Back in Miocene North America, Nigel's team is still working on their plan of attack. There in luck: the terrain favors them. Behind the herd of animals is a steep hill, to their right is a lake and a dense forest is on their left. If the can get the herd to run, they'll head right toward them.

Unfortunately, they can't get into position to do so: there are too many large herbivores in their way.

"Well, this sucks," remarks Marcus.

"Don't be a pessimist," remarks Violet.

"Then how are we supposed to get the animals running toward us?"

Before Violet could reply, everyone heard a loud screech. It was coming from above them.

Looking up, the group saw what appeared to be a flock of giant condor-like birds FLYING RIGHT AT THEM.

And, if the stampeding herd of animals was anything to go by, so had their quarry.

"SPEAK OF THE DEVIL!" exclaimed a stunned Violet.

"NEVERMIND!" Answered Marcus.

While they shouted, everyone else was panicking, except Nigel, Tai and Tristan. They were setting up the portal.

Just before the stampeding mammals hit the group, the portal opened. The group took the chance to run, as did the enormous herd and the birds that ad chased them.

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On the other side of the portal, Bob could only stare at the stampede that had come through. In his head, he was starting to get annoyed with Nigel. A stampede at the end of a mission was one thing, but multiple times in the same mission was quite another one.

"Nigel, are you insane? I'm going to run out of holding pens at this rate and you'll still have more animals to bring back."

"Sorry Bob, its just that there are a lot of animals we can rescue from this time period. But really, I'll give you more heads up next time."

"Alright, fine. But I think your team needs a rest," answered Bob.

Nearby, the youngest members of Nigel's team had collapsed from exhaustion, while the veterans were not much better.

At this, Nigel sighed. Looked like Bob was right, they'd need a rest now.

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AN: Well, that was hectic.

Also, the bird's genus will be revealed in a later segment of this chapter.

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