Raf woke up to chaos

He had been in a deep sleep, dreaming about the old days with the Autobots, when he was shaken from his stasis by heavy footfalls. He was getting out of his bed when suddenly, the wall started shaking. Unnerved, he roused Jack and Miko awake as his anxiety grew from the quaking walls. Jack was just getting out of bed, when suddenly the wall behind them exploded.

"Aghhh!" Raf grunted, pulling himself up from the floor, and face to face with a huge dinosaur nearly three times his size. It bent its head down, revealing a pair of sharp horns, as it aimed at Raf and prepared to impale him. Carnotaurus he surmised, his dread building as he stared down one of the strongest predators of the Cretaceous period.

"Help!" he screamed, pulling out his bow in a last ditch effort to defend himself. The Carno made its move, plowing forward through the opposite wall, with Raf just barely rolling out of the way. It then turned around, getting ready for another charge, when its stride was broken by Knockout, who had slashed at its thigh in a hit and run attack. The Carno redirected its focus on the Raptor as they exchanged threatening barks and roars.

The stalemate broke when Knockout lunged at the Carno mid roar and began tearing into its back. The mighty carnivore roared in pain as the hunter clawed and bit into it. Shuffling until Knockout was on its head, it thrusts its horns into his underbelly as it sent the Raptor flying through the walls of the thatch hut.

"Uh oh," Raf said, quickly attending to the fallen dinosaur. Knockout stood up again, putting himself between Raf and the Carno as it prepared to charge them both. Suddenly, it was hit in the eyes by a green spit and an arrow. Raf turned around to see Spitfire, mostly healed, running in to join the fight, as well as Jack and Miko bombarding the beast with arrows and spears.

The Carno roared in fury as it charged Miko and Jack. As Miko rolled away, it remembered the same trick that the tiny human had applied, and so used its tail to catch a surprised Miko with a tail slap. "Oof!" she yelled as she crashed into the row of beds.

"Hey! Get away from her!" Jack roared as he thrust a spear into the thigh of the Carno in the same spot Knockout had clawed it. The dinosaur backpedaled as it began losing balance. Standing like a drunkard, it prepared one final charge at Jack, the boy's eyes blazing with determination.

Skreee

Just as Jack was preparing to charge the Carno head on with his spear, he saw Knockout roar and ram it with his head, with Raf of all people on his back. The Carno fell through another wall as the ceiling finally gave way, crushing the bull lizard as it toppled over.

"We did it," Raf shakily proclaimed. He then climbed down from the Raptor to make sure Miko was ok, when suddenly the Carno pulled its head out of the rubble, giving a defiant last roar. Mid-roar however, Knockout slammed his jaws shut on the larger predator's throat and squeezed, suffocating it until it went limp. When the newly made corpse dropped to the ground, the Raptor bellowed and called triumphantly before taking some meat and dropping it at Raf's feet.

"Uh, thank you?" he awkwardly accepted the chunk of meat before quickly sliding it towards Spitfire to eat. He then turned to Miko to check her wounds.

"It's all good, Soundwave hit me harder back when we helped trash that zombie con horde," she said, accepting Raf's hand to help her back up.

"Hey, at least you got one heck of a wake up call," Raf said to which Miko laughed along. They stopped laughing as they took a good look around at the carnage their battle had caused.

"I think we should start looking into real estate," Miko joked.

Jack surveyed the damaged hut and came to the same conclusion. "I think that this attack made it pretty clear that this place isn't safe. Thatch is way to flimsy for us to make a central base out of. So I say we start making some wood structures and make something more practical. And a lot more appealing," he suggested, dropping a fistful of thatch.

"Yeah, this thatch was getting kinda itchy anyways," Raf admitted. It was then decided that the team would spend the day making a new shelter out of wood structures. Jack worked on the walls and foundations as Miko went off to make the ceilings. Raf was tasked with creating door frames and doors for their newly planned rooms as well as replacing the structures lost in the attack.

As Raf was gathering stone for the new mortar and pestle, Miko came up to him. "Hey Raf, check out what I found last night," she said, kneeling and showing him the refining forge and smithy she found in her list, as well as the metal tools.

"Think it'd make this gathering stuff a lot faster for us and a lot easier on you," she stated as she pointed to Raf's arm. He had to admit, the amount of trees and rocks he had chopped we're starting to make him sore, and each one only yielded 20-30 wood.

"If you grab the stone, I should be able to make it," he said, wanting a break from the monotonous task.

"Sweet, be right back she said before bolting off. Raf decided to spend his time laying in the remains of his bed with Spitfire by his side as he waited for Miko to return.


Miko had taken Knockout along as she traversed the beach, looking for more large clusters of rocks to hit. As she was getting ready to harvest a particularly large rock, a green light suddenly appeared behind her. From the top, she could see that there was another one of those loot crates Jack had told them about. Deciding to abandon her current task for something much cooler, she waited with the Raptor as she watched it descend to the ground. When it touched down, she opened its inventory.

Please be something cool she thought. When she looked at the contents, she found a fully made refining forge as well as a blueprint for a ramshackle Raptor saddle. "Ask and you shall receive," she said coolly. "Wait till Raf sees this," she said before hopping on Knockout and scampering back to their base.


While Miko and Raf were off building and getting structures, Jack was building wooden walls and foundations as he planned out in his head how to structure their new home. "Let's see, we all need rooms, a kitchen, and maybe a second floor," he thought out loud.

He was tempted to just create a giant wooden box, but his creativity refused to allow him to make such a bland design. He crafted a note and began drawing different designs for their house before finally settling on a two story cabin with multiple rooms and different sections for different purposes.

Upstairs would contain their separate rooms as well as a small storage room in a hallway that spans all around the house. It would also have access to a landing pad on pillars for their future Pteranodon as well as a balcony overlooking the ocean. Downstairs would be their "preserving bin" area, where they stored their perishables such as meat in a corner. On the side of the room, a table full of mortar and pestles would be set for their different chemical needs, as well as a table with chairs for all three of them to eat at. In the back of the cabin would be one dinosaur gate, integrated into the walls and large enough to let Knockout inside easily should the need arise. He still had some empty space, but Jack believed that with how quickly they were learning engrams, they would find new structures to fill it soon. And so he found a flat part of the beach at the water's edge and placed down a wooden foundation, working to make their new abode a reality


Raf had just gotten up from his nap, getting ready to gather more stone for the forge, when Miko came bounding back with Knockout. "Hey Raf! No need to make a forge anymore," she said as they bounded over to the broken thatch hut.

"And why's that?" He asked.

Miko lowered her inventory screen to him, telling him, "Check it." Raf looked at the screen and saw a refining forge was already made.

"How'd you get that?" he asked. She then explained how another green supply drop had appeared, giving her the forge and a Raptor saddle. Raf nodded, making a mental note to take Spitfire on an adventure for the next green drop.

"Let's go check on Jack, maybe he can help us figure out where to put this," Raf stated. Miko nodded, and they took the dinosaurs to where Jack had gone to gather wood.


Jack had just finished laying down the foundations for the new cabin by the sea. It was a large cabin with a 11x11 bed of foundations which would be supporting walls that would be 7 high. He had just finished laying down the third row of walls and windows around the wooden square when Miko and Raf came along.

"Hey Jack, nice place you got going," Raf greeted.

"Thanks, and it'll look a lot better when it has a roof on it. Speaking of, Miko, you got those ceilings?" Jack requested.

Miko nodded, dropping 40 wooden ceilings she had made earlier. "It would've helped if you told me you were building a whole mansion," Miko pouted.

Jack just crossed his arms and smiled, explaining, "Hey, that's just Darby ingenuity." With that, Miko ran off to get more wood for building. Jack then asked Raf to help build the second floor to their new home. As they worked, Raf began staring at the green obelisk, contemplating their purpose on the island.

"Hey Jack, did you ever wonder why we're on this island? We never did anything wrong, and the only ones who know about the Autobots are us and Agent Fowler after MECH was disassembled. Who would do this to us?" he lamented. He missed his family and friends, and even though he had Spitfire, he still wished he could see them all again.

Jack kneeled down to comfort him. "Hey, we're gonna find a way off this island. I don't know how, but we will. But only if we don't give up, just like Bee', Arcee, and the rest of the Autobots," he told him. It wasn't his best pep talk, but it seemed to work as the younger boy cracked a small smile and nodded. They worked in silence until Miko came bounding back with Knockout just as the boys had finished making the second floor hallway.

"You guys will not BELIEVE what I just did," she shouted. Jack hopped down from the second floor to meet her.

"Made enough sloped wooden ceilings to complete the roof?" Jack suggested, to which Miko sighed exasperatedly. "No genius, I just knocked out a level 150 Pteranodon," she said with a cocky grin, slingshot in-hand for emphasis. Raf and Jack looked at her, surprised she had the patience to follow and knock out the bird all by herself as well as find such a high level.

"Alright, I'll grab the narcotics. Raf, grab Spitfire so we're a little safer. She should be healed by now. Miko, get every weapon we have. This can wait," Jack instructed. Secretly, he was slightly angry that their last attempt at taming ended with a dead Pteranodon, so he thought of this as a redemption for their last venture. With Knockout at their side too, Jack was feeling confident they could pull this off.

10 minutes later, Jack came back with their 80 narcotics. Miko gave each of the boys a bow and 20 arrows to defend themselves, as well several spears. Raf took Spitfire for a hunting trip, so the little Dilo had enough meat for herself and for the Ptera. After all preparations were set, Miko mounted Knockout and held out her torch as she led the group into the wilderness once more.


Chapter is shorter this time around. It's hard making building sound entertaining. Next chapter will be better, just had minor loss of motivation. And if any of you are wondering, we will be checking in on the Autobots in a near chapter. So as always, thank you for reading and please review!