As the pony sized herbivore marched onwards, blissfully unaware of their stalkers, the team began making preparations to rescue them. Already, Tristan was setting up the portal, while Vera and Alice made themselves busy attempting to distract the predators, so that the herbivores would not scatter from an attack. Nigel and Aiden, meanwhile, attempted to coax the aquatic predators into moving toward the portal. It was slow work - the crocodilians were too sluggish to move, while the dragons did not want to move. Five minutes of coaxing was not enough to change their minds.
Six minutes after they had set about trying to prepare the portal, the Barylambda were staring at the portal, unsure what to do. Behind them, their pursuers were trying to find an opening to strike, while Vera and Alice had joined Nigel and Aiden in trying to coax the water dwellers into the light. They didn't really have any luck. All the while, Tristan watched on, noticing with growing concern that the pantodonts were trying to find a way around the portal. Additionally, it looked like their predators were almost ready to strike.
Now truly getting worried, Tristan moved to try and bait the herbivores into the portal, only to almost lose his footing due to some loose rocks in front of him. They weren't large rocks, in fact it would be rather easy to throw one of them a good distance.
Tristan looked at the rocks. Then he looked up at his teammates, who had placed the reptiles between themselves and the portal. He then looked at the mammals, which were starting to turn around. His attention went back to the rocks, then the reptiles, then to the pantodonts.
They might not get another chance at this.
With only a moment's hesitation, Tristan picked up one of the rocks and hurled it at the reptiles. It landed on one of the crocodilians' backs, bounced once and came to a stop when it collided with a river dragon's head.
The two reptiles hit by the stone turned their attention toward Tristan, who was holding another stone, and had positioned himself at the rear of the pantodont herd.
The reptiles, enraged by the eldest Saurus sibling's actions, bellowed at him and charged.
Just as Tristan had expected, the mammals were quick to decide it was better to run than to face the reptiles, and immediately turned around again and stampeded into the portal. Following them through, he found himself back at the park, carefully guiding the pantodonts into a holding pen. Just as the last herbivore entered the pen, the mesonychids arrived, unwilling to let the herd slip out of their grip. They were soon followed by the bathorornids and, much to Tristan's surprise, another group of arctocyonids, specifically Prothryptacodon, if he remembered right. The predators quickly broke into a squabbling match, one that was soon joined by the reptiles that wanted his blood. All this was forgotten, however, when a roar sounded from a nearby pen, sending the predators running toward a pen of their own. Turning to the pen, Tristan was surprised to see the female Yutyrannus, who hissed at him until he threw her a piece of bait meat.
Shaking off his surprise, Tristan waited a moment, before returning to the portal, as his teammates had not yet come through.
He arrived just as Vera was about to walk into the portal. While a collision was avoided, it still made for an awkward situation...until the girl slapped him.
"...I deserved that."
Then Alice decided to slap him.
"...I deserved that, too."
Finally, his brother also joined in on the slapping.
"OKAY, QUIT IT! DID YOU GUYS HAVE A BETTER IDEA ON HOW TO RESCUE THEM BEFORE THE BARALYAMBDA RAN OFF?!"
Nigel merely shrugged at this, reluctantly conceding the point, as did the rest of the team.
Aiden, however, had something to say. "Couldn't you at least have told us what you were going to do? Or used some gesture to get the point across?"
For once, Tristan had no counter argument, just a sheepish look.
"Can we go back now?" asked Vera.
"I don't see no reason not to-"
Just before she finish her sentence, Alice was interrupted by a juvenile Plesiadapis landing on her head. As the girl tried wobbled, two adults and a juvenile scampered down form the trees, while a poisonous frog and its kin eyed the small primate.
Confused by the strange turn of events, but perfectly willing to exploit them, the team swiftly got to work coaxing them tiny creatures into the portal, before finally returning to the present.
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A few hours later, and all of the new residents have been successfully moved into the park.
The river dragons had joined the park's crocodilians in one of the ponds, with the little prehistoric dragons occasionally cleaning their teeth. The condylarths, pantodonts, and mesonychids, meanwhile, had been moved into their own forested exhibits, and were enjoying the park's room service. Last, but not least, the primates had moved into a large cluster of fruit trees, and were already getting to know their modern cousins.
Unable to keep smiles off their faces, the team watched the various animals enjoy their new lives.
"So, what do we go after next?" questioned Alice.
Nigel and Tristan shared a knowing glance. "I think we should go after another crocodilian," was Nigel's response.
Though separated by quite a distance, Bob, Vera, Sean, and Violet all shuddered when Nigel said that, even if only one of them heard that.
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Next time, the team goes back to Prehistoric Carolina to rescue a land living crocodile.
(Shot of the team facing off against a bipedal crocodilian)
Whilst also trying to avoid its aquatic cousins
(A phytosaur lunges at Marcus)
Suzanne, meanwhile, has to care for one of the new primates.
(Shot of Suzanne trying to feed the Plesiadapis who fell onto Alice's head)
For now, though, Prehistoric Park is doing fine.
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