Chapter 11

Planes, trains and dinosaurs

It was mid afternoon at the D lab, Cera had just finished an entry into her journal regarding events that happened the previous day. How she had met Dr Owen for the first time, having heard about him from Rex and the others he was exactly like how they described, being 'passionate' about dinosaurs just as much as Dr Taylor was and how lucky Rex was to have been adopted by him. He was certainly an interesting fellow in Cera's eyes, as well as his argument with the movie director over how a dinosaur movie should be produced was rather…..unusual…..but what was more surprising was to hear how crazy in love he was with Ursula of the Alpha gang, luckily or unfortunately she doesn't seem to feel the same about him as he is with her, so the D team can rest easy knowing their fears of having an enemy as part of the family won't come to pass anytime soon. She also understood why he was feeling disturbed and hurt by the director shutting down his hard work and ideas, though he didn't have to be such a big baby about it….then again hearing about the director's weird ideas after they were done for the day they'd drive anyone nuts no doubt, no way would she see whatever abomination that lunatic would cook up..

If that wasn't weird enough, Cera had seen everything after they chased down a pentaceratops at the studio and even found out about the Alpha Gang having a robot housemaid which no doubt had a number of screws loose in her. It was also a bit unfortunate they had to turn it back to card after it had found love in a dinosaur robot there. Looking at things now though it was a bit sad that the world left the dinosaurs behind and now it pretty much rejects their existence in place of people. Though it was a shame Cera also knew that nature couldn't be changed, but that still didn't make the fact that all living creatures were toys of fate and nature was quite unfair….these were her thoughts she put into her entry before concluding it off.

After that, she closed up her book and then moved on to sorting out some more dinosaur cards, and as she took out a few she began to arrange them on the table alongside Miku in a rather unusual patter, one which Reese took notice of as she walked over to her with interest. "Excuse me Cera," she said, "Pardon me but I was curious as to what are you doing." Reese then asked politely.

Hearing her voice, Cera and Miku looked up to see her, "Hmm? Oh hey Reese." she replied, "I was just taking a look at some of these dinosaur cards here, I actually noticed a rather interesting pattern amongst them." she said as she showed off the cards she had with her which were a gorgosaurus, metriacanthosaurus, anatotitan, tsintaosaurus, camarasaurus, patagosaurus, neovenator, eustreptospondylus, polacanthus, kentrosaurus, brachyceratops and einiosaurus.

Reese then blinked her eyes, "Oh really? What sort of pattern?" she asked feeling intrigued.

Cera then smiled, "Rather than I tell you, why not try and figure it out yourself? If you feel like you're up for the challenge?" she suggested as Reese chuckled in response.

"Ooh, that sounds like fun." she said before an older man came bumbling in and butting between the girls.

"Count me in! Can I play too!?" Spike cried out before holding his head high, "As a veteran dinosaur expert I'm certain I'll be able to solve whatever mystery or puzzle you have!"

Reese narrowed her eyes crossly at Dr Taylor being rude, while Cera sweat dropped and scratched the back of her head, "Umm…sure of course, why not?" she chuckled nervously seeing no reason why she should say no when he was….full of hope?

"Yippee!" He then cheered childishly as he jumped up and down with excitement.

Ignoring his immature behaviour, Reese pushed up her glasses before eying Cera firmly, "In any case….we accept your challenge Cera." she said as the red head moved aside allowing her and Spike to go over to the desk and see the many cards laid out.

"Let's see if we can unravel the mystery behind these dinosaurs." Spike grinned while rubbing his hands together with excitement, and already he got an answer which he didn't hesitate to call out, "I've got it!" he cried surprising Reese and Cera about how quick and sudden he was, "All these dinosaurs come from the cretaceous period!" he announced before jittering with anticipation, "Was I right? I do hope I'm right!"

Looking the cards over, Reese sighed and shook her head while Cera instead smiled nervously, "Err not a bad guess Dr Taylor…." she chuckled before picking up a pair of cards, "But in case you didn't notice, kentrosaurus and camarasaurus do happen to be from the jurassic period." she answered as he widened his eyes in shock and surprise.

"Huh!?" As looked at the cards his jaw then dropped in disbelief as he poitned out at them weakly, "Hey! How did I miss that!?" he exclaimed before throwing his hat on the ground and stomping on it repeatedly without mercy! "Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!" he cried out dramatically before pulling on his own hair much to the dismay of Reese and Cera, who were unsure of what they were looking at.

"Uhhh….." Cera then reached out slowly and patted the large man uneasily, "It's no big deal Dr taylor, everyone makes a mistake now and then." she said.

"But for a dinosaur genius like me to make such an elementary mistake is unacceptable!" he then bellowed surprising her, even more so when he suddenly leaned in close to her face! "But from now on you can be sure I'll make a much more realistic answer from now on!"

"That's…good to know…." she gulped as she slowly backed away behind Reese who then took a look at the cards herself.

Eying them curiously she then asked, "How about I take a crack at it next?"

"Sure thing, go ahead Reese." Cera answered as Reese leaned in and eyed each of the cards individually and carefully, unblinking and full focused on them.

"….." After a while she then nodded with confidence, "I think I might know the answer." she said feeling assured of it much to the surprise of Dr Taylor, though not Cera.

"Oh you do? Well then fire away Reese!" he cried out.

In response though, Reese then chuckled, "Now where's the fun in that?" she replied, "I have a better idea, why not you go on ahead Dr Taylor, that is, if you want to prove you're a real dinosaur expert."

Hearing her challenge made the adventurous palaeontologist grin with excitement as he put his hat back on, "Heh, alright then! Challenge accepted!" He bellowed loudly and with confidence as he leaned over to look at them all. "I've got it! These dinosaurs come from the Americas!"

"Not quite, kentrosaurus was from Africa and not to mention neovenator is from Europe." said Cera shaking her head.

"Okay then," looking over them Spike snapped his fingers, "Alright then, half of these dinosaurs are herbivores and the other half are carnivores!"

"Not exactly," said Reese, "Can't you count Doctor? Only 4 out of these 12 are carnivores, I'd also say that over half are herbivores." she answered much to Dr Taylor's dismay.

"Huh!?" After a while he soon began to blurt out every answer that came to his over imaginative mind, and each answer was becoming more bizarre and ridiculous as they came. "Half of them facing left and the others right! No wait! They have an equal division of blue sky and cloudy backgrounds! No no! I've got it! They've all got unique personalities!"

Eventually after so many ridiculous replied, Cera knew when she had enough and she decided to stop him there, "Sorry Dr Taylor….but none of those answers come close." she sighed much to Spike's annoyance and ever growing frustration.

"Grrrr! GARGH!" he wailed in despair before rolling about on the floor like a child, while shaking his legs and fists like a kid who was denied a present, much to the dismay of Reese and Cera who looked on.

Having all she could stand, Reese stepped before him and he was forced to look up at her as she eyed him seriously, "Dr Taylor, if you don't stop this right now I may be forced to show this to everyone," she said flashing him her new phone which she used to record everything he did from stomping on his hat to his childish tantrum just now, which made him freeze in place and turn pale, "How would they think of you when they see you like this? You should be ashamed of yourself." she said as he sat up and bowed down pleadingly in a begging position.

"Y…You're right…..I should have been better than this….." he whimpered sadly as tears began to wet his face and even his nose became watery as he eyed Cera, "Okay I give up! What's the secret then!?" he cried out feeling disgusted with himself, no way could he call himself a man or a dinosaur expert after this, this day would no doubt haunt and scar him for years to come…..

"Alright then, I'll tell you." Cera quickly answered before anymore weird answers come up. Picking up each of the cards she began to flip them over one by one and explain, "You see when I was looking through each of these cards, I took a closer look at the symbols behind their cards." she said showing them off.

Dr Taylor narrowed his eyes and folded his arms as he observed, "There are the 6 elements, fire, water, earth, wind, grass and lightning." he noted before putting a finger to his chin in thought, "There are also 2 dinosaurs each which represent those attributes."

Cera nodded, "Yeah, but between each pair of dinosaurs with a matching crest what do you notice?" she then asked.

"Hmm…." After Dr taylor focused hard for a while he eventually figured it out as he widened his eyes, "Wait I see it!" he exclaimed, "The lightning dinosaurs are all ceratopsians like Chomp!"

"That's right." Cera nodded once more, as Miku chirped pleased.

"And all the grass dinosaurs are hadrosaurids like Paris." Reese continued, "For wind, they're either smaller carnivores like raptors or medium sized ones like Ace." she then added seeing neovenator and eustreptospondylus.

"You catch on quick." said Cera as she picked up 2 cards, "Also, from what it seems dinosaurs belonging to the fire attribute are large heavily built carnivores like the T-rex for example." she said before taking another pair of cards, "When it comes to water, with the exception of spinosaurids like suchomimus and baryonyx, they're mainly long necked sauropods." she stated before holding up the last 2, "And finally with earth."

"Anykylosaurids." Reese answered, "Also, a while ago we did encounter a stegosaurus which seemed to be displaying earth like traits, so that could mean earth dinosaurs would include them too." she said.

"How very interesting….." Dr Taylor mused as he gave it much careful thought. "It takes quite the keen eye to notice such a pattern….." he admitted as he looked to Cera, wondering how she managed to do it.

"Perhaps I should add that to the manual then." Reese then thought to herself as she took out the manual and began adding all that in.

Dr Taylor held a hand to his chin in thought, "Still, this doesn't completely explain how they keep appearing out of nowhere." he then said combing his beard with his fingers, "Sure the cards are scattered all over the world, but what causes them to activate in the first place?"

"Yeah, that is a good question." Reese then replied hearing him out.

"Sometimes they even pop up in the random of all places, and at the worst possible timings too." Spike then sighed knowing because of a utahraptor, the gameshow competition was ruined and they lost the money (Though they had no idea it was fake).

Cera then thought of it after hearing what he said, "Now that you mention it….." after a few seconds of careful thinking she then realised it, "I think I might know something about this." she sid snapping her fingers catching the attention of both Reese and Spike.

"Oh? Do tell…." she asked.

Cera nodded as she began to explain her theory, "If I were to guess, perhaps their elements have something to do with how they appear." she suggested.

Reese then remembered something, "Now that I think about it, according to the news reports there was a forest fire in China right where the carcharodontosaurus appeared a while back." she said as she went through some old articles and found the one regarding said dinosaur, "And there were lightning storms in Hawaii and Paris during the times Styracosaurs and anchiceratops showed up." she continued looking through some other records.

"From what the kids told me, the amargasaurus came out from the Loch Ness lake in Scotland, no surprise there if all it took was water." Dr Taylor stated.

"And since the euoplocephalus was activated in a cave I wouldn't be surprised if it got buried under rocks, dirt or something like that to be activated." Reese continued.

Cera placed a finger to her chin in thought, "So then for wind, I assume even a simple breeze would be enough activate them." she said.

"That seems plausible." Reese replied.

Dr Taylor folded his arms, "That also makes it rather problematic…." he muttered knowing the cards would turn dinosaurs so easily and then attack people on sight.

"Same goes for grass too I suppose…..if so much as a leaf or even a blade of grass brushes against is enough, we'd better take precautions. I'd also have to develop a specialised container to eliminate all possibilities of them activating just to make sure." said Reese as she made note of it all.

"What about these ones though?" Dr Taylor then asked taking Therizinosaurus and pachycephalosaurus and showing them to Cera. "You think you can explain how these dinosaurs fit in?"

"Hmm…." Thinking about it for a moment Cera then narrowed her eyes and shook her head sadly in response, "I don't know….from what I can tell these dinosaurs are definitely not ordinary ones for sure….not to mention I don't see any sort of pattern with them…."

"If I recall, the alpha gang made these dinosaurs by apparently fusing them with a move card." said Reese overhearing them, "Thereby allowing them to use several moves whenever they desire, without the need for a move card."

"That definitely sounds like something they'd do." said Spike firmly as Cera tensed up with anger.

"How cruel and unforgivable of them….." she thought to herself, imagining the pain and suffering they might have gone through.

"Still though, the fact remains that there may be cards like these out there as well." said Reese as she took both cards out of Spike's hand, "Cera, do you have any idea as to how these cards can be activated?" she then asked.

Giving more thought, Cera then asked first, "Well, do either of you recall how they came to be in the first place?"

Spike put on his thinking expression again as he folded his arms, "Hmm….from what I recall, Max and the others told me that the encountered the therizinosaurus downtown during a bright day after the sun shone bright light at a building side." he said before recalling something more recent, "And then when we were at the ninja village, there was this dino trooper play and after 1 of the actors flashed a blade, that's when the deinonychus appeared." he said, "Come to think of it, they also had glowing aura that shone in the 7 colours of the rainbow."

"Hmm, so that could also have to do with how they are activated." Cera suspected, "Heh, guess we could even nickname this secret attribute, an attribute of light."

"That does sound most fitting." Reese replied as she began archiving the data they've acquired from recent events and this conversation they just had, "We might not be able control how the dinosaurs may appear out there in the world. But we can at least make sure they stay safe here." she said making a reminder that she'd have to develop a firm safe for the cards to ensure that none of them would come into contact with anything that could possibly trigger them.

"You do that Reese, can't have so many wild dinosaurs running amok here in Sanjo City now can we?" said Spike to her as he imagined an accident occurring at the D lab causing all their dinosaurs to escape and run loose, tearing up the city, destroying properties or even eating people up! The thought of it made him shiver anxiously.

"Have you been able to deduce anything with the move card dinosaurs though?" Reese then asked Cera as she checked a few being pawpawsaurus in tag team and futabasaurus in futaba super cannon.

"Hmm, from what I can conclude so far is that they can only be called forth if there is another dinosaur out first." she answered remembering how she used move block herself, "Also there doesn't seem to be any sort of fixed pattern with them either…." she added at the end.

Dr Taylor then breathed a sigh of relief, "Phew, at least that means we won't need to go chasing after pterosaurs in the sky or go swimming after any marine reptiles." he breathed as Cera nodded in agreement.

"Mhmm."

Little did she know, Reese was eying her carefully, "Apparently she cares more about the D team's wellbeing and success more than I expected….." she thought before smiling warmly and returning to her work, "Guess that means our future and the dinosaurs' is secure…." It was at that moment the D lab's computer quickly picked up a signal which caught everyone's attention as it turned to Russia. "Hmm? A signal now?" she then asked.

"Oh well, might as well get to work." said Cera shrugging her shoulders as she walked over to the teleporter. As she stepped on, the rest of her friends burst in through the front doors in a hurry as they ran frantically towards the control room of the D lab.

"Come on guys hurry!" Max yelled impatiently as he went through the doors first.

"Ugh, slow down Max!" Rex grunted trailing after him.

"Not all of us can keep up the same as you…." Zoe grumbled as their dinosaurs scurried along to keep pace as they passed by Reese and Dr Taylor with hardly a hello, which Cera found a bit rude even if it was an urgent mission.

"Kids, another dinosaur's appeared in Moscow." Dr Taylor then said to them despite them not giving him ant greeting at all, which was good he took it lightly.

"Russia?" Rex asked curiously.

"Now that's a place I'd love to go see." Spike then smiled holding a thumbs up, "Mostly to ride the Trans-Siberian railway."

"The Trans-Si what?" Max asked clearly unfamiliar with the name.

Zoe then looked to Rex, "Do you know?" she asked him.

"Yeah, the Trans-Siberian is the world's longest railroad line, from Moscow all the way to Valdivostak. Almost 6000 miles long." Rex answered having studied up on it.

"We should ride it!" Max then cried out with excitement.

"Yeah, that could be really awesome!" Zoe followed in agreement with him.

"Just think of all the stuff we'd see!" Max continued knowing this was a must for them.

"Hang on," Rex then spoke up, "Don't forget we're going there for a dinosaur, not a vacation."

"Whats wrong with doing both?" Cera asked as they all looked to the blond haired boy.

"Yeah? Come on Rex lighten up once on a while, it'll do no wrong." said Zoe.

Rex then raised an eyebrow at them all, "Last time we took a vacation the alpha gang ended up taking styracosaurus from us. You want that to happen again?" he asked as they looked to one another realising he had a fair statement.

"Oh….good point…." Max uttered as he sweated and scratched his cheek.

Cera saw the logic in Rex's words but nevertheless still believed they could multi task, "Still, opportunities only come once, maybe we could at least consider it after we get it." she suggested.

Thinking it over carefully Rex then saw Cera too made a fair point herself, "Maybe…." he said considering it.

"There's also the aurora." said Dr Taylor with a smirk, "The famous natural light show called the northern lights."

Cera was intrigued by Dr Taylor's explanation, but she didn't have long to enjoy it as Max began tugging at everyone's sleeves rather impatiently.

"We'd better go now before he decides to come tag along." he suggested to them.

"I'm with you there Max." said Rex in response as Zoe nodded with them.

"Come on let's go before he notices." she whispered as they began to glow in the light of the teleporter.

"Alright then….." said Cera still feeling a little disappointed because she wanted to hear more of what Dr Taylor had to share with them, not to mention the way they usually teleported in the middle of his heartfelt lectures seemed somewhat rude, "A pity he can't come….." she sighed wishing he could come and experience the wonders of the places they visit up close, as they disappeared in the light and left Dr Taylor to his rambling.

They soon appeared in a street right nearby the St Basil's Cathedral, "Here we are Moscow." said Max as he and the others looked around to find any signs of the the dinosaur nearby, only to find that the weather was much colder and gloomy than they first thought, "Brr it's rather chilly here don't you think?" Max shivered as he hugged himself.

"Yeah, it is…." thought Cera, hoping none of them would get sick after this or that this mission wouldn't take too long. Even Chomp and Ace felt rather cold themselves as they shuddered too, fortunately Paris didn't feel the same and Miku had a layer of feathers and her partner's hair to keep warm.

"Sure wish I dressed warmer for this…." Zoe muttered as she shook a bit. It was then they heard a set of loud and panicked screams which caught their attention and put them on alert, "Tch! Looks like can't worry about that now….." she muttered feeling a bit irritated.

"It must be over there!" Rex pointed out in the direction of where the screams were coming from.

As the 4 kids headed towards the Cathedral, they caught sight of their target at the parking lot as it headed off for the park to get away from all the people. "There it is!" Max called out as they caught sight of a large blue sauropod with yellow spikes sticking out from its back. "What kind is it?" he then asked as it headed over

"It's an ampelosaurus!" Rex answered recognising it.

"We'd better hurry and catch it quick before it gets too out of control!" Max then cried as they raced after it.

It ran through the park gates and caused people there to scatter in a panic as it bellowed out loud. Observing it, Cera could tell it was confused, cold and hungry making her feel for it in a way….

As the dinosaur made its way behind a grove of trees, the D team maintained hot pursuit before realising it had disappeared!

"Darn it! We lost it!" Max grunted punching his hand into his palm.

"For a sauropod it sure moves pretty quick doesn't it?" Rex commented impressed as he looked around for signs of it though he couldn't find any.

"It couldn't have gone far though…." said Zoe as she put a hand over her eyes to see better.

As she looked around, Miku noticed something in front of them on the ground as she nudged Cera. As she looked to her partner perched on her shoulder, she looked down in the direction she was facing then smiled back at her, "Good thinking," she said before alerting the rest of her teammates, "We could follow these tracks it left." Cera pointed out as they noticed several large footprints embedded deep in the park soil.

"Wow, you've got quite a keen eye Cera." Rex whistled impressed.

Cera smiled, "Thanks, but it was Miku actually not me."

"In that case, thanks Miku." said Rex thanking her then as she chirped happily at being praised.

"You heard the dino! Follow those tracks!" Max cried out as they followed them! After a while of tracking the dinosaur, they found their way to an open railcard, where the soil turned hard and soon they lost sight of anymore footprints.

Rex lowered himself down for a better look but frowned upon seeing nothing, "Looks like the trail's gone cold…." he muttered as they had to search blind again.

"It's got to be here somewhere." Max commented as they headed in further, "Look for anything weird going on."

A rumbling sound followed by loud mooing caught their attention as Zoe pointed out, "You mean like over there?" she then asked. A herd of cows ran out of the cart in a panic as a blue tail and head could be seen sticking out from the other side of the cart, and the D team recognised it instantly.

"Yup, that's ampelosaurus alright." said Max confirming it.

"It seems to be looking for something." said Zoe as it stuck its head inside the cart.

As it took it back out it was now chewing on something it found there, "It's eating the cow's hay." said Rex.

"It must really be hungry." Zoe commented as it began to go in deeper to the cart.

"If you were out in the cold for too long, you'd be too if you want to stay warm." said Cera understanding it's situation.

Max then turned to the others firmly, "Well let's catch it." he said as they followed after it.

The thought of having to fight it made Cera feel conflicted, but what choice did they have now….she then thought as they came closer, only for it to pull itself further inside the card in search of food and warmth as it tucked its tail in. It was a tight squeeze and not very comfortable, but it was the best it could find as it rested its head and slowly drifted on into a long nap to conserve energy.

"It's going all the way inside." said Zoe.

"We can do anything with it in there." Rex added.

Max looked to the other side and pointed out to them, "There's another door! Over here on the side!" he cried as they hurried around to the side door.

Sliding it open they saw that it curled its head in and was already napping, "Look, he fell asleep." said Rex as they heard it snore.

"Aww that's so cute." said Zoe.

"Yeah, makes it look like an 800 pound infant." Cera commented, it would be a shame they'd have to give him a rude awakening soon after but things would get much worse if they continued to let him do as he pleased…..

"Let's take a closer look at it." said Max as he climbed in.

"Yeah, I want to see it too." Zoe followed as the others followed.

Cera held herself a back feeling uneasy though, "I don't like this idea….why do I get the feeling we're going to regret this?" she said worried about the fact they'd be right next to a sleeping dinosaur that can go berserk at any moment.

"It'll be fine trust us!" Max cried out to her assuredly as he held his hand out to her.

Thinking it over and seeing everyone was already on board, she might as well join them, "Okay then…." she said reluctantly as she took the hand and he helped her up.

After that, Max walked up to its head, "Be careful, don't wake it up." Rex whispered with concern as Chomp came up to its face and sniffed him.

"Now that's a loud snore." Max commented as it snorted and breathed deeply while sleeping on the bed of hay it was on..

"Aww….." Zoe thought clapping her hands together.

Rex eyed them seriously, "Come on guys, we have to figure out a way to get him out of here." he said sounding realistic and sensible, "And we don't have a lot of time."

Cera nodded in agreement, but as she turned to look behind her worries came true as it suddenly shut tight without warning! "Oh no!" she gasped as her eyes widened.

"Huh!?" They gasped as they heard clipping sounds and moving wheels outside, followed by a rumble which shook the cart momentarily!

"Are we locked in?" Zoe asked nervously.

"We are!" Rex cried out, "And the train is about to start up!"

"I knew this was a bad idea!" Cera gasped in alarm as she found they were caught between a wall and a really dangerous sleeping dinosaur that could destroy the train if woken up badly. This was a very serious situation as she crawled to the end of the train putting more distance between herself and the sleeping dinosaur, which the others soon followed her example.

"Now what?" Max then asked seeing there was nothing more they could do, "While he's asleep there's no way we can turn him back into a card."

"Yeah, that'd be just rude…." Cera commented as she sat down with the others as far back they could.

"And we are can't risk having him wake up inside of a moving car and going wild." Zoe stated as she pictured the dinosaur panicking in a breakout and causing the entire train to explode in flames! "Imagine what that would be like! A real train wreck!" she shivered.

"Yeah…." Cera nodded in agreement as she looked around carefully to observe their surroundings, hoping for a way out, but the only openings present were but a few small windows and they were far too small to squeeze out from. She then narrowed her eyes, "There's definitely not enough room in here to summon another dinosaur, if we fight here it'll be disastrous for us and the train." she said.

"At the first station, we'll wake him and get him off." Rex spoke out, "Until then we have to do everything we can to keep him asleep."

Thinking about it, Cera nodded, "Mhmm. Sounds like a plan." She and Rex however felt they might have to give up on that idea as Chomp and Ace climbed up and started bouncing on the sleeping sauropod's head! "Ack!"

"No no no! Ace! Stop it Chomp! Leave him alone!" Rex yelled frantically as he ran up to them

"Knock it off guys! What do you think you're doing!? We don't want to wake him up!" Max followed in alarm sweating nervously as he yanked Ace off. Chomp then jumped down and went back with them, at first it seemed they were in the clear, but Cera soon noticed they had a new problem to worry about!

"Looks like they won't need to…." she said nervously as its tail struck out from the roof and breaking through! It thrashed vigorously as Ampelosaurus moved about, its spikes breaking through the roof! It soon opened its eyes and banged its head on the ceiling as it bellowed in annoyance before eying the D team rather crankily! "Seems like he's had a bad dream…." Cera gulped as to eyed them.

"Well, it was a nice idea but he sure is awake now!" Zoe cried nervously.

"If he keeps this up he'll destroy the train! We have to calm him down!" said Rex feeling anxious as it raised its head and banged itself on the ceiling again in pain while continuing to punch more holes in the roof its with back spines.

"That's for sure but how do we do that?" Max gulped as it lowered its head to them and then snorting at them!

"GAH!" they cried as they were blown back as it continued to bash its shoulders at the side, causing the cart to shake with each one and its tail still stuck out from the roof. Cera could see he was restless and uncomfortable so she could understand why he was behaving this way, if only they could help somehow…..

"Ow that hurt…." Max groaned.

"Guys, he's really worked up now…." said Rex nervously.

"I know…." Max mumbled rubbing his throbbing head.

"Now what?" Zoe then asked looking up.

Cera gulped as the beast eyed them furiously with glaring eyes, "Anyone got any ideas? I'm open to suggestions…." she asked nervously as it's mood was like a ticking time bomb ready to explode at any second!

To everyone's surprise, Zoe's partner jumped out and started walking towards the agitated ampelosaurus to everyone's surprise! "Paris! What are you doing!?" Zoe gasped in alarm as she was tempted to get her back.

Cera then widened her eyes and stopped her, "Wait, maybe she has an idea!" she said to her surprise.

"Huh!?"

As the ampelosaurus lowered its head down to meet Paris, she fearlessly stood her ground and began to sing, very calm and serenely much to everyone's surprise…..everyone looked on speechlessly as she sang a harmonious tune, which made the sauropod feel light headed and easy as its eyes became heavy, before finally curling it back in to sleep once more.

"Paris put him to sleep with a lullaby." Rex commented in amazement.

"Wow, I never saw her do anything like that before." breathed Zoe clearly underestimating her partner, in fact she may even sing better than she did…..

"Phew. Just in the nick of time too." Max breathed in relief seeing they were in the clear at least for the time being.

"I'd applaud for her right now if we weren't stuck in with a sleeping dinosaur that can go berserk at any moment." Cera commented, "Still for that I'll give it at least 9 out of 10." she said as Paris chirped happily at being praised.

"Same here." Zoe smiled feeling happy for Cera's kind words.

Max then folded his arms behind his head looking around, seeing they still had a long way to go on his dinoholder to the next station, were stuck with no way of entertaining themselves other than messing with a sleeping dinosaur which was out of the question, "So then….till we reach the next station what shall we do to pass the time?" he asked.

Cera reached into her hip pack and picked out a deck of cards she brought along, "I brought some cards if anyone's interested?" she suggested.

Before they could answer, Zoe paused and listened to an unusual sound coming from the windows, "Wait a sec, I hear something…." she mused as she looked out to see a pink jet fly up just above the train, "You guys look! Up there!" she cried out in alarm!

"The alpha gang….." Rex grunted.

"Great, they're here to try and take ampelosaurus." Max muttered in annoyance.

"Isn't that old lady ever going to give it up!?" Zoe grunted clenching her fist.

(Meanwhile)

"Aaaaaa….." Ursula was trying to feed Dr Z with a pair of chopsticks as he opened his mouth widely to be fed.

Hearing some words echo in her mind she then grunted and thrusted it into his forehead, "Grr! Did someone just say old lady!?" she growled as Dr Z whined.

"OW! You shischkabobbed my forehead!" he cried.

(Present)

Back at the train Max and the others narrowed their eyes as Spiny and Terry jumped out and parachuted down from the jet hoping to land on the train, fortunately though Rod and Laura miscalculated the air resistance followed by the speed of the train so they ended up missing it by a large mile as Spiny crashed down first and the parachute covered him! "Hahaha! Now that was an epic fail." Max chuckled finding it funny.

"Pfft! Yeah totally, thought they might have a better plan than that." Zoe snickered trying her best to hold in her laughter.

As Rex narrowed his eyes and looked he then sweated nervously, "Err, guys, we shouldn't celebrate just yet…." he pointed out.

"Huh?"

"He's right! Look!" Cera called out as a blue light shone, Spiny changed to full size and began to run straight at the train!

"Oh dear…" Zoe muttered clasping her hands together as he soon came close to the first few carts of the train!

"Here he comes!" Max cried.

"It's okay," Rex narrowed his eyes, "Spiny doesn't have that much stamina, I'm sure he'll tire out way before he can catch up." he said feeling hopeful.

"Let's hope so…." Cera followed, seeing his tongue stick out he was beginning to tire so Rex would be right…..but suddenly a chibi red rex jumped in through the windows of the cart! "Uh oh, Terry just got on board!" she gasped as the D team hardened their expressions and took out their dinoholders.

"Grr….get ready you guys….." Max grunted knowing Terry could come charging at them any second!

Their worries were wasted though as suddenly Terry was tossed out unexpectedly and he began rolling down the hill to a stop much to their surprise.

"Huh, guess we were worried for nothing…." Rex mused.

Max then breathed in relied, "Phew, looks like we're in the clear for now….."

"Yeah….." relied Cera in agreement before flashing them her deck, "So, anyone up for some cards?"

"Oooh! Count me in!" Max cried out holding his hand up as they sat down in a circle to play.

"Me too!" Zoe said with enthusiasm as she joined them.

Rex shrugged his shoulders, "Well if you can't beat em, join em I guess….." he said as he sat down too.

It was soon evening as the sun began to set and turn the skies orange, at long last it was time for them to deal their hands.

"Ta da! Full house!" Zoe cheered showing it off.

"Heh, that's nothing!" Cera smirked, "I've got a Straight flush!" she boasted flashing her hand.

"Hmph, that's nothing compared to my ROYAL flush!" Rex boasted as he displayed the best possible hand ever winning him the game!

"Aww no fair! I want a rematch!" Max whined as he threw down his hand which was a 3 of a kind.

"Actually, I think we'd better check to see if we're getting any closer now." said Cera as she collected back the cards and put them all back together. She then eyed Max who blinked curiously, "Max, since you lost I think it's fair you help Rex up. Deal?" she said with a smile.

Seeing everyone look at him he then puffed his cheeks in annoyance, "Hmph….fine…." he muttered as he squatted down and Rex climbed onto his shoulders!

"Urgh! Would it kill you to visit the gym once in a while Rex!?" Max grunted as he did his best to stand up straight as his friend looked down at him feeling offended.

"I'll pretend I didn't just hear that…." he grumbled before looking outside, liking what he saw he shared it with the others, "Good news! We're about to come to a town!" he called out.

"Great! As soon as the train stops we'll wake ampelosaurus!" said Max.

"But there will probably be tons of people up that station!" Zoe pointed out as Max brought Rex down again.

"That won't matter if we battle him quick and get it into a card!" said Max in response as Cera eyed the sleeping dinosaur feeling rather sorry for it.

"If only things were that simple…." she thought as she looked down at it.

"That's what we'll have to do anyway if we're gonna get it before the alpha gang does." said Rex to her as she sighed.

"Guess so…." she said feeling sad and wishing they could just return it to a card without a fight, but sometimes in place of ideal situations reality often forces people to make the choices they don't like to make….

"Hey Rex let me see next! I want to see how many people are outside so we know what to do when we get there." Max suddenly asked wanting to see how much closer they were as Rex sighed.

"Urgh, okay fine…." he muttered as he squatted down and allowed Max to get on, as he pressed his shoes into his shoulders while getting up! "Ow! Watch it!" he grunted as Max planted a hand to his head.

"Sorry." Max responded as he quickly looked out to see how many people there were, but to his alarm they zoomed past the station onwards! "What!? How come we didn't stop!?" he gasped in alarm.

"Something's wrong." said Zoe feeling a rumbling under her feet.

"Yeah, not only did we not stop, it feels to me like we're picking up speed!" Rex gasped feeling it too!

"Ah!" Cera gasped as she could see the way they zoomed past lights, wires and buildings on the side they were indeed speeding up! "You're right….." she said uneasily and fearing what were to happen if this continued unchecked…..

A while later there was still no change in the train's speed, "Something's wrong, it feels like the train's out of control." said Rex folding his arms in thought.

"I think you're right!" Zoe cried in agreement.

"I'll go check it out!" said Max seeing no point or patience in sitting around doing nothing anymore as he headed to the window.

"What?" Zoe asked looking to him.

"What do you plan on checking out?" Rex asked as he leapt up and grabbed hold of the window and pulled himself up.

"Is it what I think it is?" Cera asked as the confident expression in Max's face confirmed it for her.

"Heh, everything!" he grinned, "Chomp and I will look around and see what's going on." he said.

Cera wanted to stop him from doing something rash, but now they were out of options can couldn't just do nothing anymore, this might be their best shot yet, "Good luck you guys." she said for them.

Max nodded at her before returning Chomp his card, "Dino slash! Go Triceratops! Roar!" Chomp appeared in full size and was running outside it with Max leaping onto his head! "Alright! Here we go!"

A while had passed after Max left the cart, and Cera began to feel worried as she placed a hand to her chest in worry, "He's been gone a while, hope everything's alright." she said under her breath.

"It'll be alright," said Rex walking up to her, "I'm sure Max is-" before he could finish the train suddenly came to a huge screeching jerk which caused them all to fall!

"URGH!" They fell to the back as the cart began to shake and screech! As it stopped, it caused a small jerk to nudge ampelosaurus as it opened its eyes grumpily!

"AH!" Zoe and Cera shivered as they and Rex backed away at the massive animal standing up and forcing more of his spikes through the ceiling!

"That jolt woke up ampelosaurus!" Rex gasped as it smashed its head out and then broke out throughout he side having had enough!

"We've got to get out of here!" Cera yelled to them as they quickly followed her outside through the side door.

Coming around to the side they saw Max face to face with it as they quickly ran in to back him up, "Hang on Max!" Rex called as they regrouped, "Now let's turn it back into a card!"

"Altogether!" Max called as Chomp arrived.

They quickly took out their cards and prepared for battle, "Dino slash!"

"Carnotaurus! Blow them away!"

"Spring up Parasaurolophus!"

Seeing it was outnumbered the ampelosaurus quickly turned and made a run for it, with 3 dinosaurs hot on its tail! Suddenly without warning, a red tyrannosaurus appeared on the railway lines and roared causing it to stumble and fall back as Chomp too stopped inns tracks and fell on Ace!

"Huh!?" The D tema gasped at the new arrival as Rex narrowed his eyes.

"The alpha gang again…." he grunted upon hearing the whirling sounds of a jet turbine coming in, "Huh!?" They all looked up to see the pink jet descending upon them.

"Thanks for helping out!" a male voice spoke out mockingly form it, one which the D team recognised all too well….

Cera narrowed her eyes, "That voice….it's Rod and Laura!" she gasped.

Max clicked his tongue, "Tch! Not again!" he grunted.

"They're beginning to get on my nerves worse than the old lady!" Zoe then cried out in annoyance.

(Meanwhile)

Back at Zeta Point, Ursula and her friends were writing another page of an essay to the history of Reimannian geometry when she heard family words ring through her mind like some sort of sixth sense which made her tense up and grit her teeth angrily! "Hey! Who called me that!?" she yelled out surprising Zander and Ed who were sitting by her side!

"EH!?" they exclaimed in surprise but Ursula's fiery anger was quelled by a swift knock to the head by a fan!

WHACK!

"YOW!" she squealed covering up a sore lump with her hands. As she looked up grumpily she and the others froze and turned pale to see Helga was looking down on them with demonic eyes!

"No talking! Get back to your studies!" she bellowed.

"Yes ma'am….." they whimpered in fear as she continued glaring down at them while they were forced to do Rod and Laura's assignments.

(Present)

"Go! Volcano burst!" Laura declared as she slashed the move, and Terry began to gather fire in his mouth and charge it up! In response, the ampelosaurus got up and delivered a sweep with its tail knocking Terry down and making drop out the fire to Rod and Laura's alarm!

"No way!"

"GAH!"

"It's deflecting it!" He gasped seeing it was headed straight for the D Team!

"AH!" They gasped in alarm seeing there was no way they could escape in time nor could their dinosaurs react as they looked on in horror as their partners were about to get barbecued alive!

Out of nowhere miraculously, a man in a uniform quickly jumped in to take the front of the fire! "GARRRRRGGGHH!" he growled as everyone covered their eyes and hold their hands out to shield themselves from the light! As it died down they looked in hour to see the man fall down in flames before them! "Urgh…."

"Oh no!" Max gasped.

"Mister!" Zoe cried as they hurried over to see whether he was still okay, "Just hold on!" What they saw next caught them by surprise, "Huh!?" Upon seeing his face they all remembered him clearly, "You guys! We've seen this man before!" Zoe pointed out.

"Yeah….." Cera mused as she blinked her eyes recalling his name, "Wait…..it's…Johnny? But, what's he doing here?" she then asked curiously.

"Only he's not a man! He's a robot!" Rex pointed out the gears and parts in the now opened hold of his chest.

"You're right," Max breathed, "Just like the alpha gang's cook."

"But he saved us." Zoe noted confused and unsure of what was going on now. They didn't have much time to dwell on the moment as a bellow behind them caught their attention.

"Ah!"

The ampelosaurus glowed blue before being surrounded in a veil of water! After that a larger one surrounded Terry which swirled into a whirlpool, causing him to spin around violently before bringing him down to the ground hard and returning him to a card!

"It just used aqua vortex attack!" Rod gasped as Terry was defeated and they moved in to reclaim his card.

"Whoa! It just beat Terry!" Rex gasped in amazement that it was strong enough to beat him in one move. Cera though wasn't too surprised since water had advantages against fire and it came from a strong dinosaur and move too, this wouldn't be easy that's for sure.

"Well Chomp, now it's our turn!" Max grunted determinedly taking out his move! "Electric charge!" he cried out slashing the move, a bolt of lightning dropped from the sky which fully charged the trike's horns as he charged forward and struck the sauropod in the chest sending him flying then crashing to the ground some feet away, weakened but not defeated! Out of nowhere though, a purple saichania soon appeared and glowed purple as she generated a move of her own! "Hey! Where did Tank come from?" Rex gasped as Tank grabbed the weakened ampelosaurus by the tail and swung it around violently and with little effort before throwing it to the ground! As it returned to a card along with her, the battlefield disappeared and was replaced with a dark blue sky as a familiar man walked up to the pair of cards and picked them up.

"I'll take these." said Seth calmly as the D team failed to get to them in time, "Very considerate of you to take care of all the hard work for me." he said mocking them.

"Grr…." The D team grunted angrily upon realising they fell into his trap.

"You….." Cera narrowed her eyes furisouly upon seeing the most evil man she had ever met once again…..

"You can keep your old friend the android. Give him a nice sendoff won't you?" he said his last parting words before entering his vehicle and speeding away into the distance.

"Sounds like he knows him somehow….though not in a good way…." Cera thought seriously as she looked behind them to see the now charred remains of the robot man, "He'll be trouble that's for sure….." she narrowed her eyes, getting bad vibes from him which were unlike any of the alpha members she had seen.

Max tensed with anger as he suddenly punched the ground in frustration, "Grrr, we had it….we had it!" he cried out gritting his teeth as Zoe and Rex looked upon him sympathetically.

"Max….."

Cera then leaned down to him and put a comforting hand on his shoulder as he looked up to her, "Cheer up Max, there'll be other chances. There always will be, I know it." she said to him comfortingly….

"I guess." he muttered sounding unconvinced.

A consolation prize soon came upon the D team as the skies soon lit up in a spectrum of many colors, "Look guys! Those must be the northern lights Dr Taylor was telling us about!" Zoe breathed in amazement as their dinosaurs let out many cries of joy and excitement themselves under the starry night sky.

"They're awesome…." Max breathed feeling himself calm down after earlier.

"Yeah…."

"Beautiful…." Rex and Zoe breathed in awe.

"Indeed…." Cera nodded feeling at peace herself along with Miku as the gazed upon a sight seen almost nowhere else on the planet…..

As enjoyable as it was, Max soon hardened his expression, "But I'd trade seeing this for that ampelosaurus card," he said having not forgotten about their loss today, "Next time we see alpha gang we're getting it back!" he said with determination.

"We will Max, we will." said Cera in agreement as they all turned serious with him too.

Noticing something still behind them, "Not to ruin the moment or anything though, but…." said Zoe to them, "What are we going to do with him?" she asked pointing to the still charred remains of their old friend Johnny who still lay nearby the railway lines seemingly lifeless like a corpse…..

"Good question…." Rex mused bringing a finger to his chin in thought.

"I'll call my dad have him deliver this to us," said Max switching on his dinoholder hoping to contact the D lab, "Hopefully soon so we can take a good look into who or what this is….." he said.

As Cera walked up to it and examined Johnny's parts she narrowed her eyes, "A robot this advanced, no way anyone can just make this for sure…" she thought to herself seeing its gears and circuits were more advanced than any other machine she had come across so far, "The way that man Seth spoke about him, seems he knows him but isn't too fond of him either….." she thought seriously before 1 final thought crossed her mind, "Just how will things proceed for us from the point on?"

Hope you enjoyed the way I wrote this chapter, how it shows Cera explaining a bit more on the dinosaurs at the start too. Stay tuned for Vaccination Vacation where she'll be meeting Seth again, and also to address a few plot holes too.

In response to Drew Luczyski

-Well in DS it's 1 oviraptor but different in arcade with 3, though egg machine gun the fusion move variety uses 3 oviraptors. Yeah wanted to give the alpha gang more of a role to fit the occasion since it was a halloween. Also rugops being a small carnivore compared to carcharodontosaurus and spinosaurus in Africa would make sense for it being a scavenger at times.

-Yeah enjoyed writing that bit too with Cera fighting Rod and Laura, wanted to give them more of a use in this since the anime they were kinda just there and didn't do anything after allosaurus ran off from them. Am sure you can find opportunities if you make them, maybe have them train up some dinosaurs against one another while at the D lab.

To pokemonking0924

-Glad you like it, yeah for my next chapter including this one she'll be having a little more of a speaking role in it too. Though I won't be doing all episodes in the anime. Yeah, her seeing good in Rod and Laura will play a role later on, also her flashback, will not spoil anything yet but you are on the right track.