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!

59. Ends of the Earth

Chapter 59

Ends of the Earth

Not long after the alarms went off, people from all across the Resistance base flooded into the main room till it became almost more crowded and packed than the assembly hall. Soon they were all stacked to the brim with troopers and a handful of dinosaurs that were not of their cards, which thankfully were mainly smaller ones like utahraptor or brachyceratops, as they began firing all kinds off panicked comments upon first glance at the meteor and the giant laser beam being shot at it.

"AH!"

"Wh….What's happening!?"

"I've never seen anything like it before!"

"What's that laser doing to that meteor!?"

"It's huge!"

"What if it hits us!?"

"What'll happen to us then!?"

As the captains did their best to calm down their squads as well as any refugees they had under their wing, the D Team's families huddled together staring at the situation both with anxiety and tensely with so many agitated people gathered together as well as being fearful of what was going on which they also had absolutely no clue of. Seeing how her friends were getting increasingly worried, "Dad! See if you can lock onto the source of that laser!" Cera then cried to her father hoping for answers soon as he immediately began typing on the console as fast as he could.

"I'll do that right away!" He responded to her as he locked onto the source of the beam, tracing its' exact coordinates and then widening his eyes as they focused on Antartica, "AH! Impossible!"

Everyone quickly turned to him upon hearing his baffled gasp, "What!? What is it!?" Cera cried feeling worried about her father's unnerved response.

Trying his best to maintain a calm composure, "Is it something you'd like to share with us please?" Dr Ancient then asked trying his best not to give into his worries though inside his heart was already beginning to race like many of the others present.

Lunensis gritted his teeth knowing this was going to be hard to admit, but seeing all eyes were on him he began to force it out rather painfully, "The source of that beam…." he keyed into his computer to enlarge the image on the map, "It's coming from….here!" As the monitors zoomed in on the designated coordinates, it brought up the image of the Shadow empire's dark fortress on full screen with a huge satellite dish outstretched from its center, which was also firing the beam into space thus making contact with the giant meteor high above in outer space!

"AH!" Everyone widened their eyes as the sight of the dreaded looking structure appeared before them.

"What is that place!?" Dr Taylor exclaimed, he had seen all kinds of horrendous structures which only nightmares could give brith to but this place took the cake and ate it.

"And I thought the fortress in Africa was gnarly, it's nothing compared to that place!" Dr Z cried flabbergasted while Seth merely narrowed his eyes hard.

Upon noticing Cera eying the fortress with a hard gaze and shaking tensely, Max and the rest of the D Team looked to her most uneasily, "Cera….is that?"

She nodded at Rex's question, "No doubt about it, it's the Shadow Empire's Headquarters." she answered with a hiss through her teeth, as they all narrowed their eyes at the Space pirates' base of operations on the big screen.

"So that's where they are." said Zoe with a hard and unsettled look on her face.

"Good!" Max gritted his teeth angrily as he punched his fist into the palm of his hand, "Now we can hit them fast and hard too." he said feeling eager for a fight.

Rex narrowed his eyes hard, "Something's not right here…." He muttered as the others looked to him curiously, "Why would they take such a heavy risk giving themselves away like that?" He then asked out loud which puzzled his friends and family till he explained himself, "In order to use that laser, whatever it is, it must consume a massive amount of energy, meaning they'd without a doubt have to drop down their cloak."

"And thus exposing themselves to detection too." Reese then finished for him as she too eyed the base with suspicion.

"You're right Rex," Lunensis responded to him, "It doesn't make sense at all for them to give us a way to launch a full scale attack at them right on their stronghold." He said as some of the captains of the resistance then began to mutter or converse with one another with the right approach to this turn of events.

"Who cares!?" Dr Z rudely interrupted in an outburst, "All that matters is that we can end this ridiculous war once and for all and then we can get back to rebuilding the dinosaur king-I mean utopia that they so heartlessly destroyed!" he cried flailing out his arms in a fuss before pointing out at the monitor screen, "With them gone everyone can go back to their normal lives and we can say goodbye to all our worries and strife! I say we hit them fast and with everything we've got with us! Be it dino might or all the firepower we can spare!" He declared before turning to the masses, "Now who's with me?!"

"YEAH!"

"We're right behind you Dr Z!"

"Say the word!" Various shouts came from the troopers as well as the Alpha gang trio who naturally would stay by their leader's side and even follow him blindly off a cliff too.

"Wow, grampa sure knows how to motivate a crowd…." Laura whistled feeling quite impressed at how easily he rallied the group together and how riled up he got them too.

Rod then sighed and rubbed his temple in annoyance knowing this was going to go over well, "Yeah, ever since he came back from Africa, he's been way over his head more than before." he said with a heavy sigh.

"Easy Dr Z," Dr Ancient then said calmly as he spoke up, "While it is true we may have an opportunity to exploit we also can't ignore the possibility that the Empire's fortress may also be highly fortified and nothing short of a trap! We have to be cautious and smart about this!" He said with extreme caution in his tone as others too began to stand by him, even a handful of troopers who were inspired by Dr Z realised they let the excitement get to their heads and even sided with Ancient instead.

"Tch! Always the coward aren't you Ancient?" Dr Z huffed as he folded his arms crossly, seeing him being shut down reminded him of why they were at odds last time.

Rex narrowed his eyes and was tempted to yell back at the old man for badmouthing his father, but on closer inspection of the masses he could see it was pretty much the same going on between them all. It wasn't just them, there were even some amongst the troopers and captains themselves as they began to argue over what was happening or what sort of action they ought to take, and the tension was nothing less than peaking. On one hand it could be a trap with really big risks but on the other, this could be a huge opportunity and perhaps even worth the risk. Needless to say everyone was on edge over how they ought to act in this situation, if only they knew about the shadow empire's intentions with that meteor in the sky, that was the key piece they were missing from the puzzle.

"Still though, what are those space pirates planning to do with that meteor?" Jonathan then wondered as he put a finger to his chin in curious thought, even with his advanced mental capacities he still couldn't compute as to a logical reason for the shadow empire to make use of that giant space rock.

"Think this could this have something to do with the endgame Goma mentioned not long ago?" Max then asked as Zoe shrugged her shoulders unsurely though not shrugging it off as a possibility.

Whatever the case was, it was clear the shadow empire had something planned with that giant meteor that was heading towards the planet's orbit and it couldn't be anything good at all. Before they could even ponder or speculate what was happening, a sound rang from the monitor, with the symbol of the space pirates blinking right over their computer screen!

BEEP! BEEP!

"Huh?" Everyone was caught by surprise at the unexpected call that had reached their mainframe, and as Lunensis began to trace to its point of origin, he blinked his eyes in surprise upon reaching it.

"A transmission….from the space pirates?" He muttered in confusion before widening his eyes at a call being made through to them right this instant, "They're hacking into our communications feed! They're bringing up a message for us now!" He gasped catching the others by surprise.

"AH!" Everyone gasped and looked to the screen as a live video feed window had just opened, as a connection was being formed and an image was starting to appear through the static. They also began to narrow their eyes, whatever the empire had to say it had to be significant for them to call them at this point. It could be anything from a threat, negotiation, gloating or perhaps some sort of trap….but in any case it was something they couldn't afford to ignore, nor could they as their systems were being hacked and a forced transmission was being fed into their systems.

They all couldn't believe their eyes as the face of the one responsible for the transmission appeared on screen in all his notorious glory….Goma….

"AH!"

"It's him!"

"Goma!" Various startled responses echoed from amongst the D Team and the Resistance before they soon became hard glares or worried looks as he stared down upon them with a sinister smirk.

"Greetings you insignificant insects of the Resistance, if you're reading this I guess that means you've discovered the location of my humble abode." He greeted in a rather sinister manner as many glared hateful daggers at him while others tensed or shuddered feeling most unnerved to see him again, after recalling the terrfying power he demonstrated to long ago, "An acceptable calculated risk and a small price to pay in exchange for ending this war in my victory." He then boasted rather confidently which meant that all that was taking place was all pat of his newest scheme which many believed was going to be his most diabolic of all.

"What are you planning to do Goma!?" Lunensis shouted out loud through the monitor.

"Tell us now! Or we'll march right up to your doorstep and beat it out of you!" Max yelled as he shoved his way to the front and shook his fist in anger at him, while his friends kept their parents behind them as they looked on as the situation grew tense.

"Hmph, none of you are in any position to make demands or threats." Goma scoffed feeling insulted at the nerve they had, but a sinister grin appeared on his face as he knew just what to do to get them to be more respectful and easy to manage, "However, to show my respect for your efforts in lasting this long in this war, how about I clue you in?" The Resistance grew tense but silent as he prepared to explain himself, with a depiction of the massive meteor hurtling towards Earth was depicted, which made several of the Resistance gasp at the sight of it while others like the D Team and Cera narrowed their eyes at it, "My ultimate plan, is both elaborate and elegant, for I designed it myself to have absolutely no flaws or openings for you to exploit!" He grinned deviously to himself before holding out his arms widely, "At long last I have summoned forth the Reaper's Wrath!" He proclaimed thus revealing the name of the meteor and of his ultimate weapon of all.

"Reaper's-"

"Wrath?" Dr Ancient and Cretacia muttered, as the very name of the meteor sent chills down everyone's spines and various murmurs began to echo form amongst the rest of the group.

"Is that what the meteor's called?"

"Brrr…Scary name…."

"Jus saying its' name is already giving me chills…."

"And just what do you plan to do with this giant meteor?" Cera asked him suspiciously, "What are you planning to accomplish?"

Goma soon smirked as she asked, "I'm glad you asked." In fact he paused momentarily fixing his gaze upon her before looking away to prevent drawing any suspicion toward his motives, "As you are all aware a phenomena like this once took place millions of years ago, which wiped out the dinosaurs from the face of the Earth. A tragic end for such mighty creatures, but in the end life did manage to make a comeback after the planet was barely able to heal itself from said scars." He said sighing pityingly for Earth's ancient suffering which several dinosaurs in the room were agitated to hear upon being reminded of it. Some of the troopers as well as the D Team were also angered to see him talk so casually about such a horrible event, but that wasn't the worst part as he soon began to reveal his horrible plan to them, "However, as they say history inevitably repeats itself, and with my final plan I intend to wipe out the entire human race and the resistance with it using the Reaper's Wrath! Erasing this failed rebellious epoch, thus giving this planet a completely clean slate, one which would gladly welcome my rule and mine alone! Ahahahahah!" He laughed out loud maniacally.

To prove his point and that he wasn't crazy or saying empty words, he revealed a diagram which opened over his viewing screen momentarily, depicting the Earth itself, and then a diagram of the giant meteor now known as the Reaper, hurtling towards the Earth before exploding on contact with it, thus bathing the entire planet in a sea of flames which swept over the entire world! As it ended, everyone stared speechlessly or gasped in sheer utter horror upon realise what his intentions were and they were far darker or more horrendous than anything they imagined from him! Compared to what his past actions through the war and oppressing them through the years, this plan of his made each and every suffering they endured prior to this feel like a paper cut!

Everyone widened their eyes and their hearts skipped what seemed like a thousand beats upon this stunning revelation be brought forth to them. "What!? You mean you're actually bringing in that meteor to slam into the Earth!?" Lunensis exclaimed at the top of his lungs while others either gasped or stared with stunned speechlessness.

"Hehehe….that's exactly the plan." Goma chuckled darkly as everyone gasped or murmured in a panic.

"AH!"

"NO WAY!"

"That's insane!" The situation had grown increasingly more tense at this reveal, and seeing so much panic rising amongst them was deeply worrying to the D Team and the higher members of the Resistance.

"I did say that I needed a way to completely break your spirits and shatter all your hopes into dust." Goma calmly responded to them as he shrugged his shoulders and grinned at them most sadistically, "And from the look of things, it seems to already be working hehehehe…." He chuckled in amusement at the sight of their shocked, horrified and panicked expressions that were all over the faces of his enemies this very moment.

"GRR!" Others though turned exceedingly furious at his insane plot and exploded right at him.

"I knew you were mad Goma, but we never thought you'd actually take it this far!" Cera shouted out loud.

"Yeah! Don't you realise you're endangering all life on the planet as we know it!?" Max rebutted towards the shadow emperor, "If this is your final plan then it's either desperate or downright stupid! Perhaps even both!"

Lunensis narrowed his eyes and gritted his teeth knowing a plan of this scale could easily devastate all life for centuries, life which they worked so hard to protect and risked their own lives and limbs for, "Are you so obsessed with winning the war and destroying us that you haven't even considered the fact you'd be destroying the very same planet you sought to conquer and endanger yourself in the process too!?" He yelled.

In response, Goma began to chuckle in amusement much to their increased unsettlement, "Hehehe, do take me for a fool? Do honestly think I'd do something without considering all possible consequences? I'm nothing like you humans." He shook his head at them pityingly as he placed his fingers and tapped them together, "Unlike you I'm always several moves ahead of you, which was why I decided to be generous enough and let you all know in advance." He replied calmly as an image of his base appeared on screen and was soon covered over by some sort of barrier depiction.

"My base is also equipped with a security forcefield that has more than enough power to shield anything surrounding it from any threat faced, which includes any kind of measly natural disaster your meals planet could throw at it as well as massive global extinction events, meteors included I assure you." He explained. As he did so, some of them began to narrow their eyes hard at him as they knew exactly where this was going, "Should you surrender your measly lives into my hands, I promise you all that you'll live to see a new day as well as the creation of a brand new perfect world from the ashes of this fallen one." He then blurted out in a joyous tone, "You all ought to be grateful I've decided to allow you all an hour to make your decision." Goma sang playfully at the end as if he took pleasure in dangling their only line of escape and also in them squirming helplessly in the palm of his hand.

The way he so causally threw his words around and even enjoyed crushing all their hopes in an instant continued to further anger them, truly his evil knew no bounds and he wasn't even finished yet. "Or if you'd like you can try and stop me like you always do," He then scoffed before grinning at them maniacally, "But know that the moment you do so, you all shall perish either before or with the Earth as you know it!" He screeched before shrugging out his shoulders uncaringly, "Frankly I couldn't care l less what you decide, because either way I've already won! Ahahahahah!" He cackled as he finished saying his piece, feeling triumphant over his impending victory and how good the sensation was to finally get that out of his systems and see how his enemies would respond in turn.

"Why you monster!" Cera growled as she shook a fist and gnashed her teeth with immense rage, as others began to cry or shudder in terror. It was clear his intentions were also to smash down their hopes and blind their eyes with fear and that was downright low.

"Just who do you think you are!?" Dr Z then let out an outburst he couldn't hold in anymore, "Who are you decide that you can waltz right onto our planet and take what you please then destroy the rest!?"

"After everything you've done do you think we'll sit idly by and let you get away with it!? You hear me!?" Captain Craig bellowed as he punched a fist right at him form where he stood.

"This isn't over! Not by a longshot!" Rod yelled next.

"We'll stop you no matter what it takes! I swear it on the name of the entire Resistance!" Lunensis vowed as various angered cries and responses echoed from the crowds.

Despite their defiant threats and responses, Goma shrugged them off as a dog's barking and no more as he laid back in his throne laxly, "Heh, perhaps you may say that, but let's see how it holds once time's up, and you'll wish you'd have surrendered while you had the chance." He smirked before looking over them one by one, "Of course, who's to say that some of you may think differently, hmm?" As he said so it caused some of the troopers and members of the resistance to tense up, as if he knew exactly what some of them were thinking deep down inside or puzzled by what he meant but knew nonetheless it wasn't anything good. "Anyways, feel free to think about it as long as you need to. Just know your entire future and existence depends on the choice you make today." He said rather playfully at the end before waving out at them, "I look forward to hearing your answer or more precisely your surrender 1 hour from now! Chow!" he smiled at the end before his call ended and the connection was severed much to the frustration of the D Team!

"Hey you get back here!"

"We're not finished with you yet!" Zoe and Max both yelled as his face vanished from the screen.

Rex and Dr Ancient quickly turned to Cera's father, "Lunensis!"

"Can you trace the call back to Goma!?" They both asked him a he nodded in acknowledgement and tried…..only to turn up with a big ERROR icon on screen as he let out a heavy disappointed sigh.

"Tch! No…he's severed all communication links with the Resistance base….I'm afraid establishing a call with him is impossible now…." he hissed through his teeth as Rex clicked his tongue in deep distraught.

"Great…."

"So then…what now?" asked Cretacia uneasily, "I mean….We can't just sit idly by and let that brat get away with this right?"

"Or worse surrender…." Dr Ancient said tensely as he clenched his hands tightly. Those words he uttered made several others inside the room angsty or angered at the very thought of it.

"Of course not!" Lunensis protested out loudly, "If we did then all the batter we fought, blood spilt and sacrifices we made till now would've been for nothing!" As he said so they began to murmur amongst themselves seeing he had a good point, though others felt rather worried about their chances and were starting to feel hopeless. The children looked around them uneasily knowing the situation was growing serious with the increased tension between differing opinions on how to approach this situation.

"I take it you have a plan then Lunensis?" Dr Taylor then asked the Resistance's leader who focused towards him, "What do you suggest then?" he asked both hopeful and serious as everyone else began to focus on him for direction.

He was a little nervous at first seeing how it appeared to be all on him to lead them out of this calamity, but at the same time he soon mustered up his courage knowing that as leader it was his duty and responsibility for times like this and thus embraced it wholeheartedly and calmly. "I'll do a scan on the meteor incoming towards us first…..then we'll work out how to proceed from there." He said uneasily as he began to type on his computer and do a complete examination of the massive space rock that was hurtling towards their planet right this very moment.

As he focused hard on it everyone looked on and waited with anticipation for the results, some had their hearts beating hard with anxiety for the results while others were trying their best to hold onto the hope that there was a way they could stop it from destroying their world, "Hopefully we can find some kind of weak spot on it, and by judging its size and trajectory maybe we can determine where it would strike the Earth and hopefully intercept it in time."

"Let's hope for the best then." Dr Owen then squeaked weakly as he and everyone else looked on and waited in anticipation for Lunensis' results.

He felt a bit pressured with everyone's eyes fixated on him the whole way as he triangulated the trajectory of the meteor but he did his best to stay focused all the way, "Let's see….the speed and acceleration, combined with the energy pull from the tractor beam…." As soon as he got the final readings his heart skipped a beat when he discovered the dreadful results from his calculations, "Oh my….."

At the sound of his worried tone, some of the members present felt their hearts sank or their hopes dashed.

"That…doesn't sound very good…." Max gulped nervously as his friends and the other children like Rod and Laura turned rather pale or weak.

Many were afraid to ask, some of them were already quaking with fear and pressure and didn't want to add anymore on top of that….but Cera, knowing it had to be important if her father was seeing it so seriously, mustered up her strength and courage to ask what seemed like a forbidden question, "Wh…What is it dad?"

Upon her question, everyone braced themselves internally as Lunensis let out a heavy sigh and began to reveal the dark secret he discovered, "Cera, are you aware of the asteroid which caused the extinction of the dinosaurs during the Cretaceous?" he asked her in a deep solemn tone.

Cera wasn't sure what he meant by asking her that but she nodded uneasily, "Y…Yes…the meteor which wiped the dinosaurs out years ago was 6 miles in diameter." She and some of the others present were beginning to feel suspicious of this meteor had any relation to that same space rock which carried the cosmos stones and ended the age of the dinosaurs.

"6 miles!? I can barely run 1 mile!" Ed cried in alarm as he scrunched up his face before earning a smash to his head by Ursula for saying something stupid.

WHAM!

"YOW!"

"Well….that was nothing….for the Reaper's Wrath…the meteor that's now heading towards us now….." Lunensis swallowed swallow hard as he revealed the tragic truth to everyone present, "Is 3 times as wide!"

If everyone wasn't panicked or alarmed before they had all the more reason now, "Say what!?"

"You're kidding!" Jonathan and Dr Drake both gasped while Helga and Mrs Drake's jaws dropped in horror.

"AAAAH!" Dr Owen and Patrick both cried out in a panic!

"No way! That means it's like 30 kilometres wide!" Dr Taylor then added, the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs before devastated the world for many years, but for a meteor of this scale it may as well wipe out life on the planet 3 times as long or even all eternity!

These were only a handful of the panicked murmurs which echoed amongst the members of he resistance gathered, even some like Craig or Blaze, who had the strongest spirit and wills of the team were beginning to fell the pressure get to them for the first time ever and that was in no way a good record in any book, as it began to spread like a disease to others and make them have their confidence undermined as fear was insight in its place.

"H…How much time do we have till it hits us?" Aki croaked as she began to sweat tensely and the others looked to Lunensis, who remained silent and almost frozen in place.

"….."

"Dad?" Cera asked her father cautiously, taking his silence to be something to worry about.

He swallowed hard as he forced out painful words form his throat once again, "Based on its trajectory and current speed, I'd say about an hour and a half….."

Upon his reveal the masses soon broke out into uncontrolled terror, "AH!"

"That short!?"

"We don't have enough time to evacuate! And even if we did there'll be nowhere else we can go!"

"It's the end of the world!"

"We're doomed!"

"WAAAAH!"

"This is terrible! The Reaper's Wrath is going to slam right into the planet!"

"I don't want to be extinct!" They all began cry in a panic as fear began to flood their minds and blind all their rational thinking and moral codes, only thing they could focus on was their impending doom from space.

The captains tried their best to keep their troops under control, but deep down even they were beginning to worry for their own survival too. The D team, their families along with their allies could only watch helplessly as even they didn't know how to address such a massive panicked mob…..They could understand they were scared, and even they were too, but deep down they knew they couldn't just surrender….yet they didn't know how to get through to the masses, it was a if they were forgetting what they fought for originally.

But soon, some of them began to think and even consider the unthinkable, "We should surrender while we have the chance!" One trooper then cried out having lost all reason or sense of morals.

"If we beg maybe he might take us in! It's out only chance now!"

"I'm all in for it!" His mindset was beginning to spread to a handful of other troopers almost like a virus was.

Soon heated arguments were beginning to break out amongst them to the discomfort of the Resistance's higher ups, "Excuse me!?"

"After all that slime ball did to our planet and to everyone else on the planet, you're thinking of siding with him!?"

"How could you say or even think of something that!?"

"Take that back!" Some of the more loyal or stronger hearted members retorted against those who were thinking of giving up or even surrendering, but it didn't appear they were getting through to their old comrades who shot back at them in retaliation.

"Forget it! It's every man for himself now!"

"Yeah! Let's just enjoy the time we have left then!"

"I can't believe what I'm hearing!" Fighting soon began to ensue as some tackled others down and began punching them hoping to knock sense into them. It grew worse as some of the dinosaurs grew increasingly agitated and unnerved at the thought of facing extinction all over again! Some bellowed or roared in a panic, others tried to keep their comrades under control or in line only to end up fighting one another too.

As the D team and their loved ones looked on in horror they saw friends and families pitted against one another, consumed by fear so much they couldn't even remember what they were fighting for! At this rate they'd tear each other apart and the Resistance would be destroyed completely by in-fighting long before the meteor would strike! Laura was scared and hugged close to Rod who sheltered her from the madness while Helga came in to hug them both close. The D Team's parents looked on sadly or in anger at what was unfolding before them but held back, worrying about getting themselves hurt in the crossfire if they tried to break up or tame that riled up crowd. Most of all was the Alpha gang as they hugged one another and shuddered in terror seeing the dinosaurs were even begining to tear one another apart too in the ensuing chaos!

It soon gone on long enough as Max and the D Team soon realised that this was what Goma was aiming for from the start, to turn them against each other so they'd further divide or better yet destroy themselves! "That does it! We have to stop this now!" Max yelled. Gritting their teeth they summoned forth their dinosaurs who let out loud roars to get everyone's attention!

ROAR!

"Everyone! Calm down!" Max shouted angrily as the others looked to them in surprise and alarm as Chomp stomped his foot on the ground hard.

"Get a hold of yourselves! You're acting like we already lost!" Rex protested as he threw his arm out and Ace let out an angered snort.

"Don't you see this is exactly what Goma wants us to do!?" Zoe then yelled out towards them all while Paris let out a loud noise from her crest to keep the panicking dinosaurs under control as they focused on them..

"He's trying to make us panic and throw us into disarray! Make us surrender to us like there's no hope left, or for worse turn us against one another!" Max then explained.

"And it's happening right now! Look at us!" Rex followed after him.

Cera too began to see the light, at first she was worried and nearly had her fears take over her mind but thanks to her friends' words she woke up in time and now took a stand with them, "If we give up now then all our battles and sacrifices we made to this point would have been for nothing!" she shouted out next as she gritted her teeth and hissed painfully as a tear was squeezed out from her eye as past images of their turmoil and strife began to playback through her mind, "We'd be dishonouring those who gave up their lives to help protect this world and the people and dinosaurs who live on it!" she cried as she remembered her mother who was erased before her eyes, a haunting nightmare which scarred her through this day. After what she and others went through she refused to let their deaths be for nothing, no way could she allow it all to end in defeat.

Seeing her sniffle hard and appear almost like she was suffering inside, sympathising with her Max decided to finish for Cera, "That's why giving up is not and will never be an option!" He shouted at the end as Zoe and Rex also nodded with him too.

"Max…." His parents wept happily for their son seeing how much he was growing up and maturing as an adult.

"It's like I'm looking at a man and not our son anymore dear." Dr Ancient commented to Cretacia who nodded, seeing their boy could grow up to be a great leader in the future when ushering a new age for people and dinosaurs to live together.

"Mhmm."

"My little girl's all grown up…." Dr Drake sniffled heavily as his wife smiled and gave him a hankie to blow his nose into as he nuzzled closer to her and she hugged him in, shedding a few tears herself feeling deeply moved by the children taking charge as future leaders.

"Cera…." Lunensis sniffled proudly to see her speak up almost like that of a world leader. She did so better than he could think of, and in his heart he just knew his wife Maia wouldn't be more proud of their daughter if she saw her now. In his heart he felt with upmost confidence he could not only entrust the resistance into her hands one day….but perhaps the entire future of the world too.

Hearing what the D Team children said out loud and with such confidence, the Alpha gang felt most guilty and embarassed of themselves deep inside, for being adults the children easily showed them up in more ways than they could count, and were able to find heart and the resolve to keep fighting inside them when even they were on the verge of quitting too. Rod, Laura and even Seth felt moved and inspired by their combined words conveyed to the masses, as many of the troopers along with the captains and dinosaurs were beginning to reclaim their old senses and beliefs which they almost threw away, a they looked to each other feeling ashamed of their earlier behaviour.

Unfortunately, a few remaining individuals were much harder to convince as they suddenly shouted back at them.

"Then what do you propose we do then!?"

"Yeah! Tell us!" These first few retorts not only caught the D Team off guard, that they'd go back to protesting so quickly, but it would soon grow into arguments that they have no answer to.

"We've got no time, almost no resources left after our recent attack and no way to escape in time, yet you refuse to allow us the only option that may give us a slim chance of survival without anymore needless loss."

"And you suggest we keep fighting against the only one who can save us!?"

"What can we do in this hopeless situation!?" Some of them began to protest again as Max and the others grew rather unsteady and insecure on how to respond.

"I…I…."

"Well…we could-" No matter how hard they tried they just couldn't find the right words to use, and without a plan all they said would be no more than a pipe dream or delusion.

Right before the troopers could begin to riot once more, Cera closed her eyes and thought calmly, processing everything that they all said and acted just now, before finally coming to a conclusion that would be able to answer everyone's concerns once and for all. Walking up to the stage she held out her amor to her fiends who eyed her curiously as to what she was doing, "I think I understand now." she then said to them before nodding, hinting she knew just who to handle the people now.

Stepping forth onto the stage the masses all fixated their attention on her, "Everyone, I know how you all feel." she said to them all in a stoic and firm tone as all eye gathered on her. She looked to each and every one of them, "You're scared, worried we can't win, afraid of letting others down after so many long hears of fighting and bloodshed." She stated understandingly for even she felt it herself too, "I know it may seem hopeless now but don't forget, we've all faced threats like these before time and time again." She then closed her eyes and thought back how cycles of destruction and war were eventually followed by peace. Like opposite sides of the same coin they eventually must balance each other out, the strife and suffering gives people willpower to grow and fight against it thus bringing peace once more, and this…overall wasn't any different if one were to look hard enough at it.

"I've seen it first hand many times before. No matter how hard we try there will always be times of darkness no matter how hard we try and prevent them it's inevitable." She said in a rather sad tone, but soon turned serious again, "But that doesn't mean we quit, in the end, there's always hope." She then began to reveal to them something that she saw in Goma during their last encounter on the battlefield, "He may not have shown it but Goma was scared that time." The people then looked at her questionably but she began to explain, "He knew he couldn't beat our united power, which was why he backed off before." She explained, "And I just know Goma would never have exerted this much effort if he didn't feel threatened! It's a no brainer why he would want to cause us to panic and give up, making us lose trust in one another that we can win, when all along it's he reason we've been abel to win battle after battle and last this long in the war!"

The groups soon began to murmur amongst one another seeing she did have a point and logic to her words. There couldn't be any other reason for him to resort to something so drastic since they resisted him for so long, it's because they forced his hand for he believed they were a threat to his ambitions.

"I know you all think it's too much to handle and at times you'd wish you could walk away from it all and not look back. Believe me I've felt like giving up many times before." she admitted with a heavy sigh before being them all seriously, "But know this, there's no one else who can do but us." She said to them, her words piercing into their hearts like hard daggers as they began to slowly realise the reality of the situation, that it wasn't just about them but also for the people around the world too, the families and friends they fought so hard to protect, to give up would be to turn their backs on them after so many long years of fighting. It would render their efforts completely meaningless, "If we give up then not only do we dishonour all who gave their lives so we could live, but also letting down everyone else who have their hopes all pinned on us! We can't let them down after helping them have hope again after so long!" She shouted out loud at them before lowering her he'd down and her hands tensing up and shaking.

"If we fail everything would be swallowed up by the darkness." She said heavily as her mind shuddered at the thought of a future swallowed in shadow and all under the rule of the maniacal madman Goma. "And a future where those villains rule, one filled with darkness without a shred of light or hope, isn't one worth living in. I know you're all scared and I admit even I am too." She continued as the others listened to her intently, "But I know we can face this threat together, because we're altogether and I know we'll stick with one another through thick and thin to the end of ages." She proclaimed before punching her arm out to the sky with energy and confidence, "So what do you say? Are you all with me….with us? Together?"

"Cera…." Her friends felt deeply moved by her all inspiring words of encouragement and soon began to smile and eagerly run to her.

"You bet!"

"You never had to ask in the first place!" They each said to her as they fist bumped her together, their initiation started a series in a chain of good hope which spread from one trooper to the other, flushing away most of their doubts and worries out of their minds and hearts.

"I feel so fired up I could take on an army of those slimy gel jarks with my own bare hands!"

"For the people and dinosaurs of this world, yesterday, today and tomorrow!"

"We will do whatever it takes!"

"Fine…let's be heroes then…."

"Guess if we're going out better to do so in a bang rather than in a whimper." They all began to speak to one another in a more positive light much to the relief and joy of the D Team to see they had their support and managed to unite them altogether.

Hearing footsteps next to them, they saw Lunensis stand before them as they gave him their attention as well as their dinosaurs, "Cera…Max….Rex…and Zoe…." He said looking to them each and then to their partners, "You have all shown exceptional courage and heart no matter how dark the night gets. Always holding onto the hope of day arriving, it truly is an inspiration that shall echo for generations to come." He said to them with upmost humility and gratitude before them, "It is an honour to have you amongst us and to fight alongside you, whom shall no doubt be the ones to usher in a brand new age for us all." He said at the end with a light bow as others too began to cheer and applaud for their leader giving his respects to the heroes of their time and for the future too.

"Dad…" Cera breathed feeling touched by his genuine sincere words before nodding in acknowledgement of his support, "Thank you very much."

"And we promise you that your faith won't be misplaced." Rex stated after her.

"I know that, and I have no doubt that we shall prevail, to just because you're here but because we all are." He said smiling with full reassurance in their victory.

"Yeah." Max nodded.

Everyone was treating in their great moment, till Seth turned serious and had to speak his concerns, "But even so, without a plan of attack, the good that speech is." He said with as much respect as he could.

The others soon quieted down upon hearing the reality of the situation, "Yeah, how do we proceed about this under these dire circumstances?" Dr Ancient then asked curiously, "It'll be difficult coming up with a careful and calculated strategy with such limited time." He then mused putting a finger to his chin in serious thought.

"Mhmm." Cera nodded as she began to look back on Goma's past actions and his behavioural traits as well as his strategies thus far, "Way I see it, after all our battles till this point Goma treats everything like a game, however he leaves nothing to chance and at the same time preferring to be several steps ahead of his enemies." She said folding her arms in serious careful thought, "Preferring to control very possible event and outcome, and to do so he stacks everything in his favour to make it seem we have no hope but to go about the plan he decided for us."

Everyone else narrowed their eyes or frowned hard knowing that despite being younger than the other pirates, Goma's intellect and knack for strategy surpassed each and everyone of them. He was no doubt going to be a difficult opponent to catch by surprise or overcome in battle if he knew all their moves and weaknesses on top of that.

As it appeared they were all at a loss on how to approach this situation, Cera soon thought up an idea, both daring and risky but just may have the slightest chance of success they would need, "I may have an idea on what we can do." She said as they looked to her in surprise.

"Huh?"

"You do Cera?" Asked Raina and Dr Ancient with interest and curiosity.

In response to their questions as she nodded confidently and began to explain what she had in mind, "We'll catch him by surprise and attack him at where he believes he has himself completely secure and fortified." She pressed a few buttons on the keyboard as the image zoomed on her intended attack target, "Right at his very command center."

Her statement came as a huge shock too the resistance and even to her friends as well, "What!?" They all gasped.

"You're suggesting we launch an attack right at his base of operations!?" Blaze widened his eyes seeing this to be a most daring idea, even more than he had ever seen in his life.

"Are you out of your mind!?" Dr Z exclaimed.

She took their bewildered responses as completely natural, and luckily for both hem and her she had a reasonable explanation for it, "It's something he won't see coming, plus he'll believe we're doing so out of desperation, so he'll be more than likely to underestimate us and thus make a mistake somewhere." She stated as the others began to see logic in her words. After that she brought the image of his fortress closer on the display screen which depicted and outline of his base's shield radius. "Knowing him he's likely to try and use his force shield to keep himself safe as well as keep us out. So need only get a handful of us through so we can attack in 3 possible approaches." She continued as 3 beacons on the display demonstrated said infiltration as they moved through the shield's closing.

Everyone listened closely to what she said as she began to unravel her step by step attack strategy for saving the Earth, "First, we can aim for his tractor beam." She stated as the image of his fortress' satellite was brought closer to view, "Destroy that or better yet recalibrate it and we can maybe send the meteor away from Earth rather than have it crash into us." She said which made the groups murmur amongst one another in surprise of such an ingenious idea and that it was coming from someone so young.

"Hey that's actually a pretty smart idea." Zoe breathed.

"Of course! I mean I would have gotten there eventually…." Dr Z spat in disgust.

"Wow go figure, who knew she had it in her…" Rod whistled, he knew she was good before but this was something else.

"That's my daughter for you," Lunensis smiled proudly of her after hearing everyone complimenting her in awe as well as smiling brightly at her excellent plan, "Always thinking in the big picture and in the long term." he couldn't help but hold his head up with pride a little as some of the others eyed him with mild envy over having a daughter as smart and beautiful as she was.

Casting that aside, Dr Ancient then asked Cera curiously, "So what's the second option?"

She then looked to him, "We go for the shield generator." She said as an image of Goma's forcefield covering his fortress was brought on screen, "This forcefield must be powered by a generator inside." She explained, "Once we get inside, if we can find and destroy it, Goma will realise he and everything he values too would be in danger of being wiped out by the Reaper's Wrath with the rest of us. Knowing that he'll have no choice but to give into our demands and send the meteor away himself." She said as she switched off the diagram, "Way I see it, it's best that whoever manages to get inside the fortress, we'll best split up and aim for both largest simultaneously so he'd have to divide up his forces giving us an even 50-50 chance of success." She thought to herself out loud while folding her arms in thought after considering the chances that their enemies may anticipate this.

The others couldn't help but widen their eyes or breathe in even more amazement at her plan, "Wow…"

"Ingenius…"

"Brilliant deduction." Rod, Dr Owen and Jonathan each breathed.

"I always knew she was great at strategy but this is incredible." Reese mused.

"And in the event something goes wrong, at least we'll take him down with us and end his that to the universe once and for all." She then added at the end as some of them nodded in agreement.

"Mhmm…." Inside they felt firm and ready too, if they couldn't win then they'd make sure that he lost with them too, any result that required them to sacrifice was acceptable and far more preferable compared to Goma living another day to bring destruction to another world.

There was still one more thing to address, "And…you said there were 3 approaches." Cretacia then spoke up curiously, "What's the last plan you had in mind?"

"It may be our most important one of all." She answered Cretacia as she eyed her, Dr Ancient, along with a few others including Seth rather intently, giving them the hint that this final bit would require their skills and talents, "Some of us will have to remain behind to not only monitor the situation on the meteor, but hopefully find a way to discover some kind of blindspot or weakness we can use take it down." She said as the image of the stone tablet was brought up on screen for them to see, "We know the stone plates were powerful against the cosmos stones once, which came in the meteor which wiped out the dinosaurs. So there's no reason why they can't be used to do so again."

What she said next helped filled the D Team with hope once more.

"Hey that actually did work before!" Max pointed out with a bright smile.

"Of course! We had the solution with us the whole time!" Rex gasped in disbelief that he didn't see it earlier.

The scientific minds of the Resistance soon gathered together and nodded firmly at Cera's idea, "We'll put everything we have into tapping into the stone tablet's power, hopefully using it for some kind of super weapon we can use to destroy the Reaper's Wrath." said Raina.

"And not just that, we've got 2 other backup plans that are sure to work in case we can't in time!" Max cried out pumping his arm in excitement.

"Maybe we can do this after all!" Zoe then smiled as she clapped her hands together.

"Not maybe, we will do this!" Rex corrected her.

Cera then smiled seeing there was hope being restored in her friends and comrades, and seeing this helped her feel much more confident in herself too as a leader, "Time is running out for us all and we face our darkest hour." She then continued seriously taking charge as everyone listened. She then smiled with confidence and pumped up an arm, "But we can do this! I know we can! I believe in all of us united this world and everyone on the planet will have a chance to see a new age!" She said, "We've met every challenge before head on fearlessly, without hesitation and because of that we prevailed or endured through it which made us stronger the next time! If we can overcome the end of the world by the cosmos stones once then we can do it again this time around!" She declared with full assurance as everyone began to applaud and cheer supporting her, most of all being her closest friends who were moved by her words and felt they spirits set on fire after what she made clear to them.

"We're with you all the way to the end! You can count on it!" Max then smiled at her, putting his full confidence in her idea. It didn't take long for the rest of the D Team's allies to vouch for her plan as well considering they had nothing more to lose at this point and it all rested on this one plan which offered them even the slightest chance at victory.

Feeling more assured of herself than ever, Cera then proclaimed out to the masses and punched out her arm, "Let's do this! For the dinosaurs and people our future!"

"YEAH!"

"We're with you all the way!"

"To the end!" Her allies all cheered with her in response before roars of applause, praising and clapping echoed from the crowds.

"Heh, all my life I didn't do anything worth doing till now." Dr Z then chuckled in amassment before punching up his arms with excitement, "Now's the time to have the title of world saviour added to being dinosaur king of the world! Hahahaha!" He laughed out loud joyously with energy as the trio sighed and sweat dropped at his childish enthusiasm.

"Ugh….If Dr Z can remain positive even in times of doom maybe there might be hope for us all." Ursula commented with a warm smile.

"Or that we're doomed…." Zander uttered at the end believing that fall always comes after pride.

"That too." Ed then muttered though hoping he didn't jinx it.

Cera then looked over to her most irreplaceable friends of all right after all this was settled, "Thank you guys," she said with to them humbly, "I don't think my father and I would've been able to rally everyone together and unite them all with a sense of hope without you. We really are in your debt for this." She said gratefully to them as they smiled back at her.

"Don't mention it Cera." Max grinned as he waved his hand playfully at her and rested his head in his hands laxly.

Yeah, if it wasn't for your help we never would have mad with this far in the first place." Zoe smiled at her.

"That's even before we made it here to your time," Rex continued, "Without you we may never have been able to pull through many of the other challenges we faced in our time and in the ancient past too."

"Now it's our turn to return the favour and save your world." said Zoe as she reached over and put a hand on her shoulder.

"And we will do it together." Said Max as they all came together as a unified group before nodding together feeling confident that their bonds with one another and the dinosaurs, as well as their hopes for the future of the world will help see their victory through.

Their parents looked on with proud smiles to see their children growing up

"Lunensis."

He blinked his eyes looking to Max's father, "Yes Dr Taylor?"

He placed a hand on the Commander's shoulder with a smile of support, "You've raised a fantastic daughter, one we all couldn't be more proud of." he said praising him before grinning cheekily, "When this is over, and it will end in the world being saved."

"You'd better let us see, with our own eyes, the new dinosaur utopia you'll rebuild with your hands." Dr Ancient then spoke with keen interest to see how the future was like during its golden age.

"One we can all be proud of." Mrs Drake nodded after him.

"Pretty please?" Her husband along with Spike and Dr Owen both pleaded with sparkling eyes.

In response Lunensis couldn't help but snicker in amusement as the answer to that was wall too obvious, "Heheh, when the war is finally over and we see a bright new day ahead of us, I'll definitely make it so." He said giving them his word as he held out his hand to them.

"It's a done deal then!" Dr Tayor grinned as he and Lunensis did a firm handshake with one another thus cementing their friendship and the deal.

(Later)

Deep inside the citadel, Goma sat upon his throne inside a room where he was resting calmly in his seat, meditating as if he was collecting his focus and readying himself for whatever will come his way. He opened his eyes and smirked, as the deadline had finally arrived and no matter which choice they'd make he'd win either way. As he brought up the screens depicting the outside perimeter around his fortress, he saw no movement or any signs of life for miles as the cold wind blew across the Antarctic wasteland. He then grinned, believing that they were too cowardly to face him, which was even better for him, as he could now enjoy carrying out his plans without any further interference. "Time's up Resistance, if you don't show up right this instant I'll have no choice but to-"

Before he could finish, a ground bridge portal suddenly opened up on screen which caught his attention. He then smiled as he began to take this as a good sign, "Heh, it seems you've all come to your senses and decided to make the smart decision to surrender." He believed as the image of 1 Mesozoic mobile began to materialise from it, which he assumed was one coming to try and negotiate with him. Whether they's surrender or try to reason with him, in the end there was only one outcome, and that he wins in the end, it couldn't be anything else other than that.

His hopes however were set too high, to his surprise more portals also began to open across the frozen tundra. Appearing out of them was like a battalion of Resistance mobiles as they began shooting out of the portals, and behind them were herds of bellowing dinosaurs! They amassed together in their hundreds or maybe even thousands as the people as well as their dinosaurs were raring to go, growls and roars of agitation and anger were aimed right at the fortress, and through his camera screen, Goma could see clearly that their hostility was aimed right at him. At the front, spearheading this attack, was the D Tema, with Max, Rex and Zoe being seen inside their buggies along with Cera, and they all were aiming their looks of determination to finish this once and for all. Behind them was Dr Z in his own customised Alpha buggy which was a maroon jeep with a dinosaur's hood ornament, along with the trio behind him and a handful of the Squad captains at their sides which included Kaze, Craig and Blaze.

At the right of this formidable front, Goma soon scowled as he could see clearly that the Resistance was far from surrendering, in fact, it appeared as though they were going to bet everything on one final gambit. "Hmph! I suppose I was just kidding myself if I believed they'd actually give up without a fight." He sighed shaking his head in disapproval, wondering as to why things couldn't just proceed as he wanted for once, was it too much to ask? Then again after years of battles behind them it would be nonsensical to think that the resistance would actually end things so easily between them, it was clear they'd choose to die fighting a hopeless battle than surrender in a heartbeat. "Predictable and defiant to the end….." Goma then sighed as he finally began to see no place for the humans in his new world order, if he had realised this sooner perhaps he could have saved himself the time, effort and trouble by going through with his plans instead of threatening them in advance.

He soon smiled as he recollected himself, despite giving up on them he admired is their spirit or perhaps stupidity for wanting to go through with this….but it can only go so far. He tapped his fingers together, as a certain vile plot began to brew dee inside his twisted mind, he grinned maliciously to himself as he began to entertain such thoughts to himself and prepared to enact them without hesitation, "They'll soon regret turning down my generous offer, and I'll make sure their last moments before they leave this world are those filled with pain and agony, along with regret at their pitiful failure at being unable to do anything about it." He snickered to himself as he was fully prepared to show the humans that it was futile for them to resist against him, like how they were helpless against a natural disaster like an earthquake or tornado, any decision by mother nature to eliminate them was inevitable.

He saw himself just the same or perhaps even more so, with the power he wielded in his fingertips, he now considered himself a deity, and it was high time he put them in their place and made them come to grips about their current situation and that this is no game they can win. His only regret for going through with this decision was that he hated to waste or break a life if it could be spent in eternal servitude to him, although in life it's inevitable that it'd be impossible for everything to go the way as one pleases….though at least he'll have the satisfaction of crushing all opposition before him with his mighty hand and then emerge victorious at the end.

(Meanwhile)

Down on the Antarctic tundra, the Resistance had gathered every available trooper and dinosaur who were still in fighting condition after their recent skirmish back at their base. They suffered much after having their base and troops attacked, but now they intended to even the score and give Goma a taste of his own medicine. Now they planned to go on the attack this time, no more defending or beating each threat as it comes. With the shadow empire finally having revealed themselves and played their trump card, it was time they pulled out all the stops this time around. With no do overs left this time around, they were prepared to launch a full scale assault upon the shadow empire's final and most dangerous stronghold of all, with so much stacked against them this was a battle they had to win no matter the cost.

"We've arrived at our destination….the heart of evil….." Cera narrow her eyes as the mist and snow began to lessen till the winds died down, revealing the massive dark fortress of the shadow empire lying right there before them.

"There it is." Said Rex as he and the others hardened themselves for the battle which lay waiting for them there. Just the sight of it and the beam fired from it into the sky where the Reaper's Wrath was coming in from was getting them riled up and the dinosaurs grunting with agitation and anxiety with the danger coming from space once again. Several of them were suffering from past trauma having bore witnessed that horrific event which doomed their species long ago, and while some of them were on the verge of panicking, thankfully they either had their human partners to comfort them or other saurian comrades who had faith that the outcome will be different that last time which helped keep them from getting out of control or going wild.

Some of the troopers still were afraid or worried whether they could pull it off, but after some inspiration from the D Team, they knew that they had to at least try for everyone's sakes and they had a reason why they couldn't give up now after coming this far. As some of them looked up at the beam emanating from the fortress' tower, they could tell the Reaper's Wrath was coming closer every second, the final battle lay ahead just beyond that citadel and they had to make this one count. Just like the last time the D Team and Alpha gang could tell there weren't anymore second chances after this with such high stakes on the line, it was finally time to finish this once and for all.

A while passed and the tension peaked as everyone else stood silently, knowing this was it at long last, the moment they waited for when they could put an end to the war once and for all. "Well what are we waiting for team!?" Dr Z suddenly interrupted rather impatiently, though also with a hint of panic in his voice seeing no one was moving or doing anything but stare. "Let's smash that place to pieces and then blow that meteor to even tinier pieces after!" He then declared as he pointed out ahead.

"For once Dr Z's got the right idea!" Max replied seeing it was that simple and no need for strategy or contemplating anymore, the time to take action was now.

Cera then nodded with them both, "I agree, the sooner we do that the sooner we can save our world and take down Goma one and for all."

"Mhmm!"

"Yeah!" Everyone else began to agree in unison, or preparing to get this over with and waste no more time talking since they waited for this moment to make the Shadow emperor pay and save their world from extinction.

Max then revved his engines as roars began to echo from the others' mesozoic mobiles, "Great then it's settled! Let's-"

Suddenly before they could move, a holographic projection suddenly shot out before them from the citadel ahead which caught them all by surprise! "AH!"

"What the!?"

As it fully materialised, it projected none other than the Emperor himself as he sat comfortably in his throne, with one leg over the other as he looked down upon them like insects from where he sat.

Mixed feelings of shock and anger arose amongst the resistance as they laid eyes on him, "It's him!"

"Goma!"

"Grr…." Those who remained behind to watch, which concluded the D Team's parents and Lunensis, looked on with hard expressions and worry knowing it was finally time for the final battle to begin.

As he looked down upon them all he then smirked at them, "It seems you've all made your decision." He then shrugged his shoulders, "Can't say I approve of it but I suppose it's to be expected of humans." He said as he shook his head with disapproval, "Always defiant to the end I see, never willing to or perhaps even completely incapable of learning from their mistakes accepting the inevitable." He sighing pityingly at them, which a,de them arrow their eyes or glare at him for his belittling of humanity, "It's no wonder this planet is already on a crash course towards extinction." He stated blatantly, rubbing the truth in their faces believing that why he was doing for them would be salvation from their own self inflicted calamities like war, overpopulation and pollution. He saw himself as their saving grace and yet they harshly rejected him, he was beginning to wonder why he even tried.

"Perhaps it was silly of me to think there'd be any hope or promise in humanity in the first place." He continued, knowing that even if some did accept him as their new ruler, it was inevitable that their inborn human nature would drive them to rebel against him sooner or later. After all, freedom is something that humans would never relinquish or surrender to anyone else, and they'd fight defiantly to the end to protect it, unwilling to accept anything as above them nor wanting to be controlled. As far as he knows every one of them would die fighting him long before they completely subjected to his will, he then sighed to himself find such a waste for them to throw away all their worth and high hopes he had for them just like that.

Having had enough with his careless and heartless comments, especially after everything he put them and the dinosaurs through for what seems like forever, Cera then exploded furiously having lost all restraint in herself, "Like we care about what you think of us you monster!" She screamed at the top of her lungs before pointing out at him, "The last thing we'll ever do is surrender, you're out of your mind if you think we'd just give up without a fight! Especially after everything you put us, the dinosaurs and this whole planet through! We'll never let you get away with it as long as we still live and breathe." Even if he escaped off Earth, she vowed that as long as they lived they'd chase him through the stars for all eternity until his threat was ended once and for all.

"If we surrendered now then all the sacrifices and battles we fought till this point would have been meaningless from the start! And we won't let that happen!" Rex then yelled feeling his spirit and sense of justice triggered, as they all could feel one another's emotions resonating together as if they were united in a single thought and mindset, and that was to both protect their world and bring Goma and his empire down for good.

"Plus if we had to choose between going extinct or sell our future and ourselves into slavery, we'd choose extinction over you in a heartbeat!" Zoe then shouted.

"And if there's one thing we know about the future, it's that it's never set in stone nor are there any absolutes! There's always hope for change!" Max vowed with full belief that humans still have a chance to take charge of their own future as he pointed out at Goma, "We decide our own fate! We'll never let some monster like you control us! Ever!" He swore before clenching his hand into a tight tense fist as he recalled everything he had done to this planet an countless innocents in his pursuit of power like any mad tyrant, "You've enslaved dinosaurs and used them to bring this world and its people to ruin, we won't let you do that to another world ever again!"

"We'll fight with every ounce of strength and to our last breath to make you pay, if it's the last thing we ever do!" Cera then shouted out after him with fierce resolve, "Today on this day, regardless of the outcome, that all ends once and for all!"

"YEAH!" Everyone else then shouted curses or hurled insults or words of boldness toward Goma showing they were not afraid, which was reflected in the many dinosaurs gathered around them which taped on the ground or roared out in fury towards the evil zanjark who invaded and devastated their home, and was about to bring forth a meteor bigger than the one which wiped them out in the first place, no way would they let that happen again.

Goma soon scowled hard in response to their defiance and determination within their spirits, as well as their bitter hatred an spite towards him, knowing that they'd never stop until they would make him answer for what he did….even if it was impossible that they could ever do such a thing. "Is that your best answer?" He muttered before scoffing, "Hmph, such a shame, such spirit is foolish but I also must admit is quite admirable in the face of overwhelming odds. It could have had a future in the world…no…the universe which I would soon shape with my own 2 hands." he smiled before shrugging his shoulders, "A pity none of you would be alive to see it, though I will at least grant you the chance to see me usher in its new beginning."

He knew it would have been a glorious new age and that once they got a taste of it, they'd be begging to live in his world or better yet serve him faithfully to their last dying breath. How much easier it would have been if they just relinquished their freedom instead of putting on such a hopeless struggle which would waste what little remaining time they had, which they could have been using to prepare some kind of speech of surrender, and his own. His casual uncaring attitude towards them only served to further ignite the flames of hatred they harboured towards him as they growled and snarled at him, readying themselves to take him down no matte the cost.

Seeing just how raring they were to go, Goma so no more reason to hold anything back against them and decided to entertain their amusing thoughts of rebellion and justice, "But so be it then, in honour of your spirit and to show my appreciation, I shall allow you this 1 chance to prove it, not that it would do you any good since your cause is already lost!" He declared, "In fact your fates had always been sealed the moment the Zanjark came to this world! Prepare to go extinct like the dinosaurs you all so treasured and loved!" He announced holding his arms widely, urging them to try and make him pay, "Come! I welcome you to in! All you shall find is your complete destruction and humiliating failure! Soon you will all writhe in your graves as I remake your pitiful world in my glorious dark image! Ahahahahaha!" His demonic laughter echoed through across the Antarctic tundra as his hologram disappeared at last.

As it did, a large number of dark shadows began to appear out of the freezing snowy winds, and the Resistance could see a massive army of Gel jarks had risen out from the snow, beeping ominously as they were ready to take arms with the resistance and defend both their ruthless master and their base! They weren't the only line of defence Goma had set for them, a large number of turrets and cannons with the Spectral markings on them, began to sprout out from the snow or reveal themselves around boulders or within the mountainsides as they also turned and aimed right at the Resistance much to their alarm!

"AH!"

They all widened their eyes at the sight of all that was set against them, a massive legion of enemies marching out against them on the battlefield already outnumbering them by the thousands! And already the citadel's tower was glowing as it prepared to charge up its force shield which could close down at anytime thus closing their brief window of opportunity which they had out.

Many of them were hesitant or agitated at the sight of such resistance set up, some troopers believed they were likely to meet their ends on this cold life forsaken wasteland, at the hands of the gel jarks and turrets long before the meteor would strike.

"Urgh….I'm starting to regret coming out here…."

"We're gonna die…."

"That's a lot of enemies…." Marina thought to herself anxiously, usually she had a knack for staying calm and dating to the flow of battle, but this situation was like a huge dam against a small river in which the only way was to go over and it wasn't going to be easy in the slightest.

"Tch! I already don't like our chances of winning….scratch that our survival…." Kaze hissed gritting his teeth as a bead of her sweat fell from his cheek.

Others already were giving into their fears and were starting to crack completely under pressure, "EEP!"

"Those look like they could punch a hole right into a tank!"

"Imagine what it'd do to us!" The Alpha gang all cried out shuddering in sheer terror, hugging themselves and wanting their bodies to stay perfectly intact.

While some were already giving into fear or insecurity, others though were more riled up and angered to see so much set against them yet they weren't about to waver for they came this far and weren't willing to turn back empty handed or without a fight at least.

"Tch! Looks like Goma's finally bringing out the big guns, and I mean literally!" Max grunted feeling rather angsty as they saw that they were up against. It was clear Goma didn't want them anywhere near his ultimate weapon and he was now throwing everything he had at them right this moment! Thinking about it, he and the others could see that Goma indeed was getting desperate or felt deeply threatened to organise such a massive battalion, so perhaps they may have some hope after all.

Seeing some of the other troopers were beginning to grow anxious or insecure, Cera quickly shouted out to them, "Don't falter now everyone!" she cried, "We've come too far to give up now! Everyone's counting on us and we can't let them down!" She said in an effort to keep them from panicking or giving into fear at their darkest hour.

"Cera is right!" Craig soon bellowed out to motivate his troopers to not lose heart yet, "Everything we fought through was for this very moment! We all dreamed of this for a long time now, and we finally have that chance, so let's not blow it!"

As he said that everyone began to grow louder and more ready for battle than ever, much to the pleasure of the D Team to see that they had most of their support now.

As soon as that was over with, Cera narrowed her eyes and looked straight ahead without hesitation or faltering. Closing her eyes and reflecting on all their past sufferings, including the loss of her comrades and her own mother over the years….the battles they went through and now to this moment it was finally time to see this through at long last. "This is for everyone! For our loved ones, the dinosaurs, the world and our future!" She declared before driving ahead and taking the lead!

"YEAAAAH!" They all shouted in unison as they drove forth into battle and the field rumbled and quaked with the revving of tyres, engines and the thundering footsteps and roars of many dinosaurs with them!

In response the turrets took aim and began firing purple energy blasts from their cannons, while the gel jarks all rushed at them almost like a single entity towards them! "Here they all come!" Kaze cried out warning the troops behind them.

"Let em have it!" Blaze punched forward, "Give them everything we've got!"

"Charge!" Craig then yelled rallying the group together! Courageously, the Resistance rushed head first into battle, braving everything the shadow empire had stacked against them! In an instant, explosions, destruction and chaos erupted all across the artic tundra as vicious battles raged, turning the frozen landscape into a battlefield!

BOOM!

SMASH!

As turrets operated by gel jarks began to fire off repeatedly, blasting several mobiles into scrap or overturning them in the explosion, as well as blasting holes in the ground to make them topple over or crash into others, some were lucky to be able to evade them, others who were more daring were willing to ram their buggies right into the turrets and destroy them on the spot! The white snowy field soon began to be covered tis the stains of pink slime, burning scrap, motor oil or even the instance of red blood from injuries too….

In response dinosaurs began firing off moves like fire cannon, hydro cutter, spike arrows or egg attack in order to destroy the incoming cannons or block projectiles! Some of them like ceratopsians charged head first and rammed through the cannons, others like sauropods and ankylosaurs smashed down on them with their front legs or flung them with their tails! Larger theropods grabbed hold of and ripped them clean off their supports and tossed them away into other enemy defences or gel jarks, others decided to melt them down into slag with burst of flames! Smaller dinosaurs like leallynasaura or liliensternus were able to outmanoeuvre the turret blasts after timing them right and even got clever and jumped in between them so they'd fire at and blow one another up!

Some blasts hit their mark, sending some dinosaurs flying and reverting them to their cards! Thankful some dinosaurs had such courage and loyalty for their comrades they were willing to take the hit for others less able to defend themselves, the larger bulkier stegosaurs or ceratopsians used themselves as shields, tanking the hits allowing some wounded comrades to escape or make a counterattack from the sides! Despite the losses they suffered, the resistance was making pretty good progress as they managed to cover a lot more ground ploughing through the enemy defences and even run through some of the enemy gel jarks that were unwise to stand in their way!

"Oh yeah! Now we're talking!" Max cheered excitedly, feeling his blood pumping really well in the heat of this epic battle. It was like he was living an actual VR video game experience only real life! As dreadful as this war was seeing so many get hurt around them, Max and the D Team still did their best to focus on what was ahead of them and not let either their excitement or their worries overtake their thoughts completely, but kept a firm balance in between both emotions.

It seemed going well for most, though there were instances of battle cries or cries of pain echoing around the field! "WAAAH!" Those who got blown out of their vehicles and got injured with heavy bleeding or broken limbs, often cried out for help to others to save them, while a handful of them knew what was more important and urged others to continue on without them as their comrades reluctantly pressed on.

"Don't falter! We can do this!" Blaze shouted to the remaining others with him, as he sent out Gorgon and Daigo to help protect some fallen troopers on the ground from any incoming gel jarks as they either stomped down on or smacked them away with their heads or tails!

While Balze was encouraging, others though were far more strict and merciless on the topic of motivation, "Buck up soldier! This is no place to die!" Craig yelled out aggressively to one of his soldiers, who didn't want to disgrace the name of the resistance by falling here as he gritted his teeth and pressed himself up before continuing the rest of the way on foot alongside his iguanodon who was kind enough o help him up on his back.

At the head of this, Cera and the D Team spearheaded the attack as they went in full speed ahead, running down enemy gel jarks and evading their blasts best they could while keeping their dinosaurs in reserve, considering them for the inside of the citadel knowing that they'd need their dinosaurs at full strength for whatever was lying in wait inside.

"Hahaha! This is like a really fun game of bowling!" Max laughed as he found it rather amusing to smack out many jarks in his way or that they were terrified and jumped out of his path as he and the others drove on through their ranks!

"Let's just hope your driving isn't as reckless when you take a real driver's test back home Max…." Zoe muttered in disappointment towards him through the monitors.

"Heheh, come on guys just who do you think I am?" He snickered in amusement rubbing his nose which earned a couple of questionable looks from his 3 friends.

"Do we even want to answer?" They all muttered at him which made him face fault at their lack of faith in him,

As the D Team and Cera courageously drove through the enemy frontlines, finally breaching through them, Captain Blaze and Kaze followed in behind them bravely, while the Alpha gang was lagging slightly behind them though appearing a little less heroic….

"YEEEEK!" Ursula squealed as she did her best to speed around the turrets' blasts, having a few close shaves with death as a few of them blasted her off the road only to land back down on the icy landscape with hard thuds!

Another pair of blasts form nearby turrets fired right towards Zander and Ed, who widened their eyes as they cam right at them! "GAH!"

BOOM!

"AH!" Everyone ahead gasped in alarm to see the energy blasts hit their mark on Zander, but soon sighed with relief as the dust cleared and both their rock crusher and heavy hauler came out slightly battered but mostly alright!

They slowly opened their eyes and looked around in surprise to see apart from their buggies they didn't get a single scratch on themselves! "H…Hey! Nothing happened!" Ed gasped in amazement before he and Zander grinned taking the opportunity for some payback as they both sped ahead and smashed right through the very turrets which fired at them! Reducing them to a pile of scrap metal in an instant!

SMASH!

"Ahahaha! I feel invincible in this thing!"

"Hahahaha! Bring it on! Anything you throw I'll knock down easily!" They both laughed confidently feeling they could take on the world…..till another blast further off blew a turf shredder off its wheels and causing both it and the driver to tumbled across the the tundra and then lie smoking as a pile of wreckage and the driver lying unconscious on the battlefield! "Gulp….On second thought never mind…." Ed swallowed hard as he and Zander turned pale upon seeing that they may not have been as invulnerable as they initially believed themselves to be.

Ursula though wasn't as fortunate as her comrades, as a gel jark jumped out at and landed on her hood ornament in an effort to topple her over! As it covered over her entire windshield she turned blue and squealed in disgust, "EWW GROSS! Get off!" Pressing buttons randomly in a panic, she had her car send out its small digging hammer to smack at its face and then a light drill to spark its head, before a pair of wipers finally smacked it off her car much to her relief, "Ahhh much better…." She sighed taking a breather of relief only to suddenly run over another and for its remains to splatter over the front of her car like roadkill! "Ugh…I think I'm going to be sick…." She moaned turning green before covering her mouth trying to hold in her breakfast from spewing all over the cushions.

Others though didn't seem to mind it much, and in fact were getting quite a kick out of this instead, "Out of my way you slugs! The dinosaur king coming through!" Dr Z shouted shaking his fist out crankily as he underwent road rage mode and ended up turning multiple gel jarks into slimy pancakes underneath his vehicle's wheels or turn them into literal roadkill as he splattered through them.

"Stay focused guys!" Cera shouted out to them, motivating them to keep going and not to falter or lose heart yet, "We're almost there!"

"Good." Rex nodded feeling himself more fired up, "Once we're in we can shut this thing down at the source!" Despite their fixated focus on the task at hand, the sounds of agonised cries and explosions in the background made them feel insecure at having to leave their comrades behind, but they knew the greater good and thus focused straight ahead best they could. "Don't give up now! We can make it!" He then shouted out loud so that the others wouldn't get sidetracked.

As if things weren't already bad enough, their difficult task grew incredibly more difficult as the tower finished charging up its barrier and began to unleash a purplish dome which began to enclose around the entirety of the citadel! "The shield's dropping down!" Kaze cried out to them as they gasped to see their window of opportunity was closing.

"NO! We can't let that stop us!" Max shouted undeterred as it only spurred him to press harder on the accelerator!

Everyone else followed suit as they kicked their gear to the highest they could, their tyres making tracks and blowing out both snow and exhaust behind them in the process! "Keep going! Don't stop!" They kept their eyes fixed on the end goal like that of a big race, and for a while as they drove straight ahead despite the flying lasers and friendly fire going all around them and over their heads they didn't waver in their pursuit towards the end zone! It was going so well and it seemed like they'd all be able to make it in….till a stray blast from a turret fired at Blaze's rock crusher, hitting a critical point and causing him to be sent flying outside of his vehicle's front windows and onto the outside!

"AAAH!"

The D Team looked around to see Blaze's rock crusher had been blown off and he was sent flying outside of his vehicle too as he landed hard on the snowy field! "AH!" They widened their eyes in horror to see they had a man down!

"Blaze!" Cera yelled as she and her friends rushed over to come to his aid.

"NO CERA!" The wind captain yelled out at her through the monitor screens which made her stop her approach, "You and your fiends go on without us! We'll be fine!" Before she could protest against him, he shot back at her again, "Remember what the prize is! Don't get sidetracked nor lose sight of it ever!" The way he said to her almost reminded her of herself the way she thought more on the long term and not to lose sight of the true goal in the end.

Looking closer at him, Cera could see he was indeed right, and in fact all around the battlefield there were already so many of their troopers downed or weakening, while their captains like Craig and Marina were still standing by their side to fight and protect them. With the meteor coming closer with each passing moment they couldn't afford to waste time trying to help each and every one of them. They came here prepared to make sacrifices and the soldiers knew what they were getting into and were willing to put their lives on the line to ensure that their families and friends would get to see a bright tomorrow even if they couldn't. To fail them would mean to deny everything they fought towards or gave themselves up for, and Cera knew she couldn't do that.

Everyone else was hesitant at first, but gritted their teeth and drove on away most reluctantly knowing it had to be done….though not without a few parting words for them.

"Tch! Your sacrifice won't be in vain."

"We'll be back for you as soon as we can."

"It's been an honour fighting alongside you guys." said Max and his friends.

"And we will defeat Goma too. We promise." Cera concluded for them as they drove on ahead and she remained behind to watch over her captains a little longer till they could get back on their feet.

As Kaze appeared before them and grabbed the hand of his comrade and helped him up, Blaze nodded in acknowledgement to Cera, smiling at her with full assurance knowing for fact they will succeed, "The rest is up to you now! Good luck and don't let your fiery passion burn out!" He said to her encouragingly as Cera made her hard choice and nodded back before driving ahead to rendezvous with her friends.

As she made it inside, Dr Z too joined them as he then shouted out to the Trio who were still lagging outside. "Hurry you slugs! Get in here or we won't be able to stop the meteor!" He shouted out to them waving his hand.

"I don't care about that!" Ursula retorted in a panic, "I care more about keeping my head on!" She wanted nothing more than to escape from all the chaos and madness running wild outside. Made evident now that her car was all coated in gel jark slime all over which she felt was going to be more than her credit card could handle for washing, hopefully Zander would let her use his.

"Same here! Now out of our way!" Zander yelled out frantically as he and Ed came closer into view, their vehicles looking heavily banged up from all the thrashing they took along the way.

"Hang up! Don't leave without me!" Ed cried tearfully as they made a beeline right for the citadel not caring who or what was in their way as long as they could get away from all the chaos running wild outside!

"WAAAH!" Dr Z screamed in a panic seeing they were about to run him over! Turning around he sped inside the open gates of the citadel as fast as he could, with the other members of the Alpha gang following him inside and then finally ending with the D Tea and Cera, as they entered right into the heart of darkness as the force held completely closed, cutting off father access and any form of escape for the D Team, for now there was no turning back for them….

As they disappeared inside, back at the main HQ of the resistance, Lunensis and the D Team's families looked on with a serious looks on their faces, knowing there was nothing more they could do for the world's future now and that it all rested with that of the D Team, Cera and the Alpha gang.

"It's all up to them now." said Lunensis as they all nodded in agreement with him.

"Good luck kids, the fate of the world rests in your hands now." Dr Taylor then spoke as they all prayed hard for their success and entrusted them with everything, will full faith in them that they will prevail. Looking further out they also narrowed their eyes to seeing the fierce fighting unfolding on the Antarctic surface, as painful as it was, at leas this would be the last time they'd ever see something as horrendous as this.

Deep down in his mind, Dr Ancient knew the danger of dinosaurs if they were to ever fall into the wrong hands, and thus swore inside his heat that when this was over he'd do everything in his power to make sure that not only will Cera's future come to pass but also he and everyone else will help make a much better foundation for them to build upon.

(Meanwhile)

Inside the fortress, it was much warmer with its own heating system in order to make the conditions liveable for whoever was in. Down one hallway upon busting through the front door with their mesozoic mobiles, the Resistance's team of legendary heroes all were racing as fast as their legs could carry them, it was a perilous race against the clock as they hurried down in the direction where their target rooms were located, "Hurry guys!" Max cried out urgently, "With, each passing moment that passes brings us closer to extinction!" He shouted gritting his teeth as he refused to slow down for even second to catch his breath.

"Every second counts!" Rex added after him, which spurred more determination into the others of the group though made things more worrying for a handful of them though.

"Sheesh! No pressure or anything!" Ursula hissed in frustration as if they already didn't have more on their plate than they already did.

The other members of the Alpha gang began to shout out their frustrations after her, "Yeah, not like we already have enough to worry about!" Zander moaned as he could feel the pain in his legs beginning to make him wince and his entire back grow sweaty and damp.

The only one of them who could take this situation in a positive light was Dr Z, as he began to grin with excitement as his heart raced with eagerness, "Well if these are my final moments then at least I get to spend it going down as a hero that everyone can all be proud of! Ahahahaha!" He laughed out loud joyously which made some of the D team assume he may have lost it under all the pressure. He knew better though. Never before had he felt so alive or did anything worth doing till now, if this was his last chance at life then to use to help others and become someone they could all be proud of, to go down in history as a great hero, the thought of it felt really good and he didn't want this moment to be taken from him.

Nevertheless the group kept a firm gaze as well as both a hard and serious expression as they didn't stop to look behind believing it may slow them down…..except for Ed, as he did one little check to make sure the coat was clear. It was a good thing he did, as he saw who was following him, he turned a little pale and called out to them in a squeaky voice, "Umm guys." he muttered anxiously.

"What is it Ed? Can it wait?" Ursula muttered to him, "If you need to use the bathroom then hold it in!" she then grumbled before shooting him a hard scowl.

Ed quickly shook his head, "N…No it's not that…." though he couldn't deny that he was on the verge of wetting his pants as he thought back to what he saw behind them just now, "It's just….I'd really hate to be the bearer of bad news, you know with everything that's going on already." He stuttered swallowing hard wondering whether he ought to say it with everything already going on.

"Spit it out already then!" she growled impatiently as they all stopped to see what he had to say.

He gulped at all the stern looks everyone was giving him knowing one wrong answer could earn him a brutal beatdown from each and every one of them if he stopped to waste their time over something insignificant or stupid. Mustering up his courage he pointed out behind them, "We've got company!" He screamed and jumped frantically which earned him a coupe of puzzled looks and raised eyebrows as to what he was talking about.

"Huh?" Looking ahead they then widened their eyes in shock, "WAH!"

A huge horde of gel jarks was rushing straight at them form the other end of the hallway! They also raised out their arms as they prepared to fire out slime bullets and immobilise the intruders from getting any further inside their base than they already had!

"Not these guys again!" Zoe cried as the others tensed and sweated at how fast they were doing and that they'd catch up to them in no time flat at the rate they were going!

They were hoping that Goma would focus all his forces on the outside with all the commotion going on and the he wouldn't notice or didn't have any more forces to spare on them, guess they were wrong about both.

Dr Z clicked his tongue in disgust, "Tch! I'm not about to run away from a bunch of slugs!" he spat as he began to unhook his dinoshot from his waist, "My therizinosaurus and I will-"

Rex grabbed his hand before yanking him away, "No Dr Z! You're coming with us!" he yelled catching him by surprise as they hurried off again down the halls with the guards on hot pursuit of them!

"WAH! What's the big idea!" Dr Z cried as his legs struggled to keep up with Rex's speed, repeatedly he tried to yank his arm free from Rex's grip though the boy's firm hold on him made it impossible to wrench are or even twist around. He was even abut to consider gnawing his own arm off, no way was he going to skip this opportunity for glory.

Rex could feel Dr Z's ego would doom them all, as he shouted out his frustrations in the old man's face, "We don't have time to waste with these clowns! Don't you see!? They're only trying to slow us down so we won't stop the meteor in time!"

Rex's statement made him croak and turn pale in realisation, "ACK! Good point there…." he muttered weakly, feeling disappointed he wouldn't have the chance to use his precious dinosaur in another battle, after the last confrontation with the space pirates in the desert he was hoping to have another go on the battlefield.

Despite their best efforts to outrun their pursuers, they were relentless as if they never tired nor even felt pain in the slightest, thus giving them a dangerous advantage over the humans as they slowly began to tire at the most crucial moment. Cera widened her eyes, being the most physically fit of the group she was ahead of them though it didn't help her friends that much seeing their stamina was about to give out made evident by their professed sweating and wincing faces of pain, "Faster guys! If they catch us now we'll all be done for!" she cried urgently.

"I'm going as fast as my legs can go!" Zoe screamed out in agony as she and the D Team were reaching their last legs, already gasping for air as their hearts pounded madly inside their chests from the immense pressure exerted on them form both the incoming meteor and with the gel jarks coming at them!

Father behind them the Alpha gang was lagging dangerously behind as they struggled to catch up to the D Team kids, "GRR! Don't they ever quit or have anything better to do!?" Ursula screeched in agony as she could feel her entire body grow uncomfortably itchy, sweaty and sticky from all the running they were doing from minute one the moment they arrived in.

"They're even more annoying than the Alpha droids!" Zander yelled as he was feeling the same too.

"S…Slow down! I can't keep-wha!" Ed teared up before tripping over and falling on his front!

They all widened their eyes to see him on the ground helpless before their incoming enemies! "ED!"

"Oof…." He wheezed as he looked up weakly, wheezing for air as he appeared almost like a fish out of water. He was so exhausted and fatigued he could;t find the energy to turn himself over as he arm grew limp and he collapsed on the ground completely!

Zander, Dr Z and Ursula gritted their teeth in frustration at Ed's worst possible time for a screw up. They were tempted to abandon him and go on, but deep down their consciences wouldn't allow them too, as they begrudgingly ran over to tug at his arms or get under him in an effort to lift him up though to little success, "Of all the times your fat gut had to get in the way, why'd it have to be now!?" Zander hissed cursing as he tugged at Ed's arm only to lose his grip under his sweaty palms and then fall back away! Ursula tried to push at him from behind but soon gave up after less than a few seconds believing he weighed almost as much as a baby hippo!

"When we survive this you're going on a diet!" Dr Z growled threateningly, "And we'll whip you into shape so hard you won't be able to move for days!" He screeched as he turned blue feeling the pain in his backside as he tried in vain to help Ed back up on his feet. Unfortunately the sheer weight of his underling was too much even for him as his sweaty mass fell right on top of him much to his annoyance, "OOF!" Dr Z yelped as his hand spasmed and twitched underneath Ed's massive body, thus spurring Zander and Ursula to pull him are such to his relief, as he could almost see the light at the end of the tunnel as he gasped for air with appreciation.

"Come on you guys! Quit messing around!" Cera yelled out impatiently, any other day this would be a humorous skits she'd never get tired off but this was not one of those days.

"Those slime balls will be here any second!"

"Hurry it up!" Max and Rex yelled frantically shouting all kinds of urgent words and statements to motivate the Alpha gang to hurry up with carrying or waking Ed, but to little avail.

Zoe gritted her teeth and tensed as they began to run out of time, but soon got an idea into her head that would do the trick, "What's the matter old lady?!" Zoe screamed impatiently at the end having run out of options, "Don't tell me he's too much for you to handle! Put your back into it!"

Her very words caused the older woman to gain a tic mark on her forehead as she felt her body surge with energy "Hey!" Ursula growled at her as she stood up with ease while managing to support Ed, exactly as she had hoped for "You take that back or-" She stopped upon hearing slimy footprints slushing behind them, "Hmm?" As she and the others looked back they widened their eyes and screamed

"WAH! They're coming!"

"GAAAH!" Ed suddenly cried in terror as he jumped off Ursula's back, needing just the right kickstart to get his batteries recharged again much to the relief of the others….though it came much too late for them as the gel jarks were merely within moments of reaching their current position!

Max tensed up with immense frustration as he clenched his hands into tight fists, "Grr! And we're so close too!" He hissed feeling that with so much on the line and everyone counting on them outside this was the worst possible scenario for them. Even if they tried to make a run for it now they'd get caught easily in no time. As much as they hated to do this now, their only option now was to fight their way out of this. They all began to see this as they tried to reach for their dinoshots, "Tch! Guess we've got no choice now but to-"

To their surprise, Cera quickly cut in front of them much to their alarm.

"HUH!?" They gasped in surprise as she held out an arm to them, urging them to keep back.

"Go guys! I will hold them off while you stop Goma!" She shouted at them as she readied her own dinoshot already.

"What!?" Her friends couldn't believe their eyes at the 'self-sacrificing' stunt she was about to pull for the umpteenth time.

Max gritted his teeth and shouted at her having had enough of her wanting to play the hero, "Cera! Not again! Why do you always have to-"

"This is no time for debate!" She cut him off, "They'll catch up to us anyways! At least this way the rest of you will be able to continue without any inhibitions and we all get a fighting chance at survival!" As they began to think about what she said they could see that she was right, as they found no other way to speak back to her nor could they as she mad wit clear there was no time for further discussion. More calmly she took a breath and explained to them, "You're the legendary heroes who helped create our world and now it's time for you to help save it! You're our best hope and we'll never stop believing in you!" She cried out to them which impacted them all most deeply.

"Cera…." thinking about it in the face of this war they were the ones who mattered most as they were the Resistance's best hope, if they failed then everyone's hopes will be gone with them. This way as long as they stayed alive and kept fighting on the Resistance would still ave a future no matter how many of them would be sacrificed to achieve it. They could see she was also willing to make this choice and she wasn't going to let them talk her out of it, and they had no reason to go against her wishes.

Regardless of whether she makes it out of this or not she knows it was her greatest honour of all to fight alongside the greta heroes they believed in, the same heroes she adored when young, now they were her closest friends, and she was going to do everything in he ropier to protect them too. She made it clear to them with a light smile before shouting out at them with all her heart, "Go now! Hurry!"

Surprisingly the alpha gang were the first to acknowledge her decision, "You got it!"

"No need to tell me twice!" They said to her before running off. Whether being moved by her words or wanted to save themselves from the gel jarks and the incoming meteor that Goma had summoned, one thing was clear to them, they could;t stay here an they had to get a move on. They came this far so their only path open to them was to see it through.

"Tch! Can't believe I'm actually taking orders from you…." Dr Z hissed in annoyance before turning away begrudgingly, "But considering the circumstances I'll make it an exception just this once!" He then shouted out his frustrations as he and the A Team went ahead first.

Steeling themselves for this, they nodded firmly as they prepared to see the wishes of her as well as everyone else through, "Grrgh! Okay fine!" Max growled tensely as he painfully turned his back to her and ran off ahead of his friends, "But you'd better come out of this okay!" He shouted as Rex followed after him with no other words to spare, though he wished he could but there wasn't much time left.

"Good luck, we'll be back for you as soon as you know it!" Zoe promised her as she followed after them, while Cera nodded back at them and turned to make her stand against the swarming gel jark horde approaching her.

"I hope so too." She told herself as she looked ahead ready to face them.

Further ahead the D Team and Alpha gang came to a crossroad in the path, "The path splits ahead!" Rex called out as they came to a stop. Reading the signs closely Rex looked to the others as he explained it out to them, "The shield generator's on the left and the beam's on the other!"

Ursula curiously looked both ways then put a finger to her chin in thought, "So which way do we go or how do we decide?"

"We could flip a coin?" Ed then suggested, either way both sides were likely to be heavily guarded so they would have to be prepared for a fight knowing that Goma or the space pirates could be lying in wait for the at any time.

Max and his friends looked to one another before nodding together, deciding which one they were going to take, "We'll go for the beam!" Taylor told the Alpha gang before pointing down the opposite direction, "You guys take down the shield!"

"Hey! Why do you guys get to choose!?" Dr Z protested as he shook a fist out at them.

"Doesn't matter who goes where!" Rex retorted in exasperation, "What does is that if either one of us manages to stop one of them, we'll win! That's all that matters!"

"Now get your butts moving or we'll never survive!" Max then yelled.

"Or better yet you won't have anyone left to share your dinosaur kingdom with Dr Z!" Zoe finished after him.

Her words struck a chord in Dr Z's mind as he widened them and scrunched up his face at the though of his legacy perishing in a sea of fire the moment the meteor strikes Earth, "GAH! I can't let anything happen to my precious dinosaurs or my beloved subjects!" He squealed in terror before deciding in an instant, "Alpha gang! Follow me into the fray!" He announced proudly as he pointed down the corridor and charged through head first without any sense of caution, either he was brave or that he was blinded by his pride and ego from being caught up in the moment he threw away all common sense to the wind.

It didn't take long for his team to follow him blindly into the fray though, "W…Wait up Dr Z!" like wayward sheep following a blind shepherd they followed after him without any second thought…unsurprising to the D Team as they looked on in surprise at how easily they listened to him.

Shaking it off, the 3 kids looked to each other and nodded firmly knowing what they had to do. "Come on guys, it's time we did our part now." Said Max bravely as he held up a fist and punched it forward.

Rex and Zoe soon nodded with him, feeling motivated by his sense of leadership and bravery, "Yeah it's all on us now, and we will win this together."

"Like we always do." They said in agreement, knowing they could put their full faith in him and were more than ready to back him up no matter what they were going to face at the other end.

Feeling their support in him as well as the spirits of everyone counting on them outside the forcefield as well as both those waiting for them back home in the past as well as in the future to come, Max steeled himself with resolve as he looked ahead and charged forth without hesitation, "Let's go!" He yelled out loud at the top of his lungs as he and his friends all ran down together to face their destiny.

Eying them behind, Cera watched as her friends divided, ready to take on what may eb their most perilous and possibly final mission ever. She closed her eyes and took a breath, burning this very memory of hers into her mind and soul in the event that if they did fail and they;d never see each other again at least she could have no regrets as they gave it their all. "Take care you guys, may the spirits of us and the dinosaurs all be with you." she said to them before hardening herself back towards the incoming gel jarks, "I'll make sure you all get there safely." she promised them as she took out a pair of dinosaur cards from her pocket, "Dino slash! Micro raptor! Eoraptor! Shine!" She yelled slashing both cards and then summoning forth both secret dinosaurs to the field as they shrieked out fiercely towards their incoming enemies! Undeterred by the sight of dinosaurs, the gel jarks continued rushing at her with full force, as Cera and her partners both narrowed their eyes hard knowing this was going to be a hard fight. Looking to both her dinosaurs, she then waved out to them, "Come on team! Let's clean house! Charge!" She announced pointing had before they all yelled together and charged into the fray!

(Meanwhile)

Inside a certain room, painted dark purple and black with all kinds of electrical wirings lining the ceiling, walls and even the floor all connecting to a massive generator like device, shaped almost like a beating heart as it pulsated with electricity being fed into it, the doors to it opened up as Dr Z and the Alpha gang burst into it without wanting, interrupting the silence, "This looks like the place!" Dr Z yelled as they made it and took a look around uneasily.

"Whoa….freaky…." Ed commented as the sight of the room and its eerie atmosphere was giving him the willies.

"Yeah, I've seen all kinds of mad scientist labs but this place really takes the cake…." Zander gulped down as he could feel a hard weight on his shoulders.

"This place makes even our labs look like a happy children's playground." Ursula concluded as she felt her heart banging and screaming inside her chest wanting to escape, it was as if they were being watched and someone or something was waiting for the right moment to pounce.

The sounds of a running machine soon snapped them out of their phase as they focused their attention on the pulsating generator, which looked almost like that of an evil monster's heart, in which this very fortress was the monster they came to take down form the inside out.

"That's got to be the shield generator." Dr Z then narrowed his eyes at it seeing it to be nothing else, "We take that down, the shield goes down and then everyone else get in on the party." he then said knowing that with the shield down they can get backup and hopefully overwhelm Goma, hopefully force him to send the Reaper's Wrath away in time.

"So uhh….how how do we turn this thing off?" Zander then asked curiously as he scratched this cheek and saw no operating console or button in sight.

"I don't know, maybe just start smashing things!" Ed then pointed out playfully as he patted his fist into a palm. He was expecting one of them to hit him on the head for coming up with a ridiculous idea, but the response from his friends was one he didn't expect.

"Heheh, that may be first smart thing you said all day Ed! Better yet your whole life!" Dr Z grinned as Ed then sctrhaed his head bashfully.

"Aww thanks….I think?" he muttered at the end.

"Then there's no time to waste!" Dr Z said before he pointed out towards the generator, "Alpha gang! Go wreck that-" Before he could finish, a razor sharp boomerang suddenly flew out in front of him making him stumble and stutter before falling back on his butt! "EEP!"

The trio widened their eyes and quickly rushed to his aid, "Dr Z! You alright!?" Ursula cried widening her eyes as she picked I'm up and he clutched his chest where his way frail heart was pulsating with pain! Seeing he was traumatised, she and the others gritted their teeth angrily and looked around, "Who did that!?"

"Yeah show yourselves!" They shouted out furiously, demanding that they knew their enemies were here and they were;t afraid to face them. Any fears they were harbouring towards being in the enemy's lair were driven out and replaced with thoughts of anger and also the desire to protect too.

"Boo hoo, I was so close to taking your head off….which would have been an improvement." A pouty female voice sounded above them seeing there was no point in hiding anymore, one the Alpha gang recognised in an instant as they widened their eyes and looked up above in alarm!

"AH!" They saw Specter, Foolscap, Sheer and Gavro descend from above, apparently hiding in wait, as they hovered right before them above the generator.

"Am I getting sloppy?" Sheer muttered to herself as she fingered her boomerang all around, "Maybe I am a little out of practice lately…." she then sighed to herself.

"Did you really think we didn't expect you to come here hmm?" Foolscap then snickered before glaring at the intruders, "Sorry but we can't let you lay one filthy finger on that generator you pests."

The Alpha gang then began to glare angrily towards them, "Out of our way you rats with wings!" Ursula shouted out loud impatiently.

"We don't gave time to play with you today!" Zander followed after her as he pointed at them with spite.

"Yeah! Go pirate someone else or some other planet for a change!" Ed grunted after him as he shook out his fists ready for a fight. Last time they could deal with their antics and scheming but to destroy the world wit a meteor was crossing the line for them, no way were they about to hold anything back this time around.

"Tsk! Tsk! Tsk!" Specter wagged his finger playfully, unbothered by them or their words, "No can do! Goma put us all in charge of this room so if anything were to happen to it, my boy-I mean my Lord will be really unhappy." He then said as he puckered his lips lovingly and clapped his hands together believing as a good father he ought to be making him happy from now onwards. After that his childish person vanished and he sported a more menacing expression, "And you wouldn't like it when he's unhappy…" he said in a deep voice which brought a chill to the air, as he spoke from firsthand experience, and no way did he ever want to go through that ever again.

The other pirates gulped down hard as they remembered before shaking their heads clear and returning to the matter at hand, "Plus we're pretty much out of the pirate business, when were done with this world we'll all rule over this little mud ball of yours and we'll each have our own corner of it to call our own!" Foolscap shrugged his shoulders uncaringly.

"It wouldn't be very nice if you all showed up and ruined it all." Sheer commented as she folded her arms on her hips, "All that's left is to make sure that meteor goes Kaboom over your planet and there'll be no one left to get in our emperor's way." She said with a malicious grin as she smacked a fist right into her open palm to visualise what would soon happen to the Earth.

Gavro then grinned rather sadistically, "But before that happens we'll have a little fun giving you a good thrashing before throwing you all out to be vaporised with your little friends!" He grinned as he began popping his knuckles which were itching to bash something, "That should get on Goma's good side when he sees what we're worth! Which is a lot!" After that all 4 pirates took out their cards and placed them across their activators! Shining in bright purple light and materialising was Gigas, Armatus, Maximus and Brontikens all armoured up and at full power form the get go as they roared out menacingly towards the Alpha gang!

"Grrr!" Despite being faced with their powerful enemies once again, the Alpha gang didn't waver, but instead their spirits and resolve were toughened and tempered to the highest point, never before had they felt more determined to win than ever.

"Not on my watch!" Dr Z growled as he stood up, casting away all his previous worries, "No one's going to destroy my planet and get away with it! Nobody!" He vowed as he pointed out at the Zanjark, holding a grudge towards them for destroying his kingdom in the future and all the people who loved him, no way was he about to let their past, present and future actions go unpunished, "Alpha gang! Seems we'll have to make these guys see reason the hard way!" He shouted to them seeing the only way to make them leave was by force.

The Alpha trio pumped themselves up with either eager or angered expressions, "I couldn't agree more Dr Z!" Ursula grinned eagerly as she popped her knuckles.

"I've been waiting a long time for this! This time it's for keeps!" Zander pumped up his arm.

"Let's do this!" Ed shook out his fist as they took out their cards and dinoshots together!

"Alpha slash!" They all shouted slashing their cards and summoning forth Terry, Tank, Spiny and therizinosaurus to the field as they roared out loudly!

"Element booster! Dino tector on!" Ursula, Zander and Ed activated their element boosters at their dinoshots which caused their dinosaurs to be armoured up!

Dr Z, not willing to be left out of the fun, felt the energy surging between him and his son as they felt their wavelengths sync up and the power unleashed between their newfound connection, "Elemental fusion!" He yelled as therizinosaurus erupted in a bright rainbow aura and emerged in his awakened form!

As both sides took their stand, neither willing to back down it was clear that a fight was unavoidable as both sides had a reason they couldn't afford to lose. "Hmph! Struggle all you want! It won't change a thing!" Specter scoffed as he waved out his arm, "You're all through! This planet is ours for the taking and there's nothing you can do about it!"

"So just quit while you're ahead already," Foolscap grinned, fading his arms, "It'll save you a cosmic sized beatdown and a whole planet worth of trouble for all of us."

"That's what you think!" Dr Z retorted feeling insulted that they were being taken lightly, a big mistake on the zanjark's part, "Alpha gang! Time to send these space monkeys back where they came from!" he declared.

"You got it Dr Z!" The trio shouted as their 4 dinosaurs roared and charged out towards their hated enemies!

"Space pirates! Attack!" Specter commanded as their dinosaurs responded in turn! Soon the room echoed with the sounds of roaring, snarls as well as vicious attacks echoing like a complete massacre through the halls of the Spectral Citadel….whatever was going inside was something one could only imagine was happening…..

ROAR!

CRUNCH!

SHRIEK!

SMASH!

(Meanwhile)

At a higher level of the citadel closer to the center of the citadel's nerve core, a central spire, stretched high up through an open roof above and a massive satellite dish firing the beam straight through the top of the base's forcefield into the skies above.

Seconds later, the D Team rushed through a pair of automatic doors to find their target lying right before their very eyes, "There! The laser!" Rex pointed out as they widened their eyes at the sight of how massive it stood, almost as tall as the Statue of Liberty back in New York City!

"Whoa….That thing looks way bigger than when we first saw it from outside just now….." Zoe commented as they stared in overwhelming disbelief at the sight of it and the massive power that was emanating right out of its' top, they could even feel the immense energy running through its circuitry just by standing outside it and for it to generate enough to pull down a whole meteor, it truly was a terrifying piece of work.

Max quickly shook his head and remembered why they were here and they couldn't waste time admiring such a despicable tool of war, "Alright, guys time to summon our dinos and take it down pronto!" He said as he took out his dinoshot and his friends snapped out of their faze as they nodded with him.

"Yeah."

"Let's turn this thing to scrap metal!" Zoe and Rex responded to him as they took out their cards and dinoshots too. Right before they could act, a purple energy blast from out of nowhere suddenly fired right at Max, which Rex quickly took notice of! "MAX! LOOK OUT!" He cried warning him as Max looked up!

"Huh?" He widened his eyes as the laser projectile was shooting right for him! "AH!" Max and Zoe both yelled in shock, as Rex was able to grab him in time as the blast hit its mark!

BANG!

"Get back!" Rex cried pulling his friend away from where he just stood, where a steam scorch mark now was sizzling!

As Max stood up and clenched a hand over his chest where he could feel his heart was pounding hard from the shock, Rex patted him on the back comforting him while Zoe ran over to check for any injuries, "You okay Max!?" she cried with concern as she looked around to find no wounds thankfully.

"A little surprised there…." Max swallowed hard as a beat of tense sweat dropped from his cheek, "But I'm good." He said as his friends let out a sigh of relief before looking back at the blast mark on the floor. "That…was way too close…." Max croaked, feeling relieved that Rex got him out in time, a second longer and he would have been reduced to a smudge on the ground.

"Not one step further." A sinister voice spoke out at them from above which caught the kids' attention.

"Huh?" Looking up their eyes widened to see none other than Goma himself, who was descending from high above from the opening of the ceiling before hovering where he could look down upon them.

"GAH! You!"

"It's Goma!" Rex and Zoe both gasped in alarm to see him again.

"Grrr….." Max on the other hand gritted his teeth angrily, it was clear that Goma was keeping track of them this entire time and was expecting them from the very beginning. He was as crafty and calculative as he was evil, this was going to be a fight, their biggest one yet.

"Heheheh, you 3 kids just couldn't leave well enough alone could you?" he chuckled before shaking his head pityingly at them, "You were fortunate to escape with your lives last time….I expected you to have learnt something since then, but you instead stubbornly chose to refuse accepting defeat." He soon gained a malicious grin as he looked back at them, "And look where you all ended up, right here at my doorstep begging for a second helping of despair and destruction." He snickered with a devilish grin as he held out a hand and clenched it into a fist, "This time I can promise, that none of you will leave this place alive." He swore as the D Team narrowed their eyes and hardened themselves for battle, it was more than just winning, it was saving the world and everyone's lives on it too.

"Oh yeah!? Well we don't intend to let you get away with what you've done to us!" Rex protested against him defiantly, "This time will be different! With everything that's on the line we're more determined than ever to put a stop to you and your plan!"

"We made a promise to our friends and family that not only will we come back home to them but we'll also make sure they have a home and a tomorrow to come back to!" Zoe followed after him, "And we intend to keep that promise!"

"So say your prayers! Because we're stopping your plans now and forever!" Max yelled out loud at the tip of his lungs as the 3 friends banded together in a last ditch effort in order to defeat the shadow emperor once and for all.

Goa frowned in response to their spirit and resolve, but soon he couldn't help but clap in response, having a slight degree of admiration for them to show such courage within their final moments, "Such bold words…..it makes me sick to my stomach…." He muttered, the only reason he was even bothering was that they showed no signs of hesitation nor any insecurity or worry in their eyes as they did so. He soon smirked however as it made him more eager to break said spirit and he knew just how to do it, "Perhaps you'll all change your tune once you see what you're truly up against." Snapping his fingers, a compartment soon opened up on his satellite laser which caught their attention as they focused right at it.

"AH!" They widened their eyes in shock to see a certain stone like object was seated right behind a casing of glass, with wires connecting right into it as they were transferring energy right out of the stones and into the machine itself, which was then using it to power the tractor beam above it!

"That glowing stone has got to be that dish's power source!" Zoe pointed out at it, seeing it to be nothing else but that.

"Then it's obvious that's where we'll aim for!" Max spoke out firmly with determination before looking to his friends, "Come on! Let's summon our dinosaurs and go prehistoric on it!"

"Right behind you Max!" Zoe nodded in agreement with him as he smiled having her support.

"Great!" He grinned before looking towards their other teammate, "You too Rex!"

They blinked their eyes in surprise to see Rex hadn't moved at all from where he stood, "…." in fact he only stood in stunned silence as he fixed his gaze right at the glowing light emanating from the satellite tower.

"Rex?"

"What's up?" They both asked him rather uneasily, taking his silence to mean something bad was going on, he knew something that they didn't and they were worried about whet they should find out. Goma then grinned with delight knowing that he was seeing exactly what he wanted them to.

The blond haired boy narrowed his eyes as he focused on the laser's energy core, "Something's up with that energy generator…." He gritted his teeth as he could feel the sinister energies emanating right out of its core, "That power source….it's giving me some really bad vibes…"

"Bad vibes?" Max and Zoe both muttered in confusion. As they turned their attention to where he was, they soon were beginning to feel the same bad feeling he was right now.

"Wait….Now that you mention it…." It was eerily familiar, yet they didn't think it to be possible, it couldn't be….

"Your friend is more perceptive than the rest of you." Goma complimented Rex as they glared back at him, "Take a good look at the gem powering it, does it look familiar to you?" He pointed at it, and as they focused harder they could see a glowing dark but multicoloured orb glowing right inside it, in the same shape and size of 7 certain jewels they encountered some time ago.

"Familiar?" Max muttered questioning him. His heart however was growing heavy and uneasy inside as a dark revelation was about to be revealed to them.

"Surely you all remember. After all you kids fought so hard but still failed to stop my father from uniting all 7 stones together. However miraculously you were able to destroy them." He said with a disappointed frown before smirking at them unsettlingly, "Too bad miracles happen only once, and I guarantee you that it won't happen again."

Upon putting together the pieces of the puzzle with the hints Goma gave them, the D Team widened their eyes in sheer shock and horror as they finally realised it, "AH!"

"No way!"

"It can't be!" Their hearts skipped a beat as if a ghost from their past had returned to haunt them from the grave.

Max stuttered and nearly fell backwards upon being smashed with the stunning revelation, "The….Cosmos Stones!?" He exclaimed in bewilderment at the thought of the stones that threatened the universe had returned once again to finish what it started.

"Bingo, it seems you've all finally caught on." Goma answered for them as he snapped his fingers, confirming their suspicions much to their horror and disbelief.

"But….how….!?" Rex gasped unable to comprehend this madness.

"They were destroyed completely! We saw it ourselves!" Zoe cried.

In response Goma smirked rather smugly, "Heh, even with all your puny powers combined you could never destroy something which existed long before you precious Earth came to be!" He proclaimed boastfully, "Surely you would've realised that by now, but I guess not."

Max gritted his teeth and a bead of hard sweat fell from his cheeks as he began to see the logic in it, "It makes sense….If the stone plates survived….then the cosmos stones did too…." he choked hard, and the more he looked at it, back then when they believed they destroyed the dark pterosaur using the stone plates, if the central stone remained it meant that a piece of the Dark Pterosaur's core must have survived too and then ended up far into the future….which resulted in Goma salving it and then using it as his secret weapon against the Resistance, putting them through so much suffering while he built his dreaded shadow empire….

The D team fell weak and wobbly upon seeing that in a way…it was their fault that the people of the future suffered so much, because they failed to make sure their future was secure and safe for them as the threat of the cosmos stones was never fully eradicated. Now not only Goma had established his shadow empire, it would become a mere stepping stone which he would then use to conquer the galaxy piece by piece….crushing any and all who may oppose him….unless they stopped him right here and now.

"And it was thanks to this very stone my Shadow Empire came to be!" Goma then announced once more proudly, which further aggravated the D Team as they began to see how he made the shadow empire possible and he used the very stone they worked hard to destroy in the past, only to hurt the future they sought to protect. "Till you lot arrived and began to tear down what took me years to build….." He then scoffed at them with a disgusted scowl, "Which is why you forced my hand, now I have no other choice but to resort to my final plan." He explained before smiling most sisterly at them, "At long last, I've harnessed enough energy from them to summon forth the biggest and most powerful meteor of all from the void beyond!" He announced holding out his arms and gave the D Team a full view of his satellite tractor beam and as they looked higher up they widened their eyes at the sight of the incoming Reaper's Wrath as it was nearly breaking through the Earth's atmosphere! They had only minutes before it would make contact with their Earth!

"A meteor so enormous it'll be enough to erase all life on the planet! Leaving behind a clean slate on the Earth's face, a slate which I will use to write down a new chapter of life which I shall call forth from the ashes of its former self." He boasted out loud as the D Team listened in horror at what he intended to do without hesitation, and this wasn't even the end of it, "And this will be just the beginning! Soon all worlds will bow before my unmatched might! I will blanket the cosmos in shadows and both my empire and power will have no bounds or limits that we can't surpass! All will bow before me as a God! Ahahahaha!" He then laughed out loud.

"Tch!" The more the D Team heard from him, the more insane and psychotic they could see he truly was. It was clear Goma was like this from the very beginning, he was already too far gone and the cosmos stones only further increased his insanity and maniacal ambitions. Thos very ambitions caused so many innocents to perish and suffer in his quest for power, if they didn't stop him other worlds would fall before him and suffer the same fate as Earth. They couldn't allow that to happen again! Readying their spirits, they knew full well that it was up to them and them alone to crush those ambitions for good, this time they intended to see their mission through to the end and not repeat their former mistakes again this time around.

"NEVER!" Max roared out in immense fury, if he didn't hate Goma and the space pirates enough he absolutely detested them even more now! "That will never happen Goma!"

"Your ambitions will never come to pass!" Rex declared after his friend as their spirits were further fired up, and inside their cards their dinosaurs could feel their very emotions and feelings too, as if their souls were resonating on the same wavelength as that of their humans too.

"Oh? And just who is going to stop me?" He then mused, "Surely not a couple of measly children like you." He then scoffed at the sight of them, the very thought of them being able to do anything about it was downright laughable to him, which further fuelled the fires of determination within the D Team's spirits.

"Oh you bet we are!" Zoe cried out at him angrily.

"And we won't just stop you, in fact your own existence is a threat to the whole universe! No way we'll ever let that slide!" Rex yelled throwing his arm out, "Right here and right now we're taking you and this whole base of yours down then after that we'll destroy the cosmos stones for good this time around!" He vowed.

"But before that, if we have to get you out of the way first then so be it!" Max declared as they all took out their partner cards and dinoshots!

"Dino slash!" They yelled slashing their cards with all their might, summoning forth Chomp, Ace and Paris to the field who bellowed out powerfully with determination!

In sight of them, Goma remained unimpressed, though the D Team intended to change that soon enough, "Bring it on Goma! This time we'll hit you with everything we've got right from the get go!" Max yelled as he and his friends took out their secret weapons and activated them!

"Element booster! Dino tector on!" Their 3 dinosaurs armoured up to their powered up forms before roaring out against Goma, who still scoffed and remained undeterred in sight of them.

"Even though you already realise the difference in power between us you'll still fight nonetheless?" He questioned seeing absolutely no logic in their actions, "You're basically throwing your own lives away for nothing!" He then declared right back at them.

"We won't know unless we try!" Max retorted, "And if we don't then the result will pretty much be the same either way!"

"Least this way we'll have no regrets and that we gave it our very best to the end!" Zoe followed after her friend as their dinosaurs roared out the same as they did right back at him.

Folding his arms and scowling in annoyance, Goma soon began to see that they wouldn't leave nor give up without a fight. "Hmph! You already fail to realise you were all doomed from the very start, no matter how hard you struggle you can't stop the inevitable. Yet you still continue to resist, you're either brave, desperate, crazy or most likely….foolish." He soon however began to smirk, finding the situation to be rather amusing and he could turn it to his advantage by killing off a little time till his meteor hits its mark, "But very well, since there's no changing it anyways, I'll entertain you for a little bit if only to keep you busy until the Reaper's Wrath arrives and bathes the planet in a sea of fire and darkness upon impact!" He boasted loudly which made the D Team and their dinosaurs further agitated. "You lot will be lucky to survive the extinction thanks to being inside my base's shield, but it'll be only momentary bliss I promise you'll get no more mercy from me this time around."

"Grrr….." The children couldn't wait to shut his mouth, as long as he remained at large not one second could go by on this world or any other where they could truly be in peace.

However, Goma this time around wasn't about to merely throw words around, he was going to heed their previous advice and turn it against them in the worst possible way, "You wanted to play keeps, well then," he then grinned filled with malice as he took out his own dinosaur card right out of his pocket, "Allow me to do just that as well! Come forth! Omega Eocarcharia!" He declared as he activated the card across his chest plate! A bright light shone out which disoriented the D Team and their dinosaurs momentarily, as it cleared they widened their eyes in horror to see none other than Goma's eocarcharia once again! This time fully armoured in golden skeleton like armour making him appear almost like a dragon!

As he flare out his wings and let out a tremendous roar, the D Team braced themselves and hunkered behind their partners in response to the shockwaves emitted by the roar but even so they could still feel the force of the wind and the dinosaur's might blasting at them!

"AAAAH!"

As it died down they looked up and tensed to see Goma was through playing around, "Ahahahaha! D Team! Prepare to meet the face of your ultimate destroyer!" He declared as eocarchaira let out a tremendous roar up to the skies, a they gritted thier teeth ready to fight and their dinosaurs too roared in response before they charged towards their dreaded enemies for one final battle!

ROAR!

(Meanwhile)

Meanwhile back outside, Cera stood her ground, though she was panting exhaustedly from giving out commands to her dinosaurs and having had to fight off countless gel jarks by herself, her spirit refused to yield. She gritted her teeth, tense in exhaustion but driven on knowing that so many were counting on her to do her part, and this battle was one they couldn't afford to lose, so with all her might she resisted against her own fatigue and exhaustion as the final wave of jarks rushed at her and eoraptor who had taken the form of saurophaganax.

Eoraptor too was driven to the point of collapse but spurred by the feelings of Cera he let out a loud roar as he mustered up all his remaining strength for one more strike! "Go Eoraptor! Miku! Smash those slugs to smithereens!" She cried as Miku screeched and attached to eoraptor's head, "Energy equaliser!" As the 2 dinosaurs shared power with one another and roared, the gel jarks halted their charge as they were caught off guard by the blinding light! Generating fire in his jaws, eoraptor unleaded a burst of flames and swept it across the field, blanketing the slime monsters in a sea of flames! They let out pained and dying mechanised noises as they melted away into no more than slimy puddles on the floor which then evaporated too.

As the flames died down and the cuddles bubbles and dissolved away, eoraptor let out an exhausted gasping roar in triumph before falling down to the ground and reverting to a card. "And that's the last of them….for now…." Cera breathed a she fell on her knees and wiped away a little sweat from her brow. She was about to sit down and take a momentary breather thinking she and Miku may deserve it after what they just went through, but the sounds of roaring echoing through the dark halls of the citadel along with the change in colour of the scenery made her open her eyes as she began to realise what was happening now. "A battle…." She then breathed knowing there could only be one reason for this, her friends were now engaged in battle with Goma and the other space pirates right this instant.

She began to narrow her eyes tensely, recalling flashbacks of all their battles and sacrifices till now, with the meteor coming in and everything that was on the line she knew she couldn't afford to rest on her laurels. Gritting her teeth, her legs stung with pain causing her to wince, but she fought against it nonetheless as she forced herself back up to her legs. Looking down, Miku hopped right up to her while holding eoraptor's card in her mouth, as her human partner then scooped her up into her hands, "We'd better hurry, everyone's counting on us guys and we'd better not let them down." Cera said to her as she took the card from her dinosaur and rested her on her shoulder before running off to her rendezvous point, as they had agreed and planned on. Everyone was going their part to put a stop to Goma, and now it was time she did hers. As she ran down the halls, she narrowed her eyes tensely hoping she wasn't too late.

(Meanwhile)

Back in the other room, the D Team stared down with hardened looks as they braced themselves for battle against Goma and his Omega eocarcharia for the rematch of the century, they hadn't forgotten what he did to them last time and they planned on avenging not only their previous defeat but also those they both wronged for years. Now the only thing standing in the way of them saving the Earth from the Reaper's Warth was their most powerful enemy yet and this time they intended to end things very differently. "Here we go Chomp! Thunder bazooka!" He yelled slashing the move card! Chomp roared as he charged with energy and launched himself forward like a torpedo surging with energy! He smashed right into eocarcharia's head, only for the winged dinosaur to deflect him off with a head swing and send him flying into the nearby wall!

CRASH!

"Gah! In my mind I saw that differently…." Max stuttered, feeling complete regret for both trying and believing it could work.

Rex quickly looked over to Zoe, "Looks like we're up next Zoe!" he shouted to her who then respond with a thumbs up and a smirk.

"You got it! This time together!" She agreed with him as she took out a grass move, "Thorn whip!" Paris flashed green before summoning forth a giant throne vine from the ground!

"And I'll follow up with Mayfly!" Rex yelled as he did the same with a wind move! Stomping his foot on the ground, Ace roared before charging forward like a speeding bullet at Eocarcharia right as Paris' whip swung out at the same time!

"Eocarcharia! Smite these pests now!" Goma commanded as his dinosaur speed out his wings which infused with energy before he took to the air! Spiralling down at them, his wings spread out and sliced through the huge vine with ease before smashing right into Ace and sending him flying right into Paris as they both crashed away!

Both Zoe and Rex widened their eyes in horror to see their partners being beaten back so easily, "Oh no Ace!"

"Hang in there Paris!" They cried to them hoping they'd be able to get back up after the hits they took. They tried their best to force themselves up to their legs but a sudden wince of pain caused them to collapse back down! "NO!"

"Ahahaha! That's right! Stay down and kneel before your emperor! Your cause and your entire planet is lost!" Goma then laughed as he further backed his foes into a corner.

"Urgh…." They gritted their teeth tensely under pressure before looking to their downed dinosaurs with hopeful expressions that they could still continue.

"Paris! Please you have to get up!" Zoe pleaded.

"Stand together guys! Everything hinges right on this battle!" Rex called out.

"Yeah, Rex is right!" Max shouted out to them and to Chomp as well, "For everyone's sake, we need to keep fighting!" Hearing his words the 3 dinosaurs breathed heavily with pain but fought hard against it as they worked themselves back up to their legs though still rather groggily.

"Keep fighting!? Ha! What a joke! You can't even defend yourselves!" Goma laughed at the ridiculous thought before shrugging his shoulders, "But if you still hold delusions about there being hope for you then come at me already! Try something I won't expect!" He grinned towards them mockingly which further aggravated the D Team.

"Grr! Fine! Then how's this!" Max growled furiously, aiming to avenge his friends and help save the world as he took out his next move, "Lightning strike!" He yelled slashing the card with full force as Chomp charged a ball of lightning in between his horns before firing it off at eocarcharia!

It didn't take long for Rex and Zoe to rally to Max's side as they did the same as him! "Biting wind!"

"Emerald garden!" Ace summoned a whirlwind and slashed through it, generating a huge blade of wind while Paris fired a green energy ball from her mouth! The 3 attacks collided at eocarcharia resulting in a massive explosion which erupted!

BOOM!

"Alright direct hit!" Zoe cheered with a big smile.

"In your face!" Max boasted as he punched forward energetically.

Rex however remained cautious as he held out his arm at them, "Hold on guys…." he warned them as they looked hard through the dust tensely, only for it to clear off and for eocarcharia to emerge completely unscathed much to their horror as he let out a defiant roar!

They widened their eyes in shock and disbelief at what they witnessed, "AH!"

"No way!" The battle they were fighting now was even more one sided than the last time, their hearts were beginning to race as they worried about not only their chances of winning but their odds of survival as a whole.

"How disappointing, I would have expected you to have learnt something from our last encounter but truly you've fallen even further below my expectations." He scoffed in disappointment, shaking his head with dissatisfaction while eocarcharia simply snorted back at them. As the D Team stepped back anxiously, Goma grinned sinisterly as he held up a fire move card, "Now it's my turn! Heat eruption!" Eocarcharia roar out furiously as he summoned forth fiery meteors from the sky before they crashed all around the the D Team!

"WAAAAAH!" They cried as they did their best to try and evade the incoming fireballs, having made near miraculous escapes as they leapt out of the way in time! Their dinosaurs weren't as lucky as they were pelted mercilessly by the rain of fireballs and then blown back away to their partner's horror!

"NO!" Max cried in horror to see their friends were wounded pretty badly now.

"Unreal, that dinosaur was strong before but now he's downright unstoppable!" Rex hissed through his teeth feeling the pressure get to him.

"How can we possibly win against that!?" Zoe breathed nervously as she began to shudder in fear.

Goma folded his arms on his hips and laughed out loud with arrogance, "Hahaha! That's the thing! You can't and WON'T!" He sneered at them which further angered or worried the D Team as they glared back at him.

"Grrr!" They tensed up and sweated as the situation worsened, unlike any villain or foe they ever faced, Goma was completely different, in fact he was evil to the core. Not only were his goals completely diabolical but his methods of achieving them were even more unforgivable, how he delighted in torturing or toying with his foes, giving them an illusion of hope before crushing their bodies and their spirits completely. What he said next confirmed their worst suspicions and expectations they had of him.

"Hehehe the looks on your face are absolutely priceless." He snickered at them with sadistic delight, "You came here out of sheer desperation, giving it your best shot at your final chance and failed miserably! What's more? You failed your entirely planet and all your people!" He proclaimed as eocarcharia let out a tremendous roar which forced the D Team to cover their ears as the horrifying sound echoed in the integrity of the room, it felt as though their ears were on the verge of bleeding!

"AAAAAH!" They all cried as their dinosaurs also bellowed or groaned in agony at the shadow dinosaur's shrill cry before staring down upon them with disdain.

"Give it up already, you don't honestly think you can actually win now do you hmm?" Goma then mused at them, believing his victory was all but assured at this point.

Max clicked his tongue in shouted back at him in defiance, "Tch! Either way we'll never stop trying until we're dead!" he vowed, having promised they'd come back victorious and that they'd never allow themselves to lose to someone as despicable as Goma was.

A mindset that was shared by his friends as well as they defiantly shot back at Goma, "And you can bet on it!"

"That goes for us and our dinos!" Zoe and Rex both retorted as their dinosaur partners roared back out at eocarcharia, as they worked their way back up to their legs determined to protect their comrades who gave their lives and sacrificed themselves so they'd make it this far and they wouldn't allow all their battles to be fought in vain.

"Heh, well down, it would seem I'd have to finish you all off quickly then." Goma then smirked smugly as he held out his arm and his eocarcharia let out a menacing roar before stomping towards them as they stood helplessly, unable to flee or do anything to stop his advance!

"Grrrgh…." Max and Rex gritted their teeth and sweated tensely as the monstrous dinosaur stared down at them, his fangs flashing and dripping with ravenous saliva as Zoe shuddered and hung back nervously as they stood in front to protect her…even though they knew they could do little in this situation.

A beeping sound from Goma's wrist caught their attention as they blinked their eyes in surprise at the dire situation suddenly interrupted unexpectedly. Though with what was soon to happen….things were about to get a whole lot worse as Goma smirked at the sight of it, "Ah, but it seems I won't need to after all." He said as he eyed them with sinister intent before proclaiming out loud at the top of his lungs! "The Reaper's Wrath will soon arrive and your pitiful will soon cease to exist!" He then pressed a button on his wrist to prove his point to them as well as further fan the flames of fear within them, "Behold!" A monitor screen soon appeared from one of the walls and as it flashed on it revealed the gigantic meteor was already on a collision course with the Earth!

The D Team widened their eyes in horror to see their worst nightmare was about to unfold!

"AH!"

"NO!"

"We're too late!" They each gasped to see the harbinger of the world's end had arrived and despite their best efforts they failed…..it was the worst possible case scenario they could have ever envisioned…

At the sight of their expressions of terror and despair, Goma couldn't help but let lout a triumphant laugh, "Ahahahahah! Prepare to watch helplessly as I transform your world into a lifeless wasteland shrouded in darkness forever!" He proclaimed darkly as his villainous tone echoed not only through the room but through the hearts and minds of the D Team which made their blood run cold as they saw how truly despicable he was. Never before had they detested anyone as much as him, and what's worse they were completely powerless to stop him when they needed to most and he knew it! "Don't worry, once your spirits are completely broken I'll be certain to send you all to the afterlife where you can only watch me bend the entire universe to my will while you all spend the eternity wallowing in regret for being unable to stop me!" He sneered at them as the Reaper's Wrath could be seen entering the Earth's atmosphere, burning a deep dark red as it prepared to make contact with the South Pole!

The 3 children's eyes widened with hopelessness clouding them over, "This can't be happening….." Max breathed heavily as his heart felt like it was about to crack and shatter completely.

Rex gritted his teeth and his fists shook, "After everything we fought through….was it all for naught?" He sneered before his arms grew limp and he gradually lost the will to continue.

"It….can't end like this….." Zoe sniffled as she fell to her knees and tears began to run from her eyes, their dinosaurs looked up and bellowed out in painful despair as they were about to relive their age old nightmare once again….while eocarcharia on the other hand let out a roar in triumph, as if he was rejoicing the return of the great meteor which devastated the earth long ago, this time the ultimate power would belong to him and his master forever!

"Oh but it can…and it will!" Goma proclaimed as he held out his hand and began to countdown from 3, "Behold! My first step towards universal domination shall soon dawn in Three! Two!"

"No….." Zoe cried in despair as she hugged Max closely, who glared furisouly at Goma with Rex as he grinned with sadistic delight, holding up his fingers and preparing to complete the countdown!

They widened their eyes as his hand prepared to reach zero….looking away unable to bear with this any longer….

"O-" Before he could finish the countdown, an alarm suddenly ran down his monitor which cut his count short!

ERROR!

Goan blinked his eyes in surprise at the unexpected development, "Wh….What!?" As he looked towards the screen, the meteor apparently had stopped in its place, frozen right above the Earth's atmosphere and suspended there without giving an inch!

"Huh?" Max and his friends looked up again, equally surprised at this too, as Goma rushed over to the computers and tried to isolate the source of this problematic occurrence.

"Wh…What is happening!? Why did it stop!?" He gasped in shock as he typed along his console to get the laser to complete its work, to his horror he saw the meteor was being fired back at the opposite direction of which he intended! "It's…..going BACK!?" He exclaimed in disbelief as the giant rock began to leave the Earth's atmosphere! "NO! This can't be!" He cried in disbelief as he did everything he could to prevent this from happening, as the D team watched him closely from behind, and a small size appeared on their faces unbeknownst to him. "What's wrong with this device! Override!" He demanded as he keyed in the necessary codes, only for an Error message to light up on his monitor in turn!

ERROR!

He was completely taken aback by this unexpected development, and no matter how hard he tried he couldn't regain control of his device! "WHAT!? NO! How can I be locked out of my own systems!?" He screeched as he typed frantically, each result ending the same as the last before he smashed his fists down on it in frustration! "GRARGH!"

"Because I made it so!" A female voice suddenly shouted out at him, and lighting up on a nearby monitor was none other than the D Team's secret weapon whom they smiled brightly at upon seeing her face!

"Cera!"

"Ha ha!"

"She did it!" They all smiled and cheered much to Goma's disbelief as he looked back and forth between them, at a loss for what as going on now.

"WH…WHAT!?"

Rex then let out a sigh of relief, "Talk about cutting it real close, but the timing couldn't have been better!" he said to her as she nodded back at him in agreement.

Goma widened his eyes and then glared back towards the children behind him, knowing they were responsible for this, "Wh….What is the meaning of this!? I demand an explanation!"

"You seriously don't get Goma?" said Rex to him with a confident smirk which was shared by each of his friends present, "Some self proclaimed God you are, you don't deserved to be called one if you couldn't see something through a diversion as easy as this!"

Goma widened his eyes and his heart skipped a beat upon hearing what was revealed to him, "D…Diversion!?" His dark heart skipped a beat as he realised from the very start, since Max and the others arrived in this rom Cera was never with them so he assumed her to have been trapped outside the entire time…

"After our last battle we knew that we couldn't take things as lightly as we once did, so we thought a few steps further!" Max smirked at their enemy's shocked expression, this time seeing it to be real and not a facade to deceive them.

Rex and Zoe soon smiled with confidence too, "We had a feeling you'd anticipate us going after the shield generator and the laser simultaneously, so you set up defences around them believing they'd be our sole focus."

"But what you didn't take into account, was that we planned further in advance and thought of the bigger picture, right before coming here in the first place." They each said. Form all their past experiences they grew and matured, realising that even with courage, spirit and heart, the right mindset along with both strategy and strength were also essential to achieving victory, and now their efforts were finally beginning to bear fruits of hope for humanity's future.

"We knew we could never win a battle against you through normal means," Cera explained, "So we let things play out like how you thought it'd be. Let you think you were one step ahead the whole time as you focused on us entirely."

"And while you focused your attention entirely on us, Cera got in and hacked your main systems, shutting down your base's operations one by one!" Rex pointed out at Goma further adding to his horror and shock, he even felt his own heart sink at the revelation of being outplayed.

"So in the event that we couldn't win this battle, we could at least destroy your final base of operations and give the Resistance as a whole a chance at winning the war in the event that we're gone."

Goma turned pale, he shook intensely and then widened his eyes with anger and gritted his teeth before screeching out loud, "You…..You tricked me!?" He had taken into account every possible scenario, was complexly assured of a perfect victory and yet what shocked him the most wasn't that he failed to consider this, but that mere children, insects he looked down upon from the start, were able to outsmart him!

"Hehehe, took you long enough to realise it." Max snickered at him as he folded his arms and looked smugly at the disoriented Zanjark, "Too little too late, guess you're not as smart as you let on huh?"

"In case you don't believe us, we'll let you have a front row seat." said Cera as she began hacking into the room's computer monitors so he could give the Shadow empire a first class view of their hard earned victory happening right now, "Now you can watch as what's left of your entire empire comes crumbling down!" She proclaimed as the other monitors in the room began to light up, each one depicting a scene which further added to Goma's list of horrors.

Not only was the meteor shooting far out into space again, the gel jark generator machine had shut down and soon self destructed, cutting off the supply to Goma's army and ground forces! After that, the jark control system ceased function as one by one the gel jarks inside and outside the base began to fizzle uncontrollably and then met away! Finally the base defence systems were down, causing not only the turrets to cease firing but the shield surrounding the citadel had dissipated, thus allowing the rest of the resistance to charge right in! It wouldn't be long before they complexly had the base surrounded and he'd be overwhelmed in an instant!

As he watched all around him his empire was falling apart piece by piece, Goma widened his eyes in sheer horror as he grasped his hair in utter disbelief, "No….This….Can't be! To be outsmarted and outplayed by mere humans!? Inconceivable!" He screamed.

"If you have to blame someone blame yourself for this Goma." said Cera to him with a smirk, "We know how much you like to control the odds, so we decided to take a cue from your book and do just that. Not so fun when the shoe is finally on the other foot is it?" she added, it wasn't just focusing his methods against him but also to give him a taste of the very same pain they suffered at his hands.

"UNACCEPTABLE!" He then screeched, his eyes widening and veins popping all across his forehead as he then grasped it tightly in his hands. As he ranted and threw out his tantrums, omega eocarcharia could only look up at him, worrying for his master and wondering if there was anything he could do to please him to take up for this unfortunate turn of events.

Rex narrowed his eyes seeing their window of opportunity had finally presented itself, "Quick guys! He's off focus! Now's our chance!" He shouted pointing ahead, letting his friends know it was now or never!

Zoe nodded firmly and turned serious, "Yeah! This time we'll show em what we're really made of!" she cried with firm determination.

"Let's do it!" Max yelled punching forward as their dinosaurs got back up on their feet and roared out, having managed to recuperate during the time they were talking and now they had just enough energy for one more strike!

"Ultimate thunder!"

"Ultimate leaf!"

"Ultimate wind!"

As the 3 kids slashed their move cards in unison, Chomp, Ace and Paris surged with energy as they charged forth infused with the energies of their elements! Omega eocarchaira looked back, widening his eyes as they attacks came in faster than he could react! Together they struck him down below at his unprotected side, his only weak point as they drove the strength of their spirits through their attacks right into him! He roared in pain as he was off balance and unable to hold his ground as the 3 dinosaurs sent him flying uncontrollably right towards his master!

Goma quickly turned his head and widened his eyes at the sight of his dinosaur being struck directly and sent flying right at him! "GAH!" He swooped out of the way and could only watch as Omega eocarcharia was flung right into the tower, smashing through its outer hull and then electrocuting violently in the wiring and cables exposed as a result! "WAH! NO! Eocarcharia!" He cried in horror as his dinosaur let out one more painful groan before collapsing his head down and then smoking hard as a result of the electrocution. The Shadow emperor, once feared and completely invulnerable, for the first time felt helpless and in complete disbelief to see he had been outmanoeuvred in strategy and now his dinosaur had been out battled all thanks to a sneak attack and a lucky hit in…..this was the first time he had experienced such loss and humiliation in his whole life since becoming emperor and he could only stare speechless and froze in place unable to comprehend what he just witnessed.

Thing were about to get a whole lot worse for him as his precious machine suddenly began to spark uncontrollably and alarms began to ring throughout the entire room as a result of the massive breach and damage it just sustained.

ALERT! POWER CORE RUPTURED! SYSTEMS FAILING! FUNCTIONS CEASE!

"Way to go guys! You did it!" Cera praised them as Miku jumped up and down squawking with excitement!

"Yeah!"

"That oughta do it!" Max and the others cheered seeing they managed to throw a wrench into his plans for good!

As the machine shut down and the laser finally died away till it was no more than an empty mechanical husk of what it was, Goma widened his eyes in immense shock and bewilderment. Speechlessly, overwhelmed by the development which smashed right intones face, his wings weakened and he wobbly landed on the ground, stumbled forth to his machine before his legs gave out from the shock he suffered and then falling on his knees in disbelief, "What…have you….done!?" He then yelled before slamming his fists on the ground which echoed with a loud thud! "NO! My life's work! Ruined!" He screamed in despair before falling on his front arms.

The D Team along with Cera only glared at him, if anything this was the least he deserved after all he put them through, now he was finally getting a taste of what he did to countless individuals in his quest for ultimate power and it was clear he didn't like his own medicine one bit.

"Everything…my dreams….my vision….it's….slipping away….." He stuttered as he looked up, raising out his hand as a mental image of the planet earth was within his grasp….only for it to disappear from sight and replaced by images of the humans, the very same one he looked down upon as insects….now looking down upon him with disdain…like his father did once before…."I came so close….it was within my grasp…and now….because of these humans…." His eyes tensed and he shuddered uncontrollably before something inside him snapped completely. "I…I will not allow it!" His eyes tensed and he gnashed his teeth like a feral beast. As if something had awakened deep within him…..something….horrifying was about to be unleashed…."GRRRRR!" Deep down inside, his former self which was held back by certain limits and boundaries had ceased to exist…..now, no longer tied down by such fears, he casted aside everything he once knew or feared, now he saw no reason to hold anything back. After everything he worked and suffered through to get where he was, he wasn't going to let it all end like this, especially not by the hands of mere insects! He was through acting like a God, now he planned on becoming just that….no matter what happened to him in the process.

Unaware of what he was going through, Max, Zoe and Rex stood around him with their dinosaurs closely keeping watch on omega eocarcharia who was still apparently knocked unconscious though not enough to revert to a card, "Give it up Goma, you've lost." said Max, "Your base is now offline, your army is defeated and now you've got no one left to depend on."

"And you can just forget about running away because that's not going to happen!" Zoe yelled as she shook a fist at him.

"We're taking you in!" Rex pointed down at him.

"Just give yourself up! It's time to pay for everything you've done and everyone you've wronged!" Cera then shouted at him through the monitor as Miku also let out an agitated shriek at him.

Their words struck a nerve deep inside Goma, as he gritted his teeth and snarled viciously, "How dare you insignificant welps talk down to me…..It's you who will pay dearly for this…." He breathed heavily which surprised the D Team.

"Wh…What?"

"Huh?" They muttered confused, only for him to suddenly shoot a savage glare at them!

"How…DARE YOU MAKE A FOOL OF ME!?" He screeched which caused them to jump back in alarm!

"WAH!"

He spread out his wings flaring them with rage as he began snarling at them, twitching his clawed hands maniacally which made their hearts skipped a beat. It was as if they were facing down someone completely different from before! "You will not get away with this…..No….I swear….NONE OF YOU WILL LIVE TO SEE TOMORROW!" He screeched as he took to the air! "I will destroy you all!"

Recovering from their initial shock, Max and his friends blinked or shook their heads clear before yelling out at him.

"Hold it!"

"Get back here!"

"We're not finished with you yet!" They yelled at him as their dinosaurs roared out too.

"No one commands me! No one!" Goma retorted as he flew up towards the glass container where the cosmos stone was being held, "I never thought I would ever resort to this…." he breathed at first before his hand shook immensely with rage, "But I'm so furious….YOU LEAVE ME NO CHOICE!" He roared before charing at the stone!

The D team widened their eyes at what they were seeing, "What are you doing!?" Cera yelled at him, she was starting to believe he either had become desperate or lost it completely now.

"What I should have done from the beginning!" He roared clenching one of his hands into a tight rock hard fist before throwing it out right at the glass casing shielding the rainbow cosmos stone! "GRARGH!" He screamed as he smashed his hand right through the glass like it was nothing and then yanking the entire cosmos stone out of its holding compartment and holding it up high as the dark energies from within it began to pour right into his very body!

"WAH!" They couldn't believe their eyes at what they saw him do.

"He's got the cosmos stones!" Cera exclaimed as Miku jumped back in shock!

"GRRRGH!" Goma gritted his teeth and growled in immense pain as the cosmic energy flooded his whole system but to their surprise he instead tightened his grip upon the stones and refused to release them despite the havoc they were ravaging upon his body!

Max and the others down below stepped back nervously at what was unfolding, "Wh…What's he doing!?" Zoe cried.

"Doesn't he know the stones should never be held!?" Rex gasped in alarm.

"I don't think he even cares!" Max cried as their dinosaurs rallied to their sides to protect them.

Having lost all restraint, Goma glared psychotically towards the D Team as he shoved the cosmos stone against his armour, which then absorbed the entirety of their power along with the stone itself into his body! "GRAAAAARRGH!" He screeched as power ran wild inside him and he could feel his grip on his sanity slipping away….and he didn't care one bit! All that power was now his and his alone forever! "Ahahahahahah!" He began to laugh maniacally as his eyes and veins flared purple and a dark aura began to form around him much to the D Team's horror and disbelief!

"AH!" They widened their eyes unable to comprehend what they just witnessed.

"Did he just take in all the cosmos stones at once!?" Cera exclaimed!

"I knew he was worse than Specter but not even he was this downright insane!" Max gasped while Zoe and Rex looked on speechlessly!

Things were beginning to turn from bad to worst, as the aura around Goma soon began to swallow him completely, his form disappearing under the cloud of darkness which began to emit immense shockwaves through the entire room as it spread out an grew from him, as if it fed off the very darkness within his heart which was already immeasurable! It began to spread and grow, swallowing up the fainted body of Omega eocarcharia as the room's floors and walls began to crack and give way under the quakes!

"GAH!"

"WH…What's happening!?"

"I don't like this one bit!" They looked around in a panic as the whole place was cracking and about to fall apart, their dinosaurs bellowed with anxious agitation seeing the ground was becoming unseal beneath their feet too!

"The whole place is coming down!" Cera shouted in alarm seeing it collapse down on them all in any minute! "Everyone! Run for it!" she then shouted to them through the screens in alarm as she could feel the control room collapsing on her end too as Miku squawked and flapped her wings frantically in a panic! "Get out before the fortress crashes down on us all!" She cried as her screen fizzled out and then collapsed on the ground in the shockwaves!

"R….Right!" Rex nodded to her as he shouted to his friends, "Hurry! Let's get out fast!"

Zoe nodded without hesitation as they and their dinosaurs made a run for the doors!

Max though was a little hesitant to leave just yet, as still had unfinished matters with Goma, but under the circumstances with the dark energy flooding the room and causing the entire room to collapse down on them, "Grrgh….Alright…." he grunted in frustration as he and Chomp reluctantly rushed out of the room following after the others as fast as their legs could go….as the doors behind them closed and the fortress began to collapse in on itself.

(Meanwhile)

At the room where the shield generator room was located, the Alpha gang had the space pirates on the ropes as therizinosaurus wing out his arm and slashed Brontikens, forcing the apatosaurus back as he bellowed in pain! Specter and his men tensed and began to sweat anxiously as their dinosaurs were further backed into a corner while on the other hand, The Alpha gang and their own dinosaurs were closing the gap between them as they stepped forward with confidence! It was a brutal battle between both sides made evident by the injuries they each sustained, but the Alpha gang's desire to win was far stronger than that of the space pirates, plus they believed in their dinosaurs too, that faith in their partners was what increased their determination, power and stamina, allowing them to outdo their enemies and tip the balance just enough in their favour.

"Great job team! We've got them on the ropes now!" Dr Z clapped his hands praising his team as they grinned excitedly.

"Ahahaha! I forgotten the last time this was actually a challenge." Usual laughed snobbishly as she held her head up high.

"Almost makes me wish they weren't so easy to take down…." Zander snickered in amusement as he rubbed his nose cheekily and grinned.

"Mhmm…" Ed then nodded with him, never before had the A Team had such kinship with one another or with their dinosaurs no less, perhaps the D Team's influence rubbed off on them overtime or that with the world's existence at stake they had to fight together with a single shared purpose as everyone was counting on them to do their part.

Whatever the reason was, the Space pirates tensed up with agitation at the sight of their newfound strength and determination, seeing themselves get overwhelmed so much was something they hadn't yet recovered from, "This….This is NOT happening!" Specter screeched as he grasped his face in exasperation, not long ago they were no more than mere clowns and nuisances, but now they were something complete different and a million times worse!

"How did these low lives get so much stronger in so little time!? It makes no sense!" Sheer widened her eyes as she stepped back and sweated profusely.

"N…No fair!" Foolscap whined.

"We've wasted enough time with you lot!" Dr Z then grumbled in annoyance, coming to the conclusion that the space pirates had delayed them long enough, "Let's wrap this up and smash that generator to bits!" He announced pointing ahead.

"Oh yeah!" The trio then cried out in full agreement with their leader as they slashed their ultimate move cards!

"Ultimate fire!"

"Ultimate water!"

"Ultimate Earth!" Upon slashing their cards, Terry, Tank and Spiny roared out as they became infused with power! They all then charged full speed ahead and struck the enemy spectral dinosaurs head on, Terry wrapped himself in flames as he collided with Maximus, Spiny unleashed all he had in avail of water and punched right at Armatus' vulnerable stomach, while Tank rushed head on through some crystals before striking at Gigas!

Dr Z then punched forward as he joined in too, "Gyro claw!" He commanded as therizinosaurus flared out his claws and spun in a vicious whirlwind, slashing right at Brontikens! The force of the impact was so great, the massive apatosaurus was sent flying along with the other dinosaurs as they were about to crash right on top of Specter and his crew!

"WAAAAAH!" They all cried flailing their arms out in terror before taking off like pigeons, out of of the way of their incoming dinosaurs who all crashed right into the shield generator they were supposed to be protecting!

BOOM!

A huge cloud of smoke and fire erupted from the explosion before bright lights shone out of it. As it cleared, the adult zanjark landed back on the ground, staring in complete and utter shock as the dust dissipated and their 4 cards lay down on the floor, along with the charred and smashed remains of the generator, reduced to a pile of scrap metal, shattered computer parts and sparking wires. As their hearts snack into despair, having lost all hope or even the will to live upon seeing their hard efforts gone to waste and then the consequences that would befall them once Goma were to realise this.

They all turned pale and felt a chill run down their spines as they began to imagine the horrendous torture their master would put through them if he found out, "N…NOOOO!" Specter wailed as he fell to his knees and began crying into his hankie, believing he had failed his son and was terrified of what he'd be going through after this.

"We can't lose! Not now! And certainly not to those clowns!" Sheer screeched as she began biting her finger nails and her teeth chattered.

"If Goma finds out about this….." Gavro croaked before they all gulped in unison. As far as they could see their options for survival were non existent. If they returned to Goma begging for mercy he'd do away with them the moment he laid eyes on them, and if they fled he'd blame them for his setback and there was nowhere in the universe they could possibly escape from his wrath! The only chance they'd have of surviving was if they gave themselves up, which was a big definite no for them, either way ti was clear they lost and the jig was up for them no matter what they tried. Dark panicked thoughts began to arise amongst them as they felt themselves trapped in a cage right in the middle of a pool of quicksand…..

On the other side though, the Alpha gang were beginning to celebrate with victory upon seeing they had managed to defeat the space pirates as well as destroy the shield generator as they had planned. "We did it!"

"Hooray for us! Yippee!"

"Who knew being the good guys would actually be this fun! I could get used to this!" The trio cheered jumping up and down for joy and swallowed up by their excitement, while their dinosaurs roared out in triumph as well.

"Well done you three," Dr Z smiled at them proudly right after he finished petting his therizinosaurus on the face, "As a reward for not screwing this up, maybe I might actually give you a place in my inner circle once I fully establish my dinosaur kingdom when this is over with." He then stated primly which made them all brighten up with glistening teary eyes as they fell to their knees overwhelmed with emotion at their boss' generosity.

"Oh Dr Z thank you! Your kindness knows no limits!" Ursula praised as she also took back all nasty things she ever said about him.

"We're eternally grateful for this! We swear you shall never regret this!"

"We are not worthy!" Zander and Ed both bowed down before him and prostrated themselves.

All their words of praise and worship were beginning to feed right into Dr Z's ego and pride as he grinned and held his head up high, "Hehehe, you have no idea how much I want to dance and do a victory jig right this moment!" he jittered with excitement feeling on the verge of exploding into a victory dance. He soon however snapped out of it as he began to realise there was more impotent work to be done. They may have destroyed the shield generator but it was time they wrapped things up and finished the job with the space pirates, no way could they just leave such loose ends unattended, "But for now we-" A rumble suddenly began to shake underneath where they were which caught them by surprise.

"Huh?" All of a sudden a chunk of rock fell right in front of where Dr Z was, making him jump back and turn pale!

SMASH!

"WAAAH!" He screamed as Ursula held him back and the dinosaurs growled startled as to how it happened without warning.

"Dr Z! Get back!"

"You okay!?" His men asked him as he began to breathe heavy, his face wincing with terror knowing he could have been turned to mush had he been an inch further.

"Wh…What's that!?" He cried pointing out at the cracked piece of debris in front of him, sweat trickling down his face like rain and his eyes widening with reddened veins hinting how shaken and edgy he was feeling.

As they all began to look up, they widened their eyes and turned pale as they recognised a red alert threat right above them!

"EEEP! We'll be pancakes!" The trio squealed as they scrunched up their faces together and their dinosaurs let out worried and concerned cries seeing the roof was cracking piece by piece, small bits were already falling out of it and it could give way at any second!

Dr Z gulped, seeing there was nothing to decide, it was obvious what they should do right this instant! "On second thought! Forget the space pirates! Run for your lives!" He cried out to them in panic as he jumped out of Ursula's arms and made a beeline for the door!

"No need to tell us twice Dr Z!"

"Saving ourselves is way more important!"

"WAAAAH!" They all then screamed as they scurried out through the door terrified while their dinosaurs raced after them, smashing through the doors and leaving a giant hole upon their exit.

CRASH!

Hearing the smashing sound, the space pirates were sapped out of their fearful thoughts on Goma punishing them, as they then looked ahead curiously as to where they heard the yelp, "Huh?" In surprise they found the Alpha gang had left for some odd reason, and through the holes they left in the exit doors they could see them running panicked for some reason.

Whatever the case they began to grin and snicker in amusement, "Hey look! They're running away scared of us!" Specter pointed out.

"Hehehehe! Serves them right!" Foolscap chuckled as he rubbed his palms together, "They knew they'd be no match for us so they made the smart decision!" he grinned.

"Guess humans aren't as dumb as we thought after all." Gavro smiled as he and the other male zanjark began to make all sorts of mocking noises and gestures such as sticking tongues out or shaking their butts out.

"Nyeh! Nyeh!" While being completely oblivious to what was really going on, as small pebbles began to fall from the ceiling around them.

Unlike them, Sheer narrowed her eyes feeling rather suspicious as to what was going on, the humans and them at their mercy and yet still chose to retreat, something didn't add up and she wasn't about to blindly look to the bright side. A pebble fell on her head, getting her attention as she looked up from where it came from, only to turn pale and her heart to skip a beat as she saw the ceiling was cracking high above them and was about to cave in on them at any second! She quickly reached out her hand and began tapping Specter's shoulder frantically, "Umm boss, I don't think those humans were running from us." She spoke out to him weakly as he and the other zanjark looked to her in annoyance for spoiling their victory party.

"Hmm? What do you mean Sheer?" He grumbled at her with a raised eyebrow, as she simply pointed for him to look up.

As the rest of her cohorts followed where she pointed, they widened their eyes upon seeing the real reason why the Alpha gang had decided to make a quick getaway, "Uh oh…." They all gulped as the ceiling began to crack apart and before long the entire structure collapsed all at once! A rain of debris and rocks began to fall around right where they were as they huddled together in a panic as the ground and the entire room began to shake, dislodging a giant boulder from high above which collapsed right where they were standing! "GAAAAAHH!" They screamed, frozen stiff as the boulder along with the entire ceiling began to collapse on them completely, burying them under layers of rock and concrete!

CRASH!

(Meanwhile)

Outside the battle continued to rage fiercely between the Resistance troopers, captains and dinosaurs against the Shadow empire's gel jarks and fortress defences. In comparison the humans and dinosaurs, the jarks never tired out nor did their machine lose any energy or have any need to cool down, giving them a deadly endurance advantage over the humans! They tensed up as many troopers found themselves surrounded, Blaze and Marina stood back to back with their dinosaurs protecting them on both sides while Craig and Kaze were already on their last legs while trying to protect the injured and defeated. Already heavily shorthanded with a number of their troopers down, vehicles destroyed and dinosaurs reverted, they tensed up as they made their final stand with the gel jarks closing in and the turrets time at them…..till suddenly…..

"AH!" They widened their eyes in surprise as the turrets sounded a dying robotic echo before the cannons drooped down having been depowered or lost all energy much to their surprise.

"The turrets all stopped firing….." Marina commented in surprise, feeling suspicious about that was going on, as her suchomimus and camarasaurus looked around scanning the situation for any other changes.

What was even more surprising was that the gel jarks that were about to fire or attack, suddenly stopped their advance before fizzling uncontrollably and then lose their form before melting down into slimy puddles!

"They're all melting!" Kaze exclaimed in surprise as his dinosaurs backed away feeling rather unnerved by the development.

Craig suddenly widened his eyes as he pointed ahead, "Look! The shield's coming down!" he gasped as they saw the forcefield around the citadel also shut down and vanished away completely.

"And the meteor's stopped too!" Blaze pointed out as they could see the giant fireball which was larger than Mount Everest itself, leave the skies of their world and disappear deep into the darkness of the night as the Auroras lit up brightly as if the planet was celebrating this joyous miracle in its time for ages to come.

Down below applause and cheers erupted amongst the Resistance troopers as they and their dinosaurs let out joyous praises, jumped around waving their arms in a frenzy or even did jolly dances and jigs with one another as they did their own celebration to commemorate this moment, "Woo hoo!"

"Yeah!"

"I knew they could pull it off! I just knew it!"

"Like there was any doubt at all!"

Back in the Resistance HQ, right in the main room, Lunensis' eyes brightened with hope and joy to see the giant rock which was about to destroy the planet was being redirected back into he dark recesses of space again! The threat to their world had been averted to everyone's joy! "It's going back into space! They did it! The children did it!"

"Yay grampa!" Rod and Laura cheered as they high fived each other.

"Ahahahah!" Helga laughed clapping her hands together.

"Way to go!" Jonathan praised as he punched his arm forward.

They all began to cheer and applaud not just for the fact that they were saved but also giving honour and thanks to the ones who were responsible for it. The Resistance who bought the time the kids and Alpha gang needed to get inside, and for them to be able to pull off this astounding feat of saving the world not once but TWICE!

"Thank you…..you saved us all…." Lunensis breathed to himself with immense gratitude, placing a hand across his heart as he embedded this very memory deep inside him, promising himself and to everyone else to never lose faith again.

Their loved ones couldn't be more proud to have them as part of their families, "I couldn't be more happier of our son than I am now." Aki wept as she shed a tear from her eye which she flicked away.

"Same goes for all of us….." said Dr Owen as he stood with the other parents too who nodded together, feeling honoured to have been able to raise such great children who would no doubt have grown well under their experiences which they learnt in their own and would no doubt be able to guide the world and its people into a great future indeed.

Back on tundra, while everyone was enjoying their moment of glory and believing peace had come at long last and wanted to enjoy it, Blaze however shook his head clear as he remembered they still needed to make sure they finished the job for good. Clapping his hands he got everyone's attention as they focused on him, "Okay everyone, let's put the victory cake back in the freezer for now!" He then pointed head of them, "It's time the shadow empire got what's coming to them!"

Soon after everyone began to agree with him "Yeah! Let's make em pay for all they did!" Some of them were getting riled up and itching for a beatdown, made evident in some of the dinosaurs present who let out angered roars or stomped their feet hard into the ground.

They then looked ahead towards the shadow citadel, as Blaze held his arm up telling them to hold back until he gave the call, "On my signal! Ready! G-"

Before he could finish, a quake suddenly rumbled from the citadel which traversed through he ground so hard small cracks could be seen underneath form ahead which shook up the resistance violently and even startled the dinosaurs, disorienting them greatly!

"AAAAAAH!"

"Wh….What's happening!?" Marina suddenly gasped as she could feel herself nearly thrown off her feet, as around her a few troopers had already fallen to the ground and some dinosaurs were bellowing in a panic, some of which had to be returned before they could rampage or fall.

"Look!" Kaze then pointed ahead widening his eyes as the citadel itself began to crack apart and eventually collapse in on itself! Like a tower made of blocks, the increased instability and shaking caused it to break apart and crack apart as its walls buckled and towers split apart as it appeared to almost sink into a giant hole in the process!

"It's collapsing in on itself!" Craig pointed out.

Soon the rest of them realised to their horror that it wasn't the earthquakes they had to worry about, it was who was still inside the collapsing structure that mattered!

"NO! The children!"

"And the Alpha gang are still in!" They gasped as it appeared as though their mightiest and bravest heroes whom they believed and looked up to….all sank into the collapsing base of their hated enemies and lost forever….

Inside the HQ, the D Team's loved ones watched in horror as they saw first hand the collapse of the Empire on itself and erupting from it was an immense cloud of dust.

"MAX!"

"ZOE!"

"Rex!" Their respective parents gasped in alarm as it appeared their precious children were gone…..

"Grampa!"

"Dr Z!" Rod, Laura and Helga felt exactly the same way for their beloved grandfather, and deep down they even felt worried for the sake of their other friends who appeared to have fallen too….

"CERA!" Lunensis shouted out loud in anger as he held out his arm at the screen, before falling to his knees, "No…." He soon fell into despair, that he lost her again after all they went through together….just when they had won at last fate dealt them another unfair hand at the price of their victory….making it seem almost worthless everything they endured.

"This can't be…."

"No…." Tears and weeping began to sound from both HQ and along the Antartic tundra, as the warm joyous moment suddenly turned cold and cruel….

It all seemed hopeless at first…..That the great heroes who saved the world had fallen….the day of victory over the shadow empire would soon turn to one of mourning instead of cheers it seemed for the Resistance…..till suddenly several vehicles trust out for the dust and drove onto the icy surface right towards the rest of the resistance forces! And right behind them their dinosaurs all raced right behind them too! Much to the surprise of the entirety of the resistance!

"AH!"

Max and the others quickly called out to them on their monitors, "Don't worry guys!"

"We're okay!"

"Ahahaha!" they waved out their hands and laughed with big smiles on their faces as their dinosaurs bellowed out to their comrades all on the ice ahead!

"Yay! We're alive!" The Alpha gang all cheered happy to be alive and in one piece.

Immediately the feelings of sadness and lost quickly reversed into joy and hope once again, this time even more so than before now the the Resistance could celebrate and honour the great heroes return triumphantly, "Yes!"

"They made it out in one piece!"

"Ahahah! I knew they'd be fine the whole time!"

"Woo hoo!" Many of the troopers bore witnessed a grand miracle which they'd engrave into their hearts forever, as some celebrated by clapping or fist bumping one another, while those in the HQ either shed tears or took in the moment as something far more emotional and warm, with relief washing over them and chasing away their doubts and worries for them.

"It's a miracle….." Aki smiled as she shed a tear and clapped her hands together warmly.

"Indeed…." Lunensis nodded in agreement with her before smiling at ease, "And also…it's finally over….at last…." Their long nightmare was over, finally they could rest easy and at peace.

As they finally rendezvoused with the rest of the group, "Phew….thank goodness we made it out of there in time." Rex let out a heavy sigh of relief as he placed a hand to his chest, "A second longer and we'd be buried alive under all that rubble."

"Yeah, talk about cutting it close, Max wheezed as he slumped further into his car's seat, "If this was a game I'm never playing again." They were 5 seconds away from extinction, but thankfully they never gave up hope and kept doing the best they could and never faltered every step of the way….in the end their efforts bore fruit that would span seeds into the far future and would yield a bountiful harvest of peace and prosperity for humans and dinosaurs for years to come.

"Thanks Cera, if it wasn't for you I don't think we ever would have been able to pull it off." Said Zoe gratefully to Cera as she and her friends focused on her.

"You always come through for us when we need it most, and you're both a strong ally and an even greater friend." Rex nodded in agreement after her, "We'll always be grateful to have you with us no matter where or when we will be."

Cera though shook her head in disagreement, "No, it's thanks to you guys fighting so hard for us that we would never have been able to make it this far, nor would I have been able to find the strength and determination to keep going or to find out how I could help you all." She corrected them, "You all gave us dreams once, and now you gave us all renewed hope and resolve. Should danger ever come again like this, we'll never waver nor give up," she promised them with full assurance that she would make it so, "And you can be sure we'll make a future that you can all be proud of." She added at the end, feeling that with this victory over the shadow empire at long last everyone finally has the chance to start a clean slate and move on.

"Hehe, we're good with that." Max then chuckled feeling more satisfied than the answer he gave her.

"Ugh….my stomach feels all weird…." Ed then moaned as he felt his stomach churn all around inside, "Must be because I had too much excitement for one day…." He muttered uncomfortably as he turned green and his cheeks puffed up as he tried to hold in his last meal!

"Tell me about it Ed…." Zander moaned as he lay back inside his seat and then slumping to lie down on the entire couch cushion inside his driver compartment.

"Well I for one had more than my fair share of adventures for a lifetime." said Ursula as she stretched out her arms, feeling all exhausted and stiff after their recent battles and close shaves with death over and over again, "When we get home I'm treating myself to a week long spa vacation, full of nice long mud baths, massages and nothing to do with dinosaurs! Ahahahah!" She then laughed snobbishly.

"I second that." Zander raised his arm in agreement with her while lying down inside his rock crusher.

"Hmph! Speak for yourselves you wimps." Dr Z scoffed, "Now with those space clowns finally out of the picture, we can finally get started on building my almighty dinosaur kingdom in peace and quiet! Ahahahaha!" He then laughed rather snobbishly as his men sighed and sweat dropped at him.

"Heh….same old Dr Z….." Rex chuckled, though this time, after all they've been through he actually wouldn't mind helping out Dr Z in achieving his dream, just long as he built it the right way.

Everyone cheered and congratulated one another for each having made an important contribution and support to the cause as well as the team, and all proceeding well as they had believed it so….till some footsteps from behind caught the attention of a handful of them.

"Huh?" When Blaze and a few others looked back, they saw 4 figures limping out of the mists from where the citadel collapsed earlier. As they came closer into view, it was revealed to be Specter, Foolscap and Sheer carrying Gavro out of the murk, all of them appeared heavily battered with bruises and rips int heir clothing, made apparent from their base collapsing right on top of them and then having to dig their way out of all the rubble and shrapnel! Eventually having trekked a long way from out of the pit the 4 of them collapsed on the snowy ground and moaned in pain and agony as Garo's weight piled on them!

"URGH!"

"Ugh….Good thing you're body's the sturdiest material there is in the known universe Gavro…." Specter muttered in annoyance as he felt himself squashed under everyone else's weight, despite having managed to get under the burly pirate in time he somehow ended up as being the last one on the bottom therefore suffered the most pressure and weight from both his men and the fallen debris which collapsed on them.

"Yeah…lucky me…or us…." The red pirate moaned with his face buried deep in the snow, unsure of whether to take it as insult or a compliment.

Foolscap suddenly shot his head up gasping for air, barely managing to pull himself free from under Gavro, "It's a miracle we all survived and got out of there in one piece!" he cried out loud feeling relieved that they weren't buried alive under their own headquarters and were finally free from Goma at long last!

As Sheer wrestled herself out form under her boss and Gavro, she turned pale and swallowed hard upon seeing their current situation would make them wish they were buried in the ground, "Actually we won't be for long! Look!" she pointed out ahead of them while sweating frantically as her comrades looked to her curiously and then in the direction she pointed at.

"Huh? What do you-" As they all looked they widened their eyes to see they were completely surrounded by the Resistance captains and their squads!

"WAH!"

"Urk…." With no dinosaurs left to back them up, the 4 space pirates were outnumbered and completely helpless!

"YOU!"

"There isn't a punishment worthy of all you've done!"

"When we're finished with you, you'd wished you stayed buried underground!" They all began to shout in fury towards their hated foes! Goma may not have been present so they assumed he may have been buried deeper or better yet perished in the battle, so they were willing to settle with his 4 generals instead.

"YEEP!" The space pirates yelped before trying to act innocent as they could, hoping to earn sympathy from the Resistance as they protracted themselves or flashed puppy dog eyes.

"Eheheh….we're….sorry?" Specter squared as he clapped his hands and pouted like a child.

"It was all Goma's idea! We swear!" Gavro and Sheer both cried, "We never even liked or wanted to go through with it!"

"T…T…Take it easy! Let's be civil here!" Foolscap stuttered as he waved out his arms frantically, though their efforts only seemed to further aggravate the people they wronged unjustly.

"You be civil all you want, but we prefer justice!" Blaze yelled angrily as he pipped his knuckles and Craig punched a fist into the palm of his hand as they, the troopers and their dinos all agtehrend around the now weak and defenceless space pirates and were aiming to give them a colossal sized beatdown for the ages!

Glares and snarls all amassed around them as they could watch helpless as they found themselves puny and overwhelmed by the size of both the Resistance forces and the dinosaurs they brogan with them who towered over them like trees ready to bury them in the ground and make fossils out of them!

The space pirates turn pale, shuddered with sheer terror and sweated profusely as their day of reckoning had come upon them, "It's time for you to answer for all your crimes you committed on Earth and to countless other worlds you wronged and robbed!" Kaze yelled pointing at them as his dinosaurs snarled with venom and couldn't wait to sink their teeth into fresh meat! "You're all through!" Upon his yell, the resistance and their dinosaurs all rushed in aiming to give the space pirates exactly what their deeds earned them!

"YIKES!"

"HELP!"

"Mercy!"

"Not the face!" They all squealed as they shook out their arms or covered out afraid of what was about to happen to them!

Before the Resistance could reach them however, a massive pillar of dark energy suddenly erupted out from the sinkhole where the fortress stood, sending shockwaves through the ground and shaking everyone up violently!

"AAAAAH!"

It soon travelled to where the D Team and Alpha gang were as they and their dinos were shaken up too! "Wh…What now!?" Zoe cried!

"Why is it every time we think we've won, something always comes back to bite us back in the butt!?" Ed whined, from personal experience back when they were at odds with the D Team this happened to them more than they could count, even when they turned over a new leaf for the better they still couldn't get away from jinxing it!

Seeng the situation was growing too dangerous and the pit was growing larger from the instability, "Everyone stand clear!" Blaze yelled out loudly as he held out his arm warning the others to keep back as the cracks from the pit began to race after them!

"MOVE!" Craig then shouted as everyone stood clear and retreated further away from the collapsing sinkhole!

"WAAAAH!" The Resistance screamed as they ran back putting as much distance as they could between themselves and the pit!

"GAAAH!" The space pirates saw the cracks heading right for them, taking a cue from the humans and dinosaurs they spread out their wings and flew up as high as they could, where they looked down an got a bird's eye view of the destruction ensuing down below, and the debut of the very destroyer itself emerging from the ruins of their Fortress!

As everyone fixed their eyes on the pillar of dark energy erupting from the ruins, it soon took form and curled into eh form of a giant energy sphere which suspended in mid air while sparking with dark purple lightning, in an aura much like the dark pterosaur gave off.

"What the!?"

"What's going on now!?" Max and Dr Z were soon about to get their answer, though they would soon wish they didn't…..

The sphere soon twisted itself, sprouting a pair of giant clawed arms and clawed feet which landed on the ground with a huge thud which shook the earth! After that the rest of the sphere turned more serpentine, sprouting out a long serpentine tail with a pair of spikes at the end and even a pair of monstrous feathery wings! The head of the beast soon sprouted out from the top, a long slender head with a pair of feathery antennae much like that of the Dark Pterosaur's, only this time, its head appeared more reptilian and a set of ferocious serrated teeth formed in its jaws as it opened its glowing purple eyes! The gigantic beast let out a terrifying roar which sent out a wave of dark energy which everyone did their best to brace for as they held out their arms or took shelter behind anything large to cover them!

ROAR!

"AAAAH!"

"What…is that thing!?"

"A dragon!?" Everyone gasped or cried out in sheer disbelief as they stared face to face of an entirely new and even more terrifying monster than they had ever encountered or even imagined!

On the D Team's end, they stared in sheer utter disbelief at what they were bear witnessing with their own eyes, "Guys! You seeing what I'm seeing!?" Max gasped as he felt his heart skip a beat, recognising the form of the dragon to be very familiar to an ancient enemy they once defeated a while back, "Doesn't that remind you of-"

"The Dark Pterosaur…." Cera hissed tensely, recalling who it formed when the Cosmos stones were untied the last time…..the last time they saw the stones was when Goma absorbed them into himself but they in turn consumed him and his eocarcharia completely! Which meant-

"AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!" The dragon suddenly let out a spine chilling demonic laughter which echoed across the Antarctic tundra! The sound of that monstrous cackle sent chills down the spines of everyone present, but none of them were more shocked and stunned than the D Team, who recognised that very voice anywhere!

"That voice!" Max gasped.

"Is that….GOMA!?" Rex widened his eyes in disbelief.

Everyone else present and at HQ who witnessed this nightmare unfold before their eyes stared with hung jaws and in utter speechlessness, that the emperor of darkness not only survived, but now was a real monster beyond imagining!

"Why…..Why do they always come back?" Lunensis breathed before shaking in utter terror and anger at the same time, "Why can't they ever stay down!?"

The now revived Goma, now in the form of a demonic dragon of the cosmos, stared down on his many enemies who were truly no more than insects now before him! He grinned a sinister grin as his eyes flashed purple and he let out a soul crushing roar! "Foolish mortals! For even thinking you could stand up against the might of a God, you've invited your own destruction right to your own doorstep!" He shrieked at the top of his lungs! "ROAR!"

The sound of his dark cry shook forth the lands and blew everyone back several feet away and even cracked the foundation of the land itself, shattering mountains around them and causing glaciers to crack apart and sink below the sea waves! "AAAAH!" Looking ahead, The D Team gritted their teeth tensely under pressure as the darkest hour of their darkest day of all had arrived…..

"Ahahahah! Prepare for oblivion!" The dragon roared out at them as he stretched out his wings, and then firing out beams of dark energy which began to destroy anything they made contact with all around them! The Resistance widened their eyes as the skies of Antartica became swallowed up by darkness, blocking out the bright lights of the aurora as their darkest hour had dawned upon them…

Thus the final battle for the fate of both the Earth and the universe draws near. Stay tuned as the Reaper's Wrath is about to doom the planet and Goma now becomes the Ultimate Destroyer God! How will the D Team and the Resistance possibly prevail!? Stay tuned as the climax approaches and the conclusion to this titanic tale across time approaches.

Sorry this took so long, wanted to post the finale as back to back, stay tuned as it comes soon.

P.S-the Resistance's entrance to Goma's base, I got that idea from Avengers endgame which was one of the most epic scenes I ever saw on the big screen. When seeing the battle raging you can look to Transformers War for and Fall of Cybertron with the war and chaos reigning between both sides.

In response to reviews-

Anonymous

-Glad you like it.

Tsukikami02

-Indeed if you think things were intense earlier what do you think now?

That's what makes Goma the most powerful of them all and the Leader of the Shadow Empire. That flashback was something he discovered himself when he took in the power of the cosmos stones the first time. If the stone plates survived and became the tablet, it's natural that their equal and opposites, the cosmos stones would too, otherwise this wouldn't come to be.

And yes, let's just say the Resistance will be receiving some special help next chapter in the face of this great calamity.

Thanks for the suggestion but it's a little late for to be adding that kind of flashback in now at this point but just consider it did happen already with no need to write it down. Stay tuned for the final chapter to come.

Drew Luczynski

-That's what makes eocarcharia so powerful and now as you've jut seen he and Goma have become insanely strong too after fully binding to the stones. Despite being shattered Goma rearmoured them again but ultimately they fell once more.

The Reaper's Wrath was 3 times bigger than that which killed the dinosaurs in the DS game so yup it's definitely larger.

Glad you liked the story too.