Alright, time to end the cliffhanger!

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The team has found themselves in quite a pickle: they are now surrounded by some of the most feared predators of the age: Edestus, the scissor tooth shark. If they can't escape quickly, they'll get to see how effective those sets of teeth are first-hand.

With the fish circling up around them, the team huddles up close together. Like most predators, the eugenodonts will always prefer to attack the most vulnerable targets: the young, the old, the weak, the injured...and the isolated. Backing into a ball ensures protection... at least for the moment.

"How are we supposed to escape these fish?" questions Violet. "They can breath underwater, but we'll need to surface eventually."

"Don't remind me," remarks Sean, "that's our biggest problem right now...and I think that might also be our solution."

"Huh?" goes Elise, along with the rest of the team.

"These creatures are from a time before large animals that go from land to sea or the sky. The pterosaurs haven't shown up yet."

"So?"

"So," answers Sean, "they won't expect us to surface. If one of us can get up top, we can get throw down sum chum to distract them, buy time for the rest of us to escape, or maybe we could...we could.."

"We could what?" asks Tristan.

Sean looks at his brother for a moment, then turns his attention to Nigel.

"You know the tracker you used on that adult Megalodon, back when you were doing Sea Monster?"

"Yes."

"Do you still have anymore?"

"...Yes, plenty. Always keep a couple on this ship in case I wanted to track migratory animals."

"Good, because I think I figured out a way to save our assailants/"

"You did? How."

"No time to explain. Just let me get up to the ship and we'll be home free."

"Okay."

With that, the team begins to ascend, followed by their hungry observers.

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About half way up, the eugenodonts finally lose patience: one of the Edestus charges the team. The attack misses, but unfortunately, there is one problem that arises: the fish has knocked Tai out of formation with the rest of the team... and there are still plenty of hungry eugenodonts circling them.

Without thinking, Elise surges towards her brother and grabs ahold, before hastily begin to swim back toward her team. Sensing an opportunity, two of the Edestus charge, leaving Elise and Tai stuck: they can't escape one without heading straight toward the other, and if they speed up or slow down now, the fish are moving at a pace where they can easily correct course. The siblings have nowhere to go.

At least, that would be the case on land. In the ocean, there's one more dimension you can travel in.

Elise and Tai continue to go straight, but just roughly 30 meters before the eugenodonts reach them, they ascend. The fish, caught off guard, collide with each other, before breaking off and pulling back for another run. Unfortunately for them, Elise and Tai are back with the group by this pint, who have final reached the Mariner.

After a short break to rest and let the air filter out of their blood, the team ascends the rest of the way, with Sean exiting the water and entering the ship. The rest of the team, though confused by his questioning, waits for him to return, presumably with something to ward off the fish.

Instead, to their surprise, he returns holding several of Nigel's tracking harpoons, and attached to each one is a portal beacon. The team stare at the harpoons for a moment, before turning to Sean.

"This is your plan?" asks Tristan. "...It's a good one."

Sean smiles, before promptly taking out a tuna fish from a large bait freezer on the ship, slitting it open, and dumping the carcass into the sea. Before it can fall far, the team catches it, and Sean's plan is put into motion: the eugenodonts, no longer able to control themselves at the smell of blood, charge at the fish, eager to finally fill their bellies. As they arrive, the team stabs them with tracking harpoons and activate the beacons, sending each and every one into the present. The last fish, ironically one of the smallest, is sent through by Sean himself, with the added boon of having the tuna all for itself.

The team takes one long look at Sean, before offering him a thumbs up, which brings a smile (and some blushing) to the teen's face.

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A few hours later, all of the new arrivals are settling in fine. The sharks have been moved to proper exhibits, as have the Edestus.

The scissor tooth sharks, now living in a great reef with plenty to eat, begin to gorge themselves on the park's room service. Their current meal, a mix of marlin and tuna, has already been reduced to scraps.

It seems that all is well at Prehistoric Park...or is it?

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Later that night, as the majority of the creatures in the park go to sleep, some of the Edestus remain active. The last one to be rescued, still curious as to its new home, is busy exploring a small cave. Littering the cave are bones of rather large animals, including what appears to be a whale. The size of the bones indicate an animal too big to enter the cave, leaving a mystery to how they appeared.

Then, as the Edestus goes behind a stalagmite, the cave suddenly glows with light as the fish goes stiff for a moment. The stiffness is only temporary, though, and soon the fish is swimming again, with the light vanishing just as quickly as it appeared.

The Edestus, scared by the surprise light show, quickly exits the cave, leaving the bones in peace once more.

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Animals rescued:

Petrodus patelliformis (3 male, 5 female)

Acandylacanthus (5 male, 10 female)

Glikmanus occidentalis (13 male, 14 female)

Amelacanthus (9 male, 13 female)

Deltodus (two species, 10 males and 15 females form speices sublaevis, 13 males an 20 females from species angularis)

Venustodus leidyi (8 males, 11 females)

15 Lagarodus angustus (7 males, 8 females)

20 Orodus (11 females, 9 males)

7 Petalodus ohioensis (3 males, 4 females)

110 Allenypterus (55 males and females)

30 Platysomus (10 males, 20 females)

45 Kaskia (15 males, 30 females)

40 Cravenoceras (20 males and females)

30 Cycloceras (15 males and females)

Large number of smaller fauna, gneders and genera to be determined

23 Edestus vorax (11 males, 12 females).

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