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!

31. There's no place like Rome

Chapter 31

There's no place like Rome

On a forest trail leading down hill from the mountain where she was saved, Sophia hummed to herself in a rather good mood. Despite the strange encounter with not just a giant flying monster which knocked her out cold earlier, as well as encountering 4 mysterious children who were able to command dinosaurs and save her from a mysterious flying attacker, she was glad to have it behind her now that she could focus on delivering the yellow cosmos stone to her brother Spartacus, in the hopes of giving him a fighting chance against the evil dictator Sulla, also known as Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix.

As she traversed along the path towards the next town where she hoped to restock on supplies before reaching the coliseum, she soon heard the sounds of pattering behind her, which caught her attention. "Huh?" Hearing the footsteps gutting louder and faster put her on edge, fearing it may be a Roman spy or perhaps the flying pirate again trying to attack her while she's alone and vulnerable! A bead of sweat dripped from her cheek as she gritted her teeth and turned around, ready to face whoever it was, only to be surprised by a small yellow triceratops rushing straight at her! One she recognised almost instantly! "Oh my!" she gasped covering her mouth in surprise at her unexpected visitor.

(Meanwhile)

"Chomp! Can you hear me Chomp!?" Max cried out in desperation as his cries echoed from the top of the high cliff! The rest of the D Team gathered close to him but kept their distance from the edge fearing it'd be unstable and could collapse if they weren't careful, though that didn't stop their dinosaurs from looking over the edge in concern for their close comrade.

"Do you think he really fell?" Zoe asked feeling worried.

"Maybe we should send a search party down there…." Rex suggested uneasily, considering they all go down there together or perhaps send Jonathan or the pteranodons to investigate.

Cera then thought up a quick idea herself, "I'll do that right now." she said as she got out her dinoshot and prepared to send in Miku to glide down for a closer look, as the rest of the team looked on worried and fearful as to whatever cruel fate had come upon Chomp now because of his curiosity.

They all began to assume the worst had happened, when a kind voice spoke from behind them, "Are you looking for Chomp?"

"Huh?" As everyone turned to look they all gasped in surprise and joy to see Sophia had returned, and not alone, she had Chomp in her hands much to their relief! "AH!?"

The little triceratops struggled and wrestled his way out of Sophia's hands before running up to his partner and friends.

"Ah! Chomp…" Max breathed with relief as he leaned down to hug his partner, "I was so worried about you!" he said with a big smile.

"For some reason he started following me." said Sophia thinking she should explain, "So I figured I'd better bring him back."

Cera then looked up to her and smiled, "Thanks for that, we really appreciate it." she said with gratitude before looking quite concerned, "He really does get into a lot mischief, we might have to do something about that considering our situation." She thought to herself seriously after considering the fact they are in an unfamiliar time and place so they'll have to keep their partners on a very tight leash at all times while they're here or in any time period. That aside seeing he was back safe Cera then held a hand out to Sophia, "Looks like we're even now huh?" she said.

"Haha, so it would seem." Sophia giggled happily as she shook the hand.

"I'm so glad you're okay Chomp." said Rex.

Strangely though, Chomp quickly turned around and began jumping up at Sophia's bag thing to get at it much to everyone's puzzlement.

"What's he after now?" Cera asked curiously, "Is it food?" She then shook her head suspecting something else, and as usual her instincts were spot on as Sophia began to reach into her bag having a bright idea over what he was aiming at.

"Heh he seems to be drawn to the yellow cosmos stone." Sophia giggled as she took out the yellow glowing jewel and unwrapped the cloth covering it so the kids and their dinosaurs could gaze upon it.

"Aaah." As the other kids smiled with awe and admiration, Cera on the other hand stared speechlessly at its' shining radiance, looking closer inside it appeared as though there was some kind of nebula or galaxy swirling around inside it,

"Incredible…." she breathed before blinking her eyes upon remembering something, "Wait….didn't I see that before?" she asked herself as her mind flashbacked to the giant meteor that was striking down ancient Earth, glowing in 7 colours, one of which was yellow, similar to the cosmos stone she was seeing with her own eyes now! "N…No it couldn't be….but still…could this be the reason why Gavro was chasing Sophia just now?" she wondered whether it could have been a coincidence before noticing Chomp barking excitedly at it.

"But why's Chomp so engrossed in it?" Cera then asked herself curiously.

"It is beautiful." Sophia commented seeing how everyone else was admiring the jewel, feeling flattered they could appreciate its' beauty.

"Where'd you find that?" Cera then asked as she pointed at it.

"Actually, it's a family heirloom passed on from generation to the next." Sophia replied.

Cera then nodded in acknowledgement, "That's quite the treasure indeed." she said seeing it was more than mere beauty, she and Miku could both feel great power emanating from it, power that may actually be out of this world….literally….such power would be dangerous if it fell into the wrong hands.

As the others stared admiring the stone, Chomp however began jumping up and down hyperactively while barking hoping to get at it, something the others took notice of.

"I know you like it Chomp but Sophia doesn't have time to play." said Zoe as he jumped up with all his strength only to be caught by Max in midair, "She needs to get the stone to her brother Spartacus in Rome."

"Which is why I better get going," The older girl said to the 4 kids as she wrapped the stone up and kept it away in her bag, "Take care everybody!" she waved at them before setting off on her quest once again.

"Bye Sophia."

"And thanks for bringing Chomp back."

"Good luck Sophia!"

"Safe travels to you!" Each of the 4 kids said to her as she disappeared into the forest.

"Hope she'll be okay," said Cera as their new friend finally vanished from sight. Deep down she felt they should follow her to make sure she sees her quest for her brother through to the end, but on the other hand they've done more than enough change to the current time period and they had a quest of their own to focus on themselves, so they couldn't afford to get sidetracked now and could only hope for the best for her.

RING! RING!

The moment was soon interrupted as Max's communicator began to ring which caught everyone;s attention as he brought up his bracer with Jonathan's face on it, "Hey! What's happening there Jonathan?" Max asked curiously.

"We're receiving a strange communication from another dimension." Jonathan answered from the other end seriously, "You should come back right away!"

"It must be the space pirates!" Zoe cried seriously as everyone else gasped in surprise at the possibility.

"AH!"

Max then narrowed his eyes seeing this as their big chance, "Then let's go!" he said to the others as they nodded with him.

"Right!"

Rex then looked into Max's bracer, "Jonathan!" he ordered the android who instantly knew what he was going to be asked.

"I'm beaming you all up now!" he said as they were enveloped in bright light and disappeared.

As the D Team appeared in the control deck of the Backlander, they made their way quickly to where Jonathan was sitting, "So what's happening Jonathan?" Max asked feeling worried.

"Sorry for the false alarm you guys." he said calmly as they came to him, "It's not space pirates, it's Reese." As they looked ahead they were surprised to see Zoe's older sister in screen with a smiling Laura with her! "She was able to use Rex's time positioning data to find us." he explained as everyone smiled with joy and relief to see she was able to establish contact with them.

"Hey there Reese it's great to see you!" said Zoe smiling brightly.

"Sure is." Max followed.

"I'm so relieved that you're safe." said Reese as her own smile vanished and was replaced with a scowl, "You 3 gave everyone here quite a shock when you just banished like that!" she said crossly while the screen remained fuzzy and her voice just as glitchy.

"Dr Z was trying to fix the ship when it took off without any way to control where it was going." Max explained.

"Oh boy, grampa must have messed something up then." sighed Rod folding his arms behind his head as he walked in beside Laura and Reese. His remark made Cera sweat drop in response.

"Mess up is only putting it lightly…." she thought having remembered all the gunk she found clogging up the Reactor core's parts and systems, and the many servos she had to rearrange, it was any engineer's worst nightmare which had scarred her mind and made her shudder just having to relive that awful experience over and over again.

"So what happened then?" Laura then asked feeling both interested and also worried for the gang since they departed for times anew.

Upon hearing her question, the gang looked to one another before turning back to their friends wondering how to explain it all to them, "It's quite a long story-" Rex started knowing it was a story that many would find really hard to believe.

The D Team soon took turns explaining what happened from minute 1, after the siblings and Reese left for the D Lab, from how the Backander started mysteriously and then taking them through time.

"So first it took you to the cretaceous period?" Rod asked.

"And from there it went to Ancient Rome?" Laura continued sounding worried.

"And you know for sure our parents are in that time period. But do you know where?" Reese then asked.

"We can't get a clear reading on their location." Max answered sounding serious, "But, we do know that the space pirates time napped them and we're gonna track them down." he then tightened his hand into a fist with anger, "And when we do they're gonna pay!" he yelled with determination which made Rod and Laura both gasp in surprise at the startling news of alien time nappers.

"What do you know about these space pirates?" Laura asked feeling worried, she and her brother suspecting they were the ones who attacked them while they were travelling earlier through time when they wanted to go home.

"They have dinosaurs that are extra powerful and they attacked both us and this girl named Sophia." Max explained seriously.

"Speaking of Sophia, have you ever heard of someone named Spartacus?" Zoe then asked as she leaned in closer to the screen.

"Well of course," Reese replied feeling puzzled to the sudden random topic, "The Spartacus was an important episode in Ancient History."

"Really? When was it?" Zoe asked once more.

"If you want the exact date BC…." Reese's voice deepened as the screen began to blur before suddenly switching off much to everyone's shock.

"Ah!"

"Hey what happened!?" Zoe cried.

"Evidently the communicator isn't completely reliable yet…." Jonathan muttered disappointed to fail his Master and his friends after bringing them some form of hope.

Cera then folded her arms on her hips and whistled, "Looks I know what I'm patching up next." she said knowing it'd be a hard task ahead of her for sure, "Just hope they wont get worried." she then added hoping Reese and the others wouldn't panic or assume the worst while they remain cut off from one another.

"Hey Jonathan," said Rex to the android, "If you can't call could you maybe send them like a message or something?" he asked hopefully as he then began typing on the screen.

"I'll do my best." he said as he pressed the enter button which sent an email to Reese's address, hoping that she'd be able to receive it despite the weak connection and separation across years of space and time.

Right after he did though, a massive explosion erupted from within the ship which rumbled throughout the entire vessel and shook up the upped deck quite a fair bit which caught the D Team off guard!

BOOM!

"GAH!" Zoe, Cera and Max gasped.

"What's that?" Rex asked hardening his expression feeling as though their ship had come under attack!

Cera then turned in the direction it came from, "It's coming from the lab room." she said as the others followed where she was looking, now having an idea what was going on, "Only one man on this ship could have caused that much damage." she said as they all nodded with one another in agreement.

"Better go see what Dr Z broke this time…." Max muttered worrying he might be up to no good or causing trouble again as they ran of towards it, hoping to put a stop to it if he was trying anything dangerous.

As the D Team ran to the room where the noise was going from, they stopped to see Terry and Spiny were both charging up with fire and water as if they were going to be using a fusion move! "Now fire at the target!" Dr Z commanded holding his arm out at a bullseye being held together by Ursula, Zander and Ed as both dinosaurs fired Volcano burst and Shock wave together!

"This is going to hurt…." Cera thought to herself closing her eyes with Miku covering her face with her arms, as the fusion move made contact and blew the trio back!

"WAAAAH!" They screamed as they tumbled over one another into the wall! "Why do we have to hold the target!?" they cried out all dazed while Dr Z returned Spiny and Terry to their chibi forms as they ran off to play with Tank, who broke away from Cera to go play in the corner.

"That was impressive…." Cera whistled admittedly at Dr Z's accomplishment, despite using his own henchmen as test subjects, "If I had to give that fusion move a name I'd call it steam blast." she thought as she and the others ran up to Dr Z for some answers.

"What are you blowing up now Dr Z!?" Max yelled out angrily thinking he was doing something dangerous behind their backs.

"You're just in time to see my newest creation!" He smiled eagerly at them before leaning down to pick up several other cards scattered on the floor below his feet, "Quite brilliant if I do say so myself!" he said feeling very proud of himself for his latest achievements before showing off the cards to the D Team, "Look here!"

"Are those move cards?" Max asked as he and the others eyed them.

As Cera eyed each of them then realised he must have tested them on the Trio just now, she couldn't help but feel a little sorry for what he put them through.

Dr Z however had no feelings of regret whatsoever though, "That's right! But these move cards are way more powerful than anything we've had before!" He answered proudly to Max before bringing up a screen with the armoured torvosaurus from earlier, "Those pirates have very advanced weapons, if we're going to battle them we have to upgrade!" he said loudly.

Cera could see he had a good point, though that still didn't help how sorry he felt for the abuse he put his own lackeys through as she eyed them with sympathy.

"Do you think you could design an upgrade that doesn't involve us getting blasted?" Ursula groaned.

"Yeah! I'm part of the 'We don't test on real villains' group." Zander followed in a grumpy mood.

"Me too and we're gonna report you…." Ed muttered weakly.

"Pipe down or you'll be the target!" Dr Z yelled silencing them as they shivered in fear! "Hmph!" he scoffed in disgust as he walked over to a big tube filled with liquid, and what appeared to be the crystal piece he acquired earlier from the torvosaurus, "This new armour I'm working on will make our dinosaurs unbeatable in battle! But I need more time to perfect it!" He explained before turning over to the D Team who were still staring at the screen, "Until then these new improved move cards should at least keep you from being squashed like pancakes!" He said flashing out the cards in his hands, "Hmm?" He then looked to the side to see all 7 chibi dinosaurs were off playing around with his reject armour prototypes. Terry and Spiny were playing tug-o war, Chomp was nibbling on a piece while wearing some, Paris, Tank and Miku were climbing around while Ace was wearing a helmet shaped like a viking's, "Stop that! That's scientific equipment not a chew toy!" he scolded them though they didn't really pay much attention to him.

Cera had to admit it was rather adorable he made armour for their little dinosaurs, but in this new battle they'd need bigger and better armour for sure.

Max and his friends however continued eying the screen seriously, "What I want to know is where do these pirates come from and how come they've got dinosaurs and dinosaur cards like we do?" Max asked with suspicion as Cera turned back to them.

"Good question, one which we have no answer for…." she said narrowing her eyes and focusing on the symbol of the pirates on torvosaurus' head, for some reason seeing them and the mark made her furious, as if some sort of instinct or natural response to have them despite not knowing who they were nor having met them before.

"Huh? Maybe I'll build some armour for myself too." Dr Z commented over hearing them, before Terry lunged in and began tugging at his beard! "GRRRGH!" Terry bite and tug

"Good luck with that…." Cera thought to herself as she eyed him, if he couldn't handle chibi Terry then there was no way he'd be able to withstand the assault of a full sized dinosaur.

"The way that flying pirate guy attacked makes me think he might have been after Sophia." Zoe then said speaking her mind.

"You know, I think you might be right about that Zoe." Cera nodded in agreement as she put a finger to her chin in thought, "He was quite focused on her after all." she then said having recalled Gavro was fixated on Sophia he paid no attention to Zoe threatening him till she summoned Paris.

"Why would they want her?" Max asked curiously as they all drifted into thought.

"Hmm…" Zoe shrugged her shoulders before an idea flashed into her mind, "Maybe for her yellow cosmos stone." she then suggested which seemed to strike a cord in Rex and Cera's heads.

"I think you're right!" Rex breathed as Cera narrowed her eyes..

"I knew it…."

"That jewel must have amazing power." Zoe then spoke up, "Remember how Chomp followed her? Maybe he sensed she needed protection."

"Could be…." Cera mused putting a finger to her chin in thought, "Or could he want the stone himself?" she then wondering having recalled him wanting to go at it when Sophia revealed the stone to them. Way she saw it, the issue with the pirates kidnapping their parents, the cosmos stones and the dinosaurs being affected by them…they were like pieces of a puzzle which could be connected with on another….though the full picture of it still needed more pieces.

"Now she's all alone!" Rex then spoke out worried, "If you're right she'll be in danger when that guy comes back!"

"Let's go find her!" Max said firmly knowing what they had to do next. "I'll be taking these!" He said running towards Dr Z to grab a couple of move cards and passed them to Rex and Zoe before they and their dinosaurs ran out with them to the teleporter.

"You better not lose any of those!" Dr Z yelled out to them before Spiny and Tank suddenly joined in on tugging at Dr Z's beard with Terry! "Gah! Stop it! If I want a shave I'll get a razor!" he cried out in pain as he tried desperately to fend off the 3 mischievous dinosaurs who were on the verge of ripping his beard clean off his face!

As the D Team neared the entrance and Cera began hearing the sounds of Dr Z yelping in pain, she began to have second thoughts on her mind as she rolled her eyes and stopped in her tracks, "Wait guys." She said catching their attention as she stopped to look back.

"Yeah Cera?" Rex asked as he and the others eyed her and Miku curiously.

"I think maybe I should stay here to work on the armour with Dr Z." she answered while folding her arms, "If we both take a crack at it we should have it finished way faster."

The D Team looked to one another for second opinions before looking back at her, "Are you sure Cera?"

"We might need you out there too." said Max and Zoe feeling a little less confident without her around to back them up in the field.

"I know guys…." she said sighing slightly, "But do you really think we can leave something this important entirely up to Dr Z?" she then asked them with a raised eyebrow, "Do you really think we should take that chance?"

As she said that, her friends looked to one another and sweat dropped at the thought of Dr Z actually blowing himself up after mixing together some random chemicals, or worse developing an unstable machine that would explode and take out the entire ship! After weighing the many uncountable risks of leaving Dr Z by his lonesome on the ship they could see there wasn't anything to think about as they all sighed in response, "Probably not…."

"Good point…." They said before looking back to Cera with both smiles and serious expressions.

"You know what Cera, having you on board with that makes me feel a lot more safe." said Rex.

"We're counting on you for this." Max followed while Cera nodded back at them affirmatively.

"I won't let you down guys, I promise." she said to them firmly as they smiled back at her.

"We know you won't." said Rex.

"You always come through for us and we have no reason to think this is any different." Zoe added as Cera felt inspired by their words of faith in her.

"Mhmm." she nodded back, "Just keep me informed on anything that comes up." she then seriously while narrowing her eyes, "Promise me you'll look after Sophia when you find her, and I'll feel the same as you do for me now."

Max then smiled on the team's behalf as he held a thumbs up, "It's a deal!" he said with a big grin as he before looking the rest of the D Team, "Come on guys, let's find Sophia and help her brother too!" he said to them as departed for the teleporter and for their new mission of protecting Sophia and hopefully find out the whereabouts of their parents in the process.

As the doors shut behind them, Cera looked on and closed her eyes in prayer with Miku mimicking her movements, "Good luck, may fortune smile on us all…." she said softly to herself for both their success in saving their parents and the entire team's success in possibly saving all reality as they knew it. For the time being their hands were forced and it would no doubt be unavoidable if they were forced to use their dinosaurs in a time when they shouldn't be around, hopefully while down there they wouldn't have to do anything drastic to affect the time-streamt.

After those thoughts passed she looked to Miku and they both nodded at one another, knowing full well that their friends were counting on them now to do their part and they had no intention of letting them down. As they went back to the lab room, they blinked their eyes in surprise as the doors opened. "Huh? What the?" She stared unblinkingly with Miku as they saw Dr Z trying desperately to hold onto one of the room's pillars while Terry, Spiny and Tank were tugging away at his beard in a game of tug o war, with them slowly gaining the advantage as Dr Z's grip on the pillar was loosening and his face getting stretched like a rubber band!

"ARGH! Let me goooo!" he wailed in agony as he could feel not only his beard but his entire face about to get ripped clean off! Scratch that, at this rate the 3 trouble making dinosaurs would eventually rip off his entire head as his elderly neck and bones began to ache at the constant pulling!

Seeing it was too much for Dr Z to bear, and despite enjoying it a bit after all the trouble he caused them, in the end she felt he didn't really deserve to be tortured like that, also she needed his help in fixing up the dinosaur's new armour if they were going to stand a fighting chance against the Spectral space pirates. She took a breath and blew into her fingers whistling out loud.

WHISTLE!

Upon hearing it, like obedient trained dogs the 3 dinosaurs opened their mouths and released their grips much to Dr Z' surprise! "Huh? WAH!" he yelped as the sudden release caused him to get flung into the pile of prototype armour and into the wall! Causing a huge imprint into it before he slipped down and slumped to the ground, while wearing the viking helmet on his head. His eyes began swirling all around with dinosaur bones twirling around his head, his mouth was seen to even have a few teeth missing as he began blubbering out nonsense in his confusion.

Clapping her hands and getting their attention, the 3 dinosaurs ran up to Cera as she folded her hands on her hips and looked down on them with a rather serious look, "Hey guys, come on now, let's behave okay?" she said. They however didn't get the message she was giving them, but instead ran up to her with excitement as they began jumping up at her or wagged their tails happy to see her. Seeing how energetic and happy they were, Cera could see they were pretty much little kids at heart, so she couldn't stay mad at them for long as she began to chuckle out happily, "Hahaha, I'd love to play with you guys, but right now I've got something very important to do so can we play later?" she said patting them on their heads, which made them whine somewhat disappointedly.

As they lowered their heads sadly, Cera realised she may have phrased her words wrongly before leaning down and stroking their heads before raising their chins up to look at her smiling face, "I'm making you guys a nice present, so if you behave yourselves you can have it today. How does that sound?" she then said. Almost immediately, Terry, Tank and Spiny did a complete turn in mood before barking and jumping in excitement and joy for whatever toy she was making for them, and they just knew it would be great.

"Haha I knew you guys would be reasonable." she then laughed glad to have their attention before being a bit more firm in a motherly tone, "Just be nicer to Dr Z a bit okay? He's old and frail, if you play too rough you'll hurt very bad and that isn't very nice now is it?" she said to them which made them lower their heads a bit shamefully, "Would you like it if someone played rough with you as you did with him?" As they began to reflect on what they were doing, they then looked to one another before barking back at her in acknowledgement that she was right. Much to her relief, she was glad that they were understanding, if only the Alpha gang would treat them with the same kind of respect and discipline as she did, though knowing them it'd be a very long time before that happened, though it was another matter for another time, "Now run along and play somewhere else, when we're done we can play as much as you want? Okay?" She then said to them as they barked once more at her in acknowledgement before turning around and leaving to another room. "See you guys!" She waved with Miku chirping at them before she turned around to go help Dr Z up on his feet.

"Urgh…." he groaned shaking his head and as he rubbed it, he felt the helmet was stuck pretty tightly on him along with one of the body armour suits too, "Wh…What the? How did this get on me?" he muttered to himself feeling it to be slightly tight.

"Aren't you a little old to be playing dress up?" Cera commented as he looked up to see her staring down on him.

He then scowled grumpily at her, "Hmph! What do you want?" he grunted, in fact seeing any one of the D Team was enough to put him in a bad mood at any point in the day.

Cera eyed him with slight disapproval before sighing realising this was the only way, "Let's just say I want to try taking a crack at getting the armour ready, for our sakes we'll need to work fast, and as much as it pains me to say this…." she then paused for a moment, taking a breath and then letting it out, "If we work together we might speed things along a bit quicker." she said as she held out her hand to him, "So what do you say Dr Z? You in?"

Looking at her hand for a few seconds, he scoffed before slapping it away stubbornly, "Ha! As if I need help from a nitwit ankle biter like you!" he retorted with pride.

Cera then narrowed her eyes at him in response, "Looks like you need help getting that hunk of junk off your head." she stated bluntly pointing out at him as he looked up to see the viking helmet piece stuck on him!

"Hey! It's not junk it's prototype armour I designed using spare parts while taking every one of our dinosaurs' physical characteristics into consideration!" He yelled back at her shaking his fist in anger, "Basically this is perfect to suit them in every way! So don't you dare call my inventions junk!" he spat out at her before trying to tug at the helmet stuck on his head, "But come to think of it, it's…ugh..pretty tight….." he grunted as it had a firm hold on his head and the more he tugged at it the tighter it seemed to squeeze on him! "GRRRGH!" he growled fuming red as veins could be seen popping out where the helmet met his head while he continued twisting and turning to no avail! In fact his efforts to get it off only served to put more strain and pressure on his already old and frail head! "Get off will you!" he screamed in agony, which proceeded for a while, till eventually he began to huff and wheeze in exhaustion, having loss the strength and even the will to remove the accursed helmet off him! He slumped to the ground, almost feeling like giving up and having to spend the rest of his life with goofy headpiece forever, when a voice spoke to him.

"Ahem," the voice caught his attention, making him look up to see Cera folding her arms, tapping her foot and looking down on him, with a hint of impatience on her face at his stubborn attitude when they could have started helping out their cause if he had just asked for her assurance. Nevertheless, they were on the same side so she asked him as calmly as she could, "Need some help?"

Dr Z then clicked his tongue looking away, but seeing how she was still staring at him, refusing to budge from her spot and had no intention of taking no for an answer, he then hissed in frustration as he reluctantly swallowed his pride, "Hmph! Fine!" he scoffed if only it would mean he can get this task over with as soon as possible, though it wasn't long before he let his ego get back to his head, "Perhaps I could use an assistant after all, hehe!" he then laughed out loud as Cera sighed deeply and shook her head in disapproval.

"Yeah right, you're the assistant here…." she thought to herself as she grabbed hold of the viking horns and began tugging on them while he pulled back!

"URGH!" Dr Z screamed in pain as he held onto the pillar while Cera was starting to turn red as she held in her breath while pulling on the helmet.

"For such a big head if only his brain was just as large…." she thought to herslef in annoyance as she mustered one last burst of energy which finally managed to dislodge the helmet from Dr Z's cranium!

POP!

"YOW!" he screamed as the whole chunk of metal holding onto his scalp had finally let go, leaving behind a huge red mark where its tight grip was at first. He then grasped onto it tightly as he began rubbing ever part of his sore head and kneeled down in pain, "Ooh…maybe I should make bits and pieces of it to stick together rather than make full suits at once…." he said to himself before lying down and rolling around as off he was in agony!

Cera and Miku, seeing him to be wasting time being overdramatic, decided to snap him out of his thoughts as she spoke out to him, "If you're done lying down on the job we've got work to do." she said as she turned around and walked towards the tube containing the armour piece in it.

Seeing her sheer disrespect and disregard for him made Dr Z snort in anger as he picked himself up ready to prove himself wrong to her, "Hmph! Don't tell me what to do missy!" he growled stomping over to the tube, "You forget who's the doctor here!" Pressing a button the liquid from the container drained away as the crystal piece fell through the bottom of the beaker and then through a slot where Dr Z's hand was waiting to pick it up. "Now if were going to make our own armour, we need to study the nature of this unusual material." He then said as he put it on a scanner, where an above ray dish began shining a kind of infrared scan on it, before displaying its cross sectional structure and data measurements on it. "Hmm….According to these readings they're unlike anything we've ever seen before, in fact it could be even considered off world!" he gasped in amazement as he took it out and fingered it all over, seeing great new potential he'd be able to take his dinosaur kingdom into with more time and effort.

As he eagerly took it into another part of the room for further testing, Cera then closed her eyes and folded her arms in thought, "Well those pirates are aliens so they'd be using materials unknown to Earth." she mused, "So we'd need find a suitable substitute with a composition with similar qualities." She then hardened her expression, "And if we can't we'd have to make our own from scratch." She walked over to the computer to do a closer scan of the crystal piece, and nearly its entire surface was completely intact and suffered no form of damage in any way…..until-

"Hmm? What's…this?" she blinked her eyes curiously upon noticing a small crack in the center of the piece, so small she needed the advanced scanner of the machine in order to find it. Perhaps this could be the clue they were looking for in order to understand it's true nature. She brightened up seeing this as she turned around to tell Dr Z, though her enthusiasm was short lived when she saw what the mad doctor was doing to the piece while she was in thought! A group of Alpha droids of different varieties were taking turns either punching at the crystal with their bare fists or using tools like hammers and pickaxes as they continued pounding on it with all their strength! Such barbaric brutality was enough to make Cera's heart skip several beats seeing Dr Z's thoughtless acts could easily destroy their only piece of armour to work with! "ACK!" she stutters in disbelief at the extremes the old man would go through even if he was a dunce.

"Come on! Break already!" Dr Z growled stomping his feet in frustration seeing none of the droids could make so much as a dent in the armour piece.

"No you idiots! STOP!" Cera yelled at the top of her lungs which made the droids back off and Dr Z to widen his eyes at the insult.

"Huh!? What did you call me!?" he exclaimed.

"If you destroy that piece of armour you destroy the only edge we have against those pirates and their dinosaurs!" Cera screamed out at him in anger and frustration, there was only so much of his nonsense she could take from him in one day, "Did you even think about that!?"

Realising her point and how easily he got carried away, Dr Z quickly looked away from her and began to whistle casually, "Umm…well….of course I did!" he chuckled nervously trying to put up a confident facade, "It's just so strong I knew it'd be able to withstand all the tests I put it through! But just wanted to make sure hehe…." he added scratching his cheek.

Cera hardened her expression and shot him a fierce glare, "You're lucky that it is…." she thought to herself knowing full well he didn't think at all, for a scientist he really didn't know how to use his brain. She then walked in and picked up the crystal piece and waved it out at Dr Z, "While you were busy trying to break something as usual, I did a closer cross examination on the piece and found out this." She said as she placed it back on the scanner and brought up a cross section of the armour piece revealing the single weak point in the center of it. "Looks to me like that section is a weak point, if we focus something like a laser precisely at that spot maybe we might get some results out of it." she said pointing at the screen as Dr Z widened his eyes in surprise.

"Of course!" he gasped punching his fist into his palm, "Well I would've gotten there eventually of course haha!" he then laughed confidently and grinned as Cera simply sweat dropped back at him.

"In a hundred years perhaps…." she muttered as she entered it into a glass container with a laser device built in on the top. Dr Z then calibrated the beam to its most narrow focus and aimed it directly at the weak point which was shown on screen. A blue laser then began charging up before firing on it, and after a few seconds the piece split up into equally sized fragments!

"Yes! I did it!" he cheered out loud in triumph.

"Ahem?" Turning around he saw Cera raise an eyebrow at him firmly as he sighed in dismay.

"Fine, we did it…." he muttered before glaring back at her, "Though it was mostly me since it's my equipment we're using! So it's thanks to me we have a fighting chance against those pirates!" he yelled shaking a fist at her.

"If you were left alone you'd probably get it done in a few months, or worse destroy our only chance…." Cera thought to herself as the glass beaker opened and revealing the 6 pieces inside it which she took back, "Only 6…." she said eying them carefully, "If we break it up any further it'd be too little to get data from, so we'll have to make do with what we have now." she thought to herself before taking 3 of them, "We each take 3, we'll split the work up to make it quicker. I'll handle the pieces for the D Team, you take care of the parts for the Alpha gang." She said as she handed the others to Dr Z who snatched them away rudely.

"Don't tell me what to do child!" he yelled at her as he turned his back to her, "But be thankful I was going to do just that!" Dr Z huffed as he walked away to do his work in one section of the lab.

"More likely you'll only fix up armour for your dinosaurs instead…." Cera thought as she and Miku kept their hard gaze at him before turning to take their leave, "I'm going to go work in the other lab, I might be able to find the parts I need there, plus I can't concentrate with you trying to peep over my shoulders every few seconds." she said as she exited the room with her partner on her shoulder.

"Hmph! Looks like there is one thing we can agree on…." Dr Z scoffed as he began to study the armour in his possession, before a certain thought crossed his mind which made him grin most deviously.

(Meanwhile)

As Cera strolled down the hallways towards the other lab in the opposite wing of the Backlander, she passed by the open door of the kitchen, where the smell of rather…..unpleasant food was coming out from. Just a whiff of it was enough to make her and Miku pinch or cover their noses and tear up slightly at the pungent aroma it was giving off, whatever Helga was cooking up this time she wanted no part of it as she hurried away as fast as she could. Little did she know was that it wasn't Helga who was cooking but the Trio, who were all dressed in cooking aprons and were working tirelessly and reluctantly to prepare a full course meal using the brussel sprouts they were given by Helga herself. Needless to say they hated every second with it, as much as they loved food cooking it was another matter. They barely had any experience working in the kitchen evidence by the number of times they mixed in the wrong ingredients or ended up nearly cutting their own fingers off, on top of that they despised brussel sprouts, why couldn't they have worked with dessert instead?

As Terry and the other 2 alpha dinosaurs ate kibble from their bowls in anode corner, Tank took notice of Cera walking by and after swallowing down her last bite she trotted out of the room unnoticed by the others as she went off to follow Cera to wherever she was heading to.

"There, done!" Ursula breathed as she wiped away some sweat from her brow as she and her friends eyed the 'full course' meal they prepared with their blood, sweat and tears, "So guys what do you think?" she then asked for their opinion as Zander and Ed both narrowed their eyes at the 'delicacies' they concocted with their own grubby hands.

"Hmm…fried brussel sprouts, steamed brussel sprouts and brussel sprout soup." Zander muttered seeing fried brussel sprout leaves (some of which were charred black to a crisp due to overcooking), grimy looking leaves and greenish mushy soup with a solid uncooked sport in the center of it. Needless to say their efforts to cook up a meal from the most hated of ingredients was a giant flop, as the combined stench of the 3 dishes was enough to make the either turn green and sick, scrunch up their faces or tear up painfully.

"Ugh, I'm getting sick just looking at it all…." Ed muttered as his stomach began to churn just looking at the horrendous dishes they cooked up, something even rats and flied would stay clear of!

"Yeah, who'd eat this stuff anyways?" Ursula said out loud in agreement.

"Not me, not even if this was the only food left in the whole world." Zander added waving his arms out.

Suddenly the room echoed with the sounds of growling stomachs as the Trio clenched their bellies tightly in pain, "Urgh…all this 'cooking' just made me hungry…." Ed groaned as he walked over to the fridge hoping to find something that's at least edible. As he opened it, Ursula then scowled in disappointment.

"Tch! It's just raw ingredients…." she hissed clicking her tongue upon seeing raw meat, eggs and vegetables inside as Ed then shut the door back.

"So we're gonna have to cook again?" Ed asked nervously as Zander slumped down to the ground like a worm.

"I'm too weak and hungry to do that, besides if any of us cook we'd only be wasting precious food and make a mess that Helga would make us clean up again…." he muttered with his face into the floor, knowing she'd do just that's exactly what they just did.

"Well at least we've still got that to eat." Ed pointed to their brussel sprout themed meal they cooked up looking on the bright side, but that only earned him a couple of raised eyebrows an suspicious looks from Ursula and Zander.

"Are you kidding Ed?"

"I wouldn't eat that garbage even if you paid me." They each said to him in disgust as he lowered his head and sighed.

"True…." he admitted not even Tank would bat an eye to their failed attempts at a vegetarian cuisine, let alone Terry and Spiny who were already backing away upon getting just a whiff of it.

Seeing their situation to be nearly hopeless, Ursula suddenly brightened up and smacked a fist into her palm in realisation, "Say! We're in Rome right? From what I heard it's basically the birthplace of pizza!" she then cheered out lid as the 2 men brightened their eyes up and their jaws hung open in joy.

"AH!" they cheered as their mouths began to water and drool to the floor.

"You mean like double pepperoni!?"

"Or quadruple cheese!?" They each asked as Ursula grinned at them.

"Any topping you name it boys!" she replied as she clapped her hands together, "Oh just thinking about it is making me even more hungry!" she sang doing a cheerful spin, "I say we've earned ourselves a break after all this, we'll take the spare teleporter so Jonathan won't notice!" She said to the gang with confidence as they nodded with her in agreement.

"Good idea!"

Ed then looked around noticing they were 1 dinosaur short at the moment, "Hey where's Tank?" he asked curiously blinking his eyes and looking around but finding no trace of her in the kitchen.

Zander and Ursula soon followed and blinked in surprise to see she had left, "She was just here a minute ago…." Zander mused putting a finger to his chin in thought.

"Oh forget her, Spiny and Terry should be plenty enough!" said Ursula shrugging it off not wanting to waste any time finding her in a game of hide and seek when there was a quest for pizza to accomplish! "Besides we don't have time to look for her, at this rate my stomach would begin eating itself!" she then cried feeling the emptiness in her stomach beginning to turn her stomach inside out.

Her friends could understand what she was saying and decided to go with just 2 dinosaurs this time, "Yeah, I suppose you're right."

"I feel the same way too…." said Zander and Ed as they returned Spiny and Terry to their cards.

Ursula then stomped her foot on a chair standing tall as she pointed out tot he sky with triumph, "Come on boys, we're going for takeout Roman style!" she announced as the 2 men punched up to the sky!

"Yeah!" They announced before running out of the room and heading to the teleporter room unaware of the trouble they were about to put themselves into.

(Meanwhile)

"Aaah, finally some piece and quiet…." Cera though to herself as she could finally hear herself think again in the lab where Cretacia and Ancient were working in earlier. Now she can finally concentrate without Dr Z's loud and noisy experiments and testing to distract her, as she laid out the 3 pieces of armour on a computer scanner which were then brought up on another screen. Before she could get to work, Miku who was standing on another ride of the table caught sight of someone else i the room, as she poked at Cera's hand to get her attention and make her turn to her, "Hmm? Something up Miku?" She asked as she looked too where she was pointing her head at.

"Oh, hey Tank, didn't see you there." she said as the small ankylosaur came trotting in while wagging her tail with glee. As she barked at her, Cera then smiled lightly seeing what she was after, "What's that? You want to join me in getting your present ready?" she asked as Tank jumped up and down excitedly in response, "Well if you do, it wouldn't be a surprise then…." she said. Despite that Tank remained undeterred and still insisted on helping, even if it wasn't for the present she still wanted to be useful to Cera after all she did for her and the other dinosaurs, and she wasn't going to take no for an answer.

Seeing how determined she was, Cera then giggled in response, "Heh why not?" she chuckled seeing no reason to deny her as Tank jumped up at the table to see what she was doing, and hoping she'd be able to make herself useful. Before they could get down to business though, a beeping sound suddenly came up on Cera's dinoshot as they all turned to it.

BEEP! BEEP!

"Hmm? A message now?" Cera thought blinking her eyes as she looked it up. It was a message from Zoe, stating how they just ran into another space pirate named Foolscap, who attacked them with a shunosaurus and they were hoping she could get their new armour ready as soon as she could, for their sakes and Sophia's. Reading it over, she then narrowed her eyes seeing the situation was getting serious as every second passed, "Better work fast now." she said to herself as she began typing away at the computer.

"Okay, to make an armour durable enough to withstand attacks like the dinosaur unleashing them, we'd need to make a metal strong enough to handle it and at the same time be compatible with the crystal too…." she noted as she began keying in said date into the computer. "At the same time we'd have to account for our dinosaurs' attributes and physical traits too, so that the armour would not only strengthen them but also wouldn't impede their mobility." he then added as she began typing away, the computer bringing up possible armour designs and simulations with what she inputed. While working she also deduced, based on the different armour designs from torvosaurus and saltasaurus, the armour would need to be specific to each species' physical characteristics as well as elemental attributes as well.

"It'll be tough to satisfy them all, let alone develop an armour that works…." Cera then thought narrowing her eyes seeing she had to sync some kind of system program to link the dinosaur with the device used to summon it. But before that she had to develop some kind of activator that would be able to trigger the armour to appear on the dinosaur too, and so far no material in the computer database proved to be a suitable element for it. It seemed like a hopeless task, till Cera heard some loud chewing behind her which made her look behind with Miku to see Tank was gnawing on a metallic rod that was on the floor.

"Hey Tank, that could be important, so please let go of it." Said Cera as she took it away from the little dinosaur, who lowered her head and grunted in annoyance at having her chew toy get taken from her. Cera felt a little bad for having to do it, but the rod could be an important piece of equipment the Backlander needed, after all it was made entirely of- "Wait a minute….Alpha metal…." Cera blinked her eyes as she examined it all over. Alpha metal, a rare and highly adaptable alloy which the Backlander and all its important devices consisted of, with its impressive capabilities to be used for any kind of function…."Yes! Maybe this can work! Nice job Tank!" Cere cheered praising her as she petted Tank's head, making her brighten up. She wasn't sure what she was being praised for but she enjoyed praise no less and felt happy to be able to contribute to Cera being able to finish her present faster, unaware that this present would be the determining factor for the D Team's future victories and defeats.

Soon Cera got to work as she began gathering alloy samples from the base's storage depots and began to cut out pieces that would be the right size to fit in the dino bracers, "Alright, now to carve out the right piece….." she thought working at a laser device which began cutting out the correct shapes to fit into them, "Add the circuitry and fit in the dinosaur data…." She then said as she began installing circuits and parts into them, followed by their respective dinosaur data and elemental attributes too, "Then fit the crystal as the power piece into it…." The final touch, was to insert a segment of the crystal into the device which would power it, and then, enable it to grow with the alpha metal to form the basis for the D Team's own armour! At last it was finally finished!

"Alright! That should do it!" she said deeply pleased with her work, 3 fully retrofitted dino bracers for Chomp, Ace and Paris, and knowing they had a chance against the evil space pirates now. Miku too chirped with deep pleasure sensing her partner's happiness, though when Cera eyed the little dinosaur a little longer, she soon realised she'd be the only one now without the same edge that her friends or the Alpha gang now had. "Sorry Miku, I don't think I have any crystal left over make any armour for you." she said feeling bad for her partner as she nuzzled her chin a bit, though Miku responded by licking it playfully to show she wasn't feeling that bad about it. "Then again, I don't think armour really suits you that much, you wouldn't be able to glide as well as you can. Plus I think what you do is good enough for the team." Cera then said as Miku chirped and wagged her tail with joy. As the old saying goes, if it isn't broke don't fix it.

Looking down to Tank who was wagging her tail in excitement, Cera smiled as she leaned down to stroke her head, "You did well too Tank, you've been a great help." she said to her feeling grateful for her helping to find the answer which could save them all, "Once this is ready, you an the others will be fully prepped for battle, not to mention with a set of style too." As she said that Tank barked out and jumped up and down in excitement for that. "Okay, now to check on Dr Z and see how he's doing…." Cera then thought as she picked up the 3 bracers she completed and walked out the room, "Knowing him he's probably messed something up." she muttered as Miku hopped onto Tank's back as she followed after Cera.

As she went back into the other lab from earlier, she found that the old man was nowhere to be seen or found, "Huh? Where'd he go?" she asked curiously looking around to find no trace of him. If he was here he'd have made a loud noise from either his tinkering or an explosion, and it was clear he wasn't around since it was so quiet. Cera soon took notice of 3 large tubes glowing with red, purple and blue light in them, with 3 cards as well which were suspended in a liquid of some sort inside. "Hmm? What's this?" She said curiously as she walked up to them for a closer look. Upon closer inspection, she soon realised Dr Z was apparently working on a kind of ultimate move that would allow a dinosaur to unleash the full elemental power of their armour and take the potential it would hold to even greater heights apart from being used as a mere defence or attack boost. "That's actually….pretty genius…." she whistled before seeing there was only one for fire, water and earth attributes, which made her scowl lightly in disappointment, "As I thought he's only focusing on his own dinosaurs instead of everyone's…." she huffed seeing she had more work to do now, "Might as well do some for the D Team." she said to herself as she brought up the data he used on another computer and began to do the same for the D Team, as 3 separate tubes nearby lit up yellow, green and white.

(Later)

A little while later, Dr Z stumbled into the lab room, sweating anxiously as he let out a deep sigh, "Phew, that was close…." he breathed in relief having barely escaped Helga who was about to turn him into a cleaning slave like she was meant to be, he couldn't think of what was worse, the fact he'd have to take orders from his own creation or the nightmarish training regime she'd put him through against his will. He kept breathing in and out feeling grateful he was able to make it out in one piece with his prototype armour devices in his hands, "For a second there I thought I was going to be-" As he looked ahead, he widened his eyes in surprise to see Cera was there waiting for him along with both Tank and Miku. "Hey! What are you doing here?" he cried out in surprise nearly dropping his own devices from his arms and barely managing to catch them again.

"I was just admiring your work that's all." she answered as she stepped aside to show off the Ultimate Fire, Water and Earth move cards in the test tubes Dr Z had left behind earlier, "Have to say coming up with above cards that tap into the power of the armour is actually cool." she smiled as she eyed the 3 move cards intently.

The compliment then made Dr Z blush a bit feeling touched and appreciated at the compliment she gave him, "Heheh….You think so?" he chuckled before shaking his head and sporting a more egotistical grin on his face, "I mean, haha! Of course! Naturally, it's something only a genius like myself can come up with." he laughed boastfully as he held his head up high, before bling his eyes in realisation, "Hey wait a minute, shouldn't you be fixing up armour for your bratty friends in the other room!?" he then cried out.

Cera then closed her eyes and smiled at him calmly, "I finished early." she answered which made him widen his eyes in deep shock as his jaw hung in disbelief at the thought someone as young as her could actually outdo him at his own game!

"Ack! You….did?" he croaked in bewilderment as he pointed out weakly at her.

"Mhmm." She nodded before stepping aside, "With time to spare I came in here to see how you were doing, only to find you only made move cards for just yourself." She said before turning around, "So I took the initiative and made some for my friends as well, that way we'd even up the playing field against the pirates that much more." She then said as she stepped away and revealed the Ultimate thunder, leaf and wind move cards she had just finished after looking over Dr Z's notes.

"I…see…." Dr Z gulped as he looked away shamefully while twiddling his fingers, "Well good for you…." he then muttered calmly while hiding immense rage and envy deep inside, "GRRR! How can that snivelling little girl outdo me at my own game!? Not to mention she snuck behind my back and made move cards for the brats without my supervision!? Unacceptable!" he screamed inside swearing he'll outdo her one day and show them all his true genius.

A day which would take a long time to come though, as Cera then asked a simple question which began to derail his hopes, "So how goes your side of the job?" she asked as he turned pale and his heart skipped a beat.

"Ack! I err…well…." he croaked and began scratching his head uneasily. Signs which Cera recognised instantly as not even close to half done as she sighed and closed her eyes.

"Sigh….you didn't finish it did you?" she said while shaking her head.

"B…Be quiet! True genius can't be rushed! That's all there is to it!" Dr Z retorted though at the same time he was also shaking emotionally, feeling hurt and envious at how easily he was outdone by a mere child not even half his age!

Taking pity on him, Cera then took out a data disk from her pocket and handed it to him, "Here." She said looking away, taking pity on Dr Z and deciding to do this only for the dinosaurs and not him.

"What's this?" he then asked looking over it carefully.

"The blue prints for the design I perfected." Cera answered as she folded her arms on her hips, "With this you'll finish up your side quicker." She said as Dr Z went to insert it into the computer, and the data along with the blue prints for the completed devices came up on screen.

As Dr Z eyed the data carefully all around, he widened them in disbelief and awe over the significant achievements he had aimed to accomplish in the armour only that Cera had managed to reach them faster than he could! "How…How did she do it? I must find out her secret for myself! Only I can have that kind of expertise! Me and me alone!" he screamed to himself before turning around to flash a begrudging expression at her.

"I can even pitch in a little and show you how I did it." Cera then offered reluctantly, before gaining a sinister smirk on her face, "Or if you refuse, maybe I'll just take these to my friends and take all the credit for it while you're still stuck up here patching up your armour." she said intending to goad Dr Z on purposely so that he'd be more cooperative.

Hearing her say such forbidden words made Dr Z clench his face in horror at the thought of his life long dream being achieved by mere children, as he turned pale and screamed loudly in horror at his worst nightmare coming true, "AH!"

"Of course, I'd be more than to share the glory, if you accept my help." Cera then offered as she held a hand out to him, an offer she knew he couldn't and wouldn't refuse.

Dr Z gritted his teeth in frustration over the difficult choice he was presented. On one hand accepting her help would ruin his career as an evil genius and he'd have to live down the fact he couldn't achieve his future success without help and he'd no doubt have to share the glory which he wanted all for himself, but on the other hand, if he refused he'd lose out completely and have his lifelong dream go unfulfilled, which he'd take to his grave the day he would depart this world. "Urgh…." he groaned painfully as he looked once more at the hand Cera was offering, which she was slowly bringing back in highlighting his window of opportunity was closing soon.

"So, do we have a deal?" she asked once more, losing patience fast. Before she could take it back in, Dr Z quickly reached out and shook on it giving her his word that he'd cooperate 100% with her and share the credit for this, if only it meant his own dinosaurs would be able to stand a better chance and not get left behind by the D Team's.

"Tch! Fine! We'll do this together! Happy now!?" he hissed clicking his tongue while looking away from her, which made a light smile come on her face to see he was finally putting aside his ego and pride all for the greater good of everyone.

"See? Was that so hard?" she said with a light smile, as Dr Z quickly took his hand away and ran off to the bathroom to burst his teeth and rinse with mouthwash in order to remove the stains of forbidden words having passed his lips.

(Later)

After a long while of tinkering, melding parts together and finalising the activation systems, at long last, it was complete, as Dr Z held up a metallic case filled with the 6 completed armour activators and spun around in sheer excitement like a child unable to contain his enthusiasm, "Ahaha! I did it! I finally did it!" he laughed out loud in a jolly way, while Cera folded her arms and stood on the sidelines deciding to let him have his moment of glory for now, since it was obvious it wouldn't last like every other time the Alpha gang seemed to have a moment of victory. "With these elemental boosters finally completed I'll be the dinosaur king for sure! Ahahahahah!" Dr Z grinned with excitement as he took another long look at the 6 devices inside which were each shaped like the dinosaur they were to match up with.

"Emmental boosters?" Cera blinked her eyes hearing the name before smiling, "That's….a pretty good name for those devices." She said before closing her eyes in thought, "As for the armour itself…..I think I'll call it….the dino tector! Yeah, that's it." she said smacking a fist into her palm confirming that as the right name to call it.

Dr Z's ears quickly perked up upon hearing her comment, "Ah! A most excellent name indeed! It practically screams power!" he cried out, "Glad I thought of it!"

"Hmph…." Cera scoffed but quickly shrugged it off realising the big picture as she took out her dinoshot, "It's been a while since we worked on these things, we'd better go check up on them." Pressing a button on it, it brought down a screen which lit up, and what they saw on it was most startling. Both her and Dr Z gasped in shock to see Chomp, Ace and Paris in the gladiatorial arena fighting against an armoured yangchuanosaurus and a piatnizkysaurus controlled by a lady space pirate (with long hair, red eyes and a yellow ribbon tying up her hair).

"GAH!"

Despite outnumbering them 2 to 3, it was obvious the D Team was at a disadvantage as the armoured yangchuanosaurus was driving both Paris and Ace into a corner while Chomp was doing his best to avoid getting bitten by piatnizkysaurus or inhaling its venomous breath! At this rate it was clear they wouldn't stand a chance!

"Oh no they're in trouble!" Cera cried out in alarm as she turned to Miku and Tank, "We've got to help them!" she cried seriously as they both nodded and barked out ready for combat!

"Leave it to me!" yelled Dr Z taking initiative along with the case containing all the boosters in it, "I'll get these element boosters over to those brats, I mean kids in jiffy!" he said sealing the case and waving to Cera, "You can count on me to get the job done! In the meantime, stay in here and relax! Hee hee!" he giggled with glee as he scurried out the room, sealed the door behind him shut and headed for where Jonathan was, intending to take all the credit and glory for himself.

Despite his words Cera didn't buy it for even a second, "Yeah right, like I can trust anything he says." she muttered before reaching into her pocket and taking out 6 ultimate move cards and eying them, "And he forgot these too…." she added before sighing in exasperation, "Well Miku, Tank looks like we're following him. No way can we leave him to help Max and the others." She said as she took out her dinoshot and began hacking into the door's security functions, taking only a few minutes before it finally opened up. With no more obstacles in their way, Miku hopped onto her shoulder and Tank ran beside her as they headed out to the control deck to be teleported down.

She and her friends then raced across the hall following after Dr Z with a determined looks on their face, for Cera, she just knew that each encounter with the pirates was a battle with much to gain and even much more to lose, that's what she felt in her gut, and no way was she about to let them down in finding their parents and hopefully afterwards she might be able to find some clues to her own past knowing they were somehow connected with them. Either way she wasn't going to let her friends fall in battle like that when they need her most. She soon burst into the control room where Jonathan was awaiting her, "Jonathan!" she then cried out.

"Say no more, I'll bring you down this instant!" he replied as his eye glowed and she was enveloped in bright light before vanishing from sight.

As she arrived down below on the coliseum grounds, surrounded by cheering fans and excited crowds she came face to face with Chomp, now fully armoured just as she had modelled it to be, finally being able to match blow for blow against a spectral armour dinosaur while Max and the others cheered him on! "Heh, looks like we arrived just in time for the party." she smirked proudly seeing it was working like a charm before noticing Dr Z who was knocked unconscious on the other side of the arena, "And he's out of it now…." she then mused as Miku and Tank eyed him almost sympathetically.

Her comment was soon picked up by Rex as he turned around, "Huh?" as his eyes met hers he then brightened up and pointed out to the others, "Hey it's Cera!"

"AH!" Max and Zoe quickly broke away from the fight to meet her while Chomp held off yangchuanosaurus with much ease, tossing the large carnivore away with just a swing of his horns.

"Hey what took ya?" Max smiled glad to see her again now with them.

She then scratched her head rather sheepishly, "Sorry about that….I kinda got a little sidetracked thanks to Dr Z there." she said pointing to him with her thumb. After that she folded her arm on her hip and smiled proudly as she looked up at Chomp who quickly shifted his side and used his armour to deflect yangchuanosaurus' attack attempt on his side and smashing into her face causing her to stumble back, "Good to see the armour works though." she then said as the others turned and smiled proudly at it.

"Yeah, in fact it's better than anything we ever thought of!" Max grinned as he punched forward energetically.

"You and Dr Z came through for us this time." Rex commented as Zoe nodded.

"Don't I always?" Cera smiled before becoming serious, "Anything I can do to help?" she asked them as they looked back to her, "Cos it seems you've got things covered here."

"Actually there is," said Zoe seriously, "Sophia and Spartacus just left to free their allies locked up in the prison nearby." she said pointing out at the entrance they came in.

"It'd be a big help if you could go lend them a hand!" Rex suggested as he tensed up his arms into fists, "Since me and Zoe can't with Ace and Paris out of commission…" he muttered as Zoe looked down sadly recalling how badly burning dash had beaten them both earlier.

Cera the nodded, "Say no more, I'll go and help them now." she aanwered before looking up to see Chomp and yangchuanosaurus still fighting fiercely and the crowds c continuing roaring in excitement, much to her displeasure at seeing such violent brutality a entertainment, "In the meantime you guys take care of things here!"

"Will do!" Max replied holding a thumbs up and his fiends nodding back at her..

Before she could turn to leave she remembering one more important factor, "Oh one more thing!" she called out to them as they looked back to her.

"What's that?" Max blinked as Cera took out something from her pocket.

"Here! Take this!" she said tossing it at him as he managed to catch it. Taking a look it turned out to be a lightning move card.

"What's this? A move card?" he asked curiously.

"It's a special one I designed to bring out the full power of the dino tector armour." Cera answered as she turned to Rex and Zoe next, "Here, I even have one for you guys too." she said quickly tossing it out to them as they caught it effortlessly and smiled.

"Ah!"

"Cool!"

Cera smiled seeing they were pleased with what she gave them, "If things ever get a little too hairy, go ahead and give them a whirl." she said flashing them a thumbs up as they all grinned eagerly back.

"Hehe, will do!" Max laughed confidently since it was coming straight from her rather than Dr Z.

Taking notice of the case next to Max's leg, she then picked it up, "Oh, and I think I might need this." she said opening it up and taking a purple element booster from it. Before they could ask her why, she quickly turned around and ran out the exit, "Good luck you guys!" she said out to them giving them some final words of encouragement.

"You too Cera!"

"And thanks for the help!" Rex and Zoe then answered them as they turned back to the battle at hand.

"Go get em Chomp!"

"You can do it!"

"Don't give up!" They cheered him on as he caught hold of yangchuanosaurus' tail and threw her away effortlessly!

(Meanwhile)

As Cera made it outside the arena with Miku on her shoulder and Tank by her side as she came to a stop, "Alright, now which way?" she asked herself as she then looked around hoping to find at least some kind of sign or direction to head in.

"GAAAAH!" a scream suddenly echoed from around the corner of the coliseum which made them all turn in the direction it came from.

"That way it is." she then said as they ran off around the corner.

The trio huddled together and shuddered terrified as a group of Roman centurions held up their spears and surrounded them in a circle formation on all sides like wolves ready to pounce on them! "Alright you three! Get back in that arena this instant and finish off Spartacus like you were told!" One soldier with a thick beard yelled out at them.

"Or would you rather be fed to the lions!?" Another followed glaring an angered expression at the cowardly trio who turned play and sweated bullets at the fact that they were inches of being turned into swiss cheese!

"T…Take it easy now!" Zander shuddered holding his hands out peacefully. Even if they could summon Terry or Spiny to fight for them, they both were already exhausted having forced to fight earlier in the arena so they wouldn't be that much good against a squadron of armed men.

"W….We'd love to!" Ursula chuckled nervous as she rubbed her hands together, "If you'd please put away those pointy spear things first?" she then pleaded before falling on her knees and tearing up dramatically.

"You could stab someone's eye out with that…." Ed quivered holding his hand out at one of the spears that was coming in close for his comfort, only for its handler to thrust it forward and make him jump, "EEEP!"

Little did they know was that Cera was actually watching the entire drama play out from behind a pillar of the arena as she narrowed her eyes at what was happening, "What are they doing here?" she wondered raising an eyebrow, "No wonder it was so quiet, they must have snuck off somehow….." she thought to herself putting a finger to her chin before sighing in dismay, "Guess it's up to us to save them huh Tank?" she said looking to the small ankylosaur below who simply barked back at her. Even if they were troublemaking crooks even they didn't deserve to be skewered, so she pressed a button and returned Tank to card form.

"We're not going to repeat ourselves!" The lead soldier yelled impatiently having enough of their nonsense, "Get moving or else!" he threatened once more as he held the spear up to Ursula's neck as she gulped down hard while staring into the face of death itself!

"O…Okay! You win! Take it easy now!" she choked while Ed and Zander huddled close to her, hoping to get behind her and use her as a shield, despite having spears aimed at their backs too! "Just give us a little room and we'll-" Before she could finish, a loud screech suddenly sounded out right near them which caught them all by surprise!

ROAR!

"Huh!?"

"AH!" The centurions cried out in terror as a massive saichania suddenly burst out of the ground from purple light and then roared out at them!

SHRIEK!

Tank screeched fiercely as she raised her tail and waved it threateningly before stomping towards the armed group who were now the ones being threatened.

"GAAAH!"

"Wh…What is that!?"

"Another monster!?" They cried out in shock and horror as they broke their formation and converged together, raising their weapons against the huge dinosaur which mysteriously came out of nowhere!

The Alpha gang however brined up and smiled with pure joy and hope seeing their saviour come to their aid, "It's Tank!" Ursula cried out clapping her hands while smiling deeply.

"How'd she get here!?" Ed gasped in disbelief.

"Who cares!?" Ursula yelled at him, "She's here to save us and that's all that matters!" she replied before waving at her, "You hoo! Tank! Over here please! Be a dear and crush them into jelly for us!" she sang innocently as Tank's speed picked up and she charged straight ahead towards the armed legion!

The lead soldier gritted his teeth, his pride as a soldier and loyalty to Sula refused to let him back down, as he pulled out a sword and held it forward, "Onward men! For the glory of the empire! Charge!" he announced as the whole group charged forth with their spears pointed forward!

"RAAAAAAAHHH!" In response, Tank raised her huge tail and swiftly delivered a counterattack as he tail swept out at them, sending a large number of them back from sheer force! "GWAAAAAH!" A number pop them cried out as they were blown away or fell on their fellow comrades!

Others were able to get around her, but as they thrust out their spears and blades, Tank quickly tucked in her legs and hunkered down, so their weapons missed and ended up cracking or breaking against either her armoured back or sharp spikes!

"GAH! My weapons have no effect!" A soldier gasped as Tank swung out her tail and bashed against his shield sending him flying! "WAAAAH!" As he landed several feet away the others took this as a sign they couldn't win as some even began to retreat seeing that glory for the empire wasn't worth losing their loves over! Tank then slammed her tail on the ground and roared out aggressively, warding the rest of the Roman troops to beat it much to the leader's dismay!

"Hahaha! Those little toothpicks won't do anything to Tank." Ursula laughed teasingly as several terrified men passed by them without a backwards glance while Zander and Ed both grinned and snickered in delight at their enemies' predicament.

"Eheheh!"

The lead soldier gritted his teeth seeing his troops were deserting him, the battle may have been lost but at least he could still reap some reward, "Maybe not but at least I can still use them to end you!" he yelled spitefully at the Trio as he pulled out a knife from his side and charged at them! "AAAAARRRRGGHH!" he roared out as he flashed his dagger with a bloodthirsty expression on his face while the trio huddled together and cried out loud frozen in fear!

"WAAAAAH!"

Right before his blade could make contact with human flesh, Tank charged out and head butted the lead solder from behind and sending flying over the trio! "ARGH!" he cried as he slammed hard on the ground ahead as the remaining soldiers backed away in shock and disbelief at their commander being defeated so easily, as well as their combined assault being useless against this monster as she roared out at them mocking their futile efforts!

The trio meanwhile fell to their knees feeling overwhelmed by that near brush with death, "Phew…." Ursula wheezed letting out a deep sigh of relief.

"That was way too close…." Zander gasped in exhaustion.

"I thought my heart was going to be on a kebab…." Ed muttered clasping over his chest before falling down and fainting on the ground.

As the commander got back up on his legs, he turned around and for the first time in his life as a soldier, he felt his heart turn cold and fear run through his veins. Quickly turning around he shouted 2 words he never thought he ever would, "R…Retreat men!" he cried out loud as he ran past them, "Run!" As he said so the remaining soldiers cried out in terror as they followed suit.

As the army retreated, the Alpha gang got back up on their feet recovering form their earlier shock before deciding to gloat in victory, "Yeah! That'll show those brutes not to mess with the alpha gang!" Ursula cheered energetically with the intention of rubbing this victory in their enemies' faces.

"Nyeeh!" Ed and Zander followed sticking their tongue out at them before taunting the fleeing soldiers and mocking them with names too.

Their moment of glory was about to be cut short though, as Cera stepped out from behind the pillar and began walking towards them, "What are you guys doing here?" she then asked firmly as she stood before the 3 Alpha gang clowns right next to Tank.

"Huh?" As they turned around to see her and Miku they frowned in disappointment realising they had to be saved by a brat, which sapped some wind from the sails.

"Oh it's you." Ursula pouted.

"Wait, were you the one who took Tank just now?" Zander asked pointing at her curiously.

Cera however ignored them and instead hardened her gaze at them angrily, "I asked you a question, and I suggest you answer now." she said menacingly as she folded her arms and Tank roared out demanding that the trio answer her otherwise she'd literally beat it out of them!

The trio once again turned pale as they held out their hands and waved frantically begging for mercy, "A…Alright take it easy, we'll come clean okay?" They cried out not wanting to have another close brush with death again, though with what they were about to reveal to Cera, would bring them closer to their demise than the centurions ever could-

After they explained their whole story, when they left the safety of the ship to look for pizza, only to end up being forced to fight in the coliseum per Sula's orders and endangering so many innocent lives, Cera could hardly contain her anger as she exploded in a huge rage, "YOU DID WHAT!?" she screamed out loud and began huffing deeply while gasping for air, flaring red and tensing her hands into fists.

The trio remained silent and turned pale, unable to think carefully on how to respond, knowing a careless comment or snake would end up leaving them as a smudge on the ground, "Umm….do you need us to repeat ourselves?" Zander croaked as he pointed out.

"Please say no…." Ed pleaded as he clapped his hands together and prayed with Ursula for mercy.

Cera was about to have none of that, "You put Terry through so much pain and suffering and used Spiny to try and kill Spartacus!?" she screamed as the two huddled together with the young girl focusing every ounce of her anger and spite towards them, "What were you idiots thinking!?" she hissed as her eyes reddened immensely at the tough they were so careless and put their own dinosaurs lives on the line as well as nearly ending an innocent man's as well, the thought of it was enough to agitate Tank and Miku too after hearing their comrades could have been killed as they both snarled and growled at the trio who lowered their heads in shame!

"We….weren't?"

"S…..Sorry…."

"Please let us live…." They each croaked, feeling completely terrified as they shuddered and shook in terror begging for her to be finished with her punishment and get it over with already, even death didn't seem like a bad alternative after what she was putting them through now.

As much as she wanted to give them a stern lecturing and punishment, Cera soon remembered she had more important business to attend to now as she sighed in exasperation and rubbed her temple trying to calm herself down best she could, "You guys better get back to the ship right this instant, I'll deal with you later, you've caused us enough trouble for one day." she responded as the Trio brightened up and smiled with delight.

"Sure thing!"

"Whatever you say!"

"No need to tell me twice!" They each said as they got off and began to scurry away.

"Wait!" She then yelled out as they stopped to look back at her.

"Huh?"

She then pointed out with her thumb to the arena entrance, "Dr Z's knocked out in the arena." she said as the Trio widened their eyes in shock.

"He is!?" they gasped in disbelief that their boss decided to come down from the ship himself.

Cera nodded back at them, "Go get him and go home, before he becomes dino food." she said to them as they saluted her like army soldiers did.

"Yes ma'am!" They said in unison as they ran back inside.

She then sighed with relief seeing that mess was now taken care of before turning serious and looking ahead, "Now to the real issue." she thought to herself upon hearing a commotion happening in front, as she ran ahead with Tank following close by.

Right outside the prison, Spartacus yelled out angrily at Sheer who had just stolen his sword, which held his family's priceless heirloom the yellow cosmos stone inside it and was about to fly away with it too. "Come back here!" Spartacus yelled out to her as she took to the sky with his words falling on deaf ears.

"Oh no she's getting away with the cosmos stone!" Sophia cried clapping her hands together in worry while her brother gritted his teeth in frustration at being unable to do a thing about it. All hope at getting the jewel back seemed lost, when suddenly-

"Not if I can help it!" a voice shouted from behind which made both siblings look back in surprise.

"Huh?"

"Ah!" Sophia gasped and smiled to see it was none other than Cera along with Tank who had arrived on the scene! "It's you!" she cried with joy as Spartacus looked to his sister and back at the mysterious new child with a dinosaur, who he assumed must have been with the ones who helped save him just now at the arena.

Arriving on scene and already piecing together what was happening, Cera narrowed her eyes as she vowed to herself that she wouldn't let Sheer get away with the trouble she had caused everyone in this time period, "Go Tank! Take her down!" Cera raised her arm out as the saichania roared out, "Spike arrows!" she yelled slashing the move card causing Tank to glow purple as she fired out a barrage of purple arrows straight at Sheer!

"Huh?" as the lady pirate heard the sound of a move being used, she looked down and widened her eyes in alarm to see the flurry of arrows being sent at her! "Wh….What the!? AAAAAAHHH!" she screamed in shock as she barely managed to avoid them in time, spinning around or dodging them barely, till one arrow grazed her wing and forced her to make a landing close to the ground! As she placed a hand on her chest taking in a breath, she looked up and hardened her expression to see Cera and Tank staring down at her. She gritted her teeth and clenched her fist, "Grrr! How dare a measly little child like you attack a space pirate like me!?" she growled seeing her getting grounded by a little girl was unacceptable, "I bet you're with those little kids from before." she spat begrudgingly as she narrowed her eyes at Cera.

"That's right, and I'm here to make you and your friends pay for what you've done!" Cera retorted as Tank and Miku both shrieks at her in response, while Spartacus lead Sophia to behind their 2 protectors.

Despite what the young girl did to her, Sheer couldn't help but find it rather amusing as she folded an arm on her hip and smirked, "Ha! You've either got guts or not a lot of brains I'll give you that…." she snickered before blinking her eyes on close inspection at the new brat who decided to get in her way, "Hang on….she looks familiar…." she mused to herself leaning in for a better look before shaking her head and shrugging it off, "Must be my imagination," she muttered before getting back to business, "Either way you've got a lot of nerve attacking me with my back turned, no way am I going to let this slide!" she growled swearing vengeance as she took out a card from her pocket, "Come on out torosaurus!" Placing the card on her choker, a large red frilled ceratopsian with eye markings appeared on the field from purple light as 3 Spectral pirate markings appeared on its head and sides!

"AH!" Sophia gasped while Spartacus gritted his teeth and sweated nervously.

"Just how many of these things are there?!" he growled in disbelief as Cera held out her hand to both siblings.

"Stand back, we'll handle this!" she said to them firmly and shooting them a glare which meant this wasn't up for debate.

Reading her eyes, Sophia nodded firmly, "Alright Cera, good luck!" she cried before she and her brother ran back to the other side where they looked out safely from behind the wall of the prison

Seeing they were safe and out of harm's way for now, Cera then looked to her partner on her shoulder and at Tank who was already out, who both nodded back at her showing they trusted in her judgement and that she could trust in them too, "Alright! Let's go guys!" she nodded back in response as she returned Miku to a card, "Dino slash! Micro raptor shine!" She cried out as she slashed her partner's card and summoned her as a full sized microraptor who screeched furiously, "Let's give Tank a hand Miku! Energy equaliser!" Miku glowed rainbow in colour as she landed on Tank's neck and shared her strength with the saichania, giving her a power boost as she glowed rainbow and roared out energised!

Sheer however smirked unimpressed, "Heh, no matter what tricks you've got I'm still going to pulverise you!" she announced undeterred holding out her hand, "Show them I mean business torosaurus!" her dinosaur bellowed loudly as it charged ahead, clashing heads with Tank, pushing at shoving at one another before managing to toss Tank to one side! Fortunately she was able to turn around and land other feet thanks to Miku giving her better control and strength. The torosaurus charged once more, hoping to attack Tank's side flank and flip her over, but she quickly anticipated his strategy as she shifted sides and swing out her tail clashing in a tie against the torosaurus' horns!

The collision sent a shockwave which shook the surroundings! "URGH!" As Sophia and Spartacus both held on to one another for support, the rest of their comrades soon ran out from the prison rooms.

"Spartacus!"

"We're here for you!" They cite out rallying to their leader's side before widening their eyes at the battle taking place before them!

"AH!"

"Wh…What's happening!?" They gasped in shock, clearly not expecting 2 dinosaurs to be fighting right when they just managed to escape.

Cera widened her eyes seeing they were all in anger now if they stayed, "Everyone! Run now!" she cried out warning them as they gasped at the stranger shouting at them, surprised to see she was the one commanding one of the giant beasts in battle!

"She's right!" Sophia yelled in agreement with her, "It's not safe here! We need to leave now!" she said to them before eying her brother who nodded in agreement with her.

"Everyone, this way quick!" he yelled to them as he and Sophia ran out to the town taking the lead.

"Y…Yes sir!" One man shouted as they followed after the pair.

Cera thens field seeing they were nearly home free before looking back to the battle at hand, "Alright with them safely out of the crossfire we can go full force now!" she declared as Tank roared out in agreement.

"Funny, I just thought of doing the same thing." Sheer snickered as she held out the gray card of the torosaurus, "I was starting to get bored so I'll finish you off quickly with some spectral armour!" She announced as the card was absorbed into her necklace, causing torosaurus to glow purple before appearing encased in armour!

Cera narrowed her eyes, "Armour is it?" she asked before reaching into her pocket, "Well two can play at that game!" she declared as she held out the purple element booster and then eying it closely, "Time to see if thing works…." she thought closing her eyes in prayer before holding up her dinoshot causing a back part of it to open up, "Element booster! Dino tector on!" she cried as she inserted it inside! As a result, Tank's head and tail glowed purple, as bright light enveloped her, purple crystal like armour appeared around her back and even encrusted her tail as she leapt up and roared out powerfully surging with energy like never before! Combined with Miku she felt she could take on the entire world by herself! "Wow….the armour's even more beautiful than I first thought it'd be." Cera whistled impressed before smirking at Sheer who sweated a bit nervously at the unexpected development.

"Huh? You can use armour too?" she mused before striking instead, "Heh, how interesting….Let's see how it handles against mine!" she chuckled as she held her arm out, "Go Torosaurus!" Her dinosaur roared and charged ahead. Both dinosaurs collided in another tie, however Tank was able to thrust her opponent back as he dragged his feet in the ground to keep himself from falling! "Flash frill!" Sheer announced adding the lightning move card to her choker, causing torosaurus to flow purple as he jumped up surging in an electrical aura and then spinning like a boomerang towards Tank!

"Quake saber!" Cera countered as Tank sprouted a crystal sword from her tail which she then swung out and clashed at the spinning torosaurus! Sparks soon flew out between the constant shredding of the blade and lightning with one another, before sending the ceratopsian flying out like a ball and at Sheer herself! "WHOA!" she cried leaping out of the way as her dinosaur ended up crashing into and destroying her ship which was hidden nearby!

BOOM!

"GAH! My ship!" she cried out in horror widened her eyes while Cera smirked with amusement.

"Heh, no way you're escaping this time!" she cried out as torosaurus charge out of the flaming ruble and roared out just as furious as Sheer was as she turned her attention back to the little girl who was beginning to become a thorn in her side!

"Grrr! I admit I took you for some runt, but now you've done it! For that you'll pay dearly!" she hissed under her breath losing all sense of restraint in herself, "Tch! The more I see her the more angry I get!" she clicked her tongue as a flashback came through her own mind, where a young female silhouette along with a small group of people held out dinoshots and then summoned out a variety of dinosaurs which included a prosaurolophus, sauropelta and a styracosaurus before they charged against her and a group of jet jarks she had with her. For some strange reason this girl Cera was reminding her of a certain annoying individual from another time, and though she couldn't put a finger as to why she was so familiar she was starting to lose all sense of restraint as she gnashed her teeth and fumed in rage, "That tears it! No more holding back! Destroy her completely and utterly torosaurus!" She yelled out loudly as she took another move card from her pocket and inserted it into her necklace, "Electric charge!" A huge bolt of lightning struck down from the sky as torosaurus became charged with lightning as he roared out and charged ahead towards Tank, Miku and Cera!

They however came prepared with a secret move of their very own, "Ultimate Earth!" Cera shouted slashing the card causing Tank to glow purple and roar, with crystal erupting from in front of her! Rushing forward in full force she smashed through the crystals with ease before overpowering the torosaurus, smashing into his chest and seeing him flying across the ground before his armour shattered and he came to a stop before Sheer, who stayed in place undeterred as her dinosaur returned to card form before her feet.

"We did it!" Cera cheered as she jumped up and down with joy as the battlefield disappeared, signalling Max and the others had no doubt won their battle too. "Nice job you guys! Hahahaha!" she laughed happily as Tank and Miku both roared out pleased with the results.

Sheer however didn't share in the group's joy as she picked up the card and eyed it with disgust, "Tch! Looks like I'll need a both better dinosaur and to go back home the hard way now.…." she shipped to herself before losing up to see Cera and Tank approaching her.

"You're done! Now give up the stone and tell us where our parents are!" she demanded pointing at the pirate while Tank roared out menacingly.

Despite the odds stacked against her, Sheer however remained undeterred as she simply smirked back at her in response, "Heh, you think I'm just going to give into your lame demands just because you won?" she mused before bursting into uncontrollable laughter, "Pfft! Hahaha! You must be joking! Just who do you take me for!?" she laughed mockingly while Cera gritted her teeth in annoyance, "Besides compared to what I'm aiming for this little contest was just a little game, winning or losing doesn't matter." she said shrugging her shoulders as she opened up her wings and took off into the air and out of the D Team's reach!

"Hey wait! Get back here! We aren't finished!" Cera cried as she ran out and shook her fists in anger at the pirate's cowardly retreat.

"Actually we are," Sheer corrected her as she shrugged her shoulders uncaringly, "Either fortunately or unfortunately for you depending on how you look at it. Consider yourself lucky I'm in a hurry today, I have a promise to keep to Spectre and I don't plan on breaking it." she said at the end.

Cera blinked her eyes upon hearing that name Sheer had uttered, "Spec….ter?" she mouthed as the same somehow struck a cord inside her. As a memory flashbacked she pictured Gavro, Foolscap and Sheer descending from a large unusual shaped ship in the sky, and were soon joined by a 4th figure, far more menacing and delay than the 3 of them put together! He wore a huge cape which covered most of his body, and was shadowed except for the fact he was sitting on a floating throne and had a small sauropod dinosaur in his lap which he stroked akin to the of a cat.

"Don't worry, with any luck you'll be seeing more of me and my comrades but you'll soon wish this was our last." Sheer said at the end, which snapped Cera out of her thoughts.

As she turned around, "H….Hey! Don't you dare!" before Cera could slash spike arrows again, the female pirate unleashed a high burst of speed from her wings and took off into the sky, vanishing behind the clouds much to their frustration, "Tch! She got away….." Cera clicked her tongue in frustration, despite winning the battle it was obvious this was a loss as she failed to get back the yellow cosmos stone or any info out of her. The day was no doubt quite a big loss for them as she lowered her head in defeat, prompting Tank and Miku to walk up to her and nuzzle her hoping it would bring at least some degree of comfort for her.

Shaking her head clear and seeing she couldn't; dwell on defeat forever, she noticed the charred remains of SHeer's red ship as she contacted Jonathan via dinoshot, "Hey Jonathan, do you read?" she asked as his face appeared on screen.

"Loud and clear Cera, did you find the space pirate?" he asked as she shook her head reluctantly.

"She got away…."

"How unfortunate…." Jonathan huffed slightly disappointed knowing Rex and the others wouldn't be very pleased to hear this.

"But she did leave behind her ship though." said Cera seeing there was still a consolation prize to be gained as she keyed in the coordinates to Jonathan, "Beam it up so we can take a look at it and see if we can salvage anything useful out of it. Plus we don't want this to get left behind in this time right?" she said to him as the nodded.

"Well said, I'll do it right away." he replied before the connection cut off.

As it did, Cera then let out a deep sigh, "We didn't get the stone nor any information…." as she said hat Tank and Miku both lowered their heads and let out a pair of sad cries at the thought of letting Cera down when she needed them most. Nevertheless she then smiled lightly back at them as she stroked them in response, "But….at least we did help Sophia and her brother escape with their friends. And that's what counts…." she said which cheered them up a little as they cooed back at her in response. The sweet moment between the 3 girls wasn't about to last though, as a lot and angry growl soon sounded out nearby from where they were.

"GRRR! How can this be!?"

Cora's ears perked upon hearing the loud male voice scream in anger, "Hmm?" she then followed in the direction it came from, keeping slow so that she wouldn't alert anyone to her presence or to the dinosaurs.

As they went ahead towards the town square and hid behind in an alleyway, they found it was none other than the dictator himself Sula and with a pair of bodyguard with him, needless to say with everything that had turned out this day he was far from pleased as he tensed his hands into fists and gnashed his teeth in rage, "Not only did Spartacus escape to become even more of a thorn in my side, but mere children dare make a fool of me and my army in my arena?! Unacceptable!" he roared at the top of his lungs before breathing heavily and deeply, "I swear once I rally all my troops together I'll find whatever land they came from and lay siege to it alone with Spartacus and his pitiful rebellion!" he shouted to the sky as he swearing vengeance on everyone who dared to mock the name of the Roman empire and to defy him in his own domain.

Cera me while kept herself hidden behind in the darkness, she narrowed her eyes and felt anger build up inside her. Right before her eyes was the very man who made sport of anyone who rebelled or pretty much disagreed with him, making sport of them in the arena with wild animals for the entertainment of the people, and nearly killing Terry when he was so weak. As much as she didn't want to interfere with the natural turn of events, she decided to make an acceptation just this once, after all she couldn't let him get away with everything he did and since Max and the others did a lot back at the arena with their dinosaurs, one more change shouldn't hurt since they won in the end.

"This is for Terry and Spartacus…" Cera breathed to herself as she took out a move card, "Tank! Spike arrows now!" she cried slashing the card as Tank glowed purple and roared out, firing a barrage of arrows to the sky!

Sensing danger was amidst, Sula blinked his eyes and looked up sensing that was where it was coming from, "Huh?" As he and his guards looked up they widened their eyes to see a flurry of purple arrows rain down from above at them!

"AAAAAAHH!" They all screwed in terror as they held their arms out in a futile effort to block the sharp arrows from spearing them! A little while passed and they didn't feel themselves get skewered as they opened their eyes in surprise, "H.…Huh?" What they awoke too was just as worse as they found themselves trapped inside a cage made from the very arrows that were fired at them!

"Wh…What is this!? Let me out of here now!" Sula yelled in anger as he tugged and pulled on the arrows but they were so deeply embedded in the ground that neither he nor the combined efforts of his men could do so much as make them budge!

Things were about to get worse though, as some of the escapees who remained behind caught sight of the dictator now trapped like a rat for change! "Look! It's that tyrant Sula!" he pointed out as more of his comrades soon heard his cry and rallied to his side.

"Huh?"

"Look it's true! Come see!" Very soon the mad dictator was surrounded on all sided by furious or snickering rebels, like visitors at a zoo enclosure, who were prepared to do the same to him as he did to them.

"Heheh! Look at him all caged up like a lion!"

"Let's see how you like being on the other side of the bars now dictator!" They laughed out loud, mocking him or sticking faces at him before even resorting to throwing stones, mud or food at him and his men!

"AAAARGH!" They yelled as they held their arms out to shield themeless against the pelting of several angry citizens and slaves who couldn't wait to have a go at taking out their years of oppression and frustration against the man who ruined their lives, and soon the crowd wa only getting bigger as the emperor found himself at the mercy of the very people he tormented for so long.

"STOP THIS AT ONCE! HOW DARE YOU!?" He yelled at them as a tomato was thrown at his face! "BLEACH!"

"This is just the beginning you swine!"

"Yeah! We can do way worse than this for all the suffering you've caused us!"

"There's no hiding behind bodyguards for you now!" The insults continued to be ruled at him as the dictator and his men could do nothing but let themselves get pelted by the anger and hatred of the freed slaves.

"You mere peons! Don't think that this atrocity will go unpunished!" Sula cried out swearing vengeance though his words were no more than hot air as the insults and pelting refused to cease anytime soon.

As they looked on, Cera smiled with satisfaction with Miku and Tank to see the dictator suffer on the other side of the bars for a change, "I think we can leave it to them now." she said to herself believing they did enough and they ought to leave it to the people now. She then however sighed as she returned both dinosaurs to chibi forms and began to walk away reluctantly, "For now let's find Max and the others….and give them the bad news…." she said salty as they disappeared into the shadows down the alleyway.

On the way back out, she passed by a pizza parlour where the owners had left for the big match in the colisseum, seeing the front door was left right open, she took notice of a sheet being left out on the counter beside a large flaming oven. Picking it up and reading it, it said the recipe for the perfect pizza even Emperor Sula could consider it legendary. Seeing this to be the right kind of souvenir, she folded it and put it into her pocket seeing this ought to put Helga in a good mood as she headed out.

(Later)

Later that evening, after losing sight of Sheer and receiving word of the D Team's success in the arena, Cera then contacted them to meet her at a hill on the outskirts of the city. After barely managing to sneak pass both fans and guards the D Team were able to meet her at a tree at the hill she specified where they briefed her on their accomplishments while she reluctantly informed them about her failure to prevent the yellow cosmos stone's theft or to get any further information out of Sheer, which made them both sigh or frown in mild disappointment.

"I'm sorry guys, she was within my grasp and I just let her slip away…." Cera sighed as she lowered her head shamefully, feeling she had let the entire group down when they counted on her most.

Her friends looked to one another for a bit before looking back and smiling at her with encouragement, "It's alright Cera." said Max.

"Yeah, don't beat yourself up over it, you did all you could." Rex followed backing up his friend.

"And you saved Spartacus and Sophia too, along with all their friends, and that's all that matters." Zoe cheered as she clapped her hands together.

While they were true in their points, it didn't really do much to lift up her spirits as she felt she was so close yet still fell short of the goal despite her best efforts, "I guess…." she muttered unable to maintain eye contact with any of them.

"Hey come on Cera," said Rex as he brought her head up to look at them in the eyes as they smiled back at her, still proud of what she did try at least, "What's done is done, don't fret about it, there's always next time." he said.

"And you can bet there will be a next time!" Max grinned as he punted up his arm eagerly, "Thanks to you and Dr Z, we now have the right means to take them down for good when we find them again!" He said as he flashed the dino-tector in his hand, which made Cera smile a little seeing she at least did improve their future chances.

"Yeah, you're right Max…." she nodded feeling a little bit better after deciding to focus on what she did manage to do today with the best of her abilities rather than on what she failed to achieve.

"Look! Up there!"

"It's those brave children who tamed those powerful beasts who saved us all!"

"Our brave young heroes!" A set of voices soon cried out from below which caught their attention.

"Huh? Did you hear something?" Max asked.

"I'm sure we all did." said Zoe before catching sight of a crowd coming in from below the hill, with 2 familiar faces leading them, "Hey look it's Spartacus and Sophia!" she pointed out as the others followed where she focused on.

"Yeah, and with a big welcome party for us too." Rex commented as they greeted their friends who came looking for them the whole time since they managed to escape imprisonment and hearing of their feats in the gladiatorial arena.

As Spartacus and Sophia stood before the 4 children and their dinosaurs, Max then stepped forward to answer them, "Hey guys, what's going on?" he asked.

"Nothing," Spartacus replied, "Except that we are truly in your debt for everything." he said with deep gratitude and a small bow as his sister stepped in front of him to greet their friends and saviours.

"I can't thank the 4 of you enough for what you've done for us!" Sophia said filled with hope.

"Oh don't worry about it! We like to help!" Max responded feeling glad that it all turned out well for everyone in the end as he looked behind for the others' opinions, "Right Zoe?"

"I guess so, but I'd sure feel a lot better about it if that pirate hadn't gotten away with your cosmos stone." Zoe sighed feeling bad about the siblings' loss of their family treasure.

Upon hearing her point that out, Cera then stepped forward in front of the D Team as Spartacus and Sophia looked upon her, "I have myself to blame for that…." she said rather solemnly unable to look at them in the eye, "If anyone's to blame it's me…." she said with immense guilt at letting them down as she bowed down, "For that I really am sorry…." she said as the others looked on upon her sympathetically.

"Cera…." said Rex softly, feeling bad she hadn't moved on completely yet while the others looked on.

Fortunately for them, Sophia still retained her smile despite the loss,, "That is unfortunate," she admitted before turning to look at her older brother, "But the main thing is my big brother is back and safe!"

"That is good to know at least." Cera then smiled feeling a bit more encouraged that there was at least a consolation prize they can be happy about.

"You should probably get moving right away if you want to stay safe though." said Rex cautiously, "The Roman army is bound to come after you."

"I'm sure you're right about that." Spartacus answered him but his face soon hardened into one of anger and determination. "But I have no intention of running from them any longer!" he vowed much to the surprise of the D Team.

"What?" Zoe breathed.

"Wait…could this be?" Cera blinked as she started to put the pieces together.

"The dictator has trampled our rights and enslaved our people long enough!" said Spartacus as he began clenching his hand into a fist, "So we've all decided to stand together and form an armed rebellion against the centurions!" He said smiling proudly as his followers all bellowed and cheered in unison at the leader they could rally behind and give their lives to.

"YEAH!"

"What do you know?" Rex then breathed, "So this is the beginning of the Spartacus rebellion that Reese told us about…."

"To think we helped make it possible…." Cera whistled thinking about it carefully, "In a way….we pretty much created our own past…." she said not feeling sure how to feel about it, on one hand it was great they'd be able to stand up for themselves against tyranny, but they lost their strongest weapon in the process and they interfered in the timelines themselves, though then again based on what the space pirates did they had little choice.

"How about you four?" Spartacus then said to the D Team who then focused on him, "I would be honoured to have you and your creatures fight by my side!" He said offering them a place in his rebellion against Sula.

"Err…." It was a tempting offer to fight on the side of good no doubt, however….

"With those dinosaurs as our weapons we would be invincible! What say you?" Spartacus then asked once more feeling hopeful and confident that they will no doubt be able to succeed with such help on their side.

It was indeed an offer anyone would be more than willing accept, however, there were 2 problems the D Team had with it unfortunately, problems that Max was going to point out, "I have to say no." he answered firmly, "Our quest right now I to find our missing parents and rescue them." he said stating his reason before adding on a firm belief of his own, "Besides, dinosaurs aren't meant to be weapons in anybody's war!" As he said that the rest of his friends looked on and smiled proudly at an excellent answer, "I'm sorry…." he apologised at the end, stating they had done enough and had to move on, and that Spartacus and his people would have to fight their own battles from here on.

"I understand…." Spartacus replied respecting the decision of the children.

Cera was quite relieved that they were able to resolve that matter peacefully, and also, from their experiences in Rome she could tell the D Team no doubt learnt plenty about courage and bravery to fight for whatever is right despite the overwhelming odds stacked against them, something who would be most valuable if they were to send a chance against the challenges they'd soon face if they were to have any hope of rescuing their parents from the space pirates.

On that matter though, "Hey!" Rex spoke up getting everyone's attention, "Our parents are on the move again!" he gasped eying the TPS in his hand where the blimp was beginning to fade.

"Are you sure?" Zoe asked worried.

What he did next confirmed it, "Jonathan!"

"Master Rex! I suggest you all return to the ship!" Jonathan answered on the other end, "The Space pirates' time machine is moving and we have to stay close!" A sound soon whirred from up above, causing everyone to turn to the sky as the Backlander lowered its cloak and revealed itself in full form before the D Team and the oppressed captives much to their bewilderment.

"Your magic is amazing!" Sophia exclaimed in amazement.

"Technology actually…." Cera sweat dropped uneasily at their expressions of shock at having to see what may come into humanity's capabilities several years down the line, but they don't need to know that. As of now they had done enough and didn't want to give them any spoilers about the times to come. With their job completed here it was time they all took their leave.

"So long everyone!" Max said his farewells while Rex smiled and Zoe waved in embarrassment.

"All the best to you all, never give up nor lose hope and you'll all triumph." said Cera holding a thumbs up as they all vanished in the bright light of the teleporter. As it did, the Backlander sped off into the distance before disappearing into a time portal.

As the gang appeared in one of the Backhander's hallways, Zoe then let out a deep gasp of air in exhaustion just barely recovering from the experience down below, "Phew…that's quite the day wasn't it?" she breathed trying to take in everything she and the others experienced first hand, having a close brush with death at the hands of Roman centurions and fighting for her lives against the pirates and their dinosaurs, anyone would have been easily overwhelmed after all that.

Max however wasn't so easily put down though as he still knew what needed to be done, "Yeah, but we've got no time to rest on our laurels, we need to find our parents and fast." he said as everyone else nodded at him seriously in agreement.

Cera however had something else on her mind as she looked down the hallway on the opposite end, "You guys go see Jonathan, I've got something I need to take care of first." she said to them as she took the case with the remaining element boosters in them from Max, "I'll join you guys later."

Assuming it was something to do with research or checking the ship's systems, Max and the others decided not to question her, "Okay then."

"Don't take too long." said Zoe and Rex to her as they ran off to see Jonathan to see what he had to say, while Cera hardened her expression and stomped down the other way looking for a trio of stooges she had some correcting to do.

Meanwhile in the kitchen the trio was busy helping to themselves to a bag of pizza flavoured crackers each which they got out from the cabinets, hoping to fill the void left behind in their empty bellies after failing to get their hands on the legendary pizza they heard was so great in Rome, which little did they know was but a mere rumour, "Well we didn't get pizza but these pizza crisps are okay too." Ed muttered with his mouth full as he shoved a bunch of crisps down his throat.

"These don't even one close to the real thing Ed." Zander muttered as he crunched down on a few he popped into his mouth but no matter how much he took it his lingering longing for that special pizza wouldn't go away.

"But they do at least help fill the void." Ursula then sighed pouting childishly as she checked her bag to find it empty before crumpling it up and tossing it away without a care.

As they mourned over their lost chance to sink their teeth into what may be the greatest italian dish known to human history, they were oblivious to approaching danger which had soon arrived at their doorstep at the front of the kitchen entrance.

"There you are!" Cera yelled at the top of her lungs pointing out at the Trio, as they jumped up and screamed their heads off at the sound of her sudden yell!

"GAH!" They cried leaping to their feet while dropping and scattering whatever snacks they were still holding in their hands all over the floor.

"Hey you surprised me there!" Ed cried crossly while his friends scowled at Cera, who was still shooting a hard glare at them for some reason they didn't know.

"What do you want?" Ursula then huffed wondering what Cera was after from them, but her crossed expression began to vanish when she saw Cera's angry glare was not just hardening but was starting to burn with red hot fury, sending a shiver down her spine and Ed and Zander's! "Umm….is anything wrong?" she then asked when no one else would, which was the final trigger which set off a chain of explosive reactions that would burn into their hearts and souls for a long time.

"You bet there is….." Cera said darkly before exploding in anger, "You guys not only used Spiny to fight in a gladiatorial arena against a man, but you also put Terry in a lot of danger because you were both careless and stupid!" she screamed at them as her pent up rage which was building up since coming here to Rome was finally being unleashed in full force! "Don't you realised you could've gotten them both killed!?" she screamed even more enraged that their clueless buffoonery had nearly resulted in the lives of one of their dinosaurs and of an innocent man!

"WAAAAH!" They cried out huddling together in alarm that for such a young girl Cera sure had a big voice and commanded a lot of authority.

"Y…You're still on about that!?" Ursula gulped down hard as she began sweating bullets in anxiety, "I t…thought you would've moved on from it!"

"Well you thought wrong." Cera growled as she tensed up a fist which showed a vein was popping in it as she clenched it tightly, which made the trio shudder in terror like a group of abandoned puppies in the rain, "Now you're going to apologise right now or I'll be delivering you guys up to 225 million years of prehistoric rage and retribution!"

"GAAAAAH!" The trio squeaked before kneeling down and prostrating themselves before her.

"We're really sorry!"

"Please forgive us!" They cried out whimpering like guilty dogs.

She however scoffed and looked away in disgust, "Don't apologise to me, apologise to Spiny and Terry." she huffed folding her arms as Tank walked into the room from behind her legs, as she let out a vicious hiss which made the Trio jump. "In fact, Tank here will make sure you do just that." said Cera as she smirked at her down below, "Won't you?" In response Tank wagged her tail and barked happily before turning to the Alpha gang and growling at them which made them shudder. They didn't know who was worse, having to apologise to their own dinosaurs or to take orders from one, either it was that or they suffered the receiving end of Cera's rage, which they had no intention of testing anymore.

With that she could see that they were now in good hands, "Now that that's taken care of…." Cera then stated as she reached into her pockets and grabbed hold of the element boosters in them. She was reluctant to hand these devices over to the bumbling trio, considering it'd be like giving pearls to pigs, knowing them they'd either lose them or fail to use them to their fullest potential. In the end she decided it was for the dinosaurs and now them, as she sighed deeply hoping she wouldn't regret it, "Here, don't forget these…." she said tossing the 3 adults an element booster as they eyed it curiously.

"Hmm? What are these supposed to be?" asked Zander as he pointed at the one he had with him.

"Ask Dr Z and he'll fill in for you." Cera answered as she pointed out the door, "Now go apologise to Spiny and Terry." she said firmly as Ursula, Zander and Ed lowered themselves forward in remorse.

"Yes ma'am…" They all moaned as Tank soon let them out to take their lumps.

Cera clapped the dust off her hands and folded them on her hips feeling proud that her work was taken care of, though there was still one little thing left to take care of as she headed out to the living room. As she entered in she found Helga was vacuuming the floor while humming to herself in a good mood. Cera smiled to herself knowing she'd be happy with what she had in store for her, "Hey Helga!" she called out as she walked in, catching the cleaning lady's attention.

"Hmm?" As she looked up to see Cera walk in with Miku on her shoulder, she then smiled in a good mood, "Ah it's you Cera," she said recalling how obedient and respectful she was compared to the others, "What may I do for you?" she replied as she put down her vacuum.

Cera then took something out of her pocket, appearing to be a small sheet of paper as she handed it to Helga, "I found this while I was down there earlier." she said as Helga opens it up revealing it to be a recipe for pizza, "Think maybe you could whip a couple of those for lunch later?"

After reading it through in a few seconds Helga smiled and nodded in response, "I shall get to work right away!" she said as she kept the note in her apron then popped her fingers, "In fact, since you've been such a big help just now, I'll let you be my taste tester! What say you?" she asked.

"Hahaha, we'd be honoured." Cera chuckled feeling glad to hear that as she then took her leave, her serious expression returning as she decided to get back to serious matters. Entering through the door she stumbled upon both the Alpha gang and the D Team at the control deck, with the Alpha gang gu'ping down on bottle soda and the D Team leaning over at where Jonathan sat.

"Have you got a fix on our parents yet!?" Max asked seriously to Jonathan.

"Not yet but I'm getting close." he answered as he continued to maintain a steady course through the time stream.

"Keep trying!" Max cried once more while Cera narrowed her eyes seeing how determined the D Team were now they were getting close.

"This could be it," she thought seriously, "Once we get a lock on them, not only will we rescue them, we'll even stop the pirates before they even begin." she thought knowing their final battle may come soon, though it was wishful thinking to believe that everything would go exactly as they plan and hope.

Behind Jonathan, the Alpha gang were sitting around trying to recuperate from their horrible near death experience down at the arena, while also trying to recover from the stern lecturing and threats Cera gave them not long ago.

"We never did get any legendary pizza but it probably wasn't that great anyway…." Ed muttered looking on bright side though it didn't seem to cheer up his friends much while Dr Z chugged down an entire bottle of soda.

"Are you kidding? It would have been amazing…." Ursula sighed feeling miserable.

"At least I got a soda from the coliseum snack bar." said Zander as he reached to put his mouth on the bottle top.

He didn't get much time to enjoy it though, as Dr Z suddenly swiped it out of his hand! "I'll take that!"

As Zander felt his lips touch dry air and the bottle missing from his grip he yelled out in anger, "Gah! You give me that soda back!" he cried as Dr Z grinned cheekily at him, "You already had one you pop snatcher! That one's mine!"

"So what!?" Dr Z spat, "My invention saved you and everyone else today! So I should get whatever I want you got that!?"

Zander however wasn't about to take that lying down as he leapt out at the old man, "If you don't give it back, I'll take it from you!" he yelled trying to lunge at Dr Z from every angel while the old man continued playing keep away with him.

Cera and Miku then looked down at them from above, sweat dropping at the fact grown adults were still acting like little children. That expression of disapproval quickly banished into thin air, as the bottle slipped out of Dr Z's hand as the Trio cried out in horror! "WAAAAAAAHHH!"

As the bottle smashed and its contents leaked over one of the console, the Gang could only stare speechlessly at the horror they might have unleashed, "Uh oh…."

"What….did….you…do?" Cera croaked pointing out weakly, as her heart skipped a beat and she turned pale.

Without warning, red alarms began ringing loudly inside the ship's control deck followed by massive rumbling which shook the entire complex violently!

"Now what have you alpha clowns done!?" Max growled as he and everyone else focused their anger on Dr Z's buffoonery for the umpteenth time!

"That spilt soda just fried the onboard navigation computer!" Rex yelled.

"I've not only lost the timeline interface but all control of the ship!" Jonathan cried out as the ship refused to respond to any of his commands, "Get ready for a crash landing!"

"And I worked so hard to fix this thing too!" Cera screamed as she grabbed on to a support and held on as tightly as she could! Not only was she furious at her heart work gone to waste, to make matters worse they now lost their best chance at ending this battle at the root of it all because of the careless acts of the Alpha gang clowns! "I swear if we survive this I'm going to get you baboons for it!" she swore at the top of he lungs while shaking her first as the ship began to spin round and round with everyone inside!

"WHOOOOOAAAAA!" Everyone screamed in a panic while hanging on for dear life as the ship spiralled out of control into the time stream!

And thus concludes the Ancient Rome arc, as shown here Cera played a role in the dino tectors but also in the ultimate moves with Dr Z, she also got a chance to use Tank against Sheer as well. Stay tuned for the Caribbean arc where she and Spiny will deep six some pirate hineys!

In response to reviews-

Anonymous

-Sheer and Foolscap don't usually get along, in fact none of them do, it's unlikely but will see how things proceed when they get to season 3.

Guest-

-I hope to do that yes, though if anyone would like to offer ideas or even help contribute to writing it it'd be a great help and even better!

Drew Luczynski

-The other alpha dinosaurs will be implemented and so will the other dinosaurs on the Space pirate ship, will give the Alpha dinosaurs the recognition they deserve and also help give Cera more relevance too. Well everyone writes differently but they should also explain how they do it too.