Torch in Oklahoma." Chomp said, Max winching slightly at the memory of his stupidity.
"I don't mean that kind of losing. I mean personal loses." Terry corrected himself. "Ever since the cards starting activating again, I've been on a losing streak."
"But there's only been two battles." Max reminded him.
"That's not the point." Terry told him. "The point is that I'm Terry: the Conqueror of Fire Scorcher. When you, Rex, and Zoe aren't around, I'm looked at as leader of the herd. I'm practically the face of the D-Team. Everyone looks at me to protect them."
"Terry, what we do is a team effort." Chomp reminded his brother.
"That doesn't change how things have been laid out for the masses. Even though I'm not the King, I am the one that everyone is supposed to be counting on. By losing, I feel that I'm letting everyone down. It makes me believe that they're thinking that I can't handle it." The Tyrannosaurus looked down in sadness.
Max saw his distraught and walked over to his friend, gently petting his snout to comfort him. Terry opened his eyes, now filled with determination. "That is why I have to become the strongest. In order to keep everyone, not just the King, safe from the Alpha Gang's plans."
"And you will." Max assured his carnivorous partner. "But you need to remember what a stubborn Triceratops once told me."
"Hey!" Chomp playfully warned.
"We are a team. And we stick together 'till we can't anymore." The brunette said with a smile, fire in his eyes, before recalling Terry and returning him to his chibi-form. "I think that's enough training for today. Let's go home and resume tomorrow."
"Okay." Both dinos nodded as they exited the room. As they exited the lab and went back to Max's house, none of them noticed four pairs of eyes watching them from the darkness.
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Later that night, Max laid on his bed in thought. What Terry had said earlier left him thinking about his performance as of late. Their encounters with new dinosaurs had not been in Max's favor. What set him apart from Rex as a leader is while Rex was good with coming up with strategies for battles, Max seemed to have the eye for detail when it came to each dinosaurs strengths and weaknesses. It could be blamed on his childish excitement when it came to dinosaur battles. Some people have even started calling him 'The Real Ash Ketchum'. He chose to see that as a compliment.
At the moment, he was replaying the battle in Antarctica in his mind, or battle imaging as he called it. This was how he seemed to become the best battler of the team, at least that was his theory. Not that he bragged about it, despite what his friends say.
He pictured Chomp firing an attack at Swift the Majungasaurus. Only instead of Lightning Strike it was Plasma Anchor. The anchor grabbed Swift and slammed him into the snow before he could react. This gave Chomp and Terry the opening they needed to attack Aqua the Shunosaurus together and overpower her. After the scene was over, Max silently cursed himself. "Idiot! Why didn't you use Plasma Anchor! It's much faster than Lightning Strike!" He thought before sighing aloud. "Maybe I should use other Move Cards more often." He decided. With that plan in mind, he decided now would be a good time to get ready for bed. As he got up to put on his pajamas, his partners were already asleep under his bed. Terry had a little snot bubble coming out of his nose while Chomp was chewing on a stick he had, probably dreaming about chewing something.
He had just put his Dino Holder on his desk when he noticed that his balcony window was open. "Huh? I thought I had that closed." Walking over to close it, the brunette felt a slight breeze against his back. Turning around, he saw nothing except his room and sleeping partners. "That was weird." He said to himself before turning his attention back to the door.
But just as he turned around, something grabbed him from behind. He tried to scream and alert someone, but he found his mouth completely covered by a wet cloth. There was a slight pinch on the back of his neck, and his whole body felt stiff. He also was starting to feel drowsy, realizing there must be a sleeping drug in the cloth just as he lost consciousness. "Grab the boy's supplies and head back to the base. Make sure neither of his pets wake up." A female voice told the others as did they as they were told, placing Chomp and Terry in soundproof pet carriers and grabbing Max's Dino Holder before exiting the way they came, leaving no sign that they were there at all in mere seconds.
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"Max!" Rex knocked on his friend's door the next morning. "Get up! It's time for breakfast!" Hearing no response, the blonde tried again with a little more force. "Max, hurry up before your dad eats it all!"
"I don't think he's awake." Ace assumed by the lack of response from behind the door.
"All three of them?" Tank asked the Carnotaurus.
Groaning with annoyance, Rex decided enough was enough and opened the door. "Okay, Max, you can't get mad at me when I toss you out of bed..." Rex came to a stop when he saw that the whole room was empty. "Max?"
"What's going on?" Tank asked as she and Ace walked into the room.
"Max is gone." Rex told them. "Chomp and Terry, too."
"Max's Dino Holder is missing, as well." Ace pointed out as he hopped onto Max's desk.
"Maybe they just got up early and went to the D-Lab." Tank guessed, though her tone of voice was betraying her.
"If that window says something, I don't think so." Ace directed both their attentions to an open window.
This was the last straw for Rex. He knew that something horrible had happened to his friend. He had to have been kidnapped. Wasting no time, he booted out the room to call for help, his dinos right behind him.
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Underneath the Colosseum, Cornelius walked into the cell that contained his prisoner. At the moment, she was lying asleep on the floor, resting herself from her previous attempts at escape. While it looked like she was sound asleep, Cornelius knew that this was simply her way of baiting him into another trap. "Nice try." He told the dinosaur as he walked over to her. "You may be smarter than them, but you're not smarter than me." He places a foot on her snout, earning a growl from his captive. "Here's the deal, you dumb lizard. You will be fighting two opponents of unbelievable strength that my men have captured later this afternoon. If you can beat them both, you have my word that you will be free without any restraints." What she wasn't able to see was that Cornelius had his fingers crossed and had a disgusting smile.
Seeing that she had to have gotten the message, Cornelius took his leave to prepare for the afternoon. Once he was gone, the prisoner started thinking of her own plans. It was either fight or flight once the chains were off. But no matter the choice, that jerk was going to regret the day he so much as looked at her. And she couldn't wait for the carnage.
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Not too far from where the prisoner was being kept, Max slowly opened his eyes as his consciousness returned to him. "Ugh." Max groaned in response to an oncoming headache. "I feel like I was just hit by a truck 100 times." He tried to rub his head, but found that he was unable to move his arms. "What?" Looking down, he saw that his arms were chained to his sides. "How did-" That's when it started coming back to him: the sudden attack, being unable to move, and complete darkness. "Where did they take me?" He asked himself as he looked around at his surroundings. He seemed to be inside a storage room.
"That's what we'd like to know." A familiar voice answered.
Turning his head to the source, Max saw Chomp and Terry trapped inside a dog cage. "Chomp! Terry!" Max exclaimed as he tried to crawl over to his friends, resulting only in him falling onto the ground. "Wah! Oof!"
"Glad to see you're OK, Max." Chomp beamed.
"Do you guys have any idea where we are?" Max asked them.
"No clue." Terry shook his head. "We awoke in a crate a few hours ago and tried to call for some answers, but they couldn't hear us." He explained. "After that, they dropped us off here and left. They removed one of the sound barriers, for some reason."
"Probably to give us food easier." Chomp guessed.
"Most likely." Terry agreed. "The people who dropped us in here kept mentioning something about this 'Master' guy and his plans."
"What plans?" Max asked.
"We asked the same thing but got no responses." Chomp answered. "Whoever these guys are, they are not like the Alpha Gang."
The door to the room opened and two men came in. "You, come with us." One of them said to Max, picking the boy up and taking him away.
"Wait, hold on! Where are you taking me? Who are you?" Max asked as he struggled. He tried to plant his feet into the floor, but the man was too strong.
"Don't struggle, unless you want it bad for your friends." That was a signal for the other guard to point a gun into the enclosure. "The boss wants them alive, but if you don't cooperate..."
"No, don't hurt them!" Max cried before sighing in defeat. "All right. I'll go with you."
"Wise choice." The man said as he lead him away.
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The guards led Max to a booth that over looked the whole Colosseum. Inside the booth, Cornelius was greedily feasting on more fruit. "Master Cornelius, we've brought the boy as you instructed."
"Good. Now leave us." The Sulla lookalike told his guard. The minion nodded and left the two of them alone.
Once he was gone, Max demanded some answers. "Okay, buddy, what'd you want from me?"
"Now, now." Cornelius assured the boy as he got up and unchained him, gesturing for the boy to take a seat, which he really had no choice but to comply. "Let's not hold grudges over past events."
"You had your men kidnap me and my friends. I think I have a right to hold a grudge." Max glared at the adult, folding his arms.
"For the record, it was not my men who took you or your pets." Cornelius objected. "They were instead the workers of another ally of mine. I should also let you know that I told them to not to bring you here with such force." Max looked like he was about to ask a question, but Cornelius already knew what he was going to say. "I have no idea who they work for specifically. We only ever spoke on the phone."
"So, what do you both want from me?" Max now asked.
"I think you'll find this idea of mine very intriguing, Max Taylor."
"How do you know my name?"
"I'd say there's hardly a person on earth that hasn't heard of Max Taylor; the Dinosaur Champion." Cornelius answered.
Despite the situation, Max couldn't help but be slightly embarrassed by the compliment. He scratched the back of his head, a blush appearing on his cheeks. "Heh, heh. Well, I don't like to brag."
"Which is why I think you'll enjoy my proposition." Cornelius reaches into his sleeve and pulled out a piece of paper that he handed to Max.
The brunette rolled up the paper and saw that it was a poster for an even. "Cornelius Lucius presents 'Dinosaur Fight Club'." He read aloud. "First round begins today." He looked up at Cornelius, looking pretty horrified at the implications. "You want me to have my dinosaurs fight?"
"Of course not. They will be fighting a dinosaur that we have in our custody." Cornelius explained.
"You have a dinosaur?" Max said in disbelief. "But how did our scanners not pick it up?"
"We have a barrier around the arena that blocks all the signals from the inside. You can thank my friend for that." Cornelius explained.
"But why do you want me to fight it in the Colosseum, in front of a crowd?"
Cornelius got up and looked out at the Colosseum. "Take a look at this place. Once a place where great battles were hosted, now it's just another tourist trap like the rest of the monuments. With these battles, the Colosseum can return to its rightful glory!"
"So, all these battles are for is just to make you rich." Max glared at Cornelius. While he may enjoy the adrenaline rush dinosaur battles gave him, he found the concept of fighting for entertainment without the dinosaurs consent and health put into mind to be just sickening.
"Did you not understand what I just-"
"Oh, I understood plenty." Max cut him off. "We may fight against dinosaurs before we are able to retrieve their cards, and we may like to share our stories with the world. But we never did so without our friend's approval!" He got up and headed for the door. He was going to break out that dinosaur and head home "You can forget about your stupid battle! I won't help you!"
Cornelius sighed in disappointment. "I was hoping we could've been friends in this."
"Seems you bet on the wrong dinosaur." Max told him as he was about to leave.
"I do have one last question." Cornelius spoke up, though Max wasn't stopping. "How much do you think your friend's crown would be worth?"
This caused Max to stop as he turned around to face the now grinning man, confusion and fear filled his face. "What?"
"You see, if we were able to take you, we can definitely take your other friends. And I have no problems with having to process be much more extreme." Cornelius told the boy, internally laughing at his horrified look. "The choice is yours. You or your friends?"
Max knew that he was stuck between a rock and a hard place. If he accepted, he'd be putting his own life, as well as Chomp's and Terry's in danger. But if he refused, he'd be putting a bounty on the rest of his friends. Sighing heavily, he knew the choice he had to make. "You have to promise that you won't go after my friends." He told Cornelius.
"You have my word that your friends won't be harmed." Cornelius assured the boy. "At least, not yet." With the snap of his fingers, two armed guards came into the booth. "Take the boy back to his chambers. You're going to need this for later." He tossed Max's Dino Holder to the boy. "But, if the guards don't send a clear message, don't try anything stupid." He said right before they left.
Once they were gone, Cornelius looked back out at the Colosseum. "This will be a fight to remember." He grinned evilly.
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"Are you freaking kidding me?!" Ursula screamed loudly. They had just crashed in Rome, more specifically the Tower of Pisa. It was right after they fell out of their now destroyed craft that they realized that the Tower of Pizza was actually the Tower of Pisa. "How did you two boneheads fall for that obvious joke!" She yelled at her partners.
"But, Ursula, you also fell for it!" Ed pointed out.
"And you're supposed to stop me from doing something stupid!" Ursula reminded him with a head bashing. Zander simply kept quiet, knowing what would happen if he spoke.
As they argued, an old man came by, put a poster on the tower behind them, and left. It wasn't until he was gone that Zander noticed what he left. "Hello." He said to himself as he grabbed the poster and read it. "Ursula, you might want to see this."
"What is it?" She asked, ceasing her choking of Ed to grab the paper. As she read over the poster, her mood started to improve. "Well, looks like we might get something good out of this after all." She grinned evilly.
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Back in their cage, Chomp and Terry were still lying around, waiting for Max to return. "You think Max is all right?" Chomp asked, chewing on the bars to ease his stress.
"Bro, this is Max we're talking about." Terry assured him. "He can handle those creeps."
"It's not the same when he doesn't have a dinosaur to defend him." Chomp pointed out.
Terry sighed, knowing that Chomp had a point. These guys meant business, and Max couldn't do much without them. Thankfully, their worries were put to rest when Max came into the room. "Max!" They both exclaimed with relief.
"Hey, guys." Max said as he went over to their cage and opened it up. Immediately he was tackled by his two friends, Chomp bitting his leg while Terry pulled his hair. "Ha, ha, ha! Sorry I made you worry!" He laughed.
After about a minute of catching up, Chomp and Terry hopped off of Max. "Max, who are these guys?" Chomp asked. "What do they want from us."
"Simply put, they want us to battle a dinosaur for them." Max answered.
"That's it?" Terry asked. "Please, we can handle that thing no problem."
"It's a little more complicated than that, Terry." Max corrected the Tyrannosaurus. "We're kind of doing it in gladiator style."
"Gladiator style?" Both dinosaurs repeated. "You mean like when we fought Diamond?" Chomp asked.
"In the same arena with a crowd of people watching." The brunette added.
Chomp had a concerned look while Terry seemed indifferent. "So what if we have an audience? It just makes our comeback that much more glorious." The Tyrannosaurus bragged.
Max wanted to tell them that there was more to this than he was telling them, but he couldn't bring himself to give them the same worries that he has currently. All he could do now was win and hope they'd let him go home.
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The Taylor Household was a crime scene as police searched the whole building for any clues as to who or what caused Max's disappearance. At the moment, Jonathan, who had been living with the Taylor's ever since his return, was scanning the room for any signs of activity after the cops could find nothing. The plan was to see if there were any signs of someone else being there that the police might not have been able to find, and then see if that matches with any of the police records. "Scan complete." Jonathan said as he finished scanning.
"Were you able to figure anything out?" Rex asked.
"I'm sorry, Master Rex, but whoever took Max managed to nearly cover their tracks completely." Jonathan informed the rest of Max's friends. "The little bits of data I could pick are too small to identify."
"Well, that's just great!" Zoe huffed as she took a seat on Max's bed. "Once again we've gained nothing but wasted time."
"I'm sorry, Zoe." Jonathan apologized again with a bow.
Rex put a comforting hand on his guardian's shoulder. "It's fine, Jonathan. We know you did your best."
Paris saw how distressed Zoe was and hopped onto the bed and laid in her lap to comfort her. "We will find them, Zoe." She assured her partner. While she did seem calm on the outside, on the inside she was a sobbing mess, frantically wondering if Chomp and the others were even alive. But she knew she had to put on a brave face for Zoe's sake.
Zoe rubbed Paris' back in an attempt to lower her stress, which worked a little bit. But even still, none of them knew who took Max, Terry, and Chomp, or where to start looking. All but one.
"Guys!" Spiny screamed as he bolted into the room. "Death battle!"
"What?" The others said in confusion.
Tank rolled her eyes at Spiny's randomness. "Spiny, now's not the time to watch the new Death Battle." She scolded her lover.
"No, not that death battle! A death battle in Rome! I saw it on the internet!" Spiny clarified.
"Again, now's not the time." Tank whacked Spiny on the head.
"But it has Max and a new dinosaur in it!"
"...What?!"
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The sun shined over the Colosseum as a huge crowd gathered for the great battle that was to take place. All over the arena, spectators were taking their seats, buying souvenirs, and placing bets on who they expected to win, most of them in Max's favor. Overall, the mood was very optimistic, unaware of the cruelty that was in play. "This is going to be so awesome!"
"I know, right?!"
"I can see Terry totally creaming that thing!"
"Why Terry? It's clear that Chomp would be more effective."
"Like to bet on that?"
In one of the holding cages, Max stood behind a large gate, waiting for it to open. Behind him were two guards, each pointing a weapon at his back to make sure he follows the rules.
Suddenly, the crowd started to quiet down as Cornelius appeared in the booth. He was now wearing what seemed to look like a traditional Roman outfit with a red sash. Once he was sure that he had everyone's attention, Cornelius began to speak. "Ladies and gentlemen! It is with great honor that I announce the return of the Colosseum's notorious gladiator battles! It is time for the first Dinosaur Fight Club!" A loud applause filled the Colosseum. "And now it is time to meet our contestants! Release the beasts!"
After that cue, the gates began to open. One of the guards nudged Max with his weapon to get him onto the field. "Move it!"
"All right, all right! No need to use force!" Max snapped back as he ran into the open. Once he appeared in the Colosseum, there was a loud roar of applause for the brunette. Temporarily forgetting his situation, Max gave a silly smile and waved for his fans. "Heh, heh. Thanks, everyone! We'll do our best!"
This optimism was short lived when an explosion came from the other side. Out of the smoke appeared the dinosaur that Max assumed was his opponent, the chains falling from her body. She was a medium sized theropod with a black colored body, with the underbelly and similar places, like the back of her legs, being more cream colored. There were also two small red crests between her nose and eyes with a row of small red spines going along her back. "A Yangchuanosaurus!" Max gasped.
From the bleachers, the Alpha Gang also noticed the new dinosaur. "Where did that one come from?" Ed asked.
"I don't know. It wasn't picked up by our Alpha Scanners." Zander replied.
"Who cares how it showed up." Ursula said. "All we need to do now is wait for the right moment and we'll have three dinosaurs for the price of one."
Back in the Colosseum, the Yangchuanosaurus had shaken off the last of her chains. With nothing holding her back, she set her sights on the only other thing in the Colosseum; Max. "Uh-oh." Max knew that type of look she was giving him. Before he could say anything else, she sprinted towards him like a leopard. "Here we go, guys!" Max told his friends as he ejected their cards from his Dino Holder.
"DINO SLASH!"
"TRICERATOPS, ROAR!"
"FLAME UP, TYRANNOSAURUS!"
When her two opponents landed in front of her, the Yangchuanosaurus screeched to a halt and the crowd gave loud cheers. Giving a roar at both of her opponents, Chomp and Terry both split up in an attempt to circle her. "Do you wanna take the first fight, or should I?" Terry asked.
"Why are you suggesting we take turns?" Chomp asked, confused by his brother's request. "It'd be much easier if we fought her together."
"This isn't a battle with the Alpha Gang." Terry pointed out. "There are rules we have to follow."
"We've never established any rules for fights in the past." Chomp reminded him. "And I can remember times when we've outnumbered our opponents."
"There were lives at stake those times. This is more like a game than anything. Besides, we need to put on a good show for our fans."
Chomp rolled his eyes, knowing that Terry's pride was starting to get to him. "Fine. I'll start this off." He charged at the Yangchuanosaurus and struck her with his horns. The theropod was knocked back slightly, but not far enough that she couldn't hit Chomp with her tail, knocking him away.
With one opponent down, she set her sights on Terry. The Tyrannosaurus looked around before she charged at him. Terry quickly reacted and the two met in a head but. "Hey, we're not supposed to fight just yet!" Terry tried to reason with her, but it was clear she wasn't listening. "All right, then. The gloves are off! No more Mr. Nice Terry!" He swung his head towards the Yangchuanosaurus, knocking her towards Chomp, who knocked her onto the ground with his tail.
"Go, Terry!" Someone in the crowd cheered.
"You can take it, Chomp!" Another fan cheered.
"You sure you don't want to take her yourself?" Chomp asked. "I know that you really want some redemption."
"What kind of brother would I be if I didn't let my little bro get a chance as well?"
"You know, I just realized that we never figured out which of us is in fact older." Chomp pointed out.
"Guys, now's not the time." Max reminded them of the fight.
Shifting their focus back to the fight, Terry went for the offense this time. He went for the Yangchuanosaurus, but the smaller carnivore dodged the teeth and bit his leg. Terry gave a small roar of pain before he kicked her off.
The Yangchuanosaurus landed on the ground and got back onto her feet. But she fell right into a sneak attack from Chomp, lifting her from behind and throwing her to the ground behind him.
"Do we attack now?" Ed asked Ursula as they watched the fight.
"It's too early for an interruption." Ursula responded. "But it will be soon." At that remark, the trio slipped away unnoticed.
Shaking off the dust, the Yangchuanosaurus knew that she would need some help if she was to get out of this alive. The borders of the Colosseum had a kind of fence around them that was too high to jump over and seemed to be giving off static. The only exit was where the kid was standing, but his dinos would attack if she went anywhere near him. Thankfully, she seemed to have a familiar presence inside of her that could help.
She gave off a red glow and a small purple mist appeared in-front of her. Once the mist disappeared, in its place was a small theropod. It had pretty long arms with four fingers and was a mixture of black and dark pink, with very tiny pink crests on its head. The most notable feature was actually not normal, and that was the purple mist it had coming out of its mouth.
Chomp and Terry looked confused at the new combatant. "What is that?" Terry asked.
"A Piatnitzkysaurus." Max identified the smaller Jurassic carnivore, even if it was still bigger than him.
Amongst the crowd, there were murmurs of confusion. "Where did that one come from?"
"It just popped out of nowhere."
"Isn't that cheating?"
"I think it's a Move Card."
"That's still cheating."
"How is it cheating to even the numbers?"
As the crowd processed this new information, the Piatnitzkysaurus made his move. He went for Chomp since his head was the lowest. The small theropod rushed towards Chomp head on, the Triceratops standing his ground. "Bring it, ankle biter!" The Piatnitzkysaurus surprised Chomp by not attempting to bite him, but instead stopping right in front of his face. "Uh, did you forget how to use your teeth?" He asked his opponent.
His response was the Piatnitzkysaurus breath a purple cloud of mist right onto his face. He breathed in the mist and felt great pain in his throat. "Ack! Ack!" He coughed, accidentally inhaling more gas, making the pain worse. What didn't help was that his vision was starting to get blurry.
"Chomp, what's wrong?! Get out of there!" Max called out to the Triceratops.
"Ack' I can't see! Ack!" Chomp coughed again. "It's poison!"
Max's eyes widened at the realization of his friend being poisoned. "Hold your breath, Chomp! Terry, go help him!"
Terry heard this and went to get rid of the Piatnitzkysaurus. However, as he ran towards them, the Yangchuanosaurus headbutted him from the side and knocked him onto the ground. "Hey! Stay out of this." He yelled at the Yangchuanosaurus, kicking her on the head as he got back up. However, the Yangchuanosaurus was having none of that and tackled him in the stomach, sending the Tyrannosaurus sliding back a few feet. Terry growled, seeing that there was no way of getting out of this one. "Oh, you asked for it!" He yelled at his opponent before charging towards her.
"Terry, what're you doing?!" Max called out to his friend, getting no response. "Grr. I have no choice. I have to call back Chomp."
But before he could finish the task, the guards put their crossbows to his back. "Don't even think about it." One of them threatened the boy.
"But he's getting poisoned out there! Please! I'll keep Terry out there! Just let me save my friend!" At this point, Max was almost in tears.
However, the guards only seemed to be more hostile. "People paid money to watch your dinosaurs fight, not to see them run away like cowards. If you're so smart, figure out a way around it! Unless you'd like to join him."
Max grit his teeth, knowing that he had no choice but to keep Chomp out there. He quickly started projecting some battle images into his mind. A normal attack wouldn't work since Chomp could barely see, so he had to use a Move Card. His first plan was to use a projectile attack such as Lightning Strike or Plasma Anchor. But he quickly realized that wouldn't work since Terry was fighting in front of Chomp and could easily get hit by the attack since Chomp would be unable to aim, never mind it hitting someone in the audience. And an attack like Thunder Bazooka wouldn't work since he'd need to see where he was going. What he needed was a way to get rid of that poison without putting anyone at serious risk. "Wait a minute!" He suddenly got an idea of what to do.
"Electric Charge!" Thunder clouds formed in the sky above Chomp before a flash of lightning struck him from above, causing electricity to circulate through his whole body. The appearance was enough to scare the Piatnitzkysaurus away from Chomp, allowing the Triceratops' vision to slowly start returning to him. "Chomp, you okay?"
"'Cough!' I'm fine! I just need to rest for a bit." He assured Max as he started to lay down to recover his strength and vision. "I doubt that Venom Fang should be deadly, though."
From the bleachers, the crowd started to murmur at Chomp's predicament. "What's he doing? Get back in there and fight!"
"I paid to see violence, not sleeping!"
"He's clearly been poisoned. Show some respect."
"Why doesn't Max just call him back?"
"Because Chomp doesn't run from a fight!"
"Even when his health is at risk?"
"I wanted to see a dinosaur fight, but not like this."
"NOT LIKE THIS!"
Eventually, some of the audience seemed to have had enough with the fight and left, disgusted at what they were seeing. From his booth, Cornelius watched them leave. "Sir, should we stop them?" A guard asked.
Cornelius seemed unfazed at his slowly dwindling crowd. "Why bother? They clearly don't understand the bigger picture."
"Sir, if I may ask, why did you chose these two the fight the dinosaur?" The guard asked. "I know there's star power, but I feel there's more to it."
"You are correct." Cornelius answered. "Particularly with the boy's T-Rex. You don't see it now, but keep your eyes on him. You'll see the animal inside of him soon enough."
Back with the fight, even though Chomp had scared off the Piatnitzkysaurus he wasn't safe quite yet. The Piatnitzkysaurus saw that his opponent was on the ground and slowly reproached him to finish the job, making sure the Triceratops still wasn't giving off electricity. Chomp had his eyes closed, and was unable to see or hear the theropod sneaking behind him. But Max did. "Oh, no! Chomp's still too tired to fight him off!" He was about to ask Terry to help him, but saw that the Tyrannosaurus was still in a stand-off with the Yangchuanosaurus. "Maybe I could- no! It's not the right time to use that attack! So what do I do now?!" Max opened up his Dino Holder and frantically searched the cards. "Come on! Come on! There has to be something in here that can- wait!" He stopped the spinning cards when he came across one in particular he didn't expect to have. "I must have brought his card with me incase we needed it if the Alpha Gang attacked again! Good thing I have you, because we're going to need all the help we can get." Pulling out the Move Card, Max swiped it across his Dino Holder. "Tag Team!"
Just as the Piatnitzkysaurus was preparing to ambush Chomp from behind, Pawpaw appeared out of a yellow glow in front of him. "You leave Mr. Chomp alone!" Taken aback at first, the Piatnitzkysaurus hissed at Pawpaw, which the Pawpawsaurus returned with his own roar.
Heading the noise behind him, Chomp lifted his head and saw Pawpaw going against the Piatnitzkysaurus. "Pawpaw, be careful! He breathes poison!"
"Don't worry about the kid so much!" Terry assured his brother as he and the Yangchuanosaurus circled each other. "Focus on recovering instead."
"Don't worry, Mr. Chomp! Thanks for the warning!" Pawpaw replied as he swung his tail at the small theropod, knocking him off his feet.
Just as it seemed at everything was going as smoothly at it could, there was an explosion of fire near the entrance the Yangchuanosaurus came in from. Out of the flames, a fire ball shot towards Chomp. The Triceratops quickly got into his feet and just barely dodged the blast. "Ahahahaha!" A familiar voice laughed as Pyro stepped out of the flames. "You guys look like you're having fun. Mind if I join in?"
"Pyro?!" The D-Team members exclaimed. "How did you get here?" Chomp asked.
"Ha, ha, ha!" The smoke cleared to reveal the Alpha Gang, standing proudly like they about to have their photos taken. "Did you miss us? Admit it, you missed us." Ursula said gleefully.
"Not exactly." Chomp replies as he got onto his feet. Despite still being tired from Venom Fang, someone had to fight the fire-breathing dinosaur. Chomp charged towards the Acrocanthosaurus and the two met in a struggle.
In the stands, the majority of the crowd was now starting to get afraid for their lives with Pyro's introduction. "What is he doing here?!"
"This is not safe!"
"What is Cornelius doing? Call the match off!"
"He doesn't care about safety, he just wants money!"
"You guys are being such wimps! Obviously this whole thing is staged."
"That makes it even worse!"
"You just can't see good entertainment when it hits you on the head!"
"NOT LIKE THIS!"
Cornelius ignored the dwindling crowd, the ones that stayed understood what he was doing for them, and focused his attention on Terry. "It seems he's more tame then I thought. Hopefully this new challenger should be enough of a push over the edge."
Chomp and Pyro both backed up from their struggle and stared each other, daring the other to make a move first. At first it looked like Pyro was going to make the first move when he raised his head to breathe fire on the Triceratops. "Oh, no you don't!" Chomp said as he charged towards Pyro, aiming for the head like Ace did to Coal back in China.
But he was leading himself right into a trap. "Psych!" Pyro sidestepped out of Chomp's path and sent him crashing into the wall with the swing of the head. Laughing at his opponent's misfortune, Pyro slowly walked over to the downed Triceratops. "Oh, I'm sorry. Were you expecting fire?" He asked as Chomp slowly started to get back onto his feet. "Don't worry, I'll give you fire." With the signal from his own roar, Pyro leapt into the air and landed right in front of Chomp. "Have fun!" He laughed before breathing fire right onto the Triceratops.
"Chomp!" Terry screamed at the sight of his brother getting burned by Pyro, which was more than enough to get him to stop his fight with the Yangchuanosaurus. He knocked the Yangchuanosaurus away with his head and ran to where Chomp was to help him out.
"Mr. Terry!" Terry turned around and saw Pawpaw fighting the Piatnitzkysaurus. At first it looked like he was doing fine with the Pawpawsaurus flipping the Piatnitzkysaurus with his head. But then the Piatnitzkysaurus got back onto his feet and leapt onto Pawpaw's back where he couldn't reach. The Pawpawsaurus tried to shake his opponent off, but the tiny theropod held on tight. Things only got worse when the Piatnitzkysaurus started to breathe his venom onto Pawpaw. "Ack! Ack!" The young Pawpawsaur coughed violently.
"Pawpaw!" Terry exclaimed as he shifted course to head for the struggling Pawpawsaurus. As harsh as it sounded, Chomp could hold on a little bit longer. But it seemed the Yangchuanosaurus had another idea. Pushing Terry out of the way, she lit her mouth on fire before heading over to Pawpaw. The Piatnitzkysaurus jumped off his back and the Yangchuanosaurus picked the Pawpawsaurus up in her mouth and went for where Chomp and Pyro were.
Pyro was still attacking Chomp with his fire when he noticed the Yangchuanosaurus approaching him out of the corner of his eye. Knowing better than to continue his attack, the Alpha Acrocanthosaurus backed away form Chomp. At first Chomp was confused as to why Pyro stopped his attack. But his answer was given straight forward when the Yangchuanosaurus pushed him and Pawpaw against the wall and an explosion of fire in the shape of an X engulfed them both. "Aah!" Both of them screamed in pain, Chomp especially due to his previous fights with Pyro and the Piatnitzkysaurus. Pawpaw didn't take a lot of damage from the Fire Move, but he was still suffering from the poison.
"Chomp! Pawpaw!" Max and Terry both yelled at their friends. The fire eventually disappeared and the two trapped dinosaurs dropped to the ground, both surprisingly being able to hold on. "What was that Move?" Terry whispered to himself.
"Burning Dash." Pyro answered for Terry, assuming that was what he was thinking. "Now, if that's all taken care of." He shifted his focus to the Yangchuanosaurus, who did the same in reply. "You and your friend are coming with me, dead or alive."
"Can it please be alive." Zander requested. "I don't think Dr.Z would like a dead dinosaur very much."
"We'll have to see what she thinks." Pyro responded as both of them went in for the attack.
Lots of emotions were going though Terry right now. He had been kidnapped from his home with no explanation just so he could fight a dinosaur they would've fought anyway, Chomp and Pawpaw were both poisoned and burned, and the Alpha Gang looked like they were going to get the Yangchuanosaurus Card. This was almost too much for the Tyrannosaurus to bear.
Seeing Terry distracted, the Piatnitzkysaurus used this as an opportunity to use a sneak attack. Crawling behind the Tyrannosaurus, the Piatnitzkysaurus then sprinted before lunging towards Terry's head to breathe his poison on it. However, Terry noticed the smaller theropod approaching him before he started sprinting. And that was the last straw for him. "I don't have time for you!" He roared at the Piatnitzkysaurus before catching him midair with his mouth. He gave a powerful bite to the tiny theropod before tossing him towards the electric fence. Once he made contact with the fence, the Piatnitzkysaurus screeched in pain as he was electrocuted until he returned to his card.
As the crowd cheered at the first defeat of the match, Cornelius looked at Terry with triumph. "There we go. The beast has been let loose."
From the sidelines, Max was horrified at what he just witnessed. Terry never attacked anyone that viciously before. "T-Terry?"
But Terry ignored Max and went over to the brawling theropods, both of which were snapping and dodging the other's jaws. Terry gave a loud roar as he charged straight for Pyro and headbutted him away from the Yangchuanosaurus. The Yangchuanosaurus, slightly shaken up from Terry's display a few minutes ago, used this as an opportunity to retreat and recover. Pyro, on the other hand, seemed to be ecstatic. "So, we finally get to have a battle, theropod-e-theropod." He said as they started circling each other.
"Oh, I'll give you a battle, all right!" Terry responded as they both went in for the attack. Terry got the first blow with a bite to the neck, unaffected by Pyro's hot skin. Barely feeling any pain from the bite, Pyro knocked Terry away with his body. Terry backed away and swung his tail at Pyro, who did them same and met him in a tail-lock. Terry used this distraction to kick Pyro away with a Tyranno Kick, or whatever Ursula had Gigas do that one time. Only this time it worked and knocked Pyro onto the ground. As Terry prepared to go in for the finishing blow, Pyro charged up a fireball and shot it at Terry, hitting him directly on the head. Terry stumbled back and was open to Pyro's sneak attack and was dragged to the ground by the Acrocanthosaurus.
"Terry! Oh, no!" Max exclaimed. He couldn't recall any of his dinosaurs and he had no other cards to spare. He needed a Move Card to end this now. Problem was that Pyro was almost made of fire with his ability to breathe and create them with his feet, so Terry's Fire Moves wouldn't work. And Neck Crusher and Tail Smash weren't strong enough. However, there was one Move that could work. Problem was; would it work? "I have no choice!" Max told himself. "If I do nothing, Pyro could kill him! I just hope that Terry had enough stamina." Grabbed out the Move Card, Max silently prayed for this to work. "Fire Scorcher!"
A red glow started to emit from Terry that forced Pyro to let go, allowing the Tyrannosaurus to stand, as a wall of fire surrounded the two theropods, keeping all the other dinosaurs on the outside. Pyro looked around at the fire surrounding him, starting to panic slightly. But not because of what was about to happen to him. "No, you wouldn't! Do you realize what happens when you use that attack?!"
"It takes more than a little fire to put me down!" Terry responded as the meteor began to form in his mouth. As the meteor got larger and larger, Terry's leg strength seemed to decrease, forcing him to dig into the earth to keep himself standing.
Eventually, he let go of the meteor and it descended upon Pyro. "Gaaah!" Pyro screamed as the Acrocanthosaurus was consumed by the flames. Terry gave out of roar of pain himself, and did stumble around, but he was able to just barely hang on. When the flames disappeared, Pyro laid on the ground, looking like he just came out of the grill. However, as his energy left him, he chuckled darkly. "Hehe. Very informative." He told Terry before he returned to his card and floated back to the Alpha Gang. The trio were speechless as the card floated into Ursula's hand and quickly retreated before the guards captured them.
With the Alpha Gang out of the way, Terry turned his sights onto the Yangchuanosaurus. The Jurassic theropod saw that her recovery time was up and got back onto her feet. She either had to defeat him and escape, or die trying. There was no way she was chickening out of this fight. Giving a roar as a signal, she went for Terry. But her lack of energy made her movement a lot slower. This gave Terry the opportunity the grab her by the neck and drag her to the ground like what Pyro did to him.
Placing a foot on her neck, Terry gave a loud roar of triumph as the crowd cheered in victory. Cornelius himself was clapping while laughing. "That's what I wanted to see! True monster brutality!"
The Yangchuanosaurus weakly tried to scratch Terry's foot in an attempt to get him off of her, but she couldn't move at all. The longer Terry stood on her neck, the more blurry her vision was becoming. This looked like it was about to be it. "Stop!" Chomp called out to Terry as he pushed the Tyrannosaurus off the Yangchuanosaurus. "Terry, stop! This isn't like you!"
Terry growled at Chomp as he got back up. "Get out of my way, Chomp, or you'll be next." He threatened the Triceratops.
That choice of words horrified Max. "Terry, snap out of it!" He begged the Tyrannosaurus. The guards quickly pressed their crossbows to his back to keep him silent.
"Shut up!" Terry yelled at Max before turning his attention back to Chomp, who was blocking him from the Yangchuanosaurus. "Last warning, Chomp. Move or die."
"W-what?" Chomp couldn't believe what he just heard.
"Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!" The crowd cheered, being nothing but battle crazed enthusiasts almost as wicked as Cornelius.
"Do it, Terry!" Cornelius told the Tyrannosaurus. "Do it and we will become stars together!"
"You don't know what you're doing!" Chomp tried to reason with Cornelius.
"Don't you even think of taking this away from me!" Terry roared as he grabbed Chomp by the frill and tossed him against the wall. Chomp tried to get up, but Terry placed a foot on the Triceratops' stomach to keep him down. "Sweet dreams, Brother!" Terry said before he lowered his jaws right onto Chomp's throat.
"Aaah!" Chomp screamed in pain.
"NOOOOO!" Max cried in horror at the death of his friend.
"YESSS!" Cornelius cheered. His plan worked and he had his unbeatable dinosaur gladiator.
Terry let go of Chomp and the Triceratops' head dropped to the ground. "Ugh." Chomp said weakly. "I'm dead. So much blood." He said, confusing everybody. "Oh, life fading! Light coming! Tell Paris I loved her." He said dramatically.
Terry just laughed in response to his brother's acting. "OK, now you're milking it." He told Chomp as he helped him up.
"What?!" Cornelius exclaimed in shock. "What are you doing?! Finish him off!"
"Boy, are you gullible." Terry said to Cornelius, turning his attention to Pawpaw and the Yangchuanosaurus. "Did you really think you could get me to turn on my friends that easily?" He asked the Sulla look-a-like as he helped Pawpaw onto his feet.
"But I saw you bite Chomp's throat!" Max pointed out. "You were gonna kill him!"
"All of that was acting." Chomp said. "Terry told me his plan while you were talking to Cornelius."
"We had overheard the guards mentioning something about me 'becoming the boss'.' So I came up with a plan to trick the bastard into thinking he succeeded so he'd let his guard down and reveal to us everything." Terry explained
"We would've told you, but it was too risky with the guards." Chomp told Max. "We also needed your reactions to be convincing."
"Are you saying I'm not a good actor?" Max asked them, taking offense to their comment.
"Pretty much." They both replied before all three of them laughed.
But the crowd was not amused. "Booo!"
"More violence!"
"Enough!" Cornelius bellowed loudly, slamming his fist on the railing. "Either continue the fight or the kid gets it!"
Terry and Chomp's eyes widened in horror as the guards pointed their crossbows directly at Max. Yet, Max didn't seem intimidated. For none of them noticed a red glow appear in his hands. "Oh, no. Whatever will I do." Max said in fake distress before smiling. "Oh, I know!"
"DINO SLASH!"
With a red glow, the Yangchuanosaurus appeared behind the guards. "Aaaaah!" The two guards screamed as they dropped their weapons due to the dinosaur being right on top of them.
"Pay back time, Yang!" Max told the Yangchuanosaurus with a punched fist.
"With pleasure!" Yang responded as she started chasing the guards, along with any others that tried to stop her.
In the stands, the crowd was still booing the fight, oblivious to what was going on. "Boooooo! Boooooooo!"
Suddenly, they heard two new roars that Chomp and Terry recognized easily. Ally suddenly appeared and started scaring the crowd away on one side while Paris did the same to the other. "Justice! Get your justice! Get it while it's hot!" Ally announced as she chased the crowd off the bleachers, snapping her jaws at those in the back but making sure not to actually bite them.
"Dinosaur fights! I'll show dinosaur fights!" Paris yelled as she did the same, minus the biting.
"Max!" Turning around, the brunette saw Rex and Zoe running towards him.
"Rex! Zoe!" Max exclaimed as he accepted their hugs. "How'd you get here!?"
"You can thank Jonathan for giving us a lift." Zoe answered.
As the D-Team reunited, Ally and Paris, along with Yang, chased everyone else out of the Colosseum, stopping at the entrance. In his booth, Cornelius slammed his fists on the railing in anger. "No, no, no! You belong to me! This was supposed to be a glorious return for the Roman Empire!" As he raged, he didn't notice someone sneaking up behind him until he heard a loud stomp behind him. "Huh? Aaaaaaaaaa-" Turning around, Cornelius screamed as a theropod lowered their head and grabbed him with their teeth, killing him in just one bite.
When the screaming ceased, Killer poked his head out of the box. "Boss!" Yang exclaimed as she recognized her old companion from the Jurassic.
Killer dropped any of Cornelius' remains that he didn't swallow, which disgusted the kids, and leapt off booth to great Yang. "Glad to see that you're safe. How's the Piatnitzkysaurus?"
"Why don't we ask him ourselves?" Max said as he grabbed the Venom Fang Move Card and swiped it on his Dino Holder.
Once he appeared, the Piatnitzkysaurus looked around frantically. "Where is he?! Where is he?! Where's that oversized-"
"I'm right behind you." Terry told the smaller theropod, making him turn around and get into a pouncing position. "Relax, we're not here to fight." He attempted to assure him
"Terry's right." Killer said. "They came here to rescue you."
"He threw me into a barrier that electrocuted me!" The Piatnitzkysaurus retorted.
"I seem to recall you poisoning his friends, Venom." Yang reminded Venom. "Just be thankful your attack only weakens them, or you really would have gotten it."
"Venom?"
"Yeah, that's a name I thought for you." Yang explained.
"Hmm." Venom thought as he got used to his new name before realizing who was with him and Yang. "Boss!"
"Please, just call me Killer." The Torvosaurus told them. "The new world has enough meat for us to eat without taking any lives."
"So we don't have to hunt anymore?" Yang asked, sounding hopeful.
"But I liked hunting!" Venom whined. "The thrill of the chase! The anticipation! The taste of-" He stopped himself when he noticed Yang glaring at him like an older sibling. "I mean, yay! No more hunting!"
Terry rolled his eyes before greeting Ally. "Thanks for coming."
"I told you I'd save you one day." Ally teased as they nuzzled.
"Yeah, yeah." Terry teased back.
"Are you okay, Chomp?" Paris asked her boyfriend.
"I'm fine." Chomp assured his lover. "Terry didn't hurt me too much."
"Yeah, I have to hold back with him." Terry joked.
"Are you saying I can't take a hit from you?" Chomp asked, taking that as a challenge.
"Why don't we find out?" Terry suggested.
"Now hold on a minute!" Yang interrupted. "You never finished your match with me."
"Guys, do we have to fight now?" Zoe asked, surprised they still wanted to fight after what just happened.
"Yes!" All the dinosaurs replied.
While Zoe just sighed in defeat, Max and Rex had an idea forming in their heads. "Hey, Rex. There were quite a lot of people here that did want to see a proper dinosaur battle."
"Then maybe we should do what my dad did." Rex responded.
"What're you talking about?" Terry asked the Dinosaur King.
"I'm talking about having our own tournament."
DK
At Zeta Point, the Alpha Gang looked in horror at the boxes of pizza lying on the floor. The obvious culprit was the fat Dr.Z lying on the floor. "Oh, I had too much Pizza." He groaned.
"Dr.Z, how could you!" Ursula yelled at the obese doctor.
"All that pizza was on my card!" Zander added.
"You didn't even leave a crust!" Ed whined.
"Oh, quit your whining. I gave Helga the recipe." Dr.Z assured them. "It's just a matter of getting her to cook it for you. Besides, I have a mission for you that I might reward you handsomely if you get it done."
"A mission?" The trio repeated.
Dr.Z nodded his head. "I need you to go to all the active volcanos on Earth. There's something I need you to bring me."
DK
In a hidden location, Max's kidnappers bowed before a hooded man. "Master, Cornelius has been slain."
"Is that so? Well, that's what happens when someone gets too confident with their power over dinosaurs." The hooded figure replied before pulling up a map of the world. "Besides, there a plenty more where that one came from."
Next time on Dinosaur King:
Doctor: He's losing blood fast!
Max: Rex, stay with me!
Zoe: What happened to him?!
Emperor of India: Guards, search the palace!
Tank: When I find the bastard that did this!
(Smashes a building with just one swing of the tail)
A/N: Boy, what a chapter!
The plot of the chapter was inspired the an episode of Dragons: Race to the Edge called Stryke Out. The title for this chapter came from Jurassic Fight Club.
There was a lot going into this chapter. I'll talk out the sauropod in the room next chapter, but there still are things to talk about.
One thing was that this was supposed to be Terry's, or rather Max's redemption after not doing so hot in the last two episodes. It also was the time to allow him to master Fire Scorcher, after his first attempt failing. Wouldn't say he should get so confident, though. Actually, he was originally supposed to defeat Yang and Venom with Fire Scorcher while Chomp took out Pyro, but things started to change and I kept Yang standing.
Terry also was supposed to have gone off the deep end, only for Pawpaw to snap him out of it when he was getting poisoned.
As for Killer's pals, I gave Venom the excitable, almost crazy personality. Yang's like his responsible big sister.
And in regards to the tournament, that'll be a mini arc that comes up later.
Stay tuned, and happy two year anniversary to Dinosaur King Retold if I don't have the next chapter out by then.