Dinosaur Queen

by HunterHQ

A young girl named Cera and her partner Miku awaken without a clue as to where or when they are, even as to who they are. Join them on their journey as they work together through trials of many kinds to dig up their past and piecing it together, while battling foes across space and even time itself!

27. One final move

Chapter 27

One final move

Everyone in Sanjo City was enjoying their day as they always did, hoping to get their mind of the recent dinosaur related incidents that have been plaguing their home for sometime now. However, things were taking a turn for the worse as a massive shadow crept over the city, causing them all to look to the sky to see where it came from. Everyone gathered out from their homes or workplaces to see what it was, growing ever increasingly worried to see what appeared to be a giant UFO descending upon them! As if dinosaurs appearing and rampaging wasn't bad enough, now they were being invaded by what may be aliens? Many were starting to wonder whether it was the end of the world!

At the D Lab, everyone got a long hard look at the Alpha gang's HQ, which had now reached their hometown and was now at its mercy, "It's Seth." Ursula stated.

"And my Zeta Point." Dr Z growled in anger at the sight of his own headquarters flying right before his eyes under Seth's control as if he was mocking him over what he was able to hide from him this entire time and eventually not only steal it from him but even get away with it!

Cera blinked her eyes and squinted a bit, catching sight of something large and moving on its surface, "There's something on top!" she pointed out as everyone turned to see there was something up there!

"Is that a dinosaur?" Ed asked curiously as it soon began moving forward to the edge of the floating ship and then jumping down into the middle of the city!

"If we could see it from here it must be pretty big…like really big…" Spike muttered in amazement while everyone else hardened their expressions knowing this dinosaur may in fact be completely different from any of the others they faced so far.

"We'll have to go in for a closer look." said Max narrowing his eyes and the others nodded with him. The sounds of loud whirring behind them caught their attention as they all turned to see Dr Z hopping into the blue jet with the trio who were already starting it up.

"Well, what are you dolts waiting for!? Fly already!" Dr Z yelled shaking his fists before banging each of them on the head, spurring them into action.

"Yes sir! On the double!" The trio said obediently and without hesitation as they returned Terry, Spiny and Tank to their cards and then starting up jet's full thrusters!

"Not without me!" a loud booming voice bellowed behind them, as the others saw Johnathan leap into the back seat much to their surprise!

"WAH!"

"Huh!?" They gasped in shock to see him right next to them all of a sudden

"Hey! What are you doing in here!?" Dr Z then cried out in annoyance at the android nearly giving his weak heart a heart attack, "Get out now!" he demanded, only for him and his crew to be silenced by a fierce glare given off by Johnathan!

"You have a problem with me?" he said so menacingly that the 4 of them turned pale like ghosts and sweated anxiously, knowing that the wrong answer would mean them being sent off into the next life!

Seeing no other way they then shook their heads, "N…No we don't…." they said seeing no other choice.

"Good." he said calming down, the memory of Dr Z betraying them still lingered on his mind, and this time he wasn't going to leave things to chance, from this point on he'd be keeping a very tight leash on these troublemakers and make sure they get what they deserve once Seth has been dealt with.

Taking notice of the D team and his grandkids outside, he then shook a fist at them, "You kids better stay out of my way! This doesn't concern you so back off!" he warned as Zander fired up the jet's engines and they took off for the city!

Despite his threats the rest of the gang were undeterred and in fact his words only seemed to spur them even more! "Hmph! Yeah right, like we're going to do nothing because you said so." Max grunted before another whirring sound rumbled behind them.

"Hop in you guys! I'll fly us there!" Rod called out to the others in the gang as he got into the pink jet and got it started up too.

The others smiled back at him feeling grateful for him offering to help, "Thanks Rod."

"You're the best!" They said as they began climbing in and Rod grinned while holding a thumbs up.

The moment everyone got inside, Reese held back, "I'll stay here and monitor the situation." she said to them seriously as they nodded in acknowledgement of her choice.

"Good, we'll keep you posted Reese." said Rex to her as Rod activated the jet's thrusters.

"Alright guys let's head out!" He said as they took off into the air, following after Dr Z's vehicle before reaching the heart of the city.

Following the trail of screams and taking notice of a tail which turned around the corner of a large building, both jets soon came upon a massive tyrannosaurus rex, black in coloration with flaming streaks across the length of its body! It towered to nearly have the height of some of the buildings present in the city, rivalling even the biggest sauropods in size! Everyone gazed upon it not only because of its size but also because of the immense power its aura was giving off, "Whoa…look at it…" Max breathed.

"That's the one the scanner detected for sure." Rex stated.

"It looks like a t-rex but it's enormous!" said Zoe in disbelief at what she was seeing.

Cera then gulped anxiously, "Yeah, like way bigger than Terry….." she said as a bead of sweat dropped from her cheek, before she turned over to Rod and Laura, "No offence." she quickly said.

"None taken." Laura replied understandably. Compared to that monstrosity, that Terry was nothing more than a minnow!

As Cera eyed the huge beast below them, she then widened her eyes in realisation over the dinosaur's possible true identity! "Wait…could it be?"

The others looked to her curiously as she said it, "Huh? What is it?" Max asked.

She looked to them all seriously, "Dr Owen said a T rex fossil was taken from a dig site he worked at by some alpha droids earlier today." she explained before looking back down again, "You don't think Seth actually-"

They all widened their eyes in realisation at what she meant, "Ah!"

Max then gritted his teeth in anger as he looked down again at Seth's man made abomination of a dinosaur, "As if engineering living dinosaurs is bad enough, now he's making them straight from the bone!" he growled clenching his fist, seeing his science as nothing more but corrupting the dinosaurs and no doubt many more to come if he got his way.

Cera too narrowed her eyes thinking the same as Max did, however she also felt a bit sorry for the beast, realising its peaceful rest was desecrated and now it was twisted to become a monster under the control of a madman, "How low can he get…."

"His madness knows no bounds…." Rex grunted in agreement.

Spike then narrowed his eyes closely at the behemoth dinosaur as it strolled through the streets without a care for anyone or anything in its way, "As far as I know tyrannosaurus fossils as large as that one have never been unearthed so this could be an amazing new discovery. But somehow I don't think so." he said with deep suspicion.

"Not a chance…." said Laura in agreement.

"Seth is behind this!" Dr Z yelled, "That dinosaur has obviously been genetically modified in one of his evil experiments!" he cried out feeling betrayed that Seth was keeping a secret this big from him this whole time, and also slightly jealous that he never got to do this himself.

"Aren't you supposed to be the one doing evil experiments doctor?" Ursula then asked him.

"Does he have no respect?" Zander muttered as the t-rex knocked down a rock from the roof it was climbing on, causing their jet to crash down to the ground! Fortunately the A Team with Dr Z were able to get out unharmed as they ran out onto the road to see the black t-rex passing by them as if they were nothing more than ants to it which were hardly worth its' attention.

"Seth! You give honest hard working evil scientists like me a bad name!" Dr Z cried out in frustration as the tyrannosaurus slammed its head into a building and walked away, looking for more people to terrorise, fear to spread and destruction to wreak!

The pink jet meanwhile was still in the air and hovering just out of reach of the tyrannosaur's massive jaws and huge tail as it began climbing rooftops and roaring out loudly on top, shattering glass windows within range of its massive roar and earth equating stomps!

"We have to get closer!" Max pointed as Rod gritted his teeth.

"I'll try….but this won't be easy…." he muttered as he tried to bring the jet in closer up towards the t-rex who was now stomping across the rooftops and cracking them under its massive weight. Taking notice of them the t-rex took the incoming jet as an annoying fly as it quickly swung out its tail at them!

Rex widened his eyes, "Watch out!" he cried as the rex smashed down on the building causing several pieces of it to be sent flying towards them, pelting the jet hard under a rain of rubble as it began spinning out of control!

"GAH!"

"HELP!"

"We're going down!" They all cried before Rod was able to reach the emergency eject button in time!

"Bail!" he yelled pressing it as the jet opened and everyone was flung out in time before it crashed!

"AAAAAAHH!"

CRASH!

A little while later, as the D team lay about on the ground nearly lifeless while surrounded by several pieces of rubble, Max soon came to as he gritted his teeth and forced himself up straight with whatever strength he could muster in his arms, "Urgh….my head…." he groaned as he began rubbing his head which throbbed like crazy.

"Ow….I'm gonna feel that tomorrow…." Zoe moaned as she picked herself up unsteady and Rex shook his head and any dust that may have gotten into his hair.

"Hey," as Max looked up he saw Cera holding out a hand to him, apparently having regained consciousness earlier before the others did, "Can you guys stand?" she asked with concern.

"Yeah…I think so….." Max replied as he took the hand and she pulled him up. As he steadily tried to stabilise himself she went to go help the others too.

"Urgh…." Max stumbled about as he walked over to look out at the side over some railings, seeing countless people running screaming for their lives and hearing the sounds of the t-rex roaring in the distance behind some large buildings where it was no doubt causing all kinds of havoc wherever it went. "Man…this is almost like one of those giant monster movies I saw only real." he thought as the scene reminded him of said movie involving a giant dinosaur creature which terrorised Tokyo.

"Let's just hope we can take it down somehow….." said Zoe as she walked up to Max to get a hard look at the carnage and chaos before them.

"Yeah…easier said than done….." said Rex uneasily as Cera too felt unnerved by all the damage around them, wondering they could fix this if there was a way….

As Max hardened his gaze at the danger Sanjo City was in, he suddenly widened his eyes in realisation, "Ah!" he turned around and began looking frantically, "Where's dad, Rod and Laura?!" he exclaimed in a panic.

"We're down here!" A voice suddenly shouted out to them from behind.

"HUH?" The D Team hurried over to the edge of the walkway they were at and found Laura jumping up and down to get their attention with Spike and Rod waving at them.

Seeing their friends and family alright and alive made them feel more at ease, "Phew…They're safe…."

"Thank goodness." They said feeling grateful now they had one less thing to worry about.

"We'll meet up later! Right now you guys are closest to that monstrosity!" Rod called out to them.

"Do whatever it takes to stop it!" Spike yelled as the D Team nodded back at him.

"We will! In the meantime watch yourselves!" Max cried out as the D Team ran off towards the danger, summoning their dinosaurs to chibi form who trailed after them, leaping heroically into what may be their biggest battle yet.

"Be careful!" Spike cried once more to them out of concern, "Don't do anything careless now!"

Seeing Max and the others were doing their bit, Laura felt it was time the did what they could, "Come on!" she said to the group with pumped up arms, "Let's go find grampa and the others! They need us!" she said seriously.

"Yeah." Rod nodded as they ran off in another direction to find him, Johnathan and the rest of the Alpha gang.

"All citizens are urged to immediately take shelter from both the huge UFO and the vicious dinosaur that came from it now wreaking havoc over Sanjo City." said the anchorwoman as crowds of people scattered about in terror like ants, as the huge black tyrannosaurus began tearing apart the top part of the building it stood on like it was nothing!

Below the building, the D Team soon arrived at a raised bridge as they stared up at the huge dinosaur, "Seth must have made some modifications to it." Rex observing it closely.

"I'm sure he did. We already know he could care less about dinosaurs." Max grunted in disgust.

"Right now we've got to stop this one from destroying the town." Zoe added knowing they were about to have the fight of their lives.

"No matter what it takes." Cera concluded seeing that the fate of not only Sanjo City, but the entire human race and all of dinosaur kind rested on this battle!

Returning their partners to their cards, "GO!" Zoe then cried as the D Team readied for battle!

"Dino slash!" The entire D Team yelled as they slashed their cards, this time all 4 dinosaurs materialised on the field and roared out together as they stood before the black t-rex who towered over them like toys! The massive mutant then jumped down to the ground from above and roared out in anger at the thought of such insects thinking they could challenge his might!

"It's not afraid at all! It's going right after them!" Zoe cried knowing it must be very powerful to show no acts of caution, no doubt Seth override its natural instincts to serve only one purpose, destruction.

"Let's go Chomp!" Max declared undeterred while taking out his move card, "Lightning spear!" he announced slashing it!

"I'll back you up Max!" Cera followed as she held her arm out, "Energy equaliser!" she cried as Miku shrieked and glowed rainbow in color! She then latched onto Chomp's back as he surged with rainbow coloured lightning! Fearlessly the triceratops rushed ahead towards the t-rex and shot up at its throat! Unfortunately his attack was no more than a mere mosquito bite to the giant dinosaur as he easily shook him off! Miku was able to jump and glide away to a safe spot on a lamp post in time before Chomp crashed down hard on the ground! Finding the attack to be no more than a nuisance the t-rex snorted out rather cockily feeling proud of its unmatched power!

"AH!" Max, Zoe and Cera gasped in shock at how easily Chomp was thrown off.

"Hey! I thin that dinosaur's making fun of us!" Laura cried angrily as she and her group arrived on the scene.

"Did you notice its size?" Rod muttered uneasily, "When you're that bog you could be a jerk…."

Before long Dr Z and the Alpha Trio arrived too, "Well, it's time I showed that traitor Seth who he's dealing with!" Dr Z grumbled as he stepped forward with an alpha scanner in his hand.

"We'll never win if we battle like this!" Rex said seriously knowing normal attacks aren't going to cut it this time, "We need to all strike at once!" he said at the end.

Suddenly a red light shone on the ground and as they all looked they saw Dr Z had just summoned Terry to the field, who quickly shuddered at the sight of the much larger tyrannosaurus he was being pitted against!

"Yeah! Show that t-rex what you've got Terry!" Dr Z cheered despite Terry's sheer shock and horror at the monstrosity that was staring down on him, but also that he was forced to fight it! "Volcano burst!" the old man yelled as he slashed the fire move! Gathering flames in his jaws, Terry shot a stream of fire at the larger tyrannosaurus, only for his attack to fizzle out and doing nothing at all to his giant adversary! "What's this!? No effect!?" Dr Z exclaimed in disbelief at the sight of his move card proving to completely ineffective!

The black t-rex, feeling its time was being wasted with such pitiful resistance decided to finish things in 1 strike, as it turned around and raised its tail up high and began to bring it down! Terry and the others backed away nervously and were about to scatter before being returned to their cards in time right before the t-rex's tail swung own and smashed the ground effortlessly!

After regaining their partners' cards the D Team each let out a sigh of relief, "That was close…." said Max.

"Yeah too close…." Zoe added as she fell on her knees feeling overwhelmed.

Rex then turned to his friends seriously, "Come on, let's regroup with everyone." he said as they nodded with him and followed him to the lower levels to meet up with the others.

"Tch! Bunch of cowards…." Dr Z hissed in annoyance upon seeing the dinosaurs beating a hasty retreat when they should be fighting to exact his hopeless revenge.

"You called?"

"Reporting for duty." said Ursula and Ed as the trio reported to his side like loyal dogs, assuming he was summoning them.

Rex however had all he could take from the old man as he rushed towards him with a furious glare, "Don't you get it!?" he yelled bitterly as he grabbed hold of Dr Z by the collar and held him up, "None of us can beat that thing on our own!"

"I don't take orders from you!" Dr Z rebutted arrogantly.

His stubborn attitude and refusal to admit to admit his wrongs served to push Rex further over the edge, "You're gonna have to because this was all your fault in the first place!" he yelled as his anger boiled up even more and he pulled Dr Z closer to him. The others held back, they never seen Rex so furious before and they were afraid to see what were to happen if they tried to get in between them.

He however wasn't willing to give in and admit it so easily, "I don't know what you're talking about…." the smaller old man scoffed as he turned to look away uncaringly.

"You're responsible for everything that's gone wrong here!" Rex yelled as he was growing increasingly tempted to go physical on the doctor, his self restraint gradually losing out to his desire to get revenge as he tightened his grip and pulled on Dr Z even more.

"Don't stretch my lab coat!" Dr Z yelled back refusing to be disrespected by a mere child.

Max realising the situation was getting tense decided to step in before things got too far, "Hey! Rex it's okay…." he said nicely calming him down, hoping to break up the fight because they had more than enough trouble with Seth without fighting amongst each other.

"Come on grampa stop…." Laura allowed as she and Max pulled both of them apart and held them back.

"You alright?" Zoe asked compassionately as Rex remained hard and silent much to their unease. Cera on the other hand looked on sympathetically understanding his reasons, because Dr Z was indeed the cause of everything bad that had happened in the beginning, as well as it being personal with Rex for what he did to his true family.

"Grampa, you really should at least tell him you're sorry for what happened to his mom and dad." said Laura to Dr Z in disappointment as he brushed off his clothes.

"Ha! I won't apologise to the likes of him! No!" Dr Z scoffed as he turned his back to her and folded his arms much which served to anger her that much more, as even Rod and the trio were starting too see he was taking things too far. "So this kid is the baby that was left behind that day…." he thought to himself bitterly as the D Team eyed him with disgust, realising that his actions had now come to bite him back as if it was some sort of karma for his own selfish deeds.

Before long a hologram form of Seth soon descended from Zeta Point above and landed before them, which caught their eye, "Hehehaha. Fighting amongst yourselves already? Hahaha!" he laughed mockingly as everyone began focusing their anger and hatred on him.

"Look! It's him!" Max cried pointing out at him.

"Seth…." Cera clicked her tongue in disgust at the unforgivable man who was the root of the evil which started all this. First experimenting on dinosaurs was bad enough, now unleashing them to attack innocent people to show off his work was really crossing the line for her.

"What have you done!?" Rod demanded feeling betrayed and hateful for the lies he and his sister had bought into this whole time.

"Seth! When I get my hands on you I'm going to crush you!" Dr Z yelled shaking his fists cursingly, though Seth shrugged them off as mere empty threats.

"Ha! But how?" he smirked arrogantly, "You've seen that you're no match for my new dinosaur. I've finally created my black t-rex!" he boasted proudly of his greatest creation yet which may no doubt surpass all dinosaur kind.

"So that's what it's called…." Zoe muttered.

Max then gritted his teeth and yelled out in anger, "You creep! Dinosaurs aren't objects! You have no right to mess with them like that!" he shouted with bitterness at what he twisted the tyrannosaurus into from a fossil.

"You've created an abomination to all dinosaur kind!" Cera followed after hi, but both their words fell on deaf ears as Seth began to take advantage of the situation.

"If you want my black t-rex to stop destroying the city then I have only 1 simple demand." he said calmly before saying it, "Surrender all of the stones in your possession to me."

"What!?" Zoe exclaimed in shock at Seth's horrible and unacceptable demand, "Forget it!"

"So that's it! You've been after the stones all this time!" Dr Taylor followed.

"No way!" Max retorted unyieldingly, "We all know those stones contain the stones hold the souls of the dinosaurs! You'll never get your hands on em!"

"That's right!" Cera added just as determined as he was while Miku screeched viciously.

His answer however only amused Seth as if he was hoping he'd say that so he could prove how wrong he was, "Oh? Really?" he mused, "You should never say never." With the push of a button, a group of alpha droids were ejected from above before landing in the middle of the D Team!

CAPTURE CAPTURE

Catching them off guard they grabbed hold of Zoe and took her hostage before shoving the others aside!

"GAAH!"

"AAAAH!"

"ZOE!" Max gasped as the droids took her before Seth and his enormous dinosaur.

CAPTURE! CAPTURE!

"I'll ask one more time." he said once more as his expression darkened, "Hand over all of the stones you have. If you want the girl unharmed."

The others glared back at him, with hate so thick you could cut it with a knife, truly there was no one they hated more than Seth as he enjoyed what he was doing and had no remorse for it at all. The thought of seeing how dinosaurs were no more than tools for him and how he was taking advantage of their bonds with each other was pushing Cera beyond anger point herself as she clenched her fist, "How dare he….." she hissed under her breath.

He soon however took notice of her and smirked, "Oh, I almost forgot." he said surprising everyone below.

"Huh?"

"What now?"

It was then a maniacal grin came upon his face, "While we're at it, I'd appreciate it if you could also throw in that fascinating device of yours too, what was it again? A dinoshot?" he said holding huis hand out to Cera which made her widened her eyes in shock, "Wouldn't want to leave any loose ends behind now would we?" he said at the end narrowing his eyes and grinning sinisterly.

"Grrr!"

"Alright! Now you've gone too far!" Spike growled as he clenched his hands into fists.

"Hmph! So what will it be?" Seth shrugged it off as the D Team and Alpha gang was left conflicted knowing either way they'd lose…..

"Ugh…." With no other choice, Rex and Cera reluctantly gave into his demand seeing they were left with no other options.

"Okay."

"Tch! Fine….you win…" they said as Zoe widened her eyes in shock.

"No you guys!" she yelled, "If you give in now its all over!"

Seth however saw that it was already over long ago and now was his chance to finally seal his victory, "The stones and the dinoshot? Or your friend?" he said once more hinting that time and his patience was running low.

Realising this Rex looked over to Max and the others, "No choice, we have to give him what he wants." he said as they began taking out their devices and began to hand them out to the smaller droids who held their long arms to receive them.

Seeing how her friends were being threatened unless they gave into Seth's unreasonable demands, Laura and Rod quickly turned over to Dr Z, "Grampa! We need to give him our scanners too!" said Rod as he dropped his jaw in shock at the fact that not only his grandkids were thinking of giving up to Seth but were actually risking their necks out for the D Team who were just as big thorns in his side as Seth was!

"What!? No way! Forget it!" he yelled back shaking his fist at them before folding his arms and turning away, "I refuse to give up my precious device to Seth, let alone to save those brats!" he huffed which further irritated his grandkids.

"Just how selfish can you be!?" Laura growled as Rod gritted his teeth at the old man's stubborn attitude, admittedly he could see now why the D Team wanted to stand against him for so long.

"Grr!"

While they were distracted fighting with each other, a group of small pink droids reached in and snatched all 3 of their alpha scanners away much to their surprise! "H…Hey!"

"GAH!"

As they began to return to Seth, the trio ran out hoping to get them back, "Give that back!" Before they could catch up a pair of large super droids stomped out onto their path and held their arms out like a wall stopping them from moving any further!

"GAH!" they croaked anxiously before waving their arms out frantically not wanting any trouble, "N…Never mind!"

"Tch! What wimps…." Dr Z huffed in disgust while wondering why he ever trusted them in the first place.

As the droids began taking away the stones one by one by the D Team and their allies, Zoe could only look on helplessly as their last hope was slowly being taken away before their eyes, "I'm so sorry…." was all she could say as Cera handed her dinoshot over to the droids last before they returned with their prize back to their master.

Cera then shot a glare at Seth with hatred and rage inside her eyes at the smug face he was giving them, "You won't get away with this…." she swore under her breath if it was the last thing she'd ever do.

Once they were all in his possession and the last of his potential threats, despite being very insignificant to begin with, were eliminated, Seth then began smiling smugly to hsimelf seeing his vcotyr was now secure, "Well, that's that." He was just about to go back on his word, and have Black T-Rex finish them off once and for all excuse he could, a beeping sound suddenly caught his attention, "Huh?" Looking to his screens they displayed his dinosaur's energy levels were reaching red levels, "The low power warning!?" he thought in alarm as this caught him completely by surprise, "This operation used up a lot more energy than I expected. Black T-Rex is going to need more power…." he thought with annoyance. He planned to finish things off once and for all but it would seem he'd have to postpone that for another time.

The droids soon released Zoe back to her friends and as they did, the black tyrannosaurus returned to Zeta Point in a stream of red energy before the rest of the droids were sucked back up through the teleporter, "He actually kept his word…." Cera blinked her eyes in surprise before hearing the sounds of Zoe coughing loudly after having been grabbed and choked tightly earlier.

COUGH! COUGH!

"Ah!"

"ZOE!"

"Are you alright!?" Her friends cried in alarm as they came to her side.

"Yeah…." she replied sounding bitter at being a helpless damsel in distress, "This isn't the first time I've been snatched by androids…." she muttered recalling how she got caught the first time they were at Zeta Point.

Checking her and seeing she suffered no injuries, Max smiled with relief while Rex and Cera looked up at Zeta Point which was moving on its way.

"I wonder what happened….Why did he take back t-rex?" Rex asked with suspicion.

"I don't know….." Cera narrowed her eyes with Miku knowing something must have been up.

"Maybe it got tired I guess?" Zoe assumed.

Cera then hardened her gaze in response, "One thing's for sure, we're going to need to find some kind of weakness if we're going to stand a chance against it next time….." she thought to herself knowing they'd need a lot more help and to fight more strategically next time, and the only way to do that now was to divide and conquer….

Wasting no more time, Max quickly picked himself up and looked to the rest of the gang, "Let's go, we've got to get our dinoholders back and the stones." he said firmly to the others.

"You good to go Zoe?" Rex asked with concern as she nodded firmly.

"Yup!"

Cera smiled seeing they were back in business again, before staring up at Zeta Point uneasily, "But how are you going to get up there you guys?" she asked before looking back to see the pink jet was flipped upside down and damaged badly it was in no shape to fly anytime soon, "Our jet's pretty much busted so there's no way to fly now."

The rest of the gang fell silent, unsure of what to do and feeling they were stuck…till they saw Dr Z and the trio head towards the remaining blue jet which was rather bashed and smoking but still operational nevertheless.

"Well we've still got one more." Dr Taylor pointed out as the D Team stood up firmly together.

"Then let's go!" said Max firmly, unwilling to let Seth get away with what he's done to them and their home.

As they rushed over to the jet which was just starting up and Rod and Laura having stopped them from taking off, Cera held herself back at the last moment, having an idea and also not too keen on getting squashed in that one jet with everyone else, "Hey guys." she said as they paused and looked to her.

"Yeah Cera?" Max blinked his eyes.

"You go on ahead, I'm going back to the D Lab and do a scan on that t-rex." she said much to everyone's confusion.

"Huh?"

"The D Lab?" Spike and Johnathan went.

She narrowed her eyes, "It's obvious than conventional methods of attack aren't going to cut it, so hopefully, when I go back and use the D Lab's computers to scan that monstrosity, I might be able to find a chink in its armour." she explained, "Like it or not you guys are going to need an edge if you're going up against something that powerful, and you know it."

The rest of the gang looked to each other, wondering whether they should let her go through with it, "She does have a point there…." said Max admittedly knowing at their current levels they didn't stand a chance against it.

"But we'd be one member down…." Rex said afterwards, also worried if she might even be able to get up and rendezvous with them even if she did get them an answer.

"As soon as I find an answer I'll come over as soon as I can." she said assuringly to them, "Trust me, I'll be back I promise."

Looking into her eyes and seeing she was determined to go through with this and they had no time to argue, the rest of them nodded in acceptance of her decision.

"Okay, then good luck." said Rex nodding to her as they ran towards the jet.

"If anyone can find a way to take down that dinosaur it's you and we know it!" Zoe grinned at her as she smiled back feeling encouraged by their faith and support in her.

"Watch yourselves!" she waved to them as they began calling out to Dr Z to stop taking off before they got on too. Cera then hardened her expression and nodded at Miku, knowing that the others were counting on them to do their part and they weren't about to let them down. With the fate of the world at stake, Cera began running back towards in the direction the D Lab was, using the strength she had in her legs and adrenaline and urgency pumpkin through her, she began leaping up to the rooftops of buildings taking a shortcut to the D Lab at the other end of the city, focusing on the goal and task at mind and ignoring all fatigue and exhaustion in the process knowing failure wasn't an option.

(Later)

As Reese surveyed the carnage caused by the black tyrannosaurus and the chaos running rampant in the city with Zeta Point flying overhead, from the safety of the D Lab, she continued to grow ever increasingly worried with each passing second over the safety of her family and their allies and that she codlin;t do anything for them no matter how much she wanted. She was just about to panic and assume the worst when suddenly a voice shouted from behind her.

"Reese!" She quickly turned around and widened her eyes in surprise to see it was none other than Cera! She was now drenched in sweat and panting hard after taking a long shortcut back home, seeing she was still alive gave Reese hope that the others were no doubt still alive and the only reason she wasn't with them now was because they sent her back.

"Cera!" she cried out in joy as she ran over to greet her, giving her support as she limped in exhaustion after all the running and jumping she did to get back home. "Oh I'm so glad you all made it out in one piece." she said with relief after having saw the entire thing on the News earlier, "It was a miracle that none of you suffered any serious injury." she added having witnessed their battle onscreen.

"Yeah, but miracles almost never happen twice, that's why I'm here." Cera replied as Miku became serious. She then made her way to one of the computers and began typing on it quickly as she could as an image of black t-rex appeared onscreen, along with several graphs and energy readings on them, "I need to do a scan on that tyrannosaurus," she said narrowing her eyes as the image was brought up, "It's way more powerful than any other dinosaur we've come across, everyone else is counting on me to find a weakness in that t-rex and I have no intention of letting them down." she said with determination in her voice.

Feeling inspired by her desire to help the others and seeing her chance to do something for them, Reese then stood up and walked over to another computer console and bean typing away herself, "I'll help in anyway I can." she said as she began going over the tyrannosaurus' earlier movements and attack patterns hoping to find an opening somewhere.

Cera smiled seeing she had her support, "I'll appreciate that Reese, in fact let's not waste anymore time." she said as she began typing away at the computer with Miku standing by her side and observing quietly.

Before going to work herself, Reese took notice of something in Cera which was unlike how she usually was herself, "She has a newfound clarity in her eyes….this type of determination….seems almost…personal….." she thought wondering why, before putting it aside and focusing on what was more important first.

After a while of studying the tyrannosaurus, and seeing the energy levels that were spiking hard before suddenly dropping before being recalled, Cera took notice of the reason why, "With all the genetic modifications and alterations made to its dna, that tyrannosaurus no doubt needs plenty of energy to sustain its massive build…." she said after seeing the readings were decreasing after slowly and sharply dropping.

"Which would explain why he probably took it back just now…." thought Reese putting a finger to her chin, "Maybe that could be the key to bringing it down?"

Cera shook her head unsurely, "Knowing Seth as the obsessive perfectionist he is, no doubt he'll be fixing that problem soon enough, so we'll have to find another way…." she replied knowing to always assume the worst as the 2 of them kept looking.

A little while longer of digging deeper, Reese soon noticed something rather peculiar, "Interesting…." she mused as Cera looked up at her.

"What is it Reese?" she asked as she walked over to her screen, to see that there was some sort of barrier which was coating the body of the tyrannosaurus.

"There's actually an energy shield concentrated around that black t-rex," Reese explained as it then fluctuated in several different levels when it was faced with Chomp's lightning spear and Terry's volcano burst as recorded earlier. "And when a move is used that dinosaur generates it in exactly the right amount and spot so that it can not only withstand take the hit but receive no damage at all…." she added seeing how the shield was calibrated to match and block against the moves that were thrown at it.

Seeing that made Cera narrow her eyes and grit her teeth in anger, "That Seth….tampering with dinosaurs like tools…." she growled seeing him to be manipulating dinosaurs and twisting them into monsters of the worst kind possible. Tainting their own hearts and souls with his twisted science and he didn't care at all.

"The way I see it, even if moves were to be used one after another it can still calibrate its shield to guard against them too in almost an instant." Reese continued as she compared the simulations and levels of the shield energy readings at how fast it changed to match 2 types of moves that were just used against it.

"That thing outclasses even the biggest sauropods in size too…." said Cera realising that supersaurus and seismosaurus would only get slaughtered if they were put out there against it so the D Team's best moves would still be useless, "Also, it seems to be able to use that energy should to guard against any kind of attack there is…." she then theorised.

The thought of it made Reese harden her expression, "This is a toughie….." she said folding her arms and the 2 of them drifted into deep thought.

It was then that Cera came to a realisation that the shield may have a possible flaw they could exploit, "But wait…what if the moves were to be used simultaneously?" she thought out loud as she began typing up a simulation, of Chomp and Terry unleashing their moves both at once. The results displayed that the shield wasn't able to fully block both fire and lightning simultaneously and in the end their attacks each had some effect in turn! Realising she may be onto something and may have found just the chink the D team needed, Cera brightened ups with hope and joy, "Yes, maybe that can be the key to breaking through its defences!" she cheered with a big smile as Miku chirped happily with her.

"Is that possible?" Reese asked curiously as Cera narrowed her eyes feeling unsure herself.

"I don't know…." she said in response before turning serious, "But it's all we've got now. And it's been sometime already, the others would need our help more than ever." she said to Reese who nodded affirmatively.

"You're right, there's no time to lose." she said as she walked to the side to get the keys to her plane, "We're leaving now."

"Mhmm." Cera nodded, but as she was just about to follow the Drake out to the garage where the plane was kept she then stopped at the last minute remembering something important, "Wait!" she called out which made Reese stop in surprise.

"Hmm?" Looking back Reese saw Cera heading for the card vault as she began dealing on the combination on the knob.

"Alright, if I remember correctly the code was…..got it!" she said as the door lock popped opened and inside was the entire stash of cards the D team gathered over the past few months, lying there and soon to be unleashed once more, "The others will need backup for sure. Knowing Seth he's bound to make that t-rex even stronger than before, and we'll need way more than 6 dinosaurs to take it down." She said with the intent of bringing in additional support for the gang as she began sorting through the dinosaurs available and the right move cards to go with them. Her words however made Miku poke her head up and chip at her feeling a bit offended. Understanding her, Cera then petted her on the head gently with her finger, "No offence Miku, but if I tried using you against that thing then…well…." she said uneasily.

Realising what she was getting at, Miku shuddered fearfully, knowing for a fact she wouldn't last a second against black t-rex if Chomp or Terry couldn't even scratch him.

As Cera continued sorting through the cards, segregating them orderly Reese then decided to move on without her, "In that case, I'll get the plane ready, be sure to meet me outside as soon as possible." she said firmly.

"You do that Reese." Cera called back to her as the elder woman exited the premises leaving Cera to her work.

"I'll just have to choose some of our strongest and from a variety of attributes too…." Eventually she got out some of the most capable dinosaurs she felt were best suited for the task as well as making sure their battle styles and abilities were equally balanced too, which included maiasaura, stegosaurus and daspletosaurus, "Wish I could take all of you but there's no time and I don't have enough room." she said feeling bad she wouldn't be able to fit them all in the deck box she was packing the dinosaurs and moves into before finally the finishing touch, "And of course these." she said as she gathered the secret dinosaurs together and added them in, completely filling the deck box to the brim. Eying it carefully and feeling satisfied with it, "That should be enough….I hope…" said Cera as Miku squawked out in agreement with her decision as she was helped onto her partner's shoulder who looked at her in the eye, "Alright Miku, let's go save the world!" said Cera firmly as her microraptor shrieked with determination as the 2 of them headed out to the doors ready to face their destiny.

As the plane started outside, Cera got herself strapped in tightly as Reese started up the engines and narrowed her eyes upon getting ready for takeoff, "Here we go! Hold on to your heads!" she said strongly as the plane drove forward and then taking off into the air with little effort!

As they looked out the windows to see the city below them and how high they were flying in the sky, Cera and Miku gazed upon below in awe and in inspiration, it was an experience which took their breath away as they saw the world down below them, "Wow Reese, you really are great at this." she complimented her as she smiled back.

"Thanks," she said feeling flattered, "Maybe when this is over maybe I could give you some tips." she said only half jokingly.

It was only through her words that both Cera and Miku suddenly got a small memory recall, where she was sitting inside a cockpit of what appeared to be a dinosaur egg shaped jet, flying rather smoothly inside a multicoloured tunnel of the sort. It was going smoothly, till suddenly her jet was fired upon from behind, causing her to lose control before her consoles sparked and fumed before eventually exploding in her face and causing her to scream loudly! As it passed, Cera shook her head to clear it out before simply replying calmly as she could to Reese, "That's….very nice of you Reese hehe." she chuckled nervously while Miku remained silent, "But we'll save it for another time, right now we-" She soon took notice of 3 strange figures descending slowly right at the far front of them, "Wait….What's that?"

"Hmmm?" Reese blinked her eyes before narrowing them for a closer look. Apparently they were descending not far from Zeta Point which was coming into view just ahead, "How curious…." she mused before pushing forward on the controls, "We'd better go in for a closer look." she said as the plane accelerated ahead towards the 3 strange silhouettes in the distance.

Further away, the A Team still hadn't quite made it to the ground yet and the 3 of them were now falling dangerously close to some live electrical cables that were surging with energy! As they came closer and closer with every second, and the wind blowing them in the direction of their impending doom, they could only struggle and writhe about in a hopeless attempt to get out of the wind!

"WAAAAAAHH!"

"I don't want to get my goose cooked!" Zander and Ed each screamed in a frantic!

"Quick! Maybe if we struggle fast enough we can move ourselves away!" Ursula suggested as they kept trying to wriggle and push away from the wires, but unfortunately Ed and Zander soon came too close to Ursula's parachute as she shuddered and turned pale, "H….Hey stay away from me you two! Otherwise we'll get-" Her words came too late as the 2 large men ended up getting snared in her parachute ties and with all 3 of them tangled up they began spiralling out of control like a rock towards the wires!

"WAAAAAAHHHH!" their cries echoed through the skies above the city as they came in close to a most shocking experience! "Somebody save us!" They screamed in unison as they came within feet of getting themselves cooked! Just as a incoming plane swopped in and scooped them up in time at the last moment.

"Huh?" They opened their eyes curiously as they felt the cushioned seats below them rather than metallic electrical wires.

Miraculously, the trio soon found themselves lying ontop of one another inside what appeared to be the seating area of a small vehicle!

"Hey where are we?" Ursula blinked her eyes looking around then looking up to see an open hatch in the roof where they fell inside the plane.

"Weren't we about to get the shock treatment of the century just now?" Ed then asked wondering as to how they ended up in there, not that he was complaining or anything.

"Take a guess." a voice said to them in front. As they looked ahead they widened their eyes to see Cera and Reese were the ones to have saved their hides at the last minute!

"Ah!"

"You!" Ursula and Ed exclaimed, though Zander instead grinned deeply and cheered out loud.

"My angel!" he cried blushing red and laughing in joy, "To think I would be saved not once but twice by you….."

Ed's eyes suddenly glistened innocently as he clapped his hands together, "You saved our lives! We are-"

Ursula whoever didn't share the same kind of mindset as her friends as she shoved Ed back and brought herself forward, "Tch! We never asked for your help! And we never would from a brat like you!" she growled in frustration snorting steam and gritting her teeth.

As Reese ignored the other woman's prattling, Cera raised an eyebrow at her in disappointment, "That's the thanks we get for saving your butts?" she asked before looking ahead, "Well remind us not to do it again then. Maybe we ought to drop you guys off right now."

As soon as she uttered those words, Zander and Ed gasped in alarm before cutting in front of Ursula and bowing down frantically, "Well I'm grateful!"

"So am I!" They each said as quickly as they could not wanting another near death experience as well as even deciding to put behind all their past disagreements with he D Team to do it!

Seeing how quickly they turned filled Ursula with disgust at how easily they'd turn, "Grrr!" she growled as a tic mark appeared on her head and she clenched her hand into a fist, "Traitors!" she cried out while delivering a swift blow to their heads!

WHAM!

"YOW!" They yelped and grasped their heads while painfully whimpering, as she looked away and pouted.

"Hmph!"

While Reese ignored them best she could and focused on her flying, Cera observed and smiled, could tell she was grateful on the indie but didn't want to admit it just yet. Before long as the plane ascended to above Zeta Point, the massive flying island just below, Reese's hawk like eyes caught sight of the huge hole in its surface which looked like the perfect way to get inside, "Hang on, I'll try to land us on the top near that opening." she said as she too the plane down carefully, before coming to a smooth stop within metres of the hole.

"Thanks for the ride Reese." said Cera as she opened the door and got off.

Seeing it made Zander's eyes become filled with hearts, "Wow! My angel is not only beautiful, she's smart and talented too!" he said clapping his hands together, blushing red and feeling his own heart soar into the sky like the plane did just now, "Oh everything I ever loved in a woman….." he said dreamily while fantasising how Reese, in angelic clothing and wings was carrying him bridal style int the heavens above.

"Gee, how nice…." Ed sighed feeling depressed at himself off not finding a girl and at how lucky Zander was compared to him.

"Grr….what does she have that I don't anyway…." Ursula grumbled feeling jealous as she looked away.

After she got off and closed the door behind her, Reese called out to her, "Good luck Cera, the meantime I'll keep circling and monitor the situation from above." she said as Cera nodded.

"Mhmm." she smiled feeling secure knowing that in case of an emergency they'd still have an emergency escape on standby in case. "Take care of yourselves!" she waved out to them as the plane took off into the air once more, leaving Cera to handle things on her own. She ran over to the huge hole and narrowed her eyes into the darkness below, "Alright, now to find the others." she said to herself seriously as she leapt inside, knowing one way or another this would be their final battle.

(Later)

As Cera snuck along the hallways of Zeta Point for the 3rd time in a row, all seemed to proceed well as she made progress through the lair of the enemy with surprisingly no resistance at all, but that didn't stop her from keeping her senses on high alert as she kept her eyes peeled and Miku kept her ears open listening for even the slightest sound of danger, "We've come in pretty deep….but still no sign of any guards…." she said uneasily knowing form experience that danger was always planning to take her by surprise when she least expects it, "With luck maybe Seth won't-" She suddenly felt her foot step on something rather hard which surprised her.

"Huh?" As she looked down from where she was, her heart skipped a beat when she realised she was stepping on what appeared to be a severed leg! "EEEK!" she screamed jumping up in terror and clutching her face while Miku cried out in fear and even shed off a handful of feathers in the process as a result from the shock! As she took a closer look at the leg however, she soon saw it to be rather familiar, "Huh? Wait a sec…..it's…metal?" she blinked upon seeing wires popping out of the end, "That leg….I've seen it before….." It was soon she recognised the show on the end of the foot that she realised whom it came from, "Helga?" Looking ahead she saw what appeared to be a trail of parts and components lying out as if they were being dumped like litter, no doubt by Seth after having saw her being shocked by him the last time, "Boy she's in worse shape than when I last saw her….." she said feeling sorry for her even if she was unstable and out of whack, "Wonder if there are parts of her lying around?" Cera then wondered as she continued onwards along the straight path, picking up pieces along the way from an arm, hair piece and even Helga's head bizarrely, "Maybe if I can put her together again, maybe even better than before, she could be of great help in finding the others too." she then thought to herself as she collected more and more of the Alpha gang's housemaid.

Suddenly. the sounds of incoming footsteps ahead of them in the darkness of the halls echoed, "Ah!" she widened her eyes and quick hid behind the corner, noticing an incoming shadow appearing on the wall just in front of the corner they were hiding by. As it neared and the footsteps became louder, Cera hardened her expression seriously, "Must be a guard….." she thought suspecting the worst before motioning to Miku on her shoulder who flared up her feathers readying herself, "Okay Miku, let's take him by surprise." she said to her as her raptor responded with a calm nod before they faced forward waiting for their foe to present himself, even if they were outmatched in terms f strength they'd at least have the element o surprise on their side. As there foe was just about to come around to meet them, "Ready? One, two-" a foot soon stepped into view and that served as their cue, "THREE! HYAH!" she yelled loud as she ran around the corner and threw out a fast punch!

"HAH!" without warning her arm was grabbed and she was flung straight into the wall instead! "Oof!" she grunted as she slammed hard into it before sliding down to the floor on her head, "Urgh…that went differently in my head…." she groaned painfully rubbing it as Miku went up to her face and nuzzled it. As she opened her eyes she saw a pair of familiar feet walking up to her, "Huh?" as she turned around and looked up she came face to face with Jonathan who was eying her in surprise as much as she was!

"Oh my? Cera is that you?" the butler robot said in worry as he covered his mouth in shock.

Cera blinked her eyes in surprise too at her unexpected ally, "J…Joh…nathan?"

He quickly bowed down in respect, "My sincerest apologies for retaliating like that, you surprised me there, and that usually doesn't happen." he said.

"No apologies necessary, ow…." she grunted as he helped her stand up again, "In fact I should be apologising for attacking you, I thought you were a guard droid." she said as she began brushing herself off.

"In that case, apology accepted." he replied bowing down to her with respect before noticing something in her hand, "Hmm?" taking a closer look he recognised it as a familiar arm, "Ah! I see you've found some of Helga's parts!" he said gladly as he began unloading the other pieces he picked up along the way, "As have I!" he said as he revealed he was holding onto her other arm, leg, apron and even her head piece!

Cera widened her eyes seeing he had all the other pieces she was looking for, "Ah! Do you think that's all of them?" she asked him, "Maybe we can put her together again, knowing how strong and adept she is, she could be of great help to us in finding the others." she then suggested as Jonathan nodded in agreement.

"I couldn't agree more." he said as popped his knuckles.

"Come, let's get to work!" she said as the 2 of them began working with Helga's parts and components, gradually putting her back together like she was a giant jigsaw puzzle, clamping on limbs into the main body while also making sure to fit in the smaller components and bolting in other bits to ensure she remained stable both emotionally and physically. Even Miku played a role too by using her sharp eyes to pick up any smaller pieces rolling away from their work area before hopping over to bring them back. When the 2 of them came close, Cera then wiped away some sweat from her brow, "Say…this is actually…much easier than I thought it'd be." she commented, "Maybe a little easier than when Reese and I were fixing you up. No offence." she said at the end.

"None taken." Jonathan replied, "In fact Helga's model is based off a do it yourself kit in the future so it's only natural." he added which surprised her, the fact that Helga was so strong yet was a robot that could be ordered so easily was quite astounding, it made her wonder what was the future like? She hoped she could one day see it herself. "Though I must say, you certainly have skill, you've definitely surpassed most of my expectations already." Jonathan commented which snapped her out of her thoughts as she returned to work again.

"Huh? Oh thanks." she replied feeling happy at his kind words of praise.

"I must ask….how are you so adept in mechanics?" he then asked as she looked up at him again, "I am curious as to learn where you picked up such skill. If you wouldn't mind I'd like to know."

As soon as he asked that very question, Cera soon fell silent as the thought of that served to remind her once more about the memories she was missing from herself all this time, "That's the thing…." she said sadly, "I really don't know…." Jonathan soon began realise his mistake and he started regret his question, "As I said before…my memory has all been a blur….all I can pick up are new gifts which come up in certain situations, or maybe they're old talents I may have had in the past and knowledge on dinosaurs too." she said slowly as Miku let out a low coo sound before nuzzling against her, "Sure wish I knew how I know so much about all this….as well as who I really am too." she said as she continued to piece together parts of Helga's limbs and fitting them together while Jonathan lowly fitted her head back onto her neck, "Hopefully helping you all get back home to the future eventually would help me find clues as to who I am or where I came from as well." she said at the end before helping Helga stand up on her 2 feet, "But enough about that, let's get on with patching up Helga okay?" she then asked hoping they'd move on from this topic and focus on more pressing matters at hand.

"Like I thought, she truly is special and gifted too…." Jonathan thought to himself seriously as he recalled back the time they first met in the woods, and since then she truly had surpassed his expectations time and again along with the D Team, only she may have grown even more than they have, and now more than ever he felt he owed it to her to help her on her own quest to find out who she truly was when this was all over, "It's what Master Rex would want and so do I…." he said at the end.

At long last, they managed to construct Helga to nearly the same original stated as she was, the only last piece to add was her hair, which Jonathan picked up before walking over to put it on, "There, that should do it!" said Cera clapping her hands off dust as Jonathan prepared to fit in the last piece, as she and Miku both watched with anticipation, "Here goes….." As Jonathan placed Helga's hard back onto her head, she suddenly opened her eyes and began snarling like a mad beast as she snorted out steam like an enraged bull! Cora's heart skipped a beat and Miku's jaw hung realising they may have screwed up somehow and turned Helga into a mad beast that would destroy them all! "Is that supposed to happen?" Cera asked nervously as she began to step away nervously.

Hearing something behind them, Jonathan narrowed his eyes as he looked behind, "Only one way too find out." he said as they turned to look, alarmed to see a squadron of security droids had made it to their location and now were charging at them with outstretched arms!

INTRUDERS! They beeped as the leader, a small one with wiry arms pointed out, "CAPTURE THEM!" he commanded as they rushed forward preparing to overwhelm the intruders with sheer force and numbers!

"Tch! We've been spotted." Cera clicked her tongue in frustration as she stood up and readied herself, with Miku snarled angrily preparing herself for the fight of their lives! Jonathan quickly stepped in front of them and opened his arms wide across.

"Get behind me!" he said to her seriously, "I'll protect you like I would for Master Rex and his friends!"

As the droids closed in, he gritted his teeth and growled seriously, feeling unsure as to whether he might be able to take them on his own, "Grrr!" Cera sweated tensely worrying what might happen to them if they got caught, only for Helga to suddenly step in front of them unexpectedly.

"Hmm?"

She began to pop her knuckles before pointing out at her fellow robots, "You all have been very naughty!" she boomed which made them all stop in their tracks, realising she was back to normal they all began to shudder nervously as she charged ahead! "It's time for some discipline! YAH!" she yelled before ramming through a huge line of them like a battering ram! Even the biggest droids tumbled down like dominoes before her might before she went full housemaid on them ad began cleaning house!

RUN! RUN! RUN! Some of the droids cried out as they scurried away, unwilling to be sent to the scrapheap like some of their fallen brethren who were already reduced to parts and bolts!

As they stared in awe and amazement at the show she was putting on, "Whoa she's good…." was all Cera could utter out in face of Helga's raw power and sheer precision in doing so. Even Miku herself was at a loss for squawks and feeling grateful they had a robot on their side for a change.

"Indeed….." Johnathan nodded in acknowledgement, feeling as though they may have actually made her better than before, "In fact her skills may even be on a level beyond my own…." he said remembering the time they had a cooking duel and how she outclassed his best dish in every way possible.

Seeing the tides were turning already, Cera then smirked with confidence as she punched her arm out, "Well we can't let her have all the fun! Time to join the party!" she cried as she rushed in with Miku to join the fray!

"Well said! RAAAAH!" Jonathan yelled as he delivered a swift right hook to several droids while Cera delivered a dropkick to a few and swept a few off their feet causing them to tumble down!

As the tides turn and the halls began to litter with parts and sparking droids, the small leader droid then waved his arms out in a frantic, "I MUST RETREAT AND CALL FOR REINFORCEMENTS!" he screeched before spinning away as fast as he could.

Taking notice of him while stepping on one robot she took down, Cera glared angrily, "Oh no you don't! Go Miku!" she cried as she threw Miku out, who opened her arms wide and landed on the droid's head!

"HELP! GET OFF ME YOU-" swiftly avoiding his long arms she was able to open a small part on his back before chewing away at several wires and cords before causing the droid to short circuit and spin out of control! "AAAAAAAHHH!" his voice deepening as he whirled around and around, with Miku jumping off in time back into Cera's hands as the droid crashed into the wall and exploded in a pile of ash and flames!

BOOM!

"RETREAT! RETREAT! THEY'RE TOO STRONG! TOO STRONG!" The few remaining survivors cried as they ran off into the dark hallways ahead, realising they were completely outmatched and had no way of winning now.

As they soon departed, Cera let out a sigh of relief, "That takes care of them….for now." she whistled.

"Yes," said Jonathan feeling certain they won't be bothered for a while now, before looking towards the sealed room ahead, "But now onto matters at hand." They made it towards the front as Jonathan pointed out, "They're inside here, I saw them get taken in earlier." he said.

Cera narrowed her eyes seeing the lock was armed and heavily encrypted as she took a close look at it, "Then we'll just have to get inside, only question is how?" she muttered bringing a finger to her chin in thought, "The door locks seem to be activated remotely…." she mused noticing there weren't any slots for key cards or dialling codes into them, as Miku narrowed her eyes at the high security put into it, no doubt used to keep Rod and Laura in to make sure they didn't run off from their homework, to keep naughty children in so they'd behave or to act as an effective prison cell to hold troublemakers in. No doubt Seth pulled out all the stops for this, "Looks like we'll have to hack in somehow…." she was about to consider going to the control room and disable the security, when a loud voiced boomed.

"Stand aside!" Helga interrupted as she walked past Cera, "I'll take care of this!" she said popping her knuckles, and after swinging her right arm a couple of rounds she threw it forward with all her might! "HAH!" Her iron fist delivered a sharp blow to the wall causing a huge crack to form before the entire structure soon collapsed down causing dust to erupt!

"Urk….." Cera croaked turning pale at the sight of Helga's overwhelming strength while Miku shuddered shaking off a few loose feathers in the process. The both of them would rather face a rogue dinosaur than ever take on her in battle!

As the dust cleared away from the crumbled down wall, "I'm back!" she bellowed loudly flexing her arms while greeting the captives inside the room!

"It's Helga!" Rod and Laura cheered with joy.

"And she's alright!" Dr Z followed.

"Yup, thanks to us." Cera smiled as she along with Johnathan stepped out from behind the burly maid robot.

"AH!" The sight of her brought joy and relief to her teammates to see her again.

"Cera! Miku!"

"You came back!"

"Not a second too soon!" They cheered while the siblings and Dr Taylor both laugh happy to see her.

"Haha!"

She smiled and nodded back at them, "Of course we would, I'd never leave you guys behind when you need me most." she then scratched her head and her smiled loosened, "Sorry it took so long though, Johnathan and I….had our hands a little full." she said as she looked over to Helga who was snorting like a mad bull!

"I was on my way here to try to rescue Master Rex and all of you, when I found Helga in all sorts of pieces in the android storage room!" Johnathan explained, "Dumped like rubbish!"

"Fortunately he also ran into me when I was in the area too." said Cera after him.

"So we collected all of her components and we reassembled her together." Johnathan followed.

"Good as new too." Cera then concluded at the end as she popped her fingers and clapped off any dust that may have gotten on them.

"DO YOUR HOMEWORK!" she suddenly bellowed at the top of her lungs in an angry voice which made everyone in the room shudder.

"I think….." Cera chuckled uneasily as she then sweat dropped.

"That's my usual line but now there's bigger fish to fry!" the female android then said as she adopted a more kind expression.

Rod and Laura both nodded with a smile knowing it was her, "Yup she's good."

"Maybe even better." they said seeing she may be a little nicer than usual now.

"Everyone out before the droids come." said Helga kindly as they all quickly made a break for it!

"You don't have to tell me twice!" said Dr Z being the first to go.

"Hurry up everyone!" Johnathan whispered as Max and Zoe ran through followed by Spike who went ahead of them.

Cera then widened her eyes as she put her hands into her pocket and felt something on it, "Oh right! I almost forgot!" she cried out which made Max, Rex and Zoe stop to look at her.

"What's that Cera?" Zoe asked as they agtehrend around her to see she was pulling something out of her pocket.

"While I was at the D Lab, I made sure to pick up a couple of cards with me before coming here." she said as she took out a deck box and opened it, revealing several dinosaur cards inside them! "Thought you guys could use some extra firepower too." she said proudly as her fiends brightened up with excitement at what she brought them.

"AH!" As the 3 of them began taking out cards from the box they divided them amongst one another and seeing Cera had indeed brought a great selection with her.

"Thanks! This is great!"

"Awesome!" They said feeling more assured they have a fighting chance against Seth's dinosaurs now.

Cera smiled feeling happy at their response, "Be sure to give some to the others later, we'll need all the help we can get." she said as Max nodded.

"Will do."

"I'd have brought the entire vault here if we had more time, which unfortunately we don't so I hope this is enough." she said afterwards feeling a bit uneasy as Rex mired her expression.

"Let's hope so too." he said as Cera nodded back at her.

Feeling they had enough time to regroup and rearm themselves, Max looked to the others with authority, "Alright let's go!" he said as they all nodded in agreement with him.

"Mhmm!"

As they ran out again to where the others were waiting for them, Rex and Cera both stopped seeing Rod and Laura had just found something and were taking it out with them, "Hmm? What are you doing guys?" Rex asked them.

"I have to make sure to take this projector with us." Laura answered as a holographic projection of a young man and woman waving at them was displayed, "It's a video of our mom and dad…." she said.

"That's so sweet…." said Cera feeling sympathetic for them and that all they ever wanted this whole time was to go home to their family. "They look really nice too." She said with a warm smile as she walked up to get a closer look herself.

"They are." Rod replied, "The best parents we could ever ask for too." he said unaware that Dr Z was actually overhearing them outside.

"Huh?"

After looking at it for a bit more, Rex then put a hand on Laura's shoulder with a firm look on his face,"Alright guys, it's time to go now." he said.

"If we don't stop Seth we won't be going anywhere ever again." Cera added in agreement with Rex as Laura quickly put the projector into her side pocket.

"Yeah, you're right." said Rod narrowing his eyes as he ran out with his sister, Cera and Rex following him.

Before following after them, Johnathan turned behind to see Dr Z was spacing out at the hallways quite unusually, "Dr Z! It's time to go!" he called to the old man firmly.

Dr Z said nothing to the android for a moment, before uttering out a few choked words, "You go on ahead….I need some…time to think….just a few minutes that's it…." he said without turning to him. As Johnathan eyed the old man carefully, while he didn't know what he was thinking he could at least tell he was trying to process his thoughts for the time being, and after everything that's happened in the short span of time this entire day, he felt maybe he deserved at least a few minutes to realign his thoughts and priorities before leaving him be.

After thinking and reflecting upon everything he had done thus far, and realising that he could probably never face his adoptive son and his wife for what he did to the Ancients and even endangering the lives of his own grandchildren, all out of his selfish ambitions, Dr Z gritted his teeth and fell on his knees to the floor, feeling almost lifeless and filled with guilt inside him, "Urgh…." It was at that moment he realised something important, something he had done in the past yet completely forgot about, and hopefully, that secret hadn't been uncovered by Seth yet as he raced after the rest of the gang towards Seth's lair!

(Later)

"Seth's lab should be up ahead!" Rod pointed out as they neared one of the secret entrances to the generator room down the hallways.

"We'll go on ahead, you guys wait here." said Max to the rest of them as they held back per his request.

"We'll be back before you know it!" Rex added as the D Team and Spike hurried along to Zeta Point's heart of darkness, with Rod, Laura, Helga and Jonathan on standby.

"Be careful…" breathed Laura as she clutched her hands together.

As the team came to an opening which was several levels above the lab's ground floor, Cera quickly put a finger to her lips while looking to the others, "Ssh!" she hushed before posting downwards slowly.

As the others leaned over the edge to look, their eyes narrowed angrily seeing their worst enemy was right below them, "There he is….."

"And our stuff…." said Max and Rex as they found wha they were looking for.

"Ahahahaha!" Seth laughed as he walked away from the dinoholders, alpha scanners and dinoshot which were plugged into a machine while he faced the reactor core that was coursing with energy! "It works…." he said proudly at his achievements which took months of scheming and playing nice to Dr Z to make possible, he despised it from the bottom of his heart but now that was all about to pay off, "Now I can travel through time backwards or forwards! And without their means of getting in my way, there is no one who could possibly oppose me!" he proclaimed cocky while the D Team spied on him from above.

"Guy sure loves to hear himself talk." said Max feeling enough of his voice and bragging.

"At least now we might have our chance." said Cera noticing he was indulging in his victory so much he was dropping his guard.

Looking down and seeing it was a deep drop to the ground, Zoe shuddered as she stepped back further away from the edge, "So how do we get down there without him seeing us?" she asked. Fortunately Spike had just the answer.

"Hehe, just leave it to me!" he grinned with a thumbs up as he took out his lizard lasso, swinging it about before catching hold of a platform on the other side and preparing to swing down!

Max widened his eyes realising what he was planning to do, "D…Dad!?" he gasped widening his eyes thinking he was crazy! The others were having the same idea as Max and were about to stop him when he suddenly launched himself off!

"Hah!" He swung himself to behind the machine, the D Team covered their mouths and screams worried he may give them away or end up crashing! Fortunately he took it rally well, successfully somersaulting and landing down like a pro much to their relief.

"Phew…I almost had a heart attack…." Max breathed putting a hand to his beating heart as Rex and Zoe sat down feeling overwhelmed by the tension and pressure just now.

"Still that was pretty impressive…." Cera whispered while Miku let out a small chirp in agreement.

"Hehehehe Ahahahahah!" Seth then laughed out loud maniacally seeing his goal was within reach, unbeknownst to him that Dr Taylor had made it over to the plugged devices before removing the cables connecting them all!

"Alright!" he grinned to himself before waving out to the kids above who smiled deeply.

"He did it!"

"Way to go dad!"

"Not bad….."

Seth's moment of glory was soon cut short when the reactor core suddenly shut down catching him off guard, "What!? What's this!? Impossible!" he exclaimed in disbelief as he typed on the machine but got no response, but turning around to the core's power source he soon found out why.

"Well! You wouldn't be looking for these now would you?" Spike flashed the devices in front of his face before swinging out his lasso, "Spike Taylor is the name! And sweet justice is my game!" he chanted as he threw himself back up to where Max and the others were and out of Seth's reach!

"That'll teach you to steal!" said Zoe firmly as Seth widened his eyes in alarm.

"How did you possibly get out of that room!?" he demanded.

Cera smirked in response at his disturbed expression, "Sorry, trade secret." she said taking back her dinoshot and the alpha scanners while the D Team got their dinoholders back.

"All that matters is that we did get out so your evil plan's not gonna to work anymore!" Max responded, "And we've got our dinoholders back too!"

"Yeah! So don't even think about hurting the dinosaurs again!" Rex followed firmly while Spike smirked seeing everything went as planned.

"That's the name of that tune." he said feeling it was a mission accomplished as he lead them all out, "Let's go!"

Quickly leaving Seth's lab, the group quickly met up with the others who were awaiting their return with anticipation. Upon sight of them, Rod and Laura were the first to run out and greet them.

"Did you get them!?" Laura asked feeling hopeful of their success.

Cera nodded as the D Team flawed their dinoholders, "Yeah we sure did." she said as she showed off her dinoholders then handed out the 3 alpha scanners to them, "Here."

"AH!"

"You actually did it!" Their faces brightened up with joy to see their smash and grab attempt was a huge success.

"Nice work!" Johnathan clapped his hands praisingly while Helga told back and smiled.

"I'll take that!" Dr Z suddenly barged in as he grabbed hold of 1 scanner much to everyone's surprise.

"H….Hey!"

"Hands off! You'll get your germs on it!" he grunted before using his lab coat to wipe it off, as everyone else glared at him with disappointment.

"Grampa you could at least say thank you!" Laura pouted.

"Yeah they just risked their own skins for us just now! Show some respect!" Rod followed in agreement.

Dr Z however looked away and folded his arms, "Hmph! If anyone should be showing me respect it's you kids! After all I'm going to be dinosaur king someday!" he said snobbishly before yelling out in a tantrum, "And nothing and no one's going to stop me from achieving my destiny! Not now! Not ever!"

"Grr…."

"Grampa…."

"Seriously?" Everyone looked on the old man with disapproval, guess they really couldn't rely on him for anything even in the most dire of times.

Helga on the other hand held herself back from doing anything at the moment seeing this wasn't the time and place, but she made a note to herself to discipline the good doctor, having been briefed on the truth by Johnathan just now, once this is all over.

"Guess I was kidding myself to expect anything at all from you…." Cera huffed before handing Rod and Laura the other scanners, "Here you go." she said with a smile as they took them with gratitude.

"Ah thanks."

"We owe you one for this." They said with appreciation.

"Don't mention it." she replied bene looking to everyone else seriously, "Now let's get a move on!" she said as everyone became serious in agreement.

"Right!"

"We're out of here!" They all decided to head for the hangars, with the intention of escaping Zeta Point so they could regroup and launch a counterattack at a better time.

Right before Cera could join the rest of them, Dr Z held back behind, he gritted his teeth feeling deeply conflicted with himself. Inside his ambitions were warring violently with his feelings of guilt, as much as he wanted to bury those feelings and turn a blind eye to them he hadn't realised it was only now that he had only been planting seeds that would eventually take root and grow into something he couldn't run from anymore, and now they were winning out against him and there was nothing he could do to stop it. He tensed up and gritted his teeth painfully as he yelled out to Cera at the last second, his conscience taking over at last, "Wait! You!"

Cera then stopped running as she and Miku turned around to look, "Hmmm?" seeing it was Dr Z, her mood quickly soured, "You've got something to say?" he asked him with a raised eyebrow wondering what kind of ridiculous rant he was going to take out on her this time.

"Yeah! That's right! I do!" he growled stomping his foot before inhaling deeply to calm his high blood pressure. After that he eyed Cera seriously bit also with a hint of guilt inside them, "Listen….There's….something I need to tell you…" he said feeling pained as he tried to avoid as much eye contact as he could, "Tch! And it really pains me to say this…and it leaves a bad taste in mouth too…." he hissed under his breath.

"Well if its some kind of apology you can forget it." Cera interrupted finding it impossible to forgive someone as selfish and self centred as Dr Z, "After all you've done, selfishly putting everyone in danger because of your own blind ego, twisting the dinosaurs the way you wanted them and even lying to your own grandchildren about the truth, what you've done is unforgivable!" she yelled with Miku snarling alongside her, as Dr Z gasped in alarm at her sudden out burst, "For all I know you're no better than Seth yourself." she said at the end refusing to even look at the old man ending him to be irredeemable and rotten to the bones.

"Grrr!" The old man gritted his teeth and veins bulged on his forehead at the nerve she had to talk down to him like that. He then folded his arms and looked away from her, "Fine, so you don't want to know where Rex's parents are then? So be it I won't say a thing!" he retorted, which made her blink her eyes in surprise.

She then blinked her eyes in surprise, "What…was that?" She thought she misheard him but those were indeed his exact words, "What do you know about them?" she asked with suspicion as she hardened her gaze at him, "Last I heard from Johnathan, he said that you're the one who ejected them off their own ship just because you couldn't get what you wanted! Not to mention you even tried to strand everyone in the time of the dinosaurs too!" she yelled angrily thinking he was lying and also that he had the nerve to bring up that very topic to save his own skin.

"Yes! Yes! I know I did it! I'm a very bad man okay!?" he the cried out painfully while shaking his arms like a child, "But that overbearing mandroid doesn't know the whole story so listen up, because I'm not going to repeat myself!" he growled seriously glaring at Cera. Already under a lot of pressure and stress, from having his past actions coming back to bite him and the fact he needed the D Team to help bail him out of his predicament was more than he could take, so at least by confessing the truth he hoped to be able to lighten that burden.

Cera said nothing at first but held her hard and serious fire at him. For all she knew he couldn't be trusted after all he did, but at the same time she could see even he wouldn't dare try anything in this situation so she decided to give him at least one chance to speak, but this was all he'd get, "Go on."

Dr Z then took a clam breath as he began to recount the events of 1 tragic tale, "Fine, it all happened right after the time machine went out of control."

(Flashback)

Right after the stones were dislodged and dispersed from the console Seth and Dr Z were shocked to see the massive surge of energy being released which blew them both back and then causing Seth to be knocked out unconscious against the wall! "ARGH!" he yelled out as the light blinded his eyes as he smacked hard into the back causing him to fall down to the ground out cold!

"GAH! Seth!" Dr Z gasped in alarm as he ran over to the man whom at the time was the only he trusted more than anyone else, "Wake up! Wake up!" he cried frantically shaking him, hoping he'd awaken so he could save their skins! After a little while and realising his actions weren't getting him anywhere, Dr Z sweated anxiously as he ran out from the hibernation chamber to the control deck above, "Urgh! Looks like I'll have to steer this ship myself or else we could crash or worse stranded through time forever!" he said to himself as he took a look over all the controls present, now that the auto pilot system was short-circuiting due to the stones no longer being present it had to be operated manually, which unfortunately wasn't his strong suit.

"Okay but first how do I work all this at once?" he asked himself nervously seeing it was all on him now and that everyone else's lives were now in his incapable hands! Not once had he ever been this pressured as he kept jumping form seat to seat, pressing buttons and pulling on levers randomly hoping for something to happen! His heart raced and he sweated with anxiety as he looked ahead, notice they were speeding up almost too fast and could crash hard at a random point in time! It was at that very moment he took noticed of 2 glowing objects in the very front ahead of him onscreen, "Huh?" On closer inspection he widened his eyes to see they were metal pods, "Those pods…..can it be?" inside them was none other than Dr Ancient and his wife Cretacia! Both of them, his only 2 friends ever, now lying peacefully in their pods as if they were coffins as the pods' hibernation functions put them to rest for safety reasons.

As Dr Z began to rethink what he had done, and realised that he'd be crossing a line if he left them out here with no one to come help them they could even die. As feelings of guilt welled inside him, he clicked is tongue in frustration as he piloted the ship to hover above them, "Tch! I can't believe I'm doing this….." he grunted pressing the ship's tractor beam to suck them both in to safety. With that problem out of the way he had one other course of action to take care of, "Alright, now with that out of the way it's time to turn this ship around!" he cried out before noticing a big red button in front of him, "Ah! Maybe this should do it." he smiled with excitement as he pressed it, only for the entire ship's cargo of dinosaur and move card capsules to be ejected from them and then lost forever within the time stream! Dr Z's heart skipped a beat upon realisation of what he had done, "No! All my precious cards! Come back!" he cried a she began pressing buttons over and over again hoping something would good would happen! Unfortunately that wasn't the case as the consoles suddenly surged with electricity and even began to explode and fume with smoke!

BOOM!

Red screens erupted around the control deck as Zeta Point began to spin around and around out of control with Dr Z being thrown around inside like he was being spun inside a washing machine! "WAAAAAH!" his screams echoed through the time vortex as Zeta Point vanished, only to turn up over the sea, crashing down tint a water before colliding with a floating island where the 2 eventually merged together as one!

(Present)

"And that's what happened." Dr Z concluded as he looked down solemnly, while Cera and Miku stared speechlessly at his confession.

"Dr Z….." was all she could breathe out, feeling almost moved at his act and yet still having hint of suspicion that he was still keeping something, "Is he lying? Because he isn't exactly-"

For him to say it all with pain in his voice meant that had to be the truth, "After I recovered the Ancients, I kept their pods safely hidden in a secret room below Zeta Point. I made sure to keep every word of it a secret as well, especially from Seth, telling everyone else that they had gone missing and nothing more, that way they wouldn't be able to put any of the blame on me for what happened." he said at the end which caused Cera and Miku's feelings of bitterness towards him return.

"Which you totally deserve…." Cera thought to herself angrily after that.

"I may not look it, but I really did feel some form of regret for what I did to them and Rex," he then said closing his eyes and taking a breath, "Not a day goes by that I don't forget it, and I always tried my best to bury it all under all my scheming and plans." he said before turning to her seriously, "Only you know this, and I swear that every word of it is complete and utter truth!" he yelled out loud before folding his arms and looking away, "And there you have it." he concluded while still trying to retain some of his pride.

As he finished his tale, a memory soon came to her mind, "Wait….back then…." as she flashbacked, on her very first visit to the island, she came across a certain room where 2 people were kept in pods, a man and a woman with glasses, "Were those two?" she then widened her eyes in realisation, "So then…he is telling the truth…." she breathed to herself as Miku too was taken aback by what she had priced together.

Dr Z blinked his eyes noticing she had gone silent on him, "Hey what's wrong? You were spacing out there just now." he said which snapped her out of her through as she looked back to him.

"It's nothing….." she replied shaking her head clear.

The old man suddenly widened his eyes in shock, "Wait, don't tell me you weren't paying attention!?"

"Oh I heard you loud and clear Dr Z." she said back to him much to his relief, "I'll admit you may not be the most trustworthy doctor on this ship, but I'll take your word for it." she then said rather seriously, still feeling conflicted over whether she should still remain completely hateful towards him or let at least forgive him a bit. Still one thing wasn't adding up, "From what I heard from your grandkids, you and Ancient were once good friends, what happened between you guys in the first place? How could things possibly have ended up like this?" she then asked as Dr Z suddenly began to sweat nervously.

"Ugh….well you see…..it's actually a pretty funny story eheh…." he chuckled nervously trying to dodge the subject, but Cera maintained a hard glare at him with Miku, keeping him frozen in place and unable to look away!

Realising she wasn't playing around and he had no way to get out of it, he quickly caved in, "Okay fine! I was jealous okay!" he cried out childishly while shaking his arms out before lowering his head down in shame, "All my life I lived not being able to accomplish anything worthwhile and I didn't want to be remembered as a nobody, or worse being forgotten!" he said in a very sad pouty tone, "So when my old friend Ancient spoke of this 'Noah's Ark Project' I thought this could be my big chance to achieve legendary fame and glory! I knew the world would shower him with all the praise and appreciation I always dreamt of, so I wanted something of my own to be renowned by!" he continued stretching his arms out proudly, "And what better way than to expand upon the dinosaurs he and his wife were saving." he said, "So using powers from the 6 stones, I was able to channel their power to create move cards, that way when people see how powerful dinosaurs can truly be they'd have to look up to me as the King who brought forth such revolutionary change! Oh how beautiful it would be….." he said tearing up emotionally while Cera said nothing but watched.

"….." The fact he was telling the truth she was doing all she could toehold back herself from exploding in anger over doing something so inexcusable for such a selfish reason.

"I even took things a step further and created secret dinosaurs utilising power from the central stone after a long time of hard work and research! But of course knowing Ancient, he couldn't see what I was trying to bring forth, so we kept getting in each other's way and research….so eventually Seth told me that if I wanted to make my dream a reality I had to remove the obstacles the were blocking my way." Dr Z continued as his mood turned sour, "But now that I see things the way they are maybe I did go a little too far…." he pouted at the end while twiddling his fingers.

"A little?" Cera was doing all she could to holding back herself from getting physical because of his selfish attitude was what allowed Seth to take advantage of him in the first place. Taking a breath to calm herself down she said as best and calmly as she could, "Regardless the fact remains that you still caused a lot of problems for everyone, not just your own family and friends but countless innocents in this time period. Also what you've done to start all this is still inexcusable." she said which made Dr Z tense up as she narrowed her eyes and shot a hard gaze at him, "When this is over you're going to apologising to everyone for everything that's gone wrong here in the first place. Especially Dr Ancient and Cretacea, no doubt they'd want to hear the whole truth and explanation straight from you."

"Tch! In your dreams!" he yelled back at her folding his arms, "Never in a million years will I ever stoop to such a level! It's far below a king like myself!"

"Fine, be that way." she said shrugging her shoulders as she and Miku smirked at one another momentarily as she turned around to follow the D Team, "Maybe once I'll tell Helga about everything you and Seth did, then we'll see who's the tough guy then."

His heart skipped a beat upon hearing her threat to him which would no doubt be worse than what Seth was doing right now, "Gah!" he gasped in alarm.

"Knowing her she'll do much more than cut back your meals and snack privileges." she added at the end as Dr Z tensed up his hands into fists.

"Gasp! You wouldn't dare!" he growled as she shot another serious look at him.

"Try me." was all she said in a menacing tone to prove her point.

Realising she was dead serious he fell to his knees weakly seeing she had gotten him where it hurt most, "Urgh…."

She would've continued, but a loud roar and foot stomps soon caught her attention! "AH!" Turning around she stepped back nervously to see it was saurophaganax now standing before them all and blocking their way out! "Oh no Seth found us!" she cried out as Miku shrieked in terror at the massive carnivore!

"Grr!" Dr Z gritted his teeth in anger when he once again caught sight of the dinosaur that first drove him out of home the first time, now it was time for some well deserved payback! "Stand back! I'll handle this! This is personal!" he said shoving Cera aside as he took to a card with his scanner, "Alpha slash! Flame up Tyrannosaurus!" Terry took to the field and charged ahead on instinct! "Go get him Terry!" Dr Z then yelled out loud.

"Be careful!" Cera cried rooting for him too while Miku chirped happily to see their saviour.

Terry opened his jaws wide and snapped down on saurophaganax's neck before throwing him down to the ground! "NO!" Seth gasped as he arrived to see his dinosaur was losing.

"Take that!" Dr Z yelled as he ran in with Cera, "I'm not about to let you steal my Zeta Point without a fight!" he said courageously.

"If it's a fight you want you'll get one!" Seth retorted as saurophaganax kicked Terry off him, "Fire scorcher!" As Seth slashed the all powerful fire move, was enshrouded in flames before throwing out the black fire meteor at his attacked, causing him to roar in pain and return to a card under the intense heat!

"Gah! Noooo!" Dr Z gasped as his eyes widened, to be done in by the same move twice in a row he couldn't believe his eyes!

"Terry!" Cera cried out as she ran to grab his card. Feeling his card and sensing he was still alive she let out a sigh of relief before narrowing her eyes at saurophaganax, "That move even beat Terry…." the thought of losing to the same move that took himself out with must have hurt his pride a little, also from what she now knew none of their dinosaurs could ever take that kind of power head on.

"Hey that's mine! Give it back!" Dr Z yelled as he ran in and snatched the card out of Cera's hands, "Hands off!" he scowled at her while she folded her arms on her hips and pouted crossly.

"Hmph…."

"That move again…." Max grunted in frustration seeing they were facing down the same move which beat them once more.

"It's just too powerful!" said Rex feeling just as agitated as his friend was.

"I don't care! There's got to be a way to counter it!" Max yelled out determinedly, unwilling to back down as he took out his dinoholder and returned Chomp to card form, "Dino slash! Go! Triceratops! Roar!"

Rex soon followed suit, "Dino slash! Carnotaurus! Blow them away!" Both their dinosaurs appeared on the field and roared out fiercely at their adversary which roared back at them.

"Let's hope they fare better this time…." thought Cera seriously as she and Dr Z regrouped with the others behind Chomp and Ace where it was safer.

"Thunder bazooka!" Chomp yelled as he slashed the card, causing Chomp to surge with power as he rushed ahead like a torpedo! Amazingly saurophaganax was able to hold him back before throwing him across the ground with little effort!

"It took that attack head on…." Cera muttered before noticing Rex was giving it a try next.

"Cyclone!" he yelled as Ace encased himself in wind and got behind saurophaganax, grabbing him by the tail and swinging him around a bit before throwing him into the wall! Despite that the fire dinosaur was still able to stand as it roared out in defiance!

"Oh man!" Max gasped in disbelief stepping back.

"Even that didn't work…." Rex sweated uneasily seeing they were running low on options.

Their anxiety was getting to the others as Cera gritted her teeth and narrowed her eyes at what she observed, "2 direct hits and it's still strong…." she noted before eying saurophaganax carefully, "Could it be?" From what she could tell, in order to withstand fire scorcher's drawbacks, the dinosaur had to be shielded somehow. She wondered, could it be the same as black t-rex was? If so, maybe that's the reason why saurophaganax was quite resistant to moves though not as well as t-rex was. If it could take on different moves at a time they didn't really have a chance….unless…

"Try fusion moves!" Dr Z cried out to them, the 2 words catching her ear.

"Fusion…moves?" she blinked in surprise.

"What's a fusion move?" Max asked with suspicion.

"You just slash the cards together which synchronises them with each other!" Dr Z explained quickly as he could, "The resulting fusion gives your attack double the power!"

"What?" Cera gasped before eying Chomp and Ace, "Is that….even possible?" she wondered, theoretically it would be possible to use 2 elemental attacks together like that, but to get both moves slashed at once would take skill to pull off, also the move compatibility too was another factor to consider….so much to consider under so little time….could they pull off something like that even if ti was possible?

Rex however didn't buy the old doctor's words so easily as he was still suspicious of him, "Right….You expect us to believe what you say?" he stated thinking he was making it up or didn't know what he was talking about.

"Look Rex…." Max croaked nervously seeing saurophaganax was approaching them fast!

"Ugh!" Rex gasped seeing they were in danger once more.

"Fine! Then don't believe me! I just hope you both enjoy the barbecue!" Dr Z yelled out.

Having had enough of these childish games, Seth decided to put an end to their feeble resistance once and for all as he slashed the move card, "Fire scorcher!" Saurophaganax fired off the black meteor once more forcing Ace to retreat, luckily in time as he leapt and barrel rolled next to Chomp till they and their partners were standing shoulder to shoulder with one another!

"Urgh…" Max grunted seeing they were on their last legs, but then Ace roared out together with Chomp, unwilling to go down without a fight still despite the odds stacked against them.

Hearing their voices, Rex could tell they were serious about going through its what Dr Z said, "I think they're telling us to try it!" he cried.

"Let's go!" They cried in unison with their dinosaurs roaring.

As Cera heard them, she felt her own heart skip a beat and her knees began to wobble under the passion in their very souls, "Their hearts and voices…..are as one….." Cera could hear it too, their voices truly were now almost as one with each other and they were willing to put their own lives on the lives for their partners….it was something she could explain yet knows was wonderful.

"Together Max!" Rex yelled.

"YEAH!" his friend followed as they each took out their move cards, trusting completely in one another and in what Dr Z said, "Thunder!"

"Storm!"

"Bazooka!" They said as Chomp and Ace both glowed together at the same time! Ace first rushed forward enclosed in wind, generating a wind tunnel which Chomp leapt through while surging with electricity! His attack carried both lightning and wind together which struck Saurophaganax dead center! Unable to withstand the powers of both elements at once, the fire dinosaur lost all energy before returning to a card!

"Incredible….they did it…." Cera breathed in awe and amazement at their performance as the card floated to the ground which Max quickly grabbed hold of.

"Yes! And now we've got the saurophaganax card!" he cried out as he held the card up.

"Way to go kids!" Spike cheered as everyone else smiled or laughed happily at their glorious victory!

"Grrr…" Seth growled with annoyance at the fact they defeated his dinosaur, clearly he underestimated how stubborn they were.

While everyone else smiled happily at their victory, Cera narrowed her eyes seeing something else that the others couldn't, "Such a move requires more than skill, talent and technique, it also requires heart and trust too." she thought before realising that the fusion move all along was the answer she had been seeking! The key to making it possible to beat black t-rex, not only was it a combination of multiple elements but it was also strengthened by the bond and trust between the dinosaurs and their human partners too with one another! In the end despite the move cards being created by Dr Z for entertainment purposes, she could see there was some truth to his words, how they hoped bring out the best in a dinosaur and now new possibilities and potential could be born too, "Maybe dinosaurs can humans really can take one another to new heights…." she breathed sensing the greatness and even a future for humans and dinosaurs if such trust existed between them all.

"It's…almost like…." Suddenly a memory flashed back in her mind, as she saw firsthand inside an ancient colosseum like arena, where a gastonia and udanoceratops were present. Their partners, a large bulky male silhouette followed by a slim female figure, slashed out a pair of move cards on their dinoshots. The dinosaurs glowed yellow and purple, the gastonia shooting out spike arrows from its tail while the udanoceratops charged and fired lightning strike, causing the arrows to surge with electricity before raining down form the sky in a powerful shower of thunder and crystal! As it needed, Cera breathed deeply she slowly brought a hand to her head, "What was….that?" she thought to herself in confusion before shaking it clear and looking back to the matter at hand.

"Time for you to surrender Seth!" Dr Z then yelled out pointing at him, "Leave Zeta Point and don't come back!"

Seth hardened his expression at them before suddenly bursting into uncontrollable laughter, "Hehehe Hahahahah! I'm afraid you'll be the ones leaving thanks to this!" he said menacingly as he held out his black dinoholder along with a certain dinosaur card in his hand, one which Cera widened her eyes in alarm at!

"Oh no that can't be-"

"Rise black t-rex!" He cried out slashing the card, causing the monstrous mutant tyrannosaurus to appear before them! Like before it towered over them like a giant and let out a thunderous roar as a show of strength, only now Cera could feel its powers were on a far greater level than before!

"Tell me! Who's the real dinosaur king now!?" Seth yelled out as t-rex stomped forward with the intent of crushing the pests once and for all! "That should take care of them once and for good this time." Seeing he had no more reason to worry, Seth turned around to leave as he then smirked with confidence knowing he had a backup strategy that would set his plans on course.

"This is too dangerous! We've got to get out come on!" said Dr Taylor seriously as everyone quickly made a hasty retreat, returning Chomp and Ace to their cards knowing that fitting was out of the question now!

"Grrrr…" Dr Z however stayed put where he was in defiance much to Rod and Laura's alarm!

"Oh no grampa!"

"Is he frozen in fear or something?" Cera asked hoping that was the case.

"I'm not letting this overgrown lizard force me out of my own home!" he yelled out defiantly as the massive dinosaur lowered its head down and breathed on him opening its jaws wide, "Oh that's hot…." breath

"I'm wrong, it's stupidity!" Cera widened her eyes as she shouted out at the top of her lungs, "Get out of there now!"

"Come on! You can't beat it!" Max followed widening his eyes in alarm at Dr Z's mad actions.

"It's over doc!" Spike cried out.

Despite his words, Dr Z was in fact too afraid to move as he remained frozen in place and shook tensely as the t-rex charged forth with its jaws wide open ready to snap close!

As everyone stared in alarm at what was about to befall the old man, "Out of my way!" Rex yelled acting on instinct and adrenaline as he posited through to everyone's alarm as he leapt out!

"Ah!"

"REX!"

"NO!" They cried out wanting to stop him, only to be swiftly pulled back by Johnathan and Helga who were doing what they could to keep them from endangering themselves too!

"AAAAAAAHHH!" Dr Z screamed as the t-rex lunged ahead, only to be snatched out of the way by Rex in time as it then crashed its head into a wall disorientating it momentarily. "You saved me?" he asked in surprise.

"Get up and run!" the boy told him firmly as he took him to where the others were, behind the corner.

As they regrouped with everyone else, Rex began panting heavily with exhaustion and also being overwhelmed by the experience just now as he tried his best to recuperate after the immense shock he experienced.

Dr Z remained deeply puzzled at Rex's actions, for someone like him after all he did to Rex and his friends all this time, he didn't deserve to be saved by him and yet he was in the end…."But why? Why would you do such a thing?" he asked wanting to know the reason, to him it defied all common senses and logic. For his enemy to save his life….he couldn't understand the reason.

"Huff…I don't know…Huff….I guess I thought that even someone like you didn't deserve to be eaten up by a dinosaur….huff…" wheezed Rex still trying hard to catch his breath. In the boy's heart despite their past differences he still knew what the right thing to do was and went along with it regardless of the dangers to his own life.

Cera was deeply touched to see Rex's selfless act, before noticing Dr Z himself was stricken with guilt having only now realised what a fool he truly had been, "Well now….about that…." he said uneasily before facing Rex seriously, "And listen because Im not going to say this twice!" he said loudly.

"Yeah?" Rex looked up at him wondering what he had to say this time.

"I'm s…." Dr Z stopped himself painfully before mustering all he had and swallowing down his pride to admit his mistake, "I'm sorry for what I did to you…." he said lowering his head down shamefully.

Rex narrowed his eyes still bitter at the old man's actions, but soon a smile broke across his face as he forgave Dr Z deep down, sensing he really was genuine in his apology. Soon the message was picked up by everyone else in the room as they smiled or laughed happily knowing things were going to be that much better now.

"Ah…."

"Aha…."

Cera almost shed a tear feeling moved by the act which payed before her eyes, "I was right….maybe he does have some good deep down under all that selfishness…." she thought to herself seeing there may actually be a sliver of hope left in Dr Z after all.

The moment unfortunately was cut short by a loud thunderous roar outside, "Huh!?" as they all turned to look and saw the huge jaws of black t-rex appear at the end of the hallway, sniffing out for them with the intent of destroying them compeletly for good!

"We're trapped!" Max thought to himself as he gritted his teeth tensely while every one else held back against the wall to keep themselves from standing out pr getting exposed, "And if we don't find a way to that black t-rex we'll never get out!" he grunted.

"This is going to be the fight of our lives…." Cera thought to herself seriously as Black T-Rex soon edged in and its eye caught sight of them all before preparing to go for a full frontal final assault!

And thus the season 1 finale draws close to its climax. In case anyone was wondering, according to the wikia it's said that Dr Z was likely the one to have save the Ancients in the end, since he and Seth were the only ones conscious at the time and how Seth is unlikely to do it the best person to fill that role is Dr Z. Also it develops more on how he does have a good side that he keeps hidden most of the time. Also wanted to explain on how the Ancients were on the ship in the first place after the final battle with Seth. I also went in further depth to how Black t-rex and saurophagnax are stronger, being the energy shield and all to resist attacks but only fusion moves can have the most effect on them.

Also highlighting how fusion moves can have a deeper purpose than being just 2 moves together.

In response to reviews-

Drew Luczynski

-Glad you enjoyed them and the new ones I added here to flesh out what happened to the Ancients and also on Dr Z's reasons, to explain why he suddenly changed for the worse.